In this essentially silent drama, a cultured Southern belle must work in a gambling house after her deeply indebted father...
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1929
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An innocent maid stands accused of killing her employer in this courtroom melodrama from the silent era. During the trial it...
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Lulu Marks
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1929
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Most of Monte Blue's talking-picture career was spent in small character roles, but he was still regarded as a bankable...
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Mary Dyer
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1929
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Despite what you might think by glancing at the title, The Argyle Case has nothing to do with socks. The film's plot is set...
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1929
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Previously filmed in 1923, the William Collier Sr.-Victor Mapes stage play The Hottentot was exhumed as an...
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1929
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Contrary to popular belief, no one speaks into microphones hidden in vases in this, the first 100% "all-talking" feature...
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Molly Thompson
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1928
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Small-towner David Warren (Gaston Glass) is forced to leave his community after accidentally causing the death of a local...
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Moe Andrews
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1928
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A wealthy man hits the half-century mark and promptly suffers a mid-life crisis in this silent romantic comedy. Like...
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Lottie Bancroft
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1928
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Long-reigning screen queen Norma Talmadge's last silent film (albeit with a synchronized musical score) was the exotic...
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1928
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The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director...
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1928
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Law and the Man is based on a story by Roy Octavus Cohen, then popular for his magazine yarns about "Negro" life. This time,...
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Margaret Grayson
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1928
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Mrs. Whitcomb
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1927
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1927
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1927
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In 1927, Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress with her performance in this film, among the most...
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1927
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Few comedies of the 1920s were as bizarre and surreal as Harry Langdon's Long Pants. Having recently come of age,...
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His Mother
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1927
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Set in a not-so-reasonable facsimile of London's Limehouse district, Twinkletoes stars Colleen Moore as the title character,...
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Cissie
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1926
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Skyrocket was a vehicle for non-actress Peggy Hopkins Joyce, a former Ziegfeld dancer who managed to get herself into the...
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Rose Kimm
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1926
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A stalwart government scout, Tom Kirby (William Boyd) and his best friend, the legendary frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody...
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1926
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Spangles was adapted by actress Leah Baird from the novel by Nellie Revell, with Revell receiving "star" billing in the...
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1926
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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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Her Mother
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1926
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A woman with a sordid past is redeemed by love in this silent melodrama from low-budget Sanford Productions. Margarita Darlow...
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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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1926
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Chickie Bryce (Dorothy Mackaill) is a stenographer, who, encouraged by her mother (Gladys Brockwell), longs to marry a...
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Jennie
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1925
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1925
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner had no love interest. The 1925 movie adaptation, titled...
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1925
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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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Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama -- not exactly the forte of either of these stars. Charming but...
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Frances Jerome
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1925
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Louisa Risca
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1925
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1924
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Nancy Owens
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1924
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A typical low-budget social drama from Sam Sax's Gotham Productions, Unmarried Wives starred Charles Chaplin's first wife,...
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Mrs. Gregory
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1924
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In spite of an excellent American cast and two well-established directors, Australian action star Rex "Snowy" Baker isn't...
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Mary
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1923
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This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle,...
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1923
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Pop quiz: When was the Hollywood film Drug Traffic produced? 1968? 1985? Try 1923! This exploitationer details the...
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Edna Moore
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1923
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1923
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After gaining a wide audience in a succession of two-reelers, "Baby" Peggy Montgomery stars in her first full-length feature....
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1923
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Following a year-long absence from the screen, Gladys Brockwell returned to films in this Universal melodrama. When she tries...
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1922
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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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Nancy Sikes
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1922
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Long before he began playing bit-part judges and college professors, Edward J. LeSaint was a busy film director at Fox...
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1920
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At a Paris exhibition, American sculptor Richard Arnold (William Scott) wins first prize. He also meets a pleasure-loving...
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1920
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In this dream-within-a-dream story, Gladys Brockwell plays a prima donna who, under ether, dreams of a past life when she...
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1920
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This domestic melodrama, released by Fox, was a typical vehicle for Gladys Brockwell. After an argument with her sweetheart,...
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1919
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1919
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Lolette (Theda Bara) is a fiery young Spanish girl. When a painter, Maurice (Albert Roscoe), comes to her town in search of...
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1918
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1918
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This socially conscious, well-wrought silent drama made an earnest plea for prison reform over two decades before it became a...
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1917
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1916
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Gladys Brockwell, who often played vamps during the 1910s, does a rare virtuous turn in this drama. Mabel Halloway...
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1916
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1916
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After killing the man who compromised his wife, George Baxter (William Farnum) heads westward to escape prosecution. He tells...
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1916
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A rare visitor to films in general and westerns in particular, Broadway actor Henry Woodruff starred in this primitive oater...
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1915
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Produced and co-written by Thomas H. Ince, The Wrath of the Gods (aka The Destruction of Sakura-Jima) was a major undertaking...
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1914
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1914
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