In the second of producer Harry Sherman's Hopalong Cassidy Westerns, Deputy Sheriff Cassidy (William Boyd) promises El Toro...
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1936
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Buck Jones, the auteur of the prairies, frequently wrote and/or directed his own westerns. Jones composed the screenplay for...
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June Caldwell
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1936
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1932 WAMPAS Baby Star Dorothy Wilson was trapped in this mediocre circus melodrama from low-budget Peerless Pictures Corp....
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Stella Cavanaugh
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1935
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In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when...
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1935
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A couple of idealistic reporters attempt to unmask an unfair system in this topical melodrama from poverty row company...
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Bernice Winters
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1935
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1935
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Julia Sayre
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1935
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Few studios ground out as many aviation melodramas as Columbia. In Above the Clouds, Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams,...
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1934
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1934
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Tonita
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1934
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1934
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After directing three of Universal's finest horror films, James Whale shifted gears with the elegant romantic comedy By...
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Countess von Rischenheim
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1934
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The second entry in Buck Jones' Universal western series, When a Man Sees Red casts Jones as the foreman of a ranch owned by...
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1934
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Pat Ormsby
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1933
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Columbia's The Thrill Hunter is more of straight action film than a western, though leading man Buck Jones still wears his...
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1933
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In this crime thriller, a suicidal writer is saved by a helpful newspaper editor who gives her a much-needed job. Later she...
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Margaret King
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1932
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Before he moved to MGM, director Richard Thorpe virtually lived at the tiny production firm of Chesterfield-Invincible....
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1932
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In 1932, Monogram Pictures was essentially the clearing house for the films of independent production firms. Monogram was...
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1932
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Former silent-screen star Frank Mayo plays a big-city bootlegger at odds with gangster chieftain Tom Santschi, the man who's...
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1932
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As evidenced by its title, Chesterfield's The King Murder was partially inspired by the infamous Dot King extortion case of...
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1932
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A bored noblewoman wagers that she can steal a valuable diamond necklace and then return it without discovery in this minor...
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Baroness Orsani
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1932
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1932
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Crusading district attorney Jerry Bennett (Gilbert Roland) would give anything to get the goods on unscrupulous criminal...
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1932
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Like many low-budgeters of the early talkie era, Sally of the Subway is not so much a film as a reunion of several former...
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1932
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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Mrs. "Mac"
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1932
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Every so often, western star Buck Jones got it in his head that he could play a Mexican, and never mind that his accent...
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1931
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Actress Shelah Fane (Dorothy Revier) is in Honolulu to shoot a movie, but her chaotic personal life is keeping her from...
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Shelah Fane
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1931
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The title character is played by Dorothy Revier in this lower-case melodrama. She plays a gossip columnist whose brother, a...
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Janet
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1931
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In this drama, an eager-beaver cub reporter looking for the big scoop that will give him his big break is sent to interview...
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Pearl Vaughan
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1931
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Amy
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1931
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In this corny disaster drama, patrons of an underground speakeasy in New Orleans attend a victory party and end up terrified...
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Poppy
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1930
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1930
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Ruth Pell
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1930
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Actor Ralph Graves was responsible for the original story upon which Vengeance was based -- although, perhaps wisely, he...
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Margaret Summers
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1930
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The opening attraction at New York's Hollywood Theatre, Hold Everything was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson musical...
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1930
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In this crime melodrama, a bootlegger orders the death of his rival. Meanwhile the bootlegger's wife dallies with his best...
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Margaret Hart
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1930
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In this crime drama, a down-on-his-luck attorney with connections to a diamond thief is framed for the thief's murder by the...
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Molly
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1930
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In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe...
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Mayme
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1929
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Milady De Winter
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1929
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A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child...
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Grace Moore
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1929
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"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief played by Ian Keith....
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Dorothy Madison
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1929
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The aforementioned appendages appear aplenty in this musical comedy that centers on a husband and wife seeking to recapture...
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Mrs. Lyons-King
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1929
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A vaudevillian working in a third-rate burlesque show suffers marital turmoil when success swells his head in this silent...
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Sylvia Marco
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1929
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Although a humble stable boy, Ben Lyon is a whiz when it comes to medical know-how. This endears Lyon to his boss, Fred...
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1929
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This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector...
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Jean Rankin
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1929
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The Columbia programmer Sinner's Parade stars studio utility player Victor Varconi as shady dance-hall proprietor Al Morton....
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Mary Tracy
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1928
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Recorded sound effects punctuate this silent drama, the first big-budget release from the then-Poverty Row studio Columbia....
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Bessie
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1928
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Based upon The Red Dancer of Moscow by Henry Leyford Gates, The Red Dance is a silent film (released with a synchronized...
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The Princess Varvara
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1928
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Known as The Caviar of Poverty Row, brunette Dorothy Revier was Columbia Pictures' first female star. In Beware of Blondes, a...
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Mary
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1928
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The silent The Dropkick stars Richard Barthelmess as a talented but hopelessly conceited college football star. Because of...
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Eunice Hathaway
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1927
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In this silent crime drama, a clown comes home and finds his wife in bed with his colleague. He naturally flies into a...
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1927
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The "poor girls" in this big-city melodrama are actually one in number: heroine Dorothy Revier, who has been raised to...
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1927
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Produced by Columbia Pictures, The Tigress is set in Spain, where a band of gypsies help themselves to the livestock on a...
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1927
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All-purpose Columbia Pictures leading lady Dorothy Revier was teamed with newcomer Tom Owen in The Siren. When her car breaks...
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1927
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E.H. Griffith, a veteran of the old Edison Studios, handled the directorial chores for Columbia's Price of Honor. The story,...
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1927
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Clara Bradley
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1927
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Footloose flapper Peggy Marston (Dorothy Revier) runs away from her oppressive household and right into the arms of Big...
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Peggy Marston
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1927
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This typically hard-nosed Jack Holt vehicle casts the star as opium smuggler Tom Fellows. While in Shanghai on "business,"...
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Mary Blake
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1927
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Betty Boyd
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1926
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1926
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One of a cycle of late-1920s firefighting melodramas, Columbia's False Alarm stars John Harron as rookie fireman Joe Casey....
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1926
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This society drama, adapted from the play by Arthur Richman, was the first directorial effort of cinematographer Silvano...
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1926
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Ethel Winthrop
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1926
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Dorothy Revier took a break from her dramatic roles and starred in this Columbia-produced farce. Henry Brodman (Tom Ricketts)...
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1925
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Legend has it that Dorothy Revier rose to stardom in the Columbia Pictures product of the 1920s because she was the "good...
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Mary Burgess
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1925
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Steel worker Robert Holden (Conway Tearle) becomes president of the corporation, thanks to his involvement in an invention...
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1925
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Dorothy Revier plays a woman who decides that all men are scum when her sister dies giving birth to an illegitimate child....
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Norma
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1925
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This Columbia programmer was one of a handful of films directed by cinematographer Tony Gaudio in the mid-'20s. Margaret...
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1925
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This programmer came out of Columbia, which, during the 1920s, was just another Poverty Row studio. Cyrus Browning (Robert...
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1925
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Mrs. Gilbert
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1925
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1924
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Don Guzman de Ruis y Montejo (Otto Leder) is a Spanish nobleman who wants his daughter Ynez (Dorothy Reiver) to marry a...
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1924
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This romantic drama of love and revenge is taken from the Spanish ballad by Julio Sabello. David Kent (Kenneth Harlan)...
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Maria Valdez
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1924
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1924
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Prolific action adventure director Alvin J. Neitz (AKA Alan James) helmed this minor western released by the poverty row...
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Alice Allison
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1924
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Dr. Ross Wayne (William Fairbanks) takes a job in the hill country where a long-standing feud continues. When Branch Paxton...
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Beulah Paxton
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1924
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May Prentiss
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1924
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1924
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Elsie Brent (Dorothy Reiver) is amorously pursued by two brothers in this romantic melodrama. She falls in love with...
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Elsie Brent
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1924
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Just as the butler is the standard red herring in an old-fashioned whodunit, the ranch foreman is usually up to no good in a...
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Carmencita
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1924
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Joan Prescott
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1924
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Johnny Harron, brother of actor Robert Harron, heads the cast in this mediocre crime drama. Country boy Johnny Miller...
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1923
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