To say that ace stuntman Richard Talmadge was invariably better than his movie vehicles is small praise, indeed, since most...
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1931
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In this romance, an organ grinder falls in love with a corrupt mayor's daughter. The mayor, worried that the organ grinder...
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Joe
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1929
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The plot of Silent Sentinel is motivated by the villain, an outwardly respectable banker. Heading a clever gang of thieves,...
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1929
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1929
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Several years before organizing Invincible Pictures, producer George Batcheller was releasing his product through...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Jewish comedian George Sidney stars as the title character in The Auctioneer. Sidney also doubles as a pawnbroker, which...
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Dick Eagan
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1927
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Whirlwind of Youth was taken (as far as possible, apparently) from Soundings, a novel by Hamilton Gibbs. Impulsive...
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1927
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Heroes in Blue is predicated on the rivalry between two Irish-American clans. Sally Rand, the daughter of one family, falls...
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1927
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According to critics of the day, the sentimentality of this crook drama was a bit too much even for the 1920s, when mother...
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Dick Foster
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1926
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This melodrama, which starred Lila Lee, had quite a few names in the cast that were well known at the time but are largely...
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1925
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The second version of novelist Henry Herbert Knibbs' western romance Overland Red, previously filmed in 1920 under that title...
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1924
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Childhood sweethearts with lofty goals do not a good Christian lifetime make, in this doomed romance directed by...
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Brother Paul
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1923
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This epic production was the last film that producer and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst produced for Paramount...
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1923
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1923
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The rights to Don Cesar, the novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, were originally purchased by Paramount as a vehicle for Rudolph...
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Lazarillo, an amorer's boy
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1923
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The Willard Mack stage play Kick In starred John Barrymore on Broadway and was made into a motion picture in 1917, with Ouida...
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Benny
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1922
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It's doubtful that any comedian could have pulled off this mixture of farce and slapstick; Gareth Hughes, whose talents were...
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Jimmy Berry
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1922
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Although this drama tugged a little too insistently at the heartstrings, Billie Dove -- still a fresh star -- stands out as...
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The Boy
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1922
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This comedy was based -- as many silent films were -- on a Saturday Evening Post story. Blanche St. George (Eunice Van Moore)...
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Roy St. George/Little Eva
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1922
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Zoe Roberts (Viola Dana) is an aspiring violinist. Living in the same Greenwich Village boarding house is aspiring artist...
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Clov Warwick
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1921
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Veteran leading lady Cleo Madison played a famous stage diva who falls for a struggling young playwright (Gareth Hughes) in...
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1921
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Tommy Sandys (Gareth Hughes) is a poor Scottish boy who has an endless imagination. At the age of 16, he comes to the town of...
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Tommy Sandys
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1921
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Jimmy Humphrey (Gareth Hughes) wakes up in his bathtub. There's a note written on his shirt urging him to buy Jerusalem...
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Jimmy
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1921
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Even though her marriage to Charles Chaplin had long been on the rocks, producer Louis B. Mayer tried to bring in as much box...
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Sigurd
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1920
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When a musical comedy goes to New Haven for a try-out before hitting Broadway, actress Marcia Meadows (Viola Dana) stumbles...
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1920
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice was a favorite children's book of the Victorian era. It was made into a...
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1919
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1919
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Clara Kimball Young stars in this mystical tour de force. She plays a woman who goes to an Oriental fortune teller in an...
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1919
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