Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American motion picture, television, and radio actor and occasional television director. He starred in such motion pictures as The Sand Pebbles, Wait Until Dark, Body Heat, the first three Rambo movies, Hot Shots! Part Deux, and The Flamingo Kid. Crenna played "Walter Denton" in the CBS radio and CBS-TV network series Our Miss Brooks, and "Luke McCoy" in ABC's TV comedy series, The Real McCoys, (1957–63), which moved to CBS-TV in September 1962. Crenna was in one of the few TV political dramatic series Slattery's People on CBS. Crenna played "Colonel Trautman" in the first three Rambo movies. He also played "Frank Skimmerhorn" in the critically acclaimed mini-series Centennial.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.9423 |
| Birthday | 1926-11-30 |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Dick Crenna, Richard McKenna, Charley Weaver, Richard Donald Crenna, |
1988
Rambo III
6.205/3523
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for h...
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Rambo III
1982
First Blood
7.511/6965
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an...
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First Blood
1985
Rambo: First Blood Part II
6.7/4375
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of V...
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
1993
Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
5.5/4
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodi...
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Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
1997
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
5.8/26
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows...
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1967
Wait Until Dark
7.3/603
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with her...
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Wait Until Dark
1966
The Sand Pebbles
7.218/284
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution...
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The Sand Pebbles
1975
Breakheart Pass
6.599/233
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passeng...
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Breakheart Pass
1995
Jade
5.529/295
When a prominent art dealer is found murdered, the man's death leads to an intriguing investigation steeped in sex, corruption and crime. District Att...
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Jade
1980
Death Ship
5.138/163
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is...
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Death Ship
1984
The Flamingo Kid
5.989/90
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flaming...
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The Flamingo Kid
1956
Over-Exposed
5.211/19
This titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an a...
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Over-Exposed
1993
Hot Shots! Part Deux
6.546/2095
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue...
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
1978
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
6.418/49
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
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Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
1969
Marooned
5.987/114
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. Af...
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Marooned
1981
Body Heat
6.986/700
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
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Body Heat
1979
Stone Cold Dead
5.917/18
Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.
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Stone Cold Dead
1989
Leviathan
5.983/572
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The cre...
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Leviathan
1982
The Day the Bubble Burst
5/3
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
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The Day the Bubble Burst
1972
Un Flic
6.615/295
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist...
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Un Flic
1978
The Evil
5.813/67
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
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The Evil
1989
Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
0/0
Robert B. Weide's 1989 documentary on the comedian Mort Sahl.
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Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition
1993
A Place to Be Loved
5.571/7
Gregory Kingsley, a boy passed off onto social services by his natural mother and abused by his natural father, finds the foster family he is put into...
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A Place to Be Loved
2003
Out of the Ashes
6.065/31
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
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Out of the Ashes
1985
Summer Rental
6.139/238
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters,...
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Summer Rental
2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot
6.458/11
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and Richard...
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
1968
Star!
6.926/236
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
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Star!
1971
Catlow
5.121/29
An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.
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Catlow
1973
Double Indemnity
4.722/18
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing...
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Double Indemnity
1956
Our Miss Brooks
6.625/12
The big-screen translation of the successful television show of the 1950's. Arden stars as Connie Brooks, wisecracking English teacher at Madison High...
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Our Miss Brooks
1985
The Rape of Richard Beck
6.85/10
The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the...
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The Rape of Richard Beck
1971
Red Sky at Morning
7.083/6
Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New Mexic...
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Red Sky at Morning
1965
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
3.8/10
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon...
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1996
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
7/2
The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents are forced to act on their own to find her. They mu...
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Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
1966
Made in Paris
4.9/10
A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan...
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Made in Paris
1970
The Deserter
6.5/6
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and...
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The Deserter
1973
The Man Called Noon
5.9/20
Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradual...
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The Man Called Noon
1971
Doctors' Wives
5/18
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and...
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Doctors' Wives
1986
A Case of Deadly Force
8/1
Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car us...
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A Case of Deadly Force
1969
Midas Run
4.667/6
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.
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Midas Run
1995
In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
7.333/3
This is a story of two lovers, Luke and Laurette. Luke is the grandson of a rich Texas family who raised him after the death of his parents. Laurette...
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In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy
1997
Deep Family Secrets
3.5/4
A tale of hidden family scandals. A young woman journeys back to her birthplace and discovers that much of what she had always taken for granted conce...
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Deep Family Secrets
2000
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
6.827/26
Jessica Fletcher, lecturing at a writers' conference, finds herself called on to solve the killing of a guest speaker, an arrogant Russian author who'...
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Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
1989
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
6.474/19
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
1971
Thief
7.375/4
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
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Thief
1994
Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
3.3/3
Still in mourning over the loss of his wife, former cop Jonathan stone moves to Washington. However, he is soon falsely accused of murder, and with t...
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Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence
1952
It Grows on Trees
8.357/7
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxter acquires two mysterious trees that got into a nu...
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It Grows on Trees
1983
Table for Five
5.7/14
J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a fr...
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Table for Five
1991
And the Sea Will Tell
6.25/10
A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspec...
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And the Sea Will Tell
1995
Sabrina
6.214/704
After her return from school in Paris, a playboy finally takes notice of his family's chauffeur's daughter Sabrina, who's long had a crush on him, but...
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Sabrina
1974
Double Solitaire
10/1
With his parents about to celebrate their wedding anniversary, a middle-aged husband agrees to renew his vows to his longtime wife. But as they assess...
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Double Solitaire
1989
Stuck with Each Other
9/1
When their stingy boss suddenly drops dead, two coworkers decide to split the million in cash in his safe, only to find themselves pursued by the crim...
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Stuck with Each Other
1979
Wild Horse Hank
5/6
A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dog meat. Unfortunately the nearest F...
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Wild Horse Hank
1986
The High Price of Passion
6.667/3
A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
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The High Price of Passion
2001
By Dawn's Early Light
6/5
When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home,...
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By Dawn's Early Light
1990
Last Flight Out
0/0
Fact-based story set in Saigon on April, 1975, shortly after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn, and immediately before Communist forces overrun the ci...
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Last Flight Out
1978
A Fire in the Sky
5.8/15
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the gover...
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A Fire in the Sky
1952
Red Skies of Montana
6/6
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest...
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Red Skies of Montana
2002
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
9/1
Documentary tracing the history of the Soviet occupation and Rambo’s fictitious involvement there in light of America’s role twenty years later. Feat...
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Afganistan: Land in Crisis
1979
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
6.7/7
In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film t...
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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1997
Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
0/0
Host Richard Crenna reviews various theories on the existence of a site for the legendary Atlantis described by Plato and envisioned by mystic Edgar C...
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Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent
1994
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
3.667/6
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-daughter.
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The Forget-Me-Not Murders
1952
The Pride of St. Louis
7/9
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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The Pride of St. Louis
1973
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
6.094/64
Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he does...
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1980
Joshua's World
8/1
The pilot story, set in the small town of Strawee, Arkansas in the '30s, follows the experiences of Joshua Torrance, a doctor whose practice is jeopar...
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Joshua's World
1975
A Girl Named Sooner
5.286/7
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made...
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A Girl Named Sooner
1981
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
10/1
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his conditi...
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney
1984
Passions
6.8/4
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make h...
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Passions
1990
Montana
6.111/9
Hoyce and Bess Guthrie are long married Montana ranchers who come to a major crossroads in their lives. An oil company has offered to buy them out and...
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Montana
1999
To Serve and Protect
6.667/3
Three generations of Dallas police officers join together to track down the deadliest serial killer ever to terrorize Texas.
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To Serve and Protect
1972
Footsteps
6.5/2
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the tea...
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Footsteps
1974
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
10/1
A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank.
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Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1984
Squaring the Circle
5/2
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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Squaring the Circle
1990
Murder Times Seven
7/1
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the un...
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Murder Times Seven
1987
Kids Like These
9/2
Bob and Joanna, both over 40 years old, have a baby with the Down syndrome. Their doctor advises them to give the child away, not to "waste their time...
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Kids Like These
1990
Murder in Black and White
7/1
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
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Murder in Black and White
1981
Daniel Boone
8.333/3
An animated special that presents highlights of the life of Daniel Boone, the famous American trailblazer -- from his early childhood years in North C...
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Daniel Boone
1980
Fugitive Family
8/1
To the world Brian Roberts looks like a successful businessman, with a lovely wife and two children all living in a dream home. Nevertheless, he has r...
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Fugitive Family
1987
Police Story: The Freeway Killings
6.25/4
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.
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Police Story: The Freeway Killings
1987
Plaza Suite
8/2
Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza.
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Plaza Suite
1988
Internal Affairs
8/2
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a...
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Internal Affairs
1998
Wrongfully Accused
6/523
Ryan Harrison, a violin god, superstar and sex symbol does not want to cheat on sexy Lauren Goodhue's husband with her. Mr. Goodhue is found murdered...
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Wrongfully Accused
1985
Doubletake
5/7
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investiga...
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Doubletake
1974
Nightmare
7/5
A murder witness can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtyard from him, and he realizes he is the sniper's ne...
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Nightmare
2008
Rambo
6.7/4325
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian...
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Rambo
1992
Terror on Track 9
3.833/6
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
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Terror on Track 9
1978
First, You Cry
0/0
The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how her subsequent mastectomy changed her marriage, her...
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First, You Cry
1959
Disneyland '59
7.333/3
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disn...
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Disneyland '59
1994
Janek: The Silent Betrayal
3.333/3
Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous Broadway producer.
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Janek: The Silent Betrayal
1974
Honky Tonk
8/1
In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up with Lucy Cotton, a young woman he meets there. T...
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Honky Tonk
1981
Musical Comedy Tonight II
7/3
A tribute to American musical theater, featuring scenes from "Show Boat", "South Pacific," "Sweet Charity," "Finian's Rainbow," and "Lady in the Dark"...
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Musical Comedy Tonight II
1977
The War Between the Tates
0/0
A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair with one of his students.
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The War Between the Tates
1997
Heart Full of Rain
5.333/3
A young man returns to the family farm after being gone for six years. But it is not until he fights shoulder to shoulder with his father to save the...
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Heart Full of Rain
1996
The Real Las Vegas
9/1
The Real Las Vegas tells the fascinating story of this fabled place and the people who created it. From the mobsters who made Vegas into their version...
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The Real Las Vegas
1995
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
5.2/16
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the...
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story
2002
We Get to Win This Time
0/0
Documentary about the making of "Rambo : First Blood Part II," and how Rambo became a household name. Featuring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Ch...
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We Get to Win This Time
2002
Guts and Glory
0/0
Exploration of Rambo as a cultural icon and essential spirit of the Reagan era. Featuring Sylvester Stallone, cultural critics Susan Jeffords, Ella Sh...
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Guts and Glory
1982
The Making of 'First Blood'
6/1
This documentary takes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "First Blood", the film about a Vietnam veteran pushed too far that started the Rambo...
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The Making of 'First Blood'
1963
The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley
9/1
20 years after a Second World War court-martial, a vet pulls a gun on the ruthless attorney who defended him, when the cynical mouthpiece, who doesn't...
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The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley
2002
Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later
6.4/5
Twenty years later, the cast and crew of 'First Blood' look back on the making of the first Rambo film. Featuring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna,...
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