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Childish Things (1969)
Character: Mr. Simmons
An alcoholic former serviceman goes to work collecting debts for gangsters and committing various other crimes, then has a religious conversion and helps other alcoholics.
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Outside In (1972)
Character: Uncle Albert
A man who moves to Canada to escape the draft returns to the United States for his father's funeral.
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1976)
Character: The Doctor
At the urgent request of his friend Roderick Usher, a man journeys to the strange House of Usher but becomes enmeshed in the darkness that threatens to destroy not only the last remaining family members but also the very house itself.
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Gideon (1971)
Character: Zalmunna
The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.
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The Suicide Club (1973)
Character: N/A
A young gambler seeking greater challenges joins a card club where the members literally gamble for their lives.
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Damien: The Leper Priest (1980)
Character: Capt. Sweeney
A dramatization of the life of the 19th-Century priest who devoted himself to service in Hawaii's leper colony.
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Joe Dancer II: The Monkey Mission (1981)
Character: Museum Curator
Robert Blake's second (of three) "Joe Dancer" movies has the hard-boiled private investigator teaming up with a chimp named Gregor, his trainer (who also happens to be an expert thief), and an electronics genius of questionable repute to steal back a priceless vase looted from a family collection during World War II.
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Letters from Three Lovers (1973)
Character: Wilson
Three letters, whose delivery has been delayed by a year, change the lives of the people to whom they were addressed.
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Lassie: The New Beginning (1978)
Character: Flannagan
The Stratton kids, Samantha and Chip, and their grandmother, Ada, drive to visit their Uncle Stuart. Grandma collapses and dies in a strange town, leaving the kids and Lassie on their own.
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A Night Train to Terror (1973)
Character: Skoble
A woman is murdered during an overnight train ride and a veteran detective clashes with young P.I. on how they are going flush out the killer. They find themselves racing against the clock when a second body is discovered.
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Conspiracy of Terror (1975)
Character: Mr. Dale
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
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The Last Day (1975)
Character: Riley
The Dalton gang is riding again, forcing a retired gunman to use his weapons once more.
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The Reivers (1969)
Character: Walter Clapp
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
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The Devil and Miss Sarah (1971)
Character: Holmes
A notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man's wife to try to possess her and help him escape.
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Dr. Hackenstein (1989)
Character: Xavier Rhodes
Dr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.
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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Character: Brehon Somervell
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
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Some Call It Loving (1973)
Character: Carnival Doctor
A jazz musician falls in love with a comatose woman at a carny sideshow and takes her to his mansion to join his cabinet of sexual curiosities.
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Joysticks (1983)
Character: Mayor Neville
A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.
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Mean Dog Blues (1978)
Character: Edmund Oberlin
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
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The Hoodlum Priest (1961)
Character: George Hale
Venturing into some of the roughest slums of St. Louis, Jesuit priest Rev. Charles Dismas Clark dedicates himself to helping young ex-convicts who are struggling to rejoin a society that fears and rejects them. An especially wrenching case for the Reverend is Billy Lee Jackson, a troubled thief whose personal demons constantly tempt him back to a life of crime — and may ultimately make him pay the highest price for a few desperate decisions.
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What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
Character: Detective Sgt. West
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977)
Character: John Witter
It's the final chapter in this chilling, real-life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a good-hearted lawman set on keeping his town safe. Still distraught over his wife's death, he blows up every moonshine still in McNairy county and burns the brothels and whiskey joints to the ground. Having gone too far, he's voted out of office, but that doesn't stop the mob from seeking their revenge. Buford soon discovers how small his town is when he runs out of highway with the mob on his trail.
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Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Character: Deputy Coroner
The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.
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Scrooged (1988)
Character: Man in Shelter
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
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Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Character: Luther Quince
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
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Pendulum (1969)
Character: Detective Jelinek
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
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The Beast Within (1982)
Character: Edwin Curwin
A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.
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The Sporting Club (1971)
Character: Scott
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
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Pass the Ammo (1988)
Character: Jim Bob Collins
A corrupt television preacher and his congregation are held hostage by a woman, her lover, and her two cousins in an attempt to avenge the theft of her inheritance. A quirky look at the dishonesty of the televangelist industry.
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Walking Tall Part II (1975)
Character: John Witter
The Walking Tall legacy continues with Bo Svenson as Sheriff Buford Pusser, a one-man army trying to rid his town of corruption. Out to avenge his wife's death at the hand of the mob, Sheriff Pusser blows up their moonshine operation. With Buford breathing down their necks, the syndicate hires two hitmen; one a maniacal race car driver, the other a deadly gunslinger. Any other man would've hightailed it out of there, but then Pusser is no ordinary man.
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Character: Commissioner
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
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The Traveling Executioner (1970)
Character: La Follette
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.
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The Rookies (1972)
Character: Toby Loomis
Three new officers in a large metropolitan police department adjust to their new jobs and way of life. This is another TV-pilot that was first aired as an ABC Movie of the Week before becoming a TV-series.
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Head (1968)
Character: Off. Faye Lapid
In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.
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Walking Tall (1973)
Character: John Witter
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
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Busting (1974)
Character: Dr. Berman
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
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Beg, Borrow...or Steal (1973)
Character: Walter Beal
A museum heist with an unusual twist: the three thieves are all physically disabled. The men, one confined to a wheelchair, one with prosthetic hands, and one blind, plan to steal a valuable statue. The men use teamwork and ingenuity to beat the high-tech security and get in and out with the statue. However, their plan is not foolproof, as a museum guard recognizes their M.O. and pays them a visit.
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