John Ireland
Birthday: 1914-01-31
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Biography: John Benjamin Ireland was a Canadian-American actor and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. Ireland was a supporting actor in several famous Western films such as My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His other notable film roles were in 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Adventurers (1970), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Ireland also appeared in many television series, notably The Cheaters (1960–1962). He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the TV industry.
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Spartacus
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...
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My Darling Clementine
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of thei...
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Red River
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive fr...
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Farewell, My Lovely
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge d...
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The Fast and the Furious
A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to es...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their partic...
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Zenabel
Zenabel, a young woman from a humble background, discovers that she is actually the daughter of a Sp...
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All the King's Men
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wi...
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Party Girl
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he mee...
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The Gangster
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sulliva...
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Wild in the Country
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pu...
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Raw Deal
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic...
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Messenger of Death
A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado....
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55 Days at Peking
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the Internati...
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Queen Bee
A devilish Southern woman, married to a man who despises her, manages to manipulate those around her...
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Terror Night
Lance Hayward, a silent movie star, appears as various characters, killing quite a handful of unfort...
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I Saw What You Did
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a ...
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Guyana: Crime of the Century
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly c...
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Waxwork II: Lost in Time
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has follow...
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I Shot Jesse James
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry...
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The Shape of Things to Come
Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed ...
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Satan's Cheerleaders
The janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for...
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Repeat Performance
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 ...
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Miami Golem
A Miami TV reporter is sent to a local university to do a story on a professor who is cloning a cell...
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The Scarf
A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the...
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Mission to Glory: A True Story
Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in th...
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The House of Seven Corpses
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns...
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Vengeance Valley
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As th...
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Railroaded!
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room,...
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I Love Trouble
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past....
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The Swiss Conspiracy
A Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The b...
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Behind Green Lights
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the le...
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Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sunscreen to protect themselves. A de...
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The Undercover Man
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime bo...
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The Good Die Young
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbe...
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...
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Tomorrow Never Comes
Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working...
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A Matter of Cunning
An ambitious businesswoman will do whatever it takes to climb the corporate ladder....
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Welcome to Arrow Beach
A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nea...
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Villa Rides
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins band...
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Run, Man, Run
The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandi...
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Mr. Soft Touch
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII...
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Open Secret
A couple discovers that their friend has gone missing. Their investigation leads them to believe tha...
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Thunder Run
A vicious band of nuclear terrorists is threatening America's atomic weapons research. Truck jockey ...
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When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford....
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has...
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Treasure of the Amazon
An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle...
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Day of the Nightmare
A young wife's marriage begins to crumble after she's attacked by a knife-wielding woman whom the po...
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Faces in the Dark
A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another m...
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Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman
Two aliens from a dying planet are on a mission to impregnate Earth women....
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Incubus
In a small town in Wisconsin, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally...
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Gatling Gun
This dramatization of the origin of Dr. Gatling's self-named invention stands tall in the annals of ...
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The Adventurers
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was mur...
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Dead for a Dollar
When the lead robber in their gang steals the money from his two companions, a cat and mouse/back an...
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Carnal Circuit
We follow the Journal reporter Paulo whose close friend mysteriously been taken out of the way and i...
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The Glass Cage
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on v...
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Roughshod
Rancher Clay and his brother, Steve, head out across the Sonora mountain pass, followed by Lednov, a...
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The Basketball Fix
A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving....
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The Rangers
The adventures of a group of rangers that are tasked with saving a couple of alpinists and a young l...
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The 49th Man
Two federal agents do not believe an atomic-bomb threat is just another war game....
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A Gun for One Hundred Graves
At the end of the Civil War, Jim Slade, a young confederate soldier and conscientious objector, retu...
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kill...
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A Taste of Death
Scaife, the sadistic leader of a gang of cattle thieves, terrorizes the people of a Colorado mountai...
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Go For Broke
The Indian called Copper Face is suspected to have stolen a large quantity of gold from a bank....
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Security Risk
An FBI agent on vacation in the mountains begins to suspect that a Communist spy ring may be operati...
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Red Mountain
Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of South...
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Little Big Horn
Two cavalry officers (Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland) lead a patrol to warn Gen. Custer about an ambush...
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Blood River
A bunch of unscrupulous men make havoc of a tribe of Indians to take their land. A survivor of the m...
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Challenge of McKenna
A former priest becomes embroiled in the drama raging between a Mexican rancher, his unhappy daughte...
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
A pretty blonde with a Doberman pinscher walks into a bar on April Fool's Day and asks for a bag of ...
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The Perfect Killer
Betrayed by his girl and best friend, thief Harry Chapman takes the fall for a racetrack robbery. Wh...
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Arizona Bushwhackers
During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover fo...
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The Ceremony
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier....
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Gunslinger
After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town....
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Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle...
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No Time To Kill
A vengeful ex-con, framed and sentenced to eight years on for arson, heads to Sweden to look for the...
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Stormy Crossing
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her ...
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Martin's Day
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He ...
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Anna Lucasta
A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tri...
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Hurricane Smith
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana....
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Fort Utah
An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich h...
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Marilyn: The Untold Story
The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, from he...
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Merlin
A modern-day retelling of the Arthurian legend with the Lady of the Lake as a reporter and Pendragon...
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This Is Korea!
John Ford's documentary about the early battles of the Korean War, shot in color....
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The Walking Hills
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley....
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A Southern Yankee
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an ag...
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Dirty Heroes
Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts re...
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Wake Up and Dream
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother....
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips....
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On the Air Live with Captain Midnight
A suburban teen stars a pirate radio station in the back of his van and becomes a cult hero....
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Southwest Passage
As the Cavalry tests the viability of bringing camels to US deserts, a surveyor, Arab drivers, and f...
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Crossbar
The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly pers...
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The Graveyard Story
After a rich man discovers a grave of a little girl, some unknown force drives him to discover the c...
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Sex Diary
The Don Juan of a small provincial town saves from suicide a young American girl who falls in love w...
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Ransom
A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered c...
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Vengeance for Vengeance
Major Bower’s wife tells her lover Chaliko where her father’s fortune is hidden. When the major find...
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Caxambu!
Thieves hijack an aircraft loaded with diamonds, and then must face deadly Amazonian headhunters whe...
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Bloody Che Contra
The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite...
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The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog
The story of a champion sled dog named Kavik who survives a plane crash in the wilds of Alaska and i...
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Combat Squad
A tough sergeant helps a raw recruit find courage under fire during the Korean War....
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Tourist
A group of tourists on a "once-in-a-lifetime" European vacation try to rekindle their romances with ...
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The Return of Jesse James
Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brothe...
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No Place to Land
A cropduster pilot finds himself caught between two women—one who loves him and the other, who doesn...
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The Millionaire
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each b...
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Delta Fox
Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman....
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Brushfire
Group of farmers go to the rescue of a couple kidnapped by rebels, who want to exchange them for wea...
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Salon Kitty
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been...
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3-D Rarities
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922...
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The Phantom of Hollywood
The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its Hollywood ...
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Bonanza: The Next Generation
This is the continuing saga of the Cartwrights, only none of the original Cartwrights are here anymo...
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Somewhere in the Night
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down h...
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The War Devils
A German Captain and an American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during WWI...
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A Walk in the Sun
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to att...
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The Bushwhackers
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, inten...
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Hate for Hate
After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where h...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
A woman suddenly disappears after an early morning walk, and her husband is accused of murder....
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Love and the Midnight Auto Supply
An auto-theft ring decides to help out migrant workers from Mexico with the proceeds from their rack...
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Bordello
Minister with four virgin daughters inherits a bordello. The land contains a silver mine and the cor...
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Joan of Arc
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against ...
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Northeast of Seoul
Three adventurers--at times competing with each other, at other times allied with each other--search...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Escape to the Sun
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monito...
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Seasons in the Sun
A terminally ill pop-music singer's retirement is complicated by the arrival of a defecting scientis...
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Hell's Horizon
The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather....
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One on Top of the Other
A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife....
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Hammer Down
A string of tough homicide cases confronts veteran Det. Eddie Van Owen and youthful partner Johnny M...
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Without Incident
The captain of a U.S. Cavalry unit rescues two wives of slain traders who were being held hostage by...
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A Sound of Different Drummers
A young security police officer in a future totalitarian state is assigned to suppress illegal intel...
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