The exquisitely beautiful Catherine Deneuve plays Miriam, a centuries-old vampire capable of bestowing the gift of...
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1983
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Milos Foreman's cinematic adaptation of E.L. Doctrow's sprawling pop-culture epic Ragtime follows a variety of characters...
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1981
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The once-notorious D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover seemed like kid stuff by the time this 1981 adaptation hit the...
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1981
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Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed...
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1981
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Jonathan Swift's satire about a sailor's strange voyage is the source of this, one of many filmed adaptations of the tale. ~...
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1977
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1976
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In Mousey a made-for-TV thriller, a disturbed and obsessed man seeks to regain his son from his overbearing, controlling...
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1974
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This Hammer-flavored gothic outing (originally titled Daughters of Dracula) involves the sanguinary exploits of two female...
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1974
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June Wyndham-Davies directs this made-for-TV version of the classic children's novel Pollyanna, written by Eleanor H. Porter....
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1973
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This British film examines the choices individuals must make when confronted with a romantic relationship which is rewarding...
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1971
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Based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, this comedic western tells of a thieving man who tries to get his hands on two million...
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1971
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It wasn't as well received at the box office as the pictures that preceded it or followed it, but Peter Hunt's On Her...
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1969
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Vanessa Redgrave stars in this film biography of the free-spirited modern interpretive dancer Isadora Duncan. Trained in...
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1968
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In this rabid anti-communist science fiction tract, scientist Arnold Kramer (Peter Arne) convinces the Pentagon that the...
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1968
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The imprisoning aspects of Success are humorously analyzed in this British-made film. Oliver Reed plays a wealthy advertising...
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1967
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This exciting adventure provides an interesting look into the manufacture and trafficking of opium and heroin. The original...
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1966
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In this sexy comedy an affianced woman decides to sow one last wild oat before becoming a devoted wife. She therefore...
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1966
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A woman has to choose between the rich man she wants and the bohemian type who loves her in this comedy. Michele O'Brien...
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1964
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This sequel to the 1960 Village of The Damned falls short of the original well-made Sci-Fi shocker. The pretentious attempt...
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1963
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Vivien Leigh plays Karen Stone, a middle-aged actress whose career is in a tailspin. To assuage her hurt feelings, Karen goes...
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1961
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A young Susannah York had her first lead role in this drama about a teenage girl on the cusp of womanhood. When her mother...
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1961
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Based on the stageplay Pick-up Girl, this film adaptation by director Muriel Box retains enough of the verbose theatrical...
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1960
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In his all too brief life, director Henry Cornelius became the principal standard-bearer of genteel whimsy in British films....
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Becky
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1958
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Maggie Smith makes her film debut in this outing as an aristocrat whose sheltered existence is shattered by the arrival of...
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Harriet Jefferson
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1958
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Story of Esther Costello is the cinematic equivalent of eating a whole box of potato chips; you may hate yourself, but you'll...
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1957
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1955
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1955
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The Barefoot Contessa begins at the funeral of Ava Gardner, a former Spanish peasant, cabaret dancer and movie star, who at...
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1954
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Had the women-behind-bars drama The Weak and the Wicked been made in Hollywood, the cast would probably have included the...
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1954
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Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as...
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1951
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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Filmed in 1945 and released in the US the following year, the Anglo-American Journey Together is a tribute to the Royal Air...
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1946
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Emeric Pressburger was one of the scenarists on the big-budget British seafaring saga Atlantic Ferry. The film is a...
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1941
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1936
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In this melodrama, a young secretary becomes the Kept Woman of her lascivious employer. When she encounters her high school...
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Helen Huston
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1931
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The "conspiracy" of the title refers not only to a deadly narcotics ring, but also the combined efforts by the good guys to...
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Margaret Holt
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1930
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Based loosely on Waite Hoyt and Mickey Cochrane, major league baseball players moonlighting as vaudeville entertainers, this...
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1930
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The DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical Good News was first brought to the screen by MGM in 1930. The scene is Tait...
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Babe
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1930
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Silent-screen comedian Harry Langdon was the darling of the critics in 1927, but his career quickly lost momentum, and by the...
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Ellen
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and...
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Hattie Hartley
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1929
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In this comedy, a middle-class stenographer marries her wealthy boss. Her family is intimidated by his status and when the...
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Helen Thayer
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1929
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This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of...
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Hank Mahoney
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1929
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Intended as a follow-up to the fabulously successful Broadway Melody, Chasing Rainbows reunites several of the leading...
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Carlie
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1929
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Ginger Bolivar
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1928
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1928
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Sally Rand
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1928
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A Harp in Hock proved to be a felicitous reteaming of veteran Austrian stage star Rudolph Schildkraut and juvenile favorite...
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Nora
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Despite his accomplishments as an actor, Donald Crisp's talents as a director were slight at best. What makes Crisp's...
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Janet Cleghorne
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1927
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Those who believe that It Happened One Night was the first film to tap the comic potential of "auto courts" (later known as...
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Mary Ellen Stock
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1927
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Leola Lane
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1926
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Marie Farley
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1926
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The frequently filmed Alice Hegan Rice novel Lovey Mary was given the slick MGM treatment in 1926. Bessie Love plays the...
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Lovey Mary
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1926
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1926
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With its mythical kingdom theme, this romance was not terribly original. But it does feature a couple of interesting aspects;...
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1926
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This warm comedy, based on the play by Frank Craven, was typical of William C. deMille's directing work. Thomas Bates Sr....
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Geraldine Marsh
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1925
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Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) studies music in Paris, but his parents (Lee Baker and Effie Shannon) call him home and ask...
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1925
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Although there was nothing really fresh about the story to this romantic comedy (based on the play The King, by Leo...
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Gladys Humphries
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1925
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Based on a story by Harold Bell Wright, this average silent western starred Warner Baxter as the son who almost loses his...
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Nora
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1925
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This adventure virtually butchers its source, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. But with stop-motion photography and...
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Paula White
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1925
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The meek and mild Gladstone Smith (Charles Ray) is a reporter for the morning edition. While following a lead on a murder...
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1924
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This tale of international thievery was rather an odd film for director Maurice Tourneur, and it wasn't up to his usual...
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1924
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After his impressive directorial effort on The Sea Hawk, Frank Lloyd made this far smaller and more intimate film. The...
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Mary, his wife
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1924
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Although the plot to this heavy-handed drama sounds like typical Hollywood hokum, it actually came from a very successful...
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Grace Pierce
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1924
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This melodrama was personally supervised by producer Thomas Ince, and, depending on how one looked at it, it was either...
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1924
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An attorney (Thomas Meighan) becomes the intermediary between an Indian tribe and the territory's settlers in this fine...
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Lahleet
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1924
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John Brent (Hobart Bosworth) returns from the East to tell his fellow cattlemen that they will have to leave the range and...
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Ellen Crawley
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1924
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Starring New Zealander Shayle Gardner in the title role, this British screen version of Augusta J. Evans-Wilson's sentimental...
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Edna Earle
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Julia (Bessie Love) is a small-town girl who falls in love with George Crum (Frank Elliott) a much-older man. Though the...
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Julia
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1923
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George Walsh, usually known for his athletic roles, stars in this fantasy based on the famous story by Honoré de Balzac. Poet...
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Pauline Gaudin
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1923
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Sinclair Lewis wrote the story to this heartwarming drama. Don Dorgan (George Nichols) has been patrolling his beat in a...
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1923
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Hilda Gray
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1923
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Generally, during the silent era, Caucasian actors, not Asians, would play "Oriental" roles. In this romantic drama, Bessie...
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Mui Far
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1923
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Burned by a recent series of scandals that included the Fatty Arbuckle manslaughter case and the February 1, 1922, murder of...
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1923
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Dorothy Davenport billed herself by her private name, Mrs. Wallace Reid, for this melodrama about drug addiction. She was...
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Mary Finnegan
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1923
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Several westerns of the '20s centered around a foppish Easterner toughening up in a Western atmosphere, a role made popular...
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Gloria Philips
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1922
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This melodrama, with all its standard trappings, was adapted the stage play by Pierce Kingsley, which in turn was based on...
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Anna Moore
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1922
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This melodramatic programmer had a Chinese backdrop and Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa as its star. Tse Chan (Hayakawa) is...
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1922
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Everybody at Mack Sennett's Keystone studios was expected to do a little bit of everything, which is why bassett-faced...
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1922
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Although this drama tugged a little too insistently at the heartstrings, Billie Dove -- still a fresh star -- stands out as...
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The Girl
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1922
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Bessie Love stars in this comedy, adapted from a novel by Belle K. Maniates. Love, as Penny, arrives in the West by...
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1921
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Sessue Hayakawa wrote the story for this simple little drama. Wang (Hayakawa) is a Chinese vegetable peddler in the slum area...
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Mary
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1921
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John Nelson (Hobart Bosworth) is a cruel sea captain who has harbored a grudge against humankind ever since his wife deserted...
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1921
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Clumsy direction went a long way to sink this minor Bessie Love vehicle. Love plays an Irish girl whose parents suddenly come...
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1919
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When she played this Peg O' My Heart-type character, Bessie Love was 20 -- still very young, but nevertheless rather old to...
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1919
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This Western romance was adapted from Bret Harte's novel, The Judgment of Bolinas Plains, which had been made into a stage...
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1918
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No relation to the 1915 British film of the same name, 1918's The Great Adventure is a showcase for that delightful screen...
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1918
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For reasons unknown, it took two directors to put the modestly budgeted The Sawdust Ring together. Bessie Love stars as Janet...
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1917
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In this completely implausible silent picture, Bessie Love plays Nina, a blind flower girl and Elmer Clifton is Jimmie, the...
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1917
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Broadway luminary DeWolfe Hopper was felicitously cast as a broken-down ham actor in the 5-reel comedy-drama Stranded. The...
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1917
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When her father goes broke, Irish colleen Betty (Bessie Love) is forced to sell her ancestral home. But rather than part with...
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1917
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1916
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Veteran Biograph leading man/director Wilfred Lucas essays the title role in Hell-to-Pay Austin. A rough-and-tumble...
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1916
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1916
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Wilfred Lucas plays a distinguished banker, falsely accused of murder. Though acquitted in court, Lucas' reputation is...
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1916
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Unlike most "preparedness" films of the WWI era, Flying Torpedo sidesteps preaching in favor of non-stop action. With...
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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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1916
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1916
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Silent superstar Douglas Fairbanks lampoons both his dashing onscreen persona and the detective mystery genre in this curious...
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1916
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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