Flamboyant mob chief Eddie Candell (Ron Randell), who was framed for murder by jealous associate Andy Damon (Anthony Caruso),...
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Director
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1961
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Enchanted Island bears only the faintest traces of its source material, the Herman Melville novel, Typee. 19th...
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Director
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1958
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Another of director Allan Dwan's underrated but well-crafted westerns of the 1950s, The Restless Breed stars Scott Brady as a...
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Director
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1957
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A bank robber's avarice and obsessive quest for freedom lead to his downfall in this adventure-packed crime drama that was...
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Director
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1957
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This little film noir is freely adapted from James M. Cain's novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit, the story of a gangster...
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1956
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1956
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1955
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Refreshingly, the tropical melodrama Pearl of the South Pacific never takes itself too seriously. Virginia Mayo heads the...
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Director
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1955
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Another winning collaboration between producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan, Tennessee's Partner is the third...
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Director
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1954
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Filmed on location at Montana's Glacier National Park, Cattle Queen of Montana makes excellent use of the diverse talents of...
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Director
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1954
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Director
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1954
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Next to Slightly Scarlet, Silver Lode is the best of the many 1950s collaborations between producer Benedict Bogaeus and...
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Director
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1954
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All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers...
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Director, Producer
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1953
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Associate Producer, Director
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1953
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In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines. ~...
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Director
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1953
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The life of Stephen Foster, one of America's greatest and best-loved songwriters of the 19th century, sets the stage for this...
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Director
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1952
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Originally filmed at Republic in 1948, Montana Belle was purchased by producer Howard R. Hughes, who'd loaned the services of...
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1952
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Director, Songwriter
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1951
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Allan Dwan's assured direction is the principal selling card of Republic's Belle le Grand. Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne,...
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Director
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1951
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Associate Producer, Director
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1950
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From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne),...
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Director
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1949
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Few major directors made "small" films with such frequency and expertise than the ubiquitous Allan Dwan. Set in 1933, Dwan's...
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Director, Producer
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1948
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Angel in Exile represents a one-time-only directorial collaboration between cult favorite Allan Dwan and B-western workhouse...
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Director
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1948
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving...
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Director, Producer
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1947
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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Director, Producer
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1947
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Backed by the "American GI Chorus", Nelson Eddy made his final screen appearance in the unusually elaborate Republic musical...
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Director, Producer
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1947
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Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing...
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Director, Producer
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1946
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Director
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1945
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Getting Gertie's Garter is an updated adaptation of the venerable stage farce by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1945
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Up in Mabel's Room was one of a mid-1940s series of profitable film revivals of venerable theatrical comedies, all produced...
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Director
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1944
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Allan Dwan directed this light-hearted service comedy starring William Bendix (best known from the television series The...
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Director
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1944
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In this '40s film Kay Kyser parades an entertainment group all over the globe providing laughs for the boys in battle. This...
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Director, Producer
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1943
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Director, Producer
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1942
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In this remake of the 1925 silent film, the breakup of a lifelong friendship between two German millionaires is chronicled....
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Director
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1942
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Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his...
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Director, Producer
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1941
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Jack Oakie is near the top of his form as Boley Bolenciecwcz, the best college football player to come down the pike in a...
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Director
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1941
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"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy...
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Director
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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Director
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1940
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Trail of the Vigilantes was conceived as a straight action picture, but was reshaped during filming into a comedy western in...
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Director, Producer
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1940
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Director
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1939
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Allan Dwan's comedic musical adaptation of the classic Dumas story sticks close to the original tale, yet it augments it with...
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Director
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1939
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When Fox bought the rights to Ralph Spence's warhorse stage mystery-comedy The Gorilla for the Ritz Brothers, they walked out...
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Director
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1939
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In this musical comedy of errors, David Brassard, Sr. (William Collier, Sr.) has his heart stolen from him by a conniving,...
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Director
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1938
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1932, Kate Douglas Wiggins' bucolic novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is herein refashioned--and...
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Director
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1938
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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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Director
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1938
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An earnest, honest newspaper sports editor single-handedly launches a campaign to clean up the shadowy, crooked world of...
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Director
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1937
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Johanna Spyri's perennial children's favorite Heidi was retailored to the talents of Shirley Temple, resulting in one of her...
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Director
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1937
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In this adventure, a young man allows criminals to talk him into cracking a safe. He is caught and sent to prison. After...
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Director
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1937
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Within the framework of a conventional newspaper yarn, One Mile From Heaven raises several controversial issues. Scoop-happy...
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Director
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1937
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This musical is adapted from a popular Broadway show written by George M. Cohan. It tells the tale of a team of Broadway...
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Director
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1936
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Hoping to prove to her insurance-investigator uncle that she's a good detective in her own right, Jane Martin (Claire Trevor)...
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Director
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1936
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Blending equal amounts of comedy, romance and thrills, High Tension is a near-perfect 20th Century-Fox "B" effort....
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Director
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1936
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A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden...
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Director
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1936
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Shepard, Human Cargo is a lively, tongue-in-cheek melodrama purporting to expose the alien...
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Director
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1936
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The Black Sheep is professional gambler John Dugan (Edmund Lowe), who gets his kicks out of fleecing wealthy suckers during a...
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Director
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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Director
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1934
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In this espionage drama, an American in Europe gives the wrong address to a taxi driver and ends up mistaken for a spy in...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1933
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In this comedy a widow pretends to be Lord Grossmith's philandering wife in order to get a handsome lawyer to fall in love...
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Director
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1933
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While Paris Sleeps is a grim expose of the European white slave trade. To save his daughter Manon (Helen Mack) from falling...
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1932
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Flapper Lupino wants to sew her wild oats before settling down to get married in this romantic drama and Napier assists her...
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1932
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1931
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1931
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Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband...
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Director
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1931
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In this musical, a Marine gets a furlough in New York City and falls in love. He later returns and finds that a lazy...
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Director
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1930
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The widow in question is wealthy Tamarind Brooks (Gloria Swanson), who flits from one man to another with the rapidity of a...
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Director, Producer
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1930
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In this romance, a greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the...
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Director
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1929
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In this comedy drama, a very early talkie, set in the splendiferous South Seas, a French lassie charms a sea captain who...
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Director, Producer
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1929
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In this melodrama, set in the Far North, a half-Eskimo woman leaves her tribe and her husband to find adventure with a...
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1929
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Director
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1929
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The last of the major film companies to fully convert to sound, MGM had yet another box-office bomb in Tide of Empire, a...
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Director
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1929
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Comic Chester Conklin stars in this sparkling comedy directed by Allan Dwan. John Sloval (Conklin), a New York City transit...
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Director, Producer
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1928
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In his later interviews, director Allan Dwan seldom had anything to say about his 1928 opus Whip Woman -- and who could blame...
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Producer
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1928
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The confident direction of Allan Dwan transformed The Mad Hour into something more than a mere "soap opera." Based on a novel...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1928
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Based on the comic strip by Carl Ed, Harold Teen stars future "Dagwood Bumstead" Arthur Lake in the title role. Upon arriving...
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1928
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This playful Allan Dwan effort stars Olive Borden as impulsive flapper Jewel Courage, who dumps the man she loves, a humble...
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1927
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1927
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The same year H.B. Warner portrayed Jesus Christ in The King of Kings, he let down his hair in the drawing-room comedy French...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Padlocked began as a serial for Cosmopolitan magazine, written by Rex Beach. After only a couple of chapters were published,...
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1926
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Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
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1926
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Summer Bachelors is predicated on a hot-weather ritual which was later satirized to the hilt in George Axelrod's...
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1926
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1926
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A fresh-faced waitress and a celebrity-obsessed cook enter into a warmhearted romance in this tender love story starring...
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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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Director, Producer
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1925
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Although she is largely remembered for her lavish screen outfits and highly dramatic vehicles, Gloria Swanson started off her...
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Director, Producer
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1925
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This mediocre Paramount comedy-drama has one interesting feature -- part of it was shot on-location at New York's El Fey...
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Director, Producer
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1925
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This society comedy-drama was given witty direction by Allan Dwan, and was based on The Laughing Lady by respected playwright...
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Director, Producer
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1924
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Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made this film, and while it isn't one of her best -- a Graustarkian...
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Director, Producer
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1924
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Although an executive at Paramount came up with the racy title for this comedy-drama, the plot came from a Saturday Evening...
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Director, Producer
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1924
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Although Gloria Swanson was known as a clotheshorse, occasionally her studio would allow her to rely purely on her acting...
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Director
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1924
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Director, Producer
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1924
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After Hollywood was rocked by several scandals, the specter of censorship reared its ugly head. To keep local community...
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Director, Producer
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1923
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The Big Brother organization hadn't yet gone national in 1923, but it had enough of a reputation to inspire the title to this...
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Director
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1923
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As a play, Zaza had been around for some 30 years and had already been filmed once before when Allan Dwan updated it and made...
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Director, Producer
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1923
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This well-cast drama was based on the play by Samuel Shipman. When Marion Dorsey (Hope Hampton) is away in Europe, her...
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Director, Producer
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1923
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Her fortune lost, a society woman flees to a settlement in the Adirondacks in this obscure silent melodrama produced and...
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Director
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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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Director
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1922
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The homely but likable Monte Blue teams up with director Allan Dwan for this pleasing comedy-drama, adapted from a short...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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Tommy Dawes (Monte Blue) is a simple-minded young man who works on the ranch belonging to Bill Nyall (Les Bates). Dawes...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1921
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Director Allan Dwan does the best he can with middling material in this routine drama. When Arnold Barry (Niles Welch)...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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Much of this Allan Dwan-directed drama was distasteful to silent movie-era audiences. In this more religious time, no one...
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Director
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1920
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For his first Associated Producers release, director Allan Dwan chose a simple tale of spirituality and redemption. Abel...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1920
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Director
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1919
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Actress Mignon (Louise Glaum) is the toast of Paris until she marries young American engineer John Stanley (Matt Moore). He...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1919
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This is one of Marion Davies' earliest features and it represents the worst aspects of her career. It was her second film...
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Director
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1919
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Getting Mary Married was tailor-made to the talents of perky Marion Davies. The stepchild (Davies) of a millionaire is...
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Director
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1919
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Vampy Louise Glaum is surrounded by class in this Arabian drama -- along with having Allan Dwan as director, C. Gardner...
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Director
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1919
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In what is perhaps one of his lesser vehicles, Douglas Fairbanks plays a Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman who impersonates a...
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Screenwriter, Supervisor/Manager
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1918
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This film was originally a 1914 stage play by Byron Ongley and Emil Mytray. Douglas Fairbanks was the star on Broadway, and...
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Director
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1918
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Although a solid supporting cast helps, the buoyant personality of Douglas Fairbanks is the main asset in this slight Arabian...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1918
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The effervescent Douglas Fairbanks Sr. plays the title role in Mr. Fix-It. Doug plays an American college boy, studying in...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1918
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Director, Producer
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1917
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Plodding Tim Burton (Jack Devereaux) can't get ahead at the wholesale grocery house where he works as a clerk. He envies...
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Director
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1917
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Phemie Sanders (Winifred Allen) has good reason to be a "man hater." Her father is drinking himself to death, and the local...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1917
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Humorist Irvin S. Cobb was one of the screenwriters for the 1917 Allan Dwan production Fighting Odds. In her film debut,...
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Director
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1917
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Cassidy stars Dick Rosson, brother of the film's director Arthur Rosson, in the title role. The story is set in the West,...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1917
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Producer
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1917
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Douglas Fairbanks Sr. stars as Ned Thacker, who is born during a Kansas cyclone (coincidentally the same manner in which...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1917
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Douglas Fairbanks headlines this fast-paced and funny adventure set in contemporary Manhattan playing a New Yorker who...
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Director
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1916
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Director
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1916
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The Good Bad Man is at once a straight western and a gentle spoof of the genre. Douglas Fairbanks plays a fellow who calls...
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Director
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s splendid physique was seen in all its pristine glory in the 1916 western The Half-Breed. In what...
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Director
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1916
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One might be inclined to dismiss the title of this film as a contradiction in terms -- but with Lillian Gish in the lead, how...
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Director
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1916
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Director
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1915
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This typical silent rags-to-riches comedy-drama featured Mary Pickford and her real-life brother Jack as sibling orphans...
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Director
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1915
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The commanding officer of the title is played by Donald Crisp. When he inherits two children from his late sister, Crisp is...
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Director
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1915
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The old David Belasco stage favorite May Blossom was brought to life on screen by "journeyman's journeyman" director...
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Director
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1915
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Allan Dwan was the producer-screenwriter and D.W. Griffith the supervising director of the Northwoods melodrama Jordan is a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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Set in Spain, Pretty Sister of Jose was based on a story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, an author better known for such...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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Director, Screenwriter
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1915
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While most of Vitagraph's biographical films were released as multiple-parters, Richelieu told its entire story within the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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Screenwriter
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1914
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Although he had not yet reached his 30th birthday, Allan Dwan had directed at least 225 films before he helmed the 1914...
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Director
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1914
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Henry Arthur Jones' popular stage drama The Lie was brought to the screen as a vehicle for Elsie Ferguson. The star plays...
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Director
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1914
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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Already a veteran filmmaker by 1914 (he would make his last picture in 1958), Allan Dwan occupied the director's seat in...
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Director
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1914
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The sprightly Marguerite Clark stars in this light romantic drama. Letty Roberts (Clark) is a naive little country girl who...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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That warhorse stage play The County Chairman was given its first cinematic treatment by that most prolific of directors,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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Director
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1914
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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Director
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1914
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Director
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1914
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Famous Players brought Henrietta Crosman from the stage to make her screen debut in this domestic drama. The Lorimers...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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Director
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1911
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