Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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1950
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Action star Tom Keene appeared under his alternate screen cognomen of George Duryea in the 1935 quickie Hong Kong Nights. Tom...
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1935
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Before its absorption into the newly-formed 20th Century-Fox corporation in 1935, feisty little Majestic Pictures turned out...
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1934
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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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1933
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Dorothy Burgess, the fiery Tonia of the Academy award-winning In Old Arizona (1929), plays a woman who will do anything to...
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1933
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In this romantic drama, an ambitious young dress designer decides to make an upward career move by making a play for her...
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1932
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Alias Mary Smith might have been completely forgotten were it not for the diligent efforts of "B"-picture aficionado John...
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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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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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Mayfair Productions had an absolute genius for coming up with titles that would drive away audiences. Wisely, Mayfair's 1932...
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1932
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In this comedy, a plumber does a job for a fellow and ends up conned into marrying his daughter. The daughter only agrees to...
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1930
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It's a case of mistaken identity in this convoluted comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago...
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1929
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Yet another early talkie about love, jealousy and divorce among the upper classes, Their Own Desire remains a dramatically...
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1929
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Child star Frank "Junior" Coghlan's final film on his DeMille-Pathe contract was the military-academy drama Square Shoulders....
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1929
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1928
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The "wise wife" is Helen Blaisdell (Phyllis Haver), the loving missus of John Blaisdell (Owen Moore). Unfortunately, John's...
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1927
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1927
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As a follow-up to the successful marital farce Up in Mabel's Room, PDC Productions came out with a film version of the...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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This offbeat comedy-drama concerns Tommy Valentine, a young man whose path crosses with that of Barbara, the niece of local...
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1927
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This first film version of the Otto Harbach-William Collison stage farce Up in Mabel's Room was released in 1926, the same...
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1926
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1926
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Paris at Midnight was freely adapted from Pere Goriot, a novel by Honore de Balzac. Lionel Barrymore stars as the "Robin Hood...
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1926
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When Billy Laidlaw (Kenneth Harlan) sees Peggy Laurence (Bebe Daniels) and her partner, Matt Wilde (T. Roy Barnes),...
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1925
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If the Hearst newspapers seem to get a lot of attention in this comedy-drama, it only makes sense -- William Randolph...
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1924
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Newspaper magnate and movie producer William Randolph Hearst created this massive epic about the American Revolution to...
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1924
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Little Jackie Coogan, the most popular child star of his generation, once again played a poor but spunky ragamuffin in this...
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1923
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1923
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Humoresque (1920) spawned a large number of human interest films featuring Jewish immigrant mothers in the style of Vera...
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1922
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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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1921
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When she starred in this drama, Helene Chadwick was being referred to as "the most photographed girl in America." Phoebe...
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1921
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Wife May Collins is convinced by a homewrecking female (Marcia Manon) that her husband Richard Dix is unfaithful. Upon...
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1921
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This Eminent Authors-Goldwyn production was based on the Mary Roberts Rineheart story about boarding school life, "Empire...
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1920
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Gretchen Barker (Gretchen Lederer) has gotten herself involved with a group of German spies in the U.S. This is particularly...
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1919
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Although a New Yorker by birth, silent screen actress Edith Storey had appeared in westerns as early as 1910 when she was...
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1919
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Although Judith (Rosemary Thebe) is engaged to the prosaic Jean Laroque, she wishes for the glitter of the big city. She...
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1918
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Dick Holloway (Bert Lytell) is a New York reporter who is sent to investigate the death of the valet of Lord Harold Varden...
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1918
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Socialism is given sympathetic, if unrealistic, treatment in this Triangle drama. John Warfield (Joe King) has been raised a...
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1918
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In this charming, yet highly dramatic picture, Yano (Jack Abbe) works as a delivery boy in his uncle's Chinatown antique...
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1918
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As tipped off by its title, A Tar Heel Warrior begins in North Carolina. On the verge of losing his plantation, Colonel...
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1917
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The "love" alluded to in the film's title is twofold. First, we have a man's love for his wife: in this case, the Mister is...
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1917
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Melville Ilchester (Thomas Hardy) sees a wax model on display in a dressmaker's shop and is enraptured by its beauty. He is...
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1917
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1917
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Roy Hanford (Darrel Foss) lives under the domination of a cold wife (Laura Sears) and a stern father (Walt Whitman) who's the...
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1917
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Gloriana (Zoe Rae), a child of the stage, is taken in by Doctor Manning (William Canfield) and his family when her mother...
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1916
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The aptly-described title character is Alice Hale, played by Cleo Ridgely. Urged on by her mercenary mother and by her own...
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1916
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