One of the first important distinctions to be made about this version of King Lear is that it is not the same version...
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Earl of Kent
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1953
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1952
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1943
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The once-notorious theatrical chestnut White Cargo was toned down for public consumption in this 1942 MGM-ized adaptation...
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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One of two 20th Century-Fox horror melodramas released in 1942 (Dr. Renault's Secret was the second), The Undying Monster is...
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Dr. Geoffrey Covert
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1942
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In this mystery, a novelist whose latest book details the 'perfect murder,' finds himself accused of murdering the husband...
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1935
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Priest
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1934
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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1934
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Overworked and fearing that life is passing her by, eminent plastic surgeon Margaret "Peggy" Simmons (Ann Harding) takes an...
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1933
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An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror outing that is based on...
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Herbert
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1933
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Like the previous years' Ten Nights in a Bar-room, The Face on the Barroom Floor resurrects a corny old title to illustrate...
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Bill Bronson
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1932
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Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by...
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Gareth
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1932
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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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Anthony Howard
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1932
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Ralph Norton
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1932
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In this drama, a Russian woman marries a British aristocrat, bears him a daughter, and is forced to abandon them by his...
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1931
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The George du Maurier novel Trilby, about a hypnotist who controls a female musician, was originally filmed as Trilby, a...
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Billee
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1931
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George Arliss is the millionaire of the title, a retired auto tycoon who's been ordered by his doctor to rest and avoid...
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1931
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In this drama, the love affair between an American pilot and a French spy is chronicled. Also involved is the spy's father,...
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Eric
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1931
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In this entry in the mystery series, the Chinese criminal mastermind exacts revenge upon his enemy Fletcher, the man...
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Ronald Petrie
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1931
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Will Rogers' second starring talkie feature was a spiritual twin of the first, They Had to See Paris, albeit with a...
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1930
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The third in a succession of film adaptations of author E.W. Hornung's novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, this version was...
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Bunny Manders
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1930
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In this gritty drama, an epileptic john has a seizure and kills a hooker. His mother hides her distraught son. Meanwhile,...
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1929
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Chick
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1928
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