In this drama, set in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a pretty niece visits her uncle's plantation. There she finds the drunken sot...
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1938
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In this drama, a tough and bitter woman working in a beauty salon in Panama takes a young, naive woman under her wing. Later...
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1934
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1933
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1930
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A devoted valet takes a vacation in this lively drama. After 15 years of faithful service, he has earned it. He goes to...
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1930
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The second all-talking entry in the "Bulldog Drummond" series, Temple Tower is also the most obscure of the Drummond films --...
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Peter Darrell
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1930
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In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned...
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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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1929
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1929
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MGM star William Haines was at the peak of his popularity when he starred in Excess Baggage. Haines plays Eddie Kane, a...
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1928
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1928
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The Actress is a silent-film adaptation of Arthur Wing Pinero's evergreen stage play Trelawny of the Wells. Norma Shearer...
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1928
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Though Is Zat So? was playwright/actor James Gleason's Broadway breakthrough, Gleason himself did not appear in the first...
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Robert Parker
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1927
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Taking time out from his fine series of historical westerns, Colonel Tim McCoy starred in this action melodrama set in China...
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Lt. Lord Vivien Cholmondeley
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1927
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Horace Smith-Smythe
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1926
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A novel by Edna Ferber was the source for this Rod LaRocque vehicle. The story begins just before the outbreak of WWI, when...
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Dr. Gerald Blagden
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1926
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Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent (Cyril Chadwick) is forcing...
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Frank Dunlap
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1925
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Gaspar Le Sage
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1925
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The wild behavior of Kenneth Jamieson (George O'Brien) has finally gone too far and his millionaire father (George Fawcett)...
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Mr. Jones
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1925
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Harry Avon
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1925
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Although she was well over forty when Happiness was filmed, Laurette Taylor was still specializing in girlish charm. Director...
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Philip Chandos
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1924
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John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on...
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Peter Jesson
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1924
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Captain Trevelan
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1924
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When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter...
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Mr. Darling
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1924
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Although Priscilla Dean is starred in this dramatic Universal character study, it's Tom Santschi who has the meatier role....
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1924
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Childhood sweethearts with lofty goals do not a good Christian lifetime make, in this doomed romance directed by...
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Lord Robert Ure
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1923
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1923
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Although Viola Dana was primarily a light comedian, she performed capably in this courtroom drama. The capricious Babs Van...
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Colby Dickinson
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1923
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As his first picture for the Goldwyn studios, director Marshall Neilan decided to adapt Donn Byrne's sprawling novel to the...
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1923
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The Little Church Around the Corner is important as the first major financial success for the fledgling Warner Bros. studios....
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1923
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Crane Martin
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1923
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At the time this film was released, its star, Wallace Reid, was supposedly spending some time in a sanitarium, getting a much...
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Huntley Palmer
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1922
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This comedy-melodrama was based on the hit Broadway play by Frederick S. Isham, and Cyril Chadwick repeats his stage...
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Spoofy
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1922
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Although it wasn't much more than a standard programmer, this society drama was well cast. When he loses both his wife and...
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1922
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Flotsam (Olive Thomas) is the tomboy daughter of a lighthouse keeper with a dark secret: he killed a man. At least, that's...
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1920
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This farce was originally a stage play by Augustus Thomas, and starred William Collier, Sr.. On film, another notable stage...
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1918
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