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Them! (1954) In the New Mexico desert, Police Sgt. Ben Peterson and his partner find a child wandering in the desert and sooner they discover that giant ants are attacking the locals. FBI agent Robert Graham teams up with Ben and with the support of Dr. Harold Medford and his daughter Dr. Patricia '

Yellowstone Kelly (1959) A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop wh

When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little ...

The Big Land (1957) Alan Ladd stars as a Kansas cattle rancher battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande just after the United States' Civil War.

Tony Rome (1967) Tony Rome is an ex-cop turned private eye in Miami Beach. For $200 he returns a young woman to her father's house after she passes out in a seedy hotel, and he keeps the hotel's name out of it. Trouble is, she's missing a diamond pin, and tough guys show up at Tony's boat looking fo

Fort Dobbs (1958) Having eluded a posse, a wanted man rescues a woman and her young son from a Comanche attack. He then escorts them to the presumed safety of a U.S. Cavalry fort. Trouble develops along the way when the woman comes to believe that her rescuer was responsible for the recent death of

The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.

San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs is called in to investigate when a liberal street preacher and political candidate is accused of murdering a prostitute. Tibbs is also battling ...

Rio Conchos (1964) Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.

Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) In prohibitionera Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a southside racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although hes outgunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A poolplaying d

Harlow (1965) In this story, Harlow starts in the movies as set dressing, the pretty girl who is used for the glamour shots. Refusing to descend to the casting couch for work, she finds that she is soon blacklisted from the industry. But an agent named Arthur sees something in Jean and begins repres

In Like Flint (1967) Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed three minutes while golfing with the president. Flint finds that the president has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds

Bombers B52 (1957) U.S Air Force Sgt. Chuck Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. He first met him in Korea, where his emergency arrival for repairs while enroute for what Chuck thought was the colonels "hot date" in Tokyo, caused the death of several of his crewme

Stagecoach (1966) A group of unlikely traveling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a traveling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gunslinger out fo

The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961) In 1939, earnest missionary nurse Rachel Cade travels to the Belgian Congo but she no sooner arrives than Dr. Bikel, who runs the local hospital where she is to work, dies of heart failure. She also soon learns that the hospital has been a failure and has yet to treat

Barquero (1970) Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across

The Nevadan 1950 A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher

Lady in Cement (1968) Tony Rome is a Miami based detective who while diving in the ocean finds the body of a young woman. He is hired by Gronsky to find her killer. Tony has to sift through a stack of suspects, plus trying to elude the police.

Skullduggery (1970) An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man. However, the influence of modern man is to have devastating effects upon these forgotten people.

Claudelle Inglish (1961) In this tale of a good girl who goes very bad, a beautiful young Southern lady remains faithful to the man she loves while he is away in the military . . . until she gets a letter that he ...

Skin Game 1971 Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason ORourke have pulled off every dodge known for conning a well heeled sucker, but it wasnt until they hit on the old skin game that they started to clean up The game is simple Jason, though born a free man in New Jersey, poses as Quincys slave as t

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) From the trial of the survivors, we flash back to amoral crook Ralph Cotter's violent prison break, assisted by Holiday Carleton, sister of another prisoner...who doesn't make it. Soon Ralph manipulates the grieving Holiday into his arms, and two crooked cops follow her

The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949) When the Daltons are killed at Coffeeville, gang member Bill Doolin arriving late escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name. But the old gang me

Sylvia (1965) Sylvia West is a young poetess engaged to Frederic Summers, an eccentric millionaire. Summers, a man who always fears he is being loved for his money, decides to make a small check on his prospective bride. The results of this check completely shock him. Not one fact matches 'his' Sylv

Only the Valiant (1951) Capt. Richard Lance is unjustly held responsible, by his men and girlfriend, for an Indian massacre death of beloved Lt. Holloway. Holloway is killed while escorting a dangerous Indian chief to another fort's prison. The chief escapes. Knowing their fort is in danger of India

Call Me Bwana (1963) A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off course and lands in Africa where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders the great African Authority Matthew Merriwether (Bob Hope), an utter fraud and authority only on feminine pulchritude, to go find

So This Is Love (1953) Biopic of opera star Grace Moore, who was killed in a plane crash in 1947.

Way... Way Out (1966) In 1989, the Americans and the Russians each have a two-person base on the moon. The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have been using only male astronauts on the unspoken assumption that this would avoid any possibil

The Black Arrow (1948) Sir Richard Shelton, a young British nobleman, returns from the War of the Roses to find his father dead and his accused murderer, Sir John Sedley, living in the forest with a fugitive band of die-hard rebels like Robin Hood. Shelton's uncle, his father's sinister and cruel ha

Santiago (1956) A gun runner, dishonorably discharged from the military, is swept deeper into a revolution in Cuba when he crosses paths with an enemy from the past and a beautiful revolutionary and her son.

Broadway Limited 1941 As a ploy to gain publicity, a motion picture director wants his star actress to take a baby with her on a train trip The directors secretary asks the trains engineer, an old boyfriend, for help As the engineer ponders what to do, a stranger in the train station tells him that

Zenobia 1939 A southern country doctor is called on by a visiting circus man to cure his sick elephant After the doctor heals the grateful beast, the elephant becomes so attached to him that it starts to follow him everywhere

Viva Knievel! (1977) Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico. What Evel doesn't know is that they're planning to kill him and use his body to ship cocaine into the U.S. His chief mechanic, who is an alcoholic, is weary of the whole thing and discovers something, bu

The Detective 1968 Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs

Walk a Crooked Mile 1948 A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan OHara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces Wi

The Charge at Feather River 1953 The story involves an overland journey through hostile Cheyenne territory to rescue two white women captured by the Cheyenne One has turned renegade and is not anxious to be rescued as she is about to be married to Chief Thunder Hawk Vera Miles dies and the cavalry c

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950) Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men

Sincerely Yours (1955) Tony Warrin has it all: a popular pianist who plays any style, he has money, great clothes, a penthouse overlooking Central Park, a rich blond fiancée, a loyal brunette secretary secretly in love with him, and a date at Carnegie Hall. On concert night, disease deafens him. Wh

Up Periscope 1959 Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman hes been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U S Navy frogman He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese held island via submarine to phot