Five of Laurel and Hardy's best features from the silent film era are compiled in this collection by Robert Youngson....
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1965
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Home Town Story was commissioned as a pro-Big Business tract by General Motors. The story revolves around Blake Washburn, a...
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1951
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Originally designed for church showings, Messenger of Peace was blown up from 16mm to 35mm and given a brief theatrical...
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1950
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The "B"-picture unit at 20th Century-Fox was slowly being phased out when Miss Mink of 1949 was produced. Lois Collier heads...
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1949
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This story of two young hopefuls who come to Hollywood is merely a thin device to feature almost every star working for...
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1947
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Like the same-named 1934 and 1935 films, RKO Radio's 1945 musical George White's Scandals uses the eponymous Broadway revue...
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1945
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Bob Crosby, bandleader brother of Bing, heads the cast of Columbia's Meet Miss Bobby Socks. The thin-as-cheesecloth plot...
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1944
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Law Men is a typically austere entry in Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram western series. This one finds saddle pals Nevada...
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1944
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1943
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1942
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Producer
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1941
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Hold That Ghost was the second of Abbott and Costello's starring films, but was held back from release in favor of their...
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Producer
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1941
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In this drama two children return from their separate boarding schools to a nasty surprise. The father of one is...
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Director
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1941
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Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne go through their customary farcical paces in the formula romantic comedy Hired Wife....
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1940
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Producer
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1940
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According to RKO Radio's publicity folks, Beauty for the Asking was supposed to have been an expose of the lucrative...
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1939
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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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1938
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Small Town Boy was the 33rd release from the burgeoning "B"-picture factory of Grand National Pictures. Stuart Erwin plays...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1937
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A horse and a dog share the same birthday in this exciting children's drama. Both are born in captivity, but end up escaping...
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Director
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1936
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In this comedy, Uncle Rodney, the host of a kiddie show, finds himself assuming guardianship of a bratty lad at the behest...
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1936
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1935
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The title may be Orchids to You, but the plot is motivated by a camellia -- to be exact, Camelia Rand (Jean Muir). About to...
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1935
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In this comedy-drama, an enterprising college football coach's desire to win overshadows his common-sense when he cuts a...
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1935
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Screenwriter
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1935
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After several years' faithful service in RKO Radio's short-subject department, director George Stevens was rewarded with his...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Set in New York's Greenwich Village (specifically, on Bleecker Street), William Seiter's Rafter Romance is a cute romantic...
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1933
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Mascot Films, the feisty precursor to Republic Pictures, was responsible for 1933's The Big Payoff. In a rare top-billed...
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1933
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In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a...
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1932
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Produced at the little Tec Art studio by sound engineer Ralph M. Like, this film is one of those modest whodunits where the...
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1932
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As cheap as any other poverty-row talkie, Dragnet Patrol possesses a breezy charm that is hard to resist. Glenn Tryon stars...
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1932
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A bored noblewoman wagers that she can steal a valuable diamond necklace and then return it without discovery in this minor...
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Spuffy
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1932
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In this romantic crime drama, a railroad telegraph dispatcher loses his job after a train crash. He tries to convince his...
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Gerald Boone
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1931
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A man who unthinkingly sullied the honor of a virtuous girl now must deal with his own ethical downfall in this drama. Willi...
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1931
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This little cheapie tries to pass itself off as a contemporary actioner, but at heart it's still a western. An old prospector...
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1931
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Though he spent the bulk of the talkie era at mighty MGM, director Richard Thorpe put in three solid years' service on...
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1931
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A decidedly minor entry in the then-popular aviation melodrama cycle, The Sky Spider was the first film produced by sound...
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Glenn Morgan
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1931
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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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Jimmy Chase
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1930
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1930
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Intended as Universal Pictures' entry in the "all-star musical" cycle of the early talkie era, King of Jazz is certainly the...
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1930
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This early musical features several song-and-dance numbers in the midst of a story about underworld criminals. Nick...
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Roy Lane
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1929
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Del Lord, director of many a Three Stooges farce in the 1930s and 1940s, told the actors when to move and when not to move in...
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Freddie Farell
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1929
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In this comedy, a clerk suffers an inferiority complex after he is fired. He is then mistaken for the boss by an author's...
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Jerry Willard
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1929
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Previous films based on the "Skinner" stories of Henry Irving Dodge had starred such silent-film luminaries as...
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William Henry Skinner
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1929
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Not a remake of the pre-1920 film of the same name, The Kid's Clever was Glenn Tryon's last silent vehicle; he would pursue a...
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1929
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Two lonely people discover short-lived happiness in this silent drama. Jim (Glenn Tryon) and Mary (Barbara Kent) live in the...
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1928
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Leonard Higgins
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1928
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1928
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"Thanks for the Buggy Ride" is the name of a tune penned by would-be songwriter Joe Hall (Glenn Tryon). On the verge of...
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Joe Hall
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1928
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In this, at times, hilarious silent, romantic comedy, love blossoms after a posterhanger has an highway mishap with a...
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Dick Henshow
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1928
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Hector Whitmore
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1927
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Glenn Tryon stars as Hiram Hastings, a cabdriver who aspires to be the next Charles Lindbergh. Trouble is, he's never been in...
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Hiram Hastings
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1927
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"Magpie" Welch
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1927
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A stage play by Gladys Ungar was the source for Fox's Two Girls Wanted. In her first above-the-title starring role,...
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Dexter Wright
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1927
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The Denver Dude is Rodeo Randall, played by the eternally likeable Hoot Gibson. At first just another cowpoke, Rodeo begins...
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1927
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This is one of the more well-known Stan Laurel solo comedies, but in truncated form -- much of the Army footage is usually...
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1924
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1924
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Produced by Hal Roach, this series of ten, two-reel melodramas featured "flapper" star Edna Murphy as ten different examples...
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1923
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