Burnett Guffey

Burnett Guffey

While still a teenager, the future Academy Award-winning lensman began as an assistant cameraman in 1923 on John Ford's 1924 western saga The Iron Horse. He was then hired by the Famous Players-Lasky Studios in 1927, became a camera operator in 1928 and worked there until 1943. Guffey was hired as a Director of Photography by Columbia Pictures in 1944. In 1957-58 he served as president of the American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.) for a year, and had been a long standing member. According to film critic Spencer Selby, Guffey was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 20 of them, including In a Lonely Place (1950).​

  • Title: Burnett Guffey
  • Popularity: 2.248
  • Known For: Camera
  • Birthday: 1905-05-26
  • Place of Birth: Del Rio, Tennessee, USA
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Burnett Guffey Movies

  • 1969
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    My Father: Gordon Parks

    My Father: Gordon Parks

    1 1969 HD

    A documentary made on the set of "The Learning Tree." Narrated by Gordon Parks Jr., and featuring interviews with Gordon Parks Sr. and members of the...

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  • 1969
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    The Moviemakers

    The Moviemakers

    1 1969 HD

    A featurette that shows director Gordon Parks on location for the film The Learning Tree.

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  • 1967
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    Bonnie and Clyde

    Bonnie and Clyde

    7.501 1967 HD

    In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the...

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  • 1962
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    Birdman of Alcatraz

    Birdman of Alcatraz

    7.5 1962 HD

    After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair,...

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  • 1964
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    Good Neighbor Sam

    Good Neighbor Sam

    6.3 1964 HD

    To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in...

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  • 1951
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    Sirocco

    Sirocco

    5.959 1951 HD

    A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

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  • 1953
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    From Here to Eternity

    From Here to Eternity

    7.288 1953 HD

    In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

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  • 1968
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    The Split

    The Split

    6.7 1968 HD

    A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.

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  • 1946
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    Night Editor

    Night Editor

    5.5 1946 HD

    A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

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  • 1952
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    The Sniper

    The Sniper

    6.7 1952 HD

    Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by...

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  • 1957
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    The Brothers Rico

    The Brothers Rico

    6.1 1957 HD

    Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour...

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  • 1951
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    Two of a Kind

    Two of a Kind

    6.7 1951 HD

    Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son....

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  • 1956
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    The Harder They Fall

    The Harder They Fall

    7.1 1956 HD

    Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian...

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  • 1956
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    Nightfall

    Nightfall

    6.785 1956 HD

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

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  • 1949
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    The Reckless Moment

    The Reckless Moment

    6.758 1949 HD

    After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

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  • 1946
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    So Dark the Night

    So Dark the Night

    6 1946 HD

    Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper’s...

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  • 1949
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    Knock on Any Door

    Knock on Any Door

    6.09 1949 HD

    An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

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  • 1947
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    Framed

    Framed

    6.4 1947 HD

    Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous...

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  • 1950
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    Convicted

    Convicted

    6.271 1950 HD

    A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

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  • 1961
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    Mr. Sardonicus

    Mr. Sardonicus

    6.3 1961 HD

    A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to...

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  • 1945
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    My Name Is Julia Ross

    My Name Is Julia Ross

    6.694 1945 HD

    Julia Ross secures employment, through a rather-noisy employment agency, with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she...

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  • 1954
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    Private Hell 36

    Private Hell 36

    6.2 1954 HD

    In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police...

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  • 1944
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    The Soul of a Monster

    The Soul of a Monster

    4.7 1944 HD

    A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?

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  • 1958
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    Screaming Mimi

    Screaming Mimi

    5 1958 HD

    A blonde night club dancer is being stalked. Will anyone believe her?

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  • 1956
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    Storm Center

    Storm Center

    6.4 1956 HD

    Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist.

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  • 1950
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    In a Lonely Place

    In a Lonely Place

    7.565 1950 HD

    A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.

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  • 1957
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    Not One Shall Die

    Not One Shall Die

    1 1957 HD

    A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core...

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  • 1948
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    To the Ends of the Earth

    To the Ends of the Earth

    5.6 1948 HD

    A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.

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  • 1945
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    I Love a Mystery

    I Love a Mystery

    6.1 1945 HD

    In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the...

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  • 1957
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    The Strange One

    The Strange One

    6.4 1957 HD

    A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.

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  • 1948
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    The Sign of the Ram

    The Sign of the Ram

    6.1 1948 HD

    A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.

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  • 1953
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    The Last Posse

    The Last Posse

    6 1953 HD

    A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

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  • 1951
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    The Family Secret

    The Family Secret

    5.7 1951 HD

    When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.

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  • 1955
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    Count Three and Pray

    Count Three and Pray

    4.8 1955 HD

    A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

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  • 1970
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    Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

    Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

    5 1970 HD

    War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries...

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  • 1970
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    The Great White Hope

    The Great White Hope

    6.017 1970 HD

    A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

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  • 1966
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    The Silencers

    The Silencers

    6.1 1966 HD

    Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.

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  • 1961
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    Cry for Happy

    Cry for Happy

    5 1961 HD

    Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.

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  • 1960
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    Hell to Eternity

    Hell to Eternity

    6.563 1960 HD

    Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his...

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  • 1955
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    Three Stripes in the Sun

    Three Stripes in the Sun

    7 1955 HD

    A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

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  • 1955
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    Tight Spot

    Tight Spot

    6.3 1955 HD

    A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the...

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  • 1970
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    Halls of Anger

    Halls of Anger

    5.6 1970 HD

    An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively...

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  • 1946
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    Meet Me on Broadway

    Meet Me on Broadway

    7 1946 HD

    Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress...

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  • 1961
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    Homicidal

    Homicidal

    6.5 1961 HD

    A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a...

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  • 1944
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    Sailor's Holiday

    Sailor's Holiday

    1 1944 HD

    In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other,...

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  • 1954
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    Human Desire

    Human Desire

    6.7 1954 HD

    A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by...

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  • 1949
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    The Undercover Man

    The Undercover Man

    6.2 1949 HD

    Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    6.9 1949 HD

    A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

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  • 1959
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    Dogface

    Dogface

    6 1959 HD

    This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a...

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  • 1960
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    Let No Man Write My Epitaph

    Let No Man Write My Epitaph

    6 1960 HD

    Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him...

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  • 1955
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    The Violent Men

    The Violent Men

    6.4 1955 HD

    A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled...

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  • 1957
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    Decision at Sundown

    Decision at Sundown

    6.318 1957 HD

    A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

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  • 1950
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    Emergency Wedding

    Emergency Wedding

    5.5 1950 HD

    Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients....

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  • 1952
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    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    7 1952 HD

    A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

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  • 1952
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    Assignment: Paris

    Assignment: Paris

    5.5 1952 HD

    Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a...

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  • 1954
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    The Bamboo Prison

    The Bamboo Prison

    6.4 1954 HD

    A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.

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  • 1950
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    Father Is a Bachelor

    Father Is a Bachelor

    7.4 1950 HD

    Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living...

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  • 1956
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    Battle Stations

    Battle Stations

    5.6 1956 HD

    The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

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  • 1959
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    Gidget

    Gidget

    6 1959 HD

    Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his...

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  • 1959
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    They Came to Cordura

    They Came to Cordura

    6.5 1959 HD

    An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion...

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  • 1962
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    Kid Galahad

    Kid Galahad

    6.1 1962 HD

    After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a...

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  • 1971
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    The Steagle

    The Steagle

    4.8 1971 HD

    In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a mild-mannered professor decides to live out all of his daydreams, travelling across the country and...

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  • 1969
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    The Learning Tree

    The Learning Tree

    6.9 1969 HD

    The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events...

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  • 1958
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    The True Story of Lynn Stuart

    The True Story of Lynn Stuart

    6.3 1958 HD

    When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim...

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  • 1969
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    Some Kind of a Nut

    Some Kind of a Nut

    3.7 1969 HD

    A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.

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  • 1969
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    The Madwoman of Chaillot

    The Madwoman of Chaillot

    7.1 1969 HD

    An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in...

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  • 1960
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    The Mountain Road

    The Mountain Road

    6.3 1960 HD

    In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese...

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  • 1959
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    Edge of Eternity

    Edge of Eternity

    6.5 1959 HD

    Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around...

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  • 1958
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    Me and the Colonel

    Me and the Colonel

    6.2 1958 HD

    Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel...

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  • 1967
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    How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

    6.856 1967 HD

    A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.

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  • 1964
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    Flight from Ashiya

    Flight from Ashiya

    5.4 1964 HD

    Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal...

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  • 1967
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    The Ambushers

    The Ambushers

    4.956 1967 HD

    When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board.

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  • 1969
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    Where It's At

    Where It's At

    2 1969 HD

    A "Sixties Generation" comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son is a college student with a...

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  • 1965
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    King Rat

    King Rat

    7 1965 HD

    When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi...

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  • 1945
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    Eadie Was a Lady

    Eadie Was a Lady

    4 1945 HD

    In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But...

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  • 1946
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    The Notorious Lone Wolf

    The Notorious Lone Wolf

    5.5 1946 HD

    Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.

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  • 1932
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    The Conquerors

    The Conquerors

    5.7 1932 HD

    A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

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  • 1947
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    Johnny O'Clock

    Johnny O'Clock

    6.1 1947 HD

    When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave...

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  • 1946
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    A Bird in the Head

    A Bird in the Head

    5.75 1946 HD

    The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor...

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  • 1937
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    You Only Live Once

    You Only Live Once

    7.1 1937 HD

    Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is...

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  • 1935
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    The Informer

    The Informer

    6.725 1935 HD

    Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over...

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  • 1945
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    Blonde from Brooklyn

    Blonde from Brooklyn

    5 1945 HD

    A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach them to be "southern" so they can land a radio...

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  • 1945
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    Eve Knew Her Apples

    Eve Knew Her Apples

    5.2 1945 HD

    Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She...

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  • 1949
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    And Baby Makes Three

    And Baby Makes Three

    4.2 1949 HD

    A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.

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  • 1946
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    Gallant Journey

    Gallant Journey

    6.1 1946 HD

    Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn...

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