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#8:WEIRD, Rare, HARD-To-Find Big & Small Screen
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Part EIGHT: These are the movie, TV Series, Made-For-Television Movies, Specials, Documentary, Drive-In Mature/Action/Grindhouse, Disney, Music (Concerts). Just overall some things that were things I’ve seen over my LONG lifetime to things I’ve discovered…Enjoy! (I will ALWAYS be adding) ~~ Please be sure to check out my other playlists - Thanks For looking!~~


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Movie: Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra (TV Special 1973) ( 1973 )
Frank Sinatra returns to the spotlight with a television special.
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TV Show: Welt am Draht ( 1973 )
In the present day, Cybernetics and Future Science's new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with over 9,000 "identity units" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is just a simulation.
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Movie: Let the Good Times Roll ( 1973 )
This lively documentary celebrates 1950s rock 'n' roll, both through archival clips of the era and concert footage filmed during the '70s. Although the musicians have aged, the performances are remarkably vibrant, with many acts in fine form. Among the many artists featured are Bill Haley and the Comets, Fats Domino, the Shirelles, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. In one of the film's highlights, Diddley and Berry take the stage together to the applause of a rapt audience.
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Movie: The Bullet Machine ( 1973 )
Detective Harry Clegg must track down the crazed prostitute responsible for a string of murders.
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Movie: Libido ( 1973 )
Explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
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Movie: Poor Devil ( 1973 )
A young down on his luck resident of Hell (Sammy Davis, Jr.) is given a chance to redeem himself by signing up a down on his luck retail accountant to sell his soul to Lucifer.
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Movie: It Happened at Nightmare Inn ( 1973 )
Two sisters running a small hotel in Spain kill female tourists whose morals do not meet their strict religious standards.
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Movie: The Nun and the Devil ( 1973 )
Kingdom of Naples, 1577: The Roman Inquisition and the witch hunt are in force and torture is authorized in the trials, while the people live in misery and fear. The handsome Spanish nobleman Don Carlos enjoyed it in the convent of Sant'Arcangelo di Baiano, satisfying his eroticism with Sister Giulia di Mondragone, a powerful ecclesiastic who aspired to the title of abbess of the convent. Having evaluated the power of Don Carlos, Giulia tries to please him, while other sisters, especially Sister Carmela, plot against her as interested in the coveted title of abbess. Giulia offers herself on several occasions to Don Carlos, despite being a lesbian and eager to be alone with her sweetheart: Sister Chiara. Giulia pleases Don Carlos even when he asks her to spend a night of love with the beautiful young Sister Isabella, Giulia's niece, forced against her will to take the monastic vows but, in reality, very much in love with a boy from the country 'origin. Considering that the current abbess, Sister Lavina, appears to be ever closer to death, Giulia and Carmela go wild in a war that will have to determine who, on Lavinia's death, will succeed her in her duties and functions. From pure actions moved by jealousy they pass to poisonings, traps, complaints and false accusations. If Sister Giulia favors Don Carlos, Sister Carmela, even through some protectors and lovers, she reveals a criminal conduct at least equal to that of Giulia. The step towards the scandal is short: deaths, threats and beatings accompanied by the sending of anonymous letters to the high ecclesiastical authorities, immediately open a trial. The vicar Carafa, representative of the Inquisition sent by the Archbishop of Naples, deals with the scandal: the ruthless process in which various sisters are tortured and made to confess.
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Movie: The Castle of Purity ( 1973 )
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
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Movie: Climax ( 1972 )
Monika feels frustrated and misunderstood. The young wife of the busy and successful civil engineer Kai is often alone.
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Movie: Star Spangled Girl ( 1971 )
A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.
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Movie: The Ski Bum ( 1971 )
A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention. This very 70's film is like a trip without the acid.
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Movie: Secreto de confesión ( 1971 )
María, a nurse and the only daughter of a smuggler, falls in love with the journalist who investigates her father's tricks and he manages to kill him by his men, without knowing that she is expecting a baby from him. She is sent to a farm to give birth, without anyone knowing. When the child is born, she is told that it has died, but in truth, they send the baby to an orphanage. After the depression Priest Esteban, Maria's cousin advises her that in spite of her pain she should continue with her life. She pays attention to that, and some time later, she decides to return to live and marry her old lover, doctor Enrique. Soon after they have a daughter, Mayte, a rebellious teenager in search of love. At a party she falls in love with Miguel, a shy boy, and the love of these two is so great that they decide to get married. Meanwhile Maria's mother dies, tells her the truth about her son. Maria investigates the place of the orphanage as crazy and manages to know the current name of her son and the family that adopted him. Then she learns that her daughter's husband is nothing more and nothing less than his own son, the stolen, deceived and adopted. Maria speaks the situation with her cousin, telling him that she must go to her daughter to confess that she is really married to her brother, but he stops her, and tells her that the plans of God is perfect, and let them be happy, that confession, will be just something that will ruin them forever.
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TV Show: Lidsville ( 1971 )
Mark goes to see Merlo the Magician and he is so interested by what the magician's top hat can do, he decides to sneak backstage to find the secret. When the hat starts to grow, Mark climbs on the brim and falls in. After a nightmarish trip through the hat, he lands in Lidsville, the land of living hats.
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Movie: Le Mans ( 1971 )
Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 kilometers of cordoned country road. Every few hours the two drivers per car alternate - but it's still a challenge for concentration and material. In the focus is the duel between the German Stahler in Ferrari 512LM and the American Delaney in Gulf Team Porsche 917. Delaney is under extraordinary pressure, because the year before he caused a severe accident, in which his friend Lisa's husband was killed.
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Movie: Doctors' Wives ( 1971 )
Dysfunctional marriages of several unhappy rich doctors who work at a private clinic and their neglected wives who deal with their own unhappiness in various ways enter crisis mode when one of them murders his cheating wife.
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Movie: The Road to Salina ( 1971 )
A hippie moves in with a cafe owner who acts like his mother, and her daughter who doesn't act like his sister.
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Movie: Queens of Evil ( 1970 )
A young motorcyclist helps a man with a flat tyre, who ends up dead after crashing his car. The young man takes a detour into the forest, and stumbles on a lakeside house, occupied by three sisters, but they're not who they pretend to be.
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Movie: Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary TV Special (TV Special 1970) ( 1970 )
Highlights of past Jack Benny shows are shown.
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Movie: The Mind of Mr. Soames ( 1970 )
A man who has been in a coma since infancy is awakened.
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TV Show: Dan August ( 1970 )
Dan August is a detective lieutenant in a Southern California town called Santa Luisa.
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Movie: May Morning ( 1970 )
A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford University, England, in the early 1970s.
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Movie: 12 + 1 ( 1970 )
Young philanderer inherits 13 ratty antique chairs and decides to sell them off to get some money. Later he learns that one of them contains jewels worth a lot of money, so he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people, some who want to help and some who want to swindle him.
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Movie: Kill, Baby... Kill! ( 1970 )
Dr. Eswai is called by Inspector Kruger to a small village to perform an autopsy on a woman who has died under suspicious circumstances. Despite help from Ruth, the village witch, Kruger is killed and it is revealed that the dead woman, as well as other villagers, have been killed by the ghost of Melissa, a young girl who, fed by the hatred of her grieving mother, Baroness Graps, exacts her revenge on them. Dr. Eswai, along with Monica, a local nurse, are lured into a fateful confrontation at the Villa Graps.
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Movie: Ritual of Evil ( 1970 )
A psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.
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Movie: Jack Benny's New Look (TV Special 1969) ( 1969 )
Very funny special with Benny displaying his "groovy" new look. Burns, Benny, Peck perform a vaudeville act.
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Movie: Horrors of Malformed Men ( 1969 )
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
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Movie: Riot ( 1969 )
A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.
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Movie: Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman (TV Special 1969) ( 1969 )
An enchanting variety special which reunites Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore in song and dance. Numbers include "On The Other Hand", "Life Is Like A Situation Comedy", "Food Medley", "Do You Love Me?".
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Movie: Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 )
In WW2, captured British soldier Stephen Brooks is on a prison train to Germany.On the train he meets an American prisoner, Packy, who's obsessed with escaping.Brooks tries to temper Packy and reminds him that escaped prisoners are shot if recaptured.Packy is insistent despite Brooks' warnings. On arrival at the POW camp Stalag 7A, Brooks and other fellow POWs are sent to work at the local Munich zoo, to care for the animals.Brooks is assigned to care for Lucy the elephant.The German caretaker in charge of Lucy is asked to train Brooks in his new job.At first, Brooks hates the assignment, considering the large amount of animal waste to be cleaned daily.However, he eventually becomes attached to Lucy the elephant.After a devastating bombing raid that kills some of the animals and zoo staff it is decided to evacuate the surviving animals.Lucy is scheduled to be transported by train to Innsbruck, Austria.On the departure day, the train is commandeered by a moody SS Colonel, for his troops.The colonel jokes that Brooks can walk the elephant all the way to Austria, if he wishes.The joke gives Brooks the idea of walking the elephant to Austria, with two armed guards and a Polish maid as cook.The Munich Zoo director, worried for Lucy's safety, agrees to evacuate her and send her to Austria on foot.Two soldiers provide the armed guard.One is Willy,a friendly Austrian soldier, and the other is Kurt,a brutal German soldier who gets drunk often, insults everyone and threatens to shoot the elephant.The group leaves Munich on a sunny day but the voyage to Austria isn't a promenade in the park when they start running into trouble.
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Movie: Bed Peace ( 1969 )
John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-drawn signs above their bed reading "Bed Peace." They invited the global press into their room to discuss peace for 12 hours every day. "We sent out a card: 'Come to John and Yoko's honeymoon: a bed-in, Amsterdam Hotel,'" Lennon said in Anthology. "You should have seen the faces on the reporters and the cameramen fighting their way through the door! Because whatever it is, is in people's minds - their minds were full of what they thought was going to happen. They fought their way in, and their faces dropped. "There were we like two angels in bed, with flowers all around us, and peace and love on our heads," he continued. "We were fully clothed; the bed was just an accessory. We were wearing pajamas, but they don't look much different from day clothes - nothing showing."
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Movie: Mackenna's Gold ( 1969 )
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.
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Movie: The Girl with a Pistol ( 1969 )
A Sicilian woman "dishonored" by her lover goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.
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Movie: After the Fox ( 1968 )
An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed.
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Movie: The Vatican Affair ( 1968 )
A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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TV Show: The Three Musketeers ( 1968 )
The Three Musketeers (Porthos, Aramis and Athos) are joined by their new recruit, D'Artagnan. The Three Musketeers train their protege as one of the most evil schemes against the King unfolds. Cardinal Richelieu wants to divide the royalty up so that he can get a piece of it. Richelieu tries to prove that Queen Anne is conspiring with the English throne against her husband, King Louis XIII. Richelieu's plan becomes more powerful after Anne gives the Duke of Buckingham, for his kind service to her, a heralded set of 12 studded diamonds. Will Richelieu be able to prove to King Louis XIII that Anne is out to take away his throne? If he does, France will definitely be headed for a war. It is up to The Three Musketeers to save the day.
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Movie: Counterpoint ( 1968 )
A famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and is forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals.
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Movie: Danger Route ( 1968 )
During the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.
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Movie: Ninety Degrees in the Shade ( 1968 )
A respected grocery shop employee in Prague is covering up for her manager's misconduct with whom she is having an affair; however, things will get complicated when a thorough auditor pays a visit.
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Movie: Submarine X-1 ( 1968 )
During World War II, the British Royal Navy used experimental midget submarines to raid German warships in Norway.
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Movie: Sex by Advertisement ( 1968 )
Georgina Spelvin serves as host and guide to this exploration of the sexual netherworld, which can be accessed through discreet ads placed in "underground" newspapers and on public bulletin boards.
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Movie: Operation Cross Eagles ( 1968 )
In this thrilling war drama set in Yugoslavia during WWII, a small band of courageous commandoes are sent to kidnap an important German commander in exchange for an American general being held in a German fortress.
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Movie: Desire Under the Palms ( 1968 )
As a sideline, a bored suburban wife writes articles for women's magazines. When a friend shows her an explicit men's magazine, she attempts to write erotic material. However, she finds that a lot more first-hand research is required, and her husband is more interested in checkers.
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Movie: Deep Inside ( 1968 )
Millicent Redmond, a powerful, frigid woman, is the informal leader of a group of women who live near a beach during one summer. Millicent delights in manipulating her friends by exploiting their weaknesses. She maneuvers Lina, a nymphomaniac, into making desperate attempts to find satisfaction; toys with Neva and Jean, her lesbian roommates from college days: caters ...Read all
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Movie: Aladdin and His Magic Lamp ( 1967 )
A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he's granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of Baghdad and her father fight off an evil sorcerer who's trying to take over the kingdom.
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Movie: Marketa Lazarová ( 1967 )
Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. During one of their "jobs" they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return news of the kidnapping and robbery to the King. Kozlik prepares for the wrath of the King, and sends Mikolás to pressure his neighbor Lazar to join him in war. Persuasion fails, and in vengeance Mikolás abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa, just as she was about to join a convent. The King, meantime, dispatches an army and the religious Lazar will be called upon to join hands against Kozlik. Stripped-down, surreal, and relentlessly grimy account of the shift from Paganism to Christianity.
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TV Show: The Carol Burnett Show ( 1967 )
One of Time magazine's 100 Best TV Shows of All Time, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety/sketch comedy show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway.
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Movie: L'occhio selvaggio ( 1967 )
Paolo is a documentary filmmaker on a mission to see the world and present human nature in its true and raw form, even pushing his crew to the limit to capture the brutality of a world gone mad even at the expense of safety and a moral price.
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Movie: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV Short 1966) ( 1966 )
A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
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Movie: Triple Cross ( 1966 )
During WW2, convicted bank robber Eddie Chapman becomes a triple agent working for both the British and the Germans.
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Movie: Modesty Blaise ( 1966 )
A spy spoof in the 1960s tradition, featuring the comic book heroine Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti) set in the Italian Mediterranean.
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Movie: Kommissar X - Drei gelbe Katzen ( 1966 )
(1967) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris. Two Yanks are hired to protect a rich lady from a sinister underworld group. Lots of jungle thrills, martial arts, ancient temples, huge explosions, & even sci-fi elements. Watch for Harris' great karate fight inside a crumbling temple, surrounded by masked members of an ancient sect. A cross between James Bond and Indiana Jones. 16mm.
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Movie: A Rage to Live ( 1965 )
A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.
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TV Show: Laredo ( 1965 )
Laredo combined action with humor to tell the tales of three Company B Texas Rangers. Reese Bennett is older then his two partners, Chad Cooper and Joe Riley. Reese is in his forties and was previously a Union Army Officer. Chad was in the Border Patrol during the Civil War but is originally from New Orleans. He joined the Rangers to search for the gunrunners who helped ambush fellow border patrolmen. Joe was a gunfighter who was at times on the wrong side of the law and joined the rangers as protection from a sheriff or two. Chad and Joe love to tease Reese about his age. They had a Gunga Din like camaraderie. They are lead by Captain Parmalee who was stern and disciplined. He would send them on their missions and many times was not amused by the shenanigans they got into. Erik Hunter joined them in the second season
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Movie: Diary of a Bachelor ( 1965 )
A wealthy young woman about to marry a noted playboy comes across his diary, and as she reads it, she begins to discover that her intended husband isn't quite what he seems to be.
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Movie: The Sons of Katie Elder ( 1965 )
Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.
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Movie: Funny Things Happen Down Under ( 1965 )
A group of Australian schoolchildren discover a way to create rainbow-coloured goats for wool, hoping to make money for their clubhouse in the process.
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TV Show: Slattery's People ( 1964 )
Slattery's People, starring Richard Crenna as the lawmaker hero, revolves around a state legislator facing modern social and political challenges. Appearing in the dramatic episodes with Crenna are Maxine Stuart in a regular supporting role. Miss Stuart will portray B.J. Clawson, secretary to James Slattery (Crenna). Also included in the supporting cast are Paul Geary as Slattery's young aide, Edward Asner as a veteran newsman on the legislative beat, and Tol Avery as the speaker of the legislature Slattery serves.
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Movie: The 7th Dawn ( 1964 )
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
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Movie: What a Way to Go! ( 1964 )
This black comedy opens with Louisa Foster donating a multimillion dollar check to the IRS. The tax department thinks she's crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist. She then discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
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Movie: Becket ( 1964 )
King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.
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Movie: The Winston Affair ( 1964 )
In WW2, a US lieutenant stationed in India shoots dead a British NCO and admits his crime but his reason for the murder is so bizarre that it puzzles his defense counsel.
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TV Show: The Hollywood Palace ( 1964 )
The Hollywood Palace was a 60 minute variety show that aired on ABC from 1964-1970 & featured a different celebrity host each week.
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Movie: The Nutty Professor ( 1963 )
A timid chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome womanizer.
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Movie: Musketeers of the Sea ( 1962 )
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Movie: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1962 )
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
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Movie: Hatari! ( 1962 )
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.
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Movie: All Night Long ( 1962 )
This movie, based on William Shakespeare's Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.
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Movie: In the Doghouse ( 1962 )
British comedy about the ups and downs of a London vet.
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Movie: Can-Can ( 1960 )
Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her nightclub. Her employees use their female charms to let the representatives of law enforcement look the other way - and even attend the shows. Then the young ambitious judge Philippe Forrestier decides to bring this to an end. Will Simone manage to twist him round her little finger, too? Her boyfriend Francois certainly doesn't like to watch her trying.
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Movie: The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: To the Ladies (TV Special 1960) ( 1960 )
Frank Sinatra Timex special, featuring music and special guests, including Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Movie: The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra (TV Special 1959) ( 1959 )
At the beginning of the program, Peter Lawford explains that Frank Sinatra's plans to film his TV special outdoors in sunny Palm Springs have foundered because an extended rainstorm has turned their desert location into a morass of mud. The company is forced to move inside a stark studio instead and delivers their songs with a minimum of props but a maximum of verve.
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Movie: King of the Wild Stallions ( 1959 )
Martha Morse, a young widow, must raise $500 within a few days or lose her government-grazing rights and her ranch. Matt MacGuire, an unscrupulous neighboring rancher, blocks all her efforts to raise the money so that he can grab her property. McGuire also seeks a wild black stallion which has been seen roaming the nearby hills. A large reward has been posted for the capture of the horse. He learns that the horse has been captured by Martha's young son, Bucky. Stymied at every turn, Martha turns to her only friends, Randy Burke and his pal Idaho.
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Movie: The Mysterians ( 1959 )
Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be invaders, responsible for the giant robot that is destroying cities, the armed forces attempt to stop them with every weapon available.
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Movie: The Unchained Goddess ( 1958 )
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.
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Movie: Les Girls ( 1957 )
The former members of a dance troupe are suing because of recently published memoirs. Each one insists on own point of view.
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Movie: Legend of the Lost ( 1957 )
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
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Movie: The One That Got Away ( 1957 )
A cocky German flight officer is shot down over England and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.
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Movie: The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays ( 1957 )
Traces, in an easy-to-follow way, the discovery of cosmic rays. You don't need rocket science to follow along with the explanations. Saw it while a Junior in HS and it spurred me to study physics in college. A rare example of good tv programming.
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Movie: How to Murder a Rich Uncle ( 1957 )
The impoverished Clitterburn family live on a grand English estate but times are hard and the head of the household, Sir Henry, seizes upon news of the impending arrival of their rich Canadian Uncle George as the solution to their financial troubles.
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Movie: Bundle of Joy ( 1956 )
After finding a baby outside an orphanage, a salesgirl receives sympathy from those around her, including her boss' son, as they all assume the baby is hers.
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Movie: PT Raiders ( 1956 )
A trio of ex-servicemen begin smuggling innocuous black market items into post-war Britain, but through greed they graduate to more sinister cargo.
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Movie: La tour de Nesle ( 1955 )
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
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Movie: The Unholy Four ( 1954 )
Philip Vickers mysteriously reappears to his wife and friends during a party at her upscale country estate after an absence of four years. He had been presumed dead after he disappeared on a fishing trip in Portugal with three friends. He was knocked unconscious and pushed overboard by an unknown assailant. In the interim, he had suffered from amnesia but now has regained his faculties. All the potential suspects, including his wife, are at the party. When one of them is killed, the police are called in, and suspicion for the crime falls on the vengeful Vickers.
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Movie: Babes in Bagdad ( 1952 )
Hassan, the Kadi of Bagdad, has a harem housing twelve beauties, but concentrates his attention on Zohara. A newcomer, Kyra, introduces rebellion into the by the unheard of act of complaining to the Caliph about the lot of the women in the harem. Hassan suffers a greater shock when his God-son, Ezar, asserts that women are the equal of men. They make a wager under which Ezar must settle down with a conventional harem unless Zohara can outwit Hassan within ten days.
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Movie: The Magic Box ( 1952 )
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene (Robert Donat) was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work at which he was so good. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Movie: The House of Tomorrow (Short 1949) ( 1949 )
A narrator takes us on a tour of the dream house of the future, and its many innovative appliances.
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Movie: Scott of the Antarctic ( 1949 )
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole, only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him.
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Movie: The Three Musketeers ( 1948 )
D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly) and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu (Vincent Price) to usurp King Louis XIII's (Frank Morgan's) power.
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Movie: Miranda ( 1948 )
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives in to her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
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Movie: Suddenly It's Spring ( 1947 )
Captain Mary Morley (Paulette Goddard), WAC marital-relations expert, known as "Captain Lonelyhearts", returns from overseas as escort to some G.I. war brides, and she hopes to patch up the estrangement from Peter Morley (Fred MacMurray), her husband and former law partner. The latter has fallen for beautiful Gloria Fay (Arleen Whelan) and is waiting at the pier with a divorce consent requiring Mary's signature. Peter, hoping to be more persuasive later, asks her to have dinner with him later at the Ski Club. Jack Lindsay (Macdonald Carey), a client of Peter's who has been using their apartment mistakes Mary for one of the intended bridesmaids and asks about Gloria. Now that Mary knows about Gloria, she asks Jack to bring Gloria to the Ski Club dinner. Still in love with Peter, Mary refuses to sign the divorce paper and asks Jack to take her home. Mary is ordered to Fort Sheridan and Peter and Jack board her train - Peter still after her signature and Jack also hoping she will sign as he has fallen for her. Jack advises Peter to make himself so repulsive that Mary will be glad to get rid of him. When Mary reaches Chicago, she is met by three WAC officers and Peter, puffing a king-size cigar, who swoops in and scoops her into his arms. Realizing that Peter must want a divorce badly by staging such a performance, Mary finally consents. Later, when Mary and Peter are going through their personal effects, they begin to reminisce and realize their disagreements were over trivial matters. They embrace, leaving Jack and Gloria out in the cold.
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Movie: Across the Pacific ( 1942 )
In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
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Movie: Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 )
Florida ship salvager, Loxi, falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor, and eventually leads to tragedy.
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Movie: Sergeant York ( 1941 )
A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
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Movie: The Women ( 1939 )
A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
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Movie: The Three Musketeers ( 1939 )
D'Artagnan sings and fronts for slapstick cowardly Ritz brothers posing as musketeers.
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Movie: Stage Door ( 1937 )
A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.