Lost in the Stratosphere is one of three Monogram vehicles for James Cagney's look-alike brother William (later a successful...
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Col. Brooks
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1935
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1935
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1934
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A love triangle amidst the world of musical entertainment provides the basis for this drama. The trouble begins when a...
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J.C. Trevor
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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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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Crusty
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1934
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An Edgar Wallace yarn was the basis for the uncharacteristic Warner Bros. melodrama Return of the Terror. Hoping to escape...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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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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Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is...
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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1933
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1933
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Frequently misidentified as Ladies Must Love, this Universal musical represents one of the few screen appearances of Broadway...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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In this romance, an ambitious young career woman is slated to marry a wealth man until she gets into a fender-bender and...
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1933
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1932
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The second of two projected John Wayne serials produced by genre expert Mascot Pictures, this film used the budget-saving...
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1932
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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1932
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Such were the ways of Hollywood that the dignified H.B. Warner, who played Jesus in 1927's King of Kings, found himself in...
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Dwight Simpson
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1932
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In this comedy, a convict uses his skills as a masseur and a fight manager to get out of prison and become the private gym...
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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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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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1932
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A rather complicated but well-made little Poverty Row thriller, Drifting Souls features silent screen star Lois Wilson as...
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1932
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Aging has-been silent star Henry B. Walthall plays an aging has-been silent star in this low-budget drama from Monogram...
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1932
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Golddigging Verna Wilson (Natalie Morehead) files suit against married millionaire John Randolph (Montague Love) for breach...
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J.P. "Lucky" Morrison
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1932
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Hatchet Man is a dated but fascinating film set amidst the "tong wars" in San Francisco's Chinatown. Tong hatchet man Wong...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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The Match King was inspired by the checkered career of entrepreneur Ivar Krueger. Warren William plays a Krueger-like...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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This adaptation of the Puccini opera jettisons all the music and retains only David Belasco's timeworn libretto. American...
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1932
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In this western, based on a Zane Grey novel, the hero leaves town after someone is killed during a feud. As he escapes, he...
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1932
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Based on a novel by Vina Delmar, Bad Girl stars Sally Eilers as heroine Dot Haley. The title notwithstanding, Dot isn't bad...
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1931
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Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband...
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1931
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In this drama, a wild young punk is assigned to spend time with a man who specializes in helping juvenile delinquents. The...
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1931
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In this western, an orphan who is discovered alone in the desert is raised by a kindly family. The only dark spot in their...
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1931
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In this melodrama, a young secretary becomes the Kept Woman of her lascivious employer. When she encounters her high school...
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1931
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Chinatown After Dark is where you'll find Madame Ying Su (Carmel Myers), a "dragon lady" type who'll stop at nothing to get...
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Lee Fong
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1931
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In this war drama, two buddies in WW I return stateside. One of them becomes a police sergeant, but the other cannot find...
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1931
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A rather bleak comedy-drama from Frank Capra, Platinum Blonde basically starts where Capra's later and much more buoyant It...
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1931
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Assigned by the police commissioner to catch a notorious gangster, a young police captain discovers that his adversary is a...
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Police Commisioner Randall
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1931
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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1931
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In this crime drama, a moll tells her imprisoned gangster lover that she is leaving him for another whom she really loves....
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1931
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In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life...
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1931
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Based on the stage play Mother's Millions, She-Wolf is one of several 1930s films inspired by the life of the reclusive...
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William Remington
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1931
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Made to exploit the panic caused by Black Tuesday, this thriller centers on the attempts of a broker to prove that a...
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Frank Wells
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1931
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One of those sleazy little exploitation melodramas so inept that they have become pure camp, this film told the sordid story...
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1931
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In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment...
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1930
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"Sea Bat" is another name for the poisonous sting rays that trouble swimmers in warmer ocean climes. The story is set upon a...
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1930
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Canine star Rin-Tin-Tin's glory days as one of Warner Bros.' biggest moneymaking personalities were swiftly coming to an end...
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Capt. Thomas
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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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Pop O'Keefe
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1930
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This simple tale of peace-loving hillbillies defeating a gang of outlaws was based on a story by Joseph Hergesheimer and was...
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1930
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Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role...
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1930
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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join...
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1930
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In this musical comedy, a bored office clerk finds much-needed excitement by masquerading as a millionaire. To do so, he...
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1930
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Ostensibly based of the life and violent death of glamorous New York mobster Arnold Rothstein, this early talkie from...
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1930
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The 1929 Wall Street crash was still two months in the future when Warner Bros.' Gamblers was released in the late summer of...
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1929
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In this drama, a young woman gets angry when her boyfriend's father, a motorcycle cop, stops her for speeding, refuses her...
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1929
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Most of Monte Blue's talking-picture career was spent in small character roles, but he was still regarded as a bankable...
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1929
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In this crime melodrama, Iverson (George Fawcett) is a stockbroker who has been sent to prison for illegally manipulating the...
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John Hardin
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1929
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Previously filmed in 1923, the William Collier Sr.-Victor Mapes stage play The Hottentot was exhumed as an...
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Ollie Gilford
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1929
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Mr. Holden
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1929
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A custody battle for a little boy forms the basis of this domestic comedy, a talkie that is so early that title cards are...
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1929
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In this romance, an early talkie containing approximately 4 minutes of dialog and a song, a man is paroled from prison...
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1929
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1929
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First filmed 1917, the Elmer Rice play On Trial was remade as a talkie eleven years later. The original stage version was...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Colonel Archiblald
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1928
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This nonsensical comedy-melodrama was a vehicle for two relics from the dawn of cinema history, walrus-mustached...
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Uncle Herbert
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1928
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1928
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His big-time stardom a thing of the past, George Walsh tried to substitute quantity for quality in the waning days of the...
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1927
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1927
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It's a shame that so many of the silent directorial efforts of the innovational Gregory La Cava no longer exist. LaCava's...
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Uncle Howard
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1927
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Effervescent comic actor Johnny Hines stars as Johnny Rooney, an East Side newspaper vendor who suddenly develops the...
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Prince Ferdinand Darowitsky
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1926
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Likable Johnny Hines stars in this lively comedy. Plumber Tommy Burke (Hines) is getting nowhere in life until he receives an...
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1926
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Tennis champion Bill Tilden (billing himself "William T. Tilden" for the occasion) wrote and starred in this silent melodrama...
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1926
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Because of an injury, "the Great Maranelli" (Johnny Hines) is forced to give up his job as a circus performer. He hits the...
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Sawdust Sam
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1925
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This horse racing meller was based on the play by George V. Hobart and George Broadhurst. Claire Barrington (Aileen Pringle)...
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Dr. Woodhurst
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1925
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Veteran matinee-idol James Kirkwood starred in this low-budget melodrama from poverty row organization Gotham Productions as...
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Tony Rocco
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1925
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Richard Dix and Esther Ralston starred together in several films during the latter half of the 1920s. This Western-comedy was...
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1925
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1924
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1924
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Independent milkman Jimmy Burke (Johnny Hines) exchanges clothes with a wealthy young man for a costume party. While he's...
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The Great La Tour
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1924
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This muddled, improbable drama was only interesting because it was shot in the swampland of the Florida Everglades. David, a...
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1924
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The wooden performances by a usually fine cast of players suggest that the script to this melodrama -- based on the poem The...
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1924
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1924
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Stage actor William Faversham makes one of his infrequent screen appearances in The Sixth Commandment. John Brandt...
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1924
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1923
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For a while during the early 1920s, William Nigh was known for directing films concerning social problems. He wasn't one to...
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1923
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Elizabeth Winthrop (Constance Binney) refuses to listen to her conservative parents (Edmund Breese and Mary Carr) and parties...
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1923
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Light comedian Johnny Hines specialized in entertaining, action-packed films, and this is one of the snappiest of the bunch....
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Alan Crosby
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1923
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While this theatrical drama is based on the clichéd premise of a country girl coming to the big city, it offers some colorful...
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1923
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Ex-Follies girl Dorothy Mackaill was perfectly cast as what else -- a chorus girl -- in this light comedy. However, her...
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Morgan Van Dam
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1923
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This old-fashioned meller was based on a creaky stage play by Hal Reid, who specialized in "ten-twent-thirt" fare. A band of...
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1923
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Actor James Kirkwood, who had taken a break from film for a stint on Broadway in The Fool, stands out in this drama. His...
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1923
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No one in the bathtub-gin 1920s took Charles Blaney's hoary old stage melodrama The Curse of Drink seriously. This didn't...
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John Rand
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1922
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If her scenes had not ended up on the cutting-room floor, this uneven drama would have been the film debut of Clara Bow...
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1922
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This is Johnny Hines' second starring feature -- the first was called Burn 'Em Up Barnes, so there seems to be a little theme...
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Johnny Jetts
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1922
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After making a hit in the Torchy series of two-reelers, Johnny Hines chose this lively picture as his first full-length...
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"King" Cole
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1921
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1916
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Based on a narrative poem by Robert W. Service, The Song of the Wage Slave might well be the theme music for downtrodden...
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1915
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"A bunch of the boys were whooping it up at the Malamute saloon." Thus began Robert W. Service's gutsy narrative poem The...
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1915
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Oscar Apfel, the man who collaborated with Cecil B. DeMille on the direction of the pioneering feature film The Squaw Man,...
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1914
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