Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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1932
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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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1930
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A remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly...
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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1930
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Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple...
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1929
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In this drama, a woman finds herself abandoned when the man she assumed was her husband suddenly marches in, announces that...
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1929
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In this drama, which marks Barbara Stawyck's Hollywood film debut, a woman is taken to an illegal cabaret set aboard a...
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1929
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Del Lord, director of many a Three Stooges farce in the 1930s and 1940s, told the actors when to move and when not to move in...
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1929
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Recorded sound effects punctuate this silent drama, the first big-budget release from the then-Poverty Row studio Columbia....
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Submarine Commander
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1928
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1928
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The 1928 Fox comedy-drama Square Crooks was based on James P. Judge's stage play of the same name (back then, "square" meant...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1927
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Those who believe that It Happened One Night was the first film to tap the comic potential of "auto courts" (later known as...
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1927
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1927
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One of the most readily available features of the silent era, The Yankee Clipper is happily also one of the best. A pre-...
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1927
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Glamorous Broadway actress Babe (Leatrice Joy) is cast as a Salvation Army lass in her latest musical. For research purposes,...
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1927
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Based on a real-life incident, Maurine Watkins' semi-satirical novel and play Chicago was first brought to the screen in...
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1927
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A Harp in Hock proved to be a felicitous reteaming of veteran Austrian stage star Rudolph Schildkraut and juvenile favorite...
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1927
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1926
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Priscilla Dean was at her best when she was playing lady crooks, and in this entertaining mystery, no one is quite sure which...
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1926
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1926
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This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Alan Beckwith (Rod La...
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1926
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1926
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Under the supervision of Cecil B. DeMille, character actor Alan Hale handled the directing chores in Wedding Song. DeMille...
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1925
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Cecil B. DeMille's century-hopping extravaganza The Road to Yesterday begins in the present (1925, that is). Wealthy...
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1925
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Stuntman and former gymnast Frank Merrill stars in this low-budget action picture. Silent Saunders (Merrill) stows away on a...
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1925
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Produced but not directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Coming of Amos nevertheless has many earmarks of a typical DeMille film,...
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1925
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1924
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This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove...
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1924
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Irene Short (Agnes Ayers) tries to help her husband Donald (Edward Burns) further his career in architecture by running...
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1924
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This independently made light comedy starred Matt Moore and Madge Bellamy. When geologist Peter Maddox (Moore) builds a...
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1924
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Jack Hallowell
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1924
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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No, this society drama is not related in any way, shape or form to the 1949 Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy comedy. It's one...
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1923
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Jack Pickford made a strong showing in this romantic drama, adapted from the novel by W.B.M. Ferguson. Two schemers, Crimmins...
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1923
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Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
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1923
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Hefty comedian Walter Hiers stars in this tepid comedy. Jimmy Kirk (Hiers) is a soda jerk in love with Mamie Smith...
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1923
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Jack Holt stands out in this adaptation of the William LeBaron stage hit. A pair of con artists have published a book under...
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1923
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The second filming of Bret Harte's Salomy Jane's Kiss was given a sumptuous production by Paramount. This time around, the...
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1923
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Although rotund Walter Hiers was frequently seen in motion pictures all throughout the silent era, he was generally playing a...
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1923
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This independently made mystery suffers from an extremely poor ending -- after innumerable plot twists, the whole situation...
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1923
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This drama was based on Clyde Fitch's play The Woman in the Case, which was originally filmed in 1916 starring Pauline...
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1922
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As Gloria Swanson's star rose higher and higher, Paramount endlessly repeated the formula that brought her fame -- take a...
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1922
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Virile Jack Holt was perfectly cast as the title character in this brawling South Seas drama. New Yorker Robert Kendall...
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Nilson
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1922
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1922
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1922
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This quirky comedy with its mystical overtones was a departure for the down-to-earth Will Rogers. The story opens up with a...
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1922
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Because the drab Under the Lash failed at the box office, Paramount was more than happy to put their star, Gloria Swanson,...
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1922
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In the 1920s, chauvinism and pride overrode economics, and most men would rather have perished than relied on any money their...
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Harvey Beecher
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1922
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This lighthearted film was based upon the play The Impostor by Leonard Merrick and Michael Morton. After the death of her...
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1922
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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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George Bruce
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1922
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1922
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Jim Glover (Wallace Reid) is an engineer in charge of constructing a railroad to the sea. He gives the company president Gage...
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1921
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A re-edited version of 1917's The Frame-Up, this silent action melodrama features William Russell as Jeffrey Claiborne, a...
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1921
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Mary (Agnes Ayres) works as a seamstress for the wealthy Mallory family to support herself and her worthless husband Steve...
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Steve Maddock
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1921
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For a silent screen star, Lois Wilson showed a truly charming lack of ego -- how many other beauty contest winners would be...
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1921
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Although this expensive drama was "suggested by" a short story, The Laurels and the Lady, by Leodard Merrick, one can't help...
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1921
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1921
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In contrast to the spectacles of his brother Cecil, William DeMille's directorial efforts tended more towards small, simple...
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1921
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Myles Calthorpe (Robert Warwick) is an English soldier of fortune who travels to South Africa. He goes to work for a pair of...
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1920
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Wallace Reid plays one of his speed demon roles in this picture, which is based on the Saturday Evening Post story, "The...
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1920
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George Beban was famous for his ethnic characterizations, especially Italians, in films of the 1910s and early '20s. This...
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1919
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Douglas Fairbanks starred in the original Broadway production of James B. Fagan's Hawthorne of the USA, but Doug was too...
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1919
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1919
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Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by...
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1919
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Clay Burgess (Tom Mix), a drifter, returns to the small town of Palo to find the president of the bank -- his father --...
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1918
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1910s film star William Russell stars in this drama of intrigue and high finance. John Servier (Russell) is the vice...
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1917
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1917
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Just in case there was any doubt that this American Film Company production was meant to be an allegory, the authors...
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1916
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1914
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