Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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1934
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Outcast Lady is a heavily censored version of Michael Arlen's once-notorious novel The Green Hat, previously filmed by...
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1934
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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1934
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A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had...
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1933
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A very young John Wayne is atypically cast as a randy playboy in His Private Secretary. Much to the dismay of his businessman...
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Dr. Hall
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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Based on Dicken's classic novel, this is the first sound version of the oft-filmed tale of a plucky orphan who struggles to...
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1933
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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1932
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1932
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Alexander Carr, a Jewish-dialect comedian usually confined to small roles, is practically the whole show in the sentimental...
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1932
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Alias Mary Smith might have been completely forgotten were it not for the diligent efforts of "B"-picture aficionado John...
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1932
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In this mystery, a detective is called in to investigate the fate of a derelict ship that was found floating off the coast...
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Mr. Wingate
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1932
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This British remake of 1923's Captain Applejack follows the courageous exploits of a mild mannered citizen who fights back...
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1931
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One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
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1931
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This war drama, set in WW I Germany, is based on a novel by Arnold Zwieg. The story follows the harrowing trials of an...
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Gen. von Lychow
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1930
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Harold Lloyd's second talkie finds The Bespectacled One playing a shoe clerk in Honolulu. Harboring dreams of becoming an...
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Mr. Carson, old-timer
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1930
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This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves...
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Scrubby
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1930
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Nine years before stepping into the role of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone essayed the character of S.S. Van Dyne's...
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Prof. Bertrand Dillard
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1930
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Jack Mulhall stars as Leonard Staunton, a businessman whose future is threatened by a trio of mysterious blackmailers. The...
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Senator Baldwin
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1930
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Adopting a surprisingly effective Southern accent, Vienna-born Joseph Schildkraut plays the title role in...
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Junius Blackburn
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1929
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A woman finds herself a victim of love in this drama. Her trouble begins when her husband falsely accuses her of having an...
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Harbison
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1929
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In this early sound film, adapted from a play by Somerset Maugham, a WW I veteran is left crippled after a plane crash that...
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1929
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Father Felician
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1929
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A prison melodrama with a heart, Life's Mockery starred Betty Compson as Kit Miller, the daughter of notorious gangster Wolf...
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1928
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Judge Rossmore
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1928
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In this show biz melodrama, Jacqueline Logan played a nightclub entertainer spurning her wealthy stage door Johnny in favor...
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1928
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1928
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Dr. Redmayne
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1928
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May McAvoy plays the nose-in-the-air title character in Warner Bros' The Little Snob. The daughter of Coney Island...
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1928
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This was the most popular of the many silent adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' famous story of a courtesan who finds true love...
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1927
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Anton Von Barwig
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1927
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Previously filmed in 1920, Harold Bell Wright's "backwoods" novel Shepherd of the Hills was remade in 1928. The story is...
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The Shepherd
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1927
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Sally in Our Alley revives the old bromide about the orphan waif who is unofficially adopted by three men of different faiths...
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Sandy Mack
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1927
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Billie Dove stars as Marcia Kane, whose head is turned by the charming but sinister Grand Duke Sergei (Montague Love)....
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Francis Chinilly
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1927
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Yellowstone National Park was the setting for this delightful Tom Mix western that also featured a two-color Technicolor...
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1926
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The venerable David Belasco stage piece The Return of Peter Grimm was first brought to the screen in 1926, with...
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Peter Grimm
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1926
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Long thought lost, the silent Three Bad Men is an vital ingredient in the cinematic canon of director John Ford. Often...
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1926
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This sentimental romance was based on the stage play by Owen Davis. Ted Wayne (Lloyd Hughes) and Jennie Clayton (Mary Astor)...
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1926
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When baby-faced comedian Harry Langdon left Mack Sennett Studios to make features for First National, he wisely brought along...
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Amos
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1926
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Edmund Lowe plays a writer whose efforts to seek out story material leads him into an exhilarating adventure. Lowe gets mixed...
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1925
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The wild behavior of Kenneth Jamieson (George O'Brien) has finally gone too far and his millionaire father (George Fawcett)...
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David Lee
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1925
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Abner Hope
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1925
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In spite of a fine cast and director, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer somehow managed to turn the stage play by W. Somerset Maugham into...
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Lord Clive Cheney
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1925
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Simple country girl Rose Kirby (Patsy Ruth Miller) is heartbroken when the wealthy parents of her sweetheart Jack Talbot...
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1925
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The drama opens with a prologue in which an innocent boy (Eddie Phillips) is sent to the electric chair and executed before...
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1925
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Although this isn't one of her top pictures, Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made it. She's excellent...
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Count de Tauro
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1925
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A young Bostonian (Johnnie Walker) travels West to expect his father's New Mexico estate, which has become a target for gun...
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1925
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When a young man confesses to theft, his wealthy and influential father has him "shanghaied" aboard one of the company ships...
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John Harper
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1925
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This moralistic romance, based on the short story Here's How by Richard Washburn Child, was pretty typical for its era: jazz...
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His father
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1925
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Although the theme of this melodrama -- based on the John Golden play Howdy Folks -- was serious, the film also had some...
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1925
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John Kinney
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1925
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This low-budgeter was adapted from A Wise Son, a novel by Charles Sherman. Bryant Washburn plays wealthy wastrel Hal Whitney,...
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Tim Payne
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1925
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Mr. Seville
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1925
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For this romantic drama, author and Hollywood tastemaker Elinor Glyn began with the premise that a woman does one of three...
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Burton
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1925
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Sidney Chaplin, Charlie's talented half-brother, was well known on the Hollywood-party circuit for his devastating female...
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Mr. Delahay
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1925
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1924
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This picture was adapted from a popular musical comedy. Colonel Dodge is a widower who enjoys his single status. After his...
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1924
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John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel. Thanks to his sartorial...
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Mortimer
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1924
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When John Briggs (Harrison Ford) returns from the Great War (later known as World War I), he tries his hand at writing, but...
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1924
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1924
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The Little Church Around the Corner is important as the first major financial success for the fledgling Warner Bros. studios....
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1923
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Wallace Reid, famous for his speed-mad films, may have died earlier in 1923, but another Wally, Wally Van, stepped in to keep...
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John Moorehead
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1923
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Jazz babies and gents danced and partied their way through dozens upon dozens of motion pictures during the Roaring Twenties....
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1923
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1923
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Steve Cline (Milton Sills) returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the paper that his...
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Reever McCall
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1923
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Lest exhibitors didn't think the source material's title (based on a novel by then-popular writer Kathleen Norris) was...
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Judge Winship
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1923
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When she is deserted by her husband, the Stranger (Anna Q. Nilsson) leaves her baby on a doorstep with half a dollar bill...
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1923
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Eleanor Boardman and William Haines came to Hollywood when they were winners in the same contest held by the Goldwyn studios....
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Dr. Richard Gaunt
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1923
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For this tale of old California, producer Benjamin F. Zeidman put together an all-star cast. The governor of California...
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1923
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Actress/screenwriter Leah Baird starred in this comedy-melodrama. She also adapted the screenplay from Dorian Neve's play All...
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Philip Wilkinson
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1923
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This clever comedy-drama was based on the famed stage play by Avery Hopwood. All the actors gave enjoyable performances, even...
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James Blake
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1923
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This farcical melodrama starring Jack Holt was a pleasant program feature. Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has...
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Sir John Blount
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1923
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This picture did great at the box office, and no wonder -- Paramount's biggest star of the day, Gloria Swanson, co-starred...
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Capt. Fitzgerald
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1922
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Leatrice Joy was just starting her association with Paramount and was not yet a star when she played Thomas Meighan's love...
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Sir William De Vry
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1922
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Producer Joe Schenck reportedly paid seventy-five thousand dollars (an immense sum in those days) for the film rights to the...
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Doctor Owen
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1922
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A young cowboy turns vigilante after his father is killed in this fine silent Western filmed on location in blistering...
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Fr. Hillaire
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1922
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The crusty Russell Simpson and villainous James Mason portray a particularly evil father and son team in this intense sea...
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Boy, Samuel Poor
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1921
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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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Author Elinor Glyn knew how to generate publicity, and she created quite a bit when Paramount decided to film this story. In...
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1921
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The Realart studio took this creaky, cliched old play by Eugene W. Presbey and brought the setting up to the current time,...
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1921
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Sidney Franklin, formerly the principal director of the "Fox Kidlettes" series, works with grownups in the silent Courage....
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1921
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The Pest is one of the seemingly endless Cinderella-type stories that comedienne Mabel Normand did for Goldwyn. This time...
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1919
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Leap to Fame opens with what was rapidly becoming a cliched plot device in 1918: Young playboy Charles Trevor...
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1918
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1918
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Rex Beach's labyrinthine novel The Auction Block was first brought to the screen in 1917. The story involves a millionaire's...
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1917
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Alice Brady plays the lead in this adaptation of Frou Frou. Frou Frou (Brady) agrees to marry the man chosen by her father,...
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1917
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Dependable leading man Robert Warwick (who went on to become an even more dependable featured player) stars in Fruits of...
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1916
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Actress Alice Brady was the star player at the World Film Studios, which was as much due to her versatility as to the fact...
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1916
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The first half of this picture leans heavily on the romance and the historical drama doesn't kick in until later. Nathan Hale...
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Colonel Knowlton
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1916
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Long before she became a top character actress, Alice Brady was the in-house ingenue for the World Film Manufacturing...
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1916
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Not to be confused with the 1918 Harry T. Morey vehicle of the same name, the 1916 western All Man was adapted by...
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1916
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A pleasant but trivial stage play by R.H. Cochran served as the basis for The Arrival of Perpetua. Vivian Martin plays a...
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1915
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Woman and Wine almost bring about the downfall of the hero of this 5-reel melodrama. After inheriting a fortune, an...
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1915
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1914
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Produced by World Films, the 5-reel When Broadway Was a Trail opens with a shot of the cast standing on a skyscraper in...
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1914
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Also known as Without a Soul, the 5-reel Lola was another successful filmic collaboration between the husband and wife team...
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1914
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