Very freely based upon the book by Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater is set in San Francisco during the Tong...
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1962
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Forever at odds with the Hollywood studio heads, the fiercely individualist director Harry D'Arrast pitched camp in Spain,...
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1934
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Eagle Productions was another of those exotically named independent studios that came and went in the early 1930s. Eagle's...
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1933
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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Diana Kerhill
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1931
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An aspiring artist leaves his wife and daughter when he gets a chance to spend a year studying in Paris in this melodrama....
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Helen Fields
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1931
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In this historical drama, set in 1775, the hardships faced by a courageous band of settlers traveling from Virginia to...
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Diony Hall
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1931
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Set in the Mississippi Valley, The Flood spends the bulk of its running time concentrating on a romantic triangle. Heroine...
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1931
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Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, this film was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but it was held...
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Lisa
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1930
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One of the most ambitious productions ever to emerge from parsimonious Tiffany Studios, Mamba is also one of the few 1930s...
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Helen von Linden
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1930
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In spite of its unbelievable storyline, She Goes to War manages to sustain interest from first reel to last. During WWI,...
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Joan Morant
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1929
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German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a...
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Tillie
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1928
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As was the case with every film project that he cared deeply about, filmmaker King Vidor had to fight long and hard with his...
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Mary
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1928
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Mary
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1926
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A tough-as-nails Marine sergeant sets about training a rag-tag group of boys into men. Though sporting a rough and gruff...
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Norma Dale
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1926
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The career of Charles Ray was on a downhill slide by the time he made this picture, based on a novel by Rex Beach. It had...
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Lorelei Knight
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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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Roxalanne de Lavedan
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1926
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This mildly amusing comedy, based on a play by Cosmo Hamliton, was light on plot and just a touch racy (at least for the...
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Margaret Rathburn
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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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Thyra, Princess of Svendborg
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1925
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King Vidor does a nice job of making an insignificant novel by Lawrence Rising into a pleasant light comedy. Fernanda...
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Fernanda
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1925
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The Summons by Katherine Newlin Burt made for such tired movie material that director Robert G. Vignola and scenarist...
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Rosamond
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1925
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In spite of a fine cast and director, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer somehow managed to turn the stage play by W. Somerset Maugham into...
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Elizabeth
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1925
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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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Beth Marsh
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1924
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The success of dog stars like Strongheart and Rin-Tin-Tin inspired a number of copycats (or should that be copydogs?)....
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Barbara Jane
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1924
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With its racy title and emphasis on jazz parties and youth, this romantic drama was a typical mid-'20s release. But being an...
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Penelope Stevens
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1924
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Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose...
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Ethel Parry
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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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Mary
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1924
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John Gilbert was on the brink of superstardom when he appeared in this routine domestic drama -- his fame would explode...
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Joan Converse
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1924
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Eleanor Boardman and William Haines came to Hollywood when they were winners in the same contest held by the Goldwyn studios....
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Rena Fairchild,Sydney Fairchild
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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Remember Steddon
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1923
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This drama was an early starring vehicle for fledgling star (Eleanor Boardman), and it was given a haunting directoral...
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Jane Maynard
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1923
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As his first picture for the Goldwyn studios, director Marshall Neilan decided to adapt Donn Byrne's sprawling novel to the...
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Jean McPherson
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1923
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1923
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The 1920s version of women's liberation had nothing to do with women having equal pay for equal work -- it meant that a wife...
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Clothilde Kingsley
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1923
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Filmmaker Hugo Ballin) pulled out all the stops on this adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the Napoleonic...
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1923
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