British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some...
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1940
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Nobody really takes a Vacation from Love in this MGM programmer, though it's not from lack of trying. Dennis O'Keefe and...
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1938
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1938
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Starving artist Robert Montgomery could care less if his paintings sell, so long as he's happy. Montgomery falls in love with...
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1937
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1937
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Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
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1937
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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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1936
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A romantic triangle heats up the Alaskan tundra in this romantic comedy. Bascom Dinsmore (Robert Montgomery) is a radio...
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1936
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1934
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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1932
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This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As You Desire Me, the...
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1932
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Samuel Goldwyn attempted to turn British operetta star Evelyn Laye into another Jeanette MacDonald with this cardboard...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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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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The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great...
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1930
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The third in a succession of film adaptations of author E.W. Hornung's novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, this version was...
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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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Ronald Colman plays the "black sheep" of a wealthy British family, sent to South Africa so that he'll be as far away from...
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1930
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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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Two young people get married for all the wrong reasons in this romance. Both are wealthy and are trying to run away from...
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1929
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In this drama, which marks Barbara Stawyck's Hollywood film debut, a woman is taken to an illegal cabaret set aboard a...
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1929
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George Fitzmaurice directed this romantic World War I drama, which was First National Pictures' entry into the epic...
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1928
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Based on the oft-filmed play by Kenyon Nicholson, The Barker represented the talking-picture debut of silent-screen favorite...
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1928
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This tale of California's Spanish days is gorgeous fiction, from the sumptuous settings to the stars -- the leads are lovely,...
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1927
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Based on a story by 17th-century Spanish playwright Calderon de la Barca, A Night of Love is based on the ancient (and...
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1927
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The Love Mart was based on The Code of Victor Jallot, an adventure yarn by Edward Childs Carpenter. The story is set in Old...
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1927
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Billie Dove stars as Marcia Kane, whose head is turned by the charming but sinister Grand Duke Sergei (Montague Love)....
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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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1926
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1925
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1925
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This sentimental drama, based on the stage play by H.B. Trevelyan (actually a pseudonym for Guy Bolton), was the American...
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1925
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than...
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1924
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1924
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Bruno, a tramp (Richard Bennett), takes in a waif, David, who is later adopted by a man whose daughter, Roma, wants a...
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1923
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Paramount brought the exotic Pola Negri over from Europe, and then it seemed like they didn't know what to do with her. Bella...
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1923
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In her autobiography, Pola Negri claims she felt dubious about playing the lead role in this exotic drama based on the novel...
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1923
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This epic historical romance, based on the novel by Mary Johnston, was one of Paramount's big releases for 1922, and it...
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1922
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The Booth Tarkington-Harry Leon Wilson play was filmed once previously, in 1914, by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. For the...
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1922
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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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1922
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1921
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In spite of the fact that George V. Hobart's play was merely a trite and overdone story parading as a moralistic allegory, it...
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1921
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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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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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1921
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Sonia Varinoff (Mae Murray) travels from Russia to New York to be with her father, who is a librarian for Schuyler Van...
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1920
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Since stars Mae Murray and David Powell, director George Fitzmaurice and writer Ouida Bergere had such a success with On With...
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1920
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Elsie Ferguson has a dual role, as mother and daughter, in this tale of gambling fever. Chichita (Ferguson) has a gambler...
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1919
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Stage star Elsie Ferguson gives moving pictures a try in Counterfeit. Elsie plays a woman of mystery who takes a vacation in...
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1919
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The timing of this patriotic Pathe tragedy was not very good -- World War I had been over for many months by mid-1919 (when...
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1919
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Attorney Richard Randall (John Miltern) has been doing a speaking tour in which he denounces post-World War I food...
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1919
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After a quick dose of life in the fast lane, pretty department store employee Ellen Neal (Fannie Ward) decides to work as a...
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1919
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This post-World War I drama was based on the pre-World War I play by Henry Arthur Jones. Nora Shard (Elsie Ferguson) is a...
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1919
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1919
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This picture posed what in 1919 was something of a novel idea -- that a criminal can be reformed and become a productive...
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1919
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1918
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Fannie Ward plays Marion Clark, a manicurist who gets involved with a family who live in the boardinghouse where she resides....
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1918
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This drama was based on the stage play by George Broadhurst. On-stage, the lead roles were taken by Pauline Frederick and...
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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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After her husband, Vernon Castle, enlisted to fight in World War I, Irene Castle starred in a number of films. Although it...
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1917
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Kick In began life as a Willard Mack-written stage play. It's a fairly typical crime drama, in which bad guy Chick...
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1917
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Although Richard Cameron (William Courtenay) is shrouded in mystery, he nevertheless romances and wins Miriam Somerset...
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1917
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Filmgoers of the 1910s condemned what they termed "fast living" but they certainly enjoyed watching it in the theater --...
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1917
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While Ouida Bergere's story isn't terribly original, good acting made this drama a worthwhile feature. Stephen Martin (Edwin...
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1917
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This routine mystery came from the long-forgotten Astra studios. Eileen Caverly (Mollie King) is suspected of smuggling and...
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1917
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On a voyage from Europe to the U.S., Desselway (William Courtenay) meets and falls in love with Diana Curran...
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1917
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One suspects that the cliches inherent in the Pathe five-reeler New York were already in place in the William Hurlbut stage...
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1916
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Unbeknownst to his family, Temple (Mark Fenton) is a burglar. When the police come to arrest him, his son Dick (Lon Chaney)...
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1916
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The clerk at a country hotel (Carl Harbaugh) forges a check, and the hotel's new owner (Claude Fleming) finds out about it....
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1916
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In this action-packed drama, Rozika, a Hungarian peasant girl (Mary Nash), comes to America with her anarchist brother. She...
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1916
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A beautiful heiress (Alice Dovey) is being held prisoner by an evil Hindu antique dealer/hypnotist (Macey Harlan). A wealthy...
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1916
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Based on the play by Paul Armstrong and Winchell Smith, Via Wireless is one of a handful of pre-1920 Pathe films still in...
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1915
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This comedy was adapted from the successful stage play, and several Broadway actors, including the two leads, reprised their...
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1915
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Aline Graham (Florence Reed), the naive daughter of the district attorney, secretly marries dapper Joe Hunter. Hunter is the...
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1915
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Eclair's When Rome Ruled was an opulent if not entirely successful imitation of the Italian "epic" films then flooding the...
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1914
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