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Jim Backus

Jim Backus was an American actor and voice actor, best known for his roles as Thurston Howell III on the television series Gilligan's Island and as the voice of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo. He also appeared in numerous films, including Rebel Without a Cause and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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Friday Foster

Friday Foster

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 6

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Fost...

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The Horizontal Lieutenant

The Horizontal Lieutenant

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 5.9

A luckless army intelligence lieutenant finds himself stationed on a remote island army outpost during World War II, where all the action is between the sheets.

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Advance to the Rear

Advance to the Rear

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1964 IMDB Rating: 5.8

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The h...

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Billie

Billie

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1965 IMDB Rating: 5.7

A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.

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Critic's Choice

Critic's Choice

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 5.7

Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 5.7

The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which is a bit hard on the children) and refuses to help...

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Macabre

Macabre

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 5.7

After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.

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Hello Down There

Hello Down There

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1969 IMDB Rating: 5.6

Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family agrees to move in, underwater mayhem occurs!

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Crazy Mama

Crazy Mama

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 5.5

Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want...

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The Naked Hills

The Naked Hills

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 5.5

Tracy Powell, an Indiana farmer, gets the gold fever and heads for Stockton, California in 1849. There, he abandons his first partner, Bert Killian, and teams up with Sam Wilkins, a claim jumper emplo...

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