American-International's Beach Party series came to an abrupt end with Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. Because of such...
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1966
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The famed Henrik Ibsen play about a legendary traveler embarking upon a dangerous journey was the basis for the 1941 silent...
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1965
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At the behest of the family of the missing Alice Bradley (Sheila Bromley), Paul Drake (William Hopper) tracks the woman down...
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1964
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In this off-beat sci-fi adventure an astronaut must make a forced landing upon a remote asteroid. His ship is damaged and he...
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1961
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When Louisa Holbrook leaves $10,000,000 to her teeange daughter Trudy (Ann Benton), two different men appear out of nowhere,...
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1960
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Seven-year-old Peggy Smith (Laurie Perreau) has spent most of her life at the exclusive Westcroft Boarding School. Her...
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1960
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Bumping along over several flaws, this is an odd sci-fi film directed by David Bradley, best known for his incredibly vast...
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1960
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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1957
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1954
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Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the...
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1952
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The "B"-western field of the 1950s was laid low by increasing budgets and decreasing box-office appeal. Gene Autry's series...
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1952
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Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film...
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1951
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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1951
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Technically a reedit of the 1933 serial The Three Musketeers, this 1946 feature stars The Duke himself, John Wayne, as Tom,...
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1946
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1944
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In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive...
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1942
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By PRC Studios standards, Mr. Celebrity is decidedly an "all-star" picture. The title character is a prize race horse,...
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1942
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Chester Gould's jut-jawed plainclothesman Dick Tracy first came to the screen in this 15-chapter Republic serial. Ralph Byrd...
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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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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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In this comedy, an ambassador becomes terribly angry after he learns that a wealthy British financier has offered to pay a...
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1932
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A devoted valet takes a vacation in this lively drama. After 15 years of faithful service, he has earned it. He goes to...
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Bannister
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1930
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One of the most overworked plots of the silent era was the one about an Eastern wastrel who toughens up on a Western ranch....
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Canby
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1930
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In this melodrama, one of the earliest talkies, an unhappy clown retires from the circus and turns to horticulture. He is so...
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The Man
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1930
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Based on William McLeod Raine's 1917 novel The Yukon Trail, a Tale of the North, this long-lost silent melodrama featured...
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1928
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1928
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Banker John Caswell (Francis X. Bushman), a wealthy widower, decides to leave his scheming mistress Irene (Margaret...
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1928
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Scott R. Dunlap, later a prolific and highly respected B-western producer, held the directorial reins in Midnight Life....
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Jim Logan
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1928
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1927
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The Lady in Ermine was based on the Rudolph Schanzer-Ernest Wellisch operetta of the same name. Corinne Griffith stars as...
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General Dostal
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1927
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Francis X. Bushman, who had made a comeback two years previously as Messala in Ben Hur, was still trying to hang onto stardom...
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Henry Desmond
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1927
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Though his glory days as a matinee idol were well behind him in 1926, Francis X. Bushman cut quite a dashing figure in the...
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Barry Townsend
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1926
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This silent drama is based on a story by Ernest Grayman and is set in a military academy. There a young man toils in the...
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1926
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Perhaps the best known film produced by the little poverty row company Goodwill, this is a typical 1920s haunted house...
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1926
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The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version...
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Messala
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1925
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In the 1920s, when a motion picture featured an Apache, it wasn't referring to Native Americans but to denizens of the...
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Bruce Gordon
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1925
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Viennese doctor Monte Blue is madly in love with his wife Florence Vidor--so much so that many suspect that they aren't...
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1924
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1923
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When Hannibal Pillsbury (David Butler) loses his job as cook at a lumber camp, he goes down to New York's Greenwich Village...
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1920
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1919
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The romantic duo (both onscreen and in real life) of Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne play for comedy here -- a far cry...
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1918
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Like many another adventure film of the era, With Neatness and Dispatch was based on a Saturday Evening Post story by...
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1918
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1918
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This drama featuring real-life couple Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne was based on "The Woolworth Diamonds," a story by...
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1918
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1918
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Only the manly presence of Francis X. Bushman saved Red, White and Blue Blood from being as silly as its title. The...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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After a woman has destroyed his life, James Van Dyke Moore (Francis X. Bushman) travels out West. He operates a silver mine...
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1917
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The leading romantic team of the 1910s, on as well as off the screen, Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne experienced a...
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1917
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Compiled by the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry and distributed to theaters across the United States,...
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1917
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1916
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Foreign powers keep getting their hands on U.S. military secrets, so the head of the American diplomatic corps calls in his...
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1916
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1916
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1916
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When banker Kendall fails in business, his college-educated son (Francis X. Bushman) is forced to join the Army. He works his...
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1916
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This picture has touches of that allegorical affectation so popular in the 1910s, making it appear slightly ridiculous to...
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1916
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In this fast-paced silent comedy, the heart of a handsome Yankee socialite is stolen by a comely Canadian lass. The trouble...
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1915
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Having lost his hearing, a famous violinist despondently flees into the mountains in this outdoors melodrama produced by...
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1915
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Handsome silent screen matinee idol Francis X. Bushman once again donned a dashing uniform in this romantic melodrama set...
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1915
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Providence and Mrs. Urmy is of note as the last of the Francis X. Bushman films to be released by the Essanay Film...
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1915
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1915
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An outright farce produced in Chicago by the Essanay company, this film was set in the country of Morovenia, where fat women...
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1915
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George Barr McCutcheon's popular novel, Graustark: The Story of a Love Behind a Throne, reached the screen in May of 1915...
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1915
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Although his character doesn't play a big part in the storyline, mid-1910s matinee idol Francis X. Bushman still gets top...
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1915
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The acting team of Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne (who also became a romantic team in real life) was still new when...
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1915
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1915
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A series of mysteries were produced in conjunction with short stories that ran in The Ladies' World magazine; this one is the...
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1914
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1914
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In 1914 The Ladies' World magazine held a screenwriting contest and the fourth prize winner was Mrs. Wilson Woodrow (no...
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1914
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The Ladies' World magazine held a writing contest and the winning entries were made into films by Essanay Studios....
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1914
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Ladies World magazine held a contest in which they ran several mystery stories. The winners had to come up with the best...
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1914
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1914
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Although already a matinee idol, handsome Francis X. Bushman reportedly won the leading role in this very popular adventure...
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1914
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1914
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While gathering ideas for a new book, an author (Francis X. Bushman) falls into a precipice in this typical outdoors...
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1914
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Granite-jawed matinee idol Francis X. Bushman (misidentified as "Francis Bushnell" by the Variety reviewer) was the star of...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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In its short-lived heyday, the Chicago-headquartered Essanay Film Manufacturing Company would frequently base a major film on...
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1914
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1914
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Called to the scene of a coal-mine explosion, the Rev. Stanley Waters (Francis X. Bushman) attempts to rescue the survivors....
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