Adapted by playwright John Patrick from a novel by famed globetrotter/filmmaker John H. Secondari, Three Coins in the...
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1954
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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around...
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1950
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Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a...
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1949
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This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance...
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1943
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All expense was spared in bringing this sleazy "exposé" to the screen. It's all about Mrs. Miller (Martha Chapin), the...
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1937
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Groucho Marx received co-writer credit (along with his old friend Norman Krasna) for King and the Chorus Girl, though very...
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1937
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The notorious Orient Express provides the setting for this romance involving two rival reporters in pursuit of a munitions...
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1937
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Puritan Pictures, a poverty-row operation devoted in the main to Tim McCoy westerns, turned out a few diverting murder...
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1937
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1936
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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1936
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The second of three serials produced by the Weiss Bros. for low-budget Stage and Screen Productions, The Clutching Hand...
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1936
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In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a...
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1936
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An airborne serial killer terrorizes a group of war veterans in this ultra-cheap but fairly engrossing whodunit produced by...
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1936
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The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the...
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1936
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"Suggested" by the notorious trial of gangster Lucky Luciano, this typical low-budget sexploitation-melodrama came complete...
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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1936
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This big-budget 1936 RKO Studios picture lost money, perhaps due to a cool box-office reception to the idea of leading lady...
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1935
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The old British musical-hall ditty "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" provides the title for this lightweight...
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1935
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In this drama, Joe Tomasso, a slightly corrupt gambler, goes completely straight after he catches an orphan hanging around...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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1932
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1931
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She Got What She Wanted was director James Cruze's second "special" for Tiffany Pictures in 1930. Betty Compson, previously...
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1930
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Just before settling into bit roles and dialogue-director assignments, early-talkie leading man David Newell headed the cast...
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1930
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1930
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In this romantic adventure, a feisty young woman (Velez) toys with the affections of a railroad worker (Withers) and a...
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1930
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Boris
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1930
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Broken Barriers was produced by Excellent Pictures, which did not necessarily describe the quality of the film. Gaston Glass...
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1929
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A good cast was wasted in this poor silent melodrama about a young wastrel, Frank Clayton (Gaston Glass), who engages a fake...
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1929
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A horse and a dog play the lead roles in this inexpensive silent Western produced and directed by Harry S. Webb....
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Norman Bard
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1929
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Bell Cameron
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1929
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Behind Closed Doors was one of the last silent films released by Columbia Pictures. Set in a mythical Slavic country, the...
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1929
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Joe Arnold
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1928
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Produced by poverty row company Mayfair and directed by Arthur Hotaling, a hold-over from the early silent era, this obscure...
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1928
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The basic plot of Wife's Relations involves the romance between heroine Shirley Mason and erstwhile inventor Gaston Glass....
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1928
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Arthur Reade
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1928
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Small-towner David Warren (Gaston Glass) is forced to leave his community after accidentally causing the death of a local...
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David Warren
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1928
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Gaston Glass stars in this fast-moving melodrama as dashing Parisian pickpocket Bibi-Ri. Filching one purse too many, our...
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Bibi-Ri
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1928
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A low-budget drama with high-budget pretensions, The Love Wager begins by focusing on the relationship between care-worn...
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1927
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1927
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That creaky old Ralph Spence stage comedy-melodrama The Gorilla was given the first of its four screen treatments in 1927....
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1927
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The Stranger
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1926
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There's very little jazz in Jazz Girl, and not a whole lot of logic, either. Edith Roberts stars as lady detective Janet...
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Rodney Blake
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1926
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Exclusive Rights was inspired by Invisible Government, a story by Jerome N. Wilson. The central character is a crooked...
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Flash Fleming
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1926
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Ostensibly based on a story by pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this Northwest melodrama from independent producer...
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1926
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Bronx-born Sadie Herman (Dorothy Mackaill) works in the fur department of Sak's Fifth Avenue. Surrounded by so many expensive...
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Fred Perry
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1926
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It's a little hard to believe that James Oliver Curwood wrote all the stories attributed to him on film. Allegedly inspired...
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1926
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Louisville gal Mary Santley (Edith Roberts) defies her father's wishes and heads to New York, seeking fame and fortune as a...
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John Worthington
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1926
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The title Romance of a Million has precisely nothing to do with the plot. Glenn Hunter stars as a lifelong reformatory inmate...
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1926
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Produced by Hunt Stromberg for Producers Distributing Corp., this silent Western melodrama starred the veteran Harry Carey as...
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1925
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When Alice Lake switched from comedy to dramatic roles, it was not necessarily a wise career move. Today, if Lake is...
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1925
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The performance of the up-and-coming Renée Adorée stands out in this routine melodrama. In fact, she overshadows the two...
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Jacques
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1925
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A minor mystery melodrama, producer Philip Goldstone's creaky The Verdict employed the oldest cliché of them all. Yes, the...
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1925
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Financed to a great extent by local businessmen and historical societies, this Colorado-lensed silent western once again...
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1925
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This programmer came out of Columbia, which, during the 1920s, was just another Poverty Row studio. Cyrus Browning (Robert...
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1925
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Having starred in several William Steiner Production melodramas, former serial ace Charles Hutchison went behind the camera...
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Dickie Thane
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1925
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Arthur Trevelyan (Gaston Glass) spends his life partying and one of his revels ends in a wedding ceremony. His father (Thomas...
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Arthur Trevelyon
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1924
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Helene Chadwick, Gaston Glass, and a relative newcomer to the screen named Basil Rathbone were the stars of this...
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Andy
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1924
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Daniel Harrington
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1924
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In this silent tale of deception and redemption, a cocky youth returns to his hometown filled with thrilling, totally...
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Oswald Lane
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1923
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One of the opening titles to this drama was "A mother-in-law is just a mother with another child to love" -- rather an...
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David Wingate
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1923
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Gaston Glass and Vola Vale star in this melodrama about a young woman sent to prison for her association with a robbery that...
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1923
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1923
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This society drama only existed to give moviegoers of the Roaring Twenties a chance to see the wealthy behave scandalously in...
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Gerard Welden
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1923
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The 1920s version of women's liberation had nothing to do with women having equal pay for equal work -- it meant that a wife...
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Clinton Ferris
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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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Don Marcello
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1923
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Except for one low-budget production, Miriam Cooper had been away from the screen for over a year when she signed up with...
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Ray Underhill
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1923
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This mediocre drama laid on the pathos in an attempt to draw in the sentimental audiences of the early '20s. Amos Tilden...
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David Tilden
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1922
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This romantic drama carried a spiritual theme. In a small rural town next to a lumber camp, two outcasts become friends --...
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Ames
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1922
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For a director with less-than-stellar talents, Louis J. Gasnier certainly led a charmed life for a while, something attested...
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Juan Camillo
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1922
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aka The Count of Monte Cristo Much of John Gilbert's early work as a leading man was done at the Fox Studios. He made...
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1922
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Ever-ebullient Shirley Mason is ideally cast in Little Miss Smiles. This is the story of a just-getting-by Jewish family in...
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1922
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Produced in Canada by Ernest G. Shipman's aptly-named Winnipeg Productions, this minor Northwest Mounted melodrama starred...
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Corporal
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1921
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The Edgar Jepson novel, Ann Annington, was first made into a play, Ann, and then developed as a pleasant light comedy vehicle...
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1921
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This typical Norma Talmadge weeper casts Norma as a social half-caste. She may have had a millionaire daddy, but her mom was...
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1920
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1919
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1919
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