In this crime drama a convicted killer faces the chair for killing a woman. His lover goes to the governor to beg a stay of...
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1930
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Director Charles Hutchinson makes lemonade from the poverty-row lemon Out with the Tide. Cullen Landis plays a newspaper...
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1928
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For a humble "B" picture, The Broken Mask was able to assemble an impressive cast. Cullen Landis stars as an Argentine dancer...
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1928
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Bud
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1928
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The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type,...
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John
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1928
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The Little Wild Girl is hoydenish French-Canadian lass Marie Celeste (Lila Lee). Assuming that her sweetheart Jules...
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Jules Barbier
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1928
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A Midnight Adventure was a veritable compendium of murder-mystery cliches -- at least, that was the consensus of opinion of...
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1928
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Contrary to popular belief, no one speaks into microphones hidden in vases in this, the first 100% "all-talking" feature...
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Eddie Morgan
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1928
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The "U.P." in the title refers to the Union Pacific railroad, the trail of which is followed by famed frontier scout Buffalo...
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1927
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The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between...
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Georgie McCarver
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1927
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Finnegan's Ball was typical of the low-comedy ethnic shenanigans common to films of the 1920s. The warm relationship between...
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1927
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Joe Riley
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1927
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1926
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Dark-haired, pleasant-looking Cullen Landis starred in this silent Western melodrama about a prizefighter accused of...
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1926
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1926
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The Columbia "special" Sweet Rosie O'Grady was purportedly inspired by the ballad of the same name. Orphaned at birth, Rosie...
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Victor MacQuade
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1926
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Versatile silent-film leading lady Eva Novak goes the "Pearl White" route in Dixie Flyer. She plays a plucky female racecar...
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1926
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Greek-born producer Anthony Xydias was behind this inexpensive silent Western, the title of which is somewhat misleading. The...
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1926
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First filmed in 1915, the time-honored Albert Chevalier stage success My Old Dutch was remade (this time sans Chevalier) in...
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David Brown
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1926
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Also known as Jack O' Hearts, this inspirational drama was based on Jack in the Pulpit, a play by Gordon Morris....
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Jack Farber
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1926
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George Minafer (as man)
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1925
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Donald Steel
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1925
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When her family loses its fortune, aristocratic Mimi LeBrun (Jacqueline Logan) is forced into a marriage with a man she...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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This Columbia programmer was one of a handful of films directed by cinematographer Tony Gaudio in the mid-'20s. Margaret...
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1925
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Dorothy Revier plays a woman who decides that all men are scum when her sister dies giving birth to an illegitimate child....
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Doctor Phil
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1925
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1924
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This satirical comedy-drama was C. Gardner Sullivan's first producing effort. To insure its success, he hired a veteran...
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Donald Dillingham
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1924
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This comedy--based on Booth Tarkington's play, Magnolia--sports a wonderful cast. Southerner Tom Rumford (Cullen Landis) was...
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Tom Rumford
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1924
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Victor Schertzinger both wrote and directed this melodrama. John Corbin (Percy Marmont) works for years on an invention, only...
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Harold Trevis
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1923
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Veteran screen cowboy Harry Carey was getting a bit uncomfortable doing romantic scenes by 1923 and Crashin Thru therefore...
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Con Saunders
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1923
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This confusing maritime drama is divided into four parts; the ages of stone, iron, barbarism, and civilization. As the story...
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Dick Halpin
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1923
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This "real life" drama starred some of the best second-string talent at Metro, and first-class screenwriter Frances Marion...
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Alan Fair
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1923
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The independently produced The Fog was adapted from a popular novel by William Dudley Pelly. Idealistic young Nathan Forge...
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1923
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Although the story to this Harry Carey Western is pretty weak, it still has some amusing moments. Carey plays Blake, who is...
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Kid Allison
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1923
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This comedy-drama featured Madge Bellamy's most unusual co-star -- an elephant named Oscar. Ruth Lorrimore (Bellamy) works at...
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Paul Nadeau
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1923
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This old-fashioned melodrama based on the play by J. W. Harkins Jr. was packed with fun and thrills. Silas Carrington (Joseph...
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Chaser
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1923
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Hallam Cooley stars as a slick-haired slickster who comes to a small town to promote an oil well scam. So persuasive is...
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1923
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If the character Cullen Landis plays in this action-packed comedy seems to have a touch of Charles Ray's spirit, it's because...
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Elmer Slocum
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1922
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From the beginning of her film career, Billie Dove showed a knack for playing chorus girls (it only made sense since she was...
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1922
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Sometimes it seemed like Viola Dana played orphans almost as much as Mary Pickford did, and she stars as one again for this...
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1922
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After the success of Humoresque, pictures that extolled the virtues of dear old mom and pop were rampant. Mom was featured in...
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Seth Smith
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1922
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Peter Armitage
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1922
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This comedy-drama, with its ethnic and mother love themes, was very much of its era. When Dennis O'Neill (Cullen Landis)...
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1922
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Colleen Moore had not yet become the epitome of Flaming Youth when she co-starred with Cullen Landis in this pleasant little...
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1922
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This mawkish tale of mother love was loaded with -- as film critics of the 1920s liked to say -- "hokum." It was supposedly...
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Garry Beecher
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1922
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Bunty Pulls the Strings was adapted from the immensely popular stage farce by Graham Moffat. Leatrice Joy stars as a Scottish...
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Rab
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1921
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Although Alice Lake's work with comedy filmmakers like Mack Sennett and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is better known now than her...
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Max Hildreth
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1921
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Before he was known as "the man of a thousand faces," Lon Chaney had already become famous for portraying underworld...
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Jimmy
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1921
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After committing murder, Hugh Garth (fine character actor Russell Simpson) becomes a fugitive from justice. He takes his...
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Pete
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1921
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During the early '20s, sentimental films about mother love abounded. As the decade went on, however, such mawkish tales were...
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1921
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In this romantic comedy, a school teacher moves from his home in the country to a small town. He attends a party and becomes...
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1919
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Bret Harte's story gets an unusual adaptation in the hands of director John Ford (in the days when he was known as Jack Ford)...
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1919
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Henry King was some distance from his days of glory as a top Hollywood director when he called the shots on Joy and the...
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1916
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