For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons,...
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Grandpa Spencer
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1963
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Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and...
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John Brown
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1961
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1960
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Based on a novel written in 1872, this charming tale of a young boy and his dog is leisurely and heart-warming. Nello...
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Daas
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1959
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Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city...
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1958
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Rod Serling's first original screenplay for the Big Screen was the psychological western Saddle the Wind. In one of his best...
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Mr. Deneen
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1958
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Union army major Drango (Jeff Chandler) is assigned to rebuild a ruined Georgian town in the aftermath of the Civil War....
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1957
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Alec Waggoman
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1955
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The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in...
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Old Martin
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1955
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Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in...
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1954
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Home Town Story was commissioned as a pro-Big Business tract by General Motors. The story revolves around Blake Washburn, a...
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John MacFarland
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1951
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Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native...
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Maj. James Singleton
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1950
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A "new" Lassie (once again, a male collie in drag) starred in A Challenge to Lassie, MGM's fourth entry in their series based...
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Jock Gray
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1949
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MGM's Lassie series was declining in popularity by 1948, so the studio decided to release its latest adventure of the famous...
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Drumsheugh
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1948
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This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to...
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Barney Rebstock
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1948
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This cowboy drama from Hungarian director Andre De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author...
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Sheriff Jim Crew
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1947
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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William Scott
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1945
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Son of Lassie is about a courageous collie named Laddie, played by a dog named "Pal". A sequel to Lassie Come Home, the film...
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Sam Curraclough
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1945
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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J.B. Pond
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1944
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The Uninvited is one of the rare Hollywood ghost stories that does not cop out with a "logical" ending. In fact, the film has...
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Commander Beech
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1944
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Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to...
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Mr. Brown
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have...
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Sam Carraclough
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1943
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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Ralph Pedloch
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1942
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Highlights from World War II are documented in this award-winning film. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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Sir Charles Emery
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1941
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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Mr. Morgan
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1941
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In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He...
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Dr. Drewett
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1941
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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Father John Callahan
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1940
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There are three key characters in Anatole Litvak's filmization of Aben Kandel's novel City for Conquest, as opposed to the...
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Scotty McPherson
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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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Sir John Burleson
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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Brother Superior
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula...
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Minister Althoff
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1940
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1939
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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1939
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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Hudge Hardwick
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1939
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It is no secret that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn were at each other's throats throughout the filming of The Private Lives of...
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Francis Bacon
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1939
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When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was...
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Dr. Lanskell
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1939
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1939
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This family drama features the same cast and crew from the highly successful Four Daughters, but it isn't actually a sequel....
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Sam Sloane
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1939
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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Grant
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1938
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Tim Hazelton
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1938
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A troubled young girl vents her frustrations upon her poor butler in this sentimental drama. The teen is angry because her...
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Mr. Morgan
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1938
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This third film version of Peter B. Kyne's Valley of the Giants benefits from the breahtaking Technicolor location...
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Andy Stone
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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Inspector Lane
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1938
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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Dr. Livingstons
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1938
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This 1938 remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film The Dawn Patrol is faithful to the original's basic plotline. The story is set...
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Phipps
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1938
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In this wartime drama, cavalry private Dennis Murphy purchases a nervous horse, Sergeant, after it is deemed unfit for...
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Col. Carruthers
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1938
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Mr. Mertick, Sr.
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1937
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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Maitre Labori
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1937
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German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film...
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Presiding Judge
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1937
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In this drama, Pat O'Brien plays James O'Malley, a tough, by-the-book policeman who is so unbending on any minor infraction...
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1937
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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1937
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Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent...
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Dr. Hunt
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1936
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Based on a novel by Netta Syrett, A Woman Rebels is the story of Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn), whose mission in...
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Judge Thistlewaite
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1936
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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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Col. Campbell
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1936
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1936
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Mr. Pryor
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1935
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1935
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This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien)...
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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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Burkitt
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1935
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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1934
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Based on the novel and play by James M. Barrie, The Little Minister turned out to be Katharine Hepburn's best vehicle since...
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Dr. McQueen
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1934
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The Key is a story of the Irish "troubles" which avoids taking sides, but spends most of its screen time with the British...
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1934
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In this tear-jerking adaptation of Louis Bromfield's novel A Good Woman, the title character stands tall in the face of small...
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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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1933
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Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM's back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in...
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Guidon
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1932
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In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries...
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Sgt. Snyder
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1932
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Previously filmed in 1917 and 1922, Willard Mack's barnstorming stage melodrama Kick In was exhumed again in 1931 as a...
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1931
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The George du Maurier novel Trilby, about a hypnotist who controls a female musician, was originally filmed as Trilby, a...
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The Laird
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1931
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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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Charles Fox
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1930
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1930
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The Technicolor "spectacular" The Viking was loosely based on the exploits of Norwegian explorer Leif Ericsson. Using O. A....
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Lief Erickson
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1929
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In this early talkie, a musical, a Polynesian storekeeper bears his chest and sings. He also falls in love with an island...
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Joranson
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1929
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Ace detective Sherlock Holmes speaks for the first time in a film and utters his trademark line "Elementary, dear Watson,...
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Col. Sebastian Moran
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1929
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1929
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Future "Hopalong Cassidy" William Boyd essays the title role in Pathe's The Cop. It all begins when likeable police sergeant...
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Director
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1928
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Director, Producer
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1928
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One of the first talkies, this film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous...
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Caxton
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1928
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1927
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Despite his accomplishments as an actor, Donald Crisp's talents as a director were slight at best. What makes Crisp's...
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Director
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1927
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Popular leading lady Leatrice Joy was copacetically teamed with "fading star" Charles Ray in Nobody's Widow. After a...
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Director
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1927
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Although Vanity was one of Leatrice Joy's most successful films, it can hardly be considered one of her best. Joy is cast as...
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1927
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McTavish
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1926
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With its mythical kingdom theme, this romance was not terribly original. But it does feature a couple of interesting aspects;...
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Director
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1926
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The titular "man bait" is svelte shopgirl Madge Dreyer (Marie Prevost), who can't convince her customers and male co-workers...
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Director
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1926
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Douglas Fairbanks returns as the great Spanish swashbuckler in this sequel to The Mark of Zorro. Don Cesar de Vega...
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Director, Don Sebastian
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1925
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1924
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In all likelihood the only surviving film starring early silent screen leading man Monroe Salisbury, this very old fashioned...
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Director
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1921
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In an era which produced The Sheik, there was little room for this quaint little film, based on the novel by Ian MacLaren and...
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Lachlan Campbell
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1921
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Helen Stanton, an American heiress (Mary Glynne) arrives in London with her chaperone, Mrs. Raffan (Saba Raleigh). Mrs....
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1921
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1921
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This amusing comedy, based on the book by Earl Derr Biggers, is well cast, with Bryant Washburn and Lois Wilson in the lead...
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Director
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1920
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William Gilette's romantic Civil War melodrama is capably brought from stage to screen here. When Southerner Rachel Hayne...
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Director
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1920
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Miss Hobbs (Wanda Hawley, in her first leading role) is a wealthy young lady with advanced ideas. In 1920, that meant that...
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Director
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1920
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An idle young clubman, Jack Merrill (Bryant Washburn), believes he is ill, so he visits his doctor. The physician realizes...
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Director
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1919
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This action-comedy has nothing to do with WWI -- Dalton Trumbo's novel would not be written for another 20 years. Stage...
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1919
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1919
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1919
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Like many films of its era, It Pays to Advertise was based on a Broadway stage play. It showcased the talents of...
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Director
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1919
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This picture began life as a Saturday Evening Post serial by Wallace Irwin. It involves the newly rich Buddy McNair...
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Director
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1919
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Battling Burrows
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1919
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1919
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Iron worker Chuck McCarthy (Fred Stone) decides he wants to try being a film actor, in spite of the protests of his parents...
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Director
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1918
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Back in 1919, 21 dollars a week was a fair salary for any young man starting out. In this film, however, it falls way short...
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Director
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1918
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Rimrock Jones (Wallace Reid) is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already...
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Director
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1918
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Played by Raymond Hatton, the "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly...
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Director
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1918
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Elwyn Barron's novel Marcel Leviget was the source of the Wallace Reid vehicle The House of Silence. Reid stars as wealthy...
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Director
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1918
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Abstaining from his usual "Italian" characterization, George Beban played a roistering French Canadian in Paramount's Jules...
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Director
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1918
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Van Twiller Yard (Wallace Reid) has drifted from his well-to-do roots and landed on the skids. Along with several other...
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Director
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1918
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The plot of Less Than Kin hinges upon the astonishing resemblance between its two protagonists (both of whom, for the sake of...
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Director
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1918
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Adapted from a popular stage play of the period, Believe Me, Xantippe was retooled as a vehicle for the even more popular...
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1918
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1917
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George Beban was known on stage and screen for his portrayals of simple Italian characters. The plot to this picture, on the...
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Director
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1917
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Pierre Duval (George Beban) is a night watchman at a museum of art who dotes on his art student son, Jacques (Colin Chase)....
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Director
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1917
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Like many stage stars of the teens, George Beban (known for his Italian characterizations both on stage and on screen) had a...
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Director
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1917
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Although George Beban was most famous for his Italian characterizations, he would sometimes branch out into other ethnic...
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Director
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1917
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Actor George Beban took his lighthearted Italian characters in and out of many different situations; here he brings Guido...
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1917
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1916
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Previously filmed as a one-reeler by D.W. Griffith in 1910, Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona was given its first full-length...
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1916
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A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director...
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1916
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The silent era paid quite a bit of lip service to Puritan morality, and sinners generally met horrible deaths -- either that,...
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1915
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1915
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The old David Belasco stage favorite May Blossom was brought to life on screen by "journeyman's journeyman" director...
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1915
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This typical silent rags-to-riches comedy-drama featured Mary Pickford and her real-life brother Jack as sibling orphans...
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1915
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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1915
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The commanding officer of the title is played by Donald Crisp. When he inherits two children from his late sister, Crisp is...
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1915
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1914
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1914
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This innovative psychological drama represents one of D.W. Griffith's early full-length feature films and contains...
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1914
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1914
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Paul Armstrong's venerable stage melodrama The Escape was first brought to the screen by D.W. Griffith in 1914. In true...
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"Bull" McGee
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1914
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1914
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This Reliance four-reeler starred Dorothy Gish as the title character, a rambunctious frontier dance-hall gal named Nell....
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Her Son
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1912
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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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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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1910
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1910
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