Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair. He is associated with Orson Welles, leading to appearances in Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay, and The Third Man (1949). He was a star in his own right with films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Love Letters (1945), Portrait of Jennie (1948), and The Third Man (1949).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 31.97 |
| Birthday | 1905-05-15 |
| Place of Birth | Petersburg, Virginia, USA |
| Also Known As | Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr., Джозеф Коттен, Joseph Cheshire Cotten, |
1941
Citizen Kane
8.01/5299
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, ty...
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Citizen Kane
1942
The Magnificent Ambersons
7.328/398
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1949
The Third Man
7.9/1763
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he...
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The Third Man
1958
Touch of Evil
7.773/1364
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along...
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Touch of Evil
1964
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
7.2/237
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
1971
Lady Frankenstein
5.2/55
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant continue his experiments.
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Lady Frankenstein
1949
Under Capricorn
6.044/159
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to hel...
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Under Capricorn
1980
Heaven's Gate
6.8/338
Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants...
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Heaven's Gate
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.167/509
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1972
Baron Blood
6.2/122
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a viol...
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Baron Blood
1943
Journey into Fear
6/88
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers th...
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Journey into Fear
1943
Shadow of a Doubt
7.529/976
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderf...
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Shadow of a Doubt
1944
I'll Be Seeing You
6.922/32
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncl...
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I'll Be Seeing You
1977
Airport '77
5.6/274
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletio...
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Airport '77
1953
A Blueprint for Murder
6.1/34
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cam...
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A Blueprint for Murder
1952
The Steel Trap
6.5/19
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
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The Steel Trap
1973
Soylent Green
6.95/1204
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer i...
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Soylent Green
1946
Duel in the Sun
6.412/153
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad...
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Duel in the Sun
1948
Portrait of Jennie
7.035/99
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
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Portrait of Jennie
1957
The Halliday Brand
6.1/9
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
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The Halliday Brand
1979
Island of the Fishmen
5.6/65
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a str...
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Island of the Fishmen
1956
The Killer is Loose
6.575/53
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner...
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The Killer is Loose
1944
Gaslight
7.482/463
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Gaslight
1979
Guyana: Crime of the Century
4.8/13
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who...
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Guyana: Crime of the Century
1975
Syndicate Sadists
5.9/32
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to ge...
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Syndicate Sadists
1978
Caravans
5.6/15
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern...
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Caravans
1949
Beyond the Forest
6.823/48
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. S...
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Beyond the Forest
1944
Since You Went Away
6.4/43
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make en...
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Since You Went Away
1973
F for Fake
7.411/310
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his nam...
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F for Fake
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
6.9/32
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
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The Farmer's Daughter
1965
The Money Trap
4.9/18
When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and...
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The Money Trap
1958
From the Earth to the Moon
5.2/27
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to p...
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From the Earth to the Moon
1943
Hers to Hold
6.8/6
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the s...
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Hers to Hold
1973
A Delicate Balance
5.8/8
In their nice Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over...
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A Delicate Balance
1961
The Last Sunset
6.8/76
Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Tex...
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The Last Sunset
1970
The Grasshopper
5.1/12
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
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The Grasshopper
1971
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
6.912/295
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
1968
White Comanche
4.6/20
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's...
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White Comanche
1969
Latitude Zero
5.8/22
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Al...
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Latitude Zero
1971
City Beneath the Sea
4.1/11
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. gover...
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City Beneath the Sea
1953
Niagara
6.795/361
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who a...
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Niagara
1980
The Hearse
5.4/44
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
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The Hearse
1967
The Hellbenders
6.479/47
A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the...
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The Hellbenders
1950
September Affair
6.1/19
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the...
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September Affair
1951
The Man with a Cloak
6.9/19
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is b...
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The Man with a Cloak
1941
Lydia
6.4/9
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young...
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Lydia
1966
The Oscar
5.1/14
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the...
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The Oscar
1972
The Scopone Game
7.4/131
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife...
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The Scopone Game
1981
The Survivor
5.3/30
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disa...
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The Survivor
1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
6.339/59
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 u...
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
1950
Walk Softly, Stranger
5/26
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
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Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
Two Flags West
6.231/26
A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.
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Two Flags West
1973
The Devil's Daughter
6.5/15
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.
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The Devil's Daughter
1978
The Perfect Crime
5/6
The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to plot against one another for control of the busin...
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The Perfect Crime
1945
Love Letters
6.2/18
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marrie...
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Love Letters
1971
Assault on the Wayne
3/2
The U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne is underway for a top-secret mission. Onboard is a highly classified device that will give the Americans a decided nu...
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Assault on the Wayne
1956
The Bottom of the Bottle
5.5/3
An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.
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The Bottom of the Bottle
1967
Jack of Diamonds
4.7/3
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemi...
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Jack of Diamonds
1951
Half Angel
5.6/5
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress...
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Half Angel
1972
The Screaming Woman
6.633/15
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman com...
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The Screaming Woman
1968
Gangsters '70
7.3/3
An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew...
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Gangsters '70
1965
The Tramplers
6/4
After the war of secession, the aging Cordeen, who owns thousands of acres in Texas, rules his numerous and quarrelsome sons with an iron hand. He sen...
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The Tramplers
1976
A Whisper in the Dark
6.4/7
Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen.
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A Whisper in the Dark
1960
The Angel Wore Red
5.3/9
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
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The Angel Wore Red
1951
Peking Express
8/1
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
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Peking Express
2013
Too Much Johnson
5.3/21
This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gille...
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Too Much Johnson
1952
Untamed Frontier
7.2/6
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love...
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Untamed Frontier
1976
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
6.4/9
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, B...
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1978
Last In, First Out
3.2/4
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
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Last In, First Out
1968
Alexander The Great
5/2
An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all ancient Greek tribes and led them against the vas...
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Alexander The Great
1968
Petulia
5.9/40
An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.
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Petulia
1955
Special Delivery
0/0
Complications ensue when a U.S. diplomat discovers that he has a baby on his hands and an undercover gal in his arms.
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Special Delivery
1971
Do You Take This Stranger?
5/1
A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.
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Do You Take This Stranger?
1975
Timber Tramps
0/0
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
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Timber Tramps
1967
Some May Live
3.5/2
During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her husband coerces her to pass information to him and the Viet Cong.
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Some May Live
1951
Othello
7.343/185
When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes...
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Othello
1981
The House Where Death Lives
3.3/6
A nurse goes to a house to care for a crippled old man. Then people in the house start being murdered.
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The House Where Death Lives
1965
The Great Sioux Massacre
4.2/9
Colonel Custer (Philip Carey), an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by...
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The Great Sioux Massacre
1979
Concorde Affair
6.6/18
A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have th...
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Concorde Affair
1966
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
5.5/2
At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a prospector named Old Timer, on a hunt for gold. A claim...
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Brighty of the Grand Canyon
1972
Doomsday Voyage
0/0
A political extremist on the run after assassinating a corrupt politician, poses as a French sailor in hopes of fleeing the country.
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Doomsday Voyage
1979
Churchill and the Generals
0/0
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
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Churchill and the Generals
1957
The Edge of Innocence
0/0
An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.
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The Edge of Innocence
1953
Egypt by Three
6/1
Three tales of life on the Nile River reveal love and vengeance, religion and deception. Each atmospheric vignette offers an eye-opening take on the...
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Egypt by Three
1969
The Lonely Profession
0/0
Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billionaire. When they meet, Gordon and Mendaros hit it...
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The Lonely Profession
1968
Split Second to an Epitaph
0/0
In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a narcotics pusher, not only raising the possibility f...
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Split Second to an Epitaph
1970
Cutter's Trail
7.5/2
The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother t...
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Cutter's Trail
1976
Mysteries of the Gods
5.6/6
William Shatner explores the theory that the U.S. government is involved in a cover-up of visiting alien spacecraft. Based on a book by Erich von Däni...
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Mysteries of the Gods
1959
"General Electric Theater" High Green Wall
6.5/2
Having survived a plane crash in the jungle, Henty finds a fortress-like home in the middle of nowhere, belonging to the affable Mr. McMaster. The lat...
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"General Electric Theater" High Green Wall
1937
Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
5.5/2
A sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the win...
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Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
1964
Hollywood and the Stars
0/0
NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in association with United Artists Television. Each 30-minute...
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Hollywood and the Stars
1980
Casino
0/0
Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino sh...
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Casino
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3/3
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1947
Our American Heritage
0/0
Public service featurette shown in connection with the 1947-1949 biannual nation-wide tour of the Foundation Freedom Train, a government-endorsed camp...
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Our American Heritage
2000
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
6.5/2
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943).
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Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
7.2/130
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other...
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
1978
Return to Fantasy Island
3.2/2
A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Ca...
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Return to Fantasy Island
1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
5.7/3
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of t...
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
2014
Heaven's Gate: The Butcher's Cut
0/0
"As a dedicated cinema fan, I was obsessed with Heaven's Gate from the moment it was announced in early 1979, and unfortunately history has shown that...
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Heaven's Gate: The Butcher's Cut
1991
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
5.7/3
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.
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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
2023
AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special
8/1
TCM host Ben Mankiewicz hosts this 50th anniversary special, with archival footage from 50 years of tributes to various legends in film by the America...
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AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special
1971
Journey to Murder
0/0
Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown (1968): Do Me a Favor and Kill Me (1968) and The Killing B...
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