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1950
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1950
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A curmudgeonly small-town doctor resents the presence of a new younger physician and his newfangled ways. He is especially...
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1947
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A woman struggles to reassemble her broken life in this drama that features Susan Hayward in her first starring role. The...
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1947
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1947
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Director Joseph Kane adapted his own story Diamond Carlisle for the screenplay of In Old Sacramento--the third film version...
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1946
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Though it's not readily obvious from the title, Lumberjack is the 52nd entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series....
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1944
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Border Vigilantes was the 34th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series, with 32 more still on the way. William Boyd...
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1941
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Paramount's "Zane Grey" series continued rolling into the 1940s with Knights of the Range. Taking a break from the studio's...
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1940
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In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic...
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1940
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Hidden Gold was the 29th installment in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. It perhaps goes without saying that "Hoppy"...
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1940
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This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature...
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1940
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Frontier Pony Express is a fast-paced Roy Rogers program western which could stand up on its own with any big-budgeted "A"...
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1939
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As in all his early westerns, Roy Rogers battles true Old West outlaws in the fine In Old Caliente. He is, as usual, Roy...
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1939
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Donald Barry plays the legendary outlaw of the title in this Roy Rogers Western which, needless to say, plays fast and loose...
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1939
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Paramount's Sudden Money has all the earmarks of a Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland vehicle, except that this time Ruggles is...
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1939
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1938
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1936
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Bar 20 Rides Again was the 3rd of William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy flicks. As with most early entries in the Cassidy series,...
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1936
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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1935
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Charming but ruthless fugitive gangster Dutra (Brian Donlevy) demands that a doctor (Oscar Apfel) perform plastic surgery...
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1935
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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1934
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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1934
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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1934
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This cheapie but goodie stars Skeets Gallagher as a young man who doesn't want to be strong-armed into a questionable...
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1933
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An espionage drama set in the early 20th century, Ever in My Heart stars Barbara Stanwyck as a New England naif who marries a...
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1933
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The son of a famed race car driver is so traumatized by witnessing his father's fatal racetrack crash that he refuses to...
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1933
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"Thou Shall Not Be Caught" is the commandment referred to in this low-budget melodrama ostensibly based on Ella Wendel, a New...
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1933
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In this crime comedy, a stenographer is kidnapped after she witnesses a mob hit. The hostage soon finds herself the object...
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1933
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Unlike the unintentionally amusing vehicles of many another western star, most of Hoot Gibson's starring films are funny on...
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1933
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Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious...
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1932
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Produced at the little Tec Art studio by sound engineer Ralph M. Like, this film is one of those modest whodunits where the...
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1932
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Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the...
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1932
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In his fourth of six inexpensive Westerns for Allied Pictures in 1932, veteran cowboy ace Hoot Gibson played a foreman...
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Flossie Doolittle
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1932
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Famed aviator Frank Hawks proves anew in Klondike that, as an actor, he was an excellent pilot. Though billed second, Hawks...
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1932
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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1932
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In his fourth Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played a lawman chasing a masked villain known only as "the Shadow."...
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1932
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Arabella Heath
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1932
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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1932
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Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a...
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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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1931
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A truly jaw-dropping experience, Makers of Men is an unabashed celebration of Conditional Love. Jack Holt plays Dudley, a...
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1931
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The vaudeville and Broadway comedy team of Eddie Dowling and Ray Dooley (husband and wife, despite Dooley's masculine...
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1931
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Tom Sawyer, Paramount's 1930 Christmas release, was the first talkie version of Mark Twain's beloved novel. A rapidly...
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1930
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One of the most overworked plots of the silent era was the one about an Eastern wastrel who toughens up on a Western ranch....
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1930
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A young woman stands to inherit a million bucks in this comedy. The deal is thus: her aunts will give her a cool million if...
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Aunt Katherine Harper
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1930
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Martha Jenkins
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1930
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The Doctor's Secret was adapted by director William C. DeMille from James M. Barrie's play Half an Hour. After marrying...
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1929
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In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and...
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1929
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Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films...
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1929
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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Lily Woodruff
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1929
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This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector...
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1929
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One of the first sound releases from FBO pictures (no dialogue, but plenty of music), Taxi 13 stars Chester Conklin in his...
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Mrs. Mactavish
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1928
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Mrs. Frisbie
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1928
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George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these...
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Eliza
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1928
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Masks of the Devil was director Victor Seastrom's final silent film for MGM -- and his next-to-last American film before his...
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1928
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Mrs. Holmes
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1928
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Produced by Cecil B. DeMille, Friend from India was directed by, of all people, prissy character actor Franklin Pangborn, who...
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1928
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Wreck of the Hesperus was "suggested" by the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It will be recalled that...
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1927
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1927
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Girl in the Pullman is a standard door-slamming farce in the fine tradition of Up in Mabel's Room and...
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1927
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Ethel Drake
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1927
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This offbeat comedy-drama concerns Tommy Valentine, a young man whose path crosses with that of Barbara, the niece of local...
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1927
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Helene Chadwick stars as Fay Leslie, a slightly blowzy but basically good-hearted chorus girl. When Fay falls in love with...
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Mrs. John Clarke
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1927
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Earlier in the century, this melodrama about a young girl in the garment industry was a famous stage play. To bring it to the...
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Mrs. Sloan
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1927
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Having squandered his allowance, gay blade Tom Eggett (Reginald Denny) is given a second chance when he inherits his uncle's...
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1926
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This picture banked on the publicity surrounding the excavation of King Tut's tomb and contained a weak copy of the classic...
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1926
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Ladies at Play was based on Loose Ankles, a stage comedy by Sam Janney. Heroine Ann Harper is thrilled to discover that she...
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1926
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The Unknown Soldier starts out in life as Fred Williams (Charles Emmett Mack), a garage mechanic who signs up for the Army on...
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Mrs. Williams
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1926
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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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Mrs. Cady
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1925
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Under the supervision of Cecil B. DeMille, character actor Alan Hale handled the directing chores in Wedding Song. DeMille...
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1925
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This melodrama, the first release from a small-time independent company called Gotham, is an old-fashioned thriller. David...
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Mrs. Barton
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1925
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This independently made melodrama was a decent programmer, even though it suffered from a hackneyed plot. When John Trent...
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1925
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A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore. Beth...
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Ma Benham
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1925
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Dorothy Revier took a break from her dramatic roles and starred in this Columbia-produced farce. Henry Brodman (Tom Ricketts)...
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1925
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Mrs. Belcher
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1925
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Don't was an unfortunate choice of titles for this MGM programmer, since many filmgoers took the advice literally. Sally...
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Mrs. Moffatt
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1925
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This low-budgeter was adapted from A Wise Son, a novel by Charles Sherman. Bryant Washburn plays wealthy wastrel Hal Whitney,...
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A Neighbor
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1925
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It's hard to tell at times whether director Roland West was aiming for laughs or thrills in The Monster, but this...
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1925
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1924
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After becoming an unwed mother, Joline Hofer (Viola Dana) is cast out of her father's house. After placing her baby in a...
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1924
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1924
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It seems like the flashier Cecil B. DeMille made his films, the more intimate were those made by his older brother William C....
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1924
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Although the story line to this sentimental drama was ridiculously simple, director Renaud Hoffman managed to fill out five...
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Mrs. Moore
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1924
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1924
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While this fast-paced action picture from cowboy star Tom Mix was a little lighter on the Western scenes than normal (a good...
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1923
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This fantasy tale was based on the stage play The Faun by Edward Knoblock, which starred William Faversham on Broadway....
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1923
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The independently produced The Fog was adapted from a popular novel by William Dudley Pelly. Idealistic young Nathan Forge...
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1923
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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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Mrs. Wingate
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1923
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It was hard for director Thomas N. Heffron to flesh out this skimpy storyline into feature length material. Polly Heath...
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1922
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This lighthearted political satire marked the first time humorist George Ade wrote a story directly for the screen. The...
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1922
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Although director Cecil B. DeMille was known for his Biblical spectaculars and florid comedy-dramas about domestic relations,...
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1922
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Angela Gaskill (Betty Compson) travels to the South Seas to help sailor John Somers (John Bowers) kick his addition to...
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Lucita
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1922
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1922
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Character actor Theodore Roberts was better known for his scene-stealing supporting roles than he was as a star in his own...
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1922
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While Cecil B. DeMille busied himself with lavish sex comedies and garish historical melodramas, his director brother...
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1921
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For a silent screen star, Lois Wilson showed a truly charming lack of ego -- how many other beauty contest winners would be...
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1921
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The careful direction of William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil) brought fresh life to Cosmo Hamilton's all-too-typical story,...
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1920
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