William Edmunds

William Edmunds

Italian born William Edmunds (born Michele F. Pellegrino) was a stage, screen, and television actor, in films from 1934 to 1953, his television career continuing to 1959. Edmunds is best remembered for his portrayal of bar owner Giuseppe Martini in the 1946 holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life.

  • Title: William Edmunds
  • Popularity: 4.822
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1885-01-01
  • Place of Birth: San Fele, Basilicata, Italy
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  • Also Known As: William Edmonds, Billy Edmunds, Bill Edmunds, Michele Frondino Pellegrino, Michael Fondonia Pellegrino, Michele F. Pellegrino, Michael F. Pellegrino, Michele Pellegrino, Michael Pellegrino, Michele Giuseppe Pellegrino
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William Edmunds Movies

  • 1940
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    The Mortal Storm

    The Mortal Storm

    7.2 1940 HD

    The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...

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  • 1946
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life

    8.273 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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  • 1941
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    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    6.2 1941 HD

    Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...

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  • 1942
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    Berlin Correspondent

    Berlin Correspondent

    5.9 1942 HD

    Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities...

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  • 1946
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    The Man I Love

    The Man I Love

    5.9 1946 HD

    Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various...

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  • 1947
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    The Beast with Five Fingers

    The Beast with Five Fingers

    6.3 1947 HD

    Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer:...

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  • 1953
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    The Caddy

    The Caddy

    6.5 1953 HD

    Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he...

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  • 1947
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    Where There's Life

    Where There's Life

    5.6 1947 HD

    In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality,...

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  • 1949
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    Mr. Soft Touch

    Mr. Soft Touch

    6.8 1949 HD

    When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the...

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  • 1940
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    Strange Cargo

    Strange Cargo

    7 1940 HD

    Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

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  • 1947
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    The Lost Moment

    The Lost Moment

    6.5 1947 HD

    In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared...

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  • 1940
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    Girls Under 21

    Girls Under 21

    4.5 1940 HD

    Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's...

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  • 1949
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    Any Number Can Play

    Any Number Can Play

    6.9 1949 HD

    When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it...

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  • 1949
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    The Big Sombrero

    The Big Sombrero

    5 1949 HD

    Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the business affairs of the owner, Estrellita Estrada, who...

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  • 1941
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    Knockout

    Knockout

    5 1941 HD

    Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to...

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  • 1940
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    He Married His Wife

    He Married His Wife

    5.1 1940 HD

    Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to...

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  • 1935
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    Shadow of Doubt

    Shadow of Doubt

    6.2 1935 HD

    When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.

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  • 1943
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    Assignment in Brittany

    Assignment in Brittany

    6.6 1943 HD

    A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

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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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  • 1944
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    The Seventh Cross

    The Seventh Cross

    6.7 1944 HD

    In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee...

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  • 1943
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    Casablanca

    Casablanca

    8.2 1943 HD

    In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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  • 1942
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    The Pied Piper

    The Pied Piper

    6.8 1942 HD

    Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded...

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  • 1939
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    Idiot's Delight

    Idiot's Delight

    5.8 1939 HD

    A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

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  • 1939
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    Everything Happens at Night

    Everything Happens at Night

    4.1 1939 HD

    Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

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  • 1939
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    Nurse Edith Cavell

    Nurse Edith Cavell

    6.4 1939 HD

    British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German...

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  • 1939
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    The Rains Came

    The Rains Came

    5.9 1939 HD

    Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken...

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  • 1950
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    The Lawless

    The Lawless

    5.8 1950 HD

    A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

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  • 1944
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    House of Frankenstein

    House of Frankenstein

    6 1944 HD

    Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous...

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  • 1941
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    Forbidden Passage

    Forbidden Passage

    6.3 1941 HD

    This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the...

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  • 1940
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    You, the People

    You, the People

    5.667 1940 HD

    This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the...

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  • 1939
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    Fixer Dugan

    Fixer Dugan

    6.5 1939 HD

    Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.

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  • 1940
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    The Shop Around the Corner

    The Shop Around the Corner

    8.149 1940 HD

    Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous...

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  • 1948
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    The Pirate

    The Pirate

    6.4 1948 HD

    A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and...

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  • 1940
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    The Mark of Zorro

    The Mark of Zorro

    7 1940 HD

    Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays...

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  • 1948
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    6.8 1948 HD

    Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

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  • 1940
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    The Great McGinty

    The Great McGinty

    6.9 1940 HD

    Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...

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  • 1940
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    Escape

    Escape

    7.4 1940 HD

    An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess...

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  • 1940
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    Stranger on the Third Floor

    Stranger on the Third Floor

    6.479 1940 HD

    Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

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  • 1939
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    Geronimo

    Geronimo

    5 1939 HD

    The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud...

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  • 1946
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    Swamp Fire

    Swamp Fire

    5.4 1946 HD

    Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance...

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  • 1940
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    Know Your Money

    Know Your Money

    9 1940 HD

    This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb...

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  • 1940
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    Earthbound

    Earthbound

    4.8 1940 HD

    A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.

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  • 1942
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    The Wife Takes a Flyer

    The Wife Takes a Flyer

    4.5 1942 HD

    Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as...

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  • 1934
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    Going Spanish

    Going Spanish

    5.8 1934 HD

    A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope.

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  • 1949
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    Ringside

    Ringside

    4.3 1949 HD

    Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He needs the money badly, so he doesn't delay the fight....

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  • 1941
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    Paris Calling

    Paris Calling

    5.2 1941 HD

    Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi...

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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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  • 1941
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    They Met in Bombay

    They Met in Bombay

    7.4 1941 HD

    A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.

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  • 1943
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    Background to Danger

    Background to Danger

    6.6 1943 HD

    An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

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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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  • 1943
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    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    6.5 1943 HD

    Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the...

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  • 1943
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    Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    7.1 1943 HD

    Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism...

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  • 1945
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    A Bell for Adano

    A Bell for Adano

    5.5 1945 HD

    Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without...

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  • 1941
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    A Very Young Lady

    A Very Young Lady

    1 1941 HD

    A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.

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  • 1944
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    Dangerous Passage

    Dangerous Passage

    4.9 1944 HD

    Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.

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  • 1942
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    Reunion in France

    Reunion in France

    6.6 1942 HD

    Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get...

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  • 1944
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    The Climax

    The Climax

    5.4 1944 HD

    Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad...

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  • 1940
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    Girl from Havana

    Girl from Havana

    5 1940 HD

    Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...

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  • 1944
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    Till We Meet Again

    Till We Meet Again

    6 1944 HD

    An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in...

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  • 1951
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    Double Dynamite

    Double Dynamite

    6.2 1951 HD

    An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.

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  • 1942
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    The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

    6.4 1942 HD

    When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of...

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  • 1948
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    13 Lead Soldiers

    13 Lead Soldiers

    6 1948 HD

    Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen. Drummond learns that the two...

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  • 1941
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    Baby Blues

    Baby Blues

    6 1941 HD

    Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born is Chinese. Spanky and the gang then visit a...

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

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