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1950
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In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it...
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Regan
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1938
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1938's The Painted Desert borrows the title and precious little else from the 1931 western of the same name. Hero...
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Fawcett
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1938
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In this crime drama, an undercover cop infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by an incarcerated mob boss who conducts his...
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1938
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Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's...
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1938
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Roy Rogers fans were in for a shock in the opening scenes of Billy the Kid Returns--for there was Rogers, playing the title...
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Matson
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1938
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1938
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Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the...
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1937
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Based on Clarence E. Mulford's Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed from 1932, Heart of the West addresses the issue of fences on the...
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1937
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1937
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Fabled Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who hadn't been seen on screen since 1930's Rain or Shine, essayed the title role in...
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1936
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Yet another Zorro imitation, this adventure serial starred Robert Livingston as Don Loring, whose father and brother are...
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Jason Burr
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1936
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Dynamic district attorney Douglas Goodwin (Paul Kelly) has no patience with murderers: his philosophy is "burn them all," and...
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1936
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This drama focuses upon a beleaguered surgeon. He is first involved with a social-climbing fiancee who constantly puts him...
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Brant
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1936
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Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout...
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Bruce Howard
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1936
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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1936
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Westerner Buck Jones heads to the Great White North in Border Brigands. Jones plays Canadian Mountie Tim Barry, who always...
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Conyda
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1935
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1935
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In this drama, a prominent Broadway producer's daughter inherits a fortune when her father dies. Included in the estate is a...
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1935
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In this off-beat outdoor adventure, a courageous Mountie braves the elements and many dangers to deliver mail to remote...
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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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Hard Rock Harrigan is an easygoing George O'Brien actioner with emphasis on comedy and romance. The plot revolves around a...
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Black Jack Riley
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1935
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In this drama, a young boy earns the trust of an especially skittish colt and they form a special bond. Trouble ensues when...
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Deem Dorn
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1935
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Sawtelle
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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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When a lawman infiltrates an outlaw gang, he discovers that his own father is the group's leader. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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Produced by Mitchell Leichter's low-rent Beaumont Pictures, this inexpensive but fairly effective oater was the first of four...
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1935
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Sam Gulden
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1934
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Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an...
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Communist
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1934
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This western is an adaptation of a Zane Grey novel and chronicles the exploits of a simple-minded cowpoke who proves his...
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1933
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1933
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In this musical western, everybody sings, even the outlaws. The story follows a government agent who goes undercover as a...
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1933
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Tom Mix once again goes up against corrupt Fred Kohler in this would-be epic Western filmed on-location at Kanab, UT....
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1933
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A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd is the robust star of this logging camp melodrama which also featured a very young Ginger...
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Hack
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1932
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Lew Grant
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1932
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The 1932 Tom Mix western talkie Texas Bad Man has much in common with the sombre silent efforts by Mix's former rival...
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1932
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In this western, a lawman restores law and order in town. He also stops a greedy horseman from trapping wild stallions with...
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The Horse Trapper
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1932
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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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Lee Murdock
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1931
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In this western adventure set in the Sonora Desert upon the border between Mexico and the US, a marshal is summoned to stop...
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1931
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William A. Wellman's triangle melodrama "The Steel Highway" -- a title referring to the film's railroad setting -- was...
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Haley
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1931
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In this crime drama, the writer of a Broadway newspaper column finds himself accused of murder after a showgirl, who had...
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Riggs
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1931
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Of interest mainly because of the talent involved, this film remains a tepid bootleg melodrama about a small-town football...
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1931
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Joseph Portugais
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1931
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In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and...
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Kampen
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1931
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Comedian Frank Fay and director Michael Curtiz reportedly despised one another at sight, and their mutual animosity tends to...
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1930
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William Wyler was still primarily a western specialist when he was assigned to direct Hell's Heroes. Based on...
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Wild Bill Kearney
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1930
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Jimmy Durante made his movie debut in Roadhouse Nights, a strange amalgam of musical comedy and gangster melodrama. In truth,...
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Sam Horner
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1930
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In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist...
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Peter Harkness
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1930
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Stack
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1930
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A lesser-known effort from director Josef Von Sternberg, The Case of Lena Smith has been unfairly chastised for all the wrong...
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Stefan
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1929
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1929
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Endeavoring to keep her sideshow free from bad elements, an honest carnival owner finds her territory invaded by a gang of...
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Red Moon
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1929
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The popularity of the Universal musical Broadway resulted in a whole slew of minor films with similar titles. In First...
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Perc Gessant
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1929
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Although a humble stable boy, Ben Lyon is a whiz when it comes to medical know-how. This endears Lyon to his boss, Fred...
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1929
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The early Paramount talkie The Dummy represented a collaboration of sorts between screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who...
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Joe Cooper
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1929
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Sal of Singapore contains only two reels' worth of dialogue, but it was enough to prove that Phyllis Haver's decision to...
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Capt. Sunday
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1929
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In this melodrama set in the South, a plantation owner's son finishes his education in Philadelphia and returns to his...
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1929
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The gruff but lovable Wallace Beery starred in this Zane Grey adaptation from Paramount. He plays the prototype outlaw with a...
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Boss Stone
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1929
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Joe's Cellmate
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1929
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Often misrepresented as an entry in Paramount's Zane Grey series, Showdown is actually based on a novel by Houston Branch. In...
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Winter
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1928
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A criminal with a conscience will go to any lengths to give his daughter a better life in this silent drama. "Heliotrope...
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Number 1309
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1928
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"Gabby" Steve
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1928
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This silent Paramount Zane Grey Western marked the screen debut of the then 7-year-old Tim Holt. Young Tim's father,...
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Sheriff Murdock
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1928
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Critics in 1928 often commented on the near-oriental facial features of popular screen comedian Johnny Hines (political...
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1928
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When Cecil B. DeMille's own production company was absorbed by Pathe in 1928, several DeMille contractees went along for the...
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Heckla
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1928
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That indefatigable old trouper Hobart Bosworth topped the cast of the Columbia "B"-plus feature The Blood Ship. The villain...
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First Mate
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1927
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1927
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Dick Hardman
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1927
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Produced on the very cheap by Sanford F. Arnold, this minor silent Northwest melodrama featured 1922 WAMPAS Baby Star...
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1927
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Underworld opens with a series of title cards setting its mood, telling of "a great city in the dead of night...streets...
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"Buck" Mulligan
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1927
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The freewheeling direction of Gregory LaCava helps to enliven the otherwise standard actioner The Gay Defender. Decked out...
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Jake Hamby
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1927
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Made during Hollywood's first "gangster cycle," The City Gone Wild stars Thomas Meighan as an honest prosecuting attorney....
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Gunner Gallagher
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1927
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This was Emil Jannings' first American-made picture, and his portrayal is reminiscent of his characters in his previous...
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The Tough
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1927
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Paramount Pictures used the Zane Grey adaptation Open Range as a showcase for its newest western star (and potential...
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1927
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1927
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Reed Howes, the original Arrow Collar man, stars in the action-packed Danger Quest. Set amongst the African diamond mines,...
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1926
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1926
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A robust potboiler from Universal, The Ice Flood stars Kenneth Harlan as Jack De Quincey, a handsome youth returning from...
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"Couyar" Kid
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1926
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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1926
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1925
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Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the...
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1925
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Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The...
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1925
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Cowboy ace Tom Mix allowed himself a change of pace with this costume adventure produced by Fox. Mix plays the legendary...
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1925
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1924
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This epic covers all of Lincoln's life. His birth in a blizzard; his boyhood (depicted by Danny Hey as young Lincoln); his...
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1924
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John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on...
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Deroux
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1924
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Not one of Hollywood's leading thespians, burly action star Jack Hoxie plays both father and son in Fighting Fury. When the...
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1924
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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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Armond LeMoir
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1923
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This Western starring Jack Hoxie) has all the typical elements one would expect: the mortgaged ranch, cattle rustlers, a...
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Thos. Jeffries
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1923
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This is not the 1919 Swedish picture, but an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, That Lass o' Lowrie's. It takes...
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Spring
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1923
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This 1923 Hollywood thriller The Eleventh Hour should not be confused with the like-vintage British melodrama of same name....
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1923
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This adventurous story-within-a-story was based on a novel by Gouverneur Morris. Parrish (Richard Dix), a young author,...
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1922
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We'd like to find an Ethel M. Dell novel that wasn't made into a British silent film. Dell's The Eleventh Hour relates the...
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1922
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Just about all the major players in this romance were miscast here; in the 1920s heavy ethnic characterizations (offensive as...
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1922
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Edith Roberts improbably stars as an Indian maiden in this Northwoods drama, based on the story by Jack London. Prospector...
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Malemute Kid
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1922
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A seafaring action melodrama based on a 1905 novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Partners of the Tide starred future cowboy hero...
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1921
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1921
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Eddie Hayes (Joe Bennett) is the son of police inspector Hayes (Charles Arling), but that doesn't stop him from becoming...
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1921
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Polly Hopkins (Mildred Harris) belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at...
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1920
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