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Mr. Davis
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1928
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Richard Dix's star power goes a long way towards assuring the success of Easy Come, Easy Go. Dix plays radio announcer Robert...
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Mr Quayle
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1928
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Jeremiah Shore
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1928
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Taking time out from his fine series of historical westerns, Colonel Tim McCoy starred in this action melodrama set in China...
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U.S. Minister Conger
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1927
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Colonel Tim McCoy's third western for MGM starred the former Indian sign language interpreter as an army captain facing...
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Don Carlos del Rey
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1927
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In this lavishly produced MGM production, the ethereal Lillian Gish is a bit more earthy than normal, due in part to the...
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1927
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Prof Arndt
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1927
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The Tim McCoy western Winners of the Wilderness was shot simultaneously with McCoy's War Paint, using the same locations for...
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1927
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Based on a novel by Kathleen Morris, The Callahans and the Murphys was the first of several MGM films costarring veteran...
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Grandpa Callahan
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1927
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Amidst much fanfare, Lillian Gish was signed to a fabulous MGM contract in 1925 which not only assured her $400,000 per...
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1926
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Men of Steel was the last of Milton Sills' four starring films in 1926. Sills plays Jan Bokak, a self-educated steelworker...
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Zachary Pitt
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1926
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Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused...
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The Colonel
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1926
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Dr. Livingston
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1926
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A tough-as-nails Marine sergeant sets about training a rag-tag group of boys into men. Though sporting a rough and gruff...
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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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1925
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Although MGM was known for its streamlined, quality pictures, that didn't mean all its product was glossy, high-budget stuff....
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Saul MacFarlane
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1925
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On a train traveling from the West, Grenfall Lorry, an American (Eugene O'Brien), meets the mysterious and beautiful Yetive...
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1925
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Because Little Old New York was so successful, MGM and newspaper/sometime film magnate William Randolph Hearst decided to put...
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Lambert de Rhonde
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1925
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1925
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The Paramount backlot doubled as Basque country for this romantic comedy which proved to be a nice showcase for Richard Dix....
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Richard Gaylord, Sr
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1925
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Tom Mix always had a love for comedy -- if not always the wherewithal -- and The Heart Buster must have disappointed the...
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1924
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1924
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After the death of her father, Marise La Noue (Enid Bennett) can find no safe haven, so she runs off to Paris with Jean...
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Hugo Leonnec
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1924
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Darius Carpenter (Frank Currier) prides respectability above all else, and he's not thrilled when his son, Charles...
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1924
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After becoming an unwed mother, Joline Hofer (Viola Dana) is cast out of her father's house. After placing her baby in a...
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Prior
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1924
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Although the plot to this romance was complicated, the actors didn't have all that much to do, which was just as well; the...
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1924
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This 12-reel silent adaptation of The Sea Hawk is far more faithful to the Rafael Sabatini original than the 1940...
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1924
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The independently produced The Fog was adapted from a popular novel by William Dudley Pelly. Idealistic young Nathan Forge...
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1923
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Jazz babies and gents danced and partied their way through dozens upon dozens of motion pictures during the Roaring Twenties....
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1923
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The title character of this comedy-drama suggests that archetype of the Roaring Twenties -- a brash, ambitious, and likable...
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1923
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This mediocre comedy-drama starred Herbert Rawlinson as an impoverished nobleman turned pugilist. Lord Waring (Frank Currier)...
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1923
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Paramount gave their newest star, an adolescent Douglas Fairbanks Jr., every advantage in his film debut. As support, young...
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Dr. Lyman Black
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1923
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Madalyn Harlan (Estelle Taylor), the daughter of wealthy socialites, falls in love with the chauffeur Jerry Ryan...
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1923
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May Allison was making something of a comeback in this picture -- she'd been away from the screen for some time....
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Don Fernando Casablanca
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1922
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When author Fannie Hurst suggested that married couples would be happier if they kept separate residences, it titillated...
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David Mayfair
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1922
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Other than the title, this horseracing melodrama had little to do with the Stephen Foster song. Kentucky native Richard...
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1922
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Post-World War I youth were a different breed from prior generations, and this drama, adapted from the Cosmo Hamilton story,...
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1922
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Sam Willetts
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1921
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Director Marshall Neilan proved to be a little ahead of his time when he made this satirical comedy-drama, based on the book...
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The Dean
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1921
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Douglas MacLean and Doris May made a number of popular light comedies in the late 1910s and early '20s. In the spirit of...
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Dad
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1921
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Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son...
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The Reverend Marlowe
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1921
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Bert Lytell stars in this slightly absurd romantic comedy. When Bedford Mills (Lytell) returns from the Great War (or World...
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St. John Jessop
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1921
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There is a shipwreck near a small fishing village, and one of the survivors is the wealthy Clarissa Sedgwick (Lydia Knott)....
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1920
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In spite of an all-star cast and the talents of director Marshall Neilan, there wasn't much that could be done with this...
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1919
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Bert Lytell stars in this breezy light comedy. Jimmie Slocum (Lytell) can't stay out of trouble, and his father (Frank...
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1919
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In this atmospheric Chinese tale, (Alla Nazimova) plays Mahlee, a half-white, half-Chinese girl educated in Western ways by...
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1919
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Alla Nazimova went from heavy-handed dramatic spectaculars to light comedy-drama with this picture, based on a hit play by...
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1919
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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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1917
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When her father is ruined, a society girl (Emmy Wehlen) flees to Texas where she falls for a recovering alcoholic playboy...
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1917
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Cassidy stars Dick Rosson, brother of the film's director Arthur Rosson, in the title role. The story is set in the West,...
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1917
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In the later stages of his career, Lionel Barrymore was often cast as an irascible millionaire plagued with irresponsible...
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1917
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Juggernaut might be better known today if it hadn't had the bad luck to open the same week as D.W. Griffith's super-spectacle...
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1915
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1914
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