For reasons that defy logic, the excellent This Island Earth was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film...
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1955
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Who else but Randolph Scott could be the Tall Man Riding in this rugged western? Forced to lay low for several years after...
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1955
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Though it isn't obvious at first glance, Three Sailors and a Girl is the fourth screen version of the George S. Kaufman stage...
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1953
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1953
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Cashing in on the popularity of such pro-Native American films as Broken Arrow, Columbia's resident quickiemeister...
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1953
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Man Behind the Gun is a standard-issue Randolph Scott western elevated by good performances and exciting action sequences....
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1952
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1952
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At the time of its release the RKO "B"-western Road Agent raised eyebrows, not because of its violent content, but because of...
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1952
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Pistol Harvest starred RKO's "house cowboys" Tim Holt and Richard Martin. In this one, the two heroes are accused of killing...
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1951
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1951
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Randolph Scott stars as a former Confederate Army officer known only as "Sugarfoot." Hoping to start life anew in Arizona,...
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1951
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1950
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1944
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Margaret O'Brien, MGM's newest child sensation, was given her first starring vehicle with Lost Angel. O'Brien plays Alpha,...
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1944
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Set in wartime (WW II), this film finds the fat guy, skinny guy comedy duo not much good at any attempted professions; they...
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1943
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays himself-or at least the screen version of "himself"-in the 15-chapter Columbia serial Holt of...
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1942
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1942
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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1942
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Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season....
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1942
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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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Bob Hope plays a famous movie star who does his best to avoid the pre-war draft, but ends up in uniform all the same. Hope...
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1941
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1941
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This fourth entry in MGM's Thin Man series could just as well have been titled "Nick and Nora Charles Go to the Races"....
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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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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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The once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Mae West and W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee had the potential for comic greatness: what...
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1940
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1940
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Wallace Beery trots out his "lovable lout" act for the zillionth time in Man From Dakota. Beery plays a Union army sergeant...
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1940
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Santa Fe Trail, Errol Flynn's third western, has precisely nothing to do with the titular trail. Instead, the film is a...
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1940
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Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever,...
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1939
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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1939
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Regarded as the best of Columbia's "Lone Wolf" B-picture series, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt stars Warren William as Michael...
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1939
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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1939
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One of the more original aspects of the Charles Starrett western Texas Stampede is that perennial Starrett-series villain...
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1939
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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Charles Starrett heads the cast; Sam Nelson directs; and the supporting players inlude Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis, Ed Cobb,...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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1938
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When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone...
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1938
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Fast Company was another attempt by MGM to match the success of its "Thin Man" films. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star...
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1938
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Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes...
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1937
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Marked Woman was the most famous of the late-1930s films based on New York DA Thomas Dewey's attack on vice lord Lucky...
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1937
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In this youthful adventure, a young brother and sister dream of becoming newsreel photographers. They get their chance when...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Gene Autry and veteran Western director Jospeh Kane team up for this lightweight effort. Gene (Gene Autry) is the foreman of...
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1937
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No relation to the radio program of the same name, The Shadow is a lightning-paced murder mystery with a Big Top background....
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1937
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In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds --...
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1937
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Columbia general purpose actor Bob Allen was briefly transformed into a cowboy for the studio's "B" unit in the mid-1930s....
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1936
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Republic's The Lawless Nineties reteams the studio's up-and-coming cowboy star John Wayne with 19-year-old ingenue...
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1936
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Ken Maynard goes the Zorro route in this lethargic Western produced by Larry Darmour for Columbia. Ailing rancher Cal Pierson...
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1936
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John Wayne stars in this Western as a law student seeking revenge on the ruthless land baron who killed his parents; after he...
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1936
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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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Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a...
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1936
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Singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this formula western as Gene Autry (so far, so good), who teams up with his buddy Frog...
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1936
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Anti-Communist politics and screwball romance make strange bedfellows in this comic tale that plays like a cross between the...
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1935
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Gene Autry's first starring Western, Tumbling Tumbleweeds sets the pace for the 98 or so Autry oaters to come. As he would...
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1935
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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1935
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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A Texas Ranger (Tom Mix, in his last film) must stop an evil gang leader (Charles Middleton) who is trying to scare Indians...
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1934
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1934
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Having starred in two earlier Westerns produced by Harry S. Webb, Tom Tyler signed with Webb's new company Reliable, where...
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1934
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1934
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In his second starring Western for low-budget producer Willis Kent, former All-American fullback Reb Russell played just...
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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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1934
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Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS...
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1934
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Written and directed by the prolific Oliver Drake, this low-budget Western starred Lane Chandler as a Texas Ranger battling a...
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1934
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Having recently left Universal Pictures in a huff, mercurial cowboy star Ken Maynard stopped briefly at Mascot Studios for a...
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
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1934
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Mae West's second starring vehicle, I'm No Angel casts the divine Miss West as the star performer in a seedy circus. Though...
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1933
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Heroes and villains alike use airplanes instead of horses in this generally well-made Mascot serial featuring diminutive...
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1933
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1932
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Filmed at Kernville, CA, and the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, this serial version of James Fenimore Cooper's immortal tale...
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1932
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Rest assured that star Hoot Gibson is not the "local badman" of the title. He is, however, accused of being a desperado by a...
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1932
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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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Filmed on-location at Lone Pine, CA, and thus looking a lot better than the average cheapie Western, Cheyenne Cyclone was the...
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1932
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1931
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1931
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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 the first of eight Hoot Gibson Westerns produced by poverty row company Allied, The Hooter sets out to avenge the murder...
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1931
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Filmed at Newhall, CA, with exteriors shot at Universal City, Mascot Pictures' The Vanishing Legion became the little...
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1931
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Every so often, western star Buck Jones got it in his head that he could play a Mexican, and never mind that his accent...
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1931
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1931
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The star of the 12-episode Mascot serial The Galloping Ghost can be only one man: legendary college football star (Red...
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1931
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Silent serial queen Ruth Roland made an unsuccessful bid at talking-picture stardom in the low-budget Reno. After six years...
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1930
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In this drama, a convict breaks out of jail and winds up going to college. There he joins the rowing team and helps them to...
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Coach Latham
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1930
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This third film version of Rex Beach's rugged Yukon novel The Spoilers was also the first talkie adaptation. This time,...
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1930
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1929
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This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector...
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1929
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This early sound-film only features three scenes with dialog as it tells the tale of an arrogant, egotistical salesman who...
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Campbell
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1929
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An innocent maid stands accused of killing her employer in this courtroom melodrama from the silent era. During the trial it...
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1929
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1928
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In an attempt to broaden his image, former Fox cowboy Buck Jones both produced and starred in this silent aviation melodrama....
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1928
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Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he...
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1927
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Given a title like Hook and Ladder No. 9, just guess what this picture was about. The main story concerns the romantic...
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Dan Duffy
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1927
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Heart of the Yukon was one of director W.S. Van Dyke's last independent films before he began his lengthy association with...
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Jack Waite
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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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One of Hollywood's few cowgirls, Josie Sedgwick, starred as the lady mayor of a small Western community in this silent oater...
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Catamount
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1925
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One of the few female western stars of the 1920s, Josie Sedgwick, played a girl searching for her outlaw father's killer in...
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Jim King
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1925
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Clara Bow is the sole redeeming factor of the cheaply produced melodrama Lawful Cheaters. Actually, that's not a fair...
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Roy Burns
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1925
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Another variation on Abie's Irish Rose, the low-budget One of the Bravest focuses on the romance between Irish fireman Dan...
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Dan Kelly
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1925
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Lieutenant Nolan
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1925
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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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Peter Farnham
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1924
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Nila Lyons (Laura La Plante) is a suburban housewife who craves excitement in her life. She gets it -- and how! -- when she's...
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1924
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Although cowboy star Buck Jones plays a prizefighter in this drama, he's only getting in the ring to pay for a ranch -- which...
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Jack Hamilton
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1924
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The Turmoil was one of Booth Tarkington's most popular novels, and when Universal brought it to the screen, they assigned it...
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1924
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Virile House Peters stars in this melodrama based on the stage play by Lincoln J. Carter. Tornado (Peters) has come to a...
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1924
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This disjointed Western melodrama was not one of Harry Carey's better vehicles. It starts off with Carey, as metallurgist...
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Hal Norton
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1923
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This domestic drama played up the hard-working secretary versus lazy wife scenario. Ruth Holt (Derelys Perdue) is the capable...
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The foreman
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1923
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Released as part of distributor Wid Gunning's "Entertainment Series," this minor adventure melodrama, reputedly filmed on...
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Steve Maitland
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1922
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Although Anita Stewart receives top billing in this action picture, it's Edward Hearn who has the more prominent role. Bill...
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Bill Shannon
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1922
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Not just any actress would allow herself to portray a homely spinster for the better part of a feature film, but dramatic...
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Tommy Burgrave
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1922
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This little romance, based on a story that ran in a magazine called Snappy Stories, doesn't have a lot to offer except for a...
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1922
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Pretty Eileen Pearcy plays the title character in this adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel. Cora (Pearcy) is the spoiled...
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1922
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After being given the "Hollywood treatment," author Johan Bojer's famed novel changed from a story of breadth and scope into...
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Dr. Mark
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1921
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Irving Bacheller was a popular American author during the 1910s, but he refused to allow his stories to be filmed because he...
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1921
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Gladys Walton is the self-reliant heroine of All Dolled Up. A humble salesgirl, she comes to the rescue of wealthy...
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1921
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Young action director W.S. "Woody" Van Dyke was thrown into the lion's den in this 15-chapter Western serial starring the...
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1921
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This was one of a cycle of faith-healing films of the late teens and early '20s. A Scottish teacher (J. Parks Jones) cures...
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1920
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Celebrated prize fighter Jack Dempsey was a natural for serials, and industry leader Pathé dutifully cast him in this...
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1920
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This romance came from Elsie Jane Wilson, one of several notable women film directors who worked during the 1910s (starting...
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1918
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1916
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1916
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