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Hollywood

Aug 19, 1923
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Comedy
Le Pèlerin
6.8

Le Pèlerin

Feb 19, 1923
Le vagabond Charlot est pris pour un pasteur par les habitants d'une petite ville.
Comedy
The Chaplin Revue
7.4

The Chaplin Revue

Sep 01, 1959
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
Comedy
Peck's Bad Boy
3.5

Peck's Bad Boy

Apr 21, 1921
This portrayal of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get to see the circus, over all obstacles. Escaped lions, lightheaded blackmail of his father, and playfully planting stolen papers on his sisters boyfriend are all in a days work for little Henry Peck.
Comedy
It's in the Air
5

It's in the Air

Oct 10, 1935
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Comedy
Gunfire
5

Gunfire

Aug 12, 1950
Tubercular Frank James has become a born again and retired from his career as an outlaw with his family but a look-a-like outlaw causes suspicion to fall back on him.
Western
Everybody Dance
6

Everybody Dance

Sep 06, 1936
When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
Music
Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'
6.7
Clint Eastwood tells us how he yearned to be a director from the time he was on "Rawhide" to finally obtaining the approval of his mentor, Don Siegel. He then asked Lew R. Wasserman, a Universal executive, if he could direct a story called "Play Misty For Me." Lew said yes but that he wouldn't be paid as the director. Clint agreed and began to locate the cast and crew he desired.
Documentary
Grief
1

Grief

May 01, 1921
Begins with a child-cast parody of "The Kid." The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray derby...and Jimmie happens to have one.
Comedy
Bill and Coo
6.2

Bill and Coo

Mar 28, 1948
The feathered residents of Chirpendale are terrorized by an evil black crow by the name of "The Black Menace". But to the citizen's rescue comes a brave young taxi puller named Bill! In other words, every single role in this film is played by birds. Actual birds.
Family
Bill and Coo
6.2

Bill and Coo

Mar 28, 1948
The feathered residents of Chirpendale are terrorized by an evil black crow by the name of "The Black Menace". But to the citizen's rescue comes a brave young taxi puller named Bill! In other words, every single role in this film is played by birds. Actual birds.
Family
The Man from Galveston
5.2
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.
Western
L'Homme en fuite
5.4

L'Homme en fuite

Oct 31, 1967
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.
Drama
Lost Flight
3.7

Lost Flight

Aug 13, 1970
The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
TV Movie
Beauté fatale
5.5

Beauté fatale

Oct 30, 1987
The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
Action
Pour elle un seul homme
5.2
The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
Drama
Le Régiment des bagarreurs
5.4
The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies."
Action
The Intruders
5.7

The Intruders

Nov 10, 1970
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.
TV Movie
The Keegans
1

The Keegans

May 03, 1976
A professional football player is accused of murdering the man who attacked his sister. His brother, an investigate reporter, sets out to prove his brother's innocence.
Drama
Operation Haylift
5

Operation Haylift

May 05, 1950
A pilot devises a plan to airlift hay to thousands of ranch cattle stranded and dying due to severe winter weather.
Drama
Skipalong Rosenbloom
1

Skipalong Rosenbloom

Apr 30, 1951
Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy Butcher Baer.
Western
I Shot Billy the Kid
4

I Shot Billy the Kid

Jul 27, 1950
Although the Lincoln County War has come to a conclusion, Billy the Kid turns his back on a gubernatorial pardon and continues his lawless career.
Western
Un frisson dans la nuit
6.603
Although the Lincoln County War has come to a conclusion, Billy the Kid turns his back on a gubernatorial pardon and continues his lawless career.
Drama
A Fugitive from Justice
3.5
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
Crime
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
5.786
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.
Comedy
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
4.7
Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.
Western
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
6.7
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
Crime
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
5.8
Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
Western
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
5
"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to July 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they worked. The show is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and revolves around the lives of Rex Randolph (Long) and Cal Calhoun (Duggan), who run a detective agency called Randolph and Calhoun — Special Services. The agency is based in the Absinthe House, a French Quarter nightclub on Bourbon Street.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
7.2
Cette série raconte le voyage d'un groupe de vachers (cow-boys) chargés de convoyer 3 000 têtes de bétail de San Antonio, Texas, à Sedalia, Missouri, dans les années qui suivent la guerre de Sécession1. Le groupe, où se distinguent les personnages de Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood) et du cuisinier, est dirigé par le chef de piste Gil Favor (Eric Fleming). Le parcours est émaillé par une suite de rencontres, origines d'autant d’incidents (saison 1), qui ne remettent cependant pas en question l'avancée de la caravane.
Western
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
7.6
Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
5.2
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
Western
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
5
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
5
The Long, Hot Summer is an American drama series that was broadcast on ABC-TV for one season from 1965-1966. Created by Dean Riesner, The Long, Hot Summer was based on the novel The Hamlet by William Faulkner, the short story "Barn Burning", and the 1958 film of the same name.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
3.7
The Restless Gun is an American western television series that appeared on NBC between 1957 and 1959, with John Payne in the role of Vint Bonner, a wandering cowboy in the era after the American Civil War. A skilled gunfighter, Bonner is an idealistic person who prefers peaceful resolutions of conflict wherever possible. He is gregarious, intelligent, and public-spirited. The half-hour black-and-white program aired seventy-eight episodes. Jeanne Bates appeared in varying roles with Payne in five episodes of The Restless Gun. The Restless Gun theme song begins: "I ride with the wind, my eyes on the sun, and my hand on my restless gun..." The song composer is probably Paul Dunlap, credited as the primary series composer, but could have been contributed to by either of the two other series composers, Dave Kahn and Stanley Wilson, also. Two versions are currently posted on YouTube, but neither posting lists any composer or performance credits.
Western
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
4.8
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
Western
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
7.263
This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon General--the Group is stationed in England, and flies long-range bombing missions into German-held Europe.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
5.571
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
5.4
Jered Maddox, le shérif de Bannock, arrive dans le village voisin de Sabbath pour y arrêter les sept hommes qui ont tué un vieillard. Le peu de soutien que lui manifestent la population et le shérif local n'entame en rien sa détermination.
Western
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
7.8
Voici l'histoire de la famille Jordache, de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale jusqu'au début des années 70... et notamment celle de deux frères, Rudy (Peter Strauss) et Tom (Nick Nolte), originaires de Port-Phillip, dans l'État de New York. Alors que Rudy est un brillant étudiant ambitieux qui vise le pouvoir politique et l'opulence, Tom ne connaît que les échecs et les difficultés. Il a tout d'une graine de violence. Après une carrière de boxeur professionnel écourtée, il devient père malgré lui d'un fils qu'il ne verra pas grandir. Lors d'un voyage en bateau, il défie et massacre une brute du nom de Falconetti (William Smith), lui arrachant un œil. Tom payera très cher pour ce dérapage...
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
1
Conflict is a 1956 ABC series that directly succeeded Warner Brothers Presents. It is most famous for having hosted the effective pilots of 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick. Although it assumed the same time slot as its predecessor, the two do not share the same format. Where Warner Brothers Presents had been a wheel series, Conflict was a fully anthological series. However, since Cheyenne and Conflict alternated the Tuesday 7:30pm time slot, the net effect was that of a proper wheel series—even though Cheyenne and Conflict were not under the same umbrella title. The name change was imposed upon its production company, Warner Bros., by ABC executives who believed that "conflict" was the missing element in Casablanca and King's Row from Warner Brothers Presents. The show does not fit neatly into standard American television seasons. It technically superseded Warner Brothers Presents after Casablanca concluded its run in April 1956. And it seems to have provided at least one week of new material at the beginning of the 1957 season, before Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins, took its place.
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
7.743
"Ce n'est pas une défaillance de votre téléviseur ! N'essayez pas de régler l'image ! Nous maîtrisons à présent toutes les retransmissions. Nous contrôlons les horizontales et les verticales. Nous pouvons vous noyer sous un millier de chaînes ou dilater une simple image jusqu'à lui donner la clarté du cristal, et même au-delà. Nous pouvons modeler votre vision pour lui fournir tout ce que votre imagination peut concevoir. Nous contrôlerons tout ce que vous allez voir et entendre. Nous partagerons les angoisses et les mystères qui gisent dans les plus profonds abysses avec Au-delà du réel !". Épisode après épisode, monstres et autres créatures terrifiantes prennent possession de votre téléviseur pour une incroyable aventure mêlant suspense et fantastique.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
6.857
Après avoir reçu une balle dans la colonne vertébrale, le redoutable policier Robert Dacier (Robert T. Ironside en version originale) se retrouve dans un fauteuil roulant, privé de l'usage de ses jambes. Il est entouré d'une équipe efficace avec laquelle il continue à mener ses enquêtes policières.
Crime
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
3
Telle est l'histoire des événements dans une grande banque. La première est que le président de la banque annonce qu'il est en train de mourir et que sans héritier personne prendre sa place, il informe qu'il laisse à choisir un successeur officiers de la banque. Les deux vice-présidents qui sont des coureurs avant tout, sont Alex Vandervoort et Roscoe Heyward. Maintenant, Alex ne fonctionne pas exactement autour de la recherche de soutien, Roscoe ne peut voir les avantages que la présidence peut lui donner. Il va donc regarder autour de lui les personnes qui souhaitent faire des affaires avec la banque.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
7.8
Voici l'histoire de la famille Jordache, de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale jusqu'au début des années 70... et notamment celle de deux frères, Rudy (Peter Strauss) et Tom (Nick Nolte), originaires de Port-Phillip, dans l'État de New York. Alors que Rudy est un brillant étudiant ambitieux qui vise le pouvoir politique et l'opulence, Tom ne connaît que les échecs et les difficultés. Il a tout d'une graine de violence. Après une carrière de boxeur professionnel écourtée, il devient père malgré lui d'un fils qu'il ne verra pas grandir. Lors d'un voyage en bateau, il défie et massacre une brute du nom de Falconetti (William Smith), lui arrachant un œil. Tom payera très cher pour ce dérapage...
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
3
Telle est l'histoire des événements dans une grande banque. La première est que le président de la banque annonce qu'il est en train de mourir et que sans héritier personne prendre sa place, il informe qu'il laisse à choisir un successeur officiers de la banque. Les deux vice-présidents qui sont des coureurs avant tout, sont Alex Vandervoort et Roscoe Heyward. Maintenant, Alex ne fonctionne pas exactement autour de la recherche de soutien, Roscoe ne peut voir les avantages que la présidence peut lui donner. Il va donc regarder autour de lui les personnes qui souhaitent faire des affaires avec la banque.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
8.6
Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, Das Boot follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
1
The Case of the Dangerous Robin is an American crime drama series which aired in syndication from October 1960, to July 1961. The series stars Rick Jason. It was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
Crime
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
5
The Long, Hot Summer is an American drama series that was broadcast on ABC-TV for one season from 1965-1966. Created by Dean Riesner, The Long, Hot Summer was based on the novel The Hamlet by William Faulkner, the short story "Barn Burning", and the 1958 film of the same name.
Drama
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
4.7
Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.
Western