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Born in Canada, Alexis Smith was brought to Los Angeles in her infancy by her family. At ten, Smith won a dance school scholarship, and at 13 she made her professional dancing debut in a Hollywood Bowl production of Carmen. While attending Hollywood... more
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Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair (1988)
Cast: Robert Young   
Length: 95min
Robert Young reprises his long-running (1969-75) TV character Dr. Marcus Welby, though there's little if any medical activity in the 1988 TV movie Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Holiday Affair. Widowed and retired, Welby takes a vacation to France and...

Cast: Burt Lancaster Eli Wallach   
Tags: Crime Comedy Buddy Film Comedy 
Length: 103min
Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas team up one last time in Tough Guys. Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time,...

Tags: Crime Drama Crime 
Length: 200min
Adapted from a book by Joan Barthel, A Death in California is a harrowing two-part TV movie based on fact. Cheryl Ladd plays Hope Masters, a wealthy Beverly Hills woman who is forced to watch in mute horror as a criminal sociopath (Sam Elliot) murders...

Cast: Kirk Douglas David Janssen Melina Mercouri   
Tags: Family Drama Drama 
Length: 125min
In this high-suds potboiler based on the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a past-his-prime movie producer who lives to make his college-age daughter January (Deborah Raffin) happy. January is also very fond of her...

Cast: Henry Mancini Blake Edwards   
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama 
Length: 83min
This Happy Feeling is based on the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Debbie Reynolds plays impulsive Janet Blake, who develops a crush on retired stage star Preston Mitchell (Curt Jurgens). Rejuvenated by Janet's ardor, Mitchell decides to...

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Cast: Jodie Foster Martin Sheen   
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 92min
In this Canadian thriller, Jodie Foster plays the title character, a reclusive, fiercely self-reliant teenager who lives alone in her father's house. When visitors call, Foster explains that her father is away on business. He's away, all right...far,...

Cast: Walter Matthau Murray Hamilton Martin Ritt   
Tags: Animal Picture Drama Sports Drama 
Length: 117min
Cajun quarter-horse trainer Lloyd Bourdelle (Walter Matthau) struggles to eke out a decent living for himself and his three sons Buddy, Randy and Casey (Andrew A. Rubin, Stephen Burns and Michael Hershewe). Their prize horse is thoroughbred foal...

The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Cast: Paul Newman Brian Keith   
Tags: Melodrama Drama 
Length: 140min
Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's The Young Philadelphians is a glossy adaptation of Richard Powell's bestselling novel -The Philadelphians that revels in melodrama. The film opens strongly, with a...

Tags: Docudrama Biopic War Drama Drama War 
Length: 103min
One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, The Eternal Sea is the biography of American admiral John M. Hoskins. Sterling Hayden delivers a superbly understated performance as Hoskins, who continued to serve throughout WW2 despite the...

Cast: Bob Hope Paul Douglas Jimmy Durante   
Tags: Drama Biopic Docudrama 
Length: 105min
New York City is known for choosing colorful characters for its mayors. One its most illustrious was the wisecracking, dancing and singing Mayor James J. Walker (as played by Bob Hope in a rare, serious role) who helmed the Big Apple in the 1920s....

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