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    People

    Rita Hayworth

    Where Hollywood glamour was concerned, one thing was undeniable – there never was a woman like Rita...

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    Jane Withers

    The daughter of an aggressive (but comparatively benign) stage mother, Jane Withers was taught to...

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    The Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

    A group of people (Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson) struggles to survive after a huge...

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    Madam Satan (1930)

    Bearing no relation to the 1929 Cecil B. DeMille epic of the same name, the three-reel Gaumont...

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    Alessandro Mancini

    Alessandro Mancini worked in Production on the movies Lorenzo's Oil and Man on Fire.

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    The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)

    A down-and-out wildcatter (Robert Duvall) smells oil beneath a struggling farmer's (Aidan Quinn)...

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    Lucy Gallant (1955)

    An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by...

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    Terror in a Texas Town (1958)

    A big Swede (Sterling Hayden) with a harpoon leads squatters against an oil-land grabber's...

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    The Guns and the Fury

    In this period adventure, Cameron Mitchell and Peter Graves star as a pair of Americans seeking...

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    Maracaibo (1958)

    Maracaibo was actor Cornel Wilde's second directorial effort. Wilde casts himself as troubleshooting...

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    Labou (2009)

    Three kids get lost in the Louisiana bayou in search of a ghost pirate and his lost treasure, but...

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    Apache Rose

    When oil is discovered on a Vegas ranch, a gambler enters the picture with designs on winning...

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    The Capture (1950)

    A U.S. oil company field boss (Lew Ayres) kills a robbery suspect, then marries his widow (Teresa...

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    Thunder Bay

    Wildcatters (James Stewart, Dan Duryea) put their offshore oil rig where Louisiana fishermen get...

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    The Heart of a Coward

    Minor league star Billy Sullivan heads the cast of Heart of a Coward. A writer of pulp novels,...

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    Lights of the Desert

    Although busy with the Tom Mix and Buck Jones westerns, the Fox company also issued non-series...

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    Something For the Birds (1952)

    An old rascal (Edmund Gwenn) unites Washington lobbyists (Victor Mature, Patricia Neal) at odds on a...

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    You're a Sweetheart

    In this musical, the only one singer/dancer Alice Faye, made for Universal, a Broadway producer is...

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    Manon

    Based on a well-known story that was first filmed in the era of silents, this Venezuelan version of...

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    TV

    Dallas: J.R. Returns (1996)

    Television movie reunion of the series, "Dallas," which was broadcast on CBS from 4/2/78 to 5/3/91....

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    TV

    Horton Foote's Alone (1997)

    Farmer and recent widower John Webb is suddenly offered money for the mineral rights to his land by...