Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely...
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1943
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In this war comedy, an army reject becomes a war hero by rounding up a ring of Nazi spies. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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Advertised as a sort of sequel to MGM's Babes in Arms (1939), Babes on Broadway reunites the two stars of the earlier film:...
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1941
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Scattergood Meets Broadway was the third of RKO's film series based on the long-running radio favorite Scattergood Baines....
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1941
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Tim Holt is mistaken for a notorious gunslinger in this average Western, which RKO filmed at Kanab, UT, in tandem with the...
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1941
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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Dangerous Lady is yet another variation on the "Thin Man" formula, courtesy this time from bargain-basement PRC Pictures....
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1941
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Having previously portrayed Wild Bill Hickok on screen, cowboy hero Bill Elliot impersonates another famed frontiersman in...
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1941
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings was the second in a series of B pictures based on the long-running radio series...
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1941
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Tim Holt and sidekicks Ray Whitley and Emmett Lynn join an outlaw gang in this RKO Western filmed on-location at Victorville,...
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1941
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This touching romance is based on a play by Rachel Crothers. An aging sea captain squanders his fortune on a bad business...
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1940
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Retired frontier postal inspector Dan Clark (George O'Brien) is summoned back to active duty when the stagecoach line owned...
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1940
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After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thundering Frontier. Starrett...
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Andrew Belknap
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1940
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The second of Columbia Pictures' four "Wild Bill Saunders" westerns, Pioneers of the Frontier features William Elliott as the...
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1940
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In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down...
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1940
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An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Calvin Jordan (Henry...
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1939
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A rancher and the farmer who fences in precious grasslands battle it out in this drama. The fight begins as the rancher's...
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1939
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A remake of sorts of the 1935 western The Arizonian, this fine George O'Brien oater features Leon Ames as Sheriff Judd...
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1939
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Frontier Pony Express is a fast-paced Roy Rogers program western which could stand up on its own with any big-budgeted "A"...
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1939
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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1939
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Lawless Valley is one of the best of George O'Brien's series westerns for RKO Radio. Falsely accused of orchestrating a stage...
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1938
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This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting...
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1938
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Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's...
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1938
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Directed competently by the veteran William Nigh, this ultra low-budget Western from diminutive Crescent Pictures Corp....
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1938
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Filmed on location, Hawaiian Buckaroo is certainly the most novel of the Smith Ballew westerns. Pineapple plantation worker...
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1938
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Singing cowboy Smith Ballew is the nominal star of Rawhide, but the audience only had eyes for Ballew's co-star:...
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Pop Mason
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1938
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Produced by the Halperin Brothers, the folks responsible for the early-talkie horror classic White Zombie, Nation Aflame is...
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1937
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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1937
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1937
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In this western, a singing outlaw and a US marshal kill each other in a fight. Their demise is witnessed by an opportunistic...
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Sheriff Haight
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1937
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Nothing of cult director Joseph H. Lewis' much-vaunted flair is on display in this average musical Western, the screen debut...
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Rufe Lambert
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1937
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Gene Autry is the star (but not the title character) of Oh, Susanna!, a Republic musical western. What plot there is consists...
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1937
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Buck Jones both produced and directed (with action expert B. Reeves Eason) this somewhat inconsistent Western about a ranger...
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Judge Hart
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1937
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Myrna Loy plays the glamorous member of a trio of jewel thieves. G-Man Spencer Tracy goes undercover to join the gang when it...
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1936
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Designed as a follow-up to the Halperin Brothers' phenomenally successful White Zombie, Revolt of the Zombies unfortunately...
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1936
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1936
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Ring Around the Moon was based on the once-popular novel by Vera Hobart. The story endeavors to invite comparisons between...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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The second screen version of Anna Katherine Green's 1878 whodunit stars Donald Cook as Dr. Truman Hartnell, a dedicated...
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1936
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In Condemned to Live, Ralph Morgan stars as Professor Paul Kriston, the kindly and generous doctor of a tiny European...
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1935
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The Battle of Greed was one of the best of the Tom Keene western series produced by bargain-basement Crescent Productions....
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1935
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Buck Jones' fourth Universal western, The Crimson Trail turned out to be one of his best-ever vehicles. The plot has...
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Jim Bellaire
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1935
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In his first American film, Peter Lorre portrays egg-bald Dr. Gogol. A brilliant and highly respected surgeon, Gogol would...
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1935
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In this drama, a hard working printer gets wanderlust, leaves his wife and family, and hits the road. Ten years pass. His...
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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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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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1935
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In this Western, neighboring sheep farmers engage in a long-standing feud over that results in tragedy. The problem began...
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Bill Ward
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1935
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Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine....
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1935
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Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers (played by Pat O'Brien...
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1935
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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1934
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Rocky Rhodes was Buck Jones' first western vehicle for Universal Pictures. Evidently inheriting a leftover script from...
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1934
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Warner Oland made his fifth appearance as wily Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. Hired...
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1934
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Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
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1934
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In this crime drama, policemen pursue a convicted killer as he diligently searches for the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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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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Stuntman extraordinaire Richard Talmadge is the only reason for sitting through the dreary poverty-row quickie Get That Girl....
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1932
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It is all but impossible to dislike a film as gloriously corny as The Phantom Express. The title is derived from an early...
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1932
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Bloodsucking winged creatures who may take human shape appear to have returned after centuries of dormancy to the...
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1932
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1931
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In this drama, a convict breaks out of jail and winds up going to college. There he joins the rowing team and helps them to...
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Dorgan
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1930
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To date, this D.W. Griffith epic is the only talking-picture effort to encapsulate the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, from...
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1930
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In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her...
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1930
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In this romantic melodrama, a sophisticated New York model finds herself falling for a hick. The handsome farm boy is...
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1930
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1930
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The plays of Zoe Akins were so stilted and mannered that one critic referred to watching them as "the curse of an Akins...
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1930
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It's a case of mistaken identity in this convoluted comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago...
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1929
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Director Ernst Lubitsch's first talking picture, The Love Parade was a witty souffle about a royal "marriage of state."...
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1929
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Although both of their starring careers would be cut short by the talkie revolution, MGM house comedians Karl Dane and...
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1929
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1928
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Small-towner David Warren (Gaston Glass) is forced to leave his community after accidentally causing the death of a local...
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1928
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Released as part of producer Trem Carr's "Famous Authors" series, this silent whodunit was based on a 1912 story by Mrs....
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Ethelbert
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1928
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If stunt pilots Ormer Locklear and Al Wilson could star in their own films, then by golly James F. Fulton could too. Only one...
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1928
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Once again the battle between cattle ranchers and encroaching sheep farmers takes center stage in a silent western, this time...
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1926
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Breezy Raymond Griffith became a full-fledged screen star with this highly entertaining comedy. Alexis (Griffith), the prince...
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1925
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Based on a story by Harold Bell Wright, this average silent western starred Warner Baxter as the son who almost loses his...
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Zobester
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1925
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Publicized as "A Red-Hot Romance of the Western Plains," this above-average Buck Jones oater features the rootin' tootin'...
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Jim Mackey
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1924
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1924
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Filmgoers must have been sick of desert romances by the time this one came out. About the only thing it had in its favor was...
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jaradi
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1924
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Rival lumber barons resort to blackmail and treachery to further their businesses in this Northwoods drama. John J. Carlton...
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1924
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Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When...
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1924
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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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William Russell's career was on a downslide when he appeared in this unoriginal program picture (he would make a short-lived...
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1923
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Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from...
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1923
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After gaining a wide audience in a succession of two-reelers, "Baby" Peggy Montgomery stars in her first full-length feature....
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1923
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1923
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This Katherine MacDonald vehicle involving the shams of society was about as clichéd as they come. Although Priscilla Hobbs...
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Geo. C. Hobbs
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1923
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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 melodrama bears no relation to the 1919 Doris Kenyon Western of the same name. It is based on the Cynthia Stockley novel...
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1922
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Comedienne Mabel Normand was in the middle of production for this comedy-drama when William Desmond Taylor was murdered. She...
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1922
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It is a surprising and little-known fact that Louis J. Gasnier, who today is most well known for directing the...
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Col. Beaton
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1922
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This fast-paced comedy came from the pen of husband and wife screenwriting team Anita Loos and John Emerson. After his...
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1922
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Ostensibly a vehicle for Jackie Coogan, the 1922 Oliver Twist refuses to realign the Charles Dickens novel to accommodate the...
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1922
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This mawkish tale of mother love was loaded with -- as film critics of the 1920s liked to say -- "hokum." It was supposedly...
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Silas Rudge
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1922
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This comedy-drama marked Mabel Normand's return to producer Mack Sennett after making a number of mediocre films for Samuel...
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1921
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Celebrated prize fighter Jack Dempsey was a natural for serials, and industry leader Pathé dutifully cast him in this...
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1920
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As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her...
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1920
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Intolerance, D.W. Griffith's towering achievement interlocking four stories of intolerance throughout the ages, has been...
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1919
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Joan Hope (Mary Miles Minter) is the bored daughter of a chewing gum magnate. When her father goes away on business, she goes...
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1919
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Carmelita (Hedda Nova) is the daughter of bandit Don Salvador (Carl Stockdale), who meets his end at the hands of the law....
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1919
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Produced for the American Company in Santa Barbara, California, this quaint melodrama is one of only two or three...
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1918
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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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1917
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1916
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1916
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In this silent tragedy a bright, creative young woman from the slums gets into considerable mischief and lands in jail....
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1916
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Although this classic Charles Dickens tale was filmed at least twice previously, this Lasky version was the first to really...
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1916
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The Champion, Chaplin's third film for Essanay, is easily one of the funniest and is his most advanced film to date in...
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin's last one-reeler (with the exception of The Bond), is an impromptu film shot on the beach at Crystal Pier in...
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1915
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The title of Charlie Chaplin's fifth comedy for Essanay refers to the popular term for a Model T Ford, a jitney. Its theme of...
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin's 10th Essanay film marks a further development for him in story construction, gag development and the use of...
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Charles the Cashier
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1915
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G. M. Anderson, best known to his fans as "Broncho Billy," briefly drops his traditional cowboy character in...
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1914
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