The inherent trashiness of Reform School Girl is redeemed by the sincere performance of Gloria Castillo and the...
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1957
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Johnny Mack Brown heads the cast of Monogram's Outlaws of Stampede Pass. Per the title, the film concerns a western...
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1943
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Gail Patrick plays a young woman framed for murder. Luckily the newsman on the courtroom beat is ace photographer Lew Ayres....
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1936
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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Charming but ruthless fugitive gangster Dutra (Brian Donlevy) demands that a doctor (Oscar Apfel) perform plastic surgery...
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1935
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1935
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After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of...
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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1934
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A rather weak entry in Tim McCoy's Columbia oeuvre, this Western was released to smaller venues in December of 1934, but not...
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1934
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While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
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1933
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In this crime drama, a dapper thief meets a female detective at a party and fall in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1933
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Adhering to an old Hollywood tradition, Tim McCoy's dog, Silver King, earned billing above the heroine, 1931 WAMPAS Baby Star...
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1933
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In this romantic western, a daring masked outlaw steals the gold from a crooked mining company and uses the loot to pay the...
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1933
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Mascot produced their serials fast and furious with little concern for believability, acting prowess, or technical niceties....
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1932
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The air-mail pilots who fly from a small airport in the Rocky Mountains are determined but not paid well, and there are...
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1932
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Western Limited is another of the "Grand Hotel on wheels" films so popular in the early 1930s. Stealing a valuable diamond at...
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1932
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Short story writer Thomas attempts to solve a murder involving blackmail, stabbings and mysterious notes. Another interesting...
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1932
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A couple of silent screen "names," Edmund Burns and Molly O'Day flounder badly in this penny-ante shipboard melodrama from...
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1931
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In this drama, a woman finds herself abandoned when the man she assumed was her husband suddenly marches in, announces that...
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1929
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In spite of its unbelievable storyline, She Goes to War manages to sustain interest from first reel to last. During WWI,...
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Reggie
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1929
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Dexter Courtland
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1929
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This Australian film was produced and directed by an American (Norman Dawn), with an essentially all-American cast. Edith...
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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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1929
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Alice Day stars as Phyllis of the Follies in this standard backstage yarn. As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter...
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Clyde Thompson
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1928
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1928
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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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One of the better "Abie's Irish Rose" derivations of the late 1920s, The Shamrock and the Rose was adapted from a play by...
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1927
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This picture banked on the publicity surrounding the excavation of King Tut's tomb and contained a weak copy of the classic...
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1926
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With Mack Swain and Arthur Houseman in the cast, it's obvious that this murder mystery-melodrama has a lot of comic relief....
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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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Filmed in majestic Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon, Utah, this Paramount Zane Grey Western starred Jack Holt as Nevada, a...
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Ben Ide
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1926
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Anita Stewart, once the pride and joy of Metro Pictures, had to make do with lesser productions at smaller studios in the...
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Jim Wallace
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1926
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Action melodrama factory FBO produced this very average silent western about an Easterner travelling West in search of, of...
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1925
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The influential New York critic Mordaunt Hall declared this circus melodrama a "light after-dinner entertainment which won't...
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Dale Kennersly
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1925
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Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald...
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Ronald McKane
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1925
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Jack Hoxie's final Western for 1925 featured Universal's second most popular cowboy hero (after Hoot Gibson) chasing a wanted...
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1925
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Maria Maretti (Bebe Daniels) works as a manicurist at a posh hotel. She is in love with Tony Luca (Edmund Burns), and they...
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Antonio Luca
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1925
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Ultra suave Adolph Menjou plays an urbane, filthy rich bachelor who finds himself falling for a socialite just as carefree as...
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1924
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Glamorous Gloria Swanson dressed down for this story of a little Parisian thief. Toinette (Swanson) is the leader of a band...
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1924
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1924
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This epic covers all of Lincoln's life. His birth in a blizzard; his boyhood (depicted by Danny Hey as young Lincoln); his...
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1924
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1923
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This fluffy Mae Murray vehicle was dressed up with a Graustarkian veneer, but in reality it was merely an excuse for the star...
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1923
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The handsome but uninspired Lloyd Hughes plays a young Cajun man in this drama produced by Thomas Ince. Jeff Newland...
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1923
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Freshie stars Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Charles Taylor, a lumbering cowboy who yearns for a college education. Managing to...
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1922
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The character played by star Gladys Walton mentions lavender bath salts a couple of times -- that's about the only relation...
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1922
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Although busy with the Tom Mix and Buck Jones westerns, the Fox company also issued non-series oaters such as Lights of the...
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1922
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Although United Artists was primarily formed to release films from its founders -- Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas...
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Bill Merrick
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1922
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Future Judge Hardy Lewis Stone plays a restless middle-aged man in this drama. After 20 years of marriage, Mary Emerson (Cleo...
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1922
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Although it sounds ludicrous to slap a black wig on vivacious blonde Constance Talmadge and try to pass her off as a Chinese...
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1922
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Prolific writer Max Brand, famous for such oft-filmed works as Destry Rides Again, penned the story upon which the silent...
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1921
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1921
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Given that silent star Mary Miles Minter was famous for her wide, deep-blue eyes, it's not surprising that many of her films...
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1920
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Author George Clayton (H.B. Warner) is a skeptic when it comes to hypnotism. Nevertheless, he allows mesmerist Norman Osgood...
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1920
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Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by...
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1919
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In order to rescue his brother, society boy David Strong (Wallace Reid) has to travel through the underworld. He disguises...
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1919
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In what is perhaps one of his lesser vehicles, Douglas Fairbanks plays a Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman who impersonates a...
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1918
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The always reliable Elsie Ferguson stars in Danger Mark. Made before the advent of nationwide Prohibition, the film is a...
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1918
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Morgan's Raiders could well be described as a family affair; its director was Wilfred Lucas, and its writer was Lucas'...
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1918
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Written by Edmund Goulding (who later went on to a substantial directing career), The Ordeal of Rosetta was tailor-made to...
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1918
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1916
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