Stirling Silliphant

Stirling Silliphant

Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his screenplay for In the Heat of the Night, for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television series Naked City, Perry Mason, and Route 66. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stirling Silliphant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Stirling Silliphant
  • Popularity: 4.763
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1918-01-15
  • Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Stirling Silliphant Movies

  • 1971
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    Shaft

    Shaft

    6.425 1971 HD

    Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

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  • 1972
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    The Poseidon Adventure

    The Poseidon Adventure

    7.089 1972 HD

    When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

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  • 1987
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    Over the Top

    Over the Top

    6.408 1987 HD

    Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of...

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  • 1969
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    Marlowe

    Marlowe

    5.9 1969 HD

    Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it...

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  • 1967
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    In the Heat of the Night

    In the Heat of the Night

    7.6 1967 HD

    African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny...

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  • 1976
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    The Enforcer

    The Enforcer

    6.7 1976 HD

    Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry...

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  • 1974
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    The Towering Inferno

    The Towering Inferno

    7 1974 HD

    At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and...

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  • 1977
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    Telefon

    Telefon

    6.6 1977 HD

    Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents...

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  • 1975
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    The Killer Elite

    The Killer Elite

    5.8 1975 HD

    Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case...

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  • 1958
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    The Lineup

    The Lineup

    7.1 1958 HD

    In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

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  • 1978
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    Circle of Iron

    Circle of Iron

    5.8 1978 HD

    In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge...

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  • 1978
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    Circle of Iron

    Circle of Iron

    5.8 1978 HD

    In a mystical desert kingdom, young martial arts fighter Cord loses a contest to determine who will journey to take the powerful Book of All Knowedge...

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  • 1960
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    Village of the Damned

    Village of the Damned

    7.175 1960 HD

    In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children...

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  • 1981
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    Fly Away Home

    Fly Away Home

    4.7 1981 HD

    Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the...

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  • 1956
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    Nightfall

    Nightfall

    6.8 1956 HD

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

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  • 1968
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    Charly

    Charly

    6.5 1968 HD

    An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to...

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  • 1995
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    The Grass Harp

    The Grass Harp

    5.9 1995 HD

    Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in...

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  • 1955
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    5 Against the House

    5 Against the House

    5.9 1955 HD

    Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

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  • 1978
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    The Swarm

    The Swarm

    4.931 1978 HD

    Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that...

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  • 1980
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    When Time Ran Out...

    When Time Ran Out...

    5.3 1980 HD

    An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling...

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  • 1965
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    The Slender Thread

    The Slender Thread

    7.1 1965 HD

    Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan...

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  • 1987
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    The Three Kings

    The Three Kings

    2.8 1987 HD

    The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the...

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  • 1970
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    A Walk in the Spring Rain

    A Walk in the Spring Rain

    5.9 1970 HD

    A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.

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  • 1970
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    The Liberation of L.B. Jones

    The Liberation of L.B. Jones

    5.7 1970 HD

    A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's...

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  • 1993
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    A Stranger in the Mirror

    A Stranger in the Mirror

    3.7 1993 HD

    A naive young woman arrives in Hollywood to become a star, but after she gets drugged and raped during a shoot, she hardens quickly and catches the...

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  • 1958
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    Damn Citizen

    Damn Citizen

    1 1958 HD

    Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police against corruption.

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  • 1975
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    The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

    The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

    1 1975 HD

    A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.

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  • 1972
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    The New Healers

    The New Healers

    1 1972 HD

    The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.

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  • 1972
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    The New Healers

    The New Healers

    1 1972 HD

    The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.

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  • 1972
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    The New Healers

    The New Healers

    1 1972 HD

    The small town hospital staff is trying to gain the confidence of the local farmers and merchants.

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  • 1988
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    Gunman II

    Gunman II

    6.2 1988 HD

    The border of Burma and Thailand is lawless place, where people live and die by the law of the gun. Into this situation comes a young police...

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  • 1971
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    Longstreet

    Longstreet

    9.3 1971 HD

    The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an...

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  • 1975
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    Death Scream

    Death Scream

    6.6 1975 HD

    Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to...

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  • 1972
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    The New Centurions

    The New Centurions

    6.7 1972 HD

    An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he...

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  • 1994
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    Day of Reckoning

    Day of Reckoning

    1 1994 HD

    Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote parts of Asia, who, while on a trek with two...

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  • 1987
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    Catch the Heat

    Catch the Heat

    4.3 1987 HD

    Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting...

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  • 1987
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    Catch the Heat

    Catch the Heat

    4.3 1987 HD

    Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting...

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  • 1972
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    Movin' On

    Movin' On

    1 1972 HD

    A race car driver and his friend, a motorcycle racer and former POW, join forces to tour the U.S. in search of competition.

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  • 2017
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    The General And Me

    The General And Me

    1 2017 HD

    Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s independence wars, a...

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  • 1956
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    Huk!

    Huk!

    4.9 1956 HD

    After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family's plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father's estate. Boyhood...

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  • 1956
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    Huk!

    Huk!

    4.9 1956 HD

    After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family's plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father's estate. Boyhood...

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  • 1981
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    Fly Away Home

    Fly Away Home

    4.7 1981 HD

    Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the...

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  • 1971
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    Murphy's War

    Murphy's War

    6.1 1971 HD

    Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up...

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  • 1958
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    Maracaibo

    Maracaibo

    5.2 1958 HD

    A firefighter is sent to Venezuela to battle a blazing oil well but still finds time for romance.

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  • 1970
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    A Walk in the Spring Rain

    A Walk in the Spring Rain

    5.9 1970 HD

    A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.

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  • 1973
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    Shaft in Africa

    Shaft in Africa

    6 1973 HD

    Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

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  • 1959
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    The Silent Kill

    The Silent Kill

    1 1959 HD

    Retired football player and current P. I. Brock Callahan (Ken Clark) is hired to investigate the death of a decorator. The police think it's a...

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  • 1955
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    5 Against the House

    5 Against the House

    5.9 1955 HD

    Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

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  • 1973
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    A Time For Love

    A Time For Love

    1 1973 HD

    Time for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock singer finds it hard to change his way of life and...

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  • 1973
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    A Time For Love

    A Time For Love

    1 1973 HD

    Time for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock singer finds it hard to change his way of life and...

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  • 1973
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    A Time For Love

    A Time For Love

    1 1973 HD

    Time for Love features two stories of love. A businessman has a life style change while a rock singer finds it hard to change his way of life and...

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  • 1995
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    The Grass Harp

    The Grass Harp

    5.9 1995 HD

    Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in...

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  • 1981
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    Golden Gate

    Golden Gate

    1 1981 HD

    A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a...

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  • 1967
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    Wings of Fire

    Wings of Fire

    1 1967 HD

    A headstrong aviatrix enters an international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned...

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  • 1983
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    Travis McGee

    Travis McGee

    4.5 1983 HD

    Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground,...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake...

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  • 1970
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    5.3 1970 HD

    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired...

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  • 1970
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    6.4 1970 HD

    Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays...

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  • 1970
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    5.75 1970 HD

    Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16,...

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  • 1970
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    5.2 1970 HD

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967....

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  • 1970
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    5.2 1970 HD

    Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption...

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 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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  • 1970
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    5.857 1970 HD

    Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of...

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  • 1970
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    6.4 1970 HD

    Romulus and Remus were picked up at an orphanage at a young age, raised together as brothers and trained to supersede every other CIA agents.

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  • 1970
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    5.2 1970 HD

    The rise and fall of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Recounting his life with his wife, children and mistress, this biography (based on...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying...

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  • 1970
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    6.4 1970 HD

    Miniseries about the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    Space is a television mini-series. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982.

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  • 1970
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    7.6 1970 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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  • 1970
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    6.4 1970 HD

    Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays...

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  • 1970
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    5.3 1970 HD

    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    The Man From Blackhawk is a Western television series starring Robert Rockwell that aired on the ABC television network from October 9, 1959, until...

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