Warner Bros.' "Perry Mason" series quietly slipped from the "A" to the "B" category with this adaptation of...
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1936
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A famous movie actress takes a trip to New York City. While there, she gets involved with a wisecracking cab driver who is...
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1935
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Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhart, The White Cockatoo concerns three mysterious murders at a French chateau. The...
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1935
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A variation on the Lady for a Day theme, Universal's Lady Tubbs stars Alice Brady as Henrietta "Mom" Tubbs, the no-nonsense...
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1935
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The Great Impersonation is based on the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage novel of the same name, previously filmed in 1921....
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1935
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1935
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Edmund Lowe stars as big-time gambler King Solomon, so named because of his fairness and sagacity. Naturally, our hero has...
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1935
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1934
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Two wealthy neighbors, who make no secret of despising one another, both claim that they're married to Bessie Foley...
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1934
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In this drama, a gambler must hide-out from the mob and ends up in a spinster's apartment. The old woman, is unused to...
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1934
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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1934
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Love turns into an unhealthy obsession in this offbeat drama. Millie (Zasu Pitts) and Peggy (Boots Mallory) are two friends...
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1933
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In this romance, a recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she...
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1932
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This socially-conscious drama is set in a slum and centers on the events that lead a parsimonious slum lord to change her...
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1932
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Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is...
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1931
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1931
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Advertised variously as a "musical romance" and an "operetta style drama", Children of Dreams was the last of three Warner...
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1931
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This lavish musical is based on a play by Oscar Hammerstein II and tells the story of a young girl who inadvertently causes a...
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1930
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The plays of Zoe Akins were so stilted and mannered that one critic referred to watching them as "the curse of an Akins...
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1930
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This early musical was filmed in color and centers upon the love affair between a young composer and the woman he wants to...
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1930
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Big Boy may well be the closest a modern audience will ever come to seeing what a genuine Al Jolson Broadway musical looked...
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1930
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This costume drama is the first all dialog film in which Barrymore appeared. He plays a mercenary who will serve anyone who...
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1929
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This early talkie antique is a backstage musical from Warner Bros. The plot involves the out-of-town tryout of a new musical...
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1929
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The romance between Jerome Bonaparte and Baltimore debutante Elizabeth Patterson was given the full treatment by Warner...
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1928
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1928
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On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound...
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1927
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Beloved Rogue stars John Barrymore as legendary Parisian poet/vagabond Francois Villon. The film follows the basic chronology...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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1926
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Lois Wilson stars in this drama, which was based on the novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland. Schoolteacher Carmel Lee...
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1925
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Forever forced to take a back seat to her pretty, popular younger sister Pauline Garon, Irene Rich manages to land handsome...
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1925
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This mystery was based on a novel written by 20 popular authors, each of whom contributed a chapter. The point of each...
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1925
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This breezy summer comedy-drama was shot on-location in Florida. It was typical fun 1920s fare, which Moving Picture World...
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1924
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Aileen Pringle plays the Queen of Sardalia (one of your average, everyday mythical European principalities), who is unhappily...
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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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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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An epic, 13-reel costume drama produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions -- and it doesn't star his...
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1923
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This epic production was the last film that producer and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst produced for Paramount...
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1923
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This society crook drama was one of Irene Castle's last films (she retired from the screen in 1923). John Clinton Warren...
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1922
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Stalwart Conway Tearle is a soldier of fortune in this seafaring adventure film. Captain Dick Carson (Tearle) is headed for...
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1922
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Writer Jack Boyle created a timely adventure for the character of Boston Blackie Dawson in this mystery (at least it was...
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1922
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This light-hearted romance, released by Realart, stars Constance Binney. When her father is killed during a fox hunt, Lady...
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1921
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Handsome silent-screen actor Eugene O'Brien finds himself in hot water after saving a girl from drowning in this murder...
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1921
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Although Eugene O'Brien was the perfect co-star for formidable actresses such as Norma Talmadge and Ethel Barrymore, he...
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1920
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The Thorncrofts are a blue-blooded, aristocratic family who fall on hard times after the stock market crashes. Thorncroft...
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1920
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Beautiful ex-Follies girl Olive Thomas both wrote the story for and starred in this drama. She would die mysteriously in...
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1920
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In 1920s jargon, a "flapper" was a footloose young lady who, in keeping with a current fad, wore open-laced boots that...
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1920
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Margaret Brooke (Elaine Hammerstein) has a lovely voice, and the choirmaster at her church suggests that she travel from her...
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1920
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1919
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The Whirlpool was based on the novel of the same name by Victoria Morton. Alice Brady stars as Belle Cavello, the mercenary...
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1918
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Shortly after she graduates from high school, country girl Charlotte Marlin (Shirley Mason) loses her small inheritance and...
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1917
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This first major adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped adhered fairly faithfully to the original novel....
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1917
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Chris (Thomas Carnahan) stumbles upon a magic lamp. He rubs the lamp, and out pops not a genie, but miles of stock film...
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1917
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