In this low-budget adventure, a gangster and his spouse are stranded on a lonely tropical island. They soon discover that a...
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1946
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In this western, Red Ryder and his young sidekick Little Beaver help prevent an impressionable duchess from being duped by a...
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Screenwriter
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1945
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The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1944
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A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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It Comes Up Love was typical of teenaged songstress Gloria Jean's Universal vehicles: good songs and a strong cast squandered...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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In this crime drama, a remake of Heat Lightning(1931), a robber kills a bank teller during a robbery and then takes his wife,...
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1941
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The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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In this drama, a former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal...
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1938
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In this lively musical western, a cowboy's wife heads for Reno for a quickie divorce. Meanwhile her husband finds himself in...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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1937
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Bette Davis plays a facial cream heiress in this middling comedy, which Warner Bros. filmed partially in Florida. Mistaking...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this bedroom farce, an ex-wife overhears her former hubby's new wife and her lover planning a tryst for the weekend while...
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1935
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1935
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The fourth screen version of Hubert Henry Davies' 1914 play Outcast, this comedy-drama stars Bette Davis as Miriam Brady, a...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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All but forgotten today, Warner Bros.' The Firebird was based on a once-popular stage mystery by Lajos Zilhany. Prohibited...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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The second of three Kay Francis films in which the star was cast as a dedicated lady physician, Doctor Monica was adapted...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film,...
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1934
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In this comedy drama, a wealthy shoe magnate is bored with his life. The trouble really begins when his chief rival dies....
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1933
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In this drama, the owner of a Chicago meat-packing company falls in love with a beautiful opera singer. Unfortunately, his...
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1933
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In her first film under contract to Warner Bros., Kay Francis plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband Fred (Kenneth...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this complicated drama, a husband begins an affair. His new mistress has a handsome brother who ends up falling for the...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1932
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Sudden success can be a double-edged sword as this drama aptly proves. An aspiring musician finds success when his manager...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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A Bavarian orphan, raised by a wealthy family, grows up to become a promising physician (Richard Barthelmess). Meanwhile, the...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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My Past is based on a novel called Ex-Mistress, a title that was rejected outright by the Hollywood censors. Even so, what...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Constance Bennett, Hollywood's favorite "wronged" heroine, is the star of the misleadingly titled Bought. Thing of it is,...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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William Wellman's Night Nurse survives as a potentially interesting but ultimately unsatisfying melodrama about a nurse...
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1931
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Based on a novel by Geoffrey Barnes, Party Husband is a weak-tea drawing room comedy utterly dependant upon the charms of its...
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1931
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The second of three versions of James Oliver Curwood's pulp fiction drama of a mountie and his separated-at-birth prey stars...
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Illicit office romances provide the basis of this melodrama. The story centers around an older man's secretary who drops her...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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In this drama, a married woman's life is destroyed when her husband falls in love with a pretty chorine and divorces her. He...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Show Boat was a part-silent, part-talkie adaptation of the book by Edna Ferber. The film traces the life of Magnolia Hawkes...
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1929
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Filmed silent, but outfitted with a Movietone musical score and sound effects, Woman From Hell was inspired by From Hell Came...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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The Lost Zeppelin offers a bonanza of special effects and art-deco sets with a nickel's worth of plot. The film begins at a...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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In this romantic romance, the daughter of a deeply religious self-righteous barge captain befriends a worldly tugboat...
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1929
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1928
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1928
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Jean Hersholt stars in this Universal "jewel," which was based on the Broadway success by John B. Hymer and Leroy Clemens. A...
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1927
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1927
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Don Marquis' bucolic stage comedy-drama The Old Soak was first brought to the screen in 1926. Jean Hersholt plays the title...
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Screenwriter
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1926
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Ninety percent of the silent films of director Edward H. Sloman have been lost to the ages, and Butterflies in the Rain is no...
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Screenwriter
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1926
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Cowboy ace Tom Mix allowed himself a change of pace with this costume adventure produced by Fox. Mix plays the legendary...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1925
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To spite her domineering father, Eastern girl Lucy Fox pursues an unsuitable suitor to a small Western hamlet where she...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1925
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Winsome Shirley Mason stars in this routine Fox melodrama. The naïve Grace Whitney (Mason) attends a wild party being held by...
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1925
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1924
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1924
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Hearts of Oak is, alas, one of the many "lost" silent films of pantheon director John Ford. Filmed not long after Ford's epic...
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1924
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John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on...
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1924
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1924
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Richard (Herbert Rawlinson), the son of Judge Garbin (David Torrence), is railroaded into prison. He angrily swears vengeance...
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1923
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This stereotypical rural tale wastes the talents of Charles "Buck" Jones, who was far better off in Westerns, where he would...
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1923
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This dramatic Universal programmer was based on the novel by Johann Bojer. Building contractor John Hammond (David Torrance)...
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1922
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In this silent crime melodrama, an ex-con marries a teacher and tries to start a new life in the city. Unfortunately, he is...
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Screenwriter
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1921
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Bunty Pulls the Strings was adapted from the immensely popular stage farce by Graham Moffat. Leatrice Joy stars as a Scottish...
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Screenwriter
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1921
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Fancy Charlie (Tom Moore) breaks into an apartment, but finds a cabinet full of burglar tools. This is a clear indication...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1920
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Stop Thief was adapted from the popular Broadway comedy of the same name, with Mary Ryan repeating her original stage role....
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Screenwriter
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1920
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Like all of director J. Gordon Edwards' silent films, Joyous Troublemakers no longer exists. Existing documentation indicates...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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The "wife" of the title is Hope Ross, played by Louise Lovely, but never mind her. The real star of the proceedings is former...
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1918
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1918
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