Producer George A. Hirliman attempted to revive the popular "Rex, King of Wild Horses" films of the 1920s with his 1938...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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Universal's newest singing cowboy Bob Baker heads the cast of Border Wolves. The film starts off like gangbusters, with an...
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1938
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1938
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1937
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Veteran western star Buck Jones both co-produced (with Lesley Selander) and directed this well-mounted Universal B-Western...
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1937
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Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn...
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Kit Kress
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1937
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This above-average Johnny Mack Brown Western from A.W. Hackel's low-budget Supreme Pictures features the bizarre spectacle of...
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Gibbs
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1936
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Filmed in two weeks at Red Rock Canyon and Lone Pine, California, Hop-Along Cassidy was the opener of one of the best -- and...
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1935
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The 1933 Fox production Smoky was the first of three film adaptations of the classic Will James novel. James himself served...
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Jeff Nicks
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1933
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Dolores Del Rio plays Dolores in Girl of the Rio -- which, one supposes, makes perfect sense. The heroine is a cabaret dancer...
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1932
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In this western, a Pony Express rider believes himself to be a Native American. The trouble begins when an Anglo outlaw...
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1932
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Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is...
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1931
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In this WW I comedy, several young men decide to join the army. Each one has his own reason for joining up. Songs include:...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Lightnin' is based on the 1918 stage play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, in which Bacon (the father of director...
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1930
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In this western based on a novel by Zane Grey, Buck Duane (George O'Brien) is a cowboy who is forced to kill a man in an act...
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1930
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In this drama, a convict breaks out of jail and winds up going to college. There he joins the rowing team and helps them to...
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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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1929
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1929
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Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the...
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1929
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Universal's top western ace, the charming Hoot Gibson, starred in this average oater about a young man who goes undercover as...
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1929
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In this high seas adventure, a shipload of smugglers decide to mutiny and end up tossing their captain and his officers into...
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1929
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Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (or is it all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic...
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1929
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The 1929 Wall Street crash was still two months in the future when Warner Bros.' Gamblers was released in the late summer of...
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1929
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Heart of the Yukon was one of director W.S. Van Dyke's last independent films before he began his lengthy association with...
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"Old Skin Full"
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1927
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Douglas MacLean, who made his mark during the 1920s as a light comedian, stars as a Marine sergeant in this comedy-drama,...
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The Major of Marines
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1927
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Mayor Robbins
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1927
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Long thought lost, the silent Three Bad Men is an vital ingredient in the cinematic canon of director John Ford. Often...
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1926
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1926
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Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
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1926
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With Mack Swain and Arthur Houseman in the cast, it's obvious that this murder mystery-melodrama has a lot of comic relief....
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1926
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One of cowboy star Tom Mix's best films for the Fox company, No Man's Gold was, according to the trade magazine Variety, "a...
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Frank Healy
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1926
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When a film vehicle was needed for heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, his producers wisely decided to use the story from a...
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1925
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Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford (Thomas Meighan) marries Alice Rand (Lila Lee), the daughter of his boss, John...
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Shackleton
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1925
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1925
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Pulp writer Bret Harte's The Idyll of Red Gulch was turned into a fine Harry Carey Western vehicle by producer...
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1925
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This routine Warner Brothers melodrama was based on the novel by Ruth Cross. Country girl Molly Shannon (Helene Chadwick)...
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Split-Ticket Dillworth
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1925
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1925
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Stampede Smith
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1924
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Pulp writer Henry Herbert Knibb wrote the original story of this silent Hoot Gibson western, which enjoyed an above-average...
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1924
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This is a rather confusing silent Western melodrama in which Jack Mills (Buck Jones) comes to the aid of a friend, Bud Loupel...
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Banker Rand
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1924
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Bunyan (Wesley Barry, who was too old for former child roles, but too young to be a credible adult) works as a garage...
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1924
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This melodrama was personally supervised by producer Thomas Ince, and, depending on how one looked at it, it was either...
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1924
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Based on a 1922 Western Story Magazine short-story by George Owen Baxter, this fine silent Western featured the spectacle of...
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1923
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Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man...
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Blue
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1923
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Crittendon Mariott's vivid story formed a wonderful basis for the atmospheric filmmaking talents of Maurice Tourneur. The...
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Det. Jackson
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1923
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While this isn't one of director John Ford's best early efforts, it does feature a thrilling storm and shipwreck. Gladys...
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Mark Lezzard
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1923
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For this tale of old California, producer Benjamin F. Zeidman put together an all-star cast. The governor of California...
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1923
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1923
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Cowboy star Tom Mix takes a break from the far West to play a rancher headed for the far North in this action-adventure....
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Cameron McDonald
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1923
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With a screenplay by Howard Hawks and direction by Jack Conway, this Mexican border tale couldn't possibly have been anything...
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1923
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Western star Tom Mix's wonder horse, Tony, took center stage in this fine silent oater directed by Lynn F. Reynolds for the...
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1922
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Buck Courtney
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1922
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When he made this film, Lon Chaney's fame was already established, but he was only inches away from superstardom -- a few...
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1922
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In this creaky, old-fashioned melodrama, Dustin Farnum plays a man who is too heroic to be believed. Two cousins, good guy...
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Jerry Smallbones
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1922
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Paramount starred Agnes Ayers for the first time in this tragedy, adapted from the novel by Sir Gilbert Parker....
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Tardiff
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1922
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This drama was "personally produced" by film star Betty Compson. Berenice Arnold (Compson) spends her time trying to keep her...
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1921
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Cinema veteran Benjamin B. Hampton produced this fanciful silent western starring his wife Claire Adams as a girl forced to...
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Henry Hooper
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1921
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Director Allan Dwan does the best he can with middling material in this routine drama. When Arnold Barry (Niles Welch)...
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1921
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1921
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Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's second Paramount feature is light years better than his first, The Round Up. Here, he plays...
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1920
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This lively silent romantic comedy was the second film made by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for the new United Artists company. Much...
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1920
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1919
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Teddy Drake (Douglas Fairbanks) is an idle clubman who wakes up to the fact that he's incredibly selfish. He wants to see...
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1919
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1919
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1919
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Silent star Douglas Fairbanks made a rare visit to the director's chair (accompanied by his friend and frequent collaborator...
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1918
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In what is perhaps one of his lesser vehicles, Douglas Fairbanks plays a Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman who impersonates a...
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Spanish Joe
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1918
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The effervescent Douglas Fairbanks Sr. plays the title role in Mr. Fix-It. Doug plays an American college boy, studying in...
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1918
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1918
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Although a solid supporting cast helps, the buoyant personality of Douglas Fairbanks is the main asset in this slight Arabian...
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1918
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Daydreaming clerk Douglas Fairbanks discovers that he's of royal blood. In fact, if his information is correct, he's next in...
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1917
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Rancher Warren Bronson (Herbert Standing) is plagued by cattle rustlers, so he gets Western detective Fancy Jim Sherwood...
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1917
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Douglas Fairbanks Sr. stars as Ned Thacker, who is born during a Kansas cyclone (coincidentally the same manner in which...
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1917
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Marie Doro, inarguably one of the most beautiful actresses of her era, was the sole raison d'etre for the 1916 Triangle...
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1916
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Allan Dwan was the producer-screenwriter and D.W. Griffith the supervising director of the Northwoods melodrama Jordan is a...
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1915
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