Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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This emotional drama concerns a WWII medic who marries a German woman but leaves her in a jealous rage, taking their baby...
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1956
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Though both star Donald O'Connor and director Arthur Lubin had said goodbye to the "Francis the Talking Mule" series,...
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1956
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The lovely assistant of an evil hypnotist has no idea that she is the descendant of a horrifying prehistoric sea monster she...
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1956
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A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played...
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1955
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The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to...
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1955
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Three Hours to Kill is a "message" Western that manages to entertain without preaching. Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews), unjustly...
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1954
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Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of...
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1953
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1953's The Mississippi Gambler was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each...
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1953
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Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a...
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1953
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The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by...
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1952
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Randolph Scott is the commander of a Confederate raiding party. They rob a Yankee gold shipment and are told by a dying Union...
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1952
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Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her...
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1952
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Flight to Mars is the second American film of the postwar era (after the previous year's Rocketship X-M) to depict a manned...
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1951
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Not a remake of the 1936 film of the same name, The Texas Rangers is an enjoyable second-echelon western from the Columbia...
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1951
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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In their never-ending efforts to create a movie series to match the success of "The Thin Man," MGM came up with the...
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1950
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When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline...
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1950
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This film, which is one of a series based on the characters from the Blondie comic strip, finds Dagwood entering the Army...
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1950
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After 12 years and 28 films, Columbia's Blondie series came to a close with 1950's Beware of Blondie. The plot is "business...
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1950
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That Midnight Kiss served to introduce the film-going public to MGM's newest singing sensation, Mario Lanza. Just as he did...
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1949
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For some reason, whenever Universal used the word "Gal" in a film's title, Yvonne de Carlo usually headed the cast. In Gal...
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1949
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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1948
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1948
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1948
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A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story....
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1948
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In this faithful remake of Blind Alley (1939), psychoanalyst Andrew Collins (Lee J. Cobb), his wife, his son, and some...
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1948
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1947
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In this drama, a Bostonian socialite marries the owner of a racehorse and begins a life of globe-trotting from international...
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1947
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Filmed not long after the actual events, The Beginning or the End is a sober, intelligent account of the development and...
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1947
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This entry in the short "I Love a Mystery" series has detective Jack Packard and his sidekick Doc Young investigating the...
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1946
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride....
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1946
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James M. Cain's novel received its first authorized screen treatment in this MGM production. Drifter Frank Chambers...
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1946
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan learns that fake fingerprints have caused innocent people to go to...
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1946
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1946
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Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash....
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1946
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I Accuse My Parents was one of PRC's entries in the "wartime juvenile delinquent drama" sweepstakes, as exemplified by such...
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1945
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It's a Pleasure was the third release from International Pictures, the feisty independent that would later merge with...
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1945
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This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract....
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1945
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The second of Monogram's 1945 trio of "Cisco Kid" westerns, In Old New Mexico stars Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and...
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1945
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In this comedy, a PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin. Songs include: "Slap Polka", "Walk A Little Faster",...
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1945
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1944
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The first of two Monogram comedy-mysteries built around the talents of perky Jean Parker, Detective Kitty O'Day casts Parker...
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1944
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It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing...
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1944
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The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this...
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1944
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In this drama, a piano teacher buys a song-publishing business only to discover that it is on the brink of bankruptcy and is...
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1944
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1944
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Colonel Breckinridge Marshall (Walter Catlett) of Clearwater, GA -- who puts on a big front but is actually only a step away...
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1944
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Meeting at Midnight is the reissue title of Black Magic, a Charlie Chan "B" effort from Monogram Studios. A murder occurs...
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1944
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1944
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In this eighth film in MGM's "Maisie" series, Ann Sothern is back as ever-stranded chorus girl Maisie Revier. As the story...
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1944
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A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his...
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1944
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The budget for this fine Roy Rogers Western was doubled and the title changed from Starlight on the Trail to the more...
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1943
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The plot of the Pine-Thomas adventure quickie Submarine Alert is more than a little beholden to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps....
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1943
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This 67-minute farce stars Dennis O'Keefe as a music publisher sued for plagiarism by a pair of scraggly songwriters....
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1943
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Army engineeer Richard Arlen helps blaze the trail for a crucial highway in the Alaskan wastes. His younger brother...
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1943
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1943
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This lesser Laurel and Hardy vehicle casts Stan and Ollie as the proprietors of the "Arthur Hurry" dance studio. Despite a...
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1943
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Mabel Paige, one of Hollywood's most beloved character actresses, was given her one-and-only starring role in this Republic...
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1943
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1943
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This ambitious filmed biography of writer-adventurer Jack London is somewhat compromised by its too-tight budget....
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1943
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1943
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The 1943 Republic westerns of "Wild Bill" Elliot maintained a high batting average, and Bordertown Gunfighters was no...
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1943
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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1943
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Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John...
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1943
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Don "Red" Barry plays Lt. "California Joe" Weldon in this Civil War-era western. Joe is a Union undercover agent, whose job...
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1943
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The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat...
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1943
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After an absence of three years, Mae West returned to the screen in the musical comedy The Heat's On. La West is cast as Fay...
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1943
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In this musical, a gang of college students decide to play a little trick by creating the perfect student. The fictional gal...
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1943
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For reasons unknown, Paramount Pictures decided to dust off the 1926 George S. Kaufman-Herman Mankiewicz stage comedy The...
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1943
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In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen...
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1943
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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1942
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The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced...
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1942
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Judy Canova plays Bessie Cobb, a kitchen worker at a Miami hotel who happens to have a crackerjack singing voice. The bell...
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1942
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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1942
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1942
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Another graduate of MGM's short-subject department, director David Miller proved he had what it took to helm a feature film...
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1942
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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Corn Cob Kelly (Marvin Stephens) is a young jockey whose ambition is dwarfed only by his ego. All set to ride in his first...
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1941
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Fresh from his Broadway triumph as "The Stage Manager" in Our Town, veteran actor-playwright Frank Craven heads the cast of...
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian...
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1941
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Inspired by the long-running (1937-1949) radio series of the same name, Scattergood Baines came to the screen in 1941, with...
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1941
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Border Vigilantes was the 34th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series, with 32 more still on the way. William Boyd...
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1941
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In this romantic comedy, a blue-blooded girl falls in love with a wealthy rake who wants to settle down and marry her....
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1941
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The high batting average of 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne detective series remained intact with Blue, White and Perfect....
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1941
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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1940
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1940
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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1940
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Edith Fellows and Billy Lee, two of Hollywood's most talented second-echelon child stars, are teamed in the Columbia...
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1940
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The sailor in this entertaining 20th Century-Fox programmer is Danny Malone (Jon Hall), while the lady is Sally Gilroy...
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1940
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1940
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When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell through, Zanuck hastily...
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1940
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Manhattan Heartbeat is a somewhat toned-down remake of the pre-Production Code melodrama Bad Girl (1931). Newlyweds Johnny...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1916 with Mary Pickford's brother Jack in the lead, Booth Tarkington's irresistable coming-of-age novel...
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1940
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The 13-episode Universal serial The Green Hornet is based on the radio series of the same name. Gordon Jones stars as Britt...
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1940
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Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in...
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1940
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1940
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In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a...
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1939
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In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is...
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1939
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The United States Air Force dropping bombs on decent, taxpaying ranchers is perhaps not your standard B-Western theme but...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The...
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1939
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A man is wrongfully convicted of a crime and sent to prison. Realizing that he is the victim of political shenanigans, he...
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1939
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In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he comes across some...
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1939
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The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of...
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1939
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Comedy, romance, and song hit the ice in this musical. Larry Hall (James Stewart) is a professional ice skater whose act with...
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1939
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Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared...
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1939
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Following up their successful film Love Affair, Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne team up again for the romantic melodrama When...
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1939
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The popular Lee Falk-Phil Davis comic strip Mandrake the Magician first came to the screen by way of a 12-chapter Columbia...
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Dr. Bennett
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1939
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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1939
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The "Little Tough Guys" get involved in a circulation war between a paper with underhanded tactics and a paper being...
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1939
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Thanks to a practical joker, hotshot radio newscaster Steve (Kent Taylor) announces that prominent financier Pomeroy (Morgan...
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1939
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The Hardys are off to Washington DC in this third entry in MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) has been...
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1938
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When G-Men Step In is Columbia's spin on Paramount's "FBI" B-picture series. On this occasion, the feds are after a gang of...
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1938
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Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Hayward's superior...
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1938
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The Marines are Here exhumes the old bromide about the reckless young sprout who learns how to be an all-around good fellow...
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1938
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The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally...
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1938
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Riders of Black Hills is the second of 13 consecutive "Three Mesquiteers" westerns directed by George Sherman. The...
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1938
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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1938
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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1938
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In this mystery programmer, a prizefighter dies in the midst of a match, but evidence suggests that it was a dose of poison...
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1938
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Brash and vigorous director William Wellman always had a place in his filmography for movies glorifying the early years of...
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1938
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Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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A reporter becomes an amateur sleuth to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a magician's wife and a few others. The...
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1937
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The Frame-Up is a timely and typically tacky crime meller from the Columbia film factory. There's dirty work at the...
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1937
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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1937
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In this comedy, an sheltered heiress bets her father that she can make it in New York city on only $150 per week. She does...
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1936
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When wealthy Mr. Ames is murdered, his beautiful wife Hope (Madeleine Carroll) is the principal suspect. She is acquitted...
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1936
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1936
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Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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More a whodunit than a straight Western, this Tim McCoy series entry from Columbia featured a cowboy returning to his...
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1935
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When a playboy becomes entangled in the affairs of gamblers he eventually locates an underwater treasure. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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Poor Peggy Shannon goes from bad to worse in this ultra-cheap melodrama from one of Hollywood's few women executives, Fanchon...
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1935
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Dore Schary, several years removed from his tenure as head of MGM, was screenwriter for the modest Universal actioner...
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1935
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This bottom-barrel quickie is elevated by its cast, comprised chiefly of old silent-film favorites. Ralph Graves stars as...
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1934
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Dedicated to "the memory of Florence Nightingale," White Parade might have been better dedicated to the cliche experts at Fox...
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1934
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Perhaps the most memorable of all of the movies based on Damon Runyon's story because of the winning presence of...
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1934
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In the first of two proposed serials for Mascot Pictures, Western hero Ken Maynard goes up against a murderous fiend known as...
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Frank Blayden
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1934
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James Cagney is Chesty O'Connor, a tough-as-nails, always-ready-for-a-fight shipyard worker, who loses out to US Navy CPO...
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1934
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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1934
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A wife is on trial for murdering her husband's former spouse in this inexpensive melodrama from low-budget Mayfair Pictures...
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Joel Mason
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1933
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A notorious crook and a Parisian ballet dancer get involved with international intrigue in this low-budget action-adventure...
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Francisco Hernandez
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1933
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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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Producer, Screenwriter
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1931
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In this romantic comedy, a woman is utterly bored by her nice life and devoted husband, so she decides to find a lover. She...
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1931
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In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man...
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1931
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A wild stallion is blamed for "kidnapping" local mares to build a harem! Cowboy Jack Perrin, however, believes the real...
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Dan Denton
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1930
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This thriller begins in 1889 as a lover kills another in a mansion. The film then jumps ahead to 1929 as an eccentric...
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Husband
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1930
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Lionel Denmore
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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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Previously filmed in 1923, the William Collier Sr.-Victor Mapes stage play The Hottentot was exhumed as an...
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Larry Crawford
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1929
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When silent star Colleen Moore nervously faced a microphone for her first "sound" test, the results were so positive that...
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1929
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Runaway Girls was the first directorial credit for Mark Sandrich, who would still have to serve a long apprenticeship in...
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1928
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The Wind, Victor Sjostrom's final American film, is a western only in its locale: its symbolism-laden story of physical and...
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Beverly
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1928
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Another of William Haines' sports-oriented vehicles, Spring Fever casts the star as lowly shipping clerk Jack Kelly. Falling...
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1927
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John Gilbert was one of MGM's top stars when he appeared this melodrama. Playing against his usual matinee idol type, Gilbert...
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1927
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1926
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Even minus the original musical score, this silent-film adaptation of the Broadway hit Irene is a delight. Colleen Moore...
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1926
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Enid Bennett, best known for her portrayal of Maid Marian in Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s Robin Hood, stars in the low-budget A...
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Ralph Deane
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1926
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1925
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During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virgina...
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Dr. Allen Mortimer
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1925
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Although Blanche Sweet was often busy making films with her then-husband Marshall Neilan, during 1925 and 1926, she also made...
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Ira Meers, the Engineer
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1925
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1924
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Action star Ben Wilson enjoyed a modicum of success as an independent producer in the 1920s. One of Wilson's least typical...
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Vincent Forrest
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1924
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1924
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In between contracts with Universal and MGM, where he would do his best work, enigmatic director Tod Browning marked time...
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Dick Morris
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1924
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Garry Holmes
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1924
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1923
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This melodrama is based on a play that was popular in the first decade of the 1900s. Unfortunately, it was quite dated by the...
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Paul Fairweather
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1922
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Esteemed stage actor George Arliss became the screen's unlikeliest star at the ripe age of 53 in 1921. But the odd-looking,...
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Philip Stevens
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1922
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The story to this comedy-drama was written by an exhibitor, S. Barrett McCormick, owner of the Allen Theatre in Cleveland. As...
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Keith Drummond
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1922
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East Lynne, the most famous of all melodramas, was filmed many times (including once with screen vamp Theda Bara!), and this...
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1921
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Filmed on location at Monterey, CA, and starring exotic stage dancer Mlle. Doraldina, this long-lost South Seas romance...
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1921
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This farce comedy was based on the play by Lawrence Irving Rising. Moving Picture World, expressing the delicate mores of the...
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1919
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Hero Gerald Ackland (Edward Earle) is not inclined to wait for America's entry into WWI. Long before his own country's...
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1917
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For those not around in 1917, "bar sinister" referred to illegitimacy. In this case, the person whose heritage in question is...
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Cinematographer
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1917
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Although the "star system" was discouraged at Edison studios, actress Viola Dana managed to rise to fame under the Edison...
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1916
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In this silent tragic crime drama, an impoverished fellow becomes so desperate that he goes along with a plot to murder a...
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1915
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There was "star power" aplenty in this first screen version of Richard Harding Davis' Ranson's Folly. The popular...
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1915
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Jack Leigh portrays Eugene Aram, a poverty-stricken 18th-century scholar. In dire straits, Aram plans to murder a wealthy...
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1914
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