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1937
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Its title notwithstanding, We Who Are About to Die has nothing to do with Roman Gladiators. Rather, the film is based on the...
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1937
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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1937
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In this adventure, a young man allows criminals to talk him into cracking a safe. He is caught and sent to prison. After...
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1937
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Don Ameche is called upon to testify in his married friends' divorce case. Unwilling to take sides, he skips town and hides...
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1937
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1937
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Mercy killing is the primary topic of this crime drama when a doctor, who is disabled after a terrible accident begs his...
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1936
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A bell ringer's wife dies while giving birth to his second son who turns out to be deaf. His oldest son moves to America...
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1936
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Dynamic district attorney Douglas Goodwin (Paul Kelly) has no patience with murderers: his philosophy is "burn them all," and...
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1936
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Produced by Hal Roach, Kelly the Second is one of the few feature films to capture the comic spirit of Roach's wonderful...
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1936
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1935
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This drama presents a dim view of life in a small town populated by back-stabbing, narrow-minded, hypocritical and...
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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1935
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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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In this drama, a hard working printer gets wanderlust, leaves his wife and family, and hits the road. Ten years pass. His...
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1935
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Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in...
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1935
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1935
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Venerable character actor Ferdinand Gottschalk dominates the proceedings in the Universal crime meller Secret of the Chateau....
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1935
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Though it wasn't RKO Radio's final "Hildegarde Withers" mystery, Murder on a Honeymoon represented the final appearance of...
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1935
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Again forsaking his traditional western garb, Tim McCoy plays a rough-and-ready fireman in Columbia's A Man's Game. During...
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Chief Jordan
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1934
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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1934
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Helen Hayes reportedly turned down the opportunity to play the title role in this dreary melodrama about self-sacrificing...
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1934
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After being framed in a warehouse robbery, a police officer goes undercover as a drunk in order to get the goods on the real...
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an...
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1934
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Based on a novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, the storyline of this "gimmick" mystery follows the St. Louis Cardinals during a...
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1934
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A story by Earl Derr Biggers, of Charlie Chan fame, was the springboard for the Monogram melodrama Take the Stand. An...
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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Warner Oland made his fifth appearance as wily Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. Hired...
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1934
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Based upon a novel anonymously written by Rex Stout, The President Vanishes has as its title character a peace-loving man...
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1934
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Police Car 17 is one of a handful of non-westerns made for Columbia by cowboy star Tim McCoy. Motor patrolman Tim Conlon...
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1933
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages...
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1933
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The most exciting thing about Reform Girl is its title. Released from prison, hard-boiled Lydia Johnson (Noel Francis)...
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1933
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One of the earliest girls-in-prison yarns, Ladies They Talk About has everything but Ida Lupino as the warden--and had she...
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1933
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A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse in this uproarious farce from Paramount. Naming the...
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1933
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In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides...
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1933
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Paul Lukas plays a nightclub headwaiter who rises to fame as a bridge expert. He marries hat check girl Loretta Young,...
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1933
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1933
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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In this drama, a bandleader thinks that his young friend will be corrupted by his budding relationship with a taxi dancer....
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1932
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The problem with the main characters in Midnight Morals is that they have more midnight than morals in their lives. Rookie...
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1932
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Movie Crazy was Harold Lloyd's best-received sound film. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic aspiring movie...
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1932
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The factual story of H.A.W. Tabor and "Baby Doe" was the inspiration of Silver Dollar. Edward G. Robinson plays the Tabor...
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Mine Foreman
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1932
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In this drama, an old sea captain and his feisty daughter are squatting upon the land of another. The trouble begins when...
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1932
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The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like...
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1932
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1931
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Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of...
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1931
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Two rough-and-ready guys; one beautiful dame; a tough job that has to be done, and "one of us may not come out alive"; the...
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1931
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Capt. Gleason
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1931
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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In this religious (but not overbearingly so) drama, a good man gets involved with a woman who wants to marry the man who...
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McGovern
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1931
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Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer...
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1931
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One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
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Mr. Tozer
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1931
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Magnificently restored by UCLA to its original "Grandeur" wide-screen format The Bat Whispers may not be a cinematic...
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1930
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This thriller begins in 1889 as a lover kills another in a mansion. The film then jumps ahead to 1929 as an eccentric...
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1930
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1930
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The first "epic" western of the talkie era, The Big Trail is motivated by a hero's search for the murderer of his father....
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1930
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Those Who Dance is not so much a film as a "class reunion" for several former silent-screen favorites. Monte Blue stars as...
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1930
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This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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1930
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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1930
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Made in the final years of director John S. Robertson's career, Night Ride is a crime drama starring Joseph Schildkraut as...
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Capt. O'Donnell
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1930
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In rare film appearance, Broadway luminary Elsie Ferguson repeats her 1929 stage role in the 1930 film version of Scarlet...
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1930
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This early talkie melodrama features a waterfront hotel-owner (Marie Dressler) and her relationship with an area fisherman...
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1930
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The fact that "all-American" leading man Reginald Denny spoke with a pronounced British accent somewhat worked against his...
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1929
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Warden
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1929
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In this musical comedy, a young man from Virginia who is heir to a wealthy estate falls in love with a girl who longs to be a...
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Jay Darrell
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1929
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A murder trial provides the setting of this drama that presents, via flashback, three very different versions and motives of...
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1929
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Director Roland West was a moody and mysterious Hollywood character, who insisted upon making his pictures in utter secrecy...
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1929
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1929
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In this well-executed courtroom drama, a Broadway chorine is accused of stabbing her wealthy boy friend to death. The girl...
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1929
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In this curious film, a knickknack collector falls in love with the daughter of a jewel collector. When a rare stone is...
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Uncle Joe
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1929
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If stunt pilots Ormer Locklear and Al Wilson could star in their own films, then by golly James F. Fulton could too. Only one...
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Robert Ross
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1928
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Me, Gangster was director Raoul Walsh's third 1928 film -- and, according to some historians, the blueprint for such future...
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1928
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1927
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Capt. Davis
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1927
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1927
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Based on the once-popular "musical extravaganza" of the same name, McFadden's Flats is a serviceable vehicle for Keystone...
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1927
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Exit Smiling is perhaps the only film that ever fully utilized the comic genius of the incomparable Beatrice Lillie. The star...
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Orlando Wainwright
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1926
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1926
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Arguably the best of Charles Ray's four MGM vehicles, The Fire Brigade casts Ray as the youngest in a large and rambunctious...
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1926
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Canine star Rin Tin Tin Jr. finds himself in foggy London town in this fast-paced meller. The story doesn't make much sense,...
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1926
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A robust potboiler from Universal, The Ice Flood stars Kenneth Harlan as Jack De Quincey, a handsome youth returning from...
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Jim O’Neill
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1926
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A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp...
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J. G. Whitmore
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1926
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Harold Bell Wright, a popular author during the silent era, was known for his sentimental and unsophisticated stories. This...
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1925
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Don't was an unfortunate choice of titles for this MGM programmer, since many filmgoers took the advice literally. Sally...
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Ezra Moffatt
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1925
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Capt. Bashford
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1925
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Gladys Hulette stars in this romance about a girl crook determined to -- as the title implies -- go straight. The gang Gilda...
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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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Filmed on magnificent locations at Cedar City, Utah and Zion Canyon, this lavishly mounted Tom Mix Western was based on The...
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Jim Shields
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1924
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Although Milton Sills was a leading man in his own right, he also supported many female stars of the silent era. In this...
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1924
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Fox's also-ran cowboy star Buck Jones played a prospector falsely accused of murder in this silent Western, which benefitted...
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1924
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Hoot Gibson trades in his cowboy hat for a baseball bat in this comedy-drama. After an argument with the team's manager,...
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1924
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1924
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A spectacular trains wreck -- courtesy of stock footage -- highlighted this otherwise pedestrian silent melodrama from...
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Detective
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1924
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Betty Compson has solid support from some of the better character actors of the day in this adaptation of Owen Johnson's book...
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1924
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After his impressive directorial effort on The Sea Hawk, Frank Lloyd made this far smaller and more intimate film. The...
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1924
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Viola Dana plays Ruth Ambrose, a citified interior decorator who expands her business to the country. The locals don't quite...
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1924
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This first of three film versions of the George S. Kaufman/Marc Connelly stage comedy Merton of the Movies stars...
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Jeff Baird
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1924
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This powerful drama, based on the novel The Master of Man, by Sir Hall Caine, was the first time Swedish director Victor...
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Dan Collister
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1924
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1923
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Based on a magazine serial by Gene Markey, this film was turned into a perfect vehicle for Universal's lackadaisical cowboy...
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Colonel 'Raw Meat' Islip
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1923
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This is the second time Bayard Veiller's play made it to the silent screen (it would be made one more time in 1939 as a...
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1923
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Hoot Gibson takes off his cowboy gear and dons a naval uniform in this comedy-drama. Sam Pertune (Gibson) is in love with Mae...
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama made a poor vehicle for William Russell, even though he had a dual role. Jimmy Gallop, who sells fire...
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Murray McGuire
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1922
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Bert Lytell stars in a double role of father and son in this confusing drama about love and self-sacrifice. Tommy Carteret...
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1922
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When prize fighter Johnny Duffey (Bert Lytell) breaks his hand, the doctor orders him to rest for three months before he...
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1922
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Lon Chaney Sr. plays David Webster, an honest lawyer unjustly sentenced to a 15-year jail term. Upon his release, Webster...
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1922
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Although this mystery-comedy came out mere weeks after John Barrymore portrayed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous...
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1921
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Fancy Charlie (Tom Moore) breaks into an apartment, but finds a cabinet full of burglar tools. This is a clear indication...
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G.B. Lawson
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1921
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Dependable leading man Tom Moore carries the lighthearted storyline of From the Ground Up. Moore is cast as a burly...
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Mr. Morlimer
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1921
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Bert Lytell stars in this delightful crook comedy. Because Rachel Stetherill (Edythe Chapman) disapproves of her daughter's...
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Lieut. Ambrose
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1921
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1921
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Even in 1921, tales of the Northwest Mounted Police had already been done countless times before, so this drama -- based on a...
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1921
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Alice Lake made a fine comic foil for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and several other comics at the Keystone studios. In spite of...
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1921
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In this silent crime melodrama, an ex-con marries a teacher and tries to start a new life in the city. Unfortunately, he is...
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Mark Shadwell
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1921
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Viola Dana plays a secret agent in this fluffy comedy-drama. Detective Flint (DeWitt Jennings) gives Rosa Moreland (Dana) an...
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1921
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Leatrice Joy and Richard Dix play an ambitious couple in this domestic drama. John and Katherine Colby (Dix and Joy) decide...
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1921
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Charles Ray was almost 30 when he played 19-year-old Andy Cavanaugh, a love-struck country boy. That alone goes a long way to...
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1920
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Dorothy Gish stars as a superstitious young miss in this silly farce comedy. Frances Wadsworth (Gish) keeps her eyes on the...
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1919
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Dancing star Irene Castle was the leading lady of this combination murder mystery and espionage melodrama. Somewhat...
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1918
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1917
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1915 was a big year for civil war films -- this powerful five-reeler was released around the same time as D.W. Griffith's...
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1915
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