Framed for setting fire to a warehouse containing the famous Nathan Claver art collection, Claude Demay (Robert H. Harris) is...
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1961
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After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire...
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1959
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Though billed fifth, Mary Astor is the one to watch in the Ross Hunter-produced soapera Stranger in My Arms. Astor portrays a...
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1959
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Filmed on location in Copenhagen, Hidden Fear stars John Payne as an American lawman whose Denmark-based sister Natalie...
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Arthur Miller
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1957
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One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated...
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Harvey
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1955
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1948
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Though it is not so frankly identified in the film, an insidious white-slavery racket motivates the plotline of Monogram's...
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Lt. Williams
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1948
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Just when it didn't seem possible that Columbia had any room left for another B-picture series, along came The Adventures of...
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Hugh Mitchell
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1945
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Released by 20th Century-Fox, Dangerous Journey is a feature-length documentary of the famed Armand Denis-Leila Roosevelt...
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Narrator
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1944
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Originally titled They Shall Have Faith, Forever Yours was designed as Monogram's "prestige" release for 1945. Musical...
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Dr. Randall
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1944
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Even taking into consideration Of Mice and Men, One Million BC was inarguably the most ambitious feature-film project ever...
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1940
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Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in...
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1940
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In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their...
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Maximilian
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1940
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Two government agents are assigned to bust up a gold smuggling ring located on the Mexican border. One of the agents, a...
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Alan O'Connor
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1937
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Though he would later dismiss it as "just a ten-day job," actor Conrad Nagel made a remarkably smooth directorial debut with...
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Director
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1937
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Bank Alarm was one of four low-budget but high-entertainment crime melodramas starring Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt as...
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Alan O'Connor
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1937
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This B-budget outing from co-directors Crane Wilbur and Joseph H. Lewis served as a vehicle for now-forgotten 1930s star...
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Alan O'Connor
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1937
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In this newspaper farce, an editor loses his voice and his job after he tires of being tormented by the practical jokes of...
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Dodacker
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1936
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Having peaked as a big-studio leading man, Conrad Nagel accepted a brief contract at cost-conscious Pacific Pictures in 1936....
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Alan O'Connor
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1936
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The ambitious Republic melodrama The Girl From Mandalay was based on Tiger Valley, a novel by Reginald Campbell. The title...
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John Foster
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1936
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Hollywood's Conrad Nagel heads cast of the British Ball at Savoy. The tux-garbed Nagel plays a baron who, while vacationing...
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John Egan
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1936
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Radio baritone Joe Morrison was being groomed for stardom by Paramount when he was top-billed in One Hour Late. Morrison is...
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Stephen Barclay
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1935
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Two of Hollywood's duller actors, Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, star in this overly complicated melodrama from Columbia...
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John Robinson Gordon
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1935
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Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by...
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Robert Chatfield
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1935
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As a father prepares to remarry, his son's bitterness increases. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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In this western, a cowpoke from Wyoming rides into the big city to look for a wife. Instead he finds himself investigating...
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Kent
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1935
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Perhaps Mascot Pictures' The Marines are Coming would have been more credible had it been made 10 years earlier. Stars...
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Capt. Benton
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1935
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1933
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This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by...
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Lindsay Atwell
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1933
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Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom...
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Duke
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1932
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A young boy from a broken home must choose between his real dad and his step-father in this drama. His real dad is...
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Dr. Shumaker
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1932
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In this comedy-adventure, an enterprising young man devises a new kind of speedboat motor. The trouble begins when he tries...
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Burton
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1932
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A remake of West of Zanibar, this strange, gut-wrenching melodrama set in the African jungles, offers a disturbing portrait...
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Dr. Kingsland
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1932
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Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called...
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Dr. David Yorke
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1932
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In this football drama, a tough steelworker's son wins a scholarship to Yale and attempts to use his talent on the football...
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1932
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An young boy is en route to Bombay with his wealthy father when they are ambushed by highwaymen and his father is mortally...
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William Darsay
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1931
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Based on a play by William DuBois, Pagan Lady top-bills Evelyn Brent as the title character, a "woman of the world" named Dut...
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Ernest Todd
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1931
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Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted to get a quick laugh, he'd announce to his audience "Next Week: East Lynne."...
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Robert Carlyle
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1931
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Charles "Beauty" Steele
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1931
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Silent star Betty Compson takes on a Swedish accent in this romantic melodrama based on a story by Martin Flavin. She is...
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John Hanson
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1931
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A naive, wealthy small-town girl, bored with her routine life, falls for a dashing con artist who has come looking for fresh...
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Dr. Dick Lindley
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1931
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In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her...
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Edward Adams
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1931
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Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on...
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Paul
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1930
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This drama chronicles the rise of a famous Madame from casino hostess to king's mistress. Her story begins as she is being...
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1930
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Sometimes all it takes to save a marriage is a good pop, right in the kisser or so this family drama seems to imply. The...
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Stephen Ferrier
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1930
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In this melodrama, a husband gets on with his life after his wife goes to Europe to get a divorce. Thinking the deed done,...
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Winthrop Beauvel
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1930
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Silent film star Norma Talmadge's last film was the 100 percent all-talkie Dubarry. Adapted from the popular stage play by...
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Duc de Brissac
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1930
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Wiped out in the 1929 Wall Street crash, Fred Warner (Conrad Nagel) is no longer able to support his spendthrift wife Eve...
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Fred Warner
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1930
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The title alone should clue the reader that Numbered Men is a prison picture. Based on the stage play Jail Break, the film is...
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Bertie Gray
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1930
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In this high-seas adventure, a ship's steward goes 'round the bend, mutinies, throws the captain into the briny, and turns...
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Howard Vazey
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1930
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The first of two film versions of Fulton Oursler's domestic-conflict yarn, Second Wife stars Lila Lee as the bride of...
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Walter Fairchild
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1930
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The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great...
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Dr. Nicholas Haller
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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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Roger Towne
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1930
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Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, this film was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but it was held...
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Victor
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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In this comedy, a middle-class stenographer marries her wealthy boss. Her family is intimidated by his status and when the...
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William van Luyn
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1929
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In this drama, a dancer's brother is wounded during a church robbery; the town doctor appears, rats on the boy and then lets...
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Dr. Raoul Deboise
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1929
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One of those transitional Vitaphone productions with a few dialogue scenes and a canned music score, the underworld melodrama...
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1929
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Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first...
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Richard Crosby
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1929
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MGM's paranoid fear of audience reaction to Greta Garbo's speaking voice must have been the only reason for this plodding...
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Andre
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1929
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In this early sound film, adapted from a play by Somerset Maugham, a WW I veteran is left crippled after a plane crash that...
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Col. Maurice Taylor
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1929
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Chuck White
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1928
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This silent adventure is best remembered for its spectacular forest fire scenes that were staged and shot by extraordinary...
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Jimmy Cowan
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1928
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German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a...
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John
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1928
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The romance between Jerome Bonaparte and Baltimore debutante Elizabeth Patterson was given the full treatment by Warner...
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Jerome
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1928
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When unassuming clerk Tom Blake (Conrad Nagel) is framed with the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank...
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Ralph Blake
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1928
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Bob
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1928
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Based on a lugubrious novel by Ludwig Wolff, The Mysterious Lady is a romance/espionage tailored to the talents of...
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Karl von Heinersdorff
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1928
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In one of his last silent films, Conrad Nagel stars as Charles H. Cook, a sober-sided young man who is persuaded by his...
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Charles H. Cook
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1928
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The plot to this underworld drama, based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche, sounds more like something from the 1930s than...
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Handsome Joe
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1927
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Though he's perfectly happy with his wife May (May McAvoy), Ted Howard (Conrad Nagel) isn't above a little flirtation with...
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Ted Howard
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1927
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A bit more sedate and reserved than the usual Marion Davies vehicle, this 1927 adaptation of James M. Barrie's Quality Street...
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Dr. Valentine Brown
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1927
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The father of footloose Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) has decreed that, until Cynthia finds a husband her two sisters won't be...
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Maj. John Smith
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1927
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The most tantalizing of the "lost" Tod Browning films, London After Midnight has gained a near-legendary status in recent...
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Arthur Hibbs
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1927
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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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Dominique Prad
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1926
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Jimmy Holt
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1926
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According to playwrights Frederic and Fanny Hatton, The Waning Sex was the male -- and this hypothesis was carried over to...
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Philip Barry
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1926
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J. P. Smith
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1926
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1926
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The fact that the advertising posters for Tin Hats were designed by John Held Jr. is the most memorable aspect of this minor...
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Jack Benson
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1926
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This comedy-drama about the Follies was written by veteran newspaper reporter and "sob sister" Adela Rogers St. John. Maggie...
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1925
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This is yet another costume drama written and supervised by the eccentric Elinor Glyn, who was a Hollywood tastemaker during...
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Duke of Chevenix
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1925
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When Dick Tyler (Conrad Nagel) becomes a partner in the firm of Knight and Tyler, he marries his sweetheart, Doris...
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Dick
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1925
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Harry Mallory
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1925
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Just as Reginald Denny could only play an all-American boy until talkies revealed his British accent, Conrad Nagel could only...
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Rufe Cagle
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1925
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Because Little Old New York was so successful, MGM and newspaper/sometime film magnate William Randolph Hearst decided to put...
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Dirk de Rhonde
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1925
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Although John Gilbert became famous for playing the romantic lover, there was something inside him that occasionally rebelled...
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Herrick Appleton
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1924
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With its racy title and emphasis on jazz parties and youth, this romantic drama was a typical mid-'20s release. But being an...
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Brock Farley
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1924
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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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Peter Marsh
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1924
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John Leslie (Conrad Nagel) and Craig Burnett (Antonio D'Algy) land their plane near a small Quebec town. Leslie becomes...
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John Leslie
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1924
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Aileen Pringle plays the Queen of Sardalia (one of your average, everyday mythical European principalities), who is unhappily...
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1924
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Angel Clare
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1924
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This powerful drama, based on the novel The Master of Man, by Sir Hall Caine, was the first time Swedish director Victor...
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1924
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Perley Rex
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1924
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In her autobiography, Pola Negri claims she felt dubious about playing the lead role in this exotic drama based on the novel...
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Nigel Armine
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1923
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Even as a supporting player, character actor Theodore Roberts often dominated the scenes in which he performed. When he had...
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Ernestheron
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1923
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Marshall Neilan's fame as a director of quality films was at its peak during the period this romantic melodrama was made....
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Walter Stanford
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1923
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This well-cast drama was based on the play by Samuel Shipman. When Marion Dorsey (Hope Hampton) is away in Europe, her...
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Andrew Dorsey
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1923
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1922
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Even with its share of sumptuous sets and domestic mixups, this comedy-drama was not typical for director Cecil B. DeMille....
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Richard Wynbrook Prentiss, Her Fiance
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1922
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What was Paramount thinking when it cast a capable comedienne like Bebe Daniels in this artificial tragedy? The funny moments...
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Peter Gordon
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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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Dr. Robert Acton
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1922
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Although director Cecil B. DeMille was known for his Biblical spectaculars and florid comedy-dramas about domestic relations,...
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Scotty Wilbur
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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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John Helstan
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1922
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Director William DeMille was stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place with this light comedy, based on the play by...
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John Shand
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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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Arthur Phelps
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1921
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Miriam Holt (Sylvia Breamer) is an innkeeper's daughter who is born with psychic abilities. She falls for a young hunter who...
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Clyde Brunton
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1921
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Elsie Ferguson, who played the role of Carlotta Peel on stage, also starred in the film. Carlotta's aunt (Helen Dunbar has...
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Emille Diaz, a pianist
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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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Allen Erskine, M. D.
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1921
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The careful direction of William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil) brought fresh life to Cosmo Hamilton's all-too-typical story,...
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1920
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This fluffy picture was probably not too taxing on the talents of its formidable star, Alice Brady. By the time it was...
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1919
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