Max Miller's best-seller forms the basis of this romantic melodrama about cynical, hard-drinking reporter Joe Miller...
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Eli Kirk
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1933
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Prof. Limberly
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1933
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This version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed tale is set in contemporary London and follows Holmes and Watson as they seek...
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Prof. Moriarty
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1932
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Bill Jackson
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1931
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Officially released as The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, this William Haines vehicle was snappily adapted by...
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Blackie Daw
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1931
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MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this...
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1931
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No relation to the 1949 Bob Hope comedy of the same name, The Great Lover stars that master of sartorial splendor,...
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Potter
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1931
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Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in...
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Scotty
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1931
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Jim Rellence
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1931
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Officer O'Brien stars future "Hopalong Cassidy" William Boyd in the title role. Though highly respected by his fellow...
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John P. O'Brien
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1930
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This historical drama, set in 18th-century England, chronicles the romance between a free-spirited coquette and a...
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Sir Jasper Standish
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1930
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Esteban
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1930
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Strictly Unconventional offers two subplots united by irony. British wife Elizabeth (Catherine Dale Owen), weary of her much...
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Lord Porteus
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1930
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Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
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Ben Murchison
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1929
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Uncle Pio
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1929
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Desert Nights was the last silent film made by MGM's resident heartthrob John Gilbert -- and the last of his truly successful...
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Steve
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1929
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A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled...
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Dr. Ballou
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1929
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This cookie-cutter William Haines vehicle was filmed in part at the Indianapolis Speedway. As usual, Haines plays a fresh...
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Jim MacDonald
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1929
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Ivan
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1928
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Mark Shore
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1928
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Not the best of Buster Keaton's silents, Steamboat Bill, Jr. nonetheless contains some of Keaton's best and most spectacular...
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"Steamboat Bill" Canfield
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1928
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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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Red McCue
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1927
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Peter
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1927
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Lars Hanson had recently appeared as Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter when he was called on once again to play a man...
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The Captain
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1927
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Lady of the Harem was based on Hassan, a play by James McElroy Flecker. It all begins when the Caliph of Kornassah (Sojin)...
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1926
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Jether (William Collier Jr.), a young man of Old Testament days, tends his father's sheep and longs to visit the big city. A...
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1926
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The physical attributes of lovely leading lady Esther Ralston are amply displayed in American Venus. This satire of beauty...
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1926
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Even though Big Bill Devens (Ernest Torrence) is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife...
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Ernest Torrence
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1926
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Clara Bow plays an inveterate flirt who impulsively marries much-older mountain man Ernest Torrence. When city lawyer...
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Joe Easter
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1926
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Ever since he was wounded in WWI, jockey Bobby Robertson (William Collier Jr.) has been able to predict when it's going to...
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Mike
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1926
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Having tackled a wagon train in the immensely popular The Covered Wagon (1922), James Cruze directed this would-be epic...
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"Ascension" Jones
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1925
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This mediocre Paramount comedy-drama has one interesting feature -- part of it was shot on-location at New York's El Fey...
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John Bentley
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1925
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Angus McGregor
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1925
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It seems like every word Zane Grey ever put to paper eventually wound up on screen during the silent days. Although there's a...
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August Naab
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1924
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English orphan Andrew Lackaday (Ernest Torrence) grows up and becomes a clown for a French circus. After the circus becomes...
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Andrew Lockaday
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1924
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In the more straight-laced era of the 1920s the lack of a marriage license could destroy a young couple's world - that's the...
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1924
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When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter...
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Capt. Hook
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1924
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This comedy--based on Booth Tarkington's play, Magnolia--sports a wonderful cast. Southerner Tom Rumford (Cullen Landis) was...
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Gen. Orlando Jackson
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1924
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North of 36 was conceived in the wake of the immensely popular Covered Wagon, right down to the casting of that earlier...
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1924
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James Cruze revived the western genre and presented audiences with the first western epic in the spectacular 1923 film The...
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William Jackson
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1923
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Edward Everett Horton, who was still new to film, was perfectly cast as the meek and mild English valet Ruggles in this...
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Cousin Egbell Floud
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1923
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Maurice Tourneur directed this colorful Arabian Nights-type fantasy in his usual picturesque style. After attempting to kill...
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1923
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This remake of the 1916 Cecil B. DeMille picture was Mary Miles Minter's final film for Paramount. June Tolliver (Minter) is...
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"Devil" Judd Tolliver
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1923
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This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle,...
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Clopin
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1923
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What was Paramount thinking when it cast a capable comedienne like Bebe Daniels in this artificial tragedy? The funny moments...
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1922
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Eastern boy Malcolm McGregor takes a job in a Western lumber camp to improve his manliness. In his job as overseer, he meets...
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Boyan Boone
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1922
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This romantic drama carried a spiritual theme. In a small rural town next to a lumber camp, two outcasts become friends --...
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1922
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Vitagraph may have erroneously claimed that this comedy-drama was "the greatest picture of the year," but it did have a...
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Solomon Mahaffey
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1922
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Richard Barthelmess stars in this classic silent melodrama as David Kinemon, the youngest son of a family living in a small...
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Luke Hatburn
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1921
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