Decked out with leftover sets and stock footage from 1946's Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Columbia's Rogues of Sherwood Forest...
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Little John
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1950
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The Randolph Scott western Colt .45 was retitled for TV so as not to be confused with the TV series of the same name. The new...
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Sheriff Harris
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1950
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Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a...
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1950
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House Across the Street was the second remake of the 1933 Paul Muni starrer Hi, Nellie. The original's satirical jibes...
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Grennell
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1949
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1949
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Though Errol Flynn was well past his prime (and obviously well lubricated in certain scenes), he rises to the occasion of The...
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Leporello
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1949
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The satirical bite of Gogol's play The Government Inspector is dispensed with in favor of traditional Danny Kaye buffoonery...
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1949
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Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them...
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Mr. Washburn
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1949
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Produced by Milton Sperling's United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. The...
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1948
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In this drama, a California artist becomes a New York prizefighter after he falls in love with a married singer. Her husband...
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1948
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The 1931 George Arliss vehicle The Millionaire was updated and retailored in 1947 as That Way With Women. Sidney Greenstreet...
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1947
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A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is...
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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Chased by a posse to a remote cabin, Jeb (Robert Mitchum) is joined by his fearful wife Thorley (Teresa Wright), awaiting the...
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Jake Dingle
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1947
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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Dr. Lilley
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1946
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Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's...
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1946
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place...
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1946
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Vicki Baum, the author of the novel Grand Hotel, also wrote this similarly structured tale about a group of disparate...
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1945
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This odd combination of roughneck comedy and serious domestic drama was adapted by Louise Randall Pierson from her own...
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1945
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Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light...
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"Big Mike" Harrigan
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1945
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Escape in the Desert is a thinly disguised remake of The Petrified Forest (1936), updated with a WW II angle. Cynical Dutch...
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Dr. Orville Tedder
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1945
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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Steve Gillis
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1944
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Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film...
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Reardon
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1944
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After several years' faithful service in supporting roles, Jack Carson was awarded his first Warner Bros. starring vehicle...
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Walter Whirtle
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1944
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Though its purely propagandastic aspects are never far from surface, Destination Tokyo must rank as one of the most...
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Cookie
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1943
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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Sgt. McGee
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1943
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left-wing politics, courtesy...
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Boats O'Hara
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1943
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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Pat Corbett
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1942
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In this, one of many World War II propaganda films of the early 1940s, Errol Flynn is one of five RAF pilots to survive a...
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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Tiny Murphy
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1942
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Manpower was Warner Bros' latest reworking of 1932's Tiger Shark, with power-company linemen substituting for tuna fisherman....
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Jumbo Wells
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1941
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Like MGM's Whistling in the Dark, Warner Bros.' The Smiling Ghost was inspired by the success of Paramount's comedy-mystery...
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Norton
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1941
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The Great Mr. Nobody is an easygoing classified ad salesman, appropriately nicknamed Dreamy (Eddie Albert). All Dreamy wants...
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Skipper
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1941
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Strawberry Blonde is the second, and by far the most well-regarded, of the three film versions of James Hogan's play One...
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Old Man Grimes
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1941
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Footsteps in the Dark is a comedy/mystery, starring Errol Flynn as a wealthy investment counselor who secretly doubles as a...
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Inspector Mason
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1941
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In this comedy, a grandmother decides to help her naive grandson get the money he needs to marry his girl by allowing him to...
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Robert Barnes
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1941
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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Promoted as a follow-up to the popular 1939 western Dodge City (which, indeed, was left wide open for a sequel in its closing...
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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Tex Bell
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1940
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Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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Sgt. Big Mike Wynn
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1940
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Stereotypes abound in this drama that follows the attempts of a Scottish lad to marry a pretty Irish lassie and join the...
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Gallagher
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1940
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again stars Marjorie Rambeau as the rambunctious female skipper created by Norman Reilly Raine. In this...
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Capt. Bullwinkle
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1940
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Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an...
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Dr. Emil "Nils" Loren
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1940
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1940
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In this musical, a composer abandons vaudeville in favor of the legitimate stage. He soon finds himself entangle with a...
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Sergei Alexandrovitch
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1939
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John Garfield once more plays a social outcast who's had nothing but lousy breaks. Released from prison for a crime he didn't...
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Mike Leonard
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1939
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Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title...
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Porthos
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1939
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It is no secret that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn were at each other's throats throughout the filming of The Private Lives of...
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Earl of Tyrone
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1939
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An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to...
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Gallagher
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1939
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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1939
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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"Ox" Smith
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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1938
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J.J. Slattery
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1938
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This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the...
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1938
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1938
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, When Thief Meets Thief chronicles the story of two ex-partners in crime who have fallen in love with...
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Jim Dial/"Col. Fane"
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1937
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Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined...
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Ed Munn
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1937
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Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie reached an early pinnacle with this romantic comedy co-starring Tyrone Power as a...
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1937
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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Detective Flugelman
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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Rivalry, romance, and brotherly love in logging camps are chronicled in this drama. The trouble begins when the brother of a...
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Bjorn Skalka
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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Dr. Krue
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1936
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Wandering around in the darkness, an amnesiac (Walter Abel) can't shake the feeling that he's murdered someone. When it...
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Florio
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1936
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The real-life Yellowstone National Park provides a colorful backdrop to this melodramatic actioner. Henry Hunter stars as...
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Hardigan
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1936
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Jim Alison
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1936
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A lesser but still effective entry in the mid-1930s "prison" cycle, Parole catalogues the many problems facing prisoners...
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1936
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In this drama, a Navy officer is court-martialed after he saves the survivors of a German submarine attack instead of...
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1936
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This was one of Charley Chase's last comedies for producer Hal Roach. Here, Charley is determined to attend his local movie...
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Director
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1936
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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Like the contemporaneous Columbia feature Party Wire, RKO Radio's Grand Old Girl paints a surprisingly bleak and cynical...
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Click Dade
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1935
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Margaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire...
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Schlapkohl
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1935
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Charming but ruthless fugitive gangster Dutra (Brian Donlevy) demands that a doctor (Oscar Apfel) perform plastic surgery...
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1935
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RKO Radio's spectacular production The Last Days of Pompeii utilizes the title but precious little else of the famous...
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Burbix
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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1935
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Cited by film historian William K. Everson as one of the fastest-moving crime melodramas of the 1930s (if not the fastest)...
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1934
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German actress Dorothea Wieck, who achieved international fame in Maedchen in Uniform, was given a brief shot at Hollywood...
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1934
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Twelve years before David Lean's definitive filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations, Hollywood had a go at the novel, with...
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Joe Gargery
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1934
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In this melodrama, a devoted father begins feeling unappreciated at home and so embarks upon a clandestine friendship with a...
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1934
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Warner Bros. grabbed up the rights to Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel of middle America, soon after publication in...
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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Bartholomew Hockins
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934....
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1934
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Based on the novel and play by James M. Barrie, The Little Minister turned out to be Katharine Hepburn's best vehicle since...
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Rob Dow
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1934
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Although released as an "Allied Pictures Special," Picture Brides revealed its Poverty Row origins in almost all departments,...
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Van Luden
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1934
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Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an...
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Jachman
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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1934
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In this drama, a beautiful woman boards a ship with a brutish fellow who kidnaps her and forces her to stow away. Later he...
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Klaus van Leyden
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1933
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This film offers melodrama on the high-seas as it follows the miraculous salvation of a becalmed ship filled with bootleg...
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Lundstrom
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1933
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The exploits of 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin have been immortalized in scores of poems, ballads, novels, plays...
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1933
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"Thou Shall Not Be Caught" is the commandment referred to in this low-budget melodrama ostensibly based on Ella Wendel, a New...
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Max Stager
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1933
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1932
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A Grand Hotel derivation set in a major metropolitan train terminal, Union Depot features most of the reliable Warner Bros....
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The Baron
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1932
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Originally filmed with Mary Pickford in 1917, the Kate Douglas Wiggin children's classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was...
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1932
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The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like...
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1932
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Alan Hale Sr. plays an American navy officer who allows German sub commander Peter Erkenlez to escape prosecution at the end...
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1931
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In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's...
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Biezal
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1931
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A man finds he's torn between two women -- which isn't a good state of affairs for a man who just got married -- in this...
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1931
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It was once theorized by critic Andrew Sarris that this 1931 Greta Garbo vehicle was subtitled "Her Fall & Rise" rather than...
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Mondstrum
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1931
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In the South Seas, half-caste Ilanu (Raquel Torres) refuses to marry Kahea (Donald Reed), as she loves Jimmy Bradford...
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1931
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In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is...
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1931
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Dave
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1930
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Anita Garvin, the willowy brunette comedienne who graced many a Laurel & Hardy comedy, once remarked with a mixture of pride...
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1930
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She Got What She Wanted was director James Cruze's second "special" for Tiffany Pictures in 1930. Betty Compson, previously...
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1930
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The Sap is Edward Everett Horton, a small-towner with big plans, but lacking the wherewithal to put them in motion. Even...
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Jim Belden
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1929
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In this mysterious comedy, two free-spirited sailors and their parrot find themselves involved in a series of mishaps. The...
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Adam Pike
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1929
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Sal of Singapore contains only two reels' worth of dialogue, but it was enough to prove that Phyllis Haver's decision to...
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Capt. Erickson
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1929
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Endeavoring to keep her sideshow free from bad elements, an honest carnival owner finds her territory invaded by a gang of...
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Flash
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1929
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Jansen
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1928
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Slim
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1928
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When Cecil B. DeMille's own production company was absorbed by Pathe in 1928, several DeMille contractees went along for the...
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Otto Schmidt
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1928
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Future "Hopalong Cassidy" William Boyd essays the title role in Pathe's The Cop. It all begins when likeable police sergeant...
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1928
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Jacqueline Logan stars as Paula, a beautiful and fearless circus leopard trainer. Working hand-in-glove with the police,...
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Caesar
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1928
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Hanson
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1928
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Wreck of the Hesperus was "suggested" by the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It will be recalled that...
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Singapore Jack
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1927
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Those who believe that It Happened One Night was the first film to tap the comic potential of "auto courts" (later known as...
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Director
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1927
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Although Vanity was one of Leatrice Joy's most successful films, it can hardly be considered one of her best. Joy is cast as...
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1927
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Director
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1926
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Directed by actor Alan Hale, this romantic comedy stars Priscilla Dean as Nancy Bell, whose former husband, Austin (Walter...
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Director
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1926
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The Sporting Lover was produced by Faultless Pictures Corporation, leaving the picture wide open for wisecracks from the...
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Director
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1926
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This independently produced silent action melodrama starred the husband-and-wife team of John Bowers and Marguerite de la...
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1926
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A young, football-playing Indian (Rod La Rocque) is sent to law school by the tribe in order to learn the ways of the white...
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Director
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1925
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Based on a 1910 novel by Hamlin Garland, Cavanagh, Forest Ranger; a Romance of the Mountain West, this silent Western from...
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1925
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Silent film leading lady Priscilla Dean's best years were behind her when she made Crimson Runner. Still, her ability to...
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Gregory Von Krutz
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1925
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Cowboy ace Tom Mix allowed himself a change of pace with this costume adventure produced by Fox. Mix plays the legendary...
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1925
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The popular husband-wife team of John Bowers and Marguerite de la Motte starred in Flattery. Bowers plays civil engineer...
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Arthur Barrington
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1925
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Under the supervision of Cecil B. DeMille, character actor Alan Hale handled the directing chores in Wedding Song. DeMille...
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Director
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1925
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Vivacious Patsy Ruth Miller was a light comedienne on the rise when she starred in this amusing picture. Flapper Kitty Shayne...
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Jimmie Masson
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1924
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When Madame Zatianny appears, seemingly from nowhere on the social scene, everyone is taken by her beauty. The older ones say...
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Prince Rohenhauer
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1924
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More a romantic melodrama set on a western ranch than an out-and-out sagebrush tale, this Vitagraph silent features a couple...
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Willard Master
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1924
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The all-star cast of this plodding and somber melodrama does little to add any spark to the story from Pearl Doles Bell....
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1924
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Although Laurette Taylor starred in this drama on Broadway and reprised her role for the screen, she seems miscast. Taylor...
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1924
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Mildred Patterson (Mildred June) is planning to wed Robert Wallace (Robert Agnew) when a crook known only as the Baron...
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1924
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1923
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With a screenplay by Howard Hawks and direction by Jack Conway, this Mexican border tale couldn't possibly have been anything...
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Ferrago
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1923
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Warner Bros. was hoping that this epic rendition of the Sinclair Lewis novel would become a blockbuster to rival the big...
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Miles Bjornstam
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1923
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The director formerly known as Sean O'Feeney is billed as John Ford for the first time here, and he helps make this one of...
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1923
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Metro pulled out all the stops on this picture, which was based on the novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart and starred...
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1923
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James Cruze revived the western genre and presented audiences with the first western epic in the spectacular 1923 film The...
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Sam Woodhull
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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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This 1923 Hollywood thriller The Eleventh Hour should not be confused with the like-vintage British melodrama of same name....
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Prince Stefan de Bemie
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1923
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We'd like to find an Ethel M. Dell novel that wasn't made into a British silent film. Dell's The Eleventh Hour relates the...
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1922
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Although Wallace Reid stars in this picture (based on the comic opera by Richard Harding Davis), Walter Long just about...
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1922
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Shirley Mason is well-cast as Nita, an acrobatic circus dancer, in this romantic melodrama. Nita's guardian is Max, owner of...
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Max
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1922
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This quirky comedy with its mystical overtones was a departure for the down-to-earth Will Rogers. The story opens up with a...
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Ben Wadley
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1922
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Robin Hood, Douglas Fairbanks' biggest (though not necessarily best) production of the silent era, represents the first time...
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1922
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Henrik Ibsen's play had already been filmed twice before, in 1917 starring Dorothy Phillips, and in 1918 with lsie Ferguson....
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Torvald Helmer
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1922
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When he made this film, Lon Chaney's fame was already established, but he was only inches away from superstardom -- a few...
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Benson
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1922
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In all likelihood the only surviving film starring early silent screen leading man Monroe Salisbury, this very old fashioned...
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1921
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This confusing melodrama finds Jean Jacques Barbille (James Kirkwood) as the wealthy young man from a small town in Quebec....
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George Masson
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1921
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Kathleen Dexter (Alice Lake) and her brother Terry (George Stewart) are orphans who are living on a fixed income, received...
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James Twyford
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1921
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When Blanche Warren (Irene Rich) finds out that her sister, Adele (Ora Carew), is about to marry the notorious Hugh Sainsbury...
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1921
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Paramount was taking a chance by making this picture -- based on a novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim -- almost two years after...
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Gustave Seimann
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1921
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Karl von Hartrott
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1921
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The six-year-old son of director B. Reeves Eason, Breezy Eason Jr., was killed by a runaway truck during the filming of this...
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1921
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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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One would liked to have been a fly on the wall of the set of Life's Whirlpool. Its leading lady was the imperious...
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1917
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Dramatic screen star Clara Kimball Young was well cast in this film, based on the novel by David Graham Phillips. She is...
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1917
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Producers insisted upon casting opera stars in their silent films all throughout the teens and twenties. Some, like...
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1917
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In this melodrama, Captain Arthur Boyce (Alan Hale) encounters a pair of Mexicans at the border posing as brother...
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1916
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This melodrama involves the old twin sisters mix-up. Exiled Russian Nihilist Ivan Pavloff (Philip Hahn) has twin daughters....
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1916
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Desperately tired of playing man-eating "vamps," Theda Bara begged to play Ouida's 1901 Foreign Legion heroine, "Cigarette,"...
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1916
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This drama based on the Clyde Fitch stage play offers a fine performance by Marie Chambers, who comes close to eclipsing its...
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1916
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Based on a popular stage play, the Biograph three-reeler Strongheart was originally released in May of 1913. The film was...
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1914
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Sam
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1912
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