Alberto Colombo

Nacimiento : 1888-11-27, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1954-03-24

Películas

La gran liga
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En Florida, John Lobert dirige los entrenamientos de los Giants de Nueva York. Él es el encargado de seleccionar a los mejores jugadores de 18 a 22 años para jugar en la liga de béisbol. Todos tienen sueños y talento, pero sólo habrá unos pocos afortunados que consigan un contrato. Tras trabajar en la década de los 40 como ayudante de directores de la talla de Milestone, Renoir, Losey, Polonsky o Chaplin, Aldrich debutó con este film de serie B, que se basó en una producción televisiva de gran éxito entre 1953 y 1954: "China Smith/Captain China", en la que él había dirigido un par de episodios. La compañía productora, Allied Artists, contrató a muchos de los actores de la serie de televisión ( Dan Duryea o Douglass Dumbrille) y utilizó los mismos decorados de "China" y de la colonia británica de "Singapur".
Rogue's March
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After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
Holiday for Sinners
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Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.
Ellis in Freedomland
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Westinghouse claims its electric appliances "freed women from the drudgery of housework." The first half involves a dream salesman at work; the second half is focused on the "Spring Sales Event," called "Freedomland."
A por todas
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Un tributo al 442 Equipo estadounidense del Regimiento de combate, que fue formado en 1943 según el permiso Presidencial con voluntarios japoneses y americanos. Seguimos el enfrentamiento de un pelotón bajo el pesaroso mando del Teniente Mike Grayson que comparte los prejuicios comunes del tiempo. El 442 sirve en Italia y Francia, distinguiéndose en escaramuzas y batallas.
La mano negra
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Historia de un hombre que intenta vengar la muerte de su padre, a manos de una organización criminal conocida como "La Mano Negra".
The Pilgrimage Play
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Nelson Leigh assumes the role of Jesus Christ in this drama that depicts such historical events as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper while portraying the period in which Christ roamed the countryside preaching the gospel.
The Sickle or the Cross
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Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
Unto Thyself Be True
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A Christian movie produced in 1949 by Family Films that shows a teenager named Bill who takes out the family car without a drivers license or his father's permission. Bill then gets into a accident and runs. Later young Bill has to deal with the authorities and his father!
Reaching from Heaven
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Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.
Jungle Man
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An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic.
South of Panama
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Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
Federal Fugitives
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A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.
Riders of the Black Hills
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Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Livingston), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max Terhune) are on the case when rancher Peg Garth's (Maude Eburne) prize racehorse is abducted by bookie Rod Stevens (Tom London) and a secret cohort to prevent it from winning an important race.
Gangs of New York
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An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
Invisible Enemy
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Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
Invisible Enemy
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Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
Prison Nurse
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A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
Exiled to Shanghai
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A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
The Wrong Road
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A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
The Wrong Road
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A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Hit the Saddle
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Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan uses his trained killer horse, Volcano, to substitute for the real leader of the herd and cause havoc and death among the ranches. With the government about to drop the restrictions on rounding up the herd, the Three Mesquiteers find themselves in the middle of the controversy after their friend, Sheriff Miller is killed by Volcano.
Dick Tracy
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Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.
Love on a Bet
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Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
Chatterbox
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Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
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A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Annie Oakley
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Annie Oakley, una modesta pueblerina, es aficionada a cazar codornices, que luego vende en el pueblo. Un día tiene la ocasión de medir su puntería con el rifle desafiando en una apuesta a Toby Walker, el tirador más diestro del Oeste, que acaba de ser fichado para el espectáculo itinerante del célebre Búfalo Bill. Aunque Annie pierde voluntariamente la apuesta, sus habilidades llaman la atención del manager de Búfalo Bill, que también contrata a la chica. Empiezan las circenses exhibiciones y la rivalidad entre Annie y Toby, que en realidad no será tal, pues ambos se han enamorado. (FILMAFFINITY)
His Family Tree
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A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
The Return Of Peter Grimm
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The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
Jalna
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A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
Cuento de aldea
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Las insidiosas habladurías típicas de un pueblo pequeño hacen muy desgraciados a un joven y a la mujer casada de la que está enamorado.
Hooray for Love
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A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
Chasing Yesterday
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An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict boarding school.
Murder on a Honeymoon
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A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
El embrujo de Manhattan
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Cuenta cómo un inmigrante checo, Novak (Lederer) recién llegado a Nueva York, y a punto de ser repatriado, se escapa "in extremis"; tras varias peripecias, conoce a una corista, Silvia (Rogers) y a su hermano de 11 años.