Burgess Meredith
Birthday: 1907-11-16
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography: Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, and director. He was known for his roles as The Penguin in the 1960s TV version of Batman, as Mickey Goldmill in Rocky, Rocky II and Rocky III, and as Grandpa Gustafson in Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men. He won two Saturn Awards (in 1978 and in 1981), Tony Awards, and many Emmy Awards.
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Rocky
Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate...
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Rocky II
After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and mov...
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Rocky III
Following Rocky Balboa's intense battle with his most powerful adversary yet – the ferocious Clubber...
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Rocky V
A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. In...
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State of Grace
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects wit...
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The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a specia...
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highl...
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The Amazing Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day Navy men in ord...
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Clash of the Titans
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-G...
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Batman
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a s...
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The Day of the Locust
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l...
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Grumpy Old Men
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wi...
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Jigsaw
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy launches an investigation into a series of murder...
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True Confessions
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute....
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Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....
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Skidoo
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow m...
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There Was a Crooked Man...
A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of hi...
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Magic
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high...
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Burnt Offerings
A couple and their twelve-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer where things aren’t qu...
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The Manitou
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-ol...
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The Last Chase
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared the...
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Santa Claus: The Movie
In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to ...
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Full Moon in Blue Water
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappear...
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Torture Garden
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful...
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Street of Chance
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling constr...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile...
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Madame X
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who ha...
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A Yank Comes Back
In a follow up to 'A Welcome to Britain', Burgess Meredith returns to look at a post-war Britain....
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopar...
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That Uncertain Feeling
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband....
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Idiot's Delight
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are close...
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Foul Play
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albino...
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In Harm's Way
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second...
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The Diary of a Chambermaid
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use ...
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92 in the Shade
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter busi...
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower
A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime...
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Story of G.I. Joe
War correspondent Ernie Pyle joins Company C, 18th Infantry as this American army unit fights its wa...
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The Hindenburg
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the ...
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When Time Ran Out...
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues ...
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Advise & Consent
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffin...
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Golden Rendezvous
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero whe...
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Hard Contract
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful ...
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Camp Nowhere
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He ...
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Wet Gold
Wet Gold is the story of a young woman (Laura), who works as a waitress in a cafe. Laura stumbles ac...
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Mackenna's Gold
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups ...
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The Sentinel
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual expl...
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Stay Away, Joe
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his fathe...
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King Lear
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Cherno...
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G.I. Joe: The Movie
G.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to forcefully...
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Of Mice and Men
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranc...
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On Our Merry Way
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where h...
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Mine Own Executioner
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help....
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San Francisco Docks
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, a...
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Tom, Dick and Harry
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, ...
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The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious...
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Winterset
A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly execu...
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The Rear Gunner
Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams,...
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The Great Bank Hoax
When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been e...
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Fanfare for a Death Scene
An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolut...
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Albert Schweitzer
This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up t...
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Rocky Balboa
When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweigh...
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Golden Needles
An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points i...
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Hurry Sundown
A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tr...
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Such Good Friends
Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit ...
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B. Must Die
In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all ...
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Probe
That hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and soun...
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40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
Sylvester Stallone and John G. Avildsen narrate behind-the-scenes footage from the making of "Rocky"...
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The Man
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-Presiden...
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Oddball Hall
Elderly jewel thieves on the run from the law pass themselves off as wizards to a village of bewilde...
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Magnificent Doll
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending B...
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We the People
This film shows people as they participated in various activities, such as sailing, watching parades...
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The New Healers
The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants....
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Outrage!
After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young ...
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There Goes the Groom
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. ...
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Joe Butterfly
The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surre...
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Tunisian Victory
Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign....
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The Living Sands of Namib
Documentary on the extreme conditions of the Namib Desert in the southwest of Africa, and on the ext...
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SST: Death Flight
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be abl...
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Tail Gunner Joe
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to ...
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The Crazy-Quilt
A man with no illusions marries a young woman who is brimming with idealism. She attempts to remake ...
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The Cardinal
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...
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Grumpier Old Men
A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and...
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Winter of the Witch
The life of a witch is disrupted by the arrival of a boy and his mother. The intruders' presence mak...
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Works of Calder
The film begins with a sun materializing out of the emptiness of space. In the first of three sequen...
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The Reivers
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends...
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The Chaplin Puzzle
This rare two part documentary focuses on Charlie Chaplin's development at Keystone and Essanay. It ...
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Answers
Three of Ernest Thompson's short plays are presented, each involving a surprise visitor. In the firs...
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Final Assignment
An intrepid television journalist sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Un...
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Spring Madness
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go ...
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Lincoln
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ...
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The Forgotten Village
Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture ...
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The Scoundrel
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit fo...
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The Last Hurrah
The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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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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UFOs: It Has Begun
A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial beings. Hosted by the LEGENDARY ...
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Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to...
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Second Chorus
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men...
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Clay Pigeon
An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are pa...
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A Welcome to Britain
An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) w...
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Broken Rainbow
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona....
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Golden Arrow
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and in...
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Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman....
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Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...
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The Blinkins: The Bear and the Blizzard
A little girl, Molly, loses her doll, Belinda, in the Blinkin wood and the Blinkins find it and make...
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The Master Gunfighter
Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allo...
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The Wickedest Witch
Avarissa, a witch so evil that she was banished to an underground kingdom, attempts to trick a human...
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Thumbelina
Thumbelina is the answer to her mother's prayers but is all too soon stolen away by Mother Toad as a...
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Mr. Corbett's Ghost
Mr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to deliv...
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Night of the Hunter
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a ...
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Beware! The Blob
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife a...
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Across the Moon
Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfrie...
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Hymn of the Nations
Commissioned by the U.S. Office of War Information, this short film features conductor Arturo Toscan...
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Mastergate
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealin...
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Waiting for Godot
Two derelicts occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate....
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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight a...
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Sorcerers' Village
Documentary film recounting the travels of Captain Hassoldt Davis and his wife, Ruth Staudinger Davi...
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Santa Claus: The Making of the Movie
This behind-the-scenes documentary follows Team Salkind as they set out to bring Santa's "true" stor...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...
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The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove
Three kids think they see a sea monster in the calm waters of Strawberry Cove, and set out to find w...
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Lock, Stock and Barrel
A young frontier couple elope, are chased by the girl's father and brothers, join up with an escaped...
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The United States Service Bands
This patriotic wartime short showcases the service bands of the U.S. Army, Army Air Force, Marines, ...
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Old Faithful
A forest ranger is asked by his boss to attract a record-breaking crowd to Yellowstone National Park...
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The Father
Produced through a grant at the American Film Institute, an adaptation of the Chekhov short story se...
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La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an ...
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The Kidnappers
Manila, Philippines. The loving American father Louis Halliburton desperate attempts to save his son...
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Puff the Magic Dragon: The Incredible Mr. Nobody
The magic dragon teaches a boy to believe in his own creative abilities....
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Puff the Magic Dragon: The Land of the Living Lies
Sandy is a little girl with a penchant for whoppers. However, when her lies start go so far as to im...
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Puff, the Magic Dragon
Jackie is a boy who is so trapped by his fears and doubts that he could not communicate with anyone....
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Dear Mr. Gable
Burgess Meredith narrates this insightful MGM-produced documentary about the life and career of Holl...
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Mr. Griffin and Me
Kenneth Griffin, a Hollywood director, hasn't seen his wife in 24 years since he stole paintings fro...
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Getting Away from It All
Two city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rur...
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Hot to Trot
Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has ...
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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressiona...
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A Fan's Notes
A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him....
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Mr. Lincoln
A five-part biographic series about Abraham Lincoln for the educational TV series Omnibus, filmed on...
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Third Eye
A CIA operative is the only man who can retrieve the stolen plans of an awesome weapons system and p...
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Time Enough at Last
A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war....
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The Blinkins: The Magic Flower
Five Blinkins fireflies must fly over a Magic flower at dawn to bring spring. If they fail, there wi...
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