Arthur Shields

Arthur Shields

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Arthur Shields (15 February 1896 - 27 April 1970) was an Irish stage and film actor. Born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, he started acting in the Abbey Theatre when still a young man. He was the younger brother of actor Barry Fitzgerald. An Irish nationalist, he fought in the Easter Uprising of 1916. He was captured and was interned in Frongoch, North Wales. He afterwards returned to the Abbey theatre. In 1936 John Ford brought him to the United States to act in a film version of The Plough and the Stars. He later returned to the U.S. and for health reasons, he decided to reside in California. He died at his home in Santa Barbara, California, aged 74. Some of his memorable roles were in John Ford films. Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Ford's The Quiet Man, opposite John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald. He played Dr. Laughlin in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with Wayne and Joanne Dru, and appeared yet again with Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Ford's Long Voyage Home. His other films include: Little Nellie Kelly, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Fabulous Dorseys, Gallant Journey, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Drums Along the Mohawk, Lady Godiva, National Velvet and The River. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Shields, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title : Arthur Shields
  • Popularity : 4.505
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1896-02-15
  • Place of Birth : Dublin, Ireland
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Arthur Shields Movies

  • 1952
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    The Quiet Man

    The Quiet Man

    7.28 1952 HD

    An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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  • 1952
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    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    5.6 1952 HD

    A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans. Ascending the beanstalk with the butcher who sold him the beans, he faces the giant terrorizing...

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  • 1949
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    Red Light

    Red Light

    5.5 1949 HD

    Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He...

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  • 1953
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    Main Street to Broadway

    Main Street to Broadway

    6.5 1953 HD

    In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for...

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  • 1954
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    World for Ransom

    World for Ransom

    5 1954 HD

    In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of...

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  • 1946
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    Three Strangers

    Three Strangers

    6.3 1946 HD

    On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable...

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  • 1946
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    The Verdict

    The Verdict

    6.5 1946 HD

    After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key...

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  • 1949
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    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    6.8 1949 HD

    On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be...

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  • 1951
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    The People Against O'Hara

    The People Against O'Hara

    5.7 1951 HD

    A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.

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  • 1941
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    How Green Was My Valley

    How Green Was My Valley

    7.3 1941 HD

    A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

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  • 1947
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    The Fabulous Dorseys

    The Fabulous Dorseys

    6 1947 HD

    The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.

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  • 1945
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    The Corn Is Green

    The Corn Is Green

    7.1 1945 HD

    When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and...

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  • 1940
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    Little Nellie Kelly

    Little Nellie Kelly

    6 1940 HD

    Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...

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  • 1945
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    The Valley of Decision

    The Valley of Decision

    7.3 1945 HD

    Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the...

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  • 1949
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    Challenge to Lassie

    Challenge to Lassie

    4.8 1949 HD

    When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.

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  • 1941
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    The Gay Falcon

    The Gay Falcon

    6.2 1941 HD

    Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along...

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  • 1951
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    The River

    The River

    7.193 1951 HD

    Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the...

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  • 1944
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    The Keys of the Kingdom

    The Keys of the Kingdom

    7 1944 HD

    A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a...

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  • 1932
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    The Sign of the Cross

    The Sign of the Cross

    6.2 1932 HD

    After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old...

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  • 1940
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    The Long Voyage Home

    The Long Voyage Home

    6.5 1940 HD

    The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

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  • 1939
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    Drums Along the Mohawk

    Drums Along the Mohawk

    6.425 1939 HD

    Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing...

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  • 1951
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    Apache Drums

    Apache Drums

    6.2 1951 HD

    A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

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  • 1944
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    Youth Runs Wild

    Youth Runs Wild

    4.2 1944 HD

    The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.

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  • 1948
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    My Own True Love

    My Own True Love

    5.5 1948 HD

    Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was...

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  • 1941
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    Lady Scarface

    Lady Scarface

    5.1 1941 HD

    A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy...

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  • 1942
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    Broadway

    Broadway

    5.5 1942 HD

    Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

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  • 1953
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    South Sea Woman

    South Sea Woman

    5.4 1953 HD

    Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in...

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  • 1954
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    Pride of the Blue Grass

    Pride of the Blue Grass

    1 1954 HD

    A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by...

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  • 1947
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    The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

    The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

    8.5 1947 HD

    In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men...

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  • 1955
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    Lady Godiva of Coventry

    Lady Godiva of Coventry

    5.5 1955 HD

    Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

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  • 1943
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    Lassie Come Home

    Lassie Come Home

    6.6 1943 HD

    Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling...

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  • 1957
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    Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

    Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

    5.7 1957 HD

    A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom...

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  • 1950
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    Tarzan and the Slave Girl

    Tarzan and the Slave Girl

    5.2 1950 HD

    The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief...

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  • 1962
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    The Pigeon That Took Rome

    The Pigeon That Took Rome

    5.3 1962 HD

    An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.

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  • 1958
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    Enchanted Island

    Enchanted Island

    4.5 1958 HD

    Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.

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  • 1953
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    Scandal at Scourie

    Scandal at Scourie

    6.7 1953 HD

    After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at...

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  • 1918
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    Knocknagow

    Knocknagow

    4.3 1918 HD

    The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land that could be more profitably used for cattle....

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  • 1947
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    Easy Come, Easy Go

    Easy Come, Easy Go

    1 1947 HD

    Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

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  • 1943
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    The Man from Down Under

    The Man from Down Under

    6.5 1943 HD

    An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

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  • 1948
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    Fighting Father Dunne

    Fighting Father Dunne

    6 1948 HD

    A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

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  • 1956
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    The King and Four Queens

    The King and Four Queens

    5.5 1956 HD

    Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their...

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  • 1950
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    A Wonderful Life

    A Wonderful Life

    1 1950 HD

    Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn...

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  • 1949
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    The Adventure of the Speckled Band

    The Adventure of the Speckled Band

    1 1949 HD

    Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a...

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  • 1945
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    Roughly Speaking

    Roughly Speaking

    6.8 1945 HD

    In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and...

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  • 1949
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    The Fighting O'Flynn

    The Fighting O'Flynn

    6 1949 HD

    A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.

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  • 1941
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    Confirm or Deny

    Confirm or Deny

    3.8 1941 HD

    Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the...

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  • 1954
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    River of No Return

    River of No Return

    6.7 1954 HD

    An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

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  • 1951
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    The Barefoot Mailman

    The Barefoot Mailman

    4 1951 HD

    Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he...

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  • 1956
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    The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure

    The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure

    9 1956 HD

    Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life at home in Bayport dull, the boys hope their...

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  • 1945
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    Too Young to Know

    Too Young to Know

    1 1945 HD

    A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.

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  • 1936
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    The Plough and the Stars

    The Plough and the Stars

    5.6 1936 HD

    A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.

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  • 1942
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    Gentleman Jim

    Gentleman Jim

    7.167 1942 HD

    As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...

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  • 1946
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    Never Say Goodbye

    Never Say Goodbye

    6.1 1946 HD

    Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip...

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  • 1942
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    The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

    The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

    5.7 1942 HD

    Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

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  • 1945
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    Phantoms, Inc.

    Phantoms, Inc.

    5.333 1945 HD

    This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con...

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  • 1960
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    For the Love of Mike

    For the Love of Mike

    5 1960 HD

    An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.

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  • 1947
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    Seven Keys to Baldpate

    Seven Keys to Baldpate

    6.2 1947 HD

    Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only"...

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  • 1948
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    Tap Roots

    Tap Roots

    6.4 1948 HD

    Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the...

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  • 1951
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    Sealed Cargo

    Sealed Cargo

    6.4 1951 HD

    A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the...

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  • 1944
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    The White Cliffs of Dover

    The White Cliffs of Dover

    6.7 1944 HD

    American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a...

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  • 1945
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    National Velvet

    National Velvet

    7.2 1945 HD

    Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter,...

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  • 1946
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    Gallant Journey

    Gallant Journey

    6.1 1946 HD

    Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn...

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  • 1942
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    Dr. Renault's Secret

    Dr. Renault's Secret

    5.2 1942 HD

    A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her...

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  • 1942
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    This Above All

    This Above All

    6.6 1942 HD

    In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with...

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  • 1943
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    Above Suspicion

    Above Suspicion

    6.4 1943 HD

    Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

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  • 1943
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    Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    7.1 1943 HD

    Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism...

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  • 1942
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    Pacific Rendezvous

    Pacific Rendezvous

    6 1942 HD

    A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.

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  • 1951
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    Blue Blood

    Blue Blood

    1 1951 HD

    An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.

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  • 1942
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    Nightmare

    Nightmare

    4 1942 HD

    An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.

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  • 1942
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    The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

    6.4 1942 HD

    When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of...

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  • 1952
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    Omnibus

    Omnibus

    6 1952 HD

    Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.7 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7.1 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

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  • 1955
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    The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

    5 1955 HD

    An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1959
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    One Step Beyond

    One Step Beyond

    5.6 1959 HD

    Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from...

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  • 1958
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    Bat Masterson

    Bat Masterson

    6.3 1958 HD

    Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat...

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7.1 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

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  • 1956
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    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    5.5 1956 HD

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

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  • 1959
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    Bonanza

    Bonanza

    7.5 1959 HD

    The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

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  • 1957
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    Wagon Train

    Wagon Train

    6.4 1957 HD

    The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert...

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  • 1949
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    Your Show Time

    Your Show Time

    1 1949 HD

    Your Show Time is an American anthology drama series that debuted as a midseason replacement on NBC Television in January 1949. Hosted and narrated...

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  • 1957
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    Maverick

    Maverick

    6.8 1957 HD

    The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

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  • 1956
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    The Hardy Boys

    The Hardy Boys

    8.8 1956 HD

    The sons of the great detective Fenton Hardy, Frank and Joe are eager to impress their father with their mystery solving skills.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1959
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    Play of the Week

    Play of the Week

    1 1959 HD

    This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al,...

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  • 1953
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    The Life Of Riley

    The Life Of Riley

    6 1953 HD

    Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed...

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