Inspired by the Titanic tragedy, Whom the Gods Destroy is a tour de force for character actor Walter Connolly. The star is...
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1934
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A depressed dance hall girl causes all kinds of problems when she stows away on a freighter and is discovered by the second...
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1932
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The comedic sidekick is shockingly done away with in this unusual and highly atmospheric Western from Fox. George O'Brien, of...
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1932
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1931
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High-class call girls provide the focus of this intelligent romantic comedy that takes a rather scathing look at the...
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1931
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1930
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The second of Cecil B. DeMille's talkies (as well as his second for MGM), Madam Satan is an exercise in incoherence, but this...
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1930
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The Widow from Chicago is Polly Henderson (Alice White) -- only she isn't really a widow and in fact has never been married....
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1930
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This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young...
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1930
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The Spirit of Youth begins as sailor Larry Kent discards his uniform to enter the boxing ring. Inspiring him to victory in...
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1929
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When silent star Colleen Moore nervously faced a microphone for her first "sound" test, the results were so positive that...
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1929
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This early musical features several song-and-dance numbers in the midst of a story about underworld criminals. Nick...
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1929
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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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1928
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In this show biz melodrama, Jacqueline Logan played a nightclub entertainer spurning her wealthy stage door Johnny in favor...
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1928
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Winsome Lois Wilson stars as The Gingham Girl in this cinemadaptation of the popular musical comedy of the same name. Wilson...
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1927
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As the comic relief in What Price Glory?, Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara were hits. Unfortunately, when the Fox studios tried...
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Betty Burnett
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1927
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1927
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Few comedies of the 1920s were as bizarre and surreal as Harry Langdon's Long Pants. Having recently come of age,...
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1927
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The titular "man bait" is svelte shopgirl Madge Dreyer (Marie Prevost), who can't convince her customers and male co-workers...
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1926
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The Strong Man was the second starring feature of silent screen comedian Harry Langdon--not to mention first feature-length...
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1926
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1925
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Earl Derr Biggers' novel was made into a play by George M. Cohan and had already come to the screen twice before (once with...
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1925
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This comedy-drama is mostly a collection of different stories, all intertwined, with a cast that consists of solid...
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1925
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A cuckolded husband discovers that he is in love with his ex-wife's cousin in this domestic melodrama from independent...
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1925
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Having starred in several William Steiner Production melodramas, former serial ace Charles Hutchison went behind the camera...
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Rita Thane
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1925
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1925
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1924
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Action star Ben Wilson enjoyed a modicum of success as an independent producer in the 1920s. One of Wilson's least typical...
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Sylvia Baldwin
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1924
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1924
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Owen Moore was a bit long in tooth when he played the brash young hero of East of Broadway. Peter Mullaney (Moore) has one...
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1924
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1924
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Claribel
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1923
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The massacre of the Huguenots, previously dramatized in broad strokes by Griffith's Intolerance, served as the basis for...
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1923
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In this comedy romance, Claude Gillingwater plays a Southern Colonel who has the impossible task of keeping Viola Dana away...
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Betty Biddle
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1923
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1923
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Viola Dana stars in this rags-to-riches comedy-drama. She plays Martha Mason, who is such an underdog in her little home town...
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Leila Wayne
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1923
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Wallace Reid starred in a legion of comedy-dramas involving speeding cars and most of them (generally written by Byron...
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Lorraine Tyler
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1922
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Harry Garson directed his then-wife, Clara Kimball Young, in this light comedy -- a departure for Young, who was better known...
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1921
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1921
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The careful direction of William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil) brought fresh life to Cosmo Hamilton's all-too-typical story,...
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1920
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