Those looking for a tasteful but fun little musical comedy had best look elsewhere as this one is basically about the...
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1968
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In this African adventure, a big game hunter's 8-year-old son finds fun and danger with his friends: a chimp and an...
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Screenwriter
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1965
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This exploitation crime drama offers a fictionalized account of John Dillinger just before he became known as one of the...
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Screenwriter
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1965
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Spliced together with plentiful strips of old footage from previous films set in Africa, this routine romantic drama takes...
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Short Story Author
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1963
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In this low-budget jungle adventure three people must take a wanted man through the jungle to the coast. Along the way they...
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1955
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The syndicated TV sci-fi series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1953) was dual-purposed. Though running 39 episodes, the series...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Yet another serial from penny-pinching producer Sam Katzman, the fifteen chapter Gunfighters of the Northwest suffered from...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Killer Ape is one of the most violent entries in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. In this outing, Jim (Johnny Weissmuller)...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Produced at Agoura, CA, and directed by silent film action star Richard Talmadge, this minor Western starred bandleader and...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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Whenever Monogram wanted to get prestige bookings, the studio released its product through its "class" subsidiary Allied...
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1949
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Though no longer employed by Universal in 1949, pert Peggy Ryan continued to show up in movie musicals for a variety of...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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This seedy anti-marijuana tract was distributed as She Shoulda Said No. The star is one Lila Leeds, who gained notoriety in...
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Short Story Author
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1949
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Dauntless Navy intelligence officer Richard Travis is dispatched to the Frozen North to smash a spy ring. By a fortuitous...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for...
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Short Story Author
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1943
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The Triangle W Ranch is indeed haunted in this Monogram Range Busters series entry, though not by the spirit of the late...
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Short Story Author
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1943
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The world of boxing provides the framework for this romantic musical that tells the story of Baby and his manager who is...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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This Monogram melodrama is a remake of the 1932 thriller The 13th Guest, which starred Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot. In the...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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Moving slightly up the poverty-row ladder from PRC to Monogram, Burlesque queen Ann Corio starred in the musical comedy...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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In this western the three Range Busters go undercover, take on a gang of ruthless outlaws, and bring them to justice. ~...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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The Range Busters-John "Dusty" King, David Sharpe, Max "Alibi" Terhune-do their bit for the war effort in Texas to Bataan....
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Based on the long-running comic strip by Gene Byrne, PRC's Reg'lar Fellers was intended as the first of a series of 6-reel...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Talented B-picture director Joseph H. Lewis wasn't yet in the "auteur" class when he helmed the PRC quickie Criminals Within....
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Celebrity fan-dancer Sally Rand, the undraped sensation of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, was the star of the 1938 Grand...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Originally slated for released through Grand National Pictures, Isle of Destiny was redirected to RKO Radio when Grand...
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1940
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In this animal adventure, Silver Wolf, a police dog is considered a killer after he is falsely blamed for killing someone....
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Screenwriter
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1940
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This sequel to Grand National's 1938 actioner Cipher Bureau once again stars Leon Ames as bureau head Major Philip Waring. In...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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The first of Coronado Pictures' three "Singing Cowgirl" Westerns, Water Rustlers stars Dorothy Page as rancher Shirley Martin...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In her final of three "singing cowgirl" Westerns for low-budget Grand National, Dorothy Page learns that her neighbors, the...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In what must have seemed like a good idea at the time, Grand National pictures attempted to build a series of westerns around...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Law of the Texan is another of the above-average Buck Jones westerns produced by Coronet Films for Columbia release. Jones...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis stars in Spirit of Youth. Often mistakenly referred to as a biography of Louis,...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Set on the eve of California's entry into the Union, this fact-based Western features Buck Jones as an undercover agent out...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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The Fighting Playboy is a "Northern": a western plotline set in the Canadian woods. Nick Stuart plays the ne'er-do-well son...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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This unabashed propaganda film (also known by the title Tell Your Children, a dead giveaway) has become a cult classic of...
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1936
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1935
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Produced for the "all-colored" movie houses prevalent in the U.S. in the early 1930s, Drums O' Voodoo (aka She Devil), isn't...
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Director
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1934
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The late "B"-picture historian Don Miller once referred to the "teenage sex" exploitationers of the 1930s as the "...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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In this drama, set within an urban hotel, a nightclub dancer witnesses a gangland killing and must flee for her life. She...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1933
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As directed by Arthur Hoerl, this 1933 crime drama begins with a bank teller being pressured by an unsavory criminal to...
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Director
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1933
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Based on a 1933 play, this mediocre whodunit was independently produced in New York City with a Broadway cast. Lora Baxter...
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Director
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1933
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After being injured in the prizefighting ring, an ex-boxer is reduced to speakeasy bouncer and meets a charming burlesque...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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A varied group of more or less greedy relatives is once again gathered at the reading of a will in this atmospheric thriller...
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Short Story Author
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1932
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In this mystery a sensual starlet suddenly dies. Though she was popular with the public, behind the scenes she had many...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In 1932, Monogram Pictures was essentially the clearing house for the films of independent production firms. Monogram was...
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Book Author
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1932
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Sally Blane (Loretta Young's look-alike sister) plays Janet, a Manhattan socialite who is fed up with the superficiality of...
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Short Story Author
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1932
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Big Town was slapped together by Invincible Pictures, a low-budget concern that shared studio space (and production...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1932
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1932
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Former silent-screen star Frank Mayo plays a big-city bootlegger at odds with gangster chieftain Tom Santschi, the man who's...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1932
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Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Short story writer Thomas attempts to solve a murder involving blackmail, stabbings and mysterious notes. Another interesting...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Upon her release from prison, Joyce Greeley (Edwina Booth) is promptly and mysteriously murdered. Fledgling crime reporter...
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Short Story Author
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1932
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Such were the ways of Hollywood that the dignified H.B. Warner, who played Jesus in 1927's King of Kings, found himself in...
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Dialogue Writer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1932
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Charles Delaney, an all-purpose actor who appeared in several Poverty Row productions of the early 1930s, assumes the role of...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1931
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In this mystery-thriller, set on Broadway, a cynical reporter looks into the killing of a New York actor who was found...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this melodrama, a recently-abandoned wife consoles herself by heading for Reno and falling in love. Her new lover is...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Sono Art-World Wide, an enterprising minor-league studio of the early talkie era, did its best to seek out subject matter...
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Short Story Author
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1931
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In this romantic crime drama, a railroad telegraph dispatcher loses his job after a train crash. He tries to convince his...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Former silent star Vera Reynolds plays the title role in this low-budget thriller from Poverty Row studio Chesterfield. She...
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Short Story Author
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1931
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If the 1931 cheapie Swanee River had a plot, one would never know it from the contemporary reviews. As near as can be...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Several of Hollywood's best Chinese actors are prominently featured in the mystery melodrama Peacock Fan. The titular prop is...
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1929
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A typical silent outdoors melodrama from poverty row producer Trem Carr and action director Duke Worne, this film starred...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Viola Dana plays both of the title characters in Rayart's Two Sisters. One of the heroines is a daring female bandit, while...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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In this convoluted melodrama, a wife frames her husband, an inventor, for the murder she committed. He gets a life sentence,...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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In this youthful drama, a young high-school drop out is obsessed with find the gangsters who killed his brother, a...
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1929
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1929
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In this western, set aboard a California bound stagecoach, a man and woman passenger begin a flirtation that is interrupted...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Escaping from a revolution, the King (Joseph Swickard) of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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A part-talkie from poverty row studio Trem Carr Productions, Should a Girl Marry? answered its own question with a resounding...
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Screen Story
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1929
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A prospector's unhappy wife (Alice Calhoun) takes in, cares for and later comes to love a man (LeRoy Mason) who is unjustly...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Placed on this earth to play rheumy-eyed, careworn mothers, Mary Carr went through her customary paces in the Rayart...
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1929
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1929
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Audrey Scott (Shirley Palmer) is a fun-loving but basically proper college coed, who manages to escape the clutches of one...
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1929
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1929
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Ostensibly based on an "original story" by Arthur Hoerl, Shanghai Rose would seem to have been derived from the then-popular...
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Short Story Author
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1929
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Victor Thorne's 1925 melodrama was turned into a low-budget film starring Shirley Mason four years later. Mason played the...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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A Midnight Adventure was a veritable compendium of murder-mystery cliches -- at least, that was the consensus of opinion of...
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1928
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Not to be confused with 1924's On the Stroke of Three, this 1928 actioner (based loosely on a play by Joseph LeBrandt) was...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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A typical Poverty Row potboiler, this minor silent action melodrama featured Jacqueline Logan as a young woman searching for...
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1928
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Small-towner David Warren (Gaston Glass) is forced to leave his community after accidentally causing the death of a local...
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1928
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Defying her strait-laced aunt, country lass Pauline Garon heads to New York, where she gets a job as a cabaret dancer....
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Short Story Author
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1928
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Bespectacled Creighton Hale and 1923 Wampas Baby Star Virginia Brown Faire headlined this domestic drama from low-budget...
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Continuity, Screenwriter
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1928
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Law and the Man is based on a story by Roy Octavus Cohen, then popular for his magazine yarns about "Negro" life. This time,...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1928
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Rookie policeman Cornelius Keefe can't help but run afoul of his superiors. It isn't that Keefe is a screw-up, simply that he...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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In this melodrama, a wealthy girl decides to disguise herself and work as a laborer in her father's factory so she can be...
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Blond Helen Foster, who was 22 at the time, played the title role in this moralistic silent drama about teenaged Cynthia...
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Continuity, Screenwriter
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1928
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His big-time stardom a thing of the past, George Walsh tried to substitute quantity for quality in the waning days of the...
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Short Story Author
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1927
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Light in the Window is nearly as maudlin as its title. Henry B. Walthall, one of the great actors of the silent screen, goes...
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Short Story Author
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1927
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Based on the popular railroad ballad, Casey Jones stars Ralph Lewis in the title role. Actually, the ballad itself is dealt...
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Short Story Author
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1927
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Once Ken Maynard proved his mettle as a cowboy star, Rayart Films decided to test out the potential of Maynard's brother...
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Short Story Author
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1927
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"Little Billy" Fitzgerald, the talented midget best known for his villainous portrayal in the deathless novelty western...
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1926
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1926
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Although low-budget filmmaker Ashton Dearholt usually spent his time on the small end of the megaphone (this being the silent...
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1926
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Motion Picture News warned that this melodrama, which was sentimental to the point of "hokum," would be better appreciated in...
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1925
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Actress Hope Hampton plays a New England girl who heads to the titular island, yearning for romance. After nearly falling for...
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1925
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1925
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