Anthony Quinn added Eskimo to the many ethnic types he portrayed on film with this drama about a clash of cultures from...
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1960
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Joe is played by Leslie Randall in this lean British programmer. Working at a detergent company, Joe is ignored by his bosses...
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1960
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Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her...
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1960
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Though he doesn't know it at first, industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) shouldn't trust his wife Irene...
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1949
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Though cheaply produced in the time-honored tradition of PRC Productions, The Lady from Chungking was nothing if not timely....
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1943
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Of the two PRC Anna May Wong vehicles filmed during the 1942-43 season, Bombs Over Burma is marginally the best, thanks to...
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1942
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Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist...
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1941
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Kim Ling
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1939
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Akim Tamiroff plays the title role, an underworld leader who controls all illicit operations in Chinatown. Tamiroff is...
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Dr. Mary Ling
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1939
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In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the...
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1938
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Astrology and murder meet head-on in the Warner Bros. programmer When Were You Born? When horoscope specialist Mary Lee Liang...
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Mary Lee Ling
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1938
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Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the...
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Lan Ying Lin
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1937
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Taou Yen
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1935
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The timeworn British stage musical Chu Chin Chow had already been made into a silent picture when this talkie version made...
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Zahrat
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1934
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It's "Never the twain shall meet" time again, this time in London's Limehouse district. George Raft stars as Harry Young, a...
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Tu Tuan
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1934
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1933
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson solve a puzzling case in which a bloody foreign word is found beside a murder victim. The plot...
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Mrs. Pyke
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1933
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Hue Fei
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1932
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In this entry in the mystery series, the Chinese criminal mastermind exacts revenge upon his enemy Fletcher, the man...
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Ling Moy
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1931
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Chinese-American film favorite Anna May Wong stars in the British meller Wasted Love. The fragile-looking Wong plays a "beach...
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1930
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1930
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Hai Tang
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1930
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Also known as Hai Tang, this exotic melodrama was filmed in both German and English-language versions. The title character,...
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Hai-Tang
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1930
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1929
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Just before making his talkie directorial debut with Atlantic, director E.A. DuPont dashed off the silent "backstage" drama...
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Shosho
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1929
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Although filmed in Berlin with an all-German cast, Song was financed and distributed by British International Pictures....
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1928
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1928
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Onoto (Myrna Loy) is slated to be sold to a wealthy Mandarin, but is rescued from the auction block by white fugitive from...
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1928
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Critics in 1928 often commented on the near-oriental facial features of popular screen comedian Johnny Hines (political...
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1928
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This "lost" film would be especially valuable to see again, if only for two reasons: It was the second American effort of...
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1927
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Previously filmed in England in 1919, the barnstorming Harry Maurice Vernon-Harold Owen play Mr.Wu re-emerged as a Lon Chaney...
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1927
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Though he'd fallen from the upper ranks of directors, James Young was still capable of excellent work in 1927. Young's...
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1927
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1927
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The scene is Shanghai, where virginal missionary Pauline Garon finds herself the object of lust of the local Chinese crime...
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1927
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Vampy Margaret Livingston and stalwart Earl Foxe seem miscast in this farce comedy. Foxe plays a young hypochondriac who...
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1926
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This obscure silent melodrama, directed by the veteran Harry J. Revier, was filmed entirely in San Francisco with an...
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1926
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1926
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A naive young girl from the deep south goes to New York with hopes of becoming a designer only to find herself living in a...
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1926
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1925
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Annabelle Wu
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1925
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Old reliables such as director George B. Seitz, writer Frank Leon Smith, and cameraman Vernon Walker made this Allene Ray...
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1924
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Allene Ray and Bruce Gordon starred in this low-budget action melodrama from producer C. W. Patton, a former cattle rancher....
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1924
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Keok
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1924
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When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter...
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Tiger Lily
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1924
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Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s. As the thief of...
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The Mongol Slave
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1924
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Priscilla Dean made a name for herself at Universal by playing charming female crooks in a number of films. The character of...
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1923
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Even though Universal Studios released this as a "Super-Jewel," it's really just the same old, tired South Seas tale with an...
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1923
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1923
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This tragic tale of the Orient was only the second feature film in which a color film process invented by Technicolor was...
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Lotus Flower
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1922
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This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine...
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1921
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This eight-reel Fox feature is a blatant example of the rampant racial prejudice that existed in the early part of the 20th...
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1921
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Dinty O'Sullivan (Wesley Barry) is the son of poor Irish immigrants. His father was killed the day he and his mother arrived...
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1920
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