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1946
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In this crime drama set on the seedy waterfront of San Francisco, a longshoreman studies in his spare time to become an...
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1941
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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1940
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1938
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Spy Ring (aka International Spy) was designed as a trial balloon for new Universal contractee William Hall. He is cast as...
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Jean Bruce
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1938
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An excellent cast elevates the quality of this ultra-cheap independent effort. Adrienne Ames stars as Helene, the owner of a...
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Ruth De Milo
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1938
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Valerie
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1937
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1937
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Real-life flying ace Frank Hawks stars in the 15-chapter Columbia serial The Mysterious Pilot. Running the gamut of emotions...
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1937
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Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by...
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Viola Avery
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1937
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Louise Rillette
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1937
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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1936
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The ambitious Republic melodrama The Girl From Mandalay was based on Tiger Valley, a novel by Reginald Campbell. The title...
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Mary Trevor
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1936
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In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are...
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Ruby
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1935
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Writer-director-star Willard Mack had been dead and gone for several years by the time Together We Live managed to attain a...
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Jenny
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1935
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Charmion
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1935
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Perhaps Mascot Pictures' The Marines are Coming would have been more credible had it been made 10 years earlier. Stars...
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Dorothy
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a man marries his Russian lover and discovers that she has a large extended family. He is utterly...
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Olga
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1935
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Elaine Vinson
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1935
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Perhaps the best of Mascot Pictures' feature-film releases, Ladies Crave Excitement is also one of the fastest 69 minutes...
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Miss Winkler
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1935
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After directing three of Universal's finest horror films, James Whale shifted gears with the elegant romantic comedy By...
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1934
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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Dolly
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1934
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Universal's Romance in the Rain is a satire of network radio, a popular target of early-'30s movies. On behalf of dithery...
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Gwen
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1934
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Before it became one of Hollywood's busiest B-picture mills, Monogram Pictures had a fondness for literary adaptations...
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Leila Lambert
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1933
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Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various...
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Asta Marvelle
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1933
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Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was...
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Ellen Colby
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1933
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The German comedy Opera Ball is the model upon which this film is based. Several seedy adventures erupt, as when...
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Elissa Strange
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1932
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Antonia
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1931
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Five characters find themselves playing a lively game of musical beds in this saucy pre-Code comedy. Richard...
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Mrs. Smith
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1931
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In his second talking picture, Richard Dix is cast as British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat, at present on leave in London....
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Ruth Dangan
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1929
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A lesser-known effort from director Josef Von Sternberg, The Case of Lena Smith has been unfairly chastised for all the wrong...
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Lena Smith
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1929
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Vroni
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1929
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In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe...
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Louise Patterson
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1929
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hallie
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1928
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1928
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Nancy Blair
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1928
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Diana
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1928
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Celeste de Givray and Lola Dauvry
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1927
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The Paramount backstage drama Spotlight was based on Footlights, a novel by Rita Weiman. Hoping to become a star, Lizzie...
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Lizzie Stokes
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1927
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Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the...
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1927
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Kitty Flanders (Yvonne Pelletier), Jean Waddington and Ted Larrabee (Don Marion) are all "children of divorce" -- the two...
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Jean Waddington
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1927
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Originally titled 10 Modern Commandments, this sophisticated romantic comedy-drama was the third directorial effort by...
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Kitty O'Day
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1927
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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Esther
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1926
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As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated...
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Fairy Godmother
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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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Mary Gray
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1926
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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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Moira Devens
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1926
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Former Mack Sennett comedian Ford Sterling practically steals this show in this Malcolm St. Clair-directed picture, which...
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Dagmar
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1925
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American western star Ken Maynard's first starring vehicle -- filmed on a shoestring budget at California's St. Francis Dam...
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1925
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This romance was based on the best-selling novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. While serving in the Great War, Owen Bradley...
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Toppie Westmacott
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1925
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Richard Dix and Esther Ralston starred together in several films during the latter half of the 1920s. This Western-comedy was...
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Mollie
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1925
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This satirical film was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Neil McRae (Edward Everett Horton) is a...
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Cynthia Mason
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1925
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While his reputation has faded next to stronger talents such as Cecil B. DeMille, Erich Von Stroheim, and King Vidor, James...
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Dagmar Carroll
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1925
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If the plot to this breezy romantic comedy sounds like something that would have starred the late Wallace Reid, there's a...
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Doris Kent
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1925
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Esther Ralston, who plays a nice chorus girl in this comedy-drama, is upstaged by Margaret Livingston, who has a...
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Alice O'Neil
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1925
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Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent, action melodrama based on Gerald Beaumont's Red Book Magazine serial. A tough...
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1924
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Viennese doctor Monte Blue is madly in love with his wife Florence Vidor--so much so that many suspect that they aren't...
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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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1924
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Ken Maynard's star was still on the ascendant when he made this action-packed Western. It's the usual tale about "the papers"...
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1924
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Tom Mix always had a love for comedy -- if not always the wherewithal -- and The Heart Buster must have disappointed the...
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1924
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This mediocre comedy-drama starred Herbert Rawlinson as an impoverished nobleman turned pugilist. Lord Waring (Frank Currier)...
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Chewing gum baron's daughter
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1923
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Gladys Walton plays an inept newspaper reporter in this mediocre farce comedy. Leslie Adams (Walton) is secretary to the city...
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1923
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Richard (Herbert Rawlinson), the son of Judge Garbin (David Torrence), is railroaded into prison. He angrily swears vengeance...
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Joan Dunster
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1923
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Based on a magazine serial by Gene Markey, this film was turned into a perfect vehicle for Universal's lackadaisical cowboy...
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Mary Lou Kileen
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1923
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Based on novelist William McLeod Raine's A Texas Ranger, Pure Grit starred the now completely forgotten Roy Stewart as a...
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Stella Boiling
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1923
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It seems like nearly everything written by George Barr McCutcheon found its way to the silent screen. Castle Craneycrow was...
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1923
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After the success of Humoresque, pictures that extolled the virtues of dear old mom and pop were rampant. Mom was featured in...
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1922
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From the beginning of her film career, Billie Dove showed a knack for playing chorus girls (it only made sense since she was...
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1922
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Ostensibly a vehicle for Jackie Coogan, the 1922 Oliver Twist refuses to realign the Charles Dickens novel to accommodate the...
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1922
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1922
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Esther Ralston, then a hard-working, up-and-coming actress and not the star she would later become, is featured in this...
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Nina
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1922
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According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank...
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1921
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1921
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One of the silent era's great beauties, Esther Ralston, began her screen career in minor oaters like Crossing Trails. The...
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1921
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James Kirland (Harold A. Miller) lives on a large estate with his five children. The oldest son, William, drinks too much and...
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1920
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There are no huge names attached to this silent version of the classic Mark Twain story (although director...
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1920
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The pivotal role of the vamp in this Lois Weber production was played by a cinematic newcomer "somewhat dubiously named" (to...
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1920
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1918
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1918
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World Films' Deep Purple was based on the Paul Armstrong/Wilson Mizner play of the same name. James Young warmed the...
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1915
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