The holiday hijinks of The Year Without a Santa Claus's Heat Miser and Snow Miser continue in this follow-up to the Rankin...
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Heat Miser
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2008
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1984
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Pinnochio struggles to earn enough money to buy his father Gepetto a Christmas present in this animated holiday puppet show....
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1980
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This animated children's film tells the story of the two popular dolls who go off to find a pretty French doll who has been...
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1977
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Don Murray plays Lacy, a blatantly bigoted New York cop who finds that his rabid hatred forces him into a bloody rampage in...
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Reilly
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1976
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This comedy film revolves around the unusual life of a fictional former American president (Zero Mostel) as he reveals the...
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Reverend/Muse
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1975
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Much to Archie's dismay, Edith has always regarded the union of her cousin Amelia and wealthy Russell DeKuyper as the...
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Russell DeKuyper
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1975
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In Jules Bass' puppet-animated A Year Without A Santa Claus, an elf and a young boy have to rescue Santa from the evil Heat...
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1974
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Up The Sandbox is a complex and difficult film, and it is ambiguous on many points, particularly on whether the protagonist...
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1972
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Colonel Kit Coyote and his aide ergeant Okey Homa occupied a U.S. Calvary fort in Gopher Gulch. They spent their time...
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1966
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1947
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In this comedy, a PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin. Songs include: "Slap Polka", "Walk A Little Faster",...
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1945
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Like many PRC films, Lady in the Death House was run incessantly in the early days of television, then disappeared into the...
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1944
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Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney...
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1944
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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1943
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Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother...
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1943
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1942
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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1942
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It takes a while for the viewer to catch on, but the 1942 quickie Spy Ship is a remake of the 1934 crime melodrama...
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1942
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The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once...
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1942
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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In this drama, a female horse trainer works on her grandpa's farm training trotters. Trouble ensues when he is forced to...
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Dr. Timothy Drake
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1941
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William Powell and Myrna Loy re-team for this (literally) crazy screwball comedy about a happily married couple who, thanks...
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1941
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1941
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the...
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1940
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1940
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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1940
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Calling Philo Vance is a perfunctory remake of 1933's The Kennel Murder Case, which many aficionados consider the best of the...
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1940
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While paging through a scrapbook, Dr. Wyman (Robert Sterling) recalls his college days. Though preferring to stick to his...
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1940
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running series, the Dead End Kids are freshly out of reform school when they find themselves...
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1939
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Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays...
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1939
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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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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1939
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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1939
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The cumbersome title refers to the fact that tenement-dwelling teenager Jackie Cooper is studying to become a lawyer....
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1939
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John Garfield once more plays a social outcast who's had nothing but lousy breaks. Released from prison for a crime he didn't...
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1939
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Joan Fontaine was still two years away from full stardom when she appeared in the B-plus comedy Maid's Night Out. Future...
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Rufus Norman
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1938
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A French sculptor travels to LA and, with the help of Ace the Wonder Dog, pretends to be blind so he can sneak into a museum...
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1938
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RKO Radio's ace short-subjects director Leslie Goodwins graduated to features with the economically produced Crime Ring....
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1938
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The Saint, Leslie Charteris' charming but deadly criminal-turned-sleuth, made his first film appearance in RKO Radio's...
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an...
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1938
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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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1938
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When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone...
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1938
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In this comedy, a marriage-license clerk is proud of the fact that during his 20-year career not one of the couples he has...
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1938
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Another of RKO's movie vehicles for radio comic Joe Penner ("You na-a-a-asty man!"), Mr. Doodle Kicks Off stars Penner as the...
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1938
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In this drama, a falsely convicted woman falls in love with the prison psychologist who tries to liberate her. She ended up...
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1938
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In this comedy, a woman is left destitute after her father dies. To make ends meet, she begins working as a secretary to a...
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1938
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"Ripped from today's headlines", RKO Radio's Smashing the Rackets was inspired by the career of colorful New York district...
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn's association with RKO Radio Pictures came to an abrupt end when she refused to star in the studio's...
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1938
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This back-stage crime comedy, a remake of Lights Out (1923), takes a healthy satirical stab at the powerful studio system of...
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1937
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1937
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The cattle rustlers in Border Cafe, a modern-day western from the RKO B-unit, are Eastern gangsters headed by none other than...
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Sen. Whitney
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1937
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A couple of American soldiers of fortune are hired by the wife of a Chinese general to deliver a priceless diamond to a...
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1937
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In this comedy drama (a remake of 1932's Ladies of the Jury), an apparently bubble-headed but mule-stubborn jurist is...
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1937
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A veterinarian and his wife leave their small burg and move to the Big Apple after he inherits a million dollars. His social...
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1937
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In this screwball comedy, a fresh-out-of-college fellow heads for the gold fields of Alaska to find his fortune. He is gone...
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1937
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Annapolis Salute is the 1937 remake of RKO's 1933 film Midshipman Jack. Lensed on location at the Annapolis Naval Academy,...
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1937
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Poor Barry Trent (John Morley) has Too Many Wives in this RKO programmer. Actually, Barry starts out with no wife at all,...
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1937
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The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press...
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1937
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There was some novelty value in the fact that an actor whose initials were E.Q. was cast as intellectual sleuth Ellery Queen...
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1937
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The low-budget football drama Saturday's Heroes is remarkably frank and timely -- at least for the first 4 reels or so....
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1937
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In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately,...
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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1937
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In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any...
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1937
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Outcasts of Poker Flat is an adaptation of Bret Harte's western story of the same name, with elements of Harte's...
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1937
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1937
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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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Dr. Stanton
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1937
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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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A remake of 1928's Glorious Betsy (itself based on a stage play by Rida Johnson Young), Hearts Divided is based, believe it...
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1936
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Italian immigrant George Raft uses his wits and his fists to rise to prominence in a local political machine. He falls in...
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1936
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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1936
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John Wayne steered clear of westerns for the most part during his year-long contract with Universal Pictures. In The Sea...
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1936
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Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield...
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1936
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Previously filmed as a vehicle for Baby Peggy Montgomery in 1922, Laura E. Richard's Captain January was warmed up as a...
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1936
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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1936
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En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow...
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1936
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A Kathleen Norris novel was the source for this romantic drama, which begins when widowed navy doctor Quentin Harden...
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1936
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A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best...
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Adm. Kingston
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1936
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As much a horror film as a murder mystery, Charlie Chan in Egypt is one of the best entries in the "Chan" series. The story...
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1935
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In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen...
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1935
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In this comedy, a woman lives with her recently impoverished family who would do anything to regain their former wealth and...
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1935
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Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best...
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1935
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1935
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Not even considered a good film back in 1935, Dangerous is held together by the mesmerizing performance of Bette Davis. The...
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1935
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1935
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This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien)...
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1935
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Two of Hollywood's duller actors, Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, star in this overly complicated melodrama from Columbia...
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1935
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From low-budget Mayfair Pictures Corp., this robust action-melodrama starred Larry "Buster" Crabbe as an oil prospector whose...
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1934
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In this drama, a nice young woman is saving all her money so she can leave her South Seas island home, move to San Francisco...
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Dr. Steiner
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1934
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W.C. Fields stars in a remake of his silent comedy So's Your Old Man. Fields plays Sam Bisbee, an erstwhile inventor who is...
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1934
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Loretta Young, who became known almost exclusively for playing sweet, wholesome roles, is kind of a shocker in this romantic...
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1934
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Marian Nixon made the first of a brace of starring appearances at low-budget Liberty Pictures in Once to Every Bachelor....
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1934
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In the tradition of Fox Studios' Oscar-winning Cavalcade, The World Moves On covers over one hundred years in the lives of...
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1934
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James Cagney is Chesty O'Connor, a tough-as-nails, always-ready-for-a-fight shipyard worker, who loses out to US Navy CPO...
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1934
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1934
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Notorious as the movie that gangster John Dillinger attended on the night he was killed, Manhattan Melodrama has weathered...
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1934
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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1934
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Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
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1934
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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1933
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Although venereal disease was considered as delicate a subject then as it is now, this was nonetheless the third filmed...
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Mr. Bradley, Sr.
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1933
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In this melodrama a Lower East Side doctor struggles to earn enough money to pay for his son's tuition in a prestigious...
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1933
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In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides...
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J. Atwell Hunt
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, an American art student goes abroad to study and gets a reputation when she marries a wealthy...
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1933
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Joe E. Brown is a sailor who hopes to match the accomplishments of his seaman father. Unfortunately, Joe is perhaps the...
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1933
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Virtually none of the male characters in The Thrill of Youth could pass muster as a role model. As an old man preaches...
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1932
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If only Merrily We Go To Hell was as interesting as its title! To escape an arranged marriage, heiress Joan Prentice...
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1932
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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1932
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In one of his first westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays Kirby Tornell, who does the "Robin Hood" bit on the wide open spaces....
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1932
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1932
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1932
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The fact that The Naughty Flirt was advertised as having a 78-minute running time but was released at 57 minutes is...
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1931
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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1931
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1931
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A pompous executive has a hard time admitting that his hard-working, devoted secretary is really the one pulling the strings...
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1931
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Class distinction rears its ugly head in this otherwise tuneful little musical from the pens of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz...
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1931
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In this gridiron drama, a college football coach and ex-All American will stop at nothing to have a winning team. The trouble...
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1931
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Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise....
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1931
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Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions....
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1931
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A woman trying to live down her past finds it coming back to haunt her in this drama. Steve Pelton (Owen Moore) is the leader...
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1931
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In this drama, an eager-beaver cub reporter looking for the big scoop that will give him his big break is sent to interview...
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M.T. Hall
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1931
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1931
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Star Witness starts out as a homey family comedy and develops into a rather gutsy thriller. Chic Sale plays a cantankerous...
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1931
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1931
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Dolores Costello spent the twilight months of her Warner Bros. contract in such trifles as Expensive Women. The star is cast...
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1931
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Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in...
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1931
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1931
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No relation to the 1935 Mascot programmer of the same name, Girls Demand Excitement offers an early starring appearance by...
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1931
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The Gay Diplomat was an attempt by RKO Radio to make a movie star out of Ivan Lebedeff, a Russian actor better suited to...
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1931
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The rise and fall of a popular entertainer provides the basis of this musical drama. Harry Raymond (played by nightclub...
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1930
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Maybe It's Love is one of the many college football musicals which bred like minks in the early talkie era. A very young...
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1930
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Adapted from a story by Rex Beach, Son of the Gods stars Richard Barthelmess as Sam Lee, a young Chinese-American, anxious to...
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1930
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In this suspenseful crime drama a woman is threatened by an angry husband and a man comes to her aid. Unfortunately, after...
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1930
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Made in 1930, this well-known sci-fi musical chronicles the adventures of a lightning-struck man who awakens to find himself...
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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1930
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The "conspiracy" of the title refers not only to a deadly narcotics ring, but also the combined efforts by the good guys to...
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1930
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Released in both silent and sound versions, this lurid melodrama from Universal was based on the 1924 play Carnival by...
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1930
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Sometimes all it takes to save a marriage is a good pop, right in the kisser or so this family drama seems to imply. The...
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1930
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Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on...
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1930
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This third film version of Rex Beach's rugged Yukon novel The Spoilers was also the first talkie adaptation. This time,...
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1930
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Aerial photography highlights this early sound actioner, set during World War I. Lt. Robert Banks (Charles "Buddy" Rogers),...
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1930
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In this crime drama, a aging illusionist falls in love with his comely young assistant. Unfortunately, she is enamored with...
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1929
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A vaudevillian working in a third-rate burlesque show suffers marital turmoil when success swells his head in this silent...
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1929
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Coquette is Mary Pickford's first talkie, based on the play by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers. The story was already...
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1929
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This drama is an adaptation of a popular 1927 play and tells the story of a pair of married liberals who are content to...
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James Hutton, Sr.
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1929
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Completed as a silent film, Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl was quickly converted into a part-talkie by the simple...
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1929
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1929
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George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these...
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1928
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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
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1928
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Runaway Girls was the first directorial credit for Mark Sandrich, who would still have to serve a long apprenticeship in...
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1928
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George O'Brien, Fox Studios' general-purpose leading man, heads the cast of Honor Bound. The story opens in the bedroom of...
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1928
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Her Uncle Edgar
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1928
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This rugged Richard Dix vehicle casts the star as rough-and-tumble sea captain Jim Bucklin. Landing at a Chinese port,...
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Louden
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1927
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Returning from the war, Tom Mason (Tom Mix) rides square into a raging feud between the his family and the neighboring Brady...
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1927
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This portentously (and pretentiously) titled Fox Studios release stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of...
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1927
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This two-fisted Richard Dix vehicle casts the muscular star as virile caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts. It is...
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1927
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Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is...
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1927
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Chorus girl Barbara Page (Viola Dana) gives up the footlights when she becomes the wife of bank clerk Dick Cobb (Tom Gallery...
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President Wallace
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1927
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Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a...
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Simeon Trott
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1927
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Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a...
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1926
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1926
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His Jazz Bride was based on Beatrice Burton's novel The Flapper Bride, leaving no doubt as to the decade in which this film...
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1926
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Long thought lost, the silent Three Bad Men is an vital ingredient in the cinematic canon of director John Ford. Often...
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1926
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King of the Turf has more plot twists than a Charles Dickens novel. It begins as no-account horse breeder Martyn Selsby...
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1926
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This early Janet Gaynor vehicle was based on Pigs, a play by John Golden. While vain Gladys O'Connell busies herself with her...
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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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Thomas De Quincey
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1926
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1925
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Even though Clara Bow was close to achieving true stardom, she was still being cast in crass, low-budget fare. In fact, she...
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1925
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By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to...
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Peter Rendon
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1925
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While his reputation has faded next to stronger talents such as Cecil B. DeMille, Erich Von Stroheim, and King Vidor, James...
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Bernard Ingals
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1925
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1924
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North of 36 was conceived in the wake of the immensely popular Covered Wagon, right down to the casting of that earlier...
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1924
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This lumber camp melodrama features a thrilling flood scene at its climax. Dave Trask (John Lowell) is the foreman of a...
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Director
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1924
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Based on Zane Grey's 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler, this fine silent melodrama was...
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Mr. Roderick Virey
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1924
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Molly King has a duel role in this lightweight romance. Susan and Rosalie (both King) are twins who are raised by two...
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Screenwriter
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1922
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This independently made mystery features a solid, if not exactly stellar, cast. The Blue Pearl of the title is a priceless...
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Director
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1920
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When engineer Jack Craigen (Bert Lytell) returns from an assignment in Africa, he stays with his Uncle Cannell (Stephen...
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Director
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1920
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Based on a stage play by Augustus Thomas, this silent takes a Biblical saying, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,"...
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Director
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1919
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Schoolteacher Ruth Carroll (Leah Baird) falls under the influence of a group of Bolshevist radicals, headed by Alexis Minski...
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Director
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1919
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The old Henry Arthur Jones stage melodrama The Silver King was taken out and brushed off for the screen in 1918. When British...
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Director
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1919
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Instead of letting his family choose an appropriate wife, the Duke of Loame (Matt Moore) falls in love with Ivis Benson...
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Director
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1919
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Toward the end of the 1910s, it seemed like every star had to do one film in which he or she played a dual role. Mae Marsh...
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Director
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1918
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Author E.W. Hornung's charismatic rogue was tailor-made for John Barrymore. As Raffles, he wins the heart of Mrs. Vidal...
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Director
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1917
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Director
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1917
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Considering the number of John Barrymore films that have crumbled to dust, it is fortunate indeed that the Barrymore vehicles...
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Director
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1917
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Actress Alice Brady was the star player at the World Film Studios, which was as much due to her versatility as to the fact...
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Director
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1916
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Arnold (Jack Sherill) works for a bridge contracting concern. When he embezzles a large sum from the company and can't return...
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Director
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1915
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The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's searing expose of the meat-packing industry, was given a reasonably realistic screen treatment...
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1914
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