Colonel Tim McCoy, M-G-M's only series Western star, played a Pony Express rider in this well-produced but otherwise average...
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1929
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Prime Minister
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1928
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Based on a lugubrious novel by Ludwig Wolff, The Mysterious Lady is a romance/espionage tailored to the talents of...
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Col. von Raden
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Long believed to be a "lost" film, The Show resurfaced in the mid-1970s, proving to be a real treasure trove for aficionados...
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The Soldier
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1927
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Even without the benefit of sound, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg seems to be inundated by Franz Lehar's unforgettable...
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1927
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The venerable stage drama The World and His Wife formed the basis for the MGM production Lovers?. Ramon Novarro and...
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Don Severo
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1927
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The Tim McCoy western Winners of the Wilderness was shot simultaneously with McCoy's War Paint, using the same locations for...
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1927
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While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in...
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1926
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The Vincent Blasco-Ibanez novel Entre Naranjos served as the inspiration for Greta Garbo's first American film, The Torrent....
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Pedro Boreno
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1926
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The Rafael Sabatini swashbuckler Bardelys the Magnificent served as an excellent vehicle for MGM's top male star...
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1926
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James
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1925
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Just as Reginald Denny could only play an all-American boy until talkies revealed his British accent, Conrad Nagel could only...
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1925
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This silent adaptation of Franz Lehar's famous operetta (in which precious little of the original story was retained) was a...
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1925
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This is yet another costume drama written and supervised by the eccentric Elinor Glyn, who was a Hollywood tastemaker during...
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King of Chekia
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1925
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Director Victor Sjostrom and stars Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer made an impressive team on He Who Gets Slapped. They came...
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1925
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Although Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning had made a couple of films together earlier in their careers, this unique...
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1925
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There wasn't much story to this lightweight romance starring Viola Dana. Dana plays Connie DuBois, a manicurist who leaves...
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1924
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When John Briggs (Harrison Ford) returns from the Great War (later known as World War I), he tries his hand at writing, but...
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1924
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1924
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This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar...
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1924
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After becoming an unwed mother, Joline Hofer (Viola Dana) is cast out of her father's house. After placing her baby in a...
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1924
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This romance, based on The Passionate Vine by John Russell, displays Ramon Novarro's masculine beauty to full effect. Pastor...
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Pastor Spener
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1923
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George Walsh, usually known for his athletic roles, stars in this fantasy based on the famous story by Honoré de Balzac. Poet...
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The Antiquarian
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1923
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This light comedy suited Viola Dana quite well. She plays Mary Bishop, a small town girl whose sweetheart, Fred Garrison...
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Amos Bishop
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1923
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This silent era classic was based on the swashbuckling adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, the author whose works later...
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1923
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Madalyn Harlan (Estelle Taylor), the daughter of wealthy socialites, falls in love with the chauffeur Jerry Ryan...
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1923
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Rex Ingram's talents as a director are very much in evidence in this drama, which is leavened by a sizable dose of comedy,...
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Deacon Tillinger
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1922
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Based on the popular novel of rural life by Charles Felton Pidgin, this motion picture featured most of the star names that...
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1922
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This fast-paced comedy came from the pen of husband and wife screenwriting team Anita Loos and John Emerson. After his...
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1922
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Both Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr had just appeared in Prisoner of Zenda and their careers were on the ascendant when...
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1922
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This epic-scale silent adaptation of the popular novel by Anthony Hope concerns Rudolph (Lewis S. Stone), a member of the...
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1922
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Although she came from a comedy background, Alice Lake preferred to concentrate on dramas during most of the 1920s. The...
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Thomas Estabrook
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1922
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1921
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Although by no means the definitive version of the Alexander Dumas story -- scenarist June Mathis modernizes it and the...
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1921
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Priscilla Dean, Universal's most popular leading lady of the early twenties, heads the cast of Conflict. Compelled by family...
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1921
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1921
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The Saphead was based on the tried-and-true Winchell Smith stage comedy The New Henrietta, previously filmed in 1915 as...
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Musgrave
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1920
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This Drury Lane melodrama, based on Cecil Raleigh's play, was given top-rate direction by Rex Ingram. Lord Altcar...
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1920
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Jim Burke, also known as "the Dancer" (Edmund Lowe), is a Raffles-type character -- a gentleman jewel thief who only steals...
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1920
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All Metro Studios had to do back in 1920 was put the name Viola Dana on a movie marquee, and the red ink miraculously turned...
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1920
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In this atmospheric Chinese tale, (Alla Nazimova) plays Mahlee, a half-white, half-Chinese girl educated in Western ways by...
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1919
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Viola Dana was Metro Pictures' top star when False Evidence came out in 1919. Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon...
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1919
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Bert Lytell stars in this breezy light comedy. Jimmie Slocum (Lytell) can't stay out of trouble, and his father (Frank...
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1919
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This amusing Universal comedy starred Hale Hamilton and Louise Lovely. Wannabe writer Johnny Rutledge (Hamilton) lives in the...
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1919
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The leading romantic team of the 1910s, on as well as off the screen, Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne experienced a...
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1917
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1914
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This drama was based on the play by James A. Herne, and was filmed again in 1920 with Alice Lake. A pair of brothers,...
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1914
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