Paul Picerni

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Twelve O'Clock High

(1949)

Action, Drama, War

In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.

Runtime:

132 min

Director:

Henry King

Cast:

Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger

7.7

96%

N/A

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House of Wax

(1953)

Horror, Mystery

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

André De Toth

Cast:

Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni

7.1

95%

N/A

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Airport

(1970)

Action

Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

Runtime:

137 min

Director:

George Seaton, Henry Hathaway

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset

6.6

73%

42

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To Hell and Back

(1955)

Action, Drama, History, Romance, War

The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Jesse Hibbs

Cast:

Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Gregg Palmer, David Janssen

7.2

100%

N/A

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The Young Philadelphians

(1959)

Drama

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.

Runtime:

136 min

Director:

Vincent Sherman

Cast:

Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith, Diane Brewster

7.4

67%

N/A

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The Scalphunters

(1968)

Comedy, Western

Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raid...

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Cast:

Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis, Dabney Coleman

6.8

70%

N/A

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Operation Pacific

(1951)

Action, Drama, War

During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy ...

Runtime:

111 min

Director:

George Waggner

Cast:

John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey

6.7

N/A

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Torpedo Run

(1958)

Drama, War

A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.

Runtime:

98 min

6.4

N/A

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Marjorie Morningstar

(1958)

Drama, Romance

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew (born 'Ehrman'), but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to ...

Runtime:

128 min

Director:

Irving Rapper

Cast:

Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor, Ed Wynn, Everett Sloane

6.3

N/A

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The Brothers Rico

(1957)

Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again.

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Phil Karlson

Cast:

Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates, James Darren

6.9

N/A

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The Bounty Hunter

(1954)

Action, Comedy, Romance, Western

A year after a violent train robbery the Pinkerton detective agency hires a bounty hunter to find the three remaining killers. He tracks them to Twin Forks but has no clue to their identity. Tensions surface as just his presence in town acts as a catalyst.

Runtime:

79 min

Director:

André De Toth

Cast:

Randolph Scott, Dolores Dorn, Marie Windsor, Howard Petrie, Harry Antrim

6.5

N/A

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Drive a Crooked Road

(1954)

Crime, Thriller

A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster's girlfriend.

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

Richard Quine

Cast:

Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly, Harry Landers

6.9

N/A

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I Was a Communist for the FBI

(1951)

Crime

A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Cast:

Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, James Millican, Richard Webb

6.3

N/A

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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

(1979)

Action, Adventure, Drama

After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.

Runtime:

114 min

Director:

Irwin Allen

Cast:

Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden

4.5

N/A

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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

(1987)

Action, Adventure, TV Movie, War

Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Lee H. Katzin

Cast:

Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Vince Edwards, Bo Svenson, Vince Van Patten

5.5

N/A

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The Adventures of Errol Flynn

(2005)

Documentary, TV Movie

A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.

Runtime:

87 min

7.1

N/A

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Saddle Tramp

(1950)

Western

Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbo...

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Hugo Fregonese

Cast:

Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan

7.0

N/A

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The Desert Song

(1953)

Music, Romance

Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Bir...

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast:

Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Dick Wesson

6.3

N/A

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Mara Maru

(1952)

Adventure, Drama

An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.

Runtime:

98 min

6.1

N/A

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Breakthrough

(1950)

War

Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent.

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

Lewis Seiler

Cast:

David Brian, John Agar, Frank Lovejoy, William Campbell, Paul Picerni

6.8

N/A

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The Big Caper

(1957)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.

Runtime:

84 min

6.5

N/A

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The Adventures of Hajji Baba

(1954)

Adventure, Romance

In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her father intends Fawzia for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to se...

Runtime:

94 min

5.9

N/A

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The Tanks Are Coming

(1951)

War

An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.

Runtime:

90 min

6.4

N/A

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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

(1951)

Crime, Drama

A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.

Runtime:

87 min

6.7

N/A

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The Shadow on the Window

(1957)

Crime, Drama

Three delinquents murder a prosperous farm owner at an isolated farm house. The one witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage.

Runtime:

76 min

Director:

William Asher

Cast:

Philip Carey, Betty Garrett, John Drew Barrymore, Corey Allen, Gerald Sarracini

6.3

N/A

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Hell's Island

(1955)

Action

After being dumped by his fiancée, hard-drinking and depressed Mark Cormack (John Payne) loses his job in the Los Angeles district attorney's office and serves as bouncer in a Las Vegas casino. A wheelchair-using stranger Barzland (Francis L. Sullivan) hires him to locate a ruby that disappeared in a Caribbean plane crash. He lures Cor...

Runtime:

84 min

Director:

Phil Karlson

Cast:

John Payne, Mary Murphy, Eduardo Noriega, Francis L. Sullivan, Arnold Moss

5.9

N/A

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The Old Man Who Cried Wolf

(1970)

Drama, TV Movie

Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the ...

Runtime:

73 min

6.8

N/A

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Operation Secret

(1952)

Drama, War

After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.

Runtime:

108 min

6.2

N/A

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Lord of the Jungle

(1955)

Adventure

The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants.

Runtime:

69 min

Director:

Ford Beebe

Cast:

Johnny Sheffield, Wayne Morris, Nancy Hale, Paul Picerni, Bill Phipps

6.1

N/A

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She's Back on Broadway

(1953)

Comedy

When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years ear...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Cast:

Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Steve Cochran, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore

5.7

N/A

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The Come On

(1956)

Crime

A con woman tries to swindle her partner-in-crime husband with the help of one of her former marks. But is she to be trusted?

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

Russell Birdwell

Cast:

Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden, John Hoyt, Jesse White, Wally Cassell

6.2

N/A

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Return to Warbow

(1958)

Western

Three escaped prisoners return to the site of a robbery to find the stolen money that was never recovered. Western.

Runtime:

67 min

Director:

Ray Nazarro

Cast:

Philip Carey, Catherine McLeod, Andrew Duggan, William Leslie, Christopher Olsen

5.5

N/A

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The System

(1953)

Crime

A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Lewis Seiler

Cast:

Frank Lovejoy, Joan Weldon, Robert Arthur, Paul Picerni, Don Beddoe

6.4

N/A

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Flight to Hong Kong

(1956)

Crime, Drama

On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony (Rory Calhoun), a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend (Dolores Donlon) or pursue Pamela (Barbara Rush), an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, ...

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

Joseph M. Newman

Cast:

Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush, Dolores Donlon, Soo Yong, Mel Welles

5.5

N/A

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Dial Red O

(1955)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's department, Dial Red "O" (the correct title with the number 0 (zero), as on a telephone dial, shown in ") opens with war-torn veteran Ralph Wyatt getting word that his wife is divorcing him, and he flees the psychiatric ward of the veteran...

Runtime:

63 min

Director:

Daniel B. Ullman

Cast:

Bill Elliott, Helene Stanley, Keith Larsen, Paul Picerni, Jack Kruschen

6.9

N/A

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The Shanghai Story

(1954)

Drama, Romance, Thriller

Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Frank Lloyd

Cast:

Edmond O'Brien, Ruth Roman, Richard Jaeckel, Barry Kelley, Philip Ahn

6.0

N/A

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The Last Hurrah

(1977)

Drama, TV Movie

The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Vincent Sherman

Cast:

Carroll O'Connor, Leslie Ackerman, Burgess Meredith, John Anderson, Dana Andrews

7.1

N/A

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Wiretapper

(1955)

A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.

Runtime:

80 min

Director:

Dick Ross

Cast:

Bill Williams, Georgia Lee, Douglas Kennedy, Paul Picerni, Stanley Clements

5.7

N/A

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The Man Who Died Twice

(1958)

Crime

An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.

Runtime:

70 min

Director:

Joseph Kane

Cast:

Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Mike Mazurki, Gerald Milton, Richard Karlan

6.2

N/A

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Cattle Town

(1952)

Western

Director Noel M. Smith's 1952 western stars Dennis Morgan, Philip Carey, Amanda Blake and Rita Moreno.

Runtime:

71 min

4.9

N/A

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