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John Risca
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1925
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A minor mystery melodrama, producer Philip Goldstone's creaky The Verdict employed the oldest cliché of them all. Yes, the...
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1925
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1925
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The drama opens with a prologue in which an innocent boy (Eddie Phillips) is sent to the electric chair and executed before...
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Gordon Harrington
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1925
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Douglas Kenyon (Elliott Dexter) is a confused bank clerk who wakes up the morning after a party to find chorus girl Marcia...
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1924
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A spectacular trains wreck -- courtesy of stock footage -- highlighted this otherwise pedestrian silent melodrama from...
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The Prince
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1924
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The upstart Warner Bros. took a whack at Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1920 novel about an American-born countess...
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1924
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June Paige (Seena Owen) is pressured by her parents to marry a millionaire in this romantic melodrama. Her old lover...
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The Man
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1924
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Richard Sones
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1924
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As naïve chorus girl, Sunny Duane (Elaine Hammerstein), finds herself in a load of trouble in this comedy-melodrama. She is...
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Eugene Durant
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1923
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Jose Querida
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1923
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No, this society drama is not related in any way, shape or form to the 1949 Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy comedy. It's one...
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Prof. Nathan Reade
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1923
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Although Lois Wilson was lovely to look at, some of her best work was in character roles. Here, the 28-year-old star plays...
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Prof. Charles Giddings
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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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1923
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John Craig and Mary Eileen Anderson are childhood sweethearts who grow up in a small town in this melodrama taken from the...
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John Craig, as a man
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1923
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Back in 1922, grand larceny meant theft of anything more than 50 dollars. In this tale of domestic turmoil, however, it...
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John Anixter
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1922
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Gerald Fitzgerald
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1922
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Like the highly successful 1919 drama, The Miracle Man, this picture (based on the book by Richard Washburn Child), concerns...
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1922
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aka Forever George du Maurier's classic novel was made into a play by John Raphael which starred John and Lionel Barrymore....
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1921
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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Max Runyon
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1921
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1921
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According to trade paper Wid's, "If it happened that you got into your seat just after the introductory titles had been run...
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Harvey Gilroy
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1921
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This drama, made a year before William Desmond Taylor was mysteriously murdered, is one of the few films he directed which...
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Jack Brookfield
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1921
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During the late teens and early '20s, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille reveled in much cinematic pomp and circumstance, mixing epic...
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1920
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1919
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Director Cecil B. DeMille tones down his usual elegance and instead focuses on the drama of America during the Great War....
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1919
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When a crooked ring of financiers put an embezzlement rap on Paula Farrington's (Irene Castle) father and drive him to...
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1918
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Having spent several years at World Films, the studio owned by her Broadway-producer father William A. Brady, Alice Brady...
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1918
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The first of Cecil B. DeMille's series of sophisticated romantic comedy-dramas, Old Wives for New was adapted from a novel by...
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1918
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The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille...
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1918
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1918
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We Can't Have Everything was at once a typical Cecil B. DeMille marital comedy and also a satire of the whole genre. Aware...
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1918
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1917
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Jennie Cushing (Elsie Ferguson), a girl of the slums, decides to get even with the world after undeservedly spending several...
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1917
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Producers insisted upon casting opera stars in their silent films all throughout the teens and twenties. Some, like...
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1917
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1916
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Lillian Gish shows almost as much spunk in this picture as her hoydenish sister Dorothy Gish usually did. Daphne La Tour...
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1916
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Even though her father has ordered her to marry one of the residents of the sleepy fishing village where they live, Sidonia...
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1916
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When the debonair Louis (Lou Tellegen) entices little country-bred dancer Rosette Burgod (Cleo Ridgley) away to Paris, she...
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1916
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1916
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1916
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Early in her screen career, former Follies sensation Mae Murray played a number of waif-like roles. Surprisingly, the formula...
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1916
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An English society woman throws a party and invites all her guests to tell a story. The most fascinating is told by Helene...
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1915
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Henry Arthur Jones' stage play The Masqueraders was retooled to accommodate the talents of Hazel Dawn in this five-reel...
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1915
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Walter Crane makes a bet with a group of his fellow women-hating clubmen that he can take a pretty girl and cultivate her so...
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1915
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