This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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1934
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In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer...
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1933
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In this comedy-mystery, an ex-vaudevillian becomes an amateur sleuth and begins helping the police locate an international...
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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1932
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Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it...
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1932
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1931
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In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment...
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1930
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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1930
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Although Broadway star Hal Skelly never quite made it in films, it wasn't for lack of trying. In Woman Trap, Skelly is cast...
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1929
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Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu Manchu.The film makes an...
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1929
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The Noose was based on a story by H. H. Van Loan -- or rather, the play adapted from that story by Willard Mack. Cheap crook...
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1928
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1928
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In the tradition of Colleen Moore's best films, Her Wild Oat is nowhere near as "naughty" as its title. Moore is cast as Mary...
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1927
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George O'Hara was never a big star, but he was a good, reliable "bread-and-butter" performer for small but wiry FBO Pictures....
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1927
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This overwrought program drama was given a racy title to promote the up-and-coming Clara Bow, but all it really did for her...
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1925
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Grace Barrow (Hope Hampton) has become a cabaret dancer in New York, and when she hears her ailing mother needs money, she...
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1924
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This drama glorified the lowly postman, which probably warmed the heart of Will H. Hays, the head of the Motion Picture...
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1923
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One morning Ira Leavenworth (William Walcott) doesn't appear for breakfast so his two nieces, Eleanor (Seena Owen) and Mary...
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1923
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Early silent screen hero William Russell starred as a miner killing a claim jumper in self defence in this average Western...
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1921
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In one of her several attempts to escape the physically demanding serial genre, Pearl White (of Perils of Pauline fame)...
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1921
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Although the star's heyday as a serial queen had passed, this Pearl White feature certainly had its share of thrills....
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1921
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Tiger (Frank Evans) is one of those shifty gamblers often found in movies set in the Alaskan wilds. His daughter, known only...
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1920
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The only thing remotely interesting about this flimsy drama is the number of gorgeous outfits worn by its star, former serial...
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1920
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The Dark Mirror is the first of two Hollywood films of that title dealing with "doppelganger" twin sisters. The later film,...
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1920
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This silent feature, based on a play by Frederic and Fanny Hatton, gives an idea of what people considered "the high life"...
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1919
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1919
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When her contract with Triangle ended, silent comedienne Constance Talmadge signed up to make films with her brother-in-law,...
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1918
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It seems like Goldwyn advertised every picture starring Mabel Normand by crowing that she had returned to the slapstick...
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1918
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Just for Tonight is one of the few films in which the butler really did do it. "It" is the theft of several valuable jewels,...
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1918
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Mabel Normand was not one of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties; she had long been a star when he came up with the concept, and,...
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1918
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The Studio Girl was the film version of the 1911 Billie Burke stage vehicle The Runaway. The original play's French locale...
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1918
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Dramatic screen star Clara Kimball Young was well cast in this film, based on the novel by David Graham Phillips. She is...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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Phantom Farrell (Frank Keenan) is a slick society criminal, as handy with the ladies as with his burglar tools. Successfully...
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1916
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Louise Glaum brings her femme fatale persona to World War I in this feature. Wicked Frenchwoman Marie Chaumontel (Glaum) is...
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1916
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1916
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In this silent drama, a socialite and her family lose their fortune. In order to make some fast money, she becomes a model...
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1916
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Mrs. Stanhope (Adele Farrington) is a spendthrift and runs herself into debt. Because of this, she wants her daughter Minerva...
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1915
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1914
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1914
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1914
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