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Jan Merlin is a Actor American born on 3 april 1925 at New York City (USA)
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, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Ivey, Michael McGrady, Max Gail, Brent Jennings, Gary Grubbs
Roles Jury Foreman
Rating65%
Adolescente, Jerry Sherwood a été contrainte d'abandonner son bébé, un garçon, et celui-ci a été placé dans une famille d'accueil. Quelques années plus tard, Jerry est bien décidée à retrouver son fils mais apprend qu'il est décédé dans des circonstances douteuses alors qu'il avait deux ans...
False Identity (1990)
, 1h33Directed by James Keach
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Stacy Keach, Geneviève Bujold, Tobin Bell, Veronica Cartwright, Mimi Maynard, O-Lan Jones
Roles Potter - Pete
Rating51%
When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to a man named Harlan Erickson, a long-lost brother of the town’s leading citizen.
Buried Alive (1990)
, 1h33Directed by Frank Darabont
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Hoyt Axton, Wayne Grace, Jan Merlin
Roles Attorney
Rating64%
Clint Goodman is a successful contractor who has built his comfortable house and his construction company in his hometown through hard work. He loves his wife Joanna, but she is very resentful to him most of the time, they have been trying unsuccessfully to have a baby. Clint's best friend is Sheriff Sam Eberly and every now and then they spend the night fishing in the lake.
Nowhere to Run (1989)
, 1h26Directed by Carl Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors David Carradine, Jason Priestley, Matt Adler, Brenda Bakke, Kieran Mulroney, Patience Cleveland
Roles Mr. Groker
Rating48%
Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most difficult decision of their lives. They must become adults.
Nowhere to Run (1989)
, 1h40Directed by Carl Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors David Carradine, Jason Priestley, Matt Adler, Brenda Bakke, Henry Jones, Kieran Mulroney
Roles Mr. Groker
Rating67%
Unlucky private eye Herbie Stolz (Allen Garfield) notes an exceptional client Harry Adams (David Janssen), who caught Herbie spying on him, and turns the tables around using him to spy on his wife, later confirmed to be having an affair.
Permanent Record (1988)
, 1h31Directed by Marisa Silver
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Pamela Gidley, Michelle Meyrink, Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Rubin, Dakin Matthews, Kathy Baker
Rating63%
David (Alan Boyce) seems to have everything. He is smart, talented, funny, and popular. He is best friends with Chris (Keanu Reeves), a quirky outsider. He seems to have it all together, yet as his personal academic expectations and those of his parents become overwhelming, he seemingly is keeping emotional problems secret to himself.
The Hindenburg (1975)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Wise, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess Meredith
Roles Speck
Rating62%
Kathie Rauch (Ruth Schudson), a psychic from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sends a letter to the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. claiming the Hindenburg zeppelin will explode after flying over New York. In the meantime, Luftwaffe Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott) boards with the intention of protecting the Hindenburg as various threats have been made to down the airship, which some see as a symbol of Nazi Germany.
The Slams (1973)
, 1h31Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Judy Pace, Frank DeKova, Ted Cassidy, Dick Miller, Quinn K. Redeker, Jan Merlin
Roles Saddler
Rating59%
Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) is caught by the police after a heist. In jail, Curtis has to deal with people who want to know where he stashed the loot while also trying to get out of jail in time to get the money before its hiding place is demolished.
, 1h29Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Christopher George, James Luisi, Paul Richards, Richard Rust, Jan Merlin, Stephen Whittaker
Roles Rosenquist
Rating54%
Prison life on Devil's Island is no picnic so fellow prisoners Le Bras (Jim Brown) and Davert (Christopher George) go AWOL. Along their escape route, they encounter submissive native women and a colony of lepers.
Twilight People (1972)
Directed by Eddie Romero
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors John Ashley, Pam Grier, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin, Eddie García, Ken Metcalfe
Roles Steinman
Rating41%
While diving, Matt Farrell (Ashley) is kidnapped by Neva Gordon (Pat Woodell) and Steinman (Jan Merlin) and taken to an island where Neva's father Dr. Gordon (Charles Macauly) is experimenting, trying to make a "Super Race" by combining humans and animals. His creations are Ayesa the panther-woman (Grier), Kuzma the antelope-man (Ken Metcalfe), Darmo the bat-man (Tony Gonsalvez), Primo the ape-man (Kim Ramos), Lupa the wolf-woman (Mona Morena) and Doro the boar-man (who is shot down by Steinman while trying to flee early in the film). Dr. Gordon wants Farrell to be one of his upcoming experiments but Neva begins to doubt her fathers' work after a botched experiment on another test subject, Juan Pereira (Eddie Garcia). She decides to help Farrell and the animal people escape. As Steinman and his men hunt them down, Ayesa turns completely savage and is killed. A fierce gun-battle begins, and Farrell kills Steinman. Most of the other animal people are also killed, except Darmo, who is now able to fly and returns to the compound to attack Steinman's men. Dr. Gordon tries to escape, but is confronted and killed by the tree-woman who used to be his wife. At the end, Farrell and Neva watch as Darmo flies off.
Take the Money and Run (1969)
, 1h25Directed by Woody Allen, Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Louise Lasser, Jacquelyn Hyde, Lonny Chapman, Marcel Hillaire
Roles Al - Bank Robber
Rating71%
Virgil Starkwell's story is told in documentary style, using both stock footage and interviews with people who knew him. The film shows Starkwell entering a life of crime at a young age. As a child, Virgil was a frequent target of bullies, who would snatch his glasses and stomp them on the floor. As an adult, Virgil is inept and unlucky, and both police and judges both ridicule him by stamping on Virgil's glasses.
Strategy of Terror (1969)
, 1h30Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Hugh O'Brian, Harry Townes, Barbara Rush, Mort Mills, Frederick O'Neal, Neil Hamilton
Roles Jon
Rating63%
, 1h36Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Gangster films
Actors Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jack Nicholson, Jean Hale, Jan Merlin
Roles Willie Marks
Rating65%
An organized crime war breaks out between two rival gangs in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. The leader of the Southside Mob is the notorious Al Capone, who resents his nemesis George "Bugs" Moran's activity in the city. Moran, too, wants control of the town's bootlegging and gambling operations. His lieutenants Peter and Frank Gusenberg use threats and intimidation to make tavern owners do business with them in exchange for "protection." Moran gives the order to have a crony of Capone's eliminated as the Chicago body count escalates. Inclusive are flashbacks to a lunchtime attack on Capone at a restaurant outside of Chicago by Hymie Weiss and Moran in September 1926 and the murders of Weiss in October 1926 and Dion O'Banion in November 1924 by Capone's gang.
Guns of Diablo (1964)
, 1h31Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Charles Bronson, Susan Oliver, Kurt Russell, Jan Merlin, John Fiedler, Douglas Fowley
Roles Rance Macklin
Rating56%
Alors qu'ils conduisent un convoi vers la Californie, Linc Murdock et le jeune Jaimie McPheeters s'arrêtent à la ville de Diablo pour s'approvisionner. Sur place, ils découvrent que les habitants sont sous la coupe d'un gang familial, les Macklin. Au Saloon, Linc retrouve Maria, son amour de jeunesse présumée morte. Linc ne se doute pas qu'elle est elle-même devenue une Macklin par alliance...
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
, 1h34Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Kirk Douglas, Paul Frees, John Merivale, Clive Brook
Rating67%
A writer named Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery.