This biographical documentary examines the early life and career of Charlie Chaplin. A repeated feature of American Public...
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1972
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A video compilation of cutting-room-floor footage from the works of Charles Chaplin. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. narrates. ~ Rovi...
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1967
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The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the...
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Old Man in School
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1966
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Stars in the Back Yard is an alternate title for filmmaker Hugo Haas' valedictory feature Paradise Alley. Taking a breather...
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1961
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In this comedy, an awkward TV repairman finds himself falling for an actress who doesn't even know he exists and instead...
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1958
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In 1870s Arizona, Anne LeBeau (Joan Taylor) is caught between two cultures in a conflict that may kill her and her brother...
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1955
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Notable only for the presence of former silent film great Chester Conklin, this silly sci-fi flick from legendary producer...
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Old Man Webber
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1955
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A sequel to Bob Hope's 1948 box-office success The Paleface, 1952's Son of Paleface is a superior product in every way,...
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1952
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Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is...
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1951
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1950
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In this 1951 comedy Irene Dunne stars as Kay, a Manhattan-based songwriter who marries widowed rodeo cowboy Chris...
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1950
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This "Joe Palooka" entry concentrates on Joe's porcine pal Humphrey Pennyworth (played by Robert Coogan, the brother of...
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1950
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The Milkman is a low-key variation of a theme explored in such slapstick festivals as The Fuller Brush Man and...
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1950
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Two-bit photographer Howard Duff wins a big newspaper assignment by romancing his lady boss (Peggy Dow). Duff is sent to take...
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1950
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1950
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Part of the Roy Rogers series, this film focuses on Roy Roger's horse, Trigger, and his infatuation with a handsome palomino...
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1949
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Though Humphrey Bogart is the official star of Knock on Any Door, the film is essentially a showcase for Columbia's newest...
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1949
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1949
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One of the more popular movie-review paperbacks sums up Paramount's Isn't it Romantic? with a terse "No." There's actually...
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1948
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C&W singer Jimmy Wakely would never be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, but he strove to please. In Song of the Wasteland, Jimmy...
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1947
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Republic's Springtime in the Sierras bestows upon star Roy Rogers two leading ladies. The first is his usual vis-a-vis...
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Old Timer
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1947
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In this comedy, a scatter-brained professor nearly starts a riot when he writes a book claiming that women like to be...
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1947
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Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes...
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1947
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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1947
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With a title like Singin' in the Corn, how could the star be anyone else but rambunctious rustic comedienne Judy Canova. This...
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1946
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With the profits of the Abbott & Costello films in decline, Universal decided to experiment with the comedians' standard...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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1946
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In this comedy, a puritanical math teacher at a midwestern university is forced by the dean's wife to go to New York to...
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1946
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A little over a year after this Three Stooges short was made, Curly Howard would suffer a stroke and go into retirement. But...
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1945
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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1944
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War...
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1944
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This wild, once-controversial comedy stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy single girl whose favorite pastime...
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1944
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In this drama a big-city reporter moves to a tiny town to begin running the newspaper he half-owns. His in-your-face...
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1944
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1944
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The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this...
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1944
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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1944
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Charles Winninger plays an old seaman who rules the roost in his family, which resides on a Florida houseboat. His oldest...
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1944
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In this '40s film Kay Kyser parades an entertainment group all over the globe providing laughs for the boys in battle. This...
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1943
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In spite of its name, Peaceful Gulch is riddled by bullets and bad guys. The sheriff needs some men either brave enough or...
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1943
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The Three Stooges were still in their prime when this short (the last one of theirs directed by Harry Edwards) was filmed....
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1943
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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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1942
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With its slight resemblance to Destry Rides Again (1939) -- probably not entirely coincidental -- this rousing Western from...
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1942
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1942
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Sons of the Pioneers is a showcase for?the Sons of the Pioneers, who are reteamed with ex-"Son" Roy Rogers in this budget...
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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1942
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Harmon of Michigan was the first in a trio of Columbia sports films, each starring a real-life athlete. In this case, the...
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1941
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1941
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The Three Stooges star as inept photographers in this comic short. When they screw up their latest assignment -- getting a...
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1941
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Robert Montgomery plays saxophone-playing boxer Joe Pendleton, who insists upon piloting his own plane, much to the...
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1941
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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes...
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1941
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This is the first of two filmed adaptations of Al Capp's classic comic strip, in which the title hillbilly (Granville Owen)...
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1940
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Chip of the Flying U was Johnny Mack Brown's first western entry for 1940. Brown essays the title role of Chip Bennett,...
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1940
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"This is the story of the period between two world wars--an interim during which insanity cut loose, liberty took a nose...
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1940
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Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a...
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1939
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With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo...
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1939
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As in their earlier False Alarms (1936), the Three Stooges play firemen in this two-reel farce directed by comedian Charley...
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1938
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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1937
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Singing cowboy Tex Ritter once again battled the ornery Charles King in this average music Western from poverty row company...
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1937
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1937
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Sheriff Grundy
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1937
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It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film....
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1936
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Hopalong Cassidy's young sidekick, Johnny Nelson, is falsely accused of robbing the Bar 20 in this the fourth installment of...
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Sandy McQueen
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1936
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This episodic satire of the Machine Age is considered Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film, although Chaplin uses sound,...
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Mechanic
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1936
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Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and...
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Sunday
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1933
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In this musical comedy, Fred Von Wellingen (Ben Lyon), the scion of a wealthy German family, has fallen in love with Lia...
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1931
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"East is East, West is West, Never the Twain Shall Meet." That's the lesson to be learned in the low-budget exotic romance...
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Nelson
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1930
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Advertised as an "all star" film, Swing High is hardly that: The biggest name in the picture, both in terms of popularity and...
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1930
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This comedy chronicles the rise of a country rube who becomes a baseball legend for the New York Yankees. Not only does he...
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1929
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The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery....
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George, Studio Gateman
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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Adolphe Menjou's final silent film was the imitation-Lubitsch Marquis Preferred. Characteristically dressed up like a million...
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Mr. Gruger
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1929
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In this curious film, a knickknack collector falls in love with the daughter of a jewel collector. When a rare stone is...
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1929
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Filmed at glorious locations on the Navajo reservation at Tuba City and in Flagstaff, AZ, this Zane Grey adaptation stars...
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Windy
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1929
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The gruff but lovable Wallace Beery starred in this Zane Grey adaptation from Paramount. He plays the prototype outlaw with a...
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Tim
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1929
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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Uncle Hughey
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1929
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"Pop" Conlan
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1928
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One of the first sound releases from FBO pictures (no dialogue, but plenty of music), Taxi 13 stars Chester Conklin in his...
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Angus Mactavish
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1928
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The present unavailability of 1928's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is especially frustrating for those who'd like to compare this...
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1928
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This nonsensical comedy-melodrama was a vehicle for two relics from the dawn of cinema history, walrus-mustached...
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Mr. Rackham
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1928
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Samuel Hunter
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1928
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Horatio Q. Frisbee
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1928
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Comic Chester Conklin stars in this sparkling comedy directed by Allan Dwan. John Sloval (Conklin), a New York City transit...
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John Sloval
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1928
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Played by William H. Tooker, railroad superintendent Old Man Sweeney is but a peripheral character in this film, despite its...
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Luke Beamish
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1927
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1927
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Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a...
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Sheriff Ben Holden
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1927
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Based on the once-popular "musical extravaganza" of the same name, McFadden's Flats is a serviceable vehicle for Keystone...
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Jock McTavish
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1927
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A follow-up to the enormously successful Behind the Front, We're in the Navy Now reteams the stars of the earlier film,...
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Captain Stiffe
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1927
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A nightclub dancer is torn between two men -- a tough detective and an unscrupulous gangster -- in this rather lurid silent...
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Jerry Trask
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1927
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Constance Talmadge's sole 1926 effort was the forgettable comedy The Duchess of Buffalo. Set in a country that seems to be...
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Hotel Manager
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1926
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1926
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Originally, Louise Brooks was only supposed to have a supporting role in this comedy-drama starring Adolphe Menjou. Partway...
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1926
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Mort
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1926
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Aileen Pringle tackles a dual role in the comedy actioner Wilderness Woman. Actually, both heroines -- hoydenish Junie and...
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Kodiak MacLean
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1926
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1926
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Injured in a small European kingdom during a revolution, American soldier-of-fortune Bob Howard (Richard Dix) lies in a...
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Princ Otto V.
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1926
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Fascinating Youth was designed as a showcase for the winners of Paramount's Junior Star contest of 1926. Newcomer...
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1926
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Lon Chaney stars as Erik, the Phantom, in what is probably his most famous and certainly his most horrifying role. Produced...
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1925
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Adapted from a novel by Julian LaMothe, The Winding Stair stars Edmund Lowe as Paul, a fearless French Foreign Legion...
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1925
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Dr. Lucien LaPierre (Sam de Grasse) desperately wants to marry Elise Duchanier, the maid to a Parisian burlesque star...
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1925
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This melodrama about the moral redemption of two crooks stars Eileen Pearcy and Tom Moore. Whitey (Moore) goes from being a...
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1925
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This sophisticated and well-made comedy-drama was one of Pola Negri's best vehicles for Paramount. More often than not, the...
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Sam Poore
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1925
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Jack Newberry (E.K. Lincoln) is the millionaire's son who tries to become a Hollywood filmmaker in this melodrama. His father...
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1925
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During the 1920s, Reginald Denny was popular in pictures for portraying all-American young men (this changed after the sound...
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1925
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1925
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Bunyan (Wesley Barry, who was too old for former child roles, but too young to be a credible adult) works as a garage...
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1924
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1924
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When old rancher Mark Ridgeway (Josef Swickard) passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to trusted...
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1924
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A trained seal stole the limelight in this silent farce produced by Thomas H. Ince. Sydney Chaplin, brother of Charlie,...
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1924
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This seafaring melodrama was based on the Harkins and Barber stage play by the same name. His ship capsized in a storm,...
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1924
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Mr. Sieppe
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1924
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Madalyn Harlan (Estelle Taylor), the daughter of wealthy socialites, falls in love with the chauffeur Jerry Ryan...
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1923
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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This anthology is comprised of several short chucklers from the King of Slapstick comedy Mack Sennett. These shorts feature...
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1921
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1917
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1915
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1915
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1915
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Love, Speed and Thrills is about a loving husband and a wife-stealing wolf, both after the same woman. ~ Rovi...
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1915
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1915
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Rival
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin once said, "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." In this, his 11th film for...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 29th comedy for Keystone was one of his most popular, grossing $130,000 in its initial year of release. It...
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1914
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In his eighth film for Keystone Charlie Chaplin, in frock coat and bushy mustache, is cast in the role of a melodramatic...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 12th film for the Keystone company was also his directorial debut, receiving co-directing credit with...
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1914
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Cop
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1914
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The Face on the Bar-Room Floor, Charlie Chaplin's 22nd Keystone comedy, was based on a well-known poem by Hugh Antoine...
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1914
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Tango Tangles is an impromptu Keystone comedy which exploited the current "tango craze." A tango contest and exhibition...
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Policeman
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1914
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Mabel's Father
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 30th Keystone comedy is again set at the auto races, as were his earlier films, Kid's Auto Race,...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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This typical Keystone slapstick comedy was Charlie Chaplin's first appearance on film. An Englishman (Chaplin) cons a...
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1914
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This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 24th short for the Keystone company is a film about making films at Keystone. It is unusual in that we see...
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1914
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