Warren William plays a high-powered ambitious executive who unflinchingly steamrolled his way to the top without regard for...
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Ross
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1933
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Before he moved to MGM, director Richard Thorpe virtually lived at the tiny production firm of Chesterfield-Invincible....
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Burke
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1932
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In this comedy-adventure, an enterprising young man devises a new kind of speedboat motor. The trouble begins when he tries...
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1932
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In this musical, based on a famed operetta, a humble shop girl jilts her lover because his aristocratic family disapproves...
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1931
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Nicholas of Kordovia
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1931
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My Past is based on a novel called Ex-Mistress, a title that was rejected outright by the Hollywood censors. Even so, what...
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1931
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Arguably John Ford's weakest film, The Brat was based on a popular 1917 stage play written by and starring Maude Fulton,...
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1931
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The difference between social classes provides the basis for this comedy. The trouble begins when a drunken sot wanders into...
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Uncle Gabriel Gilwattle
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1930
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Other Men's Wives, a play by Walter Hackett, was the source for this early-talkie comedy-melodrama. The scene is a sinister...
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1930
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This musical, based on a Broadway show, was filmed in two-color technicolor. Set upon a golf course, it chronicles the...
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1930
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1930
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The aforementioned appendages appear aplenty in this musical comedy that centers on a husband and wife seeking to recapture...
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1929
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1929
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In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly...
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1929
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Mr. Wygate
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1929
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This drama opens with a most disturbing scene as a jilted lover places a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Fortunately,...
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1929
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1929
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The tiny but voluptuous chassis of Clara Bow is given ample display in the exotic romance Hula. The story takes place in...
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1928
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Dry Martini was wittily adapted from the droll novel by John Thomas. Wealthy American Willoughby Quimby (Albert Gran)...
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1928
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Long though lost, Four Sons reemerged in the 1960s, proving anew that the silent films of director John Ford were every bit...
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1928
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Herr Boursch
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1928
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Sam Kingston
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1928
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Sam Kelley
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1928
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It's not for nothing that wimpish Willie Angle (Johnny Harron) is known as "Willie the Worm." Victimized and dumped on by...
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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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1927
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Breakfast at Sunrise was the penultimate movie vehicle for Constance Talmadge, who retired when talkies came in two years...
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1927
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In 1927, Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress with her performance in this film, among the most...
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Papa Boul
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1927
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Charles "Buddy" Rogers, who had recently graduated from Paramount's talent school, has one of the leads in this comedy-drama,...
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1926
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Howard Hawks' final effort as a screenwriter before becoming a full-time director was the trifling comedy Honesty -- The Best...
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1926
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The masterful direction of Frank Borzage adds three-dimensionality to the otherwise cardboard complications in Easy to Wed....
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1926
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Duke Travina
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1926
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Adolph Tevis
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1924
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Samuel C. Adams
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1924
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Back in 1918, "buds" didn't mean "pals". The American Buds of the title are two very young girls, "budding" into womanhood....
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1918
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This Marguerite Clark vehicle was set in London and Switzerland, courtesy of the Famous Players back lot and the snowy peaks...
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1916
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1916
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