One of Bela Lugosi's least remembered films, this ultra low-budget whodunit with science fiction overtones features the...
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1935
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1933
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1933
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In this unusual Western, Buck Jones is not only branded for being a "squaw stealer" (i.e. rapist) but his prey is a woman...
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1933
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1931
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Having labored to raise her children properly, a grief-stricken mother watches helplessly as their lives take diverse paths...
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1930
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Silent screen sweetheart Corinne Griffith, who originally wanted to retire when talkies came in, proved the wisdom of her...
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1930
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A good cast was wasted in this poor silent melodrama about a young wastrel, Frank Clayton (Gaston Glass), who engages a fake...
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1929
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Popular silent-screen star Leatrice Joy made an adequate talking-picture debut in MGM's The Bellamy Trial. The film was based...
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1929
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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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Crawford Whitely
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1929
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In this adventure, a remake of 1923's The Arab, a British cavalry soldier stationed in the Sudan takes the rap for his...
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1929
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Bebe Daniels once again plays an intrepid -- and somewhat foolhardy -- girl reporter in Paramount's What a Night!. A spoiled...
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1928
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Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith's days of glory were well behind him when he agreed to direct Drums of Love. Indicative of...
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1928
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1927
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Thanks to constant exposure in excerpt form in scores of silent-movie compilations, Play Safe is the best-known of the...
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1927
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Made during Hollywood's first "gangster cycle," The City Gone Wild stars Thomas Meighan as an honest prosecuting attorney....
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Luther Winthrop
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1927
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George Ade's barnstorming stage comedy The College Widow (which at one time boasted baseball great Ty Cobb as its leading...
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Professor Witherspoon
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1927
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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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Judson Stoddard
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1927
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One of seven Monte Blue vehicles filmed by Warner Bros. in 1927, Bitter Apples casts the reliable Blue as wealthy John...
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Cyrus Thornden
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1927
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Love ain't all that funny, but this 5-reel comedy elicited a chuckle or two from 1927 audiences. Alberta Vaughn plays a...
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1927
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1927
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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1926
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Clara Bow and Donald Keith were teamed in several low-budget romantic comedies of the 1920s, but only Bow made it to the big...
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Otis Crawford
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1926
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The Social Highwayman is a light-fingered jewel thief who preys on high-society folk. Greenhorn newspaper reporter Jay Walker...
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1926
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This typical Hoot Gibson Western starred the rumpled cowboy as Jeff Morgan, Jr., the son of a famous outlaw...
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1926
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This independently produced silent action melodrama starred the husband-and-wife team of John Bowers and Marguerite de la...
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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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Don Carlos
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1926
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Producer B. P. Schulberg put his top star, Clara Bow, through her paces in this silent melodrama of a girl (Clara of course)...
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1925
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This silent drama, based on the novel by the Countess de Chambrun, had quite a few unusual twists. Amy and Matthew Dale...
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1925
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Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his...
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Mr. D'Arcy
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1925
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This melodrama, the first release from a small-time independent company called Gotham, is an old-fashioned thriller. David...
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1925
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Silent film leading lady Priscilla Dean's best years were behind her when she made Crimson Runner. Still, her ability to...
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1925
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Based on a play by Owen Davis, Lighthouse By the Sea top-bills Warner Bros.' most successful male star of 1924: dauntless...
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1924
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Paul Andrews (Eric St. Clair) returns from the World War (there was only one in those days) with Buddy, a dog he found in...
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1924
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Veteran screen cowboy Harry Carey was getting a bit uncomfortable doing romantic scenes by 1923 and Crashin Thru therefore...
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1923
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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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Although the story to this Harry Carey Western is pretty weak, it still has some amusing moments. Carey plays Blake, who is...
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1923
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Minor Universal star Gladys Walton has the lead in this light comedy. After becoming a successful chorus girl on the Broadway...
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Bill Ramsey
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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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1923
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This drama was a rare directing effort from screenwriter Marion Fairfax. Sam Clairborne Sr. (Charles Mailes) wills his estate...
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1922
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Isom Chase
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1922
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While he was working as a supporting character in this film, Rudolph Valentino had no idea that stardom was imminent....
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Old Jim Eastman
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1921
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Mild-mannered Wilkins (William V. Mong) has been a bookkeeper for the firm of Bates and Stryker for 15 years without...
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1921
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This so-so light comedy vehicle for Douglas MacLean was based on the Saturday Evening Post story, "Yancona Yillies," by...
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1921
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Sidney Franklin, formerly the principal director of the "Fox Kidlettes" series, works with grownups in the silent Courage....
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1921
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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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1920
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1920
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This mystery comedy was based on the novel, House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholsorf (the book was also made into a...
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1920
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Bret Harte's story gets an unusual adaptation in the hands of director John Ford (in the days when he was known as Jack Ford)...
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1919
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1918
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Silent child star Zoe Rae plays a psychic little girl in this Universal drama. John Bowman (Henry A. Barrows), the captain of...
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1918
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Zoe Rae was a child star of the silent era -- not as popular as Baby Marie Osborne, but still good box office. Here she does...
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1918
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Blond Juanita Hansen, a runner-up to Pearl White and Ruth Roland in the serial queen sweepstakes, starred as Rosalind Joy,...
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1918
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1917
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1916
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1916
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1914
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Conservative Biograph Studios, having galloped to prominence on the coattails of their star director D.W. Griffith, refused...
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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A besieged blockhouse containing a frightened Lillian Gish, marauding Indians, and a Mexican who heroically brings the...
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1913
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1913
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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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Elmer Booth is an ex-convict, and Mary Pickford is his devoted wife. Booth and his buddy are miserable in prison, but Mary...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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A wagon train is attacked by marauding Indians in this typically grisly Biograph one-reel western melodrama preserved in the...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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Filmed during the Biograph Company's yearly winter excursion to sunny California, this one-reel Western melodrama features...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1910
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1910
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1909
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1909
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