Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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1937
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1936
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This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector...
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1929
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1929
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1929
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At the tail end of her starring career, Agnes Ayres played a young woman attempting to prove that her father (Rhody Hathaway)...
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1928
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The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast improvement upon)...
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1926
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Paul Bern became more well known as an MGM producer under Irving Thalberg than he did as a director, but had he stuck to...
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Judith Stanley
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1925
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The first film version of Arthur Richman's stage comedy The Awful Truth was produced in 1925. A series of misunderstandings...
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Lucy Slatterley
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1925
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1925
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This drama was based on the novel The Love Serum by Gouverneur Morris. Bootlegging lovers Joe Strickland (Conway Tearle) and...
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1925
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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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Eleanor Lawson
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1924
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Alan Holt (Antonio Moreno) is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy...
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Mary Walsworth
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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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Irene Short
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1924
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Betty Hallowell
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1924
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This drama, which featured a fine cast, looked more expensively made than it actually was. When revolution overtakes Russia,...
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Sasha Boroff
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1924
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Agnes Ayres stars as Muriel Gray in the lightning-paced comedy Heart Raider. Described in an introductory title as "a speed...
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Muriel Gray, a Speed Girl
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
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1923
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Even though Wallace Reid died only a few weeks before this film's release, the genre of racing car movies which he made...
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Virginia Kent
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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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Alexandra Vancy
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1923
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The second time George Broadhurst's play was filmed, William C. deMille was the director, and his intimate approach suited it...
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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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Dora Becket,Edith Wayne,Spirit
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1922
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Paramount starred Agnes Ayers for the first time in this tragedy, adapted from the novel by Sir Gilbert Parker....
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Madelinette
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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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Mary Fenton
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1922
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Mary Pickford had recently put out a couple of mediocre pictures and her latest, Little Lord Fauntleroy, wasn't an immediate...
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1922
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Violet Pinney
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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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Sybil Bruce
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1922
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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1921
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Jim Glover (Wallace Reid) is an engineer in charge of constructing a railroad to the sea. He gives the company president Gage...
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Laura Gage
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1921
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This action picture was based on a popular series of Saturday Evening Post stories written by Peter B. Kyne, which were later...
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Florrie Ricks
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1921
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This romantic costumed adventure is the film that cemented Rudolph Valentino's reputation as a legendary screen lover. Sheik...
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Diana Mayo
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1921
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Mary (Agnes Ayres) works as a seamstress for the wealthy Mallory family to support herself and her worthless husband Steve...
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Mary Maddock
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1921
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The ill-fated Wallace Reid -- who would die of morphine addiction in 1923 -- was in top form in this Paramount action...
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Virginia MacMuuan
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1921
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William Gilette's romantic Civil War melodrama is capably brought from stage to screen here. When Southerner Rachel Hayne...
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1920
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Before FBO Pictures could move ahead under its new corporate moniker of RKO Radio, several FBO silents had to be rushed out...
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1920
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1920
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The lush settings of this picture, based on a novel by the pseudonymous "Pan," didn't make up for a slight plotline. During...
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1920
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Because of a stipulation in a will, Southern girl Dulcie (Gladys Leslie) must go to New York and live with her Uncle John...
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1919
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1919
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Charlie Chaplin began his new job at Essanay Studios, who lured him away from Keystone with an offer of $1250 a week plus a...
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1915
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