This trite, low-budget Western stars Victor Mature as Ben Lassiter, a former Confederate soldier who is traveling to the...
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1959
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In this youthful drama, a young nephew is forced to live a highly restricted lifestyle by his two spinster aunts who will...
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1958
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3DFrontier Gun3D is another of the moderately interesting low-budget westerns turned out by 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films...
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1958
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Grandfather Jackson (Raymond Hatton) has sewn his life savings into the lining of an old coat. His grandson Bobby (Stephen...
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1957
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In the final episode of Dragnet's fifth TV season, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate a series of...
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1956
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John Payne stars as legendary pirate Barbarossa -- aka Redbeard -- in Raiders of the Seven Seas. Capturing a Spanish galleon...
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1953
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Billy Winder directed and co-wrote this bitterly satiric comedy-drama which turns a jaundiced eye towards both the news media...
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1951
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One man's good luck leaves a very bad impression in this comedy. Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and Mildred Goodhug (Jane...
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1951
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Cinderella was Walt Disney's return to feature-length "story" cartoons after eight years of turning out episodic pastiches...
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1950
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Destination Big House is a well directed Republic Programmer starring Dorothy Patrick as a vacationing schoolteacher....
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1950
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This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly...
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1949
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1949
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1949
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1949
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Former "Henry Aldrich" James Lydon acquits himself nicely in a serious role in Republic's Out of the Storm. Lydon plays...
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1948
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Lightnin' in the Forest is a rare Republic Studios foray into the comedy field, kept alive by the rapport between its stars....
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1948
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Monogram's French Leave received an inordinate amount of press coverage because of its teaming of two former child stars....
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1948
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1948
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1948
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Producer Hal Roach's postwar attempt to create a new bunch of "Our Gang" kids resulted in two misfire Cinecolor comedies, the...
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Housekeeper
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1948
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In this drama, a Bostonian socialite marries the owner of a racehorse and begins a life of globe-trotting from international...
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1947
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1947
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Bells of San Fernando was advertised as a romantic adventure, but it plays more like a Western. Donald Woods plays an Irish...
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1947
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When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds...
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1947
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1946
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In this adventure, set in Old California, a Spanish nobleman journeys to California to claim an inheritance. He soon...
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1946
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The Whistler, mysterious narrator of the radio series of the same name, "knows many things" for he "walks by night." This...
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1946
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Invisible Informer serves as a feature-length vehicle for Republic serial queen Linda Stirling. The story is set in motion by...
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1946
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One of the most successful filmed biographies of the 1940s, A Song to Remember alleges to be the true story of Polish...
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1945
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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1945
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Roy Rogers saves Dale Evans from being hoodwinked by a rodeo competitor in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, B-Western...
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1944
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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1944
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Edmund Lowe was old enough to know better when he starred in the anachronistic Monogram crime comedy Oh, What a Night! Lowe...
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1944
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On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many...
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1943
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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1942
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Back in the 1940s, it was not uncommon for recording artists to cut records exclusively for the jukebox trade, and sometimes...
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1942
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In his final film before entering war service, Gene Autry joins the World Wide Wild West Show, a faltering enterprise about...
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1942
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1942
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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1942
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Jane Darwell is the whole show in the 61-minute 20th Century-Fox programmer Private Nurse. The formidable Ms. Darwell is...
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1941
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Jack Oakie is near the top of his form as Boley Bolenciecwcz, the best college football player to come down the pike in a...
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1941
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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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1940
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The Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred...
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1940
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Though the 1931 Fox release Charlie Chan Carries On apparently no longer exists, modern viewers can get a general idea of the...
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for...
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1940
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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Unlike Shirley Temple, Jane Withers was permitted to "grow up" in her 20th Century-Fox vehicles. Since Withers was 13 going...
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Miss Huggins
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1940
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When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily...
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1940
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Sigrid Gurie, the Swede from Brooklyn who in 1938 was touted as Sam Goldwyn's answer to Garbo, was taking whatever work she...
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1939
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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1939
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South of the Border, a western directered by George Sherman, features two United States government agents (Gene Autry) and...
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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A model of precision and economy, the MGM "B" thriller Tell No Tales represented the feature-film directorial debut of former...
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1939
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In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in...
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1939
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1938
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In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone...
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1938
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The Jones Family is at it again in Everybody's Baby, their first 1939 release (previewed in 1938). This time, the Joneses'...
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1938
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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The Baroness, daughter of the Hungarian prime minister, is played by Annabella. The Butler, last of a long line of family...
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1938
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In this depressing drama, even though she is an adult, the eldest daughter of a hillbilly clan headed by a brutal patriarch...
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1937
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1937
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"This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each...
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1937
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First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th...
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1936
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Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist,...
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1936
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A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town...
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1935
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Assistant DA Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot) is in love with sweet Muriel (Mary Brian). This in itself is not earth-shattering,...
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Angela
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1934
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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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This version of the Charlotte Bronte classic is the first to use sound. The story closely follows the book as it chronicles...
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1934
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In this drama, an old woman gets disgusted by her relatives and runs away from home. She then begins working as a cook in...
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1934
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Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville...
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1933
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An espionage drama set in the early 20th century, Ever in My Heart stars Barbara Stanwyck as a New England naif who marries a...
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1933
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In 1933, at the height of the bleakness and desperation of the Depression, MGM released this genuine curiosity piece --...
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1933
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Having confessed to murder, Nora Moran (Zita Johann) sits sadly on death row, waiting her date with the electric chair. In...
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Mrs. Crawford
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1933
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Lawyer Wyn Huntley (Jack Mulhall) is a lion in the courtroom, but a lamb when it comes to women. In love with the beautiful...
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1930
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Viola Dana plays both of the title characters in Rayart's Two Sisters. One of the heroines is a daring female bandit, while...
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1929
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Hip-swinging danseuse Gilda Gray, the girl who created the late-'20s dance craze "The Shimmy," plays the provocatively...
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1927
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Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused...
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1926
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In this romantic silent adventure, a beautiful heiress goes to California for a visit and while there learns that her New...
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1926
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Mary Carr (the charming old woman from Over the Hill to the Poorhouse) plays Drusilla Doane, a charity case at an old ladies'...
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1925
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1924
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This 12-reel silent adaptation of The Sea Hawk is far more faithful to the Rafael Sabatini original than the 1940...
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1924
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This picture, based on the novel and play by Robert Hichens, was typical melodramatic fare for star Norma Talmadge. Lord...
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1923
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W. Somerset Maugham's first original story for the screen proves one thing -- Maugham could not translate his inspiration to...
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1922
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While no one could ever call the cast to this melodrama "all star," it certainly features some of the best second-stringers...
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1922
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This epic historical romance, based on the novel by Mary Johnston, was one of Paramount's big releases for 1922, and it...
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1922
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Alice Lake stars in this clever crime drama, which had a script written by June Mathis. When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is...
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1922
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Trixie Belmonts
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1921
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Annesley Grayle (Katherine MacDonald) answers an ad for a traveling companion to an elderly matron to escape the boredom of...
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Countess De Santiago
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1921
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A major -- and rare -- failure from legendary producer Thomas H. Ince, The Bronze Bell starred British-born stage idol...
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1921
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The Green Flame is the precious jewel which motivates the plot of this hectic mellerdrammer. J. Warren Kerrigan is his usual...
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1920
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Dauntless Dustin Farnum stars in the rugged western Man in the Open. A retired sailor, Farnum heads to the wide open spaces,...
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1919
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In a post located in the far reaches of the frozen North, whiskey runner Dubec (Fred M. Malatesa) murders the wife of...
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1919
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Baby Marie Osborne was the Shirley Temple of the 1910s. Here she plays Christine, the daughter of a couple of circus...
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1919
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Baby Marie Osborne -- the 1910s' version of Shirley Temple -- saves the day in this drama. Jim Davis (Jack Connolly) is a...
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1919
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The motivating factor of the Universal five-reeler Brace Up was the then-new science of Psychology -- or, as it was labelled...
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1918
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Jack Mulhall stars as the ne'er-do-well son of a US admiral. When Mulhall discovers that his dad's butler is really a German...
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1918
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Hillaire Latour (J. Warren Kerrigan) is a French Canadian trapper who decides to become a lumberman when he sees the amounts...
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1918
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Stenographer Marjorie Helmer (Dorothy Phillips) embarks upon the "risky road" when she agrees to be the kept woman of her...
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1918
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1917
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The Winged Mystery was supposed to have been taken seriously, but audiences and critics alike regarded the film as a laugh...
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1917
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1917
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After several years of lending support to "bigger" Universal contract players, Lon Chaney Sr. was at last afforded star...
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1917
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1917
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Playboy Franklyn Farnum inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain (none...
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Senorita Dolores
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1917
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Triumph was adapted from a story by Samuel Hopkins Adams, originally serialized in the pages of Collier's magazine. Arriving...
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1917
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In the Dark Ages of the silent era, when female movie characters were expecting, their pregnancies never, ever showed -- the...
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1917
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1916
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With American opinion divided over the European war in 1915, no fewer than three major motion pictures were conceived with...
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1916
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