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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1933
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Originally filmed under the title The House of Troy, In Gay Madrid was one of four 1930 MGM operettas designed to show off...
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Dona Generosa
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1930
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In this romance, an impoverished, struggling writer finally leaves his humble boarding house room after he is bequeathed a...
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1930
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Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut....
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1929
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Approximately 40 minutes of the 59-minute Whispering Winds were filmed with sound; the rest, to quote Shakespeare, is...
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Jim's Mother
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1929
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In this romance, an organ grinder falls in love with a corrupt mayor's daughter. The mayor, worried that the organ grinder...
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Mrs. Jorny
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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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1929
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This comedy chronicles the rise of a country rube who becomes a baseball legend for the New York Yankees. Not only does he...
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1929
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Mrs. Morgan
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1929
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1929
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Adapted from Richard Connell's short story A Friend of Napoleon, Seven Faces was a tour de force for the multitalented...
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1929
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Carlee Thorpe (Buddy Rogers) and Claire Jernigan (Nancy Carol) enjoy considerable success with their vaudeville magic act....
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1929
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George Fitzmaurice directed this romantic World War I drama, which was First National Pictures' entry into the epic...
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1928
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Another of Goldwyn's successful pairings of Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky, Two Lovers was the last of their co-starring...
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1928
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In her last silent film, Norma Shearer plays Dolly, aka Angel Face, a young woman engaged in blackmailing rich libertines....
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Mrs. Crandall
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1928
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Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith's days of glory were well behind him when he agreed to direct Drums of Love. Indicative of...
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1928
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Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of...
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1928
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On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound...
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Sara Rabinowitz
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1927
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1927
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Footloose flapper Peggy Marston (Dorothy Revier) runs away from her oppressive household and right into the arms of Big...
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1927
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The father of footloose Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) has decreed that, until Cynthia finds a husband her two sisters won't be...
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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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1927
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Arguably the best of Charles Ray's four MGM vehicles, The Fire Brigade casts Ray as the youngest in a large and rambunctious...
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Mrs.O'Neil
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1926
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Skyrocket was a vehicle for non-actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a former Ziegfeld dancer who managed to get herself into the...
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1926
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A bulky, verbose novel by Herman Suderman was the source for the exquisitely silent Flesh and the Devil. On leave from the...
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1926
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Charles Ray's career had been declining for some time when he made this comedy-drama. Unfortunately, this attempt to return...
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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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The Matron
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1925
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Director Victor Sjöström gave MGM this well-crafted adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's novel, Kings in Exile. The King of...
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Eleanora
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1925
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The comedy duo of Lew Fields and Joe Weber had parted ways for several years when they teamed up once again for this picture,...
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1925
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Author George Barr McCutcheon, who breathed life into many a mythical kingdom, wrote the story for this action-adventure....
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Mother
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1925
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Although this isn't one of her top pictures, Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made it. She's excellent...
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1925
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In spite of a fine cast and director, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer somehow managed to turn the stage play by W. Somerset Maugham into...
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Lady Catherine
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1925
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This plodding melodrama fails to measure up to the original 1917 version directed by Charles Giblyn. Mildred Gower...
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Mrs. Gower
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1924
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After seeing their mother (Eugenie Besserer) struggle to eke out a meager existence for her family, her daughters Jeanette...
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1924
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Betty Austin (Katherine MacDonald) has dreams of going to the city and pursuing a career, but she gives it all up to marry...
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1923
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This old-fashioned drama was based on the novel Youth Triumphant by George Gibb. Patsy, a little slum girl (Virginia Lee...
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1923
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Paramount loaned May McAvoy to producer Thomas Ince to star in this drama about yellow journalism. Jacqueline Lanier (McAvoy)...
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1923
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Marthy
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1923
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As his first picture for the Goldwyn studios, director Marshall Neilan decided to adapt Donn Byrne's sprawling novel to the...
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1923
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Marshall Neilan's fame as a director of quality films was at its peak during the period this romantic melodrama was made....
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1923
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This was the second time Edward Rose's play was committed to celluloid (the first was in 1915). This Jerome Storm-directed...
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Widow Kathleen Wilton
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1922
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14-year-old boys are far more sophisticated now than they were during the 1910s and 1920s, so this picture, based on the...
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1922
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This sentimental melodrama (adapted from the novel by Peter B. Kyne) was the last silent film that director Raoul A. Walsh...
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Mrs. McKaye
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1922
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This frivolous light comedy was perfect material for the lively Viola Dana. Dana plays Clytie Whitmore, who is about to be...
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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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Roving Kate (Eugenie Besserer) is a half-mad homeless woman who is searching for the fatherless child she lost twenty years...
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Roving Kate
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1921
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This comedy-drama marked Mabel Normand's return to producer Mack Sennett after making a number of mediocre films for Samuel...
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1921
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Director Allan Dwan does the best he can with middling material in this routine drama. When Arnold Barry (Niles Welch)...
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1921
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This picture should have been called "What Happened to Mabel?" Mabel Normand's comedy pictures for Goldwyn had slowly been...
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1921
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Rosemary Theby is American heiress Katherine Brinkley, a selfish young lady who believes that every woman should be out for...
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1921
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This above-average British melodrama was based on "The Living Dead", a story by Mary Lerner. Bessie Barriscale stars as a...
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Mrs. Janeway
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1921
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David Butler plays a soldier home from the war whose tendency to keep to himself foments gossip. According to his detractors,...
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1920
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Pretty Anita Stewart stars in this rough tale of the West, based on the novel by Caroline Lockart. Kate Prentice (Stewart)...
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1920
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As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her...
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1920
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This D.W. Griffith picture has the distinction of being, arguably, the worst film that the director ever made. For starters,...
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1919
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1919
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1918
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Produced for the American Company in Santa Barbara, California, this quaint melodrama is one of only two or three...
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1918
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Kathlyn Williams, who starred in the 1913 serial The Adventures of Kathlyn (the very first serial made in the U.S.), also...
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1915
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The daughter of a professor falls in love with what her father considers an unworthy young man (Harold Lockwood) in this...
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1914
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A typical moralistic silent melodrama, this one-reel Selig Polyscope presentation featured Harold Lockwood as a husband, who...
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1914
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Harold Lockwood starred in this typical one-reel society melodrama from the pioneering Selig Polyscope Company. Produced...
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1913
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After several domestic melodramas, the young leading man of the Selig Polyscope Company, Harold Lockwood, returned to his...
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1913
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1913
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Written and directed by the rather anonymous E.A. Martin, this silent Selig Polyscope presentation starred Harold Lockwood as...
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1913
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1913
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This early silent melodrama starred Amy Trask, "the lovely soubrette of the Selig Polyscope Company," as a Spanish senorita...
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1913
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A highly charged early silent melodrama, Phantoms starred French-born Eugenie Besserer as a stage star who spurns her devoted...
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1913
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In this, his first film for the Selig Polyscope Company, Harold Lockwood played one of the title characters (veteran actor...
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1912
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Based on the classic revenge tale by Alexander Dumas, this film was one of the first feature-length American movies, and...
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1912
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