After years of courting his sweetheart Olive Oyl, Popeye finally works up the nerve to pop the question. Coyly, Olive sends...
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1940
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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1936
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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1936
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1935
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This western is an adaptation of a Zane Grey novel and chronicles the exploits of a simple-minded cowpoke who proves his...
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1933
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In this western, a US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers. The history behind the film is as interesting...
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1933
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1932
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1932
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This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic...
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1931
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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1930
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The legend of renegade French poet Francois Villon was dramatized in the 1901 Justin McCarthy play If I Were King. This...
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1930
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Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld brought his legendary "Follies" to the silver screen in Glorifying the American Girl....
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1930
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1928
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Josef vonSternberg's The Last Command was inspired by the true story of General Lodijenski, a Russian aristocrat who arrived...
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1928
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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
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1928
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This silent romantic adventure is set in the Sahara desert, and purports to be a sequel to the successful Beau Geste. Like...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Nancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a famous actress. Joining up with...
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1928
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"Doomsday" is the name of a valuable patch of British farm property owned by self-made millionaire Percival Fream...
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1928
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Director William Wellman's follow-up to Wings was based in part on his own WWI experiences with the Lafayette Flying Corps....
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1928
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Contrary to popular belief, Clara Bow was already Paramount's biggest box-office draw when she starred in this delightful...
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1927
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Kitty Flanders (Yvonne Pelletier), Jean Waddington and Ted Larrabee (Don Marion) are all "children of divorce" -- the two...
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1927
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One of the most frustrating items in the list of missing Bebe Daniels comedies, Senorita certainly sounds fascinating. When...
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1927
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After a lengthy apprenticeship in bits and secondary roles, Gary Cooper was promoted to stardom in the Zane Grey western...
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1927
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A follow-up to the enormously successful Behind the Front, We're in the Navy Now reteams the stars of the earlier film,...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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No relation to the earlier John Ford western of the same name, The Last Outlaw was a vehicle for Paramount's up-and-coming...
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1927
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1927
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Dapper "polite" comedian Raymond Griffith starred in this so-so vehicle. Griffith is cast as French Alfred Sava-Goiu, who,...
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1927
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1927
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Originally titled 10 Modern Commandments, this sophisticated romantic comedy-drama was the third directorial effort by...
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1927
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Love's Greatest Mistake was based on the serialized Liberty Magazine story of the same name. It all begins when Honey McNeill...
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1927
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Young Paramount stars Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the latter a recent graduate of the studio's acting school, starred in...
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1927
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The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman....
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1927
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Filmed on location in Manhattan, the 1927 silent New York explores themes later developed more fully in such films as...
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1927
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1927
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Raymond Griffith's famed nonchalance adds to the humor of this delightful mystery-comedy. During a posh party on a houseboat,...
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1926
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Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
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1926
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Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went...
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1926
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1926
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W.C. Fields' It's the Old Army Game is an expansion on four Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue...
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1926
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Volcano takes forever to get to the climactic eruption. In the meantime, the audience is subjected to the travails of...
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1926
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1926
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Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the...
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1926
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1926
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1926
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Gilda Gray, best-known for inventing the shimmy, shows off her talents as a Hawaiian dancer in this South Seas drama, based...
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1926
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By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to...
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1925
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1925
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While his reputation has faded next to stronger talents such as Cecil B. DeMille, Erich Von Stroheim, and King Vidor, James...
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1925
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Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the...
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1925
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1925
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Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford (Thomas Meighan) marries Alice Rand (Lila Lee), the daughter of his boss, John...
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1925
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The Paramount team of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson starred in this top-notch silent western in which a Native American is the...
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1925
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Frederick Lonsdale's witty 1924 play Aren't We All was turned into a vehicle for the debonair Adolphe Menjou by Paramount...
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1925
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Thomas Meighan in a dual role, as well as the Irish locations -- including the Blarney Stone -- add interest to what would...
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1925
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1925
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Adventure was an appropriate title for a book by Jack London, and when his tale of the South Seas was made into a film, the...
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1925
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According to the Paramount publicity mill, Joseph Hergesheimer wrote this unoriginal tale of California's early days...
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1925
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Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock...
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1925
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After a few films that did not showcase her talent well, Bebe Daniels was able to redeem herself in this comedy based on the...
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1925
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The ambitious and beautiful Sonya Mendel (Jetta Goudal) works her way up from the ghetto and lands a job as a reporter for a...
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1925
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The Paramount backlot doubled as Basque country for this romantic comedy which proved to be a nice showcase for Richard Dix....
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1925
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1925
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When Billy Laidlaw (Kenneth Harlan) sees Peggy Laurence (Bebe Daniels) and her partner, Matt Wilde (T. Roy Barnes),...
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1925
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Veteran Western director William K. Howard does a solid job with this routine Zane Grey story. Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and...
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1925
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1925
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Richard Dix and Esther Ralston starred together in several films during the latter half of the 1920s. This Western-comedy was...
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1925
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Maria Maretti (Bebe Daniels) works as a manicurist at a posh hotel. She is in love with Tony Luca (Edmund Burns), and they...
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1925
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Bebe Daniels stars in this action-packed comedy -- one of Edward Sutherland's first directoral efforts. Susan Van Dusen...
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1925
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This Cape Cod melodrama was based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln. Calvin Homer (Warner Baxter) expects to be promoted to...
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1925
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This colorful drama of the Bowery of the 1890s was directed by Herbert Brenon. Diamond Mike (Riley Hatch) runs a Bowery...
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1925
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It seems like the flashier Cecil B. DeMille made his films, the more intimate were those made by his older brother William C....
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1924
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Glamorous Gloria Swanson dressed down for this story of a little Parisian thief. Toinette (Swanson) is the leader of a band...
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1924
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Leatrice Joy has a dual role, as Gwynne Evans, a restless young wife who longs to go on the stage, and as lookalike actress...
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1924
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1924
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After her brilliant career in Europe, Pola Negri, came to America to make films for Paramount. Her first few pictures for the...
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1924
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1924
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1924
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1924
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Tully Marshall plays "the Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering...
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1924
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There is a dispute over the ownership of some valuable Long Island farmland -- the Clarks and the Sullivans both claim it. It...
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1924
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When kindly saloon keeper Tim O'Day (Ben Hendricks) is killed by a thug, his wife (Louise Dresser) takes over the business....
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1924
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When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter...
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1924
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1924
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Irene Short (Agnes Ayers) tries to help her husband Donald (Edward Burns) further his career in architecture by running...
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1924
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1924
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This society comedy-drama was given witty direction by Allan Dwan, and was based on The Laughing Lady by respected playwright...
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1924
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1924
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Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made this film, and while it isn't one of her best -- a Graustarkian...
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1924
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Before he became a producer at MGM, Paul Bern showed a flair for directing, adding a sophisticated touch to this...
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1924
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This South Seas tale, based on the novel by Clive Arden, very much reflects the morals of its era. Barbara Stockley...
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1924
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Mary Pickford starred in the 1915 version of this film, based on the Frances Hodgson Burnett story, and it's easy to imagine...
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1924
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American engineer Robert Maury (Conway Tearle) travels to Paris with his wife, Elsie (Dorothy Mackaill). He leaves her there...
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1924
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In the more straight-laced era of the 1920s the lack of a marriage license could destroy a young couple's world - that's the...
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1924
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The story to this sea melodrama was written by Byron Morgan. Morgan was best known for the fast-paced auto tales he wrote for...
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1924
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This Paramount drama was based on the novel Face, by Lucy Stone Terrill. It was a change of pace for light comedienne...
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1924
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Even as a supporting player, character actor Theodore Roberts often dominated the scenes in which he performed. When he had...
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1923
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This well-cast drama was based on the play by Samuel Shipman. When Marion Dorsey (Hope Hampton) is away in Europe, her...
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1923
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It was impossible for director Sam Wood to include all of Arthur Train's sprawling novel in this picture. Instead he seems to...
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1923
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1923
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Thomas Meighan was appropriately cast in this ocean-bound romance based on the novel A Light to Leeward by Peter B. Kyne....
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1923
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Carol Dolliver (Mary Miles Minter) is the young heiress sought by several suitors in this romantic adventure drama. She...
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1923
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The Exciters is the old one about a footloose heiress who must marry by the age of 21 or forfeit her fortune. The girl...
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1923
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The rights to Don Cesar, the novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, were originally purchased by Paramount as a vehicle for Rudolph...
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1923
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What was Paramount thinking when it cast ladylike Alice Brady as a white girl raised amongst South Sea savages? This...
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1923
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1923
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The credibility of this northwoods melodrama strains at the seams and even the usually excellent Alice Brady in the starring...
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1923
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This remake of the 1916 Cecil B. DeMille picture was Mary Miles Minter's final film for Paramount. June Tolliver (Minter) is...
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1923
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The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly...
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1923
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Paramount brought the exotic Pola Negri over from Europe, and then it seemed like they didn't know what to do with her. Bella...
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1923
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The plot to this routine Paramount drama was apparently inspired by current interest in the work of Emile Coue, a hypnotist...
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1923
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Although this Rex Beach story was filmed before in 1916 as a "super-feature," seven years later it would become a routine...
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1923
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Although Lois Wilson was lovely to look at, some of her best work was in character roles. Here, the 28-year-old star plays...
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1923
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This fantasy tale was based on the stage play The Faun by Edward Knoblock, which starred William Faversham on Broadway....
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1923
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When wealthy Rockwood dies, he wills his fortune to his four grown children, providing they're all married by a certain date....
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1923
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This Hawaiian romance was the last picture directed by Julia Crawford Ivers, who also penned the screenplay. Although it was...
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1923
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In his third-to-last Western, austere silent-screen hero William S. Hart tackles the legend of gambler/lawman Wild Bill...
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1923
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1922
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This lighthearted political satire marked the first time humorist George Ade wrote a story directly for the screen. The...
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1922
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This epic historical romance, based on the novel by Mary Johnston, was one of Paramount's big releases for 1922, and it...
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1922
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This lighthearted film was based upon the play The Impostor by Leonard Merrick and Michael Morton. After the death of her...
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1922
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Although Agnes Ayres is best-known today as Rudolph Valentino's co-star in The Sheik, she was a substantial star in her own...
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1922
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In the days before air-conditioned theaters, this action-packed tale of the frozen Northwest was a welcome summer release....
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1922
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W. Somerset Maugham's first original story for the screen proves one thing -- Maugham could not translate his inspiration to...
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1922
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This picture was based on the stage play by Hubert Henry Davies and starred Elsie Ferguson, who reprised her role for the...
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1922
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What was Paramount thinking when it cast a capable comedienne like Bebe Daniels in this artificial tragedy? The funny moments...
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1922
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This melodrama of the high seas sandwiches pretty silent star Dorothy Dalton between the handsome, virile Jack Holt and the...
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1922
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The Booth Tarkington-Harry Leon Wilson play was filmed once previously, in 1914, by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. For the...
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1922
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Victor Fleming was still a relatively new director when he helmed this melodrama, an adaptation of the stage play by Harry...
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1922
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1922
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Contrary to popular belief, the career of Mary Miles Minter did not end the moment that director William Desmond Taylor was...
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1922
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In the days before air conditioning, filmmakers liked to release Northwest melodramas in the summer in the belief that the...
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1922
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Missing Millions was inspired by "A Problem in Grand Larceny", one of the many "Boston Blackie" stories by Jack Boyle. David...
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1922
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Although director Cecil B. DeMille was known for his Biblical spectaculars and florid comedy-dramas about domestic relations,...
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1922
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A bittersweet tale of a little rich girl so sheltered by the parents she hardly ever sees that she has no idea of what is...
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1917
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1913
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Based on the classic revenge tale by Alexander Dumas, this film was one of the first feature-length American movies, and...
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1912
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