Wild Seed was produced by Universal as part of the studio's short-lived "new talent" policy, which permitted untried actors...
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1965
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Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford...
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1962
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The first big budget Western to feature a black hero, this military courtroom drama from director John Ford starred his...
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1960
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Ride a Violent Mile is an economically produced western with a Civil War background. Penny Edwards stars as Susan, a Union...
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1957
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The 8-year-old "Ma and Pa Kettle Series" came to an end with The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm. In her last screen...
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1957
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Some good performances overcome the scripted cliches in Dakota Incident. In the tradition of Stagecoach, the film offers a...
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1956
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Who else but Randolph Scott could be the Tall Man Riding in this rugged western? Forced to lay low for several years after...
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1955
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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1950
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Dorothy Patrick is The Blonde Bandit in this Republic time-filler. The script establishes a degree of sympathy for Gloria...
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1950
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1949
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In this courtroom drama, a French girl stands trial for murder. Flashbacks tell the grim story of how, during the Great War...
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1948
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When the family land is threatened with foreclosure, honest, hard-working rancher Ross McEwen (Joel McCrea) resorts to bank...
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1948
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A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan...
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1947
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The all-purpose title Blackmail was again revived for this breezy Republic comedy-mystery. William Marshall (not the African...
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1947
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1945
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Republic Pictures' reigning Bad Guy, Roy Barcroft, was at it again in this standard Allan Lane Western, this time playing Ben...
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1945
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PRC's Apology for Murder is aptly named: the production values in this 67-minute quickie are pretty sorry. If you're willing...
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1945
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1930
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A wild stallion is blamed for "kidnapping" local mares to build a harem! Cowboy Jack Perrin, however, believes the real...
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Mary Van Horn
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1930
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The epic 1927 Australian film For the Term of His Natural Life is set on the "Down Under" penal colony of Vandeman's Island....
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Sylvia Vickers
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1927
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1927
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A veritable harvest of cliches, Duty's Reward concentrates on the exploits of fearless newspaper editor George Fawcett....
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1927
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Versatile silent-film leading lady Eva Novak goes the "Pearl White" route in Dixie Flyer. She plays a plucky female racecar...
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1926
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1926
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One of cowboy star Tom Mix's best films for the Fox company, No Man's Gold was, according to the trade magazine Variety, "a...
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Jane Rogers
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1926
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1926
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Even minus the original musical score, this silent-film adaptation of the Broadway hit Irene is a delight. Colleen Moore...
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1926
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As its title implies, this independently made, routine melodrama takes place in the Canadian North Woods. Raoul LaFane...
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1925
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Fearless Lover was produced by a company called Perfection Films. It's not quite perfection, but it isn't bad....
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Enid Sexton
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1925
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After her impressive dramatic role in So Big, Colleen Moore returned to light comedies (mostly because her studio knew they...
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1925
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This programmer came out of Columbia, which, during the 1920s, was just another Poverty Row studio. Cyrus Browning (Robert...
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1925
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This Richard Talmadge action picture based its premise on a current event -- in Great Britain, a "death ray" machine had...
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Carolyn Hollister
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1924
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Jennie
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1924
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Blond Eva Novak and B-Western hero William Fairbanks (no relation to Doug) starred in this minor silent railroad melodrama....
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1924
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Sourdough McCraig (Spottiswoode Aitken) is the grizzled gold prospector who travels to Alaska with his daughter Sue (Eva...
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Sue McCraig
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1924
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1924
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Rival lumber barons resort to blackmail and treachery to further their businesses in this Northwoods drama. John J. Carlton...
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1924
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This routine auto adventure finds Jack Grant (William Fairbanks) agreeing to drive in the big race in order to save his...
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Grace Dontoti
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1924
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Two popular genres converged in this enjoyable silent Western: the boxing melodrama and the sagebrush romance. Frank Merrill...
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1924
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William Fairbanks stars in this fighting feature about a rural rube who enters the ring to earn prize money to help a...
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Helen Chadwick
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1924
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1924
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Victor Schertzinger both wrote and directed this melodrama. John Corbin (Percy Marmont) works for years on an invention, only...
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Joy Moore
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1923
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Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from...
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Harriet Halehurst
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1923
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Hallam Cooley stars as a slick-haired slickster who comes to a small town to promote an oil well scam. So persuasive is...
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Amp
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1923
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In spite of its Poverty Row location, C.B.C. -- which later became better known as Columbia -- put out some quality pictures....
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Marjorie Baldwin
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1923
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Viola Dana stars in this rags-to-riches comedy-drama. She plays Martha Mason, who is such an underdog in her little home town...
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Anne Paisley
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1923
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Cinematographer Edward Kull, who earlier had helmed 2-reel westerns for Universal, was promoted to feature-film director with...
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1922
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The Great Night hasn't an original moment in its entire 5 reels, but audiences went home satisfied anyway. William Russell...
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Mollie Martin
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1922
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Chasing the Moon is a nonstop silent precursor to the classic talkie melodrama D.O.A. Tom Mix, in mufti rather than his...
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Jane Norworth
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1922
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Tom Mix went the Douglas Fairbanks route with this silent West, augmenting the usual sagebrush melodramatics with a clear...
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1922
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Leatrice Joy was just starting her association with Paramount and was not yet a star when she played Thomas Meighan's love...
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1922
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Bonnie MacDonald
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1922
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aka Hell's River Just about every actor has to work his way up from supporting roles and this even includes Rin-Tin-Tin....
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Marballa
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1922
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Although this comedy had an awful lot of inconsistencies, it still was an nicely entertaining programmer -- plus it had the...
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Patricia Owens
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1922
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Max Brand's 1920 novel became a rousing Tom Mix Western less than a year later. A complicated story of love and revenge,...
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Sally Fortune
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1921
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Eva Novak, who was usually the female lead for such luminaries as Tom Mix and William S. Hart, is the star of this mystery...
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Rose Darrow
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1921
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The great silent western hero William S. Hart was no longer in his prime when he produced (for Paramount-Artcraft) this...
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Rose Lanier
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1921
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Cowboy star Tom Mix wasn't afraid of playing for laughs, or even straying from the usual Western fare. Here he spoofs the...
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Gloria Gomez
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1921
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Former socialite Maurice "Lefty" Flynn made a bid for western stardom in this mild silent western about a stranger mistaken...
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1921
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1921
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Velma (Eva Novak) is unhappily married to Sam (Leonard Shumway), a user of demon alcohol and a notorious womanizer. He...
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Velma Patton
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1921
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A tough outlaw, "Sierra" Bill (William S. Hart), falls in love with a travelling girl violinist, Nelly (Eva Novak), and...
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1920
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This crime melodrama was a change of pace (and a turn for the worst) for Eva Novak, who had been featured in light...
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1920
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