Africa Screams 1949  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure
Director: Charles Harton
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Max Baer, Buddy Baer, Shemp Howard, Clyde Beatty, Joe Besser, Frank Buck, Burt Wenland, Bill Walker, Martin Wilkins
While on an African safari, Buzz Johnson (Bud Abbott) and Stanley Livingston (Lou Costello) look in all the wrong places for a rumored diamond mine and encounter cannibals, a hungry lion, and other assorted challenges. This is one of their better films.
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Buckskin Frontier 1943 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Lesley Selander
Cast: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Lee J. Cobb, Victor Jory, Lola Lane, Max Baer, George Reeves, Joe Sawyer
As the Western frontier undergoes settlement in the 19th century, the railroad presents problems as well as benefits along the line, and the owner (Lee J. Cobb) of a freight wagon business is particularly affected.
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The Harder They Fall 1956  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Edward Andrews, Harold J. Stone, Nehemiah Persoff, Jack Albertson, Val Avery
Boxing provides the backdrop for this film about sports writer Eddie Willis' (Humphrey Bogart) increasing recognition of the exploitation of boxers. Bogart's last film.
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The Navy Comes Through 1942  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Pat O'Brien, George Murphy, Jane Wyatt, Jackie Cooper, Carl Esmond, Max Baer, Desi Arnaz, Ray Collins, Frank Jenks, Frank Fenton, Joey Ray, Marten Lamont
Filmed shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and using newsreel film footage, this World War II story involves the heroics of the crew of an old freighter that blows up U-Boats and shoots down Nazi bombers. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects.
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The Prizefighter and the Lady 1933 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Walter Huston, Otto Kruger, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, Vince Barnett, Robert McWade, Garry Owen, Matt McHugh
Max Baer makes his film debut in this film about a boxer (Max Baer) who falls in love with the girlfriend (Myrna Loy) of a mobster and then refuses to throw his fight.
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A Time for Killing 1967  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Western
aka: The Long Ride Home
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens, Paul Petersen, Max Baer, Timothy Carey, Kenneth Tobey, Harry Dean Stanton, Harrison Ford, Dick Miller
A Union officer, Major Walcott (Glenn Ford), tracks down a Confederate soldier, Captain Bentley (George Hamilton), following Bentley's rape of Walcott's ladylove, Emily Biddle (Inger Stevens). 1 User Review
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| 1. Africa Screams (1949)
2. Buckskin Frontier (1943)
3. The Harder They Fall (1956)
4. The Navy Comes Through (1942)
5. The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
6. A Time for Killing (1967)
aka: The Long Ride Home
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