Tony Curtis stars as The Great Leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white...
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1965
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Scheming Harvey Scott (Tom Tully) has managed to regain control of his mining company while his nephew Rick (Henry Brandt)...
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1964
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The business partnership of Harry Bright (R.G. Armstrong) and Chuck Clark (William H. Wright)--and their lifelong...
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1959
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1959
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While on the road to Denver, gallant Bart (Jack Kelly) rescues the beautiful Linda Burke (Joanna Moore) from a runaway horse....
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1959
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In this western, an embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during...
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1958
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Roy Carter (Scott Marlowe) will hang for murder unless Paladin (Richard Boone) can reach the prison in time with news that...
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1958
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Saga of Hemp Brown gets under way when the title character (Rory Calhoun) is court-martialed and booted from the Cavalry....
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1958
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Martha Bradford (Nancy Gates) was blissfully unaware that her husband Joe (Bruce Cowling) is leading a double life until she...
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1957
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George Montgomery stars in Pawnee as Paul, a white man raised by Indians. Upon attaining adulthood, Paul finds himself...
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Tip
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1957
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In this western, a good man becomes an outlaw after his stagecoach mail business falls to the faster railroad mail. To save...
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1957
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Lensed in Republic's widescreen Naturama process, this modest little western would seem to be better suited to a...
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Hank
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1957
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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Thunder over Arizona was the second Republic feature to be lensed in the shortlived Naturama widescreen process. Running a...
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1956
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Raw Edge is a modest Universal western from the peak of the double-feature era. Rory Calhoun plays a rancher whose "equal...
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1956
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The Bowery Boys--Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) et. al.--are suckered into buying a uranium mine near the western town...
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1956
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While John Ford and Howard Hawks received all the critical plaudits, Lesley Selander quietly went about his business...
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1955
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Aging Indian Chief Okatee (Ralph Moody) is in danger of being exiled by his tribe because of his inability to bring rain to...
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1955
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Randolph Scott is tall in the saddle once more in the Scott-Brown production Ten Wanted Men. The star is cast as John...
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1954
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Three Hours to Kill is a "message" Western that manages to entertain without preaching. Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews), unjustly...
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1954
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Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a...
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1953
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1953
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by...
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1952
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Director Leslie Selander pulls out all the stops in this the last of RKO's Tim Holt Westerns. A wounded parolee, Carver...
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1952
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Lesley Selander took time off from his directorial duties on Tim Holt's RKO western series to helm the Monogram oater Fort...
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1952
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It's always a pleasure to see ace western director Leslie Selander in action, and Riders of Vengeance is no exception....
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1952
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Gene Autry is back in the saddle again, albeit North of the Border. Montana marshal Autry and another lawman pursue a bank...
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1951
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1951
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The rugged Colorado Territory provides the setting for this epic Civil War-era western chronicle of a Southern rebel who...
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1951
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1950
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Aired originally on September 3, 1950, and restored by Gene Autry Entertainment in 2000, this The Gene Autry Show series...
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1950
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Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine...
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1950
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1949
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In this low-budget Africa-set jungle adventure, the excitement begins when a small plane crash-lands deep in the dense...
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1949
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1949
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Gene Autry plays a dual role in the above-average Columbia oater Rim of the Canyon. Our hero plays "himself" and his own...
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1949
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1949
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For some reason, whenever Universal used the word "Gal" in a film's title, Yvonne de Carlo usually headed the cast. In Gal...
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1949
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Lash LaRue stars as U.S. deputy, with Al "Fuzzy" St. John as his comic-relief deputy. Lash and Fuzzy are on the trail of El...
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1949
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1949
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Plot number 6259A -- mistaken identity -- is trotted out for the Republic sagebrusher Powder River Rustlers....
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"Shears" Williams
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1949
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Apache Chief was the second film to be lensed with the Garutso Balanced Lens, which gave the illusion of a three-dimensional...
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1949
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1949
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Son of God's Country stars singing cowboy Monte Hale in his traditional screen role of do-gooder and last-minute...
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1948
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1948
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Bob Hope's Technicolor western spoof The Paleface was one of the comedian's biggest box-office hits. Hope plays Painless...
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1948
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1948
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The Last Chance Inn, the main locality in this latter-day Hopalong Cassidy Western, certainly lives up to its name. A...
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1948
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In this the final Hopalong Cassidy Western, Hoppy (William Boyd), California Carlson (Andy Clyde), and Lucky Jenkins (Rand...
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1948
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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1948
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In this provocative drama, a stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further...
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1948
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A group of archeologists is sent to the American Southwest to investigate a tribe's claims that they are descendants of the...
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1948
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Saddle Pals hits a new low for Gene Autry's postwar Republic westerns, containing literally no action at all. Autry is drawn...
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1947
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Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel,...
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1947
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Although benefitting from the "Zorro" trademark, the title character of this Western serial is not the direct offspring of...
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1947
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The "spoilers" in this Republic programmer are headed by unscrupulous salmon fisherman Matt Garraway (Paul Kelly). Treating...
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1947
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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1947
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1946
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After a two-year absence, the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series returned with The Devil's Playground. William Boyd, now...
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1946
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Horror films were not Republic Pictures' forte, as one can see while watching the stylish but pedestrian Catman of Paris....
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1946
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Country-western star Roy Acuff heads the cast of the modest Republic musical Night Train to Memphis. Taking time off from his...
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1946
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Invisible Informer serves as a feature-length vehicle for Republic serial queen Linda Stirling. The story is set in motion by...
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1946
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A rare black-and-white Maria Montez vehicle, Tangier can be described as a second-echelon Casablanca. Montez plays a Spanish...
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1946
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This gentle, tuneful western is one of cowboy crooner Roy Rogers' best and most successful films; it is also his personal...
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1946
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Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and...
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1946
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1946
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Roll on Texas Moon was the first of 26 Roy Rogers vehicles directed by fast-action specialist William Witney. The plot...
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1946
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Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll....
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1946
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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The Kid (Duncan Renaldo) masquerades as a government inspector in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, Cisco Kid series...
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1945
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In this suspense story (released as part of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series, named for the popular radio series of the...
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1945
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An interesting idea falls somewhat flat in this average Allan Lane Western, in which the young sister (Twinkle Watts) of a...
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1945
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Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby...
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1945
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In this western, Red Ryder tries to be a good example for a young man who idolizes his father, an outlaw. The boy wants to...
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1945
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Though it's not readily obvious from the title, Lumberjack is the 52nd entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series....
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1944
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Bill Elliot is back as Red Ryder in Cheyenne Wildcat. Also back are Ryder's perennial cohorts Little Beaver (Bobby Blake,...
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1944
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This mystery is set upon the mighty Mississippi and within the dark bayous of Louisiana. Originally it was a 13- episode...
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1944
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William Boyd once again dons the disguise of a fop in this average entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" western...
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1944
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1944
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An above-average entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series, the enigmatically titled Mystery Man opens with...
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Bert Rogan
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1944
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Popular latter-day serial queen Linda Stirling starred in the title role in this well-made 12 chapter serial produced by...
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1944
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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1943
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Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as...
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1943
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Another of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the...
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1943
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1943
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In this drama, set during the gold-rush, an unsuccessful prospector prepares to leave Alaska. But first he has a grand,...
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1942
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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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1942
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1941
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It's hard to believe that Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a Warner Bros. picture-and harder still to believe that Constance Bennett...
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1941
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In this drama, a young heiress finds trouble when she naively assumes control over some valuable timberlands. The trouble...
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1941
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In this drama, a South American planter and his neighbors find themselves plagued by vandals who have been destroying their...
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Cesar
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1941
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1941
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Roy Rogers plays an outlaw out to avenge the murder of his brother in this fine Republic Western directed by one of the...
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1940
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In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic...
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1940
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In this comedy-adventure two petroleum engineers must investigate strange reports from a Company outpost in the South Seas....
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Gaddi Sang
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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"Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. When...
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1940
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Warren William is back as suave thief-turned-sleuth Michael Lanyard, alias the Lone Wolf, in Columbia's The Lone Wolf Keeps a...
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1940
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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an...
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1940
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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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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This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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Based on a classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, this melodrama chronicles the desperate attempt of a painter to finish his...
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1939
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In this western, a federal marshal is jumped and robbed while en route to Gunsight. He immediately follows the bandit, a...
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1938
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1938
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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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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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1938
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In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an...
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1937
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This standard crime meller from the Columbia assembly line stars Paul Kelly as police lieutenant Tony Roberts. Hoping to...
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1937
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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In this actioner, an auto racer becomes a cab driver for a company that is being strong-armed by avaricious gangsters trying...
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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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In this detective adventure, a young woman is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her boss and takes off for Spain...
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1937
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Warner Baxter does a variation of his Oscar-winning "Cisco Kid" characterization in Robin Hood of El Dorado. Baxter plays the...
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1936
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Joan Bennett is a manicurist who becomes a newspaper reporter. She joins forces with jaunty detective Cary Grant to get the...
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1936
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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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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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1936
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1935
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Star Reb Russell was an all-American football player who tried to make it as a movie cowboy. There were three things standing...
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1935
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Poverty-row director Wallace Fox came up in the world a bit when he signed on to helm RKO Radio's Red Morning. Steffi Duna,...
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1935
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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1935
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1935
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Perhaps the best of Mascot Pictures' feature-film releases, Ladies Crave Excitement is also one of the fastest 69 minutes...
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1935
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1934
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1934
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1934
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The fourth and last of Columbia's "Inspector Trent" mysteries, Girl in Danger once more stars Ralph Bellamy as the...
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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Taking a break from westerns during the 1933-34 season, Colonel Tim McCoy was starred in such Columbia "easterners" as...
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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In this comedy, an experienced newspaperman caves in to the constant badgering of his thoughtless family and ends up losing...
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1934
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William Gargan plays his first movie detective (but definitely not his last) in Columbia's The Lineup. The hero, a gumshoe...
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1934
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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1934
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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1934
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Tom Mix goes up against a ruthless gang of rustlers headed by a crooked army colonel in this, his penultimate Western for...
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Tad McPherson
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1933
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1933
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Tall, steely-eyed Tom Tyler makes a physically impressive RCMP officer in Honor of the Mounted. Tyler manages to "get his...
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1932
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Caesar the wolf dog gets into big trouble when the wicked humans brand him a killer in this family adventure. Now he and his...
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Pierre
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1932
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The Russian Revolution provides the backdrop for Paramount's The World and the Flesh. Marked for death by the Bolsheviks, a...
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1932
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Diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele took to the air in this his second-to-last Western for Poverty Row company Sono Art-World...
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Blake
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1932
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1932
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In this WW II drama, the commander of the French cruiser Lafayette is sunk by a German U-boat. Following the rescue of the...
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1932
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Gabby Denton (Edmund Lowe) is a slightly down-on-his-luck bettor with a taste for alcohol and the ladies. To tide himself...
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1932
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Filmed on glorious locations at the foot of California's Mount Whitney by ace cinematographer Archie Stout, this...
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Frank Gavin
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1932
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In this comedy, a bumbling rube from a small town manages to get involved in a gang war. The trouble really begins when one...
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1931
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In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is...
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1931
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1931
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Efficiently assembled by low-budget Monogram Pictures, In the Line of Duty is a serviceable melodrama completely dominated by...
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1931
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An early talkie from then-poverty row company Columbia Pictures, Brothers features popular silent screen actor Bert Lytell in...
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1930
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Joseph Conrad's novel Victory inspired some of this South Sea drama. Alma (Nancy Carroll), a violinist hired to play at an...
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Ricardo
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1930
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1930
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In this lightweight musical comedy, an aspiring songwriter tries to make it big on Broadway. Later his uncle decides to show...
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1930
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The popular silent-film screen team of Richard Arlen and Mary Brian was carried over into talkies with such films as Burning...
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"Bullet" McGhan
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1930
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Like so many campaigners before him, Gary Cooper joins the Foreign Legion to "forget." At a smoky cabaret in Morocco, Cooper...
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1930
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In this romance, an early talkie containing approximately 4 minutes of dialog and a song, a man is paroled from prison...
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1929
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It's a case of mistaken identity in this convoluted comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago...
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Carnation Kid
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1929
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The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director...
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1928
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Director William Wellman's follow-up to Wings was based in part on his own WWI experiences with the Lafayette Flying Corps....
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1928
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1928
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Manueto Silvera
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1927
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The Fox company's greatest asset, Western hero Tom Mix, was badly burned by gunpowder during a fight with co-star...
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Ben Tanner
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1927
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Along with The Desert's Toll, filmed simultaneously at The Big Horn ranch in Montana, this silent Western was producer...
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1927
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The Wreck begins, appropriately enough, with a cataclysmic train crash. One of the survivors is heroine Ann (Shirley Mason),...
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1927
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Battling Butler has to be the strangest of Buster Keaton's silent features. Based on the musical comedy of the same name, the...
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Alfred "Battling" Butler
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1926
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The Temptress was Greta Garbo's second American film, and while it may strike modern viewers as excessively melodramatic,...
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1926
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Milton Sills stars as Nicki, a popular puppeteer who returns from the battlefields of WWI deaf as a post. He soon discovers...
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1926
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While this adventure tale, based on the play by Adolf Paul, was not true to the life of Lola Montez (in fact, the settings...
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1926
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Yellowstone National Park was the setting for this delightful Tom Mix western that also featured a two-color Technicolor...
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Juan Gutierrez
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1926
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1926
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1926
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Considering how unsympathetic Lowell Sherman's character was, this melodrama about Parisian high life made for questionable...
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1925
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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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My Lady of Whims was one of the last of Clara Bow's vehicles for Arrow Productions before the actress' upward move to...
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Rolf
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1925
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This mystery was based on a novel written by 20 popular authors, each of whom contributed a chapter. The point of each...
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1925
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Harold Austin plays an impoverished sailor who poses as a British aristocrat. In this guise, he insinuates himself into the...
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1925
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Mario Bianchi (Monty Banks) says goodbye to his parents (Martha Franklin and D. Mitzoras) and leaves Italy for America. He...
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1924
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Owen Moore was a bit long in tooth when he played the brash young hero of East of Broadway. Peter Mullaney (Moore) has one...
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1924
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This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar...
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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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VictorJohnson
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1924
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Except for the pretty backgrounds, pert Shirley Mason is just about the only bright spark in this otherwise tired and cliché...
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Manuel Solarno
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1923
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The Parisian settings of George Du Maurier's novel were faithfully recreated for this production -- which is more than can be...
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1923
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This farce was based on the musical comedy by Otto A. Harbach and Louis A. Hirsch, which was adapted from the play The...
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Jules Galliard
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1923
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aka The Count of Monte Cristo Much of John Gilbert's early work as a leading man was done at the Fox Studios. He made...
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1922
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About the only thing that separated this Northwoods drama from the other several dozen that were released during 1922 was...
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Pierre
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1922
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Before Paramount produced this well-received version of Edward White's novel Conjurer's House, it had been made into a play...
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Achille Picard
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1921
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Viola Dana, usually known for her flapper roles in light comedies, takes a turn for the dramatic here. Gabriel Palombra...
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1921
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This amusing little romance is based on a novel by Harold McGrath. Alice Gaynor (Elinor Field) lives on a country estate with...
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Galloping Dick
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1921
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Author James Oliver Curwood's tales of the Northwest were made into so many motion pictures that it seems like he alone is...
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1920
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Henry Walthall plays a priest who is duty bound to keep secret a terrible confession in this melodramatic thriller. Father...
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1920
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Nora Nolan (Shirley Mason) is a clerk in a department store. One very hot day she faints and is told by the store's doctor to...
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1919
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When her pickpocket father is sent up the river, Nancy (Olive Thomas) has to provide for her younger sisters. She places them...
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Party Guest
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1919
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This domestic melodrama, released by Fox, was a typical vehicle for Gladys Brockwell. After an argument with her sweetheart,...
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1919
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The story to this likable crook drama was written by playwright Bayard Veiller, who specialized in crime and suspense...
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1919
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Alma Rubens, at the time still a fresh face in motion pictures, starred in this Triangle melodrama. French artistJules Mardon...
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1918
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Real Folks was based on a story by amateur scrivener Kate Corbaley, the winner of a screenwriting contest conducted by...
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1918
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Socialism is given sympathetic, if unrealistic, treatment in this Triangle drama. John Warfield (Joe King) has been raised a...
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1918
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According to The Moving Picture World, "Never jilt a woman who can shoot" was one of the recommended advertising phrases for...
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1918
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