The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once...
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1942
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The box-office success of Paramount's What a Life (1939), coupled with the popularity of the spinoff Henry Aldrich radio...
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1941
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This romance chronicles the relationship between a stuntman and his movie star wife. When a colleague of his is killed on a...
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1940
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Ralph Bellamy made the first of four appearances as fictional sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's...
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the Dead End Kids are freshly out of reform school when they find themselves...
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1939
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In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
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1934
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1933
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1932
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1931
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In this crime drama, a crime lord adopts the little brother of a slain colleague. Later a child-care inspector intervenes,...
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1931
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1930
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1930
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Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, this film was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but it was held...
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1930
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Based on a lugubrious novel by Ludwig Wolff, The Mysterious Lady is a romance/espionage tailored to the talents of...
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1928
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1928
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Another of Goldwyn's successful pairings of Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky, Two Lovers was the last of their co-starring...
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1928
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1927
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Hip-swinging danseuse Gilda Gray, the girl who created the late-'20s dance craze "The Shimmy," plays the provocatively...
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1927
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This was the most popular of the many silent adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' famous story of a courtesan who finds true love...
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1927
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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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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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Ramon Novarro and Barbara LaMarr, the featured players who made such an impression in The Prisoner of Zenda, reunite in this...
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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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1924
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In the early 1920s Fred Niblo was known for directing adventure films -- he had already done Mark of Zorro and The Three...
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1923
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This "real life" drama starred some of the best second-string talent at Metro, and first-class screenwriter Frances Marion...
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Wealthy Julia Long (Mabel Trunelle) is in love with a poor boy, but Julia's snobbish mother (Helen Strickland) forces her...
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1922
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1922
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This comedy-drama starring Anita Stewart was unusual in that instead of marrying the handsome leading man, the heroine winds...
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1922
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1922
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1921
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Grace Merrill (the vampy Louise Glaum) works as a shill in a gambling hall. Her five roommates are even less honestly...
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1920
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Too preoccupied with business matters to entertain his restless young wife Blanche (Lillian Kemble, Robert Probet...
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1920
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Not only does Louise Glaum perform a seductive "Spider Dance" in this provocatively titled but deeply moralistic melodrama,...
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1920
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1920
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Hairpins stars Enid Bennett as Muriel Rossmore, a housewife who has let her appearance go to seed. Muriel's husband Rex...
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1920
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Newspaperwoman Betsy Thorne (Enid Bennett) is sent to investigate a mysterious situation -- a woman, Dolores Arnold (Dorcas...
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1919
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Although the plot to this melodrama is pretty routine -- a man wrongly accused of murder is convicted but then proven...
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1919
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Housewife June Hillary (Enid Bennett) has become a drudge; her husband Robert (Niles Welch) is a bank clerk who makes 25...
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1919
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1919
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This drama, which was based on a Saturday Evening Post story, paints a particularly black portrait of "Reds," or Bolsheviks....
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1919
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1919
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In this comedy/melodrama, Enid Bennett plays Nora, an actress with a struggling touring company. While they are performing...
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1918
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1918
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1918
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