Byron Haskin

Byron Haskin

Byron Conrad Haskin was an American film and television director. He was born in Portland, Oregon. He is remembered today for directing 1953's The War of the Worlds, one of many films where he teamed with producer George Pal. In his early career, he was a special effects artist, with a number of credits on Warner Bros. films, an asset when directing the killer ants film The Naked Jungle and the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Haskin also worked as a cinematographer and producer. His career in television included directing six episodes of the original The Outer Limits, including two highly regarded episodes, "The Architects of Fear" and "Demon with a Glass Hand". He also co-produced the original Star Trek pilot episode, "The Cage". Haskin appeared as an interviewee on-screen in the 1980 documentary Hollywood series by Kevin Brownlow. Haskin died in Montecito, California six days before his 85th birthday.

  • Title: Byron Haskin
  • Popularity: 3.097
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1899-04-22
  • Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, USA
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Byron Haskin Movies

  • 1950
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    6.53 1950 HD

    Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...

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  • 1954
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    Long John Silver

    Long John Silver

    5.4 1954 HD

    In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure.

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  • 1964
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    Robinson Crusoe on Mars

    Robinson Crusoe on Mars

    6.3 1964 HD

    Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food and companionship on the...

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  • 1934
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    As the Earth Turns

    As the Earth Turns

    5.3 1934 HD

    Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.

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  • 1955
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    Conquest of Space

    Conquest of Space

    5.536 1955 HD

    A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.

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  • 1949
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    Too Late for Tears

    Too Late for Tears

    6.7 1949 HD

    Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means...

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  • 1947
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    I Walk Alone

    I Walk Alone

    6.6 1947 HD

    Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a...

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  • 1940
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    The Sea Hawk

    The Sea Hawk

    7.1 1940 HD

    Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

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  • 1963
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    Captain Sindbad

    Captain Sindbad

    5 1963 HD

    After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace coup d'etat has occurred and his home city is...

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  • 1958
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    From the Earth to the Moon

    From the Earth to the Moon

    5.2 1958 HD

    Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to...

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  • 1956
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    The Boss

    The Boss

    5.5 1956 HD

    A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.

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  • 1954
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    The Naked Jungle

    The Naked Jungle

    6.4 1954 HD

    The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.

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  • 1941
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    The Sea Wolf

    The Sea Wolf

    7 1941 HD

    Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

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  • 1968
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    The Power

    The Power

    6.4 1968 HD

    One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race...

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  • 1939
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    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    6.2 1939 HD

    This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

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  • 1951
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    Tarzan's Peril

    Tarzan's Peril

    5 1951 HD

    Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.

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  • 1959
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    Jet Over The Atlantic

    Jet Over The Atlantic

    5.4 1959 HD

    Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George...

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  • 1935
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    Black Fury

    Black Fury

    6.325 1935 HD

    A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.

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  • 1956
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    The First Texan

    The First Texan

    6.1 1956 HD

    After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any...

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  • 1954
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    His Majesty O'Keefe

    His Majesty O'Keefe

    6.2 1954 HD

    Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders....

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  • 1952
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    Denver and Rio Grande

    Denver and Rio Grande

    5.4 1952 HD

    Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers...

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  • 1927
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    Irish Hearts

    Irish Hearts

    1 1927 HD

    Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him....

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  • 1959
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    The Little Savage

    The Little Savage

    5 1959 HD

    The most fearsome pirate in epic deeds and fierce battles. Betrayed and abandoned on an island, discover a fabulous treasure and fight to the death...

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  • 1960
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    September Storm

    September Storm

    4.8 1960 HD

    American fashion model Anne Traymore, swimming off the isle of Majorca, loses a bracelet, which the handsome Manuel del Rio Montoya returns to her....

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  • 1929
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    Glad Rag Doll

    Glad Rag Doll

    1 1929 HD

    She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song...

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  • 1942
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    Bullet Scars

    Bullet Scars

    6.2 1942 HD

    Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also...

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  • 1935
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    6.4 1935 HD

    Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors...

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  • 1951
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    Warpath

    Warpath

    5.8 1951 HD

    John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but...

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  • 1936
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    Colleen

    Colleen

    5.3 1936 HD

    Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

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  • 1951
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    Silver City

    Silver City

    6.5 1951 HD

    Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to...

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  • 1937
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    Submarine D-1

    Submarine D-1

    4.7 1937 HD

    Butch Rogers and Sock McGillis are old submarine hands stationed in Panama. On land, Butch and Sock battle over pretty Ann Sawyer. At sea and...

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  • 1942
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    Across the Pacific

    Across the Pacific

    6.5 1942 HD

    Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship...

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  • 1940
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    Virginia City

    Virginia City

    6.1 1940 HD

    Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A...

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  • 1942
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    Captains of the Clouds

    Captains of the Clouds

    6.5 1942 HD

    Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.

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  • 1961
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    Armored Command

    Armored Command

    4.5 1961 HD

    An American army unit is trapped in a small town during a German counterattack and discovers that a spy in the town is providing the Germans with...

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  • 1941
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    Dive Bomber

    Dive Bomber

    6.3 1941 HD

    A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a...

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  • 1941
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    The Great Lie

    The Great Lie

    6.9 1941 HD

    After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

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  • 1940
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    Torrid Zone

    Torrid Zone

    6.3 1940 HD

    A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.

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  • 1940
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    City for Conquest

    City for Conquest

    6.8 1940 HD

    The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...

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  • 1942
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    Always in My Heart

    Always in My Heart

    6 1942 HD

    A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife...

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  • 1948
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    Man-Eater of Kumaon

    Man-Eater of Kumaon

    5.7 1948 HD

    A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts...

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  • 1944
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    Arsenic and Old Lace

    Arsenic and Old Lace

    7.635 1944 HD

    Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets...

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  • 1926
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    The Sea Beast

    The Sea Beast

    6.5 1926 HD

    Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."

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  • 1939
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    Dodge City

    Dodge City

    6.9 1939 HD

    In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

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  • 1940
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    It All Came True

    It All Came True

    5.6 1940 HD

    After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding...

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  • 1926
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    Don Juan

    Don Juan

    6.6 1926 HD

    If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and...

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  • 1927
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    When a Man Loves

    When a Man Loves

    6.4 1927 HD

    A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.

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  • 1928
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    The Singing Fool

    The Singing Fool

    5 1928 HD

    After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his...

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  • 1941
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    Manpower

    Manpower

    6.7 1941 HD

    Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....

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  • 1942
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    Wings for the Eagle

    Wings for the Eagle

    5.7 1942 HD

    Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

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  • 1929
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    Black Waters

    Black Waters

    1 1929 HD

    A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.

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  • 1928
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    Caught in the Fog

    Caught in the Fog

    1 1928 HD

    Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who...

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  • 1929
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    The Redeeming Sin

    The Redeeming Sin

    1 1929 HD

    The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner...

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  • 1930
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    Rookery Nook

    Rookery Nook

    1 1930 HD

    A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.

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  • 1940
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    Gambling on the High Seas

    Gambling on the High Seas

    4.7 1940 HD

    A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

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  • 1936
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    I Married a Doctor

    I Married a Doctor

    4.7 1936 HD

    City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.

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  • 1927
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    Ginsberg the Great

    Ginsberg the Great

    1 1927 HD

    Johnny Ginsberg (George Jessel) is a tailor's assistant whose ambition is to become a successful conjurer/magician. He joins a carnival and fails but...

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  • 1937
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    Green Light

    Green Light

    6.3 1937 HD

    A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research...

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  • 1936
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    Stage Struck

    Stage Struck

    4 1936 HD

    A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

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  • 1931
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    The Guilty Generation

    The Guilty Generation

    6 1931 HD

    The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

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  • 1930
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    Canaries Sometimes Sing

    Canaries Sometimes Sing

    1 1930 HD

    Geoffrey and his wife Anne are trapped in a stifling marriage, which neither feels able to leave. When Geoffrey's boyhood friend, Ernest, and his...

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  • 1935
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    Personal Maid's Secret

    Personal Maid's Secret

    5.5 1935 HD

    A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins'...

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  • 1930
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    On Approval

    On Approval

    1 1930 HD

    'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)

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  • 1925
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    The Golden Cocoon

    The Golden Cocoon

    1 1925 HD

    The story of a much put-upon woman who becomes involved with a professor of political economy only to be thrown over by him for the daughter of a...

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  • 1922
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    Broken Chains

    Broken Chains

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1940
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    They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night

    6.877 1940 HD

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

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  • 1926
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    Across the Pacific

    Across the Pacific

    4.5 1926 HD

    Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do...

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  • 1953
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    The War of the Worlds

    The War of the Worlds

    6.8 1953 HD

    The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices...

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  • 1941
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    The Wagons Roll at Night

    The Wagons Roll at Night

    6.3 1941 HD

    An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a...

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  • 1939
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    Invisible Stripes

    Invisible Stripes

    6.1 1939 HD

    A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

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  • 1925
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    Where the Worst Begins

    Where the Worst Begins

    1 1925 HD

    1925 picture starring Ruth Roland.

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  • 1939
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    Dust Be My Destiny

    Dust Be My Destiny

    6.1 1939 HD

    Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter...

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  • 1940
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    Flowing Gold

    Flowing Gold

    7 1940 HD

    In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires...

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  • 1940
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    Castle on the Hudson

    Castle on the Hudson

    6.8 1940 HD

    A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

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  • 1940
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    Knute Rockne All American

    Knute Rockne All American

    5.9 1940 HD

    The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

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  • 1956
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    Affair in Sumatra

    Affair in Sumatra

    1 1956 HD

    On a rubber plantation in Sumatra, a woman of mixed Dutch and Indonesian parentage must choose between her people and the doctor she loves.

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  • 1942
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    In This Our Life

    In This Our Life

    6.7 1942 HD

    An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.

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  • 1980
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    8.3 1980 HD

    A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.

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  • 1970
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    8.035 1970 HD

    Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain...

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  • 1970
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    7.6 1970 HD

    Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series...

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  • 1970
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    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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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    5.8 1970 HD

    The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American children's television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1968 through...

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  • 1970
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    7.8 1970 HD

    The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

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  • 1970
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    4 1970 HD

    World Of Giants is an American spy-fi television series that aired from September 5 until November 28, 1959.

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  • 1970
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    6.5 1970 HD

    Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The...

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  • 1970
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    7 1970 HD

    Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.

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  • 1970
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    7 1970 HD

    A TV series about the Long John Silver character from Treasure Island. It was made in 1954 in colour in Australia for the American and British...

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