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1967
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1947
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In this drama, an amnesiac awakens and finds himself accused of murder. Fortunately, a female cabbie helps prove his...
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1945
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1945
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Filling in for RKO's Western ace Tim Holt, who was fighting the war in Europe, a young Robert Mitchum starred in this fine...
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1945
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This delightful entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series finds amateur Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), aka The Falcon, tring to solve...
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1944
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The East Side Kids are back in Follow the Leader, one of their most consistently funny outings. While on leave from the Army,...
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1944
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Having worked as a duo in the first three entries of Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" series, veteran Western stars Ken...
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1944
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The Falcon in Mexico wastes no time getting started: within the first ten minutes, amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway),...
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1944
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In this campy jungle adventure, an embezzler's daughter is the sole survivor of a plane crash. Hurt and afraid, the woman is...
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Hunter
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1944
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Jim Lacy (Robert Mitchum), Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), and Dusty (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams) are three cowpokes working...
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1944
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Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and...
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1944
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In this adventure the young lively daughter of wealthy Virginia parents bridles under the stern tutelage of her new English...
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1944
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The second entry in Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" B-Western series, The Law Rides Again marked the final directorial...
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1943
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A playboy imprisoned for a bank robbery he didn't commit gets involved with a convict who's determined to make a daring...
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1943
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Carson City Cyclone stars Don "Red" Barry as a frontier lawyer with the deceptively mild-mannered monicker of Gilbert Phalen....
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Dr. Andrews
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1943
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The world of boxing provides the framework for this romantic musical that tells the story of Baby and his manager who is...
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1943
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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1943
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1942
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Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was...
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1942
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In this patriotic film, a good-hearted boy donates his best friend to the Dogs for Defense, an government organization that...
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1942
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The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and...
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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Republic Pictures' final 1942 release was the "Three Mesquiteers" western Shadows on the Sage. The better-than-average plot...
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1942
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The Adventures of Captain Marvel is a 12-episode Republic serial based on the comic book character of the same name. Young...
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1941
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The sequel to Columbia's 1938 hit The Spider's Web, this typical war-time serial again starred the stalwart Warren Hull as...
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1941
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Paper Bullets (aka Crime Inc.) was the first production by former slot-machine entrepreneurs Maurice and Frank Kozinski,...
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1941
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The twelve-chapter serial King of the Royal Mounted stars Allan Lane as Zane Grey's fictional Canadian Mountie Sergeant...
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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1939
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1939
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Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little...
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1939
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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1939
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Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo...
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1939
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Tailspin Tommy (played by John Trent) flies again in Monogram's Sky Patrol. The plot is motivated by an airborne smuggling...
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1939
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Better known today as the father of actors Bob Einstein and Albert Brooks, comedian Harry Einstein achieved radio fame in the...
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1938
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When two lovers are framed for a jewelry store robbery in which the clerk was killed, the only person capable of saving them...
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1938
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Jack LaRue goes through his usual unsavory paces in the not-bad cheapie I Demand Payment. The film is one of several...
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1938
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Another entry from John Wayne's non-western series at Universal, Conflict casts Wayne as Pat, a bare-knuckle boxer in...
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1937
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1937
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Former silent-movie matinee idol Rod LaRocque does what he can with the Poverty Row quickie Taming the Wild. LaRocque is cast...
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Graham
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1937
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Produced by Sam Katzman's Victory Pictures, $1,000,000 Racket stars Katzman's biggest "name," ex-Olympic athlete Herman Brix....
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Herbert Marvin
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1937
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All expense was spared in bringing this sleazy "exposé" to the screen. It's all about Mrs. Miller (Martha Chapin), the...
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Taylor
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1937
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1937
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1937
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The Westland Case was the opening volley in Universal's "Crime Club" series. The film was based on Headed for a Hearse, a...
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1937
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It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film....
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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1936
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The second of three serials produced by the Weiss Bros. for low-budget Stage and Screen Productions, The Clutching Hand...
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1936
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From low-rent company Invincible comes this hardy survivor, a cheap-looking but fairly engrossing account of a convicted bank...
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1936
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The 12-episode Universal serial Jungle Jim was based on the Alex Raymond comic strip of the same name. Grant Withers stars as...
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Bruce Redmond
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1936
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The title may be Bridge of Sighs, but don't expect any location shots of Venice in this Invincible Studios cheapie. Heroine...
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1936
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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"Suggested" by the notorious trial of gangster Lucky Luciano, this typical low-budget sexploitation-melodrama came complete...
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1936
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Playwright Greg Stone (Reginald Denny) spends most of his spare time at the theater where his latest effort is in rehearsals....
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1936
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And Sudden Death was inspired by a Reader's Digest article by Theodore Reeves, which later became one of the magazine's most...
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1936
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The first of three inexpensive serials produced by Louis Weiss for Poverty Row company Stage and Screen Productions, The...
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1936
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1936
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Now-forgotten actress Betty Compson largely made her mark in silent pictures, but like many performers of the era, found it...
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1936
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This better-than-average Buck Jones western stars Jones as Buck Saunders, shunned by his community because it is believed...
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Jack Thorpe
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1935
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In this musical campus comedy, trouble ensues when a meddlesome, overprotective father enrolls in the same college as his...
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1935
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In this crime drama, a woman loses custody of her baby boy after her rich husband dies. She later gets a job working in a...
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1935
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In this adventure serial, Tailspin Tommy discovers that a gang of profiteers are out to steal an island's oil reserves. The...
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1935
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The Irish Gringo, a gunfighter from south of the border who is half Mexican and half Irish, comes upon a small girl who...
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when...
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1935
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Silent screen leading man Lawrence Gray stars in this low-budget thriller produced by legendary penny-pincher Sam Katzman....
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1935
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Based on a story by Zona Gale, When Strangers Meet concentrates on a small, interrelated community separated down the middle...
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1934
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Wisecracking Public Stenographer Ann McNair (Lola Lane) spends most of her time fending off the Roamin' Fingers and Rushin'...
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1934
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1934
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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1934
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Return of Chandu is a 65-minute feature version of the 12-chapter Principal Pictures serial, based on the radio program...
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1934
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John Harper
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1933
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This Monogram melodrama gets off to a quick start as a young man is shot to death -- while he's being led to the electric...
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1933
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Top-billed Bela Lugosi has only a minor role in this routine variant on the Old Dark House scenario, playing a mysterious...
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1933
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This comedy, set during the Prohibition, chronicles the exploits of two disparate sisters. The older sister is a jaded...
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1933
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In 1932, Monogram Pictures was essentially the clearing house for the films of independent production firms. Monogram was...
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1932
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A rare "prestige" item from low-budget Allied Pictures, Parisian Romance boasts a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, of...
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1932
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In this romance, a man runs a beautiful woman over with his car and falls in love with her. She loves him too, but...
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1932
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As directed by Norman Houston, this newsroom-themed melodrama from 1932 stars Walter Byron as an alcoholic reporter who...
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1932
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What Price Hollywood is often referred to as the "first" version of the oft-filmed A Star is Born. While there are strong...
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1932
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A rather complicated but well-made little Poverty Row thriller, Drifting Souls features silent screen star Lois Wilson as...
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1932
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Virtually none of the male characters in The Thrill of Youth could pass muster as a role model. As an old man preaches...
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, a blue collar steelworker marries a wealthy socialite. It all begins after he saves two workers during a...
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1931
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Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper enjoyed one of her few top-billed movie roles in the independently-produced thriller...
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William Mortimer
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1931
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Advertised as an "all star" film, Swing High is hardly that: The biggest name in the picture, both in terms of popularity and...
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1930
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Having been in show biz since infancy, Broadway chorus girl Beatrice (Virginia Brown Faire) regrets her lack of formal...
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1928
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As if to justify the title of this film, leading lady Jacqueline Logan shows up wearing next to nothing in the first few...
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Tommy
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1928
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From small-scale (and typically misnamed) Excellent Pictures, this minor silent melodrama featured handsome Bryant Washburn...
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Roger Van Dorn
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1928
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Ernest Hallom
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1928
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Back in the late teens, Bryant Washburn starred in a successful series based on the "Skinner" stories by Henry Irving Dodge....
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Skinner
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1928
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1928
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Tom Twitchell
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1928
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1927
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Joyce Brandon (Laura La Plante) is in love with Jack Sturdevant (Tom Moore), but he doesn't even know she's alive. As a means...
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J. A. Creelman
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1927
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1927
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As helmed by Robert North Bradbury, the silent feature With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre was produced in 1925 but...
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1927
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Handsome doctor Bryant Washburn specializes in the ailments of women -- more specifically, wealthy widows. Washburn's...
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1927
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1927
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This cheapjack historical film also carried the grandiose title With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre. It was...
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1927
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Breakfast at Sunrise was the penultimate movie vehicle for Constance Talmadge, who retired when talkies came in two years...
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Marquis
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1927
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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 melodrama -- one of the last gasps from Associated Exhibitors -- features an excellent cast, with Jean Hersholt taking...
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1926
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This routine romantic comedy was slight of plot and light on name actors. Joseph Schildkraut plays Nicholas Alexnov, an...
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1926
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Dapper, top-hatted comedian Raymond Griffith stars in the lightweight farce Wet Paint. Disappointed when he discovers that...
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Her Brother
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1926
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A woman with a sordid past is redeemed by love in this silent melodrama from low-budget Sanford Productions. Margarita Darlow...
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1926
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The racy title to this picture hides the fact that it is just another soap opera-like domestic drama with a few jazz parties...
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Corbin
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1925
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When Arthur Randall (Owen Moore) becomes a success, his ex-wife, Laura (Lilyan Tashman), decides she wants him back. She...
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Dr. Brooks
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1925
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This low-budgeter was adapted from A Wise Son, a novel by Charles Sherman. Bryant Washburn plays wealthy wastrel Hal Whitney,...
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Hal Whitney
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1925
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Popular silent film comedian Larry Semon literally sold the ranch to secure film rights to L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz...
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Prince Kynde
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1925
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Try and Get It was certainly a better title than that of the Saturday Evening Post story on which it was based, called The...
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1924
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Before she became a star, silent screen vamp Barbara LaMarr often wrote screenplays. She still wielded a pen now and again...
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William Harvey
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1924
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Sylvia Joy (Shirley Mason) is a cabaret dancer who turns down theatrical producer John Benton (Richard Tucker) in favor of...
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John Warding
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1924
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This picture was based on a George M. Cohan stage play. Lawyer Richard Clarke (Bert Lytell) can't seem to find success...
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1923
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This domestic drama may sound tiresome, but it was considered solid entertainment in 1923. Just before he gets married,...
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Victor Olney
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1923
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Author Anthony Hope's sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda had been filmed once before, in 1915. But filmgoers were far more...
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1923
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In spite of its Poverty Row location, C.B.C. -- which later became better known as Columbia -- put out some quality pictures....
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Jack Baldwin
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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John Burleson
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1923
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This involved comedy-melodrama starred Bryant Washburn. Joyce Lyndon, a society girl (Mabel Forrest), has been engaged to...
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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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1923
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This frivolous light comedy was perfect material for the lively Viola Dana. Dana plays Clytie Whitmore, who is about to be...
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1922
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Humoresque (1920) spawned a large number of human interest films featuring Jewish immigrant mothers in the style of Vera...
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David Kaplan
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1922
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This society drama concerns that hoary situation in which the mother is trying to marry her daughter off to the highest...
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1922
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There's nothing really exceptional about this progammer, which takes a pair of society people and places them at the mercy...
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1922
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Carver Endicott
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1921
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1921
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This amusing comedy, based on the book by Earl Derr Biggers, is well cast, with Bryant Washburn and Lois Wilson in the lead...
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1920
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This farce started out as a stage play by Fred Jackson and was then made into a musical comedy (The Velvet Lady) before...
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1920
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Lois Wilson was an up-and-comer when she supported Bryant Washburn in this light comedy. John Harlow (Washburn) wants to take...
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1920
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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Like many films of its era, It Pays to Advertise was based on a Broadway stage play. It showcased the talents of...
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1919
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This picture began life as a Saturday Evening Post serial by Wallace Irwin. It involves the newly rich Buddy McNair...
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1919
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1918
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During World War I, every director made at least one film about the battles going on in Europe, even Cecil B. DeMille. These...
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1918
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This simple scenario is based on a story by Henry Irving Dodge which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Skinner...
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1917
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This timely emotional drama starred Bryant Washburn as Benton Clune, who when America enters WWI wants to march alongside his...
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1917
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Successful railroad executive Craig (Lewis Stone) shares a stenographer, Kate (Gladys Hanson) with the not-so-successful...
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1916
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Throughout the silent era (and into the sound era, for that matter), the mythical kingdom (or imitations thereof) of author...
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1916
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1916
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Mildred Niles (Clara Kimball Young) is the daughter of a wealthy broker (E.M. Kimball); Ted Vandeveer (Chester Barnett) is a...
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1916
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1915
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An outright farce produced in Chicago by the Essanay company, this film was set in the country of Morovenia, where fat women...
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1915
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George Barr McCutcheon's popular novel, Graustark: The Story of a Love Behind a Throne, reached the screen in May of 1915...
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1915
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Although his character doesn't play a big part in the storyline, mid-1910s matinee idol Francis X. Bushman still gets top...
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1915
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The acting team of Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne (who also became a romantic team in real life) was still new when...
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1915
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1915
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1915
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The Alster Case was based on a novel by Rufus Gilmore. Set in Chicago (the home of Essanay studios), the film deals with a...
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1915
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Although already a matinee idol, handsome Francis X. Bushman reportedly won the leading role in this very popular adventure...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Called to the scene of a coal-mine explosion, the Rev. Stanley Waters (Francis X. Bushman) attempts to rescue the survivors....
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1911
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