This Republic programmer is based on a true story, though its plot complications are anything but founded in reality. Set in...
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Sam Todworthy
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1945
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Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than...
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1945
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A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling...
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1944
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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Cary Grant delivered Oscar-calibre performances all his life, but only when he played against type in None But the Lonely...
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1944
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Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel...
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1944
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A Warner Bros. attempt to ape the success of the Universal horror films, The Mysterious Doctor is a moody little piece...
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Hugh Penhryn
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1943
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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1941
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This brief (56-minute) MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Naturally, a few plot twists and...
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that...
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Capt. Lowe
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1941
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In this remake of the 1930 film of the same name, a bank robber suffers a war wound and undergoes plastic surgery. Upon his...
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1941
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1941
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"Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is...
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1941
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1940
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This Victorian-era drama is based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hughes. It follows the exploits of a young boy forced to...
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1940
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Judy Garland performs her only on-screen death scene early in the proceedings of Little Nellie Kelly. But despair not!...
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1940
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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1940
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Earl of Puddlestone was released minus a director credit out of respect for megger Gus Meins, who committed suicide shortly...
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1940
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Meredith
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1940
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This "Jones Family" entry does without the services of Pa Jones, inasmuch as actor Jed Prouty was having contract problems...
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1940
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It is no secret that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn were at each other's throats throughout the filming of The Private Lives of...
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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1939
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The penultimate entry in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series, Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police once more stars John Howard...
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1939
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In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London...
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Allistair MacNab
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1939
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The fourth cinematic version of the novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, this romantic caper is a virtual...
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1939
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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Peter Lorre makes his fifth appearance as J. P. Marquand's polite but deadly Japanese sleuth Mr. Moto. This time Moto is...
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1938
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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This typically wild-and-wooly entry in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series gets under way when stiff-upper-lip Scotland...
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1938
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1938
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An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
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Jocko
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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A golddigger finds that romance doesn't always equal finance in this comedy. Crystal Wetherby (Jean Harlow) is an American...
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1937
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Young Roger Calverton (Ronald Sinclair) and his uncle Sir Peter Calverton (Sir C. Aubrey Smith) bring their prize race-horse...
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1937
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This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer...
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1937
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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry...
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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1936
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Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of...
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1936
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Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which...
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1936
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1936
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A romantic triangle heats up the Alaskan tundra in this romantic comedy. Bascom Dinsmore (Robert Montgomery) is a radio...
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1936
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To finance such major productions as Ramona and Lloyds of London, 20th Century-Fox had to maintain a quota of such minor but...
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1936
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Celebrated British musical comedy star Cicely Courtneige was given a chance at American movie stardom in Perfect Gentleman....
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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Anxious to graduate from 2-reel comedies to feature films, producer Hal Roach began phasing out his short-subject manifest in...
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1935
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is a stenographer who has become good friends with Peter Dawes...
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1935
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In this adaptation of author de la Roche's chronicle of the passionate lives of the strange Whiteoaks of Jalna, their...
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1935
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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1935
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Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has been a source of speculation and controversy ever since...
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1935
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In this melodramatic adventure, a young woman is abducted by Chinese bandits. One of them is a free-lance pilot in need of...
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1935
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James Barton plays a salty old sea captain on the verge of retirement, forced to return to the sea when his funds run out....
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1935
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Tobu (Edmund Lowe) and Nick (Jack Holt) are championship scuba divers who fall out when Tobu loses his arm saving Nick's...
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Harry
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1935
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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Czech leading man Francis Lederer made his Hollywood film debut in the appropriately titled Man of Two Worlds. Based on the...
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1934
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Not to be confused with Universal's 1932 The Menace, Paramount's 1934 Menace does however included a "revenge" motif similar...
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1934
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Twelve years before David Lean's definitive filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations, Hollywood had a go at the novel, with...
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1934
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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1934
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It's "Never the twain shall meet" time again, this time in London's Limehouse district. George Raft stars as Harry Young, a...
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1934
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Beamish
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1934
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A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn...
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1933
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Everybody in The Midnight Club is seeing double, and it's all the handiwork of slick London criminal mastermind Colin Grant...
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1933
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1933
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This film offers melodrama on the high-seas as it follows the miraculous salvation of a becalmed ship filled with bootleg...
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1933
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The comedic sidekick is shockingly done away with in this unusual and highly atmospheric Western from Fox. George O'Brien, of...
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Artie Drower
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1932
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Hoping to match the success of his boisterous (and Oscar-winning) silent comedy Two Arabian Knights, and at the same time...
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1932
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A remake of West of Zanibar, this strange, gut-wrenching melodrama set in the African jungles, offers a disturbing portrait...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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Tarzan, The Ape Man was not only MGM's inaugural "Tarzan" film, but also the first to star former Olympic swimming champ...
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Beamish
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1932
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Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM's back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in...
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1932
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1932
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A remarkably ambitious endeavor from low-budget World Wide Studios, Those We Love was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from a play...
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1932
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1931
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1931
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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1931
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Robert Montgomery plays an aimless young man who secures a job as a bailiff's deputy. Montgomery is assigned to guard a house...
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1931
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Watts
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1928
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1928
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Harry, the Traveling Showman of the Ring
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1927
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1926
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Most contemporary critics agreed that the 1926 remake of the 1919 "stiff upper lip" drama Flag Lieutenant was a decided...
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1926
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While Lillian Gish achieved stardom with her dramatic emoting, her sister Dorothy made a name for herself as a saucy...
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1926
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