Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role...
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1930
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Ken Maynard's fourth film under his 1929 contract with Universal came complete with a music score and sound effects, but no...
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1930
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In this heartwarming drama, an amiable department store worker gets more than he bargained for when he accidentally slips a...
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1930
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1929
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Capricious Constance Bannister (Sally Eilers) has had 12 fiances, but has yet to take her marital vows. Fiance number 13,...
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George Bannister
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1929
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A socialite gets involved with a newspaper expose in this crime melodrama produced by Universal. When Pat Doran (Bill Cody...
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1929
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In this mysterious comedy, two free-spirited sailors and their parrot find themselves involved in a series of mishaps. The...
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1929
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In this early talkie that contains very little talking, an Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief....
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1929
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In this romantic fantasy, a delightful flapper princess refuses to marry her intended, a prince she has never met. Later she...
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1929
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1928
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Presently unavailable for public reappraisal, the biting and cynical melodrama Power of the Press would seem to be a...
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1928
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Mr. Ostberg
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1928
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In this silent crime drama, a police detective masquerades as a convict to befriend a young prison inmate who knows the...
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1928
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This two-fisted Richard Dix vehicle casts the muscular star as virile caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts. It is...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Stunt-rider Jack Padjan starred as a Texas Ranger infiltrating a vicious gang of outlaws in this obscure low-budget Western...
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Steve Dorman
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1927
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1927
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This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Alan Beckwith (Rod La...
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1926
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Established during the 1898 Gold Rush, the Alaskan community of Satan Town does its best (or worst) to live up to its name....
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John Jerome
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1926
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The career of Charles Ray was on a downhill slide by the time he made this picture, based on a novel by Rex Beach. It had...
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Horner Lane
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1926
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Stunt man supreme Richard Talmadge both produced and starred in Blue Streak. Talmadge plays a businessman's son who heads...
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John Manley
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1926
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With Mack Swain and Arthur Houseman in the cast, it's obvious that this murder mystery-melodrama has a lot of comic relief....
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1926
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Even though Big Bill Devens (Ernest Torrence) is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife...
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1926
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Long before he became established as Hollywood's favorite headwaiter, character actor Gino Corrado enjoyed a brief fling at...
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1926
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1926
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1925
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A minor mystery melodrama, producer Philip Goldstone's creaky The Verdict employed the oldest cliché of them all. Yes, the...
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1925
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1925
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This romance starring Edmund Lowe was just another routine Fox programmer. Richard March (Lowe) is a pilot during the Great...
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1925
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Dorothy Revier plays a woman who decides that all men are scum when her sister dies giving birth to an illegitimate child....
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John Hurd
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1925
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Although this isn't one of her top pictures, Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made it. She's excellent...
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1925
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The Other Woman's Story begins as Bennett Colby (Robert Frazer) is convicted of the murder of Robert Marshall...
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1925
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George Belmont
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1924
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Robert Endicott
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1924
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Distinguished British stage veteran Wyndham Standing starred in this silent melodrama from Fox, ostensibly based on a 1866...
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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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This action picture has everything anyone could possibly want out of a Richard Talmadge picture -- a lot of stunts and...
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Perry's Father
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1924
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Horance Hendon
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1924
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1924
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Jack Holt stands out in this adaptation of the William LeBaron stage hit. A pair of con artists have published a book under...
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1923
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Elinor Glyn, author of the notorious Three Weeks, wrote this story on which this drama was based, so the film was bound to...
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1923
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Steve Cline (Milton Sills) returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the paper that his...
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1923
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This film is based on the novel by F. Marion Crawford, and involves the court of King Philip II of Spain. Philip is jealous...
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1923
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This sentimental drama was based on the novel by Gene Stratton Porter, and Porter herself supervised the filming. Michael...
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James Minturn
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1923
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Part of this romantic comedy was shot in a palatial Beverly Hills mansion, which happened to belong to the film's star,...
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1923
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Even though Universal Studios released this as a "Super-Jewel," it's really just the same old, tired South Seas tale with an...
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Morgan Sprott
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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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1923
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Alice Lake stars in this clever crime drama, which had a script written by June Mathis. When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is...
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The Fox
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1922
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For a director with less-than-stellar talents, Louis J. Gasnier certainly led a charmed life for a while, something attested...
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1922
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Katherine MacDonald -- who had more beauty than talent -- starred in this romantic drama. Novelist Suzanne Danbury...
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hugh Bemis
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1922
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1922
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Story has it that Douglas Fairbanks was approached for the role of the Yankee, Martin Cavendish. It certainly would have made...
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King Arthur
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1921
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John Nelson (Hobart Bosworth) is a cruel sea captain who has harbored a grudge against humankind ever since his wife deserted...
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1921
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Author Gertrude Atherton wrote this story especially for the screen; it is supposedly based on a true story that happened in...
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Dr. Howard Talbot
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1921
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Sylvia Lacey (Edith Roberts) is sent to relatives in New England when her irresponsible artist father dies penniless. She is...
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1921
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Among Lon Chaney's early villainous roles was Blizzard, the criminal mastermind of this melodrama set in San Francisco's...
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1920
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Stage and film star Marguerite Clark was Mary Pickford's biggest competition during the 1910s. Keep in mind that she was nine...
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1920
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Before he became world-famous for his sophisticated sex farces, Ernst Lubitsch was primarily a director of outsized German...
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1919
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Once again, Madlaine Traverse plays a long-suffering woman in this drama. Lady Marion Chatham (Traverse) and her husband, Sir...
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1919
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The notion that dreams can have a powerful effect on "real life" was satirized in Doug Fairbanks' When the Clouds Roll By....
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1919
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At the time William Farnum made this adventure film, he was near the peak of his stardom. After a wild, drunken night,...
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1919
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Theda Bara's next film after the blockbuster Cleopatra was this tale of the Russian revolution -- a timely subject, since the...
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1917
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, this silent romantic drama follows the love life of Mary Ellen Ellis (Miriam Cooper), a country girl...
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1917
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The oft-told story of Sam Houston's emergence as the "father" of Texas was given an expensive and expansive treatment in the...
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1917
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This socially conscious, well-wrought silent drama made an earnest plea for prison reform over two decades before it became a...
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1917
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One of the big hits in 1917, this epic retelling of Dicken's classic tale features exceptional production values and special...
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1917
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Gladys Brockwell, who often played vamps during the 1910s, does a rare virtuous turn in this drama. Mabel Halloway...
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1916
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Though she was no spring chicken when she began making films, stage favorite Fannie Ward managed to convey the illusion of...
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1916
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A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director...
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1916
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The first of several screen versions of Bret Harte's venerable action yarn Tennessee's Pardner was delivered to the...
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1916
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Kathlyn Williams, who starred in the 1913 serial The Adventures of Kathlyn (the very first serial made in the U.S.), also...
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1915
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Based on a controversial novel by Robert Ellis Wales, The Penitentes was inspired by a real-life religious cult which thrived...
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1915
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1910
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