Adapted by playwright John Patrick from a novel by famed globetrotter/filmmaker John H. Secondari, Three Coins in the...
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1954
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1954
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This whimsical fantasy about a local drunk's 6' 3 1/2" imaginary rabbit pal was a smash hit (and a Pulitzer Prize winner) on...
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1950
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1948
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Elmer Rice's clever stage comedy Dream Girl is Hollywoodized and "dumbed down" almost beyond recognition in this 1948 film...
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1948
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Bob Regan (Edmond O'Brien) -- a small-time attorney from the wrong side of the tracks who nonetheless has a lot of dedication...
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1947
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Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the...
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1947
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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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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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1946
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1945
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A little over a year after this Three Stooges short was made, Curly Howard would suffer a stroke and go into retirement. But...
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1945
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In this western, a dreamy young woman, tired of her boring life and job travels to an abandoned town where her grandmother...
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1945
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Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak),...
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1945
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Complete with a final production number filmed in Technicolor, this tuneful musical depicts the highly fictive ups and downs...
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1944
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This 91-minute Republic "special" stars Michael O'Shea as Matt Braddock, an aggressive Henry Kaiser-like shipbuilder...
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1944
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Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by...
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1944
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John...
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1943
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Even non-fans of the East Side Kids will get a goodly share of laughs out of the 1943 series entry Clancy Street Boys. The...
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1943
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1942
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Secret Agent of Japan sometimes looks like a B-grade "answer" to Warner Bros.' Casablanca, except that the answer was...
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1942
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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That Night in Rio is a musical remake of 1934's Folies Bergère. Don Ameche plays a dual role as a middle-aged Brazilian...
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1941
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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1941
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The Three Stooges play ice delivery men in this comic short. It's a hot day, and they've been cooling off in the back of the...
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1941
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson plays orchid-loving gangster Little John Sarto, who aspires to "real class." During a power struggle with...
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1940
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1940
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This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing...
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1940
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The first, and best, of ten comedy two-reelers Buster Keaton was to make for the Columbia short subject department, Pest From...
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1939
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This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler)...
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1939
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Paramount's screwball comedy Midnight is the first collaboration between director Mitchell Leisen and screenwriting duo...
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1939
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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1939
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies,...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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1938
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1938
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1938
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This Hollywood remake of the French Pepe le Moko adheres so slavishly to its source that it utilizes stock footage from the...
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1938
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In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father...
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1938
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Viennese-born Luise Rainer plays a young Parisian girl who attends an exclusive drama school, working nights at a factory to...
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1938
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Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the...
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1938
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In this drama, a gangster finds the woman of his dreams, but before he can have her he must frame her fiance. Meanwhile the...
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1938
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This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer...
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1937
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The notorious Orient Express provides the setting for this romance involving two rival reporters in pursuit of a munitions...
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1937
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Anna May Wong, who cornered the 1930s market in Eurasian heroines, stars in Daughter of Shanghai. Wong is on the trail of the...
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1937
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Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe...
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1937
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1937
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Briefly digressing from "Our Gang"'s new one-reel format, the series' December 18, 1937 release, Our Gang Follies of 1938,...
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1937
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1937
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The third film of Paramount's "Big Broadcast" series follows the pattern of the first two titles: negligible plot with plenty...
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1936
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Though released by Republic, The Oregon Trail was actually filmed by the Lone Star unit at Monogram. John Wayne stars in a...
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1936
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In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
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1936
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1935
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1935
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Paradise Canyon is one of the most action-packed entries in John Wayne's "Lone Star" series. On the trail of a counterfeiting...
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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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1935
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Fearing that her unsavory past will be revealed, a young girl is prepared to kill her erstwhile benefactor in this hectic...
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1935
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The old British musical-hall ditty "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" provides the title for this lightweight...
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1935
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Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best...
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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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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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1934
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In this crime drama, Flicker Hayes (James Cagney) is a safecracker who has just been released following a stretch in prison;...
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1934
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1934
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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1934
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Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained....
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1934
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1934
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In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights....
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1933
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1933
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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1933
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1933
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An admirably tough B-picture enlivened by an energetic James Cagney performance, Picture Snatcher stars Cagney as Danny Kean,...
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1933
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James Cagney was originally pegged to play brash Broadway columnist Jimmy Russell in this pleasant if somewhat lightweight...
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1932
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In this war drama, two buddies in WW I return stateside. One of them becomes a police sergeant, but the other cannot find...
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1931
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The Man From Death Valley is steely-eyed western hero Tom Tyler. A mysterious figure in the opening scenes, Tyler rides out...
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1931
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In this musical comedy, based on a failed Broadway play, two American sailors are stationed in Naples to find a wooden...
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1930
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1930
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The sacrifice of a socialite is chronicled in this romantic drama. To be with her beloved musician, the wealthy woman gives...
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1930
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This early sound western was cowboy-star Ken Maynard's second to last under his 1929-1930 contract with Universal. The...
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Don Jose
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1930
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Those Who Dance is not so much a film as a "class reunion" for several former silent-screen favorites. Monte Blue stars as...
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1930
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Few movie "heroes" are as despicable as Roy (Charles Kaley), the leading character in the MGM musical Lord Byron of Broadway....
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1930
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Though Universal temporarily abandoned its western product when talkies came in, a few of its 1929 silent sagebrushers were...
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Ramirez
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1929
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1929
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Marceline Day plays two women in the late-silent Fox release One-Woman Idea. The actress is cast as haughty aristocrat Lady...
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1929
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1929
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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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The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type,...
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Her Father
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1928
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1928
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House of Scandal gets under way when Irish-born New York cop Danny Regan (Harry Murray) is reunited with his brother Pat...
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Morgan
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1928
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Garcia
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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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1927
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Long before he became established as Hollywood's favorite headwaiter, character actor Gino Corrado enjoyed a brief fling at...
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1926
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The White Black Sheep in this stiff-upper-lip actioner is Robert Kincairn (Richard Bartheless), the dissolute son of a...
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1926
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1926
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Amidst much fanfare, Lillian Gish was signed to a fabulous MGM contract in 1925 which not only assured her $400,000 per...
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1926
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Proving once and for all that Western filmmaking was treacherous work even for the greatest of stars, Colleen Moore broke her...
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Jose Lee
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1925
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Frank Merrill appears in this hackneyed melodrama in which he never drives the featured racecar alluded to by the title of...
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1925
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Character actor William V. Mong rarely landed a role that was a real tour de force, but he has one -- or, rather, two -- in...
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1925
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Coast Patrol was a threadbare silent 5-reeler starring Kenneth MacDonald as an officer in the titular patrol. Nothing much...
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1925
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Speed Creswell (Frank Merrill) and his father (Joe Girard) have a difference of opinion over the son's responsibility in this...
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David Briely
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1924
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Although the plot to this romance was complicated, the actors didn't have all that much to do, which was just as well; the...
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1924
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After her brilliant career in Europe, Pola Negri, came to America to make films for Paramount. Her first few pictures for the...
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1924
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Gloria Swanson is My American Wife in this farfetched but entertaining romantic drama. Married to Argentinian horse rancher...
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Pedro deGrossa
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1923
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No, this society drama is not related in any way, shape or form to the 1949 Katherine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy comedy. It's one...
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1923
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1923
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1916
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