The official release date of Gun Cargo is 1949, but the cast and the quality of production suggests that it was filmed much,...
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1949
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1945
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Kitty is the "Pygmalion" legend, 18th century style. London aristocrat Ray Milland takes it upon himself to make a lady of a...
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1945
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel...
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1944
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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1944
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It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he...
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1944
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1944
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Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator...
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1943
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An innocent man is put on trial, but is he really as innocent as he claims? Diplomat David Talbot (William Powell) and his...
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1942
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"Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is...
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1941
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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1941
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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The fourth cinematic version of the novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, this romantic caper is a virtual...
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1939
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In this drama, set in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a pretty niece visits her uncle's plantation. There she finds the drunken sot...
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1938
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In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime...
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1937
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The daughter of a mill-owner (Mary Lawson) is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic...
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1937
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Based on the stage melodrama by John Chancellor, King of the Damned takes place on a brutal prison colony that makes Devil's...
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1936
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1936
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This chiller speculates upon a haunting real-life mystery that occurred off the English coast on December 5, 1872 where the...
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1935
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In this comedy, a railroad stoker and his best buddy, the train's conductor make friends with a young apprentice. the son of...
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1935
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1934
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1934
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In the same year that she directed Victory of the Faith (1933), her first of several famous cinematic projects for the Nazi...
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Cinematographer, John Dragan
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1933
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Though well past 50, Harry Carey could still play a virile and convincing cowboy hero in such inexpensive westerns as Without...
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1932
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White-Stetsoned cowboy hero Bill Cody is appointed sheriff by default of a rough-and-tumble cattle-ranch community. The...
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1932
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This war drama, set in a snow covered Tyrolean pass during WW I, chronicles a strange situation between an Austrian...
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1932
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"Sea Bat" is another name for the poisonous sting rays that trouble swimmers in warmer ocean climes. The story is set upon a...
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1930
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Even allowing for the comparative freedom of the pre-Production Code years, 1930's Hell Harbor was pretty strong meat for its...
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Harry Morgan
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1930
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Jules Verne's fantastic 19th century novel Mysterious Island provided the title and little else for this spectacular...
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1929
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1928
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Charlie Oelze, the Hal Roach Studio's special effects and "gadget" maestro, was given co-director credit on the silent,...
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1927
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Perhaps it's just as well that Topsy and Eva is available only for archival showings. The film was based on a popular play by...
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Simon Legree
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1927
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1927
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1927
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The pretty former showgirl Dorothy Sebastian improbably plays a South Pacific native girl in this silent clinker. She...
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John Start
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1927
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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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1927
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Based on a story by 17th-century Spanish playwright Calderon de la Barca, A Night of Love is based on the ancient (and...
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1927
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Deputy Marshal Ken Maynard heads off to Oklahoma where a gang of nasty cattle rustlers is terrorizing the local ranchers....
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"Silent" Oklahoma Joe
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1927
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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1926
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While studying dance in Hungary, British ballerina Leonide Sturdee (Jacqueline Logan) suffers a crippling accident. Enter...
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1926
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Unlike most "collegiate" films of the 1920s, College Days paints a fairly realistic portrait of campus life. To be sure, the...
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1926
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Lon Chaney stars as Erik, the Phantom, in what is probably his most famous and certainly his most horrifying role. Produced...
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Simon Buquet
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1925
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Silent screen comedienne Dorothy Devore left comedy producer Al Christie with hopes of going dramatic. She succeeded -- at...
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Ollie
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1925
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The second of four versions of Zane Grey's story of a dispirited ranch hand who joins a gang of outlaws, this silent western...
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Gulden
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1924
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After the death of her father, Marise La Noue (Enid Bennett) can find no safe haven, so she runs off to Paris with Jean...
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1924
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McTeague
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1924
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Jules Malicorne
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1924
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This seaside melodrama was filmed in England, with star Tom Moore the only American in the cast. Although the scenery was...
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Mark Helstone
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1923
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1923
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This drama was director George Loane Tucker's last film; in fact his health was failing as he completed it. Too bad the maker...
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1921
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Pretty Anita Stewart stars in this rough tale of the West, based on the novel by Caroline Lockart. Kate Prentice (Stewart)...
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1920
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This film was adapted from a well-known novel by Sir Gilbert Parker. Charley Steele (Bert Lytell) is a hard-drinking lawyer...
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1920
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America has just entered World War I, and because of his name, German-American Oscar Krug (Hobart Bosworth) is thought to be...
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1920
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1919
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Viola Dana stars in this Metro five-reeler. While Captain Jabez Scudd (Russell Simpson) is away on a ship, his sweetheart,...
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1918
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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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