Helen Hayes reportedly turned down the opportunity to play the title role in this dreary melodrama about self-sacrificing...
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1934
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Secret of Madame Blanche is one of those "confessional" film dramas which movie fans of the early 1930s ate up like bonbons....
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1933
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After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter...
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1933
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In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company...
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1933
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New Morals for Old was the teasing title for a somewhat sedate film about the ongoing rejection of middle-class values by the...
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1932
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of...
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1932
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Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal...
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1932
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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1932
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1931
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In this historical drama, set in 1775, the hardships faced by a courageous band of settlers traveling from Virginia to...
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1931
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In this high-seas adventure, a ship's steward goes 'round the bend, mutinies, throws the captain into the briny, and turns...
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1930
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1930
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1929
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1928
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1927
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"Hard Boiled" Haggerty (Milton Sills) is a flight lieutenant who uses German planes for target practice during WWI. For all...
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1927
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Set in a not-so-reasonable facsimile of London's Limehouse district, Twinkletoes stars Colleen Moore as the title character,...
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1926
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1925
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1924
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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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This rough melodrama about a family of Kentucky moonshiners was directed, surprisingly, by the staid, British Charles J....
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1922
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This picture, in three parts, was promoted as being true-to-life, but judging from the reviews, it's obviously just...
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1920
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Evelyn Nesbit's big claim to fame was that in 1906, her crazed husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her former lover, Stanford...
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1919
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In this film, her next-to-last picture for Fox, it was Theda Bara's turn to tackle a double role (just about every star in...
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1919
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The quaint Irish lass of Annie Crawford's poem and Dion Boucicault's stage play came to the screen for the second time in...
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1919
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1918
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Although he was already an established director elsewhere, this was Charles J. Brabin's first feature for Fox. Even though...
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1918
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1918
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Only the manly presence of Francis X. Bushman saved Red, White and Blue Blood from being as silly as its title. The...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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Why this film is named after Peggy Hyland's character is a mystery because she doesn't have much to do in this picture. All...
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1917
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1917
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The dozen three-reel pictures that made up the "Who Pays?" series of films released by Balboa and distributed by Pathe were...
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1916
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Legendary stage star Minnie Maddern Fiske made her screen debut in the 1913 version of Thomas Hardy's...
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1915
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This Edison five-reeler was reviewed by the trade magazine Variety under the title House of the Lost Court. Viola Dana,...
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1915
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In the early days of the 1900s it took but one indiscretion to completely ruin a young girl's life, as this drama...
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1915
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Although Henry B. Walthall (the "Little Colonel" in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation) made a strong showing as Edgar Allen...
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1915
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Although Henry Walthall was better known for his dramatic roles such as the Little Colonel in Birth of a Nation, he also...
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1915
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Writer Robert Barr wrote a series of stories about a handsome young hero named Lord Stranleigh for the Saturday Evening Post,...
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1915
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1911
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