The 300 Spartans 1962  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Lion of Sparta
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, David Farrar, Donald Houston, Anna Synodinou, Kieron Moore, John Crawford, Laurence Naismith, Robert Brown, Ivan Triesault
The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. was an important battle that changed the direction of civilization in that time period. This is a colorful adventure film that tells the story of how 300 Spartans, led by King Leodinas (Richard Egan), held off thousands of invading Persian soldiers at the mountain pass while the remainder of Greece's leadership debated whether or not to send soldiers.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again 1979  G, 88 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Western
Director: Vincent McEveety
Cast: Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars, Elyssa Davalos, Jack Elam, Robert Pine, Harry Morgan, Ruth Buzzi, Audrey Totter, John Crawford, Cliff Osmond, Ted Gehring, Morgan Paull
In this poor slapstick sequel, Don Knotts and Tim Conway are inept outlaws who get mixed up with goings-on at an Army fort out West. For the young ones only. Disney.
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Dreamer 1979  PG, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Noel Nosseck
Cast: Tim Matheson, Susan Blakely, Jack Warden, Richard B. Shull, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Barbara Stuart, Mews Small, Matt Clark, John Crawford, Chris Schenkel, Morgan Farley, Speedy Zapataa, JoBe Cerny, Rita Ascot Boyd, Pat Mullins Brown
Dreamer (Tim Matheson) is a bowler, coached by crusty Harry (Jack Warden), who sets out to win the national championship. His girlfriend Karen (Susan Blakely) loves Dreamer but thinks he spends too much time bowling and not enough time with her.
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Duel at Diablo 1966   N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Ralph Nelson
Cast: James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Dennis Weaver, Bill Travers, William Redfield, John Crawford, John Hubbard, John Hoyt, Al Wyatt
After his wife is killed, an Apache avenges her death by attacking U.S. Cavalrymen. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 05/20/2009 | | Best western of its time. James Garner makes the movie |
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 The Enforcer 1976 R, 96 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: James Fargo
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, John Mitchum, Bradford Dillman, John Crawford, Robert F. Hoy, Rudy Ramos, DeVeren Bookwalter, Samantha Doane, Jocelyn Jones, M.G. Kelly, Nick Pellegrino, Albert Popwell, Rudy Ramos
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) returns, only this time he works with an assistant, Kate Moore (Tyne Daly). Harry goes undercover into a terrorist organization–People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF)–headed by Bobby Maxwell (DeVeren Bookwalter). The PRSF has kidnapped the Mayor (John Crawford) of San Francisco, and Harry and Kate are determined to rescue him. Lots of action in this good "Dirty Harry" film.
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Hell Is a City 1960  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw, Joseph Tomelty, George A. Cooper, Geoffrey Frederick, Vanda Godsell, Charles Houston
Veteran police inspector Martineau (Stanley Baker) is on the trail of an escaped criminal, who Martineau believes is headed back to his home in Manchester to recover stolen jewels that resulted in the jail sentence. When a bank clerk is murdered and the money she was carrying disappears, Martineau knows he's on the right track and proceeds to get the entire gang until only the escapee is left. Good suspense as the final confrontation approaches.
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I Saw What You Did 1965 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: William Castle
Cast: Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Leif Erickson, Sara Lane, Andi Garrett, Patricia Breslin, John Archer, John Crawford, Douglas Evans
Teenagers Kit (Sarah Lane) and Libby (Andi Garrett) pull telephone pranks until they unwittingly call a murderer, Steve Marak (John Ireland), who thinks they are on to him, and he is determined to track them down in an effort to get rid of "witnesses."
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J.W. Coop 1972 PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cliff Robertson
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare, R.G. Armstrong, R.L. Armstrong, John Crawford, Wade Crosby, Marjorie Durant Dye, Paul Harper, Son Hooker, Richard Kennedy, Bruce Kirby
Professional rodeo rider J.W. Coop (Cliff Robertson) spent the 1950s in prison. Now, in the 1960s, he sets out to conquer the rodeo circuit and finds that rodeo life has changed in the last 10 years.
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The Key 1958 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka, Kieron Moore, Bernard Lee, Noel Purcell, Bryan Forbes, James Hayter, John Crawford
In this, Sophia Loren's first British film, she plays "Stella," a kept woman, whose key is passed from one naval officer to the next one who arrives in port during World War II.
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Marshal of Cedar Rock 1953 N/R, 54 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Harry Keller
Cast: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Phyllis Coates, Roy Barcroft, William Henry, Robert Shayne, John Crawford, John Hamilton, Kenneth MacDonald, Herbert Lytton
Henry Mason (Roy Barcroft) has inside information that the railroad will soon come to Cedar Rock, so he proceeds to buy up surrounding land expecting to make a windfall later. But the Marshal (Allan "Rocky" Lane) senses that something is going on and uses an innocent, convicted man to help in bringing Henry to justice.
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Message to My Daughter 1973 TV, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Michael Lewis
Cast: Martin Sheen, Bonnie Bedelia, Kitty Winn, Neva Patterson, Mark Slade, Lucille Benson, Jerry Ayres, King Moody, Bob Goldstein, John Crawford
A troubled teenager (Kitty Winn) unearths some tapes her mother (Bonnie Bedelia) recorded before her untimely death several years earlier.
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Napoleon and Samantha 1972 G, 92 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Bernard McEveety
Cast: Michael Douglas, Will Geer, Arch Johnson, Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Henry Jones, Vito Scotti, John Crawford, Mary Wickes, Ellen Corby
Two children, Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker) and Samantha (Jodie Foster), work their way across Oregon with their pet lion searching for their benefactor (Michael Douglas). Disney.
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Night Moves 1975 R, 99 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Ed Binns, Harris Yulin, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark, Kenneth Mars, James Woods, John Crawford, Max Gail
Loser private eye Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) uncovers a smuggling operation while on a routine missing-person investigation.
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Orders to Kill 1958 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Irene Worth, Leslie French, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sam Kydd, Nicholas Phipps
Gene Summers (Paul Massie) is an American spy who is ordered to Paris to track down and kill a suspected French Nazi agent (Eddie Albert).
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Return of the Gunfighter 1967 TV, 98 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Wyatt
Director: James Neilson
Cast: Robert Taylor, Ana Martin, Chad Everett, Mort Mills, Lyle Bettger, John Davis Chandler, Michael Pate, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., John Crawford, Willis Bouchey
Ben Wyatt (Robert Taylor) comes to the aid of a Mexican girl who is out to avenge the death of her father.
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Solomon and Sheba 1959 N/R, 139 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, David Farrar, John Crawford, Finlay Currie, Harry Andrews, Laurence Naismith, Jose Nieto, Alejandro Rey, Maruchi Fresno, William Devlin, Jack Gwillim, Julio Pena
Tyrone Power was working on this film in the role of Solomon when he died; Yul Brynner replaced him. The story is based on the Biblical epic of Sheba's (Gina Lollobrigida) seductive attempt to bring down Solomon's rule of Israel.
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The Swiss Family Robinson 1975 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Harry Harris
Cast: Martin Milner, Pat Delany, Cameron Mitchell, Michael-James Wixted, Eric Olson, John Vernon, Helen Hunt, George DiCenzo, Cindy Fisher, John Crawford
A family outwits pirates and survives on a deserted island following their shipwreck.
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Tilt 1979 PG, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Rudy Durand
Cast: Brooke Shields, Ken Marshall, Charles Durning, John Crawford, Gregory Walcott, Karen Lamm, Robert Brian Berger, Lorenzo Lamas, Geoffrey Lewis, Don Stark
Young Tilt (Brooke Shields) is a pinball wizard and leaves home to head across country with would-be rock star Neil (Ken Marshall). They hustle their way along, until the ultimate test–a game with pinball champ "The Whale" (Charles Durning). Highlight: watching the game from inside the machine.
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| 1. The 300 Spartans (1962)
aka: Lion of Sparta
2. The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
3. The Devil's Messenger (1961)
4. Dreamer (1979)
5. Duel at Diablo (1966)
6. The Enforcer (1976)
7. Hell Is a City (1960)
8. I Saw What You Did (1965)
9. J.W. Coop (1972)
10. The Key (1958)
11. Marshal of Cedar Rock (1953)
12. Message to My Daughter (1973)
13. Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
14. Night Moves (1975)
15. Orders to Kill (1958)
16. Outlaw Blues (1977)
17. Return of the Gunfighter (1967)
aka: Wyatt
18. Solomon and Sheba (1959)
19. The Swiss Family Robinson (1975)
20. Tilt (1979)
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