Like Pontius Pilate, director John Ford asks "What is truth?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--but unlike Pilate, Ford...
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1962
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1961
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This very lightweight comedy focuses on young orphan Willie Taylor (Tim Hovey). Upset with the prevarications of the adult...
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1956
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Joel McCrea stars in this leisurely paced Western from Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) originally released in Cinemascope....
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1956
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1955
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This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of...
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1955
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1953
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Though scheduled for production as early as 1950, the Bowery Boys' Loose in London didn't go before the cameras until 1953....
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1953
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Loretta Young plays a guilt-ridden hit-and-run driver in Paula. After leaving the scene of an accident, Paula (Young)...
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1952
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Ricky (Desi Arnaz) develops laryngitis just when he is slated to stage an elaborate floor show for the reopening of the...
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Chorus Girl
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1952
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was...
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1951
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First published in 1932, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's speculative novel When Worlds Collide was immediately purchased by...
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1951
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On a pure storytelling level, Crazy Over Horses is one of the best entries in Monogram's "Bowery Boys" series. This time,...
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1951
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In this comedy, a local citizen, miffed by the mayor's new milk tax, buys his own cow. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1950
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Unlike his earlier Warner Bros. westerns, Errol Flynn's Montana was strictly a programmer, inexpensively produced and...
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1950
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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1950
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1949
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No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up...
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1949
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The racehorse Seabiscuit really existed, but this is not his true story -- this is a romance and centers on lovely Margaret...
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1949
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This musical tells of two argumentative brothers who accidently find themselves working on the same musical performance. ~...
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1948
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1948
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Ham Fisher's comic-strip pugilist Joe Palooka is once more visualized on-screen in Monogram's Winner Take All. In this one,...
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1948
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Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the...
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1948
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1946
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Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the...
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1946
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Dick Tracy, Detective (originally just Dick Tracy) was the first of four RKO Radio B-pictures based on Chester Gould's...
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1945
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Though it is not based on any Conan Doyle story, The Scarlet Claw is regarded by Baker Street aficionados as the best of...
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1944
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Judy Canova plays Bessie Cobb, a kitchen worker at a Miami hotel who happens to have a crackerjack singing voice. The bell...
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1942
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Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films,...
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1942
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The unlikely combination of John Wayne and Joan Blondell adds a bit of vinegar and spice to the so-so costume drama Lady for...
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1941
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Hold Back the Dawn begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life...
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1941
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Misbehaving Husbands was intended as a comeback vehicle for silent-film comedy great Harry Langdon, who after his fall from...
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1941
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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1939
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Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by...
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1939
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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1937
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1937
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Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn...
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
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1937
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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of...
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1936
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A postal inspector finds himself caught in a sticky situation as he tries to pin a rap for mail theft upon the owner of a...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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1936
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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One of the funniest, most sharply paced comedies of the 1930s, and perhaps the best of all of Harold Lloyd's talkies, The...
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1936
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Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number anywhere to be seen....
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1935
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1935
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Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be...
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1935
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The second of Kermit Maynard's "Mountie" actioners for Ambassador Pictures, Northern Frontier was a major improvement on the...
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1935
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MGM regularly churned out films in the 1930s that were all "star power" and very little plot. No More Ladies is a good...
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1935
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1934
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On the day that he is scheduled to perform a violin solo at a swank bridge luncheon held by his social-climbing mother, rich...
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1934
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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1934
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Though the names have been changed to protect the guilty, this romantic crime drama offers a relatively factual account of...
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1934
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In this drama, a teenage girl threatened by a man who wants to steal her virtue, kills him. She is taken to court and her...
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1934
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A young blue-blood gets jilted on his wedding day after his bride-to-be discovers that he lost his fortune during the...
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1933
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1933
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I Have Lived takes place in a New York penthouse, a Broadway theater, and a seedy speakeasy, though not necessarily in that...
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Harriet Naisson
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1933
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Western Limited is another of the "Grand Hotel on wheels" films so popular in the early 1930s. Stealing a valuable diamond at...
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1932
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After being injured in the prizefighting ring, an ex-boxer is reduced to speakeasy bouncer and meets a charming burlesque...
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Kate
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1932
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A couple of holdovers from the silent era, Kenneth Harlan and Edna Murphy, starred in this below-average Universal serial...
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Jane Madden
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1931
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1931
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A "B" picture with "A" ambitions, Hell Bound stars Leo Carrillo as ruthless but basically decent racketeer Nick Cotrelli....
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1931
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Lillian
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1930
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The overall comic tone of Dames Ahoy is implicit in its title. Chubby Otis Harlan is cast as veteran seaman Bill Jones, who...
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The Blonde
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1930
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Colleen Moore's starring vehicles were never as "naughty" as their titles suggested. In Synthetic Sin, for example, Moore is...
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Sheila
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1929
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The 1929 comedy Twin Beds was the second of three versions of the 1914 stage farce by Margaret Mayo and Salisbury Field. The...
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Mrs. Solari
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1929
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In this melodrama, set in the Far North, a half-Eskimo woman leaves her tribe and her husband to find adventure with a...
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1929
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In this comedy, a businessman takes his client with a beautiful escort to a fancy nightclub where he plans to close an...
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Mrs. Ford
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1929
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Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
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1929
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Taking Two Weeks Off for the first time in his life, plumber Dave Pickett (Jack Mulhall) spends his savings on a posh hotel...
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Agnes
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1929
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The Naughty Duchess was the come-on title affixed to this filmization of the novel Indiscretion of a Duchess (apparently...
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1928
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A poor street cleaner inherits a fortune in this farce, which came complete with a music score and sound effects. According...
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1928
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Trece
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1928
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A businessman and his partner rush off to Paris in hopes of stopping their children from getting married. Unfortunately, the...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Goldie
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1928
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Ralph Ince was one busy beaver in 1927, starring in and directing several low-budget programmers. In Shanghaied, Ince plays a...
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1927
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Rose Dunbar
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1927
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The title character is world-famous lothario Norman Kerry, who has given up keeping track of all his female conquests. While...
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Dolly Carleton
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1927
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1927
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Impoverished Southern belle Joslyn Poe (Joan Crawford) heads to New York, hoping to become a professional dancer. Unable to...
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Kitty Lane
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1927
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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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Cecily Young
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1927
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Paulette
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1926
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Famed concert pianist Johann Aradi (Lewis Stone) has earned a "Don Juan" reputation because of his love-'em-and-leave-'em...
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Baroness
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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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The Strong Man was the second starring feature of silent screen comedian Harry Langdon--not to mention first feature-length...
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Gold Tooth
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1926
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No relation to the much-later musical comedy of the same name, The Boy Friend focuses on the misadventures of dreamy-eyed...
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1926
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Mary Wickham
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1926
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Mrs. Andrews
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1926
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Nino Carrington
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1926
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1926
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A young Bostonian (Johnnie Walker) travels West to expect his father's New Mexico estate, which has become a target for gun...
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1925
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Although she is largely remembered for her lavish screen outfits and highly dramatic vehicles, Gloria Swanson started off her...
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Lillian Lyons
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1925
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Considering how unsympathetic Lowell Sherman's character was, this melodrama about Parisian high life made for questionable...
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Dolores Sierra
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1925
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Mariposa (Pola Negri) is a dancer in a Spanish café who is discovered by theatrical manager Señor Sprotti (Cesare Gravina)...
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1925
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A fresh-faced waitress and a celebrity-obsessed cook enter into a warmhearted romance in this tender love story starring...
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1925
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A minor mystery melodrama, producer Philip Goldstone's creaky The Verdict employed the oldest cliché of them all. Yes, the...
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1925
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1925
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1925
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John Ford directed this sentimental horse opera set among the racing crowd in Kentucky. Henry B. Walthall, of Griffith's...
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1925
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Young Bob Mannering (John Harron) is out for a ride with his fast-living pals when they're involved in a car accident which...
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1925
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After his impressive directorial effort on The Sea Hawk, Frank Lloyd made this far smaller and more intimate film. The...
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Mrs. Steele
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1924
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Ernest Leeds (Frank Elliott) is the love 'em and leave 'em type, and he's having a blast on board an ocean liner. Another...
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The Cast-off
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1924
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Universal lined up several players not necessarily known for their riding capabilities in this lighthearted Hoot Gibson...
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Mrs. Dean-Smythe
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1924
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After a series of less-than-stellar pictures, Norma Talmadge tried something a little different with this sentimental...
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1924
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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Author Anthony Hope's sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda had been filmed once before, in 1915. But filmgoers were far more...
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1923
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Almost an instant classic, Booth Tarkington's 1921 small-town morality tale reached the screen two years later courtesy of...
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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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Edith Cortlandt
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1923
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A young and still inexperienced Norma Shearer was originally cast in the lead role of Myra Hastings in this society drama --...
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1923
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This picture did great at the box office, and no wonder -- Paramount's biggest star of the day, Gloria Swanson, co-starred...
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1922
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Writer Rupert Hughes chose this predictable story as his first directorial effort, but he brings it fresh life with the help...
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Pamela Shiel
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1922
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Dorothy Phillips stars in this tale of the sea, which was directed by her husband, Alan Holubar. Lola (Phillips) is the...
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Phyllis, Fairfield
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1922
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As Gloria Swanson's star rose higher and higher, Paramount endlessly repeated the formula that brought her fame -- take a...
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1922
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This horse-racing melodrama was Reginald Denny's first starring feature, after making a strong impression in a series of...
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Helen Gordon
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1922
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Vitagraph shot this melodrama, based on the stage play by Ramsay Norris, once before, in 1916. The newer version seemed to...
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1922
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This was a pleasant, though not particularly exciting vehicle for light comedienne Viola Dana. Circumstances force wealthy...
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1922
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Hortense Reeves
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1921
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This sophisticated light comedy was based on a successful stage play by Herman Bahr. Augustus Martinot (Lewis Stone) is a...
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Eva
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1921
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One of the silent era's more popular leading ladies, Anita Stewart, stars in this colorful but not particularly true-to-life...
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1921
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For her fourth United Artists picture, Mary Pickford once again plays a poor little rich girl. This one, Jeanne, is so...
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Hortense
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1921
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Domestic issues take center stage in this sensationalistic Western directed by Reginald Barker for Goldwyn. A young woman...
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1920
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Lew Cody plays yet another "male vamp" here -- Bruce Sands (Cody) is an artist who spends more time fooling around with his...
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1920
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Priscilla Dean has impressive support from Lon Chaney in this crime drama. Mary Stevens (Dean) is a thief of the slums. She...
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1919
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1918
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1918
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1917
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Jeannie, the usual cinematic country girl (Leah Baird), marries a city man (Franklyn Farnum) who neglects her and then...
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1917
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1917
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