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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Gen. Petrov
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1931
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In this drama, a humble Irish lass from New York City's East Side, dreams of ascending the social ladder to escape her...
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1931
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In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man...
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1931
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In this romance, a none-too-bright sailor (Victor McLaglen) takes a trip to Paris, not realizing he had just won the...
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1930
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Advertised as an "all star" film, Swing High is hardly that: The biggest name in the picture, both in terms of popularity and...
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1930
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A devoted valet takes a vacation in this lively drama. After 15 years of faithful service, he has earned it. He goes to...
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1930
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Reformed gold-digger Barbara Stanwyck falls in love with a womanizing and wealthy aspiring artist and tries to convince him...
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Mr. Strong
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1930
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This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents. He soaks them...
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1930
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1930
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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1930
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In this early musical western, Stephen Ghent (Ian Keith) is a businessman who, after the death of his partner, has been...
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1930
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Fraser Newell
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1930
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In this drama, a junkman, Maurice Chevalier in his American film debut, rescues a drowning boy from the Seine. The boy's...
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M. Marny
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1929
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In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes...
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Dmitri Ivanova
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1929
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Stage favorite Peggy Wood (later the star of the popular TV series Mama) made her screen debut in the MGM part-talkie Wonder...
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Doctor
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1929
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Milton Sills, one of the silent era's great matinee idols, starred in this follow-up to his sound debut in the part-talkie...
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1929
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In this crime melodrama, Iverson (George Fawcett) is a stockbroker who has been sent to prison for illegally manipulating the...
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Iverson
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1929
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Baron Haussmann
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1929
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The 1929 Wall Street crash was still two months in the future when Warner Bros.' Gamblers was released in the late summer of...
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Emerson, Sr.
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1929
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Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur...
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Prince von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg
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1928
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One of John Barrymore's best-remembered silent films (mainly because it is one of the few that has remained in constant...
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1928
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Released in both silent and part-talkie versions, The Little Wildcat starred James Murray, late of The Crowd, as barnstorming...
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Judge Holt
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1928
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1928
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This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the...
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1928
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A veritable harvest of cliches, Duty's Reward concentrates on the exploits of fearless newspaper editor George Fawcett....
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1927
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Grand Duke
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1927
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Prof. Arndt
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1927
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This minor Columbia effort is a cautionary fable against alcohol abuse. Despite the efforts of a pious minister, two pretty...
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1927
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John Cardigan
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1927
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Fire Commissioner
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1927
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The director of Riding to Fame was uncredited, but research has revealed his identity as one A. B. Barringer. Crippled...
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1927
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Marion Davies has the lead role of Tillie in this adaptation of Russ Westover's popular 1920s comic strip. Tillie is bored by...
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Mr. Simpkins
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1927
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Another of William Haines' sports-oriented vehicles, Spring Fever casts the star as lowly shipping clerk Jack Kelly. Falling...
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Mr. Waters
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1927
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Eteoneus
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1927
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Lars Hanson had recently appeared as Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter when he was called on once again to play a man...
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Zeke Crosby
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1927
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"Hard Boiled" Haggerty (Milton Sills) is a flight lieutenant who uses German planes for target practice during WWI. For all...
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Brigadier General
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1927
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Marsden Senior
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1927
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The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast improvement upon)...
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Andre
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1926
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Men of Steel was the last of Milton Sills' four starring films in 1926. Sills plays Jan Bokak, a self-educated steelworker...
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1926
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In one of her last films before joining Paramount Pictures, Clara Bow stars as Dorothy Hamis, the niece of conservative...
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John Hammis
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1926
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A bulky, verbose novel by Herman Suderman was the source for the exquisitely silent Flesh and the Devil. On leave from the...
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1926
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Dashing Norman Kerry wasn't exactly what one would call a "cowboy" type, but that didn't stop his home studio of Universal...
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1926
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Marking the 50th anniversary of General George Armstrong Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn, Universal re-created the...
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1926
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This drama was the type of feature that was very popular among typical filmgoers in the 1920s. Fred and Alice Garlan (Eugene...
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Mr. Nelson
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1925
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After The Courtship of Miles Standish bombed, a bankrupted Charles Ray had to go back to working for other studios and trying...
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Pa Blossom
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1925
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When her family loses its fortune, aristocratic Mimi LeBrun (Jacqueline Logan) is forced into a marriage with a man she...
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Uncle George
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1925
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Lady Gwendolyn (Blanche Sweet, who, at the time, was married to Marshall Neilan) is the daughter of Sir Alfred Grayle, a...
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Father
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1925
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In spite of a fine cast and director, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer somehow managed to turn the stage play by W. Somerset Maugham into...
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Portenous
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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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Although this film sounds like a 1920s version of Mr. Mom, in some ways it's more enlightened than the 1983 comedy -- for one...
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1925
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This ordinary romantic programmer starred Universal regulars Norman Kerry and Virginia Valli. Linnie Randall, a shopgirl...
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John Osborne
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1925
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This silent adaptation of Franz Lehar's famous operetta (in which precious little of the original story was retained) was a...
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King Nikita I
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1925
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Freckle-faced Wesley Barry was one of the most popular juvenile stars of the 1920s. In The Fighting Cub, Barry plays Thomas...
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1925
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Dorothy Mackaill is well-cast as a high-living flapper in this lively picture, which was based on the popular newspaper...
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Anthony Eggleson
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1925
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This routine domestic drama was based on a stage play by Owen Davis. Jane Cornwall, a wealthy heiress (Virginia Valli),...
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Judge Seymour
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1925
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This moralistic romance, based on the short story Here's How by Richard Washburn Child, was pretty typical for its era: jazz...
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1925
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The wild behavior of Kenneth Jamieson (George O'Brien) has finally gone too far and his millionaire father (George Fawcett)...
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1925
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Wealthy Northern sportsman Darrell Thornton (Lou Tellegen) wants to marry society girl Patricia Winthrop (Dorothy Phillips),...
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Caleb Winthrop
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1925
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Like many sports stars before and after him, champion sprinter Charles W. Paddock wound up in motion pictures, at least...
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1925
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A young American girl in Paris is loved by three handsome men in this romantic melodrama based on Belonging, a popular 1920...
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1924
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1924
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Silas Tucker
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1924
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1924
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Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made this film, and while it isn't one of her best -- a Graustarkian...
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Archduke
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1924
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The story to this sea melodrama was written by Byron Morgan. Morgan was best known for the fast-paced auto tales he wrote for...
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Capt. Hoyden
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1924
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1924
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Irene Rich plays a selfish and tragic figure in this drama based on a best-selling novel by Willa Cather. Marian (Rich) is...
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1924
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In the more straight-laced era of the 1920s the lack of a marriage license could destroy a young couple's world - that's the...
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1924
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Matt Moore stars as Judson Clark, a wealthy but idle young man who is in love with actress Beverly Carlysle (Nita Naldi). Her...
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Dr. David Livingston
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1924
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1924
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Although Lois Wilson was lovely to look at, some of her best work was in character roles. Here, the 28-year-old star plays...
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Hiram Sonbom
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1923
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Carol Dolliver (Mary Miles Minter) is the young heiress sought by several suitors in this romantic adventure drama. She...
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Felix Brantome
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1923
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This lightweight comedy-drama had barely enough plot to fill its five reels. Peggy Dean (Marguerite de la Motte) is at...
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1923
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It was impossible for director Sam Wood to include all of Arthur Train's sprawling novel in this picture. Instead he seems to...
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Peter B. Kayne
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1923
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Louisiana-born Leatrice Joy plays Chinese princess Taou Yuen in Java Head. To save himself from being executed in a gruesome...
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1923
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This implausible crime drama had the benefit of Betty Compson's presence: she was best known for playing lady criminals....
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Judge Westcott
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1923
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Although rotund Walter Hiers was frequently seen in motion pictures all throughout the silent era, he was generally playing a...
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Gen. Pablo Blanco
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1923
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The second filming of Bret Harte's Salomy Jane's Kiss was given a sumptuous production by Paramount. This time around, the...
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Yuba Bill
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1923
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1922
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Eugene O'Brien -- who was a better co-star for the likes of Norma Talmadge than he was a star in his own right -- has the...
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1922
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Judge Homans
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1922
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If her scenes had not ended up on the cutting-room floor, this uneven drama would have been the film debut of Clara Bow...
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1922
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There seems to be some debate over exactly who directed this amusing Constance Talmadge picture. Since John Emerson directed...
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1922
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Character actor Theodore Roberts was better known for his scene-stealing supporting roles than he was as a star in his own...
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Eph Holbrook
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1922
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Filmed in Miami, which at one time was being considered as an alternate Hollywood, Destiny's Isle stars the charming Virginia...
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Judge Richard Proctor
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1922
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No one in the bathtub-gin 1920s took Charles Blaney's hoary old stage melodrama The Curse of Drink seriously. This didn't...
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Ben Farley
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1922
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This romantic adventure was based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. An old skipper, Captain Davis (George Fawcett), has...
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Capt. Davis
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1922
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This drama, based on the novel, The Mayor's Wife, by Anna Katherine Greene, was only a fair vehicle for Betty Blythe. Shortly...
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Dominick Duffy
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1922
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George Eliot's tale of redemption had been filmed before in the silent era, most notably in 1917 by the underrated Thanhouser...
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1922
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This drama, written by Ouida Bergere, made the rather unoriginal observation that money did not buy happiness. Larry Grahame...
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Gohn Grahame
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1921
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aka Forever George du Maurier's classic novel was made into a play by John Raphael which starred John and Lionel Barrymore....
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Major Dequenois
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1921
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One has to question the wisdom of remaking a comedy that starred Mary Pickford, even if it was made back in the early days of...
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Director
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1921
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After making a hit in the Torchy series of two-reelers, Johnny Hines chose this lively picture as his first full-length...
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An Eccentric Trump
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1921
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This romantic drama finds Charley Riley (Eugene O'Brien) as a chivalrous young man who is always willing to help a damsel in...
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His Uncle
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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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Dr. McQueen
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1921
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Tom Smith and his wife (Kenneth Harlan and Jewel Carmen) vacation in Palm Beach, where Mrs. Smith attracts the attention of...
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1921
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This comedy drama finds Naida (Elaine Hammerstein) as a wealthy society girl who wins a prize when she appears at a costume...
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David Lawlor
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1921
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1921
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Constance Talmadge is clearly the driving force in this farce, based on A Man From Toronto by Douglas Murray. Flighty Leila...
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1921
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This little human interest drama was not set in New York's Little Italy district, but at a settlement of Italian truck...
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Marco Mascani J.
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1921
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This drama was the first story author Samuel Merwin wrote directly for the screen. Millionaire Alexander Murray (George...
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Alexander Murray
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1921
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Constance Talmadge's partners-in-comedy -- the writing team of Anita Loos and John Emerson -- were sorely missed in this...
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1920
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As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her...
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1920
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This fluffy Constance Talmadge vehicle is based on the play by Anthony Wharton. Lilliums Blair (Talmadge) is an ambitious...
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1920
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Lively comedian Dorothy Gish plays an unlikely grand duchess in this Paramount picture. Marie Louise (Gish) presides over a...
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Director
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1920
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1920
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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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Constance Talmadge teams up once again with the writer/director team of Anita Loos and John Emerson for this light comedy....
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1920
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The story to this farce comedy (one of several that starred Dorothy Gish with Elmer Clifton as director) was written by Harry...
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1919
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This D.W. Griffith picture has the distinction of being, arguably, the worst film that the director ever made. For starters,...
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1919
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Out of all of Griffith's films about the Great War, this one impressed the least. Perhaps Carol Dempster should share part of...
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1919
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Since much of this film takes place in rural Kentucky, where director D.W. Griffith grew up, it no doubt has many...
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1919
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Dorothy Gish stars as a superstitious young miss in this silly farce comedy. Frances Wadsworth (Gish) keeps her eyes on the...
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1919
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True Heart Susie is one of D.W. Griffith's "pastoral" films, wherein plot takes second place to characterization and romance....
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1919
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By the time this picture was released, World War I was nearly over and the public was tired of the same old spy stories. This...
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1918
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This war-time D.W. Griffith film was literally filler -- some of the footage was left over from around the time he shot...
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1918
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On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director...
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The Village Carpenter
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1918
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Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to...
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1918
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1917
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds...
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1916
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Five reels were expended on the melodramatic contortions of Universal's The Frame-Up. The story is set in a corruption-ridden...
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1915
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