67 years ago:
Moby Dick (US)
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service abroad the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge...
1956-06-27
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10339
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72 years ago:
Fourteen Hours (US)
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
1951-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/54139
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58 years ago:
The Satan Bug (US)
A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
1965-03-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27709
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69 years ago:
The Good Die Young (UK)
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
1954-03-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47312
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74 years ago:
He Walked by Night (US)
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
1949-02-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/31556
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50 years ago today:
Hawaii Five-O
S5E18: The Odd Lot Caper
A senior partner in a stock exchange firm comes up with a foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.
Airdate: 1973-01-30
https://themoviedb.org/tv/2303/season/5/episode/18
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