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Released: 1953
When railroad contractor John Anchor (Roy Barcroft) tries to exploit Apache chief Black Hawk (Leonard Nimoy) and his tribe, Bureau of Indian Affairs official Rex Allen arrives on the scene to prevent the conflict from escalating into a war. But things get complicated for Rex, especially since his black sheep brother Jim (Gil Herman) works with Anchor. Slim Pickens and the Republic Rhythm Riders co-star in this musical Western.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
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Released: 1951
The Day The Earth Stood Still depicts the arrival of an alien dignitary, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who has come to earth with his deadly robot, Gort (Lock Martin), to deliver the message that earthlings must stop warring among themselves--or else. After being shot at by military guards, Klaatu is brought to a Washington, D.C. hospital, where he begs a sympathetic but frank Major White (Robert Osterloh) to gather all the world's leaders so he can tell them more specifically what he has come to warn them about. Losing patience, Klaatu slips into the human world, adapting a false identity and living at a boarding house where he meets a smart woman with a conscience and her inquisitive son. Both mother and son soon find themselves embroiled in the complex mystery of Klaatu, his message and the government's witch hunt for the alien. Seen by many as a political, religious and humanitarian effort, the film is based on Harry Bates’ story, "Farewell to the Master."
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Released: 1951
Claire Phillips is an American nightclub singer working in Singapore in the early 1940s, when the Japanese attack and take over the island country. Now trapped, and widowed since her husband was killed in the Bataan Death March, Claire agrees to aid an American secret agent in fighting the occupying Japanese troops. She is captured by the enemy, tortured, and sentenced to be shot, but is rescued at the last minute by her American contact. This war-time tale is based on the true story of Americas own "Mata Hari" of the South Pacific, and stars Ann Dvorak ("Scarface," "Flame of Barbary Coast") as Claire Phillips, Gene Evans ("Operation Petticoat," "Shock Corridor") as the American secret agent, and Douglas Kennedy ("Dark Passage," "The Fastest Guitar Alive"), Philip Ahn (TVs "Kung Fu," "Thoroughly Modern Millie") and Richard Loo ("The Man With the Golden Gun," "The Sand Pebbles").
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Cinemax)
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Released: 1951
Ends 02/29/12. A visitor from a distant planet arrives on Earth with a fateful message for world leaders: abandon warlike ways or 'face obliteration' at the hands of his robot Gort. A 1951 sci-fi classic with an anti-war message for the nuclear age.
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