One of many films of the late 1940s examining the impact of WWII on post-war domestic life in the U.S., The Swell Guy is the...
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Play Author
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1946
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John Loder plays a prominent London actor, lately starring in a play about a maniacal strangler. When the theatre is bombed...
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1945
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In this remake of Outward Bound, which updated the story to include topical refences to the war still raging in Europe, Henry...
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1944
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He looks like Dracula, talks like Dracula and dresses like Dracula; but since the movie rights to Dracula were controlled by...
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1943
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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1943
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Its "timely" title notwithstanding, Escape From Hong Kong is simply more of the he-man derring-do that Universal had been...
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Maj. Crossley
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1942
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Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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In this remake of the 1930 film of the same name, a bank robber suffers a war wound and undergoes plastic surgery. Upon his...
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1941
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Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz...
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1941
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This remake of Dangerous is set in Singapore and chronicles the exploits of a woman who believes herself cursed. To recover,...
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Ingrid Bergman stars in Adam Had Four Sons, her second American film appearance. Based on a novel by Charles Bonner, the...
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1941
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1941
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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1941
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This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1920 and 1931, James Oliver Curwood's River's End was given a third go-round by Warner Bros. in 1940....
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1940
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Given the omnipresence of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1940, the second film version of Robert E. Sherwood's...
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1940
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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1940
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1940
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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1939
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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1939
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Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of...
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1939
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The "Lady" of the title is horse-farm owner Penelope Hollis (Ellen Drew), but during the first half of this film, bookie...
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1939
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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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Screen Story
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1938
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1938
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A remake of 1933's One Man's Journey, A Man to Remember was the auspicious film directorial debut of Garson Kanin. Told in...
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1938
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Most reviewers in the late 1930s considered Columbia's Jack Holt vehicles to be a waste of time, but Holt still had a fairly...
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1938
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Director Sam Wood always seemed most comfortable with cozy family-oriented films like Lord Jeff. Freddie Bartholomew plays...
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1938
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This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San...
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1938
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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The building of the great Canadian-Pacific Railroad that stretched from Montreal to Vancouver is chronicled in this...
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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1937
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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1936
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Gloria Stuart's trouble only begins when she inherits a newspaper in this routine, but at times, quite hilarious comedy from...
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1936
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Two-fisted New York police detective Edward G. Robinson is so volatile that he manages to get himself thrown off the force in...
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1936
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of...
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1936
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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Winslow
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1935
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Produced on a reasonably lavish scale by the usually parsimonious Mascot Pictures, Harmony Lane was the first of three filmed...
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1935
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Perhaps the best of Mascot Pictures' feature-film releases, Ladies Crave Excitement is also one of the fastest 69 minutes...
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1935
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In this melodramatic adventure, a young woman is abducted by Chinese bandits. One of them is a free-lance pilot in need of...
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1935
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1935
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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Produced by parsimonious Majestic Pictures, Reckless Roads stars Regis Toomey as perennial wise-guy Speed Demming. To gain...
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1935
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"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of...
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1935
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Another of Thorne Smith's slyly naughty fantasy novels, Night Life of the Gods was transferred to the screen with reasonable...
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1935
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Released generally as Cardinal Richelieu, this George Arliss vehicle was based on the popular 19th-century blank-verse play...
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1935
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A woman may be forced back into a dangerous relationship in order to save her good name in this drama from director James...
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1934
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This drama, an adaptation of a novel by A.J. Cronin, chronicles the exploits of an alcoholic doctor whose career is in...
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1934
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In this melodrama, an engineering professor longs to leave his ivory tower so he can be involved in a special project taking...
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1934
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Screen Story
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1934
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George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the...
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1934
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Inspired by the Titanic tragedy, Whom the Gods Destroy is a tour de force for character actor Walter Connolly. The star is...
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1934
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In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young...
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1934
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Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter...
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1934
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1934
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called...
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1932
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1932
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As indicated by its "catchphrase" title, Okay America is one of several early-1930s films based on the exploits of gossip...
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1932
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Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son is set in 1931 America in this interesting drama that centers on an egotistical,...
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1931
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1931
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Based on a novel by Geoffrey Barnes, Party Husband is a weak-tea drawing room comedy utterly dependant upon the charms of its...
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1931
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A wimpy king is forced to take responsibility for his little North Sea island kingdom after his iron-fisted wife goes on a...
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1931
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Horace Fendley
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1931
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MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Mark Flint (George Bancroft) is the editor of the titular scandal sheet, possessing all of the gall and none of the ethics of...
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Franklin
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1931
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In this melodrama, a British aristocrat befriends a woman and hires her to begin distracting his son away from a conniving...
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1931
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In this drama, a young wife is devastated to discover that her husband has sold their son to a wealthy couple and left her....
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John Ashmore
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1930
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Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore made her film debut in MGM's A Lady's Morals. The film purports to be the biography of...
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1930
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Wiegenlied is the German-language version of the early-talkie weepie Sarah and Son. The plot remains substantially the same,...
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1930
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In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where...
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Townley
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1930
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The title character, played by Ian Keith, is wealthy diamond merchant Rupert Endon. Falling in love with gorgeous Eve Marlay...
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1930
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In this wartime adventure, a wealthy young pilot strays from his mission and stops to say good bye to his girl friend....
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Maj. Nelson
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1929
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Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously...
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Sir Frederic Bruce
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1929
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Play Author
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1924
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Robert Keene
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1924
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In this silent tale of deception and redemption, a cocky youth returns to his hometown filled with thrilling, totally...
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Play Author
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1923
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1922
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1921
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1920
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This Australian silent-film classic is taken from the poem by C.J. Dennis. Filmed on location in Sydney, the story concerns...
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Ginger Mick
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1918
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