
Birthday:
08-20-1908
Deathday:
10-13-2001 (93 years)
Birthplace:
Paris, France
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The Anderson Tapes
Act like D'Medico
event1971 star_border 6.1
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Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
Invaders from Mars
Original Music Composer
event1953 star_border 5.9
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In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.
The Blue Gardenia
Original Music Composer
event1953 star_border 6.6
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Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Gunsmoke Ranch
Music
event1937 star_border 3.6
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A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
Cowboy and the Prizefighter
Original Music Composer
event1949
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Red Ryder KO's a fight racket with sidekick Little Beaver (Little Brown Jug) and a new friend.
Road to the Big House
Original Music Composer
event1947 star_border 5.7
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A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.
Shed No Tears
Original Music Composer
event1948 star_border 5
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A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
Arson, Inc.
Original Music Composer
event1949 star_border 5.9
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An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
African Treasure
Original Music Composer
event1952 star_border 6.9
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Against stock footage of lions, elephants and wildebeasts, Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.
Sitting Bull
Original Music Composer
event1954 star_border 5
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Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf.
Untamed Women
Original Music Composer
event1952 star_border 4
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During World War II, an American bomber pilot is rescued after drifting at sea aboard a raft. After being administered truth serum, he tells the doctor a story of how he and the three survivors of his plane crash washed up on an island that was inhabited by a tribe of beautiful primitive cave-women, dinosaurs and a group of savage cavemen who are bent on abducting the women for breeding purposes.
The Unknown Terror
Original Music Composer
event1957 star_border 5.1
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A woman leads an expedition into a remote jungle to find her long-lost brother, but instead finds a mad scientist who has created a fungus monster that feeds on the local inhabitants.
Island of Lost Women
Original Music Composer
event1959 star_border 4.3
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A plane crash-lands on a jungle island inhabited by a scientist and his nubile young daughters. Complications ensue.
Blood Arrow
Original Music Composer
event1958 star_border 7
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Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coates is cast as a devout Mormon girl whose mission is to transport smallpox vaccine to her friends and neighbors. Unfortunately, this requires her to journey through hostile Indian territory. Appointing themselves as the girl's unofficial protectors are Indian scout Scott Brady, trapper Don Haggerty and (reluctantly) gambler Paul Richards.
The Argyle Secrets
Original Music Composer
event1948 star_border 6
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A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Original Music Composer
event1966 star_border 4.1
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Dr. Frankenstein's Granddaughter Maria, and her brother assistant Rudolph, moved to the old west because the lightning storms there are more frequent and intense, which allows them to work on the experiments of their grandfather. But the experiments are failing and Rudolph's been secretly killing the corpses afterwards. Meanwhile, the Lopez family leaves the town because of the evil going on there
Bride of the Gorilla
Original Music Composer
event1951 star_border 4.8
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The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?
The Unchained Goddess
Music Supervisor
event1958 star_border 7
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A scientist and a writer explain the various meteorological phenomena to Meteora, the goddess of weather, while giving an insight into the technology involved in predicting them and warning about the threat of global climate change.
Hemo the Magnificent
Music Supervisor
event1957 star_border 8.1
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Professor Frank Baxter and some animated friends answer questions about blood. what makes it red? Why do little animals' hearts beat so quickly? And so much more.
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Music Supervisor
event1957 star_border 6
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Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which won an Emmy Award for Best Editing) teaches kids about the power of gamma rays and radiation.
Strange Gamble
Music
event1948
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Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money; his only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet. He quickly finds out that Mordigan is the town "boss"; but what or who is "the comet", and why are Mordigan and his henchmen intent on persecuting a young woman, her drunken brother, and her deathly ill sister-in-law who've also just arrived in town?
False Paradise
Music
event1948 star_border 6
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A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.
The Forty-Niners
Music
event1954 star_border 5.2
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1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a trio of killers.
The Magnificent Matador
Music
event1955 star_border 5
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Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.
Sky Liner
Music
event1949 star_border 5
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Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
Whistling Hills
Music
event1951
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Johnny Mack Brown was recruited by Chet Norman, the owner of a stagecoach line, to end the heist perpetrated by a mysterious knight who plays strange notes with a hiss of money before robbing them.
Timber Fury
Music
event1950
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Phyllis Wilson (Laura Lee) returns to the lumber camp owned by her father, Henry Wilson (Sam Flint)), and finds him in a struggle to keep his holdings. Wilson's foreman, McCabe (George Slocum), is employed by Wilson's enemy to destroy his company. Jim Caldwell (David Bruce), an engineer, is hired by Wilson and falls in love with Phyllis. McCabe kills Wilson and Sheriff Williams (Lee Phelps) thinks Caldwell is the killer.
Night Raiders
Music
event1952 star_border 3
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Whip arrives to investigate why night raiders are ransacking cabins but taking nothing....
The Gunman
Music
event1952 star_border 1.5
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Terrorized citizens send for a Texas lawman to rid their town of bandits.
The Gay Intruders
Original Music Composer
event1948 star_border 6
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Psychiatrists move in with bickering stage spouses and start bickering too.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Music Supervisor
event1952 star_border 5.6
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A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans. Ascending the beanstalk with the butcher who sold him the beans, he faces the giant terrorizing his village.
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Original Music Composer
event1952 star_border 5.9
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Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.
The Desperado
Music
event1954 star_border 6.6
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"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.
SOS Coast Guard
Music Director
event1937 star_border 4.7
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An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
Dirty O'Neil
Music
event1974 star_border 5.1
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A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.
Montana Incident
Music
event1952
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Whip is surveying land for a railroad but a land baron and one of his daughters stands in the way.
Back from the Dead
Original Music Composer
event1957 star_border 4.8
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A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, scheming flirt who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The woman's sister, husband and the sister's new boyfriend struggle with accepting what has happened, who has caused it and how to correct it, which soon brings them into contact with a coven of devil-worshippers and forces of the supernatural.
Prehistoric Women
Original Music Composer
event1950 star_border 2.8
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Tigri and her stone age friends, all of which are women, hate all men. However, she and her Amazon tribe see men as a "necessary evil" and capture them for potential husbands. Engor, who is smarter than the rest of the men, is able to escape them. He discovers fire and battle enormous beasts.
Elephant Stampede
Original Music Composer
event1951 star_border 5.1
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Bomba the jungle boy swings into action when an elephant herd is threatened by ivory hunters.
The Black Whip
Music
event1956
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A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot to kidnap the new governor of the state. If all goes according to plan, the outlaws will murder their hostage after collecting a hefty ransom.
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
Original Music Composer
event1956 star_border 3.8
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Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before...
Zamba
Original Music Composer
event1949 star_border 3.5
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Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to bail out and become separated. Jenny lands in a dense jungle and is rescued by a safari headed by two wild-animal collectors, but Tommy is not found. He has amnesia and is lost, but is adopted by Zamba, a huge gorilla. He lives happily with his new family. Jenny comes back with a searching party, and Zamba, the gorilla mother, is determined to protect Tommy from his real mother.
Desert Hell
Original Music Composer
event1958
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This melodrama tells the tale of a great battle between the French Foreign Legion and the rebellious Arab tribe, the Tuaregs, who fight it out upon the blistering Sahara sands. Just before the Legionnaires embark upon their dangerous mission, the commander discovers that he is being cuckolded by his lieutenant. Because the mission is urgent, there is no time to fight over the commander's wife. Unfortunately, as they travel, the tension between the two mounts and they begin squabbling over how to plan the attack. Their inability to work together results in tragedy.
Children of Divorce
Original Music Composer
event1980 star_border 6
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The conflict and separation of their parents and the impact on four youngsters from three socially different families is the thrust of this drama.
The Restless Breed
Conductor
event1957 star_border 5.7
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Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.
The Bamboo Saucer
Original Music Composer
event1968 star_border 4.9
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A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into space.
Marry Me Again
Original Music Composer
event1953
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Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars and Bill won't marry her because he dreams of a home and babies, with himself as the sole source of income on his $65 a week. Doris has to find a way to make him change his mind.
The Cool and the Crazy
Music
event1958 star_border 5.1
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High school thug is front man for a local marijuana ring.
The Maverick
Original Music Composer
event1952
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Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.
Thriller: A Cruel Picture
Additional Music
event1973 star_border 6.4
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Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.
Vengeance
Original Music Composer
event1964
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A Confederate captain's younger brother is flogged to death in a Union stockade. The captain vows revenge. Two years later he finds the men responsible running a rustling operation in a small western town.
The Longhorn
Music Director
event1951 star_border 5.7
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A double-crossing cowboy and his gang of henchmen steal cattle, even from friends, in this classic Western.
Highway 13
Original Music Composer
event1948 star_border 5.7
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Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
Night Wind
Original Music Composer
event1948
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A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
The Second Face
Original Music Composer
event1950 star_border 6.8
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A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty. When she finds out that a mysterious "benefactor" has paid for her surgery, she sets out to find out who he is and why he did it.
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Original Music Composer
event1966 star_border 4.2
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Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
You Can Beat the A-Bomb
Music
event1950 star_border 6
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An educational film that instructs people on how to survive atomic bombs and the radiation they emit while following a family facing nuclear attack who calmly prepare for the aftermath. Shows the various modes of Civil Defense that were being developed to protect the American population in the event of a nuclear war.
Stork Bites Man
Music
event1947
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A man engages in a boycott of a no children allowed apartment house, with the help of an imaginary stock and a large department store, after his wife become pregnant and they are evicted.
New Faces
Music Director
event1954 star_border 6.5
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New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.
Ride a Violent Mile
Music
event1957 star_border 4
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A cowboy stampedes a Rebel plot with a Union spy posing as a dance-hall girl.
The Body Beautiful
Conductor
event1953
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Susan Morrow, the secretary to Robert Clarke, a model photographer, is upset when her boss pays too much attention to model Noreen Nash. Morrow's younger sister takes a candid photo of her sister in her underwear, with face hidden, and sends it to Clarke. He is intrigued and tries to locate the mystery girl but, meanwhile, enters the photograph in a contest. It wins, provided Clarke can identify the girl. He offers a reward and hires a friend to search for her. Meanwhile, back the agency, Nash offers to pose as the missing girl, but she and Clarke quarrel and she walks out. Rather than leave her boss in a fix, Morrow admits she is the girl in the picture.
The Wayward Girl
Original Music Composer
event1957 star_border 6
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Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
September Storm
Original Music Composer
event1960 star_border 4.8
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American fashion model Anne Traymore, swimming off the isle of Majorca, loses a bracelet, which the handsome Manuel del Rio Montoya returns to her. She believes he owns a beautiful yacht called The Swan, but he merely works on it for the wealthy Rene LeClerc.
An Eye for an Eye
Original Music Composer
event1966 star_border 7.5
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A former bounty hunter teams up with a younger one, to track down and kill the wanted gang leader who murdered his wife and little boy.
Frontier Rangers
Music
event1959 star_border 3.6
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A pastiche of three episodes from the 1958 TV series Northwest Passage, stitched together as a feature and released theatrically in Europe.
Wild Weed
Original Music Composer
event1949 star_border 4.8
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A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Unknown Island
Original Music Composer
event1948 star_border 5.2
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Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition to an uncharted South Pacific island supposedly populated with dinosaurs...
The Outlaw's Daughter
Music
event1954
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Led astray by outlaw leader Jess, the "outlaw's daughter" Kate joins Jess' gang and follows in her dad's footsteps. Town marshal Dan tries his best to reform the girl, but this proves difficult inasmuch as Kate holds Dan responsible for her father's death. Only after most of the bad guys have been decimated by Dan does Kate discover the true identity of her dad's murderer. Having fallen in love with Kate, marshal Dan offers to let her escape prosecution, but she's made of sterner stuff than that.
Sixpack Annie
Original Music Composer
event1975 star_border 5.6
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A buxom, beer-guzzling and naive country gal travels from her small town to Miami to find a 'sugar daddy' to save the family restaurant.
Dangerous Years
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event1947 star_border 6.4
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Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
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