Five of Laurel and Hardy's best features from the silent film era are compiled in this collection by Robert Youngson....
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1965
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Dolores Del Rio plays Dolores in Girl of the Rio -- which, one supposes, makes perfect sense. The heroine is a cabaret dancer...
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1932
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A newspaper journalist must choose between the two women he loves in this drama. On one hand, he is in love with a...
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1932
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A pompous executive has a hard time admitting that his hard-working, devoted secretary is really the one pulling the strings...
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Daisy Presby
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1931
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A couple of holdovers from the silent era, Kenneth Harlan and Edna Murphy, starred in this below-average Universal serial...
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Lola Mackey
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1931
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The title character is played by Dorothy Revier in this lower-case melodrama. She plays a gossip columnist whose brother, a...
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Myrtle
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1931
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Dancing Sweeties is set primarily in a Chicago dance emporium. During a dance contest, Bill (Grant Withers) and Molly...
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Jazzbo Gans
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1930
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Based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst, this dreary and primitive early talkie was unleashed on a derisive audience in January...
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May Wallenstein
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1930
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George M. Cohan's 1904 musical came to the screen a second time in 1930 courtesy of Warner Bros., who cast light leading man...
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Vivien Dale
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1930
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In this sweet comedy, a meek and clumsy employee of a large firm is filled with useful ideas, but is too shy to present...
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1930
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Vallery Grove (Dolores Costello) may be high up the social ladder, but she hasn't a penny to her name thanks to her family's...
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Beth Randall
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1930
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In this comedy, a meddlesome and grouchy publisher pushes his son and his wife a little too hard to make a few grandchildren...
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Fanchon La Vere
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1929
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The Sap is Edward Everett Horton, a small-towner with big plans, but lacking the wherewithal to put them in motion. Even...
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1929
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1929
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In this drama, a railroad engineer and a fireman are best pals until the fireman falls for a dubious woman whom the engineer...
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Edna
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1929
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One of those transitional Vitaphone productions with a few dialogue scenes and a canned music score, the underworld melodrama...
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1929
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Fred Thomson plays a dual role (sort of) in The Sunset Legion. Thomson is cast as a Texas ranger who poses as a cowardly...
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Susan
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1928
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A largely silent musical, My Man is primarily a showcase for the enormously popular Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice who...
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Edna Brand
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1928
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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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Burnt Fingers gets under way when a philandering nightclub dancer is murdered. Heroine Eileen Percy was not only the last...
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1927
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Cowboy hero Fred Thomson's beautiful horse Silver King was the real star of this well-made FBO western. The film was...
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Lucindy
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1927
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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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The likable Johnny Hines stars in this comedy-melodrama. Johnny (Hines) is a shoe salesman who can't remember anything. This...
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May Brooks
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1927
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Cruise of the Hellion was a "B" picture with a "B" cast, but that's not to say it wasn't entertaining. Donald Keith plays the...
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Diana Drake
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1927
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Irene Rich heads the cast of this lachrymose "mother love" drama. Rich is cast as Sylvia "Dearie" Darling, a nightclub...
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Ethel Jordan
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1927
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Edna Murphy is the Rose of the Bowery in this low-budget filler described as "a comedy drama of the Underworld." On the lam...
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1927
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Along with The Desert's Toll, filmed simultaneously at The Big Horn ranch in Montana, this silent Western was producer...
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1927
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1927
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Based on the once-popular "musical extravaganza" of the same name, McFadden's Flats is a serviceable vehicle for Keystone...
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Mary Ellen McFadden
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1927
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James Pierce is one of the lesser-known film Tarzans, partly because this picture -- his debut as an actor -- has apparently...
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1927
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The screenplay for Warner Bros.' Black Diamond Express was credited to "Mark Canfield," one of the many pseudonyms of Warner...
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1927
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This fast-paced melodrama is set in Tall Timber country, with a few side trips to the High Society set. Kenneth Harlan stars...
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1927
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Advertised as a "crook society comedy," Columbia's Obey the Law features Bert Lytell in a role not unlike his frequent screen...
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1926
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Unlike most "collegiate" films of the 1920s, College Days paints a fairly realistic portrait of campus life. To be sure, the...
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1926
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Playwright Bob Brady (Raymond McKee) sequesters himself in his producer's apartment to pound out the last act of his newest...
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June Craig
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1926
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When Geoffrey Farnell (Richard Dix) returns from the war, the only job he can find is as a reporter on a New York scandal...
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Eleanor Ross-Fayne
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1925
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Carrie Nichols
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1925
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Patricia Chase (Clara Kimball Young) ignores her husband, Alvin (J. Barney Sherry), in favor of the younger, better-looking...
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Elsie Chase
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1925
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After his impressive screen debut in Sally, stage comedian Leon Errol became a full-fledged film star with this picture, set...
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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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Alice Bennett/Dorothy Stople
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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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Myrtle Barrington
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1925
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Minette Christie
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1925
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Gwen
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1924
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Arthur Trevelyan (Gaston Glass) spends his life partying and one of his revels ends in a wedding ceremony. His father (Thomas...
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Arthur's Wife
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1924
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James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking came to the screen in 1924, courtesy of former cattle rancher C.W. Patton, who...
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1924
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Producer Hal Roach was known for his comic shorts; however, his first foray into the world of features wasn't a comedy, but a...
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1924
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Like many other pictures in the 1920s, Daughters of Today depicted the dangers that could befall those who led a jazz...
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Mabel Vandegrift
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1924
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There were two versions of Into the Net -- a 15-reel serial and a seven-reel melodrama. The story was written by...
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Natalie Van Cleef
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1924
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Produced by Hal Roach, this series of ten, two-reel melodramas featured "flapper" star Edna Murphy as ten different examples...
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Corinne Grant
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1923
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Herbert Rawlinson is the star of this mediocre crime drama from Universal. When his father's business fails, Jimmy Nevins...
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Doris Standish
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1923
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This farce was based on the musical comedy by Otto A. Harbach and Louis A. Hirsch, which was adapted from the play The...
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1923
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Universal star Herbert Rawlinson has the lead in this rather unusual romantic crime drama. James Harrington Court (Rawlinson)...
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Velma Gay
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1922
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Easy going screen cowboy Hoot Gibson plays the easy going Simple Cox in this silent Western satire about a bodyguard hired to...
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Helen Arnett
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1922
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Following a year-long absence from the screen, Gladys Brockwell returned to films in this Universal melodrama. When she tries...
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1922
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Silent cowboy-star Hoot Gibson specialized in playing ruffled, slightly comical cowpokes suffering from a mix of shyness and...
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1922
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W. Somerset Maugham's first original story for the screen proves one thing -- Maugham could not translate his inspiration to...
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Helen Crayshow
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1922
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Based on a popular French novel and the 1913 serial Fantômas starring René Navarre, this chapterplay featured character actor...
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Ruth Harrington
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1921
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The team of Johnnie Walker and Edna Murphy starred in this old-fashioned silent melodrama about an evangelist who proves to...
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1921
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George Walsh starred in this action-melodrama from Fox about a blind girl, Betty Reed, who is the sole "witness" to the...
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1921
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When small town boy Johnny Carroll (Johnnie Walker) heads out for the big city, he finds himself on the wrong side of the law...
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1921
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Several big wars in the 20th century have inspired films about the fate of the soldiers who returned and had to readjust to...
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1921
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The Fox Studios promoted Johnnie Walker and Edna Murphy to star status in this college days/thriller hybrid. Bob Harding...
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Rena Austin
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1921
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This typical Norma Talmadge weeper casts Norma as a social half-caste. She may have had a millionaire daddy, but her mom was...
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1920
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aka Over the Hill Ma Benton (Mary Carr) has six children, but she favors John, the troublemaker (Jerry Devine). John grows up...
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1920
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This rugged Rex Beach story, which takes place during the Alaskan gold rush, is really more character study than adventure....
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1920
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