Though its title was inspired by a popular song, Love Me and the World is Mine was based on Die Geschichte von der Hannerl...
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1928
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The success of First National's Harold Teen prompted Universal to cast gangly juvenile Arthur Lake as lead in Stop That Man....
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1928
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General Juschkiewitsch
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1927
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Frank Willard's barn-storming stage melodrama Cat and the Canary was filmed four times over a fifty-year period. This silent...
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1927
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Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack...
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Dr. Hardqucinnone
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1927
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Francis X. Bushman, who had made a comeback two years previously as Messala in Ben Hur, was still trying to hang onto stardom...
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The Politician
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1927
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1927
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The "carnival girl" of the title is played by Marion Mack, most fondly remembered as Buster Keaton's bird-brained lady love...
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Sigmund
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1926
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1926
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Ivan Kusmin
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1926
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Don Marquis' bucolic stage comedy-drama The Old Soak was first brought to the screen in 1926. Jean Hersholt plays the title...
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1926
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Another entry in Paramount's long-running "Zane Grey" series, Born to the West represented the first directorial effort of...
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Jesse Fillmore
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1926
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The Phantom Express is the sole asset of a small railway company. Its chief engineer is old John Lane (William Rooker), the...
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1925
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Three of Hollywood's more enterprising women created this sentimental treatise on sin and redemption: Mrs. Wallace Reid (the...
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1925
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When a film vehicle was needed for heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, his producers wisely decided to use the story from a...
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1925
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Charley Chase plays a young married man with a suspicious wife (Katherine Grant) in this Hal Roach silent. The couple's car...
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1925
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This romance is based on the best-selling novel by Robert Keable, which was a sequel to yet another novel, Simon Called...
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Stenhouse
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1925
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The title to this picture came from a Rudyard Kipling poem, and accurately reflected the attitude of Victorian and...
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James Muggridge
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1925
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Although this isn't a top-notch Marion Davies film, she's still very charming in it. Mamie Smith (Davies in pigtails and...
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1925
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The wooden performances by a usually fine cast of players suggest that the script to this melodrama -- based on the poem The...
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1924
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This drama, which featured a fine cast, looked more expensively made than it actually was. When revolution overtakes Russia,...
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1924
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1924
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After becoming an unwed mother, Joline Hofer (Viola Dana) is cast out of her father's house. After placing her baby in a...
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1924
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1924
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Newspaper magnate and movie producer William Randolph Hearst created this massive epic about the American Revolution to...
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1924
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William S. Hart's second-to-last film was not the box-office failure some accounts seems to suggest. But the veteran star was...
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1924
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With this comedy-melodrama, Richard Dix was bumped up from leading man to star status. This also marked the first film for...
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Bud McGinnis
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1924
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1923
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Even though this Western used the convenient "dream" premise, it still managed to please audiences. Cowboy Tod Musgrave...
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Conductor
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1923
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Early silent screen matinee idol James Kirkwood starred in this romantic Western, which also offered a good role for veteran...
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1923
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People do all kinds of nutty things in this silent melodrama from producer/director Maurice Tourneur. Take Ramon Martinez...
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1923
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1923
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This silent era classic was based on the swashbuckling adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, the author whose works later...
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1923
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Starring veteran leading man House Peters, this Raoul Walsh-directed silent melodrama was filmed on location in Tahiti....
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1923
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Scarborough
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1923
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This old-fashioned drama was based on the novel Youth Triumphant by George Gibb. Patsy, a little slum girl (Virginia Lee...
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1923
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While this fast-paced action picture from cowboy star Tom Mix was a little lighter on the Western scenes than normal (a good...
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1923
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Ostensibly a vehicle for Jackie Coogan, the 1922 Oliver Twist refuses to realign the Charles Dickens novel to accommodate the...
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Bill Sikes
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1922
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This crime thriller, "suggested by" the story by Hugh McNain Kahler, benefited from the fine directorial hand of Marshall...
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Spud Miller, Half brother to Frazer
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1922
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Humoresque (1920) spawned a large number of human interest films featuring Jewish immigrant mothers in the style of Vera...
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Rosenblatt
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1922
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On the verge of leaving Fox Studios for MGM, silent romantic star John Gilbert appeared in California Romance. Gilbert plays...
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1922
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This eight-reel Fox feature is a blatant example of the rampant racial prejudice that existed in the early part of the 20th...
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Foo Chang
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1921
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It is easy to imagine Theda Bara playing the lead in this Fox Biblical epic, especially since its credited director is J....
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Armud of Sheba
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1921
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Story has it that Douglas Fairbanks was approached for the role of the Yankee, Martin Cavendish. It certainly would have made...
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1921
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Flash McGraw
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1921
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Based on a serialized novel by Courtney Riley Cooper, Christmas Eve at Pilot Butte, this sentimental silent Western was one...
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1921
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Porthos
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1921
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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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1920
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Actress Yvonne Leclaire (Fontaine La Rue) has been abused one too many times by her husband, a leading man, and she shoots...
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Director
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1919
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Carmelita (Hedda Nova) is the daughter of bandit Don Salvador (Carl Stockdale), who meets his end at the hands of the law....
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Director
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1919
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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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1918
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My Unmarried Wife was the rather blatant title imposed upon this adaptation of Doris Schroeder's novel Molly and I. Breaking...
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Director
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1918
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The winsome Dorothy Gish plays a Southern gal during Civil War times in this silent flick. So winsome is she that during one...
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Director
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1917
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Those who made this anti-divorce film weren't sure if they wanted to preach or entertain. It featured a storyline, an...
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Director
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1917
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1916
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Director
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1916
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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This innovative psychological drama represents one of D.W. Griffith's early full-length feature films and contains...
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1914
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1914
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1913
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Incorrectly reviewed by the trad magazine Variety under the title The Sealed Door, this Renaissance melodrama is among the...
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1909
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