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1947
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1947
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When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him...
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1946
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A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann...
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1946
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In this crime drama, two crooks dupe their friend, a professional gambler, into nipping some important government documents....
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1946
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The Technicolor musical Masquerade in Mexico is Mitchell Leisen's remake of his own Midnight. Stranded in Mexico City without...
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1945
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The year is 1942: Mr. Winkle (Edward G. Robinson), a mild-mannered bank clerk, decides to quit his job and open a fix-it shop...
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1944
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After several years' faithful service in supporting roles, Jack Carson was awarded his first Warner Bros. starring vehicle...
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1944
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Advertised as a pure-and-simple horror film, Soul of a Monster is actually an adroit variation on the "Faust" legend....
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1944
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Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the...
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1943
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When a young woman inherits $1 million she finds herself the target of a criminals who wants her money too! ~ Rovi...
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1942
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The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the...
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1942
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1936
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John Wayne steered clear of westerns for the most part during his year-long contract with Universal Pictures. In The Sea...
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1936
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Western star Buck Jones essays a dual role in Boss Rider of Gun Creek. In time-honored sagebrush tradition, one of the Bucks...
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1936
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Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits...
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1935
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1935
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In this drama, Dan is a horse trainer whose winning horse is disqualified when it is discovered that the animal has been...
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1935
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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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Most existing prints of the 1931 melodrama Drums of Jeopardy are in pretty bad shape, but it's worth enduring the tinny...
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1931
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Silent screen favorite Clara Kimball Young was unable to sustain her stardom in the talkie era, partly because her girlish...
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1931
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1931
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Anita Garvin, the willowy brunette comedienne who graced many a Laurel & Hardy comedy, once remarked with a mixture of pride...
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1930
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Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has...
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1930
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A typical silent outdoors melodrama from poverty row producer Trem Carr and action director Duke Worne, this film starred...
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Jim Leeson
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1929
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Blonde Broadway dancer Marie Saxon came to the screen in 1929 courtesy of Columbia Pictures, who starred her opposite popular...
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Morton
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1929
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With less sumptuous production values perhaps, but with just as much savoir faire as in his earlier Fox Westerns, Tom Mix...
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Rodney Stevens
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1929
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A very topical early talkie from low-budget companyColumbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer...
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Savage
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1929
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Prince Josef Miguel
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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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Lt. Holmes
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1928
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Burning Up Broadway contains no burning and precious little Broadway. Small-town hero Ernest Hilliard decides to take in the...
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1928
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A long-lost service comedy from Poverty Row entrepreneur Morris R. Schlank, Dugan of the Dugouts starred Danny O'Shea in the...
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Sgt. Davis
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1928
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A Midnight Adventure was a veritable compendium of murder-mystery cliches -- at least, that was the consensus of opinion of...
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1928
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Director Charles Hutchinson makes lemonade from the poverty-row lemon Out with the Tide. Cullen Landis plays a newspaper...
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1928
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Wingate
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1928
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The Noose was based on a story by H. H. Van Loan -- or rather, the play adapted from that story by Willard Mack. Cheap crook...
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1928
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1928
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Virtuous Ann Hardy (Olive Borden) manages to land a job running the roulette wheel in a busy gambling emporium. Soon,...
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1928
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In one of his last silent films, Conrad Nagel stars as Charles H. Cook, a sober-sided young man who is persuaded by his...
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1928
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After suffering a blow on the head, brilliant scientist Forrest Stanley totally loses his memory. Wandering into a travelling...
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1927
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Douglas MacLean, who made his mark during the 1920s as a light comedian, stars as a Marine sergeant in this comedy-drama,...
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1927
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Tenement gal Nora Denahy (Gladys Hulette) is the "Bowery Cinderella" in this standard melting-pot drama. While on a slumming...
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Ned Chandler
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1927
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Though cheaply produced and boasting a second-string cast, The Midnight Watch packed a lot of entertainment value in its...
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1927
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Produced and directed by poverty row regular Duke Worne, this silent Northwest melodrama starred Napoleon (who, of course,...
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1927
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1927
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Reed Howes stars as Mike O'Malley, a daring racecar driver, known as "The Scorcher" for his tendency to "burn up" the track....
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1927
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William Powell, who spent much of his early silent career playing villains, got to play a hero in this romantic adventure,...
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1926
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This inexpensive "outdoor" actioner is set in a logging camp, where the crooked supervisor busies himself by stealing lumber...
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John Garue
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1926
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Dark-haired, pleasant-looking Cullen Landis starred in this silent Western melodrama about a prizefighter accused of...
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1926
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A lot of money was spent on this romantic melodrama -- enough so that part of it was actually filmed in France. Then again,...
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Jim Selbee
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1924
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1923
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Norma Shearer plays Dora Perkins, a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr....
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1923
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Although United Artists was primarily formed to release films from its founders -- Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas...
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1922
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For the first few decades of the twentieth century, films that carried the sentimental theme of a mother's love were almost...
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1922
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Frank Draper
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1922
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This film from producer/director Hugo Ballin was based on a story by stenographer Nell Marie Dace, which won a Chicago...
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Lord Cranston
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1922
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This independently made drama was loosely adapted from the Edgar Allen Poe poem (the filmmakers had to work hard to stretch...
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1921
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