The Sleeping Cardinal is a 1931 British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming. The film is an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, though it is not based on any one particular story it draws inspiration from The Empty House and The Final [...]
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May 10City of the Dead is a 1960 film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Christopher Lee and Valentine Dyall. It was released in the United States under the title Horror Hotel.
Production began on 12 October 1959 at Shepperton Studios with a budget of $45,000. Milton Subotsky was an uncredited producer of the film, leading [...] -
The Brother from Another Planet (1984) is a film written, directed and edited by John Sayles.
Joe Morton stars in this dramatic comedy, set in New York City in the early 1980s, as “The Brother,” an alien and escaped slave who, while fleeing “Another Planet,” has crash-landed in Upper New York Harbor.
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May 10Tom Smith headed up the Special Effects team at Industrial Light & Magic, where he created all the goodies for the ‘Star Wars’ films. This is his academic film masterwork, which took over a year to create, over 13 weeks to film, and utilized “traveling mattes,” with as many as five separate films running in [...]
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Apr 10The program ran on CBS every Sunday night from 8–9 p.m. ET (originally from 9–10 p.m. ET, until March 1949), and is one of the few entertainment shows to have been run in the same weekly time slot on the same network for more than two decades. Virtually every type of entertainment appeared on the [...]
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Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. He believes the answers lie in the force of gravity. But Newton thought gravity was powered by God, and even Einstein failed to completely solve it. Heading out with his film crew on [...]
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Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that aired live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Rod Steiger, Bruce [...]
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Apr 10Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in American media history. The series gave millions of Americans a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers.
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Apr 10How Awful About Allan is a 1970 television movie thriller, directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Anthony Perkins. It premiered on ABC in the fall of 1970 and was produced by prolific television producer Aaron Spelling.
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Apr 10December 7th was a propaganda film produced by the US Navy and directed by John Ford in 1943, about the events of that date in 1941. As indicated by its title, the film was a presentation about the attack on Pearl Harbor, the event with sparked the Pacific War and American involvement in World War [...]
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Apr 10This is the only Mr. Ed episode in the public domain. Wilbur needs a will, and Mr. Ed has ideas.
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Apr 10When aliens from the galaxy of Andromeda come to Earth, people mysteriously turn into Scotsmen–especially in the area of Wimbledon! As Wimbledon fortnight approaches, more and more blancmanges are seen on tennis courts up and down England–practising!



