College boy Andy continues his studies in this comedy. Well, at least he should be studying. Unfortunately, he seems to be...
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1944
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Mercenary taxi driver Joe Tracy (Barry Nelson) is the Yank on the Burma Road in this MGM second feature. For strictly...
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1942
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Incredible as it may seem, rambunctious 18-year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) finally makes it to college in Andy Hardy's...
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1942
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First filmed in 1914, Edgar Selwyn's venerable North Country yarn Pierre of the Plains was thawed out once more in 1942....
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1942
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MGM's "Andy Hardy" series continued to rake in the bucks with its 12th entry, The Courtship of Andy Hardy. The story takes...
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1942
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Andy is ready to graduate from high school, and, trying to be a big man, he hires a pretty woman to be his social secretary....
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1941
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Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy...
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1941
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This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time,...
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1940
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The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the...
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1940
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Though its title suggests a war picture of some sort, MGM's Gallant Sons actually concerns the efforts of a group of kids to...
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1940
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The last of MGM's "Nick Carter" trilogy, Sky Murder is a tad too cute and clever for its own good, but its mystery angle...
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1940
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Another of Columbia's myriad of Jack Holt actioners, Passport to Alcatraz casts the star as supposed enemy saboteur George...
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1940
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If Judge Hardy and Son had been filmed in the 1990s, it would have been titled Andy Hardy VII. In this latest edition of...
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1939
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The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs....
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1939
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison...
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1939
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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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1939
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The Sidney Howard/Paul de Kruf Broadway play Yellow Jack was transferred to the screen by MGM in 1938. The film is set at the...
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1938
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The sequel to the first Andy Hardy picture, A Family Affair, this light comedy stars Mickey Rooney in the role that would...
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1938
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1938
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The title tells the story in this fourth of MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) takes his family to the...
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1938
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The Hardys are off to Washington DC in this third entry in MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) has been...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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The tempestuous love affair between a young surgeon and a pretty but married nurse provides the basis for this melodrama....
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1937
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For a studio specializing in glossy soap operas, costume pictures and musicals, MGM made an inordinate number of "B"-grade...
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1937
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Even the mighty MGM had to keep the home fires burning with B pictures. The studio's Mama Steps Out is a harmless confection...
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1937
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The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates...
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1937
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1937
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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1936
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Despite its title, things get pretty noisy in MGM's Absolute Quiet. Lionel Atwill heads the cast as reclusive financier G. A....
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1936
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1936
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The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of...
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1936
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1936
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Though habitually unlucky in love, wealthy London recluse Mary Herries (Aline MacMahon) succumbs to the charms of handsome...
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1935
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1935
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Calm Yourself starts off as ace advertising man Pat (Robert Young) is fired from his job when he offends the highly...
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1935
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When MGM remade its 1935 film Kind Lady in 1951, the earlier picture was retitled House of Menace to avoid confusion. The...
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1935
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One of four MGM "B"-pictures ground out in quick succession by director George B. Seitz, Woman Wanted is a crime melodrama...
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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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A crusading physician supervises his own life-threatening operation in this farfetched potboiler from MGM, which marked...
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1935
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1934
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Based on Lea David Freeman's play Ruby, Lazy River takes place somewhere in the Mississippi River Valley. Jean Parker plays...
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1934
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1934
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In this crime drama, a famous criminal attorney is abandoned by his wife who has tired of his neglect and heavy drinking....
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1934
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Columbia's The Thrill Hunter is more of straight action film than a western, though leading man Buck Jones still wears his...
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1933
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In this unusual Western, Buck Jones is not only branded for being a "squaw stealer" (i.e. rapist) but his prey is a woman...
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1933
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Priscilla Dean was one of the major star names of the early 1920s. By the time the all-talking quickie Behind Stone Walls was...
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1932
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1932
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A bored noblewoman wagers that she can steal a valuable diamond necklace and then return it without discovery in this minor...
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1932
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Jack Mulhall, a silent screen star on the downgrade, delivered one of his last truly memorable screen performances in the...
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1932
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Like many low-budgeters of the early talkie era, Sally of the Subway is not so much a film as a reunion of several former...
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1932
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British supporting actor Tyrell Davis earned a rare starring role in this low-budget family drama from Poverty Row company...
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1932
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1932
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In this action drama, set on San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast, a girl gets deeply entangled with gangsters. A...
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1932
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Most existing prints of the 1931 melodrama Drums of Jeopardy are in pretty bad shape, but it's worth enduring the tinny...
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1931
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When Lt. Bob Denton (John Wayne) tells his girlfriend Evelyn (Laura La Plante) that he has no intention of marrying her, she...
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1931
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In this actioner, a sleazy sea captain not only treats his crew terribly, he also steals a sailor's wife and child. He is so...
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1931
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Lion and the Lamb takes place in Columbia Pictures' idea of London. Upon returning home after a long absence, globetrotting...
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1931
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Guilty? could be regarded as a precursor to Citizen Kane -- except that the first film isn't one-20th as good as the second....
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1930
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1930
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In this drama, an older railroad supervisor is engaged to a lovely young woman. Unfortunately, she falls in love with the...
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1930
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In this crime drama, a down-on-his-luck attorney with connections to a diamond thief is framed for the thief's murder by the...
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1930
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1929
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Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." Anna Q. Nilsson stars as a dauntless female...
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1929
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Based on a story by Elmer Harris, the above-average Columbia production Court Martial was set during the Civil War. Carrying...
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1928
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This high-seas melodrama tells the tale of a self-righteous sea captain who steals his son and leaves his wife because he...
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1928
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Though conceived and executed as a silent film, The Circus Kid was outfitted with a sound prolog and music and sound-effects...
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1928
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In this suspenseful silent drama, set amidst the tawdry splendor of a carnival, a female reporter finds her life jeopardized...
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1928
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1928
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Known as The Caviar of Poverty Row, brunette Dorothy Revier was Columbia Pictures' first female star. In Beware of Blondes, a...
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1928
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This typically hard-nosed Jack Holt vehicle casts the star as opium smuggler Tom Fellows. While in Shanghai on "business,"...
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1927
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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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1927
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Produced by Columbia Pictures, The Tigress is set in Spain, where a band of gypsies help themselves to the livestock on a...
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1927
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The pretty former showgirl Dorothy Sebastian improbably plays a South Pacific native girl in this silent clinker. She...
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1927
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William Boyd, in his pre-Hopalong Cassidy days, played a variety of roles, but he already was showing a flair for Westerns in...
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1927
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1927
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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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1926
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A stalwart government scout, Tom Kirby (William Boyd) and his best friend, the legendary frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody...
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1926
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1925
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The Paramount team of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson starred in this top-notch silent western in which a Native American is the...
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1925
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Allene Ray and Bruce Gordon starred in this low-budget action melodrama from producer C. W. Patton, a former cattle rancher....
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1924
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There were two versions of Into the Net -- a 15-reel serial and a seven-reel melodrama. The story was written by...
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1924
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Old reliables such as director George B. Seitz, writer Frank Leon Smith, and cameraman Vernon Walker made this Allene Ray...
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1924
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James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking came to the screen in 1924, courtesy of former cattle rancher C.W. Patton, who...
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1924
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Filmed at Saranac Lake and Ausable Chasm, NY, this serial, released in 15 chapters, starred one of the icons of the genre,...
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1922
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Filmed under rather strenuous conditions at Ausable Chasm in upstate New York, this low-budget serial released in 15...
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1921
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This romantic adventure was an experiment by Pathe, which offered it as both a nine-reel feature and as a 10-episode serial....
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1921
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Prolific serial producer/director George B. Seitz essayed the leading role as well in Velvet Fingers, a 15-chapter Pathé...
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1920
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George B. Seitz was the perfect director for this fast-paced romantic adventure -- he had directed many serials for Pathe...
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1920
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In her second of four action serials, former Kalem star Marguerite Courtot played Gabrielle Hall, a plucky young girl who,...
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1920
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In what many reviewers considered her best serial, Pearl White played the title-role of The Lightning Raider, a fearless...
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1919
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The melodramatic serial format having already become a cliche by 1919, Pathé, the leading producer of the genre, decided to...
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1919
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A young American secret service agent suspects her immediate boss of being in the employ of the enemy in this 15-chapter...
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1919
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1918
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One of the last two-reel dramas from the Pathe film factory, Getaway Kate starred Helene Chadwick in the title role. Falsely...
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1918
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In the days before television and the Internet, faraway places such as the Middle East and Asia -- and their cultures --...
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1918
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The queen of the silent chapterplays, Pearl White battled both greedy relatives and a mysterious enemy known only as The...
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1918
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Pearl White was back in this 20 chapter action serial from Pathé, this time playing Pearl Standish, a young girl fighting to...
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1917
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Leaving the character of Elaine behind after three successful serials, Pearl White played Margery Golden in The Iron Claw,...
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1916
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The sequel to 1914's popular serial The Exploits of Elaine, the plainly titled The New Exploits of Elaine was once again...
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1915
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1915
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Although not as remembered as The Perils of Pauline (also 1914), The Exploits of Elaine was by all accounts the superior...
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1914
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