Albert S. Ruddy

Albert S. Ruddy

Albert Stotland Ruddy (born March 28, 1930) is a Canadian-American film and television producer. He is known for producing The Godfather (1972) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), both of which won him the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as co-creating the CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971).

  • Title: Albert S. Ruddy
  • Popularity: 0.7938
  • Known For: Production
  • Birthday: 1930-03-28
  • Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  • Also Known As: Al Ruddy
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Albert S. Ruddy Movies

  • 2012
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    The Godfather Legacy

    The Godfather Legacy

    7.211 2012 HD

    THE GODFATHER LEGACY goes deep inside Francis Ford Coppola's epic saga about the Corleone crime family and reveals how the Academy Award-winning film and its sequels became one of the most acclaimed franchises in Hollywood history. Featuring iconic scenes from all three films, never before seen home movies and insightful interviews with filmmakers (Francis Ford Coppola, All Ruddy and Peter Bart), actors (Al Pacino, James Caan, Talia Shire, Joe Mantegna, et al.), law enforcement officials and even former Mafia members. This feature length documentary illustrates why The Godfather trilogy continues to entertain and fascinate audiences and how it continues to impact the way society views everything from capitalism to crime.

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  • 2006
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    The Godfather and the Mob

    The Godfather and the Mob

    7 2006 HD

    The Godfather And The Mob reveals the true life story of murder, mafia and mayhem that occurred behind the scenes of the most iconic gangster film ever made.

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  • 2020
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    Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

    Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

    6.1 2020 HD

    Chronicles the lives of women who perform the stunts in some of Hollywood’s biggest action sequences — from the early days of silent movies to today’s blockbusters.

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  • 2003
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    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    7.115 2003 HD

    The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American cinema, an exalted celebration of creativity and experimentation; but also of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: a turbulent and dark tale of ambition, envy, betrayal, hatred and self-destruction.

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  • 2019
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    Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

    Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

    4.6 2019 HD

    In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply hanging out with friends, telling anecdotes from his life and recording jazz standards.

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  • 2005
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    The Producers: Round 15

    The Producers: Round 15

    1 2005 HD

    The producers of 'Mystic River' discuss the film's origins and development.

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  • 2004
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    Million Dollar Baby

    Million Dollar Baby

    7.954 2004 HD

    Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.

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  • 1972
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    The Godfather

    The Godfather

    8.687 1972 HD

    Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

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  • 1984
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    Lassiter

    Lassiter

    5.288 1984 HD

    A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.

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  • 1989
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    Farewell to the King

    Farewell to the King

    6.007 1989 HD

    An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.

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  • 1996
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    Heaven's Prisoners

    Heaven's Prisoners

    5.3 1996 HD

    A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.

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  • 1981
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    The Cannonball Run

    The Cannonball Run

    6.171 1981 HD

    A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. "Cannonball" Baker, who in the roaring 20's rode his motorcycle across the country. Many of the characters are based on ruses developed by real Cannonball racers over the several years that the event was run.

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  • 1974
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    The Longest Yard

    The Longest Yard

    6.8 1974 HD

    A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.

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  • 2005
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    Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire

    Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire

    6.355 2005 HD

    Walker investigates a murder connected with a missing government weapon. In addition, he tries to track down a teen on the run from a crime syndicate.

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  • 1984
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    Cannonball Run II

    Cannonball Run II

    5.399 1984 HD

    When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and together they set off across the American landscape in a madcap action-adventure destined to test their wits and automobile skills.

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  • 1989
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    Speed Zone

    Speed Zone

    4.5 1989 HD

    An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life.

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  • 1981
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    Death Hunt

    Death Hunt

    6.6 1981 HD

    Yukon Territory, Canada, November 1931. Albert Johnson, a trapper who lives alone in the mountains, buys a dog almost dead after a brutal dogfight, a good deed that will put him in trouble.

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  • 2001
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    Mean Machine

    Mean Machine

    6.248 2001 HD

    Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.

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  • 1975
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    Coonskin

    Coonskin

    6.1 1975 HD

    A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated tale of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.

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  • 1982
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    MegaForce

    MegaForce

    4 1982 HD

    MegaForce is an elite multi-national military unit that does the jobs that individual governments won't. When the peaceful Republic of Sardun in under threat from their more aggressive neighbor, the beautiful Major Zara and General Byrne-White see the help of Ace Hunter and MegaForce.

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  • 1994
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    Bad Girls

    Bad Girls

    5.4 1994 HD

    Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.

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  • 1994
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    Bad Girls

    Bad Girls

    5.4 1994 HD

    Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.

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  • 1978
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    Matilda

    Matilda

    5.2 1978 HD

    A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.

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  • 1978
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    Matilda

    Matilda

    5.2 1978 HD

    A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.

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  • 1974
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    The Longest Yard

    The Longest Yard

    6.8 1974 HD

    A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.

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  • 1984
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    Cannonball Run II

    Cannonball Run II

    5.399 1984 HD

    When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and together they set off across the American landscape in a madcap action-adventure destined to test their wits and automobile skills.

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  • 1991
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    Miracle in the Wilderness

    Miracle in the Wilderness

    5.5 1991 HD

    While being pursued by the U.S. Cavalry, Indians and the white family they have kidnapped learn about each other.

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  • 1990
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    Impulse

    Impulse

    5.503 1990 HD

    A Los Angeles vice cop, caught between her undercover role as a sex worker and her personal relationships, is thrown into a web of murder and deceit.

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  • 2000
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    Running Mates

    Running Mates

    4.778 2000 HD

    A governor running for President gets revealed to be a serial philanderer.

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  • 1997
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    Married to a Stranger

    Married to a Stranger

    4 1997 HD

    A woman develops severe amnesia after a blow to the head, and can no longer remember her family.

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  • 1955
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    The Beast with a Million Eyes

    The Beast with a Million Eyes

    3.675 1955 HD

    At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through their eyes and control their actions.

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  • 2005
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    The Longest Yard

    The Longest Yard

    6.665 2005 HD

    Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

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  • 1970
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    The Longest Yard

    The Longest Yard

    1 1970 HD

    A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

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  • 2008
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    Camille

    Camille

    6.205 2008 HD

    A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.

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  • 1981
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    The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

    The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

    8.944 1981 HD

    The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television," released to video in 1981. Unlike the miniseries, which was presented in four segments (each with opening and closing credits), the Epic is presented as a single segment. In January 2016, HBO aired the Epic in its uncut and uncensored format, later making it available on its streaming platforms. The HBO showing contained most of the known deleted scenes, thereby lengthening the runtime of the Epic from its video release to 423 minutes.

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  • 1982
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    MegaForce

    MegaForce

    4 1982 HD

    MegaForce is an elite multi-national military unit that does the jobs that individual governments won't. When the peaceful Republic of Sardun in under threat from their more aggressive neighbor, the beautiful Major Zara and General Byrne-White see the help of Ace Hunter and MegaForce.

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  • 1971
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    Making It

    Making It

    3.333 1971 HD

    A cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.

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  • 1976
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    Revenge for a Rape

    Revenge for a Rape

    5 1976 HD

    When three men attack and rape a man's wife while on a camping trip, he takes it upon himself to hunt them down.

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  • 1992
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    Ladybugs

    Ladybugs

    5.6 1992 HD

    To climb the corporate ladder to success, a businessman agrees to coach his company's all-girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.

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  • 1970
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    Little Fauss and Big Halsy

    Little Fauss and Big Halsy

    5.911 1970 HD

    The friendship between two Arizona dirt bike racers is tested when they both lust for an attractive runaway young woman who joins them on the racing circuit.

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  • 1994
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    The Scout

    The Scout

    5.201 1994 HD

    When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.

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  • 2014
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    Sabotage

    Sabotage

    5.605 2014 HD

    John 'Breacher' Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.

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  • 2021
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    Cry Macho

    Cry Macho

    5.95 2021 HD

    A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.

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  • 1976
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    The Macahans

    The Macahans

    6.7 1976 HD

    Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the Civil War. This sends the father back to fight in the war and leaves the family to move on ahead.

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  • 2001
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    Mean Machine

    Mean Machine

    6.248 2001 HD

    Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.

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  • 2005
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    The Longest Yard

    The Longest Yard

    6.665 2005 HD

    Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

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  • 1971
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    Film '72

    Film '72

    4.7 1971 HD

    The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    6.2 1962 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    8.6 1970 HD

    A seven-hour chronological edit of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, expanded with over an hour of restored scenes to trace the Corleone family’s rise from Vito’s youth in Sicily to Michael’s reign in 1950s America, re-edited for its 1977 network television broadcast.

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  • 1970
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    7.947 1970 HD

    Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy’s never before revealed experiences of making the iconic 1972 film The Godfather that Francis Ford Coppola directed and adapted with Mario Puzo.

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  • 1970
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    7.093 1970 HD

    Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home.

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  • 1970
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    7.5 1970 HD

    Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

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  • 1970
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    6.926 1970 HD

    Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.

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  • 1970
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    7.5 1970 HD

    Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

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