If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly...
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Hassert Seidel
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1943
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Otto Becker @ Baron Hugh Von Detner
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1942
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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Otto Becker/Baron Hugo von Detner
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1942
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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Maj. Heinrich Strasser
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1942
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Loretta Young is (mis)cast as a prima ballerina, who reaches the top of her profession and marries her demanding instructor...
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Stanislav Rosing
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1941
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Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving...
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Hall Ebbing
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1941
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Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in...
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Joseph Jones
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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Torsten Barring
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1941
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Based on a novel by Ethel Vance, Escape stars Robert Taylor as a young American, the son of a widowed European woman (Alla...
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Gen. Kurt Von Kolb
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1940
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The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is...
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Capt. Anderson
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1940
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In ancient Bagdad, Abu, a good-natured young thief (Sabu), befriends the deposed king Ahmad (John Justin) as both are...
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Jaffar
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1940
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The Baron
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1939
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The Spy In Black is the story of a German World War I submarine captain (Conrad Veidt) who is given a mission to discover...
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Capt. Hardt
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1939
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Though its title translates as Storm over Asia, this French melodrama bears no relation to the Pudovkin film of the same...
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1938
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Baron Karl von Marwitz
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1937
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Based on the stage melodrama by John Chancellor, King of the Damned takes place on a brutal prison colony that makes Devil's...
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Convict 83
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1936
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Famed Swedish director Victor Sjostrom was coaxed out of retirement to direct his final film, Under the Red Robe, a...
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Gil de Berault
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1936
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back, Jerome K. Jerome's mystical 1908 stage play, was given perfunctory treatment in this...
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The Stranger
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1936
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The Wandering Jew
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1935
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The title tells all in the German-made Legend of William Tell. Hans Marr is at his most nobly heroic as the title character,...
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Gessler
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1935
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This story of espionage in World War I is based on a true story. Marthe McKenna (Madeleine Carroll) is a nurse from Belgium...
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Commandant Oberaertz
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1934
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That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's...
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Mahmoud Baroudi
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1934
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Jew Suss was a well-worn stage drama based on an old novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger. The story involves an enterprising Jewish...
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Joseph "Jew Suss" Oppenheimer
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1934
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Captain Von Hochberg
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1933
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Matathias
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1933
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This deluxe German/British production was originally released as simply F.P. 1. The story and characterizations take a back...
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1933
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In this musical the Empress' hairdresser finds herself mistaken for the Empress by a deranged aristocrat. Mayhem and music...
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1933
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F. P. 1 refers to "Floating Platform 1," a huge landing platform and refueling station being built in the middle of the...
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Maj. Ellisen
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1933
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Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various...
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Zurta
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1933
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This version of the notorious Russian monk/charlatan's life, presents Rasputin, not as an evil manipulator of the czar's...
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1932
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1931
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During the 1814 Congress in Vienna, the crowned heads of Europe gather together to decide the shape (and fate) of the...
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Prince Metternich
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1931
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The "great yearning" of the title refers to the desire of heroine Camilla Horn to become a famous movie star. Fortunately,...
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1931
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Released in English-speaking countries as The Man Who Murdered, this German melodrama was based on a play by Pierre Frondale...
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1931
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1931
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1930
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This German drama was advertised as "2% Talkie," meaning that all but 2 1/2 minutes of its running time are silent. The story...
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Dick Ashton
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1930
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1930
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Produced and directed by onetime comedy impresario Joe Rock, the early talkie The Great Power was a literal adaptation of the...
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1929
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Carlee Thorpe (Buddy Rogers) and Claire Jernigan (Nancy Carol) enjoy considerable success with their vaudeville magic act....
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1929
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In this crime drama, a aging illusionist falls in love with his comely young assistant. Unfortunately, she is enamored with...
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Erik the Great
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1929
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A German director (Richard Oswald) and two German leading men (Conrad Veidt, Paul Wegener) dominate the proceedings in the...
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1928
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Love Makes Us Blind was the English-language title of the "all star" German romantic drama Liebe Macht Blind. Emil Jannings,...
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1928
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Michael Schellenberg @ Wenzel Schellenberg
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1928
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Considered the magnum-opus of filmmaker/screenwriter Henrik Galeen, and featuring actor Conrad Veit in one of his finest...
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Balduin
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1927
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Paul La Roche
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1927
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The European mentality of this German silent was a bit racy for mainstream American tastes of the era; nevertheless, the...
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The Lover
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1927
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Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack...
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Gwynplaine
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1927
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Beloved Rogue stars John Barrymore as legendary Parisian poet/vagabond Francois Villon. The film follows the basic chronology...
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Louis XI
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1927
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1926
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1925
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In this classic horror film, based on a novel by Maurice Renard and filmed by Robert Wiene (of Dr. Caligari fame), a...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1925
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This historical costume drama recalls the story of Carlos (Conrad Veidt) the crown prince of Spain and his love for Elisabeth...
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1924
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German filmmaker Paul Leni functioned as both director and production designer for the Caligariesque Waxworks...
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1924
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1924
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1923
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Ivan the Terrible
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1923
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This epic German production was said to have had a cast of 100,000. Whether there was any truth to this claim is extremely...
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1921
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Prince Ayan
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1921
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aka Danton With Emil Jannings as George Jacques Danton and Werner Kraus (who played the title character in The Cabinet of Dr....
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1921
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Maud (Gertrude Welcker) is a "kept woman" attached to Cheston (Bruno Ziener), a wealthy Lord. Maud's brother Brillburn...
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1920
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1920
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1920
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1920
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1920
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1920
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1919
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1919
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Director, Producer
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1919
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Thought to have been lost for decades, German filmmaker Richard Oswald's 1919 picture Different From the Others was...
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Paul Körner
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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1919
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In one of the most influential films of the silent era, Werner Krauss plays the title character, a sinister hypnotist who...
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Cesare
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1919
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1918
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1917
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1917
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