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Though seemingly born with a battered bulldog countenance and a rattly voice best suited to such lines as "We don't like you kind around these parts, stranger," tough-guy character actor Kenneth Tobey was originally groomed for gormless leading man... more
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Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
Cast: Peter Fonda Susan George
Tags: Adventure Chase Movie Action
Length: 93min
Three outlaws hit the road until the road hits back in this supercharged action thriller. Larry (Peter Fonda) is a stock car driver whose reckless nature has caused him a long run of bad luck. Larry and his friend and mechanic Deke (Adam Roarke) need...
Cast: Charles Bronson James Stewart Richard Donner Frank Sinatra
Tags: Adventure Drama Drama
Length: 107min
This oddly technical drama about three test pilots for the X-15 devotes a great deal of time to scientific explanations and militarese, leaving slightly less time to examine the personal lives and motivations of the three pilots. The head honcho among...
The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956)
Cast: Louis Hayward Teresa Wright Edith Head Richard Anderson Wally Westmore
Tags: Drama Docudrama Psychological Drama
Length: 84min
The Search for Bridey Murphy was inspired by the purportedly true story of a Colorado housewife named Virginia Tighe, who while under hypnosis insisted that she'd lived a previous life as an 18th century Irish housemaid named Bridey Murphy. The...
Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
Cast: Audie Murphy
Tags: Western
Length: 87min
Seven Ways from Sundown is a well-wrought western by director Harry Keller, starring Audie Murphy in the title role (his character's "first" name is the same as the title). Young "Seven" is a talented but novice Texas Ranger who is in the process of...
Tags: Horror
Length: 95min
Small-town doctor Paul Beecher (John Beal) is given some strange pills by a dying elderly researcher. Later, when Paul gets a severe headache, his young daughter accidentally gives him the mystery pills. He's later puzzled by a series of strange...
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Tags: Creature Film Science Fiction Sci-Fi Horror
Length: 78min
It Came From Beneath the Sea was the first of several fruitful collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer and special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. "It" is a giant, six-tentacled octopus, which is galvanized into action by an H-bomb test....
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
Cast: Buddy Ebsen Fess Parker Emile Kuri
Tags: Adventure Action Adventure Drama
Length: 81min
Like its predecessor Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, Walt Disney's Davy Crockett and the River Pirates was cobbled together from two episodes of the weekly TV anthology Disneyland. Though it wasn't so labelled at the time, River Pirates is...
Cast: Beverly Garland Ted de Corsia
Length: 86min
The Steel Jungle is the prison where most of this film takes place. Perry Lopez heads the cast as two-bit bookie Ed Novak, who goes to jail rather than squeal on his Syndicate higher-ups. Novak's silence exacts a toll on his wife Frances (Beverly...
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Cast: Ray Harryhausen Cecil Kellaway
Tags: Prehistoric Fantasy Horror Creature Film
Length: 80min
A longtime "dream" project of production designer-turned-director Eugene Lourie, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms sees the titular beast unleashed on the world via nuclear testing. Making its way from the Arctic Circle, the monster-a carnivorous...
Tags: Drama Adventure Combat Films Adventure Drama
Length: 80min
Director Leslie Selander invests the Allied Artists "special" Fighter Attack with the same energy that he'd previously applied to his many westerns. Set during World War II, the film concerns an effort to destroy a Nazi supply depot. Though he's flown...
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