In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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1939
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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1939
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Sonja Henie is the "lucky star" in this enjoyable 20th Century-Fox musical. Henie plays Kristina Nelson a humble department...
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1938
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1938
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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1937
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This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull...
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1937
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A strong-willed young man creates a rift with his father when turns down a safe position in the family business and becomes...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important...
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1936
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1936
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In this adventure, a wealthy socialite falls in love and decides to stow away on her would-be lover's airplane as it takes...
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1936
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Rex Stout's overweight, under-exercised detective Nero Wolfe was first brought to the screen in 1936 in the portly person of...
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1936
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The title character in this Columbia quickie is an elusive jewel thief who doesn't like to be photographed. Erstwhile...
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1935
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Insurance investigator Tom Fletcher (Edmund Lowe) is hot on the trail of an arsonist (please excuse the pun). He is helped...
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1935
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When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly) breathes a sigh of relief: at...
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1935
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In this lively comedy, a cocky reporter follows a gangster aboard an ocean liner. While on board, the overconfident fellow...
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1935
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Although it was nominated for an Academy Award, the third Three Stooges comedy two-reeler for Columbia has not dated well. A...
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1934
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Taking a break from westerns during the 1933-34 season, Colonel Tim McCoy was starred in such Columbia "easterners" as...
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1934
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This third entry in Columbia's "Inspector Trent" series is cleverly (and economically) set in a movie studio. A malevolent...
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1934
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Columbia Pictures workhorse Lambert Hillyer was both writer and director of Men of the Night. Bruce Cabot plays Kelly, a...
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1934
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A rather weak entry in Tim McCoy's Columbia oeuvre, this Western was released to smaller venues in December of 1934, but not...
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1934
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Columbia's The Thrill Hunter is more of straight action film than a western, though leading man Buck Jones still wears his...
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1933
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Tom Mix goes up against a ruthless gang of rustlers headed by a crooked army colonel in this, his penultimate Western for...
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Little Casino
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1933
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Katharine Hepburn won her first Oscar for her portrayal of Eva Lovelace, a small-town community-theatre actress who comes to...
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1933
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Diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele, who that same year also played a circus acrobat, a would-be boxer, and a barn-storming...
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1933
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1932
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In his fourth Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played a lawman chasing a masked villain known only as "the Shadow."...
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Bud Collins
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1932
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In this murder mystery, everyone around a murdered movie producer is a suspect, including his girl friend. Most of those...
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1932
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This drama opens with a most disturbing scene as a jilted lover places a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Fortunately,...
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1929
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In this drama, set in a bordertown gambling saloon, the owner falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an...
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Loco, the Halfwit
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1929
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The disastrous 1929 Stock Market crash was still several months in the future when Wolf of Wall Street made its screen debut....
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Frank
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1929
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In this comedy, a businessman takes his client with a beautiful escort to a fancy nightclub where he plans to close an...
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Tom Ford, Jr.
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1929
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Bob Conroy
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1929
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1929
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In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying....
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1929
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A criminal mastermind is bringing down government airplanes using a "death ray" machine in this silent action melodrama which...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Percy
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1928
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Real-life gridiron star Jeff Cravath was the technical advisor for the fair-to-middling campus picture Making the Varsity. In...
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Wally Ellsworth
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1928
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Recorded sound effects punctuate this silent drama, the first big-budget release from the then-Poverty Row studio Columbia....
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The Boy
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1928
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Runaway Girls was the first directorial credit for Mark Sandrich, who would still have to serve a long apprenticeship in...
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Jim Grey
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1928
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Banker John Caswell (Francis X. Bushman), a wealthy widower, decides to leave his scheming mistress Irene (Margaret...
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1928
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The basic plot of Wife's Relations involves the romance between heroine Shirley Mason and erstwhile inventor Gaston Glass....
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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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Donald Hearne
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1928
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A low-budget drama with high-budget pretensions, The Love Wager begins by focusing on the relationship between care-worn...
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1927
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The director of Riding to Fame was uncredited, but research has revealed his identity as one A. B. Barringer. Crippled...
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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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It was an open secret in Hollywood that actress Lilyan Tashman preferred the company of women to men. Who better, then, to...
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1927
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The father of footloose Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) has decreed that, until Cynthia finds a husband her two sisters won't be...
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1927
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That indefatigable old trouper Hobart Bosworth topped the cast of the Columbia "B"-plus feature The Blood Ship. The villain...
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1927
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Produced by low-budget distributor Hi-Mark, he Adventurous Soul was a typical 1920s melodrama in which a powerful shipping...
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Glenn Manin
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1927
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Betrayed by his wife and disillusioned by the world in general, British nobleman Lord Gervas Carew heads to Algeria, there to...
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1926
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One feels that if Cecil B. DeMille had been assigned to direct the one-character play Krapp's Last Tape, he'd have added...
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1926
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This lively outing chronicles the adventures of a daring young buck who defies his father, who grounded the lad for getting...
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Pet Master
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1926
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The Sporting Lover was produced by Faultless Pictures Corporation, leaving the picture wide open for wisecracks from the...
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Algernon Cravens
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1926
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Mary Carr is once more cast as a saintly matriarch in The Hidden Way. This time she plays the sweet, grey-haired mother of...
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Harry (kid)
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1926
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This romantic melodrama was based on the novel Peggy of Beacon Hill by Maysie Greig. Because she is so badly treated by her...
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Jack Mason
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1925
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This jazzy comedy-drama was based on the Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Sartwell Mason. Wiletta Whipple (Pauline Garon)...
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Dick Whipple
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1925
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Just as Reginald Denny could only play an all-American boy until talkies revealed his British accent, Conrad Nagel could only...
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1925
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Fearless Lover was produced by a company called Perfection Films. It's not quite perfection, but it isn't bad....
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1925
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1924
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Dorothy Davenport, the star of this drama, dedicated the film to "the mothers of America, as a protest against the...
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Bobby Allen
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1924
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Eve Quinn (Marie Prevost) is the classic, flirty, 1920s flapper. She easily outshines her quieter, more reserved half-sister,...
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1924
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This drama was written by future MGM producer Paul Bern. The greatest ambition of actress Vanna Du Maurier (Anna Q. Nilsson)...
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1924
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Dick Everton
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1924
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As might be expected, director Victor Fleming, who always did well with outdoorsy material, deftly handles this adaptation of...
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1923
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This epic historical romance, based on the novel by Mary Johnston, was one of Paramount's big releases for 1922, and it...
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1922
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1922
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1922
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Enchantment is a thoroughly delightful bit of froth, tailor-made for the talents of Marion Davies. Our heroine plays Ethel,...
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1921
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Comedy was not the forte of great character actor Lionel Barrymore, and this picture, based on the novel by Arnold Bennett,...
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1921
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Lionel Barrymore stars in this melodrama, based on the play by Sir James L. Young. Jim Ralston (Barrymore) is a country bank...
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1921
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1920
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Tommy Corbin
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1920
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