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1947
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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1947
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll....
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1946
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place...
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1946
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The first "Road" picture in three years (the last was The Road to Morocco), Road to Utopia is set during the Alaskan gold...
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1946
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Monsieur Beaucaire, Booth Tarkington's novel about an 18th-century French barber who poses as a swashbuckling aristocrat, was...
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1946
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1946
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1945
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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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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1944
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1944
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within...
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1944
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The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the...
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1944
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Inspired by the success of his favorite comedian Red Skelton, Our Gang member Froggy (Billy Laughlin) decides to become a...
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Old Shakespearean
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1944
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Complete with a final production number filmed in Technicolor, this tuneful musical depicts the highly fictive ups and downs...
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1944
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A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling...
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1944
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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1943
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1943
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a vacation in France, the Nazis...
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1942
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Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is...
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1942
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An unusually sentimental endeavor from rough-and-ready Monogram pictures, Road to Happiness stars former 20th Century-Fox...
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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With The Mad Martindales, the eight-year association between 20th Century-Fox and child star Jane Withers came to an end....
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1942
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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1942
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Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African...
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1942
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In this drama, a young woman shows two dogs at the championship competition at Madison Square Garden and when the two dogs...
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1941
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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1941
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In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed....
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1940
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Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
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1940
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1940
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When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily...
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1940
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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1939
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In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a...
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1939
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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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1939
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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1938
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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1937
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1936
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1936
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1936
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John Ford, whose fierce pride in his Irish heritage often manifested itself in his work, directed this historical drama which...
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1936
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Based on a mystery novel by Mignon Eberhardt, While the Patient Slept stars Aline MacMahon as Eberhardt's middle-aged amateur...
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1935
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In this romantic drama, a horsewoman is forced to work in a society dame's stable. There she meets and falls in love with a...
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1935
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Poverty-row director Wallace Fox came up in the world a bit when he signed on to helm RKO Radio's Red Morning. Steffi Duna,...
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1935
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The Great Impersonation is based on the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage novel of the same name, previously filmed in 1921....
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1935
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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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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Universal's Bombay Mail adheres to the pattern established by Paramount's Shanghai Express, with a group of Calcutta-bound...
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1934
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Often written off as just another Poverty Row effort featuring a fallen-from-grace Erich Von Stroheim, Mascot Pictures'...
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1934
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Based on Adam Hull Shirk's moth-eaten 1927 play The Ape, this comedy-mystery-thriller is one of those static, ham-fisted...
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1934
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Prefect of Police
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1932
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1932
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This version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed tale is set in contemporary London and follows Holmes and Watson as they seek...
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1932
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Midnight Lady is a low-budget variation of the evergreen stage and screen meller Madame X. In one of her rare starring roles,...
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1932
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In this haunting low-budgeter, Bela Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a shadowy character who exercises supernatural powers...
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1932
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1931
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A sophisticated, expensively-dressed group of people gather in a spooky old mansion to watch the first performance of a...
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1931
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This Mark Twain adaptation affords a rare opportunity to enjoy a "collaboration" between two of America's greatest humorists....
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1931
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In this comedy, a successful owner of a meat-packing plant tries to pass on his obsession for punctuality and rules to his...
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1931
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This version of Shakespeare's most famous love story is set in Scarsdale, New York. This time, the heroine comes from an old...
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1930
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Still in the "Lillian Gish" phase of her career, Una Merkel plays the put-upon heroine in The Eyes of the World. The story...
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1930
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Karl Dane, the hulking comedy relief in many an MGM film, is top-billed in the FBO action melodrama Voice of the Storm. Dane...
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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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1929
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Based on Zoë Akins's 1923 novel Déclassée and the 1925 film of the same title, Her Private Life stars Billie Dove as Lady...
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1929
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In this early "talkie," William Powell stars as sophisticated detective Philo Vance, who is brought in to investigate the...
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1929
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Even fifty years after the fact, director David Butler harbored fond memories of 1928's News Parade. Fearless cameraman...
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A. K. Wellington
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1928
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Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's...
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Inspector Haynes
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1928
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In this lavishly produced MGM production, the ethereal Lillian Gish is a bit more earthy than normal, due in part to the...
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1927
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1927
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Alexei Karenin
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1927
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In 1927, Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress with her performance in this film, among the most...
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1927
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Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack...
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1927
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1927
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Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne, the long-lost John Ford silent Shamrock Handicap begins in Ireland. Because he refuses to...
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1926
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Peterby
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1926
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Evelyn Brent was known for playing lady crooks in the 1920s (in fact, she carried this typecasting into the sound era). In...
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1926
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Paris at Midnight was freely adapted from Pere Goriot, a novel by Honore de Balzac. Lionel Barrymore stars as the "Robin Hood...
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1926
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Ever since he was wounded in WWI, jockey Bobby Robertson (William Collier Jr.) has been able to predict when it's going to...
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Doyle
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1926
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Lady of the Harem was based on Hassan, a play by James McElroy Flecker. It all begins when the Caliph of Kornassah (Sojin)...
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1926
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Volcano takes forever to get to the climactic eruption. In the meantime, the audience is subjected to the travails of...
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1926
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This picture banked on the publicity surrounding the excavation of King Tut's tomb and contained a weak copy of the classic...
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1926
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Though his career went into decline in the talkie era, director Mal St. Clair was responsible for some of the funniest,...
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1926
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Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went...
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Jasper Doak
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1926
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Director John Ford was out of his element with this comedy, based on the hit Broadway play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon...
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1925
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Polly Pearl (Norma Talmadge) is a bar manager who doubles as a cabaret performer in this romantic melodrama taken from the...
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St. Aubyns, Sr.
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1925
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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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1924
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This compelling and exceptionally well-executed silent drama, from new MGM studio executives Irving Thalburg and producer...
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1924
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Douglas Fairbanks is at his most graceful and charismatic in one of the classic silent films of the 1920s. As the thief of...
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1924
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than...
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1924
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Although Laurette Taylor starred in this drama on Broadway and reprised her role for the screen, she seems miscast. Taylor...
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1924
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The normally low-key William C. deMille veers into the territory of his younger brother, Cecil B. DeMille, with this highly...
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James Crane
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1923
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This Universal melodrama took the "rescuing the hero at the last minute" ploy to ridiculous extremes. Milton Sills has the...
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1923
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This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle,...
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1923
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In 1920, filmgoers were treated to no fewer than two different film versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr....
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1920
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Katherine Dereham (Alice Brady) believes herself to be in love with Prince Anton from the mythical kingdom of Argovinia...
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1920
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Based on the play by Paul Armstrong and Winchell Smith, Via Wireless is one of a handful of pre-1920 Pathe films still in...
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1915
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