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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In this romantic crime drama, a railroad telegraph dispatcher loses his job after a train crash. He tries to convince his...
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1931
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A prospector's unhappy wife (Alice Calhoun) takes in, cares for and later comes to love a man (LeRoy Mason) who is unjustly...
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1929
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Victor Thorne's 1925 melodrama was turned into a low-budget film starring Shirley Mason four years later. Mason played the...
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1929
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A typical silent outdoors melodrama from poverty row producer Trem Carr and action director Duke Worne, this film starred...
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1929
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Escaping from a revolution, the King (Joseph Swickard) of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds...
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1929
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1929
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1928
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Previously filmed in 1918, Edwin Baird's play City of Purple Dreams was given a second cinematic go-round in 1928....
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1928
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A typical Poverty Row potboiler, this minor silent action melodrama featured Jacqueline Logan as a young woman searching for...
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1928
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When a wealthy recluse apparently commits suicide, his trusted friend Rex Lease is put in charge of the estate. Lease is...
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1928
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1928
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At the tail end of her starring career, Agnes Ayres played a young woman attempting to prove that her father (Rhody Hathaway)...
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1928
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A Midnight Adventure was a veritable compendium of murder-mystery cliches -- at least, that was the consensus of opinion of...
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1928
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Defying her strait-laced aunt, country lass Pauline Garon heads to New York, where she gets a job as a cabaret dancer....
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1928
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The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers. It is here that...
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1928
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Produced and directed by poverty row regular Duke Worne, this silent Northwest melodrama starred Napoleon (who, of course,...
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1927
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Heroes in Blue is predicated on the rivalry between two Irish-American clans. Sally Rand, the daughter of one family, falls...
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1927
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After suffering a blow on the head, brilliant scientist Forrest Stanley totally loses his memory. Wandering into a travelling...
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1927
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Producer-director Duke Worne gathered a cast of B-Western actors, hired a cameraman (Ernest F. Smith), and using a blueprint...
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1927
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Minor league star Billy Sullivan heads the cast of Heart of a Coward. A writer of pulp novels, Sullivan is swept up in a...
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1926
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Although low-budget filmmaker Ashton Dearholt usually spent his time on the small end of the megaphone (this being the silent...
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1926
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Stuntman Billy Sullivan stars as the "Speed Cop" in the motion picture of the same name. The picture begins as Sullivan gives...
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1926
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Ace stuntman Billy Sullivan stars as Billy Meeks, who gets into hot water at the very start of the picture when he's forced...
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1926
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1926
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Produced in Northern California by Paul Gerson, this minor crook melodrama featured Richard Holt as a young man helping his...
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1925
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Dick Van Buren (Ashton Dearholt) is a reckless youth who likes driving fast, so it's no surprise that he is eventually...
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1925
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This independently made comedy-drama was a typical vehicle for stunt actor Richard Holt. Gordon Palmer (Holt) is a lazy and...
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1925
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Jimmy Kenton (Richard Holt), an irresponsible young man, causes his father, Mark (Charles K. French), no small amount of...
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1925
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Motion Picture News warned that this melodrama, which was sentimental to the point of "hokum," would be better appreciated in...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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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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1924
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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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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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1924
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An unscrupulous gang attempts to corner the wheat market in this low-budget but popular serial from Universal starring future...
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1923
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Most moviegoers tend to associate Francis Ford with the "loveable drunk" characterizations he essayed for his director...
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1918
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John Ford hadn't quite yet gotten his directorial career off the ground when he starred in this melodrama. He plays...
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1917
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This tale of international intrigue was directed by Francis Ford, who also starred in a dual role. At a Paris hotel, Ludwig...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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We could be cute and say that The Campbells are Coming is about invading hordes of tomato soup cans. But we won't. Set during...
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1915
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Harry Carey Sr. is likeable burglar "Just Jim" in this 4-reel Universal western. A New York "second story man," Jim is on the...
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1915
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