The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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Decked out with leftover sets and stock footage from 1946's Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Columbia's Rogues of Sherwood Forest...
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1950
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Though usually associated with westerns, Columbia producer Harry Joe Brown proved to be up to the challenge of producing a...
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1950
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The oft-filmed Frances Hodgson Burnett novel The Secret Garden was given the usual plush MGM treatment in 1949. Tempestuous...
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1949
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1949
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Though one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy"...
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1949
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Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret...
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1949
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1948
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Sexual harassment can work both ways as can be seen in this romantic comedy when ad man endeavors to maneuver out of a...
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1948
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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White Horse Cabby
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1947
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1947
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Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and play by Frank Vosper, Love From a Stranger isn't quite as good as the 1937 version...
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1947
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1947
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The penultimate entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series, Terror by Night takes place almost exclusively on a speeding...
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1946
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The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle...
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1946
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1945
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Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than...
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1945
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Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is...
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1945
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1945
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1944
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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Universal's yearly quota of cheap, 60-minute musicals occasionally yielded such likeable diversions as South of Dixie. David...
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1944
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The fifth in the Invisible Man series stars Jon Hall as Robert Griffin, a convict who takes the invisibility serum and then...
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1944
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1944
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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1944
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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He looks like Dracula, talks like Dracula and dresses like Dracula; but since the movie rights to Dracula were controlled by...
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1943
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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Out of the Frying Pan, Francis Swann's perennial community-theatre favorite, came to the screen under the title...
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1942
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MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle...
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1942
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1942
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In this thriller set in WW II London during the bombing raids, a surgeon becomes a homicidal maniac during the frequent...
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1942
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is...
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1941
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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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1941
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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1941
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While listening to a recording of "Penny Serenade," Julie Gardiner Adams (Irene Dunne) begins reflecting on her past. She...
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1941
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In this remake of the 1930 film of the same name, a bank robber suffers a war wound and undergoes plastic surgery. Upon his...
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1941
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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1941
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In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He...
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1941
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This is the first of two filmed adaptations of Al Capp's classic comic strip, in which the title hillbilly (Granville Owen)...
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1940
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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John Ford welded four of Eugene O'Neill's one-act plays about the sea, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, The...
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1940
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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1940
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In this drama, an ingenious journalist finds himself at odds with his brother the district attorney over his unconventional...
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for...
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1939
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The bloom of youth had long faded on actor James Dunn when he starred in Shadows Over Shanghai. Even so, he is fairly...
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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A comparatively little-known entry in the "screwball comedy" genre, David O. Selznick's The Young in Heart goes for quiet...
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1938
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1937
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The title of this Errol Flynn vehicle sprang from an "inside" joke at Warner Bros. Whenever the studio depicted a marquee or...
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1937
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A golddigger finds that romance doesn't always equal finance in this comedy. Crystal Wetherby (Jean Harlow) is an American...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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1937
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In this romantic adventure, a wealthy Arab sheik has a reputation for breeding some of the fastest horses in the world....
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1937
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Rivalry, romance, and brotherly love in logging camps are chronicled in this drama. The trouble begins when the brother of a...
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed...
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1936
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This musical is adapted from a popular Broadway show written by George M. Cohan. It tells the tale of a team of Broadway...
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1936
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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1936
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Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of...
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1936
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1936
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Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield...
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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Lifelong mystery buff Samantha Kinsey (Kellie Martin) is thrilled when she inherits a bookstore that sells only "whodunits."...
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1935
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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1934
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Charles Boyer played his first major Hollywood role (and gets to sing in the bargain!) in the oddball musical romance...
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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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1934
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In this WW I melodrama, a British officer is forced to return to the front soon after he is married. On the battle lines, he...
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1934
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Richard Dix plays the title-role, of a dashing highwayman and bandit in 1870's Australia, in this strangely delightful mix of...
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1934
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934....
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1934
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Everybody in The Midnight Club is seeing double, and it's all the handiwork of slick London criminal mastermind Colin Grant...
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1933
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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1933
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A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had...
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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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1933
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This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean...
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1933
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This volume includes three separate shorts of comedy from the '30s. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1933
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays...
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1933
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In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a...
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1933
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This film version of the Jack DeLeon-Jack Celestin play Silent Witness stars Lionel Atwill in his original stage role of Sir...
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1932
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First filmed in 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair has undergone several cinemadaptations, most...
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1932
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Danny Dolan (Spencer Tracy) is a good-hearted, streetwise waterfront beat cop in New York City who gets promoted to detective...
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1932
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Hoping to match the success of his boisterous (and Oscar-winning) silent comedy Two Arabian Knights, and at the same time...
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The Colonel
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1932
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1932
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A WWI American nurse stationed in London (Constance Bennett) meets a handsome flier and finds only sorrow in this three-hanky...
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1931
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Mae Clarke had the best role of her career as the heroine of Waterloo Bridge, the first of three filmizations of...
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1931
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Adhering to a formula that would later be popularized further in Grand Hotel, Transatlantic is one of the best of the...
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1931
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William Powell stars in this drama as William Foster, a gifted defense attorney with a gift for making cases go his way....
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1930
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Lawyer Wyn Huntley (Jack Mulhall) is a lion in the courtroom, but a lamb when it comes to women. In love with the beautiful...
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1930
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R.C. Sherriff's forceful drama about men at war, a long running hit in London as well as New York, is brought to the screen...
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1930
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Adapted from a stage melodrama by Charles Mere, Temptation (La Tentation) stars Claudia Victrix as saucy debutante Irene....
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1930
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In this romantic drama, a chorine marries her absent-minded childhood sweetheart so she can make her real love, a...
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1930
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1930
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In this wartime adventure, a wealthy young pilot strays from his mission and stops to say good bye to his girl friend....
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Tom Berry
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1929
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In one of her first talking pictures, Carole Lombard played a girl crook falling in love with a handsome lineman (William...
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1929
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1929
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Easy Pickings was one of a rash of "old dark house" comedies produced in the wake of 1926's The Bat. This time Mary Ryan...
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The Detective
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1927
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1927
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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This film from 1925 features Billy Bevan trying to deal with radio-controlled Model-T Fords. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi...
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1925
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1925
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1924
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Bud Gasket
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1924
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With its racy title and emphasis on jazz parties and youth, this romantic drama was a typical mid-'20s release. But being an...
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1924
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Mabel Normand's last feature-length film is also one of her most entertaining. Sue Graham (Normand) lives in the tiny hamlet...
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1923
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This feature-length comedy-melodrama was not one of the best from Mack Sennett, or his talented director, F. Richard Jones....
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1922
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This hilarious slapstick comedy from Mack Sennett finds Sam Smith (Ben Turpin), the resident of a small town, accused of...
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1921
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1920
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1920
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1915
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"Flying Ace," "Crystal Ball," "The Champ" and "Inheritance" are the featured comedy pieces in this collection. ~ Rovi...
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