The hero of The Maze turns out to be a giant frog, but that's hardly the most unbelievable aspect of this one-of-a-kind...
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1953
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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1953
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While returning to Metropolis from a European assignment, Clark (George Reeves) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) make a stopover in...
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1953
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Though scheduled for production as early as 1950, the Bowery Boys' Loose in London didn't go before the cameras until 1953....
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1953
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Stanley Clements stars in Republic's Pride of Maryland as an ambitious jockey named Frankie (an inside joke: most movie...
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1951
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The novel The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill had been filmed in 1928 as The Perfect Crime and again in 1934 as The Crime...
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1946
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1946
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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In this drama set at the end of WW I, Sgt. Jocko Wilson leaves England to return to Australia. He brings with him, two...
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1943
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A Warner Bros. attempt to ape the success of the Universal horror films, The Mysterious Doctor is a moody little piece...
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1943
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In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a...
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1942
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The once-notorious theatrical chestnut White Cargo was toned down for public consumption in this 1942 MGM-ized adaptation...
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1942
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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In this taut, creepy melodrama, a housemaid works as the companion of an aging, retired British actress. One day the maid...
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1941
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is...
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1941
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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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1939
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Based on a classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, this melodrama chronicles the desperate attempt of a painter to finish his...
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1939
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond was the last of Paramount's "B" film series based on Sapper's two-fisted soldier of fortune, and also...
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1938
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Though John Barrymore is top-billed in Bulldog Drummond's Peril, the aging matinee idol is consigned to the supporting role...
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1938
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This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San...
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1938
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In this detective adventure, a young woman is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her boss and takes off for Spain...
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1937
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1937
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The title of this Errol Flynn vehicle sprang from an "inside" joke at Warner Bros. Whenever the studio depicted a marquee or...
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1937
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Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series got off to a start with 1937's Bulldog Drummond Escapes. Up-and-coming Ray Milland...
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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Set during World War I, Lancer Spy stars a young George Sanders as Michael Bruce, an officer in the British Navy who bears an...
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1937
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Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent...
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1936
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1936
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Calm Yourself starts off as ace advertising man Pat (Robert Young) is fired from his job when he offends the highly...
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1935
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The Informer, Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, was first filmed in England in 1929,...
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1935
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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1935
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In this WW I melodrama, a British officer is forced to return to the front soon after he is married. On the battle lines, he...
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1934
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Edmund Gwenn makes his American film debut in this lighthearted adaptation of Frederick Jackson's stage play The Bishop...
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1933
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The exploits of 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin have been immortalized in scores of poems, ballads, novels, plays...
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Producer
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1933
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1933
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An oil rigger, laboring in the Singapore swamps, falls in love with an English socialite and causes all kinds of problems in...
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1933
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Based on Dicken's classic novel, this is the first sound version of the oft-filmed tale of a plucky orphan who struggles to...
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1933
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1932
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1932
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In this romantic comedy-drama, a wealthy San Francisco businessman becomes the guardian of a sexy young Polynesian woman. At...
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1931
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A man who unthinkingly sullied the honor of a virtuous girl now must deal with his own ethical downfall in this drama. Willi...
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1931
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1931
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Rita La Roy has good reasons to hate her philandering husband, Hooper Atchley, in this low-budget but sumptuous-looking art...
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Larson
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1931
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Set during World War I, The Dawn Patrol is a study of the pressures and pitfalls of authority. A British Royal Flying Corp...
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Bott
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1930
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One of the most overworked plots of the silent era was the one about an Eastern wastrel who toughens up on a Western ranch....
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Pinkey Fripp
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1930
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Broadway star Marilyn Miller's second starring film was an adaptation of her 1925 stage hit Sunny. Flashing her celebrated...
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1930
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Officer O'Brien stars future "Hopalong Cassidy" William Boyd in the title role. Though highly respected by his fellow...
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1930
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Though one would never know it from the title, Wings of Adventure is essentially a western. Rex Lease stars as aviator Dave...
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Skeets Smith
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1930
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This musical is the last Hollywood film made by Alexander Korda before he went on to greatness in Europe. The story is set in...
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Sam Jones
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1930
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In this drama, an impoverished songwriter from the South travels to Tin Pan Alley with his trusty piano. He stays at a...
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Max Langley
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1929
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Virile Victor McLaglen goes shirtless throughout most of the late silent Captain Lash. After rescuing wealthy ship's...
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Cocky
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1929
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Grumio
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1929
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The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl, this early talkie featured stage actor Alan...
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Blodgett
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1929
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In this comedy drama, an enormous baggage handler earns the reputation of being an all-'round good joe and soon gets...
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Pete
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1929
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Endeavoring to keep her sideshow free from bad elements, an honest carnival owner finds her territory invaded by a gang of...
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Luke
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1929
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The "dangerous woman" of the title is Tania Gregory, played by the magnificent Olga Baclanova. The Russian-born wife of...
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Tubbs
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1929
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1929
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In this broad comedy, Clyde Jones (Clyde Cook) and "Terrible Bill" McGovern (William Demarest) are a pair of streetcar...
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1928
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1928
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The smokily erotic ambience of Josef Von Sternberg's silent Docks of New York is best appreciated on a big theatrical...
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"Sugar" Steve
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1928
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Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's...
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1928
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A poor street cleaner inherits a fortune in this farce, which came complete with a music score and sound effects. According...
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1928
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Owen Davis' 1898 barnstormer about a fun-loving socialite turned castaway on her former fiancee's South Seas island came to...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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The screenplay for Beware of Bachelors was credited to Mark Canfield, but it was penned pseudonymously by future movie mogul...
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1928
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Warner Oland took time out from his customary screen villainy to play the title character in the sentimental backstage drama...
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Billy Collins
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1927
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The popularity of MGM's Slide, Kelly, Slide led to a brief cycle of baseball pictures in 1927. Warner Bros.' contribution was...
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1927
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One of Hollywood's true professionals, Irving Cummings showed little of his later directorial sophistication in this terrible...
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Oklahoma Red
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1927
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The Climbers is the third film version of the same-named play by Clyde Fitch. Whereas the original play took place in...
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Pancho Mendoza
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1927
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Confined to two basic sets and six characters, White Gold may well be the most claustrophobic western ever made. This sense...
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1927
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It would seem that Warner Bros. was trying to develop hoydenish Louise Fazenda and diminutive Clyde Cook into a screen team,...
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Sandy MacTavish
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1927
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Barbed Wire was based on The Woman of Knockaloe, an antiwar novel by Sir Hall Caine. The original novel dealt with the...
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1927
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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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A very popular silent western, this film features two engineers vying for the affections of the adoptive daughter of a...
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1926
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1926
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This two-reel comedy-thriller was the second picture that Clyde Cook made for the Hal Roach studios. When a couple divorces,...
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1925
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This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar...
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1924
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This compelling and exceptionally well-executed silent drama, from new MGM studio executives Irving Thalburg and producer...
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1924
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1919
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Director Lynn Reynolds adapted the screenplay of The Greater Law from The Code of the Klondike, a magazine story by Charles...
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Cinematographer
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1917
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