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1930
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This entertaining film is one of Laurel and Hardy's most bizarre. Stan and Ollie work as stable-hands for a racehorse named...
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1929
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The Technicolor "spectacular" The Viking was loosely based on the exploits of Norwegian explorer Leif Ericsson. Using O. A....
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Erle the Red
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1929
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In this crime drama, a aging illusionist falls in love with his comely young assistant. Unfortunately, she is enamored with...
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1929
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A popular comedy duo towards the end of the silent era, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatten once again join forces for this...
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Old Man Beagle
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1928
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1928
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The Climbers is the third film version of the same-named play by Clyde Fitch. Whereas the original play took place in...
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1927
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Irene Rich heads the cast of this lachrymose "mother love" drama. Rich is cast as Sylvia "Dearie" Darling, a nightclub...
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1927
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1927
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Robert Goring
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1927
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A spectacular trains wreck -- courtesy of stock footage -- highlighted this otherwise pedestrian silent melodrama from...
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The Boss
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1924
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Most of the elements that made the first Potash and Perlmutter film so successful are brought back here: Frances Marion is...
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1924
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While Warner P. Richmond didn't exactly have matinee idol looks -- he was usually cast as a brutal villain -- he was...
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Big MacDonald
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1923
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George Eliot's tale of redemption had been filmed before in the silent era, most notably in 1917 by the underrated Thanhouser...
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1922
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Marion Davies' fifth feature film had the mark of William Randolph Hearst all over it. It was produced by his production...
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Sylvanus Power
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1920
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S. Rankin Drew, son of noted stage star Sidney Drew, directed this feature and co-starred in it, along with lovely...
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1917
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When a group of reformers, led by Mrs. Bowers (Gladys Fairbanks), closes down the red light district, district attorney...
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1917
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The trade magazine Variety hailed Vitagraph's The Daring of Diana as a "return" to old-fashioned melodrama -- as if this...
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1916
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Ralph Ince directs his sister-in-lawAnita Stewart in this overwrought melodrama. Stewart plays Rose Peters, a woman wronged...
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1915
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Marguerite Bertsch, one of Vitagraph's busiest screenwriters, was responsible for the three-reel "melodramatic farce" Uncle...
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1914
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