The Big City is an improbable urban melodrama which takes place during a "taxi war" between honest independent cabdrivers and...
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1937
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On the whole, Joe E. Brown's vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew were distinct retrogressions from his films at...
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1937
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In his fourth and final Western for Poverty Row company Beaumont Pictures, veteran leading man Conway Tearle played Kirk...
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1936
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Buster Keaton began his career in vaudeville as a child, starring with his father Joe and mother Myra as The Three Keatons....
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1935
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Not to be confused with the prominent British film Never Too Late to Mend, which was released in the U.S. in 1937 as Never...
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1935
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The exploits of 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin have been immortalized in scores of poems, ballads, novels, plays...
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1933
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In this romantic adventure, a feisty young woman (Velez) toys with the affections of a railroad worker (Withers) and a...
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1930
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1929
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Thr Turk
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1928
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Skyrocket was a vehicle for non-actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a former Ziegfeld dancer who managed to get herself into the...
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1926
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The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast improvement upon)...
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Ali
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1926
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Reed Howes, the original Arrow Collar man (or so his publicity claimed), stars in The Bashful Buccaneer. Howes plays a writer...
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2nd Mate
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1925
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This adventure virtually butchers its source, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. But with stop-motion photography and...
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1925
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This muddled murder mystery-comedy was based on the Max Marcin stage play The Night Cap. Bank president Robert Andrews...
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1925
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Cowboy ace Tom Mix allowed himself a change of pace with this costume adventure produced by Fox. Mix plays the legendary...
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1925
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This Hal Roach spoof of The Unholy Three starred Charley Chase. Chase, Katherine Grant, and Bull Montana all aspire to be...
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1925
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Ellie Byrne (Colleen Moore) and Don Lane (Ben Lyon) are childhood pals -- their fathers (Charles Murray and Russell Simpson)...
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1924
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This seafaring melodrama was based on the Harkins and Barber stage play by the same name. His ship capsized in a storm,...
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1924
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This Richard Talmadge action picture based its premise on a current event -- in Great Britain, a "death ray" machine had...
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1924
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John Hempstead (House Peters), a former actor, now serves as the benign religious leader of a small community. Marian Dournay...
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1923
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People do all kinds of nutty things in this silent melodrama from producer/director Maurice Tourneur. Take Ramon Martinez...
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1923
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When the down-market O'Tooles inherit a fortune, the entire clan -- including the dog, Rags -- moved to upscale Pasadena,...
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Tim O'Toole
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1923
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1922
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The career of influential comedian Max Linder was nearing its end when he directed and starred in this burlesque of Douglas...
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Pauvrelieu
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1922
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This lively comedy was well suited for Bebe Daniels' talents. Daniels plays Pauline Hathaway, just turned 18 years old, who...
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1921
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1921
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1921
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This Drury Lane melodrama, based on Cecil Raleigh's play, was given top-rate direction by Rex Ingram. Lord Altcar...
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1920
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After one successful play, Laurie Devon (Frank Mayo) takes it easy -- too easy according to his partner, Rodney Bangs...
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1920
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Treasure Island was the third of Fox's "Sunshine Kiddies" series, a group of literary adaptations starring child actors in...
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1920
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Kingston Hollister (William Russell) admires Bernice Cleveland (Eileen Percy) from afar. He asks Officer Callahan (Frank...
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1919
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In this charming comedy, May Allison plays Helen Corning, the speed demon daughter of a rich widow. She dashes around the...
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1919
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Bert Lytell stars in this breezy light comedy. Jimmie Slocum (Lytell) can't stay out of trouble, and his father (Frank...
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1919
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Axel Heyst (Jack Holt) is taught bitter lessons by his father -- that pity is contemptible and sympathy is useless. So the...
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1919
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1919
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Reading the official studio synopses of such films as In Bad makes one wish that more of director Edward Sloman's silent...
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1918
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Fair Enough stars Margarita Fisher, who spelled her last name "Fischer" until America went to war with Germany. The plot...
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1918
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Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) is the extremely naive son of a wealthy Eastern family -- he loves the Old West so much...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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