To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass...
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1953
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Excluding a brace of 1980s TV-movie appearances, It Happens Every Thursday was the final feature film appearance of...
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1953
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Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence...
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1953
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In his second and last Western for Republic Pictures, former bandleader Vaughn Monroe plays a marshal returning to Tombstone...
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1952
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The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by...
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1952
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Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet...
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1952
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Wagon Master, splendidly directed by John Ford, is a superlative western. The film is the outwardly simple tale of a Mormon...
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1950
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Gene Autry takes a page out of Lady for a Day in this television western initially released on September 17, 1950. Having...
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1950
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In this comedy, a local citizen, miffed by the mayor's new milk tax, buys his own cow. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1950
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Republic singing cowboy Monte Hale headlines San Antone Ambush. It's the usual melange of fast action, black-hearted villains...
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1949
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The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in...
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1949
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In Frontier Investigator, Allan "Rocky" Lane plays the title character, spending the bulk of the picture searching for the...
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1949
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Roy Rogers stars in the full-color Republic "special" The Far Frontier. This time, Roy deals with a plot to smuggle fugitive...
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Alf Sharper
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1948
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Few Roy Rogers westerns were as gratuitously violent as the 1948 release Eyes of Texas. This time, Rogers' principal...
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1948
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' starts off on a tense note as a struggling man is led through the streets of a western town,...
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1948
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1948
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John Ford had already directed one of the three previous film versions of Peter Kyne's novel under the title Marked Men...
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1948
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In this western, an amiable cowpoke rides into town to help the daughter of a stagecoach operator whose business is being...
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Ralph Baker
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1948
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1948
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1947
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In this mystery, set within the newspaper industry, a detective is hired to protect the editor who believes that someone is...
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1947
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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1947
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Back to his standard Rocky Lane characterization after a brief series of "Red Ryder" westerns, Allan Lane stars in Republic's...
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1947
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt...
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1946
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In this adventure, a young woman travels across Europe in search of her brother who was listed as missing in action during WW...
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1946
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1946
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Whenever budget-conscious Columbia laid out good money for Technicolor in the 1940s, it was usually for a musical or an "A"...
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1946
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Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash....
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1946
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Incendiary Blonde is a highly entertaining if historically suspect biopic of "Queen of the Nightclubs" Texas Guinan. As...
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1945
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Wildfire was the first release from Screen Guild Productions, the adventuresome little independent that would eventually...
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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1945
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Set in turn-of-the century London, this period thriller stars Laird Cregar as George Harvey Bone, a composer who suffers from...
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1945
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1945
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Though it comes on much too strong at times, Murder, He Says fully justifies its present "cult" status. Professional pollster...
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1945
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1944
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In this touching drama, city-slicker Sparke Thorton goes to live on his aunt and uncle's horse farm in the country. The...
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1944
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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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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play janitors for a detective agency who pose as super-sleuths when they're hired to protect...
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1944
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In this unique murder mystery, that reveals the killer at the beginning of the film. The story concerns some women living in...
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1943
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If Jitterbugs is, as has often been claimed, the best of Laurel & Hardy's 20th Century-Fox films (an otherwise...
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1943
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1943
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In this Western drama, Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne...
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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20th Century-Fox's Western Union was loosely based on a story by Zane Grey. The basic historical facts behind the connecting...
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1941
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1941
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With Paramount abandoning its "Zane Grey" western series in 1941, 20th Century-Fox took up the cudgel with such films as The...
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Luke Stevens
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1941
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Characterized by some critics as a "South African western", Diamond Frontier stars Victor McLaglen as ruthless diamond hunter...
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1940
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While Cesar Romero could usually be relied upon to ladle out the charm in his film roles, Romero's handful of appearances as...
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1940
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Despite the title, the Cisco Kid (Cesar Romero) doesn't feel too lucky at the beginning of this film. It seems that someone...
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1940
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Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island...
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1940
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Wallace Beery trots out his "lovable lout" act for the zillionth time in Man From Dakota. Beery plays a Union army sergeant...
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1940
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time...
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1940
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Although there were Westerns before it, Stagecoach quickly became a template for all movie Westerns to come. Director...
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1939
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Bad Lands is a remake of John Ford's The Lost Patrol, with the locale changed from the Mesopotamian to the Arizona desert....
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1939
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The late cinema historian William K. Everson once wrote an article titled "Movies Out of Thin Air", referring to films that...
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1939
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film...
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1939
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John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and...
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1939
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Gene Autry goes up against another "protection" racket in this tuneful series entry, which also features country & western...
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1939
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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1938
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1938
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In Old Chicago was 20th Century-Fox's spin on MGM's San Francisco--a personal saga played out against the backdrop of a...
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1938
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Those zany Ritz Brothers are at it again--good news or bad, depending on one's feelings toward the team. This time they're a...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Mannequin stars Joan Crawford as Jessie Cassidy, a girl of the tenements (though this being an MGM film, her slum dwellings...
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1937
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The owner of a racehorse, the owner's lovely niece and a jockey must deal with a number of travails before the big race in...
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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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A handful of German soldiers readjust to civilian life in the bitter wake of World War I in this follow-up to the classic All...
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1937
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1937
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A bell ringer's wife dies while giving birth to his second son who turns out to be deaf. His oldest son moves to America...
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1936
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Enjoying a break from crime-solving, oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) takes his 12 children to the circus. It...
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Gaines
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1936
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After several appearances as a "good girl," little Jane Withers returns to her patented screen brattiness in Gentle Julia....
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Mr. Tubbs
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1936
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John Ford, whose fierce pride in his Irish heritage often manifested itself in his work, directed this historical drama which...
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known...
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1936
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This second entry in the "Jones Family" series finds Pa Jones (Jed Prouty) once again at loggerheads with his oldest son Jack...
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1936
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The Arizonian came at a time when Richard Dix's popularity was slipping, providing a welcome shot in the arm for the star and...
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1935
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Eight year old Paddy O'Day (Jane Withers) arrives at Ellis Island after a long sea voyage from Ireland, to be with her...
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1935
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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1935
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1935
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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1935
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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1935
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The Informer, Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, was first filmed in England in 1929,...
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1935
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A serial-like pace and some stylish directorial choices by Gordon Wiles distinguish this "Charlie Chan" entry. The reading of...
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1935
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Warner Oland made his fifth appearance as wily Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. Hired...
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1934
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In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of...
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1934
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His dramatic fall broken by sacks of flour, Dick (Richard Talmadge) once again emerges unharmed and the voyage to the...
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1934
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In this western, a band of avaricious men kill a rancher in order to take over his land. The dead man's nephew was slated to...
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934....
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1934
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What a shame that the 1934 Fox crime meller Murder in Trinidad is currently unavailable for viewing. In one of his best...
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1934
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Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The...
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1934
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When a man commits a crime, his sister (Claire Trevor) frames the man she loves to free her brother. ~ Rovi...
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1933
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The Man From Monterey was the last of John Wayne's "B"-westerns for Warner Bros. The Duke plays U.S. army captain John...
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Don Pablo
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1933
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Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to...
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1933
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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1933
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John Ford directed this emotional drama, which was a considerable change of pace from the westerns and war pictures for which...
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1933
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Warner Oland returns as wily, philosophical oriental detective Charlie Chan in this expensive-looking series entry. This...
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1933
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The air-mail pilots who fly from a small airport in the Rocky Mountains are determined but not paid well, and there are...
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1932
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1932
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Former silent-screen star Frank Mayo plays a big-city bootlegger at odds with gangster chieftain Tom Santschi, the man who's...
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1932
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1932
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Ostensibly based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this action serial was actually closer in spirit to the blood-and-thunder days...
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1932
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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1931
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The first of director John Ford's three films for 1931 was the now-forgotten The Seas Beneath. Essentially a reworking of...
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1931
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"Suggested" by the book The West That Was by legendary showman William F. Cody, this 12 chapter Universal serial was merely...
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1931
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Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown...
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1931
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Nearing the end of his long association with Universal, rough-edged silent screen cowboy Hoot Gibson released eight sound...
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"Spider" Coy
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1930
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To date, this D.W. Griffith epic is the only talking-picture effort to encapsulate the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, from...
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1930
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Based on Dion Boucicauls's Irish play, this early talkie from lower-echelon company Tiffany starred one of the victims of...
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1930
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The dashing Ken Maynard, who always warned that he sang loudly rather than well, finished his 1929-1930 stay at Universal...
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Red Slade
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1930
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This early sound western was cowboy-star Ken Maynard's second to last under his 1929-1930 contract with Universal. The...
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Don Pedro Madera
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1930
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This western serial chronicles the adventures of a young girl whose uncle has discovered gold out West. Accompanied by her...
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1930
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In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned...
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1929
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One of the more used plots in silent westerns was the one about the son searching for the villain who killed his father. In...
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Cal Gregg
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1929
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1928
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One of Rin Tin Tin's many canine imitators, Dynamite, starred in his own series of silent action melodramas produced in...
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Director
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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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John Hazzard
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1927
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Heralded as a "Universal Thrill Feature," this minor outdoor melodrama starred Dynamite, one of canine phenomenon...
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Director
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1927
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This long-lost John Ford production was based on The Snake's Wife, a story by Wallace Smith. The scene is a theatrical...
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1927
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Ralph Curtis
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1927
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Cowboy star Jack Hoxie is definitely a "man of daring," but just how daring he really can be isn't demonstrated until the...
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1927
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Stuntman Billy Sullivan stars as the "Speed Cop" in the motion picture of the same name. The picture begins as Sullivan gives...
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1926
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Produced and co-written by Hunt Stromberg, this silent crime melodrama was advertised as a Western solely because of its...
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Quig Mundy
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1925
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One of the more popular western plots of the silent era detailed the trials and tribulations of a spoiled Easterner growing...
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Frosty Miller
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1925
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Silent western hero Jack Hoxie assumes the guise of an avenging angel called "Whitehorse Cactus" when his father is killed...
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Panhandle George
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1925
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Track star Frank Merrill stars as Jack Melford in this hackneyed melodrama. Jack wins the track meet at the local college...
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1924
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Poverty row actor-director-producer Ashton Dearholt, as Pinto Pete, battles a gang of railroad saboteurs led by the spiteful...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1924
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Hearts of Oak is, alas, one of the many "lost" silent films of pantheon director John Ford. Filmed not long after Ford's epic...
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1924
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This crude melodrama starring William Desmond seems like it came from an earlier age when it's compared to other films of the...
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"Pole" Peter
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1924
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This above-average Tom Mix western contains one of the star's more spectacular stunts -- a jump on horseback across the...
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Virgil
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1923
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Everybody at Mack Sennett's Keystone studios was expected to do a little bit of everything, which is why bassett-faced...
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1922
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Director Francis Ford miscast himself as the romantic interest of Peggy O'Day in this rags-to-riches drama. Patsy (O'Day) is...
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Director
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1922
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More a prairie whodunit than a straight western, this minor silent melodrama starred the veteran Franklyn Farnum as a rancher...
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Director
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1922
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Francis Ford -- elder brother of director John Ford -- directed, wrote, and acted in this old-timey meller. But his isn't the...
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Director
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1922
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At the beginning of his career, Charles "Buck" Jones didn't always play a cowboy. Here he is the foreman on a road...
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Dude McCormick
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1922
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Silent Western star Franklyn Farnum travels West to locate a missing girl in this comedy-oater directed by John Ford's older...
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Director, Ned Kendall
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1922
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Also known as Texas Angel Citizens, this minor silent Western from poverty row producer William M. Smith starred...
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Director
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1922
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A drifter known only as "The Stranger (Francis Ford) promises a supposedly dying man, Ned Hadley (Harry Smith), to assume his...
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"The Stranger"
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1922
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Count de Freitas
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1921
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With this picture, Western star Hoot Gibson graduated to full-length features. He plays Sandy Brouke, one of three...
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1921
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Produced by Gower Gulch regular Benjamin F. Wilson and co-directed by Francis Ford, the older brother of John Ford, this 15...
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Director
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1920
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Francis Ford -- elder brother of director John Ford -- was the whole show in this strapping drama. He directed it, wrote it,...
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Director
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1919
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Henry Oyen's novel Gaston Olaf was the saga of a two-fisted French Canadian lumberjack. The film version of Gaston Olaf,...
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Director
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1918
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Most moviegoers tend to associate Francis Ford with the "loveable drunk" characterizations he essayed for his director...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1918
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Director
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1918
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In one of the more sensationalistic serials of the 1910s (which says a lot), veteran femme fatale Rosemary Theby appeared as...
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Director
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1918
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This tale of international intrigue was directed by Francis Ford, who also starred in a dual role. At a Paris hotel, Ludwig...
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Director
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1917
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John Ermine (Francis Ford who also directed) has been raised among the Crow Indians, never knowing that he is a white man who...
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Director
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1917
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1916
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1916
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We could be cute and say that The Campbells are Coming is about invading hordes of tomato soup cans. But we won't. Set during...
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Director
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1915
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1915
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1915
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Prominent actor/director Francis Ford played the title role in the multi-reel historical drama The Heart of Lincoln....
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Director
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1915
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1915
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1915
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1914
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Begun as yet another two-reel Western, Universal's Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery was so promising that the studio stretched...
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1914
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The popular screen team of Francis Ford and Grace Cunard were co-stars and co-directors of the historical drama Washington at...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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Director
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1913
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Producer Thomas H. Ince often took credit for directing his films as well, even though he rarely appeared on set. It is...
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Director
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1912
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Director, Colonel James Bryson
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1912
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1911
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