Leon Alton

Leon Alton

Leon Alton enjoyed a career on stage, screen, and television starting in the 1920s and lasting until the late 1970s. In the 1930s he started out on the Broadway stage appearing in various musicals which lasted until the early 1940s. Then like many Broadway actors and dancers, he seemingly drifted his way to Hollywood where he was able to use his talents as a dancer to appear in many party scenes in a suit dancing in some of the most well known films. Like many dancers though, that was only part of their work as they could not survive on musicals alone and by the mid 1950s musicals started to lose their popularity so he had to find work elsewhere He was never unemployed long. Alton's appearance was ideal for bankers, or distinguished townsman, or whatever was needed. By the late 1950s, he was able to secure some roles in which he received screen credit in shows like Bat Masterson, Tombstone Territory, and Lock-Up all while still appearing at the usual party scenes or the social gatherings. By the 1960s his career was still going strong as he still found work in the usual places and managed to appear in several well known movies like True Grit, The Cheyenne Social Club, and Airport and appearing in most of the well known television shows of the time. His career wound down by the 1970s and while his name won't garner the attention or recognition to film audiences of today, most casting directors could tell you it was a name that should be respected and could be depended on.

  • Title: Leon Alton
  • Popularity: 0.242
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1907-08-23
  • Place of Birth: New York, USA
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Leon Alton Movies

  • 1963
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    Critic's Choice

    Critic's Choice

    5.5 1963 HD

    Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bob Hope

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  • 1965
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    Do Not Disturb

    Do Not Disturb

    5.6 1965 HD

    American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Doris Day

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  • 1969
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    Sweet Charity

    Sweet Charity

    6.9 1969 HD

    Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Shirley MacLaine

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  • 1960
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    Cimarron

    Cimarron

    6 1960 HD

    The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Glenn Ford

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  • 1963
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    Take Her, She's Mine

    Take Her, She's Mine

    5.3 1963 HD

    After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Stewart

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  • 1964
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    Kisses for My President

    Kisses for My President

    7 1964 HD

    A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Fred MacMurray

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  • 1965
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    The Cincinnati Kid

    The Cincinnati Kid

    7 1965 HD

    An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Steve McQueen

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  • 1964
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    Marnie

    Marnie

    7.133 1964 HD

    Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Tippi Hedren

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  • 1964
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    Looking for Love

    Looking for Love

    5 1964 HD

    An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Connie Francis

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  • 1950
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    The Iroquois Trail

    The Iroquois Trail

    5.8 1950 HD

    An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.

    Genre: Western

    Cast: George Montgomery

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  • 1970
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    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    7.1 1970 HD

    In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Martin Balsam

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  • 1968
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    Yours, Mine and Ours

    Yours, Mine and Ours

    6.809 1968 HD

    When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lucille Ball

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  • 1961
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    Babes in Toyland

    Babes in Toyland

    5.8 1961 HD

    All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ray Bolger

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  • 1952
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    Les Miserables

    Les Miserables

    5.4 1952 HD

    In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Michael Rennie

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  • 1968
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    Hellfighters

    Hellfighters

    6.348 1968 HD

    The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: John Wayne

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  • 1965
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    Ship of Fools

    Ship of Fools

    6.55 1965 HD

    Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Vivien Leigh

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  • 1956
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    The Killer Is Loose

    The Killer Is Loose

    6.6 1956 HD

    A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Joseph Cotten

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  • 1959
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    Holiday for Lovers

    Holiday for Lovers

    5.5 1959 HD

    Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Clifton Webb

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  • 1968
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    Funny Girl

    Funny Girl

    7.187 1968 HD

    The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Barbra Streisand

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  • 1967
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    Warning Shot

    Warning Shot

    6.3 1967 HD

    Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: David Janssen

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  • 1947
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    Desperate

    Desperate

    6.5 1947 HD

    An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Steve Brodie

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  • 1955
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    Illegal

    Illegal

    6.4 1955 HD

    A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Edward G. Robinson

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  • 1970
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    Watermelon Man

    Watermelon Man

    6.4 1970 HD

    A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Godfrey Cambridge

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  • 1960
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    Who Was That Lady?

    Who Was That Lady?

    6.2 1960 HD

    In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tony Curtis

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  • 1957
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    The Young Stranger

    The Young Stranger

    5.8 1957 HD

    The lack of communication between a wealthy film producer and his troubled teenage son after the boy is involved in an altercation at a movie theater...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James MacArthur

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  • 1954
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    Phffft

    Phffft

    6.2 1954 HD

    Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Judy Holliday

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  • 1963
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    The Wheeler Dealers

    The Wheeler Dealers

    6.2 1963 HD

    Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. ...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Garner

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  • 1962
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    Period of Adjustment

    Period of Adjustment

    5.7 1962 HD

    A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Anthony Franciosa

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  • 1958
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    Party Girl

    Party Girl

    6.8 1958 HD

    Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Robert Taylor

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  • 1968
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    How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

    How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

    5.8 1968 HD

    Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Dean Martin

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  • 1963
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    Twilight of Honor

    Twilight of Honor

    6.8 1963 HD

    A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of a murder that he has already confessed to. He asks his mentor, a retired, legendary lawyer for help.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Chamberlain

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  • 1968
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    Star!

    Star!

    6.9 1968 HD

    Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Julie Andrews

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  • 1962
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    The Notorious Landlady

    The Notorious Landlady

    6.7 1962 HD

    An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kim Novak

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  • 1971
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    Bedknobs and Broomsticks

    Bedknobs and Broomsticks

    7.029 1971 HD

    Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Angela Lansbury

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  • 1969
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    True Grit

    True Grit

    7.331 1969 HD

    The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: John Wayne

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  • 1964
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    What a Way to Go!

    What a Way to Go!

    7.055 1964 HD

    A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Shirley MacLaine

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  • 1951
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    Cry Danger

    Cry Danger

    6.7 1951 HD

    After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Dick Powell

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  • 1964
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    The Incredible Mr. Limpet

    The Incredible Mr. Limpet

    6.1 1964 HD

    Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German...

    Genre: Animation

    Cast: Don Knotts

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  • 1936
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    College Holiday

    College Holiday

    5.2 1936 HD

    College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jack Benny

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  • 1955
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    Three for the Show

    Three for the Show

    6 1955 HD

    This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Betty Grable

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  • 1954
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    A Star Is Born

    A Star Is Born

    7.1 1954 HD

    A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judy Garland

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  • 1951
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    Sirocco

    Sirocco

    5.8 1951 HD

    A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Humphrey Bogart

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  • 1964
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    The Best Man

    The Best Man

    7.3 1964 HD

    The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Henry Fonda

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  • 1965
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    Brainstorm

    Brainstorm

    6.228 1965 HD

    Scientist Jim Grayam saves his boss' wife from suicide but then falls in love with her.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Jeffrey Hunter

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  • 1949
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    Caught

    Caught

    6.565 1949 HD

    Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Mason

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  • 1958
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    The Last Hurrah

    The Last Hurrah

    7.119 1958 HD

    In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Spencer Tracy

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  • 1960
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    Inherit the Wind

    Inherit the Wind

    7.669 1960 HD

    Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Spencer Tracy

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  • 1956
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    Hollywood or Bust

    Hollywood or Bust

    6.1 1956 HD

    The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dean Martin

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  • 1963
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    Days of Wine and Roses

    Days of Wine and Roses

    7.5 1963 HD

    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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jack Lemmon

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  • 1954
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    Knock on Wood

    Knock on Wood

    6.6 1954 HD

    Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Danny Kaye

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  • 1962
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    Advise & Consent

    Advise & Consent

    7.2 1962 HD

    Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Henry Fonda

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  • 1956
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    Somebody Up There Likes Me

    Somebody Up There Likes Me

    7.246 1956 HD

    The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Paul Newman

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  • 1959
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    The Tingler

    The Tingler

    6.4 1959 HD

    A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Vincent Price

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  • 1953
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    Dangerous When Wet

    Dangerous When Wet

    6 1953 HD

    The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe,...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Esther Williams

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  • 1969
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    The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

    The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

    6.026 1969 HD

    Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kurt Russell

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  • 1969
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    The Love God?

    The Love God?

    6 1969 HD

    Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Don Knotts

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  • 1958
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    Bell, Book and Candle

    Bell, Book and Candle

    6.439 1958 HD

    A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Stewart

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  • 1966
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    Batman

    Batman

    6.413 1966 HD

    The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Adam West

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  • 1949
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    Alias Nick Beal

    Alias Nick Beal

    6.9 1949 HD

    After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ray Milland

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  • 1950
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    Destination Murder

    Destination Murder

    5.1 1950 HD

    Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Joyce Mackenzie

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  • 1952
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    The Iron Mistress

    The Iron Mistress

    4.8 1952 HD

    In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Alan Ladd

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  • 1968
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    Blackbeard's Ghost

    Blackbeard's Ghost

    6.7 1968 HD

    The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Ustinov

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  • 1953
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    The Juggler

    The Juggler

    6.5 1953 HD

    A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kirk Douglas

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  • 1953
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    Small Town Girl

    Small Town Girl

    5.7 1953 HD

    Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Jane Powell

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  • 1956
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    The Swan

    The Swan

    6.833 1956 HD

    Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Grace Kelly

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  • 1962
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    Tender Is the Night

    Tender Is the Night

    5.4 1962 HD

    Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jennifer Jones

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  • 1947
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    So You Want to Be a Salesman

    So You Want to Be a Salesman

    5.5 1947 HD

    Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: George O'Hanlon

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  • 1967
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    Divorce American Style

    Divorce American Style

    5.848 1967 HD

    After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dick Van Dyke

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  • 1966
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    Our Man Flint

    Our Man Flint

    6.437 1966 HD

    When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: James Coburn

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  • 1955
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    New York Confidential

    New York Confidential

    5.8 1955 HD

    Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Broderick Crawford

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  • 1961
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    Go Naked in the World

    Go Naked in the World

    5 1961 HD

    A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

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  • 1965
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    Two on a Guillotine

    Two on a Guillotine

    6.069 1965 HD

    The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Connie Stevens

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  • 1967
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    Banning

    Banning

    6.1 1967 HD

    A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Robert Wagner

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  • 1964
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    Youngblood Hawke

    Youngblood Hawke

    6.1 1964 HD

    An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: James Franciscus

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  • 1954
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    Désirée

    Désirée

    6.432 1954 HD

    In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Marlon Brando

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  • 1969
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    Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

    Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

    5 1969 HD

    A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Carol White

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  • 1964
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    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    8.448 1964 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Rod Serling

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    Columbo

    Columbo

    8.098 2003 HD

    Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Peter Falk

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  • 1966
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1966 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Raymond Burr

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  • 1966
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1966 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Raymond Burr

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