Charles Bickford
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Charles Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948). Other notable roles include Whirlpool (1948), A Star is Born (1954) and The Big Country (1958).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2058 |
| Birthday | 1890-12-31 |
| Place of Birth | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | チャールズ・ビックフォード, |
1956
The Dark Wave
7/1
A young girl, normal in every way, is affected with severe epilepsy.
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The Dark Wave
1954
A Star Is Born
7.1/338
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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A Star Is Born
1936
Rose Hobart
5.47/50
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect....
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Rose Hobart
1960
The Unforgiven
6.2/236
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
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The Unforgiven
1946
Duel in the Sun
6.409/198
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad...
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Duel in the Sun
1945
Fallen Angel
6.5/135
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa...
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Fallen Angel
1963
Days of Wine and Roses
7.502/214
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
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Days of Wine and Roses
1938
Gangs of New York
5.3/10
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
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Gangs of New York
1958
The Big Country
7.586/428
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, a...
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The Big Country
1959
Winterset
9/1
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of t...
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Winterset
1942
Tarzan's New York Adventure
6.356/104
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane...
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Tarzan's New York Adventure
1947
Brute Force
7.306/219
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of e...
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Brute Force
1950
Whirlpool
6.392/102
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients...
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Whirlpool
1930
Anna Christie
6.026/58
Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnes...
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Anna Christie
1947
The Woman on the Beach
6.1/55
A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
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The Woman on the Beach
1951
Jim Thorpe – All-American
6.5/19
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his m...
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Jim Thorpe – All-American
1966
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
7.1/86
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose...
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1934
Little Miss Marker
6.5/26
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especia...
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Little Miss Marker
1948
The Babe Ruth Story
6.063/8
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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The Babe Ruth Story
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
7.125/40
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
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The Farmer's Daughter
1943
The Song of Bernadette
7.1/134
In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady...
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The Song of Bernadette
1936
The Plainsman
6.464/42
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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The Plainsman
1951
The Raging Tide
5.1/20
A San Francisco hood is rubbed out by rival Bruno Felkin, who himself reports the crime to Homicide Lt. Kelsey in an alibi scheme which fails. To esca...
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The Raging Tide
1948
Johnny Belinda
6.87/77
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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Johnny Belinda
1942
Reap the Wild Wind
6.4/65
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Lo...
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Reap the Wild Wind
1948
Four Faces West
5.75/24
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him hi...
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Four Faces West
1943
Mr. Lucky
7.163/49
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Mr. Lucky
1944
Wing and a Prayer
6.7/13
An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of M...
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Wing and a Prayer
1937
High, Wide and Handsome
6.2/5
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when the...
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High, Wide and Handsome
1939
Of Mice and Men
7.311/106
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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Of Mice and Men
1955
Not as a Stranger
6.173/49
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out...
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Not as a Stranger
1956
You Can't Run Away from It
5.222/9
A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.
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You Can't Run Away from It
1937
Daughter of Shanghai
5.4/16
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
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Daughter of Shanghai
1950
Riding High
6.1/8
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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Riding High
1933
This Day and Age
5/3
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-...
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This Day and Age
1953
The Last Posse
6.286/14
A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.
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The Last Posse
1931
East of Borneo
5.8/6
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believ...
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East of Borneo
1939
Stand Up and Fight
6/5
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Stand Up and Fight
1955
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
6.823/48
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial figh...
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
1932
Scandal for Sale
8.5/2
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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Scandal for Sale
1957
Mister Cory
6/10
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
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Mister Cory
1932
Panama Flo
7.8/4
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
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Panama Flo
1950
Branded
6.2/27
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as...
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Branded
1931
The Pagan Lady
4/4
Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on...
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The Pagan Lady
1931
The Squaw Man
5.4/12
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry...
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The Squaw Man
1929
Hell's Heroes
7.1/21
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as...
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Hell's Heroes
1933
White Woman
5.8/10
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel,...
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White Woman
1929
Dynamite
6.4/15
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will...
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Dynamite
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
6.2/10
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1930
The Sea Bat
4.375/12
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
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The Sea Bat
1930
Passion Flower
5.364/11
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
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Passion Flower
1934
A Wicked Woman
5/5
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed...
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A Wicked Woman
1938
Valley of the Giants
6.7/6
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
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Valley of the Giants
1949
Roseanna McCoy
6.1/7
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance reki...
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Roseanna McCoy
1933
No Other Woman
5.1/10
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
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No Other Woman
1940
Queen of the Yukon
6/4
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.
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Queen of the Yukon
1964
Della
7.167/6
Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Bar...
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Della
1951
Elopement
8.333/3
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
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Elopement
1930
River's End
6.4/4
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reache...
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River's End
1931
Men in Her Life
6.1/5
A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's...
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Men in Her Life
1935
A Notorious Gentleman
6.5/2
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
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A Notorious Gentleman
1933
Red Wagon
7/1
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles,...
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Red Wagon
1956
Forbidden Area
7.5/2
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will an...
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Forbidden Area
1932
Thunder Below
7/1
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps...
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Thunder Below
1935
Under Pressure
5.2/6
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs...
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Under Pressure
1932
Vanity Street
7.1/7
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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Vanity Street
1950
Guilty of Treason
6.333/6
The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during Wo...
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Guilty of Treason
1939
Mutiny in the Big House
5.3/6
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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Mutiny in the Big House
1940
Girl from God's Country
9/1
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few week...
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Girl from God's Country
1937
Night Club Scandal
4.3/6
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
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Night Club Scandal
1936
Rose of the Rancho
7/1
It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of C...
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Rose of the Rancho
1939
Our Leading Citizen
8/2
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to t...
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Our Leading Citizen
1937
Thunder Trail
8/2
A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits...
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Thunder Trail
1941
Burma Convoy
7/2
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
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Burma Convoy
1939
Thou Shalt Not Kill
8/1
Rev. Chris Saunders becomes entangled in a moral and legal crisis when he hears a confession that could exonerate a young man wrongly convicted of mur...
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
1939
Street of Missing Men
8/2
An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to bring...
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Street of Missing Men
1941
Riders of Death Valley
6.8/2
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Fora...
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Riders of Death Valley
1933
Song of the Eagle
10/1
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upo...
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Song of the Eagle
1929
South Sea Rose
10/1
A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short...
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South Sea Rose
1939
Romance of the Redwoods
7/2
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on hi...
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Romance of the Redwoods
1945
Captain Eddie
7.2/4
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the earl...
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Captain Eddie
1955
Prince of Players
5.5/4
This biopic follows the story of Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth and his rise to fame. Edwin's career begins when he replaces his alcoholic father, th...
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Prince of Players
1948
Command Decision
6.6/24
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties...
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Command Decision
1938
The Storm
7/2
“Sparks” Roberts and Captain Cogswell are brothers whose relationship is fractured by a long-standing feud involving rivalries over boats and women. T...
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The Storm
2003
Complicated Women
6.9/12
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...
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Complicated Women
1936
Pride of the Marines
8/2
A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.
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Pride of the Marines
1935
East of Java
7.5/2
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
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East of Java
1959
Woman on the Run
6/2
Pilot episode, directed by Dick Powell.
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Woman on the Run
1958
Days of Wine and Roses
7.25/8
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
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Days of Wine and Roses
1940
South to Karanga
7/2
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
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South to Karanga
1939
One Hour to Live
6.5/2
Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.
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One Hour to Live
1962
The Farmer's Daughter
10/1
Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursing school. After her tuition money runs out, she i...
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The Farmer's Daughter
1956
Sincerely, Willis Wade
8/1
A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.
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Sincerely, Willis Wade
1957
Clipper Ship
0/0
A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who i...
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Clipper Ship
1957
Where's Charley?
0/0
Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".
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Where's Charley?
1932
The Last Man
9/1
The villainous Marsden plans to sink a ship owned by Mr. Wingate to collect the insurance money, while also hoping to win over Wingate's daughter, Mar...
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The Last Man
1958
Now Is Tomorrow
7.5/2
"Now Is Tomorrow" was a pilot for a hosted series from Roncom Telefilms. A military captain is given a new assignment, the high-stress task of making...
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