This spiritually-themed drama concerns a poor family who move into a wealthy town and suffer from harassment at the hands of...
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1950
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The Golden Eye is a Charlie Chan mystery set on a Southwestern ranch. A once-dormant mine mysteriously begins to yield gold,...
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1948
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Though it is not so frankly identified in the film, an insidious white-slavery racket motivates the plotline of Monogram's...
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1948
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Gilbert Roland made his penultimate appearance as the Cisco Kid in Monogram's Robin Hood of Monterrey. Roland is joined in...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown races to the rescue in the Monogram western Raiders of the South. But we're a bit ahead of ourselves here:...
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1947
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By the time Bowery Champs came out, the East Side Kids had become so domesticated that they actually had jobs. Muggs...
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1944
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Natalie Cortez
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1943
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Lee Tracy once more plays a fast-talking, slightly amoral newspaper reporter in PRC's The Payoff. Tracy is cast as Brad...
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Alma Dorene
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1943
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One can't deny that Monogram's Spy Train never stops moving; after all, it is set on a speeding train. Richard Travis and...
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Frieda
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1943
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No relation to the much-later "Matt Helm" spy comedy of the same name, Pine-Thomas Productions' The Wrecking Crew serves as a...
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1942
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Riders for Justice is the TV title of the Republic "Three Mesquiteers" western Westward Ho (the change was made to avoid...
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1942
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The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are...
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Mrs. Healey
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1942
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays himself-or at least the screen version of "himself"-in the 15-chapter Columbia serial Holt of...
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Kay
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1942
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Dangerous Lady is yet another variation on the "Thin Man" formula, courtesy this time from bargain-basement PRC Pictures....
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1941
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A superior B-Western in every way, this Hopalong Cassidy series entry features an especially compelling performance by former...
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Belle Langtry
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1941
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Originally titled Emergency Landing, PRC's Robot Pilot affords an early leading-man opportunity to Forrest Tucker. He plays a...
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Maude
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1941
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In this war drama, a commercial pilot joins the air corps of a South Pacific island, and there he finds that he must contend...
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1941
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In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their...
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Empress Eugenie
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1940
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Speed Limited is an apt title; the speed in this quickie is limited to that of the proverbial tortoise. Ralph Graves heads...
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Natalie
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1940
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Leonore
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1939
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The FBI goes up against a female gang leader in this ultra-low-budget thriller directed by Raymond K. Johnson. Grant Withers...
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The Illustrious One
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1939
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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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Clara Martinez
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1938
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The first of six Mr. Wong whodunits, Mr. Wong Detective presented Boris Karloff as pulp writer Hugh Wiley's Oxford-educated...
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Olga
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1938
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Tip-Off Girls is a worthwhile entry in Paramount's "FBI" series, based on the various writings of
J. Edgar Hoover. The title...
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1938
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Sudden Bill Dorn gets under way when a prospector strikes gold. Within what seems to be minutes, the entire population of a...
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Diana
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1938
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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1937
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A remake of 1932's Guilty as Hell, Night Club Scandal also borrows a page from 1934's Murder at the Vanities by depicting the...
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1937
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Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the...
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1937
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Set during the terrible Spanish Civil War, this film avoids political commentary in favor of objectively centering on the...
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1937
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Playwright Greg Stone (Reginald Denny) spends most of his spare time at the theater where his latest effort is in rehearsals....
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Beverly
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1936
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Ilka Blake
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1936
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The 12-episode Universal serial Jungle Jim was based on the Alex Raymond comic strip of the same name. Grant Withers stars as...
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1936
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Cowboy star Kermit Maynard's rope-twirling skills are seen to good advantage in Song of the Trail. Maynard is cast as a...
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Myra
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1936
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In this drama, a middle-aged housewife decides that she has had enough of her philandering husband's neglect and her...
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Shirley
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1936
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The seventh of the "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns, Hopalong Cassidy Returns stars, as always, William Boyd as the...
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Lili Marsh
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1936
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This drama is based on a true story and chronicles the story of a veteran musician who must give up his beloved career after...
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Paula Greig
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1935
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Mrs. Alice Lake
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1935
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Former child star Jackie Coogan made a somewhat awkward transition to adulthood in Home on the Range. Based on Zane Grey's...
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Georgie
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1935
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Plodding through the dialogue-heavy script, this is still a timely movie topic. Dealing with white collar crime, this is the...
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Carlotta Lamont
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1933
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The Crusader was one of the earliest efforts from Majestic Pictures, for many years the most ambitious of the independent...
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Tess Brandon
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1932
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Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
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Francine
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1932
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In this drama, an ambitious lawyer doesn't think twice about convicting an innocent man on circumstantial evidence to...
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Val Lorraine
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1932
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This offbeat WWI drama concentrates not on Men in War (there are in fact no men in the picture!), but on their women. The...
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Monica Dale
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1931
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The peripatetic spouses referred to in the title are all travelling salesmen, scooting to and from their wives via train. In...
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Ruby
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1931
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Based on a play by William DuBois, Pagan Lady top-bills Evelyn Brent as the title character, a "woman of the world" named Dut...
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Dut Hunter
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1931
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A somewhat primitive early talkie version of Rex Beach's lusty 1909 novel of Alaska salmon fishers, RKO's The Silver Horde...
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Cherry Malotte
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1930
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Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin (Evelyn Brent) hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French...
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Lucy Stavrin
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1930
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In this drama, a woman falls for a rumrunner who promises to quit bootlegging and marry her. But first he needs to make one...
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1930
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W.B. Maxwell's novel served as a film vehicle for Alla Nazimova in 1924; in 1930 it made an even better (although...
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May
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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Framed represented the return of Evelyn Brent to her old home studio of FBO, which by 1930 had been rechristened RKO Radio....
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Rose Manning
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1930
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Although Broadway star Hal Skelly never quite made it in films, it wasn't for lack of trying. In Woman Trap, Skelly is cast...
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Kitty Evans
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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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Evelyn Corey
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1929
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In this 1929 comedy, two white minstrel comedians, Moran and Mack, in black-face, re-create their most beloved routines in...
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Betty
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1929
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This early musical features several song-and-dance numbers in the midst of a story about underworld criminals. Nick...
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Pearl
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1929
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Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a...
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Ellen
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1929
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The Magpie
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1928
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Often misrepresented as an entry in Paramount's Zane Grey series, Showdown is actually based on a novel by Houston Branch. In...
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Sibyl Shelton
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1928
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The Duchess
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1928
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Rose Henderson
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1928
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Josef vonSternberg's The Last Command was inspired by the true story of General Lodijenski, a Russian aristocrat who arrived...
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Natascha Dobrow
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1928
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Gilberic Boispyiurtel
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1928
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Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's...
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Deborah Kane
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1928
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This silent romantic adventure is set in the Sahara desert, and purports to be a sequel to the successful Beau Geste. Like...
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May Vanbrugh
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1928
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Underworld opens with a series of title cards setting its mood, telling of "a great city in the dead of night...streets...
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"Feathers" McCoy
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1927
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Love's Greatest Mistake was based on the serialized Liberty Magazine story of the same name. It all begins when Honey McNeill...
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Jane
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1927
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Mame Walsh
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1927
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This drama starring Evelyn Brent is a barometer of the moral tone of the late '20s. Sales clerk Dolly Morton (Brent) gets a...
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Dolly Morton
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1927
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Sally Ray
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1927
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Evelyn Brent was known for playing lady crooks in the 1920s (in fact, she carried this typecasting into the sound era). In...
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1926
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FBO Pictures, the feisty little precursor to RKO Radio, managed to pull itself up to the big leagues with the help of such...
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Jeanette Durant,Jerry Lyon
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1926
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The action in Flame of the Argentine is evenly divided between New Orleans and South America. Movie newcomer...
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Inez Remires
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1926
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Evelyn Brent takes on a Douglas Fairbanks Sr.-type role in this action-adventure film. Senorita Catalina (Brent), the ward of...
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Senorita CatalinalLa Orligcz
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1925
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Piccadilly Charlie (Gladden James) and his female associate (Evelyn Brent) are on the run from the police after a jewel...
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1925
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Once again, Evelyn Brent plays a girl crook who eventually reforms in this entertaining melodrama, in which nearly every...
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Gertie Jones
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1925
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The United States had just finished building a fleet of very fast ships to catch the rumrunners that brought prohibition...
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Captain Joe
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1925
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In between contracts with Universal and MGM, where he would do his best work, enigmatic director Tod Browning marked time...
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Sheila Fairfax
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1924
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Before she became a star, silent screen vamp Barbara LaMarr often wrote screenplays. She still wielded a pen now and again...
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1924
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This tense but implausible melodrama was John Gilbert's last film for Fox before moving over to the greener pastures of MGM....
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1924
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This mystical tale of India was based on the novel by E.M. Hull, the author of The Sheik, the book which became the film that...
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Lolaire
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1924
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Based on a 1912 novel by Roy Norton and filmed previously in 1915 with William Farnum, this silent Western from Fox starred...
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1924
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Right after Dan Stover (Monte Blue) marries Ellen Craig (Evelyn Brent), he is hired by Ellen's former sweetheart, Tom Hayden...
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His Wife
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1924
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Fox's also-ran cowboy star Buck Jones played a prospector falsely accused of murder in this silent Western, which benefitted...
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1924
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This picture was based on an old time melodrama by Lincoln J. Carter. Pauline Starke stars as Katherine Keith, whose brother...
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Lola Nichols
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1924
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John Hempstead (House Peters), a former actor, now serves as the benign religious leader of a small community. Marian Dournay...
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Bessie Burbeck
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1923
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Produced, written and directed by Chilean-born Adelqui Millar, this British silent film starred American expatriate Evelyn...
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1922
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This British-made film, based on the novel Sonia by Stephen McKenna, features one of Clive Brooks' earlier screen...
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Sonia Dainton
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1922
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A young woman in England is pressured into joining a sect of Mormons in this silent film. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1922
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1922
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Hollywood's Evelyn Brent brightened the proceedings of the pedestrian British silent The Experiment. Brent and her future...
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1922
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This romantic drama (with a few comic touches) was filmed in Seville, Spain, the actual locale of the original novel by...
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1922
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Filmed on locations in Venice, Italy and in the Netherlands, this British melodrama starred two expatriates of the Americas:...
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1921
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This drama was based on a novel by then-popular author Cosmo Hamilton. It reflects the mores of the day, in which a woman's...
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1921
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Although this British production featured the normally solid Milton Rosmer, plus American actress Evelyn Brent in a featured...
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Emma Vine
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1921
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1920
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Fred Hartley (Ned Hay) is a hard-working family man; Mrs. Hartley (Ellen Cassidy) prefers to waste her time flitting around...
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1919
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Instead of letting his family choose an appropriate wife, the Duke of Loame (Matt Moore) falls in love with Ivis Benson...
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1919
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Author E.W. Hornung's charismatic rogue was tailor-made for John Barrymore. As Raffles, he wins the heart of Mrs. Vidal...
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1917
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When a group of reformers, led by Mrs. Bowers (Gladys Fairbanks), closes down the red light district, district attorney...
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1917
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When her husband dies, Sarah Maitland (Nance O'Neil) has to run his iron mills by herself, along with raising their two...
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1916
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A weak and contrived ending marred this otherwise absorbing backstage melodrama. Olga Petrova stars as a highly desirable...
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1916
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1916
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"A bunch of the boys were whooping it up at the Malamute saloon." Thus began Robert W. Service's gutsy narrative poem The...
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1915
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