There are those western fans who feel that cowboy star Tom Keene did better work at low-budget Crescent Pictures than he ever...
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1937
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The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such...
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1936
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Eccentric professor Einfeld (Lee Kohlmar) is lecturing a select group of scientists at a darkened planetarium when one of the...
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1936
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From low-rent company Invincible comes this hardy survivor, a cheap-looking but fairly engrossing account of a convicted bank...
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1936
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Though released by Republic, The Oregon Trail was actually filmed by the Lone Star unit at Monogram. John Wayne stars in a...
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1936
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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1935
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Ken Maynard's western series for Columbia was a mixed bag indeed, with Western Courage neither the best nor worst of the...
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1935
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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1934
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1934
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1933
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In this 1933 Marx Brothers film, the mythical country of Freedonia is broke and on the verge of revolution. Mrs. Teasdale...
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1933
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In this western, a lawman restores law and order in town. He also stops a greedy horseman from trapping wild stallions with...
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1932
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This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows...
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1932
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If ever there was an archetypal Marx Brothers comedy, it was the team's 1932 offering Horse Feathers. Groucho Marx is cast as...
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1932
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A troubled production that suffered from both severe cuts and retakes under a different director (Edward H. Griffith), this...
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1931
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1930
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Amidst the furor of the Civil War a courageous Union captain, nursing a broken heart, volunteers for spy duty. Masquerading...
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1930
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1930
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In this convoluted drama, the jolly painted face of a circus clown is but a mask for an avaricious, ruthlessly ambitious,...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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Though he plays an Italian-American character in Ladies Love Brutes, George Bancroft refreshingly avoids the ethnic...
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1930
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The Widow from Chicago is Polly Henderson (Alice White) -- only she isn't really a widow and in fact has never been married....
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1930
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1930
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In this high-spirited satire of competitive sports, boxer Marco Perkins is creamed during a fight and decides to play polo...
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1930
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In this romantic drama, a chorine marries her absent-minded childhood sweetheart so she can make her real love, a...
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1930
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1930
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In this early "talkie," William Powell stars as sophisticated detective Philo Vance, who is brought in to investigate the...
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1929
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This comedy chronicles the rise of a country rube who becomes a baseball legend for the New York Yankees. Not only does he...
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1929
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Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films...
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1929
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Director Ernst Lubitsch's first talking picture, The Love Parade was a witty souffle about a royal "marriage of state."...
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1929
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In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly...
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1929
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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1929
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This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it...
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1929
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Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a...
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1929
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The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery....
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1929
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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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1929
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This comedy classic is the sound-film debut of enormously popular and brilliant silent comedian Harold Lloyd. He plays a...
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1929
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1929
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A love triangle between two twin brothers and a lovely young woman provides the framework for this drama (it was the first...
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1929
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Director William Wellman's follow-up to Wings was based in part on his own WWI experiences with the Lafayette Flying Corps....
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1928
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Why Sailors Go Wrong was directed by Henry "Pathe" Lehrmann, whose comedy technique hadn't changed much since his days with...
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1928
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1928
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Much of Fox's Prep and Pep was filmed on location at Culver Military Academy in Indiana. David Rollins plays Cyril Reade, the...
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1928
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Long before Richard Harding Davis' "Gallegher" stories were serialized for television by Walt Disney, popular silent-screen...
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1928
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1927
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1927
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1927
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The lonesomest of the titular lonesome ladies is Polly Fosdick (Anna Q. Nilsson), the wife of wealthy John Fosdick...
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1927
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Silent film star Colleen Moore and Charlie Plumb's comic strip character Ella Cinders had two basic things in common: their...
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1926
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The tragic Barbara LaMarr made her final film appearance in The Girl From Montmartre. LaMarr is cast as Parisian cabaret...
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1926
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After her impressive dramatic role in So Big, Colleen Moore returned to light comedies (mostly because her studio knew they...
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1925
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This drama, based on the play by Marion Fairfax, concerns a woman who talks big, but does not practice what she preaches....
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1925
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1925
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This drama was based on the play by Henry Wallace. Two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter...
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1925
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1924
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Although Norma Talmadge was at the height of her stardom, she was not immune to poor material, nor was veteran screenwriter...
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1924
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Inez Laranotta (Anna Q. Nilsson) is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But...
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1924
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This comedy-drama was based on the successful play by Avery Hopwood, who was known for his tales of domestic turmoil. It...
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1924
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Leatrice Joy outshines the trite material and the rest of the cast in this Paramount release. Although it was adapted from...
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1923
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Before he became a dignified general-purpose actor, Captain E. H. Calvert was a busy silent film director. Made in 1916,...
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1916
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An outright farce produced in Chicago by the Essanay company, this film was set in the country of Morovenia, where fat women...
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1915
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This Essanay six-reeler was based on a novel by Henry Oyen. Ernest Maupain plays "Wolf" John, the rough-and-ready owner of an...
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1915
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1915
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Dr. Rownkee (Henry B. Walthall, who had recently starred in Birth of a Nation) is a brilliant young surgeon who loses his...
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1915
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1914
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The Ladies' World magazine held a writing contest and the winning entries were made into films by Essanay Studios....
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1914
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Ladies World magazine held a contest in which they ran several mystery stories. The winners had to come up with the best...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Although already a matinee idol, handsome Francis X. Bushman reportedly won the leading role in this very popular adventure...
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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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Called to the scene of a coal-mine explosion, the Rev. Stanley Waters (Francis X. Bushman) attempts to rescue the survivors....
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1913
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1913
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1912
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