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The Shawshank Redemption

(1994)

Crime, Drama

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -...

Runtime:

142 min

Director:

Frank Darabont

Cast:

Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown

9.3

91%

80

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Planet of the Apes

(1968)

Action, Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Runtime:

112 min

Director:

Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast:

Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, James Daly, James Whitmore

8.0

86%

79

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

(1970)

Drama, History, War

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged Ame...

Runtime:

144 min

Director:

Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda

Cast:

Martin Balsam, Sō Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall

7.5

55%

46

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The Asphalt Jungle

(1950)

Crime, Drama

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

Runtime:

112 min

Director:

John Huston

Cast:

Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe

7.9

97%

N/A

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The Majestic

(2001)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Runtime:

152 min

Director:

Frank Darabont

Cast:

Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden, David Ogden Stiers, Hal Holbrook

6.9

42%

27

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Them!

(1954)

Horror, Science Fiction

As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent, ...

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Cast:

James Arness, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Whitmore, Onslow Stevens

7.2

93%

N/A

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Oklahoma!

(1955)

Music, Romance, Western

This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900s with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs. Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit Broadway musical.

Runtime:

145 min

Director:

Fred Zinnemann

Cast:

Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger, Gene Nelson

7.1

88%

74

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The Relic

(1997)

Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Peter Hyams

Cast:

Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner

5.8

92%

55

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Battleground

(1949)

Action, Adventure, Drama, War

The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralized ...

Runtime:

118 min

Director:

William A. Wellman

Cast:

Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson

7.5

100%

N/A

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Kiss Me Kate

(1953)

Comedy, Music, Romance

Fred and Lilli are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred...

Runtime:

109 min

Director:

George Sidney

Cast:

Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van

7.2

90%

N/A

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Nuts

(1987)

Drama

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

Martin Ritt

Cast:

Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach

6.7

38%

N/A

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The Serpent's Egg

(1977)

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

Runtime:

120 min

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Cast:

David Carradine, Liv Ullmann, Heinz Bennent, Gert Fröbe, Isolde Barth

6.7

23%

N/A

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The Adventures of Mark Twain

(1985)

Adventure, Animation, Family

Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the human race, is intent upon finding Halley's Comet and crashing into it, achieving his "de...

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Will Vinton

Cast:

James Whitmore, Michele Mariana, Gary Krug, Chris Ritchie, Wilbur Vincent

7.4

80%

N/A

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Chato's Land

(1972)

Western

A posse pursues Pardon Chato (Charles Bronson) a mestizo indian after he killed a US marshal in self-defense. As they get deeper into Indian territory, just who is hunting who.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Michael Winner

Cast:

Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland, Ralph Waite

6.7

N/A

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Madigan

(1968)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and co...

Runtime:

101 min

Director:

Don Siegel

Cast:

Richard Widmark, Richard Widmark, Inger Stevens, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino

6.5

90%

N/A

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Where the Red Fern Grows

(1974)

Drama, Family

Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

Norman Tokar

Cast:

James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Jack Ging, Lonny Chapman, Stewart Petersen

6.9

N/A

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Guns of the Magnificent Seven

(1969)

Western

In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers (George Kennedy, Michael Ansara, Joe Don Baker, Bernie Casey, Monte Markham, Fernando Rey and Reni Santoni) liberate Mexican political prisoners, train them as fighters and assist them in a desperate attack o...

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Paul Wendkos

Cast:

George Kennedy, James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Reni Santoni, Bernie Casey

5.8

N/A

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Battle Cry

(1955)

Drama, Romance, War

The dramatic story of US marines in training, in combat and in love during World War II. The story centres on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat. Based on the novel by Leon Uris.

Runtime:

149 min

Director:

Raoul Walsh

Cast:

Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, James Whitmore, Nancy Olson

6.6

N/A

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The Eddy Duchin Story

(1956)

Drama, Music, Romance

The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

Runtime:

123 min

Director:

George Sidney

Cast:

Kim Novak, Tyrone Power, James Whitmore, Victoria Shaw, Rex Thompson

6.9

N/A

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The Last Frontier

(1955)

Action, Western

Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain (Guy Madison) who loses his fort to a hated colonel (Robert Preston).

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Anthony Mann

Cast:

Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, Anne Bancroft, James Whitmore

6.4

N/A

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Across the Wide Missouri

(1951)

Adventure, Romance, Western

In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.

Runtime:

78 min

Director:

William A. Wellman

Cast:

Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou, J. Carrol Naish

6.2

N/A

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The Undercover Man

(1949)

Crime, Drama

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Joseph H. Lewis

Cast:

Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, James Whitmore, Barry Kelley, Frank Tweddell

6.6

N/A

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Above and Beyond

(1953)

Action, Drama, War

The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so m...

Runtime:

122 min

7.0

N/A

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Crime in the Streets

(1956)

Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

Don Siegel

Cast:

James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell, Virginia Gregg, Peter J. Votrian

6.7

N/A

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I Will Fight No More Forever

(1975)

Action, Drama, TV Movie, War, Western

Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 mile journey across the West and towards Canada. Based on the true story of the westward expansion of the United States and the military force used to displace Native Americans from their lands.

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Richard T. Heffron

Cast:

James Whitmore, Ned Romero, Sam Elliott, Linda Redfearn, Emilio Delgado

7.5

N/A

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The Split

(1968)

Action, Crime

A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

Gordon Flemyng

Cast:

Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine, Julie Harris, Gene Hackman

6.1

N/A

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The Next Voice You Hear...

(1950)

Drama

The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

William A. Wellman

Cast:

James Whitmore, Nancy Reagan, Gary Gray, Lillian Bronson, Art Smith

6.4

N/A

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All the Brothers Were Valiant

(1953)

Adventure

In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.

Runtime:

101 min

Director:

Richard Thorpe

Cast:

Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth, Lewis Stone, Betta St. John

6.3

N/A

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High Crime

(1973)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.

Runtime:

100 min

7.3

N/A

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Black Like Me

(1964)

Drama

Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Carl Lerner

Cast:

James Whitmore, Sorrell Booke, Roscoe Lee Browne

6.8

N/A

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Chuka

(1967)

Action, Drama, Western

A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Cast:

Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, James Whitmore

6.4

N/A

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The Flying Misfits

(1976)

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The film also acted as the pilot for the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. Former U.S. Marine pilot Greg "Pappy" Boyington is flying with the American Volunteer Group (the Flying Tigers) i...

Runtime:

93 min

Director:

Russ Mayberry

Cast:

Robert Conrad, Simon Oakland, Dana Elcar, James Whitmore, Robert Ginty

7.7

N/A

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Give 'em Hell, Harry!

(1975)

One man show about the presidency of Harry S Truman.

Runtime:

104 min

Director:

Steve Binder

Cast:

James Whitmore

7.6

100%

N/A

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The McConnell Story

(1955)

Drama

Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every step.

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Cast:

Alan Ladd, June Allyson, James Whitmore, Frank Faylen, Willis Bouchey

6.4

N/A

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The Outriders

(1950)

Western

Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men...

Runtime:

93 min

Director:

Roy Rowland

Cast:

Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Claude Jarman Jr., Ramon Novarro

6.1

N/A

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It's a Big Country

(1951)

Comedy, Drama

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forg...

Runtime:

89 min

Director:

Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor, Don Weis, William A. Wellman

Cast:

Ethel Barrymore, Keefe Brasselle, Gary Cooper, Nancy Reagan, Van Johnson

6.1

N/A

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Swing Vote

(1999)

Drama, TV Movie

A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

David Anspaugh

Cast:

Andy García, Harry Belafonte, Robert Prosky, Ray Walston, James Whitmore

6.0

N/A

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The Command

(1954)

Western

Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

David Butler

Cast:

Guy Madison, Joan Weldon, James Whitmore, Carl Benton Reid, Harvey Lembeck

6.4

N/A

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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

(1950)

Comedy, Mystery

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

Runtime:

69 min

7.0

N/A

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Face of Fire

(1959)

Drama

A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

Runtime:

79 min

Director:

Albert Band

Cast:

James Whitmore, Royal Dano, Bettye Ackerman, Cameron Mitchell

7.0

N/A

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