John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who...
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1964
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George
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1951
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The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy," this film stars John Wayne as Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles. In his last days...
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1949
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1948
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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This is a restored, 82-minute version of 1943's December 7th, originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy to document the events...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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George O'Brien's first 1940 western release, Legion of the Lawless uses its frontier trappings for a plea against vigilante...
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Jeff Toland
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1940
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Cattle rancher George O'Brien, thinking that he's emptying his six shooters in the direction of rustlers, apparently kills...
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Steve Condon
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1940
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A wedding ceremony is rudely interrupted by a bank robbery next door, the bridegroom is shot and the best man is accused of...
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Brad Henderson
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1940
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Retired frontier postal inspector Dan Clark (George O'Brien) is summoned back to active duty when the stagecoach line owned...
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Dan Clark
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1940
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Brill
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1940
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A remake of sorts of the 1935 western The Arizonian, this fine George O'Brien oater features Leon Ames as Sheriff Judd...
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Cliff Mason
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1939
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This formula western stars George O'Brien as a member of the Arizona Rangers, a quasi-vigilante society aimed at ridding the...
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Boone Yeager
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1939
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In keeping with its up-to-date title, the 1939 George O'Brien western Racketeers of the Range is set in "contemporary"...
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Barney O'Dell
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1939
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In this western, a real estate agent takes everything from a bank and then frames the banker for the crime. The evil agent...
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Clint Bradford
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1939
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Controversy over ancient Spanish land grants takes center stage in this exciting George O'Brien Western from RKO. Presented...
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Wade Barton
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1939
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In this western, a courageous rancher single-handedly tries to stop avaricious land grabbers from destroying important...
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Scott Baylor
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1939
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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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Jim Galloway
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1938
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Lawless Valley is one of the best of George O'Brien's series westerns for RKO Radio. Falsely accused of orchestrating a stage...
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Larry Rhodes
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1938
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In this western, a federal marshal is jumped and robbed while en route to Gunsight. He immediately follows the bandit, a...
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Tom O'Malley
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1938
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The old west collides with the new in this fine remake of RKO's 1932 Come On, Danger!. Or, rather, veteran RKO star...
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Capt. Jack Steele
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1938
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1938's The Painted Desert borrows the title and precious little else from the 1931 western of the same name. Hero...
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Bob McVey
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1938
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In this drama, a wealthy, aristocratic New Yorker, thinking his son is a bit of a panty-waist, decides to make a real man of...
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Grant Curran
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1937
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In this high-seas adventure, an assistant state's attorney must serve a subpoena upon a wealthy yacht owner. To do this the...
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Lane
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1937
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Movie cowboy Jeffrey Carson (George O'Brien) tries hard to live up to his image in this "backstage western." On location in...
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Jeffery Carson
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1937
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In this romantic comedy a border patrolman must cite a young, wealthy, and very spoiled young woman for smoking in a...
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Bob Wallace
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1936
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In this North western, a Mountie is assigned to patrol the Canadian and US border. He also stops the evil outlaws that have...
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O'Malley
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1936
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Kal Emerson
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1935
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Hard Rock Harrigan is an easygoing George O'Brien actioner with emphasis on comedy and romance. The plot revolves around a...
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"Hard Rock" Harrigan
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1935
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Cowboy Millionaire is one of the last and best of George O'Brien's western vehicles at the Fox Studios. O'Brien is in charge...
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Bob Walker
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1935
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A frequently-filmed Harold Bell Wright novel was the source for this leisurely-paced George O'Brien western. His fortune...
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Larry Knight
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1935
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This satisfying George O'Brien western was released in most markets as Whispering Smith Speaks. O'Brien is "Whispering"...
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Whispering Smith
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1935
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The great wilderness explorer Daniel Boone has many exciting adventures in this family-oriented outdoor actioner that...
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Daniel Boone
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1935
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George O'Brien trades his cowboy garb for a dinner jacket in Fox's Ever Since Eve. Raised by a couple of misogynistic old...
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1934
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In his first in a series of well-mounted Westerns and action melodramas for independent producer Sol Lesser, George O'Brien...
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Ernest Selby
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1934
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Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping...
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1934
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Michael Wyatt
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1934
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In this western, based on a Zane Grey novel, a cowboy is falsely accused of stealing cows. Fortunately, his gal stands by her...
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Jim Wall
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1933
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1933
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When a man commits a crime, his sister (Claire Trevor) frames the man she loves to free her brother. ~ Rovi...
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1933
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Shefford
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1932
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In this western, an eastern football star inherits the cattle ranch that paid his way through college. Unfortunately, he...
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Ted Radcliffe
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1932
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The comedic sidekick is shockingly done away with in this unusual and highly atmospheric Western from Fox. George O'Brien, of...
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Bob Sanborn
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1932
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In this western, based on a Zane Grey novel, the hero leaves town after someone is killed during a feud. As he escapes, he...
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1932
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The first of director John Ford's three films for 1931 was the now-forgotten The Seas Beneath. Essentially a reworking of...
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Commander Bob Kingsley, USN
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1931
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1931
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Jim Lassiter
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1931
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In this western, a wealthy eastern returns from a polo match to find that his father has been murdered. Later, he is...
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Tony Hard
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1931
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Buck Duane
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1930
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In this western based on a novel by Zane Grey, Buck Duane (George O'Brien) is a cowboy who is forced to kill a man in an act...
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Buck Duane
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1930
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Burgeoning western star George O'Brien starred in this lavishly mounted but otherwise quite commonplace Northwest melodrama...
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Billy West
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1930
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One of the few pre-1930 John Ford films currently available, the part-talkie Salute was co-directed by Ford and David Butler....
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Cadet John Randall
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1929
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Bromdiet Dickery
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1929
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A silent film save for a synchronized Movietone score, True Heaven is a WWI espionage yarn, tailored to the talents of he-man...
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Philip Gresson
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1929
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Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the...
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Travis/Japheth
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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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John Orgletree
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1928
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Blindfold is a crime drama that gets off to a lively (if unbelievable) start when a dedicated cop deliberately gets himself...
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1928
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George O'Brien stars as George, a footloose sailor who adheres to a philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em." While on leave in...
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George
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1928
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Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of...
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The Man
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1927
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Though Is Zat So? was playwright/actor James Gleason's Broadway breakthrough, Gleason himself did not appear in the first...
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Ed Chick Cowan
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1927
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John Breen
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1927
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It has often been reported that Howard Hawks tried and failed to create an "art" film with Paid to Love, only to return to...
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Crown Prince Michael
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1927
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Based on a magazine serial by the prolific Peter B. Kyne, this silent Western featured rising star George O'Brien as Bradley...
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Bradford Blatchford
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1926
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1926
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The celebrated Joseph Conrad novel The Silver Treasure was brought to the screen as Silver Treasure in 1926. The story is set...
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Nostromo
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1926
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Fig Leaves is historically important as the earliest extant film of director Howard Hawks. A partial parody of the...
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Adam Smith
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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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Dan O'Malley
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1926
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While there were often disasters such as floods, fires, and avalanches in silent films, few of them were actually built...
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Tom O'Day
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1926
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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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Kenneth Jamieson
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1925
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This drama was based on the play by Henry Wallace. Two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter...
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1925
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Tony
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1925
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Track star Frank Merrill stars as Jack Melford in this hackneyed melodrama. Jack wins the track meet at the local college...
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1924
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John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on...
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Davy Brandon
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1924
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Jerry Delaney
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1924
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1924
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Henry Potter
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1924
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When wealthy Rockwood dies, he wills his fortune to his four grown children, providing they're all married by a certain date....
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1923
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Although this Rex Beach story was filmed before in 1916 as a "super-feature," seven years later it would become a routine...
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1923
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Manly Hobart Bosworth tackles one of his characteristic roles -- that of a brutal sea captain -- in this drama written by C....
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1922
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Moran of the Lady Letty was a successful attempt to establish "Latin Lover" Rudolph Valentino as a brawling he-man hero (both...
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1922
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