Ellen Corby
Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress and screenwriter. She is best remembered for playing the role of Esther "Grandma" Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.7529 |
| Birthday | 1911-06-03 |
| Place of Birth | Racine, Wisconsin, USA |
| Also Known As | Ellen Hansen, Ellen Hansen Corby, |
1961
Pocketful of Miracles
7.307/184
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying...
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Pocketful of Miracles
1958
Vertigo
8.145/6300
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming danger...
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Vertigo
1967
The Gnome-Mobile
6.254/69
An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While...
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The Gnome-Mobile
1946
It's a Wonderful Life
8.3/4869
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entir...
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It's a Wonderful Life
1953
Shane
7.345/680
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
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Shane
1964
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
7.293/285
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1966
The Night of the Grizzly
5.935/31
Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle on some land left him by a relative. He faces oppos...
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The Night of the Grizzly
1954
Sabrina
7.514/1352
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
1957
Night Passage
6.475/81
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering th...
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Night Passage
1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
6.904/140
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sist...
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1951
On Moonlight Bay
6.453/32
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across...
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On Moonlight Bay
1950
Caged
7.115/87
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
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Caged
1958
Macabre
5.989/47
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with me...
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Macabre
1950
Edge of Doom
6.125/20
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
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Edge of Doom
1964
The Strangler
6.423/26
An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.
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The Strangler
1952
The Big Trees
5.59/39
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes...
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The Big Trees
1949
Little Women
7.4/229
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Little Women
1948
I Remember Mama
7.223/65
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who re...
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I Remember Mama
1949
Madame Bovary
6.759/58
In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spendi...
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Madame Bovary
1950
The Gunfighter
7.351/208
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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The Gunfighter
1949
Mighty Joe Young
6.41/122
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to H...
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Mighty Joe Young
1963
4 for Texas
5.115/61
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000...
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4 for Texas
1955
Illegal
6.415/47
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney...
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Illegal
1957
All Mine to Give
6.34/25
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become wel...
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All Mine to Give
1954
Susan Slept Here
6.081/31
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Ma...
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Susan Slept Here
1982
A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
5.75/4
Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton's Mountain begging with...
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A Day for Thanks on Waltons Mountain
1949
A Woman's Secret
5.614/44
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal p...
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A Woman's Secret
1971
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
7.289/19
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in th...
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1950
Harriet Craig
7.5/31
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
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Harriet Craig
1954
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
5.382/17
Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire
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The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
1954
About Mrs. Leslie
7.429/7
A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.
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About Mrs. Leslie
1936
The Broken Coin
9/1
A police chief and two security agencies work to find out who is behind a recent rash of hijackings.
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The Broken Coin
1953
A Lion Is in the Streets
5.313/16
A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
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A Lion Is in the Streets
1951
Goodbye, My Fancy
6.417/12
Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if...
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Goodbye, My Fancy
1957
The Seventh Sin
5.4/10
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: tra...
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The Seventh Sin
1956
Stagecoach To Fury
5.4/5
A group of stagecoach passengers are held hostage by bandits waiting for a shipment of gold they plan to steal.
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Stagecoach To Fury
1946
Bedlam
6.62/83
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they wer...
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Bedlam
1946
Lover Come Back
7.125/4
A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.
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Lover Come Back
1952
Fearless Fagan
5.167/6
A young man brings his pet lion with him when he's drafted into the U.S. Army.
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Fearless Fagan
1946
The Truth About Murder
4.8/5
A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
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The Truth About Murder
1962
Saintly Sinners
5.333/3
Ex-con Joseph Braden has his car temporarily stolen by a pair of bank robbers who hide their loot in the vehicle's spare tire. After the car is reposs...
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Saintly Sinners
1951
The Mating Season
6.643/28
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daugh...
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The Mating Season
1968
The Legend of Lylah Clare
6.017/30
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
1948
Fighting Father Dunne
7.333/3
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
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Fighting Father Dunne
1948
The Dark Past
5.963/41
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be ab...
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The Dark Past
1958
As Young As We Are
7.5/3
Scandal erupts in a small town when a high school teacher is romantically linked with one of her male students. Newly minted teacher Kim (Pippa Scott)...
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As Young As We Are
1982
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
6/3
Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for the war and married someone else, lived through his...
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A Wedding on Waltons Mountain
1971
Cannon
5/5
In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.
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Cannon
1945
Cornered
6.178/45
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
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Cornered
1965
The Family Jewels
6.486/72
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
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The Family Jewels
1935
Speed Limited
8/1
A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.
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Speed Limited
1950
Captain China
5.5/6
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accuse...
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Captain China
1963
The Caretakers
6.385/13
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
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The Caretakers
1957
God Is My Partner
7.5/2
A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he's incompetent.
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God Is My Partner
1933
Sons of the Desert
7.065/262
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
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Sons of the Desert
1966
The Glass Bottom Boat
6.269/67
Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affect...
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The Glass Bottom Boat
1947
Living in a Big Way
6/4
A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.
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Living in a Big Way
1947
They Won't Believe Me
6.55/50
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but i...
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They Won't Believe Me
1953
Woman They Almost Lynched
6.543/23
Led by its female mayor, a neutral town on the Arkansas-Missouri border during the Civil War attempts to stay peaceful. A newcomer looking for her bro...
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Woman They Almost Lynched
1966
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
6.75/100
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 y...
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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
1933
Rafter Romance
6.792/12
A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.
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Rafter Romance
1954
Untamed Heiress
6.5/2
Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton. Now Clayton hopes to repay the favor, but first...
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Untamed Heiress
1946
Sister Kenny
6.921/19
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validi...
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Sister Kenny
1981
All the Way Home
7/2
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
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All the Way Home
1947
The Judge Steps Out
7/3
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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The Judge Steps Out
1947
Born to Kill
6.72/93
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
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Born to Kill
1947
The Long Night
5.8/43
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
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The Long Night
1934
Babes in Toyland
6.283/157
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little...
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Babes in Toyland
1951
The Barefoot Mailman
6.5/2
Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he dec...
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The Barefoot Mailman
1946
The Spiral Staircase
7.047/274
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
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The Spiral Staircase
1947
Forever Amber
6.016/32
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavalie...
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Forever Amber
1948
Strike It Rich
8/1
When not drinking and fighting, three wildcatters in search of a gusher are enthusiastically drilling for black gold. The trouble begins when one of t...
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Strike It Rich
1946
The Locket
6.36/43
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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The Locket
1951
Here Comes the Groom
5.444/18
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
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Here Comes the Groom
1960
Tom, Dick and Harriet
0/0
Long distance telephone calls save the day when Aunt Emily tries to sell the farm, and when Harriet tries to decide whose proposal to accept, Tom's or...
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Tom, Dick and Harriet
1951
Angels in the Outfield
6.889/27
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
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Angels in the Outfield
1993
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
7.333/3
The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwhi...
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A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion
1947
The Unfaithful
5.932/22
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her l...
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The Unfaithful
1951
The Sea Hornet
6.333/3
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later wh...
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The Sea Hornet
1950
Peggy
6/4
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in...
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Peggy
1957
Rockabilly Baby
6.333/3
The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springville with her two teenage children Jimmy and Cathy. Eleanor makes friends with the town's social le...
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Rockabilly Baby
1972
Napoleon and Samantha
6.216/37
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse...
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Napoleon and Samantha
1947
Railroaded!
6.672/29
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innoc...
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Railroaded!
1949
Rusty Saves a Life
7/2
Rusty, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says he does. But before this prophecy can be fulfille...
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Rusty Saves a Life
1952
Monsoon
6.5/2
A young woman named Julia brings her fiance and his mother to a village in India to meet her father and brother. Hospitality proves in short supply an...
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Monsoon
1956
Slightly Scarlet
6.206/34
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, assoc...
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Slightly Scarlet
1997
A Walton Easter
7.333/3
In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorperson in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans t...
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A Walton Easter
1946
From This Day Forward
5.423/13
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has no...
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From This Day Forward
1947
Beat the Band
5.5/2
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
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Beat the Band
1948
The Noose Hangs High
6.891/23
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two...
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The Noose Hangs High
1968
A Fine Pair
4.5/6
A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective inv...
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A Fine Pair
1971
A Tattered Web
5.444/9
A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on...
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A Tattered Web
1946
The Dark Corner
6.667/69
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunk...
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The Dark Corner
1974
The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
5/3
A humanistic account of "The Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills," in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of fa...
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The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd
1960
Visit to a Small Planet
5.266/32
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet t...
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Visit to a Small Planet
1953
The Vanquished
4.9/14
A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.
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The Vanquished
1947
The Fabulous Joe
5.5/6
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he retu...
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The Fabulous Joe
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter
6.624/93
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to driv...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
1946
Crack-Up
5.742/33
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Crack-Up
1995
A Walton Wedding
0/0
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two...
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A Walton Wedding
2017
Mansfield 66/67
4.8/13
About the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield’s life and the speculation swirling around her untimely death being caused by a curse after...
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Mansfield 66/67
1980
The Waltons: A Decade of the Waltons
7.8/4
A docudrama of the classic series. Almost like another episode of the series as a photo album presented to Grandma as a present spurs memories, presen...
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