Five of Laurel and Hardy's best features from the silent film era are compiled in this collection by Robert Youngson....
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1965
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1950
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1949
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1949
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1948
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1944
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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1943
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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1943
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The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once...
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1942
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A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic...
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1942
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Several popular radio personalities converge in the RKO Radio "comedy salad" Look Who's Laughing. Taking a vacation from his...
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1941
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"Over the hill" at the tender age of 12, Shirley Temple closed out her 20th Century-Fox contract with the musical seriocomedy...
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1940
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In this musical drama, a construction worker becomes the guardian of a 12-year old girl after one of his buddies is killed....
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1940
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1940
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Though he doesn't speak his first line of dialogue until the film's final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the...
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1940
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In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home...
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1940
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1939
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1939
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A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden...
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1939
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Goddbye Broadway is wrapped up by two stage & screen veterans, Alice Brady and Charles Winninger. The stars play...
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1938
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1938
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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1937
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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1936
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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1936
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1936
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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1936
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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1935
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This peppy Monogram meller stars Robert Armstrong as a big-city newspaper reporter. After getting a bonus, Armstrong...
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1935
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by...
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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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1935
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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1935
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Although it was nominated for an Academy Award, the third Three Stooges comedy two-reeler for Columbia has not dated well. A...
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Dr. Graves
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1934
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Glamorous American jewel-thief Sophie Lang (Gertrude Michael) not only regularly outwits Scotland Yard, but has great fun...
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1934
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Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW...
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1934
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W.C. Fields stars in a remake of his silent comedy So's Your Old Man. Fields plays Sam Bisbee, an erstwhile inventor who is...
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1934
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1934
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Marshall Neilan, a great silent film director on the verge of obscurity, had one last big-studio stand with The Lemon Drop...
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1934
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Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of...
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1934
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W.C. Fields is in fine fettle as small-town grocer Harold Bissonette (pronounced Biss-o-NAY). Harold dreams of becoming a...
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1934
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In his only musical-comedy appearance, Spencer Tracy stars as fast-buck promoter Smoothie King. Our hero's latest scam is to...
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1934
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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1934
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I Have Lived takes place in a New York penthouse, a Broadway theater, and a seedy speakeasy, though not necessarily in that...
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1933
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The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel...
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1933
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In this musical, a Kansas City family despises their stepmother who selfishly moves them to New York so she can make her...
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1933
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There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays...
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1933
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Originally released on May 7, 1932, the "Our Gang" comedy "Choo-Choo!" was a loose remake of the 1923 two-reeler A Pleasant...
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1932
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To further her husband's political career, wealthy Mrs. Clark (Lillian Elliot) throws a lavish party in her home for the poor...
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1932
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In this melodrama that was considered utterly scandalous in its day, an impoverished, beautiful young ghetto girl quickly...
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1931
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Forbidden Adventure is the British title of the American film comedy Newly Rich. Edna May Oliver was borrowed from RKO by...
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1931
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Veteran character actress Margaret Mann makes the first of two memorable Our Gang appearances in Helping Grandma. The owner...
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1931
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This touching drama follows the exploits of a big-hearted businessman. The financier is just about to close a major deal...
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1930
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In this musical, based on a long-running Broadway hit from 1927, a sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's...
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1930
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1930
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While on an outing to go fishing, Oliver Hardy is trying to get some sleep. He's disturbed by a newspaper that blows in,...
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1930
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This entertaining film is one of Laurel and Hardy's most bizarre. Stan and Ollie work as stable-hands for a racehorse named...
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1929
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Presently unavailable for public reappraisal, the biting and cynical melodrama Power of the Press would seem to be a...
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Johnson
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1928
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Pa Harrington
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1928
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1928
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1928
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As was the case with every film project that he cared deeply about, filmmaker King Vidor had to fight long and hard with his...
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Dick
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1928
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Col. Pepper
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1928
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A typical Jack Hoxie Blue Streak Western from the assembly lines at Universal, The Rambling Ranger featured the stalwart...
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1927
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As a follow-up to the successful marital farce Up in Mabel's Room, PDC Productions came out with a film version of the...
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1927
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One of the few surviving films of Leatrice Joy, the wife of screen heartthrob John Gilbert, The Clinging Vine is a typically...
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S. H. Doolittle
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1926
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Jesse J. Goldburg's low-budget Independent Pictures offered its customers more than Bill Cody or Bob Custer B-Westerns,...
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1925
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Dorothy Drew is Lou Nolan, whose father, a denizen of the underworld, is shot and killed. Lou is left to support her crippled...
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1925
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Produced by Hunt Stromberg for Producers Distributing Corp., this silent Western melodrama starred the veteran Harry Carey as...
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1925
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Action star Ben Wilson enjoyed a modicum of success as an independent producer in the 1920s. One of Wilson's least typical...
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1924
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1924
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Charles E. Blaney was a well-known name when it came to melodramas, and this one was brought to the screen with all the...
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1924
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1923
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After becoming known as a delightfully greasy villain, Lew Cody gets to play a hero in this adaptation of a James Oliver...
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1923
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This is Johnny Hines' second starring feature -- the first was called Burn 'Em Up Barnes, so there seems to be a little theme...
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1922
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George Walsh starred in this action-melodrama from Fox about a blind girl, Betty Reed, who is the sole "witness" to the...
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1921
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It's no surprise that this rugged story of the Northwest is based on a James Oliver Curwood novel. Two miners (Jack Drumier...
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1921
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1921
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Although George Walsh was known for his athletic roles, his characters weren't necessarily the robust and manly type, so this...
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1920
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1920
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Like most silent pictures which take place in the Kentucky mountains, this one involves moonshiners and a feud. The warring...
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1920
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In this domestic comedy, Carlyle Blackwell plays Paul Arden, a struggling, young architect who is in love with Lucille Vale...
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1919
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From its title, one would think this picture was a light comedy, but it isn't -- it's a World War I spy drama, a subject...
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1919
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Carlyle Blackwell and Evelyn Greeley co-starred in a number of silent films -- this one is a rare comedy vehicle (more often...
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1919
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During World War I, when the chairman of the U.S. shipping board declared that he wanted America to know that his industry...
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1918
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In this comedy-drama, Carlyle Blackwell plays Bobby Briggs, a mama's boy and hypochondriac. Bobby finally becomes so...
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1918
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Although the son of a rich man, Frederic Pritchard, Jr. (Carlyle Blackwell) is still nothing more than a lazy bum. When his...
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1918
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Small town girl Mary Fenton (Ann Murdock) sings in the church choir and she naively believes a phony impresario who promises...
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1918
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In this comedy-drama, Carlyle Blackwell plays the Marquis d'Aubeterre, who finds he is penniless after his father's death. He...
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1918
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1918
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This fluffy romance was released by a long-forgotten firm called the Empire All Star Corporation. In spite of its name, there...
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1917
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Irene Fenwick plays the daughter of an old bank robber. She wants him to go straight, but the rest of his gang tell her that...
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1917
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A Southern gentleman's alcoholism nearly costs him the love of his life in this silent drama set just before the Civil War....
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1916
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"Wacky" is probably the most conservative adjective one could apply to the two-reel Keystone comedy A Bath House Blunder....
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1916
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A handsome, wealthy French WW I fighter-pilot attends a fabulous masked ball to find the girl of his dreams in this frothy...
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1916
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In this Keystone two-reeler -- one of a series starring stage comedian William Collier, Sr. -- a henpecked husband (Collier)...
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1916
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1915
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1913
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A besieged blockhouse containing a frightened Lillian Gish, marauding Indians, and a Mexican who heroically brings the...
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1913
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1913
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1913
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Old Stephen Rutherford (Gerald Griffin) is a wealthy curmudgeon who disowned his son when he married a poor girl. The son is...
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1912
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1912
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A wagon train is attacked by marauding Indians in this typically grisly Biograph one-reel western melodrama preserved in the...
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1912
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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This simple and very effective melodramatic short film was a landmark in its day; in fact, today it is still a fine example...
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1911
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1911
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D.W. Griffith's The Two Paths is frequently written off as a "potboiler," but, in 1911 at least, any one of Griffith's...
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1910
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The unfortunate title is the only truly "racist" aspect of this Biograph one-reeler. Set in the Old West (actually the...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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When an Indian is found cruelly murdered, the tribe begins to plan for a revenge attack against the nearby white settlement...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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This Biograph gambling melodrama was completed by D.W. Griffith in a fast two days. The hero, a chronic gambler, embezzles...
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1910
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1910
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1909
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Advertised by Biograph studios as a "Contemporary Temperance Melodrama," D. W. Griffith's The Broken Locket was filmed in...
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1909
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1909
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1908
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