In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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1939
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The financial exploitation of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets rolled ever forward with 20th Century-Fox's Five of a Kind, the...
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1938
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1937
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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1937
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This lavishly appointed Sam Goldwyn soap opera is set in Ireland during "the troubles." Irish rebel leader Dennis Reardon...
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1936
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1936
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The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor....
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1936
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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Produced on a reasonably lavish scale by the usually parsimonious Mascot Pictures, Harmony Lane was the first of three filmed...
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1935
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The Black Sheep is professional gambler John Dugan (Edmund Lowe), who gets his kicks out of fleecing wealthy suckers during a...
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1935
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Stanley MacLaurel (Stan Laurel), the American "black sheep" of the MacLaurel clan, stows away on a cattle boat to Scotland in...
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1935
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Mr. Shannon
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1935
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The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film,...
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1934
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One of several variations of the "Mata Hari" and "Fraulein Doktor" legends, Universal's Madame Spy is set during WW I....
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Seerfeldt
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1934
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This version of the Charlotte Bronte classic is the first to use sound. The story closely follows the book as it chronicles...
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1934
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Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) spends an eventful weekend at an English country estate in this fog-bound...
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1934
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Legendary "improvisational" director Gregory La Cava elected to stick to the script for his film version of the James M....
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1934
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The life and times of one of France's most influential authors and philosophers receives the romantic treatment from director...
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1933
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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1933
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In this comedy, two rubes from Montana find a fortune after they discover radium on their ranch. The nouveau riche ranchers...
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1933
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Fraser
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1933
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Adapted from John Balderston's successful stage fantasy (itself based on a story by Henry James), Berkeley Square is the...
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1933
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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1933
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1932
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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1932
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Veteran stage and screen star George Arliss forsakes his biographical roles for domestic comedy in A Successful Calamity....
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Partington
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1932
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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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1931
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Adapted from the stage play by former newspaperman Louis Weitzenkorn, Five Star Final is an uncompromising look at the...
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1931
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The second of three versions of James Oliver Curwood's pulp fiction drama of a mountie and his separated-at-birth prey stars...
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Col. McDowell
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1931
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Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from...
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Mr. Hope
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1930
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Dakin Barrolles (played by Edmund Lowe is a criminal who, while escaping from a bank robbery that went wrong, stumbles across...
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1930
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The third in a succession of film adaptations of author E.W. Hornung's novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, this version was...
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McKenzie
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1930
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Tustine
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1930
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In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes...
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Governor
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1929
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In the early days of sound film, one of Warner Bros.' big box-office draws was the aging stage actor George Arliss and, in...
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Lord Probert
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1929
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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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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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1929
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The racetrack provides the setting of this drama that tells the tale of a jockey who throws a race to impress a sexy girl....
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1929
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A horse and a dog play the lead roles in this inexpensive silent Western produced and directed by Harry S. Webb....
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George Morrow
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1929
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Silent-screen stunt man turned action-adventure star Richard Talmadge portrayed a masked rider coming to the rescue of an...
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Ramon Torreno
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1928
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1928
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Not to be confused with 1924's On the Stroke of Three, this 1928 actioner (based loosely on a play by Joseph LeBrandt) was...
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1928
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Previously filmed in 1918, Edwin Baird's play City of Purple Dreams was given a second cinematic go-round in 1928....
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1928
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The forgotten Vincent Brownell stars in this low-budgeter as the son of a wealthy lumber camp owner. Brownell arrives at the...
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1927
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In this lavishly produced MGM production, the ethereal Lillian Gish is a bit more earthy than normal, due in part to the...
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1927
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Though cheaply produced and boasting a second-string cast, The Midnight Watch packed a lot of entertainment value in its...
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Chief Callahan
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1927
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Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon). The villain is...
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Mark King
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1927
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Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's...
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1927
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A French play by Georges Berr and Henri Verneuil was the source for Paramount's The World at Her Feet. The ever-glamorous...
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1927
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One of Ken Maynard's very best silent westerns, The Unknown Cavalier was filmed on locations in Death Valley, California....
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1926
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Victor McLaglen (then billed as Victor M'Laglen) easily stole this drama away from its star, Robert Frazer. Frazer's...
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1926
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Paul Stanton
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1926
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This sentimental romance was based on the stage play by Owen Davis. Ted Wayne (Lloyd Hughes) and Jennie Clayton (Mary Astor)...
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Mr. Clayton
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1926
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The career of Charles Ray was on a downhill slide by the time he made this picture, based on a novel by Rex Beach. It had...
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1926
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Hungarian director Michael Curtiz made his American film bow with the highly stylized crime melodrama The Third Degree. Set...
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1926
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1926
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A James Oliver Curwood story was the source for this rugged Canadian Mountie melodrama. Alan Roscoe plays Sgt. Steve Drew,...
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1926
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Pert and pretty Sandy McNeill (Madge Bellamy) is strong-armed by her parents into marrying wealthy Ben Murillo (Bardson Bard...
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1926
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1926
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King of the Turf has more plot twists than a Charles Dickens novel. It begins as no-account horse breeder Martyn Selsby...
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1926
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1926
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While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in...
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Mr. Brown
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1926
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The Other Woman's Story begins as Bennett Colby (Robert Frazer) is convicted of the murder of Robert Marshall...
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1925
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A young Bostonian (Johnnie Walker) travels West to expect his father's New Mexico estate, which has become a target for gun...
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1925
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Leon Kent (Walter McGrail) is a ne'er-do-well who throws wild parties. His wife eventually tires of him. She finds sympathy...
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Ross Brewster
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1925
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Horatio "Racy" Manly (William Haines) spends his time partying, much to the dismay of his father, Judge Manly (David...
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Judge Manly
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1925
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This drama was based on the novel Joseph Greer and His Daughter by Henry Kitchell Webster. Inventor Joseph Greer (Lewis...
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1925
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Director Victor Sjostrom and stars Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer made an impressive team on He Who Gets Slapped. They came...
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1925
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Returning to one of his favorite themes, crooks bilking the gullible nouveau riche, Tod Browning both co-wrote (with Waldemar...
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1925
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This tale of small-town gossip and self-sacrifice was one of the last productions supervised by Thomas Ince (he died under...
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Cyrenus Stone
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1924
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Mary Pickford starred in the 1915 version of this film, based on the Frances Hodgson Burnett story, and it's easy to imagine...
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Sir Oliver Holt
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1924
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Although the story to this romantic adventure was founded on the Manuel Penella opera El Gato Montes, its utter lack of...
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1924
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Universal's top western ace Hoot Gibson enjoyed fine support from another of the studio's sagebrush stars -- cowgirl...
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Jonathan Butts
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1924
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Although the story line to this sentimental drama was ridiculously simple, director Renaud Hoffman managed to fill out five...
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Robert Moore
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1924
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This mystery starring Elaine Hammerstein was based on the novel by Harold McGrath. The story centers around two small...
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Cutty
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1924
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Judging from this action picture, Charles Hutchison might as well have never left serials -- he performs enough stunts here...
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Lionel Sinclair
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1924
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Richard (Herbert Rawlinson), the son of Judge Garbin (David Torrence), is railroaded into prison. He angrily swears vengeance...
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Judge Garbin
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1923
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This implausible melodrama is based on the play by William Hurlburt. Although Cordelia Ebbing (Kathlyn Williams) leaves her...
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Charles Knight
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1923
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The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his...
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Colonel Wright
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1923
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Since his British accent remained conveniently unheard during the silent era, Reginald Denny made a wonderful all-American...
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1923
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The tale centers around Dick Heldar (Percy Marmont), an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart,...
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Torpenhow
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1923
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This dramatic Universal programmer was based on the novel by Johann Bojer. Building contractor John Hammond (David Torrance)...
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1922
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John Barrymore's impressive performance in this picture is a testament to the strength of his talent, because it had a lot to...
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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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Mary Pickford had recently put out a couple of mediocre pictures and her latest, Little Lord Fauntleroy, wasn't an immediate...
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Elias Graves
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1922
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This was not one of Corinne Griffith's better vehicles. It's one of a seemingly endless procession of Northwoods melodramas,...
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1922
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Popular early 20th century author Winston Churchill should not be confused with the English statesman of the same name. Many...
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Eldon Parr, a banker
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1921
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1913
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