Tom Fadden

Tom Fadden

Tom Fadden (January 6, 1895 – April 14, 1980) was an American actor. He performed on the legitimate stage, vaudeville, in films and on television during his long career. He would make his film debut with a small role in 1939's I Stole a Million. He would have his first memorable bit in his next film, Destry Rides Again, where in the opening scene he is playing cards, and is cheated when the character portrayed by Marlene Dietrich distracts him by spilling coffee in his lap. His film career would span almost forty years and encompass over 90 films, mostly in small or supporting roles, although with an occasional starring role, as in 1940's Zanzibar. His final acting credit was the 1977 science fiction horror film Empire of the Ants. Fadden died of natural causes on April 14, 1980 in Vero Beach, Florida.

  • Title: Tom Fadden
  • Popularity: 5.995
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1895-01-06
  • Place of Birth: Bayard, Iowa, USA
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Tom Fadden Movies

  • 1961
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    Pocketful of Miracles

    Pocketful of Miracles

    7.29 1961 HD

    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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  • 1950
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    Devil's Doorway

    Devil's Doorway

    6.988 1950 HD

    A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

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  • 1956
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    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    7.5 1956 HD

    A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

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  • 1943
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    The Good Fellows

    The Good Fellows

    1 1943 HD

    The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he...

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  • 1948
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    Panhandle

    Panhandle

    5.8 1948 HD

    An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.

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  • 1969
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    Flareup

    Flareup

    5.4 1969 HD

    A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.

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  • 1947
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    Cheyenne

    Cheyenne

    6.8 1947 HD

    Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to...

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  • 1939
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    Destry Rides Again

    Destry Rides Again

    7.144 1939 HD

    Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he...

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  • 1952
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    Toughest Man in Arizona

    Toughest Man in Arizona

    1 1952 HD

    Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring...

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  • 1939
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    I Stole a Million

    I Stole a Million

    6 1939 HD

    A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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  • 1953
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    Thy Neighbor's Wife

    Thy Neighbor's Wife

    5.2 1953 HD

    In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who...

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  • 1970
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    Dirty Dingus Magee

    Dirty Dingus Magee

    4.7 1970 HD

    Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his...

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  • 1953
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    Kansas Pacific

    Kansas Pacific

    4.8 1953 HD

    Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the...

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  • 1940
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    Congo Maisie

    Congo Maisie

    4.2 1940 HD

    Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle...

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  • 1952
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    The Lawless Breed

    The Lawless Breed

    6.6 1952 HD

    After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished...

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  • 1944
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    Tomorrow, the World!

    Tomorrow, the World!

    7.9 1944 HD

    German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.

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  • 1943
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    Northern Pursuit

    Northern Pursuit

    5.9 1943 HD

    Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring,...

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  • 1944
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    The Hairy Ape

    The Hairy Ape

    5.5 1944 HD

    Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.

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  • 1950
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    Singing Guns

    Singing Guns

    5.8 1950 HD

    Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new...

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  • 1948
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    Moonrise

    Moonrise

    6.2 1948 HD

    Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most...

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  • 1948
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    Whispering Smith

    Whispering Smith

    6.5 1948 HD

    Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go...

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  • 1940
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    Winners of the West

    Winners of the West

    1 1940 HD

    Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from...

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  • 1960
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    Flaming Star

    Flaming Star

    6.4 1960 HD

    Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the...

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  • 1947
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    That Hagen Girl

    That Hagen Girl

    5.2 1947 HD

    Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her...

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  • 1942
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    My Favorite Blonde

    My Favorite Blonde

    6.4 1942 HD

    Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a...

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  • 1938
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    Held For Ransom

    Held For Ransom

    4.7 1938 HD

    A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

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  • 1948
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    Raw Deal

    Raw Deal

    6.672 1948 HD

    Joe Sullivan (O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed prison escape plan and other means intended to get rid...

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  • 1942
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    Wings for the Eagle

    Wings for the Eagle

    5.7 1942 HD

    Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

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  • 1945
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    A Medal for Benny

    A Medal for Benny

    4.5 1945 HD

    Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they...

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  • 1944
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    Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

    Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

    1 1944 HD

    Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.

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  • 1957
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    Baby Face Nelson

    Baby Face Nelson

    5.8 1957 HD

    Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).

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  • 1977
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    Empire of the Ants

    Empire of the Ants

    4.9 1977 HD

    A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that...

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  • 1946
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    Dragonwyck

    Dragonwyck

    6.607 1946 HD

    For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation...

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  • 1946
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life

    8.3 1946 HD

    A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich...

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  • 1947
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    The Judge Steps Out

    The Judge Steps Out

    7 1947 HD

    A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.

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  • 1960
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    The Slowest Gun in the West

    The Slowest Gun in the West

    2 1960 HD

    The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff....

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  • 1957
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    The Hired Man

    The Hired Man

    1 1957 HD

    The LA County sheriff's department is on the hunt for a man who approaches his victims as a prospective used car buyer. Directed by Don Siegel for...

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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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  • 1951
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    Drums in the Deep South

    Drums in the Deep South

    5.4 1951 HD

    Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.

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  • 1947
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    Dark Passage

    Dark Passage

    7.3 1947 HD

    A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

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  • 1966
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    A Big Hand for the Little Lady

    A Big Hand for the Little Lady

    7.1 1966 HD

    A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose...

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  • 1940
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    When the Daltons Rode

    When the Daltons Rode

    6 1940 HD

    Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing...

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  • 1942
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    The Night Before the Divorce

    The Night Before the Divorce

    5 1942 HD

    Marital comedy with a dash of murder.

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  • 1940
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    The Captain Is a Lady

    The Captain Is a Lady

    6 1940 HD

    Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only...

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  • 1940
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    The Howards of Virginia

    The Howards of Virginia

    6.4 1940 HD

    Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...

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  • 1942
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    Blondie Goes to College

    Blondie Goes to College

    6.4 1942 HD

    Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband,...

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  • 1942
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    Sundown Jim

    Sundown Jim

    1 1942 HD

    US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local...

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  • 1942
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    Lone Star Ranger

    Lone Star Ranger

    3 1942 HD

    Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth,...

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  • 1941
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    The Shepherd of the Hills

    The Shepherd of the Hills

    6.6 1941 HD

    Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die....

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  • 1943
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    A Lady Takes a Chance

    A Lady Takes a Chance

    5.7 1943 HD

    A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

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  • 1945
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    The Royal Mounted Rides Again

    The Royal Mounted Rides Again

    5.8 1945 HD

    In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this...

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  • 1945
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    Trail to Vengeance

    Trail to Vengeance

    1 1945 HD

    A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the deed to the cowboy's family ranch.

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  • 1942
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    The Remarkable Andrew

    The Remarkable Andrew

    8.2 1942 HD

    When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he...

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  • 1942
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    Fall In

    Fall In

    5 1942 HD

    An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.

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  • 1946
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    The Big Sleep

    The Big Sleep

    7.6 1946 HD

    Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the...

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  • 1947
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    Dragnet

    Dragnet

    6 1947 HD

    Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James comes to the United States looking for a band of international gem-thieves who have smuggled a rich load of...

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  • 1948
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    The Inside Story

    The Inside Story

    6.5 1948 HD

    A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a...

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  • 1948
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    State of the Union

    State of the Union

    6.7 1948 HD

    An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.

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  • 1946
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    The Well Groomed Bride

    The Well Groomed Bride

    4 1946 HD

    A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a...

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  • 1948
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    The Hunted

    The Hunted

    5.2 1948 HD

    A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.

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  • 1943
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    Edge of Darkness

    Edge of Darkness

    6.1 1943 HD

    The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living...

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  • 1945
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    Murder, He Says

    Murder, He Says

    6.6 1945 HD

    Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing....

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  • 1942
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    The Glass Key

    The Glass Key

    6.59 1942 HD

    A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

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  • 1947
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    Pursued

    Pursued

    6.5 1947 HD

    A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his...

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  • 1938
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    Hard to Get

    Hard to Get

    6 1938 HD

    When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...

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  • 1942
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    Pardon My Sarong

    Pardon My Sarong

    6.521 1942 HD

    A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat...

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  • 1944
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    In Society

    In Society

    5.8 1944 HD

    Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree...

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  • 1945
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    The Naughty Nineties

    The Naughty Nineties

    6.8 1945 HD

    In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...

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  • 1940
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    Zanzibar

    Zanzibar

    1 1940 HD

    A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.

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  • 1960
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    Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

    Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

    6.1 1960 HD

    Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky...

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  • 1955
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    The Tall Men

    The Tall Men

    6.3 1955 HD

    Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers,...

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  • 1951
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    Vengeance Valley

    Vengeance Valley

    5.3 1951 HD

    A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred,...

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  • 1947
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    California

    California

    6.5 1947 HD

    "Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When...

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  • 1941
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    Come Live with Me

    Come Live with Me

    6.9 1941 HD

    Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

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  • 1961
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    Mister Ed

    Mister Ed

    6.7 1961 HD

    Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his...

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  • 1955
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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

    6.5 1955 HD

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take...

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  • 1960
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    The Tall Man

    The Tall Man

    6.3 1960 HD

    The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five...

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  • 1956
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    Broken Arrow

    Broken Arrow

    5 1956 HD

    Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were...

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  • 1958
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    Cimarron City

    Cimarron City

    5 1958 HD

    Cimarron City is an American Western television series, starring George Montgomery as Matt Rockford and John Smith as Lane Temple, that aired on NBC...

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  • 1956
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    Hey, Jeannie!

    Hey, Jeannie!

    5.5 1956 HD

    Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on...

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  • 1963
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    Petticoat Junction

    Petticoat Junction

    5.871 1963 HD

    The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1952
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    Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

    6.125 1952 HD

    Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer...

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  • 1958
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    Lawman

    Lawman

    5.4 1958 HD

    Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring...

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1954
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    Studio 57

    Studio 57

    1 1954 HD

    Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and...

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  • 1955
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    Cheyenne

    Cheyenne

    5.8 1955 HD

    Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.4 1962 HD

    The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

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  • 1965
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    Green Acres

    Green Acres

    7.303 1965 HD

    Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by...

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  • 1963
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    Temple Houston

    Temple Houston

    5.7 1963 HD

    Temple Houston is a 1963–64 NBC television series which has been called "the first attempt . . . to produce an hour-long Western series with...

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  • 1957
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    Maverick

    Maverick

    6.8 1957 HD

    The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

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