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1958
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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Minister Sterling Hayden is able to tend to the needs of his flock, but can do nothing for his alcoholic wife. She kills...
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Wiz, a Wino
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1951
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Presumably, Savage Drums was an attempt by Lippert Studios to launch an adventure series along the lines of "Jungle Jim" and...
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Maou
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1951
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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Since its lapse into public domain in 1978, First Legion has joined Love Affair and Algiers as the most readily available of...
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1951
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The never-solved disappearance of Judge Crater in 1930 was the inspiration for RKO's The Judge Steps Out. Alexander Knox (who...
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1949
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Produced in garish Cinecolor, this aspiring "A" Western features John Payne as Clay Fletcher, an Eastern lawyer assigned to...
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1949
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Brother Joseph
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1949
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Robin Hood (Jon Hall) acosts Sir Allan Claire (Michael Duane) and his sister Lady Marian (Patricia Morison) in Sherwood...
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1948
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Former army pilot Robert Taylor is accused, on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence, of his wife's murder. Suffering...
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Mr. Slocum
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1947
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Allan Dwan directs the family-oriented drama Driftwood, starring nine-year-old Natalie Wood. Orphan Jenny Hollingsworth...
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1947
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Nora Goodrich (Brenda Marshall) is a dedicated research scientist who is very close to a breakthrough in her field of...
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1946
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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1946
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This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract....
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1945
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Reynolds
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1944
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Though the filmmakers claimed they were writing a biography of Nazi minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels, this film is actually...
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Col. Brandt
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1944
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In this melodrama, two young lovers secretly elope after the woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The young groom...
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1944
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Exiled from his own country during WW2, French filmmaker Leonide Moguy worked briefly in Hollywood, where he directed the...
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1944
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Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for...
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Jeffrey Moore
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1943
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The luridly titled Women in Bondage was Monogram's "answer" to RKO Radio's wartime melodrama Hitler's Children. The plot...
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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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This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film...
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The bishop
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1942
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PRC's A Yank in Libya is distinguished by some of the oldest, grainiest stock footage ever seen in a mid-1940s film. Once...
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Herbert Forbes
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1942
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A girl reporter discovers that her own father runs a shady "school of fine arts" (read brothel) in this independently made...
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Capt. McVeigh
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1941
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Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the...
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Ray Jardin
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1941
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The third of producer Hal Roach's Topper films, Topper Returns eschews the frothy "screwball" format of the first two in...
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1941
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1941
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Dr. Paoli
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1941
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An entertaining amalgam of Universal contract players, leftover sets and stock footage, South of Tahiti stars Brian Donlevy,...
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1941
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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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Father Michel
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1940
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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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The penultimate entry in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series, Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police once more stars John Howard...
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Col. Nielson
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1939
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride is the next-to-last entry in Paramount's series of "Drummond" B-pictures. It goes without saying...
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Col. Nielson
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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1939
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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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Mr. Gibson
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1939
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A longtime fan of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen, "Philo Vance" creator S. S. Van Dyne wrote a tailor-made...
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1939
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The trials faced by the US Army when it first attempted to trade horses for tanks provides the basis of this actioner. The...
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Col. Armstrong
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond was the last of Paramount's "B" film series based on Sapper's two-fisted soldier of fortune, and also...
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Col. Nielson
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1938
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Directed by Richard Thorpe, this costume drama stars Luise Rainer as 16-year-old southern belle Gilberta, who, upon her...
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Victor Brigard
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1938
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1938
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Though John Barrymore is top-billed in Bulldog Drummond's Peril, the aging matinee idol is consigned to the supporting role...
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1938
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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1938
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This typically wild-and-wooly entry in Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series gets under way when stiff-upper-lip Scotland...
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Col. Nielson
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1938
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Laurence Housman's 1935 stage play Victoria Regina, which has served as a showcase for actresses as varied as Helen Hayes and...
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Lord Melbourne
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1937
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Veteran movie leading man Bert Lytell warmed the director's chair for Along Came Love. Irene Hervey plays a shopgirl, while...
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Dr. Martin
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1937
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A trio of American actors head the cast of the British naval drama Torpedoed. Noah Beery appears as the unnamed President of...
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Mr. Brent
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1937
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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Chang
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1937
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1936
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Amateur detective Peter Cornish (William Gargan) and dimwitted police inspector Killian (Paul Hurst) combine forces to track...
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Michael Rankin
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1936
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In her much vaunted screen debut, Metropolitan Opera star Gladys Swarthout takes on David Belasco's 30-year-old operetta...
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1936
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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Judge Walker
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1936
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Edmund Lowe made his only screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Garden Murder Case. The...
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Maj. Ralston
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1936
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Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic...
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1936
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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In this newspaper drama, a reporter known for criticizing the top city official has his column taken over by the man's...
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1935
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Born to Gamble was one of the more palatable efforts of M.H. Hoffman's poverty-row Liberty Films. The four protagonists are...
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Carter Mathews
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1935
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A wealthy young heir rebels when his snooty parents refuse to allow him to marry a lovely young secretary. Deciding to teach...
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Mr. Carter
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1935
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Having recently left Universal Pictures in a huff, mercurial cowboy star Ken Maynard stopped briefly at Mascot Studios for a...
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Charlie Miller
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1934
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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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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Dr. Ismay
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1934
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The venerable Warwick Deeping story Sorrell and Son was dusted off again for this 1934 screen incarnation. Repeating his role...
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Capt. Stephen Sorrell
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1934
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In this syrupy tear-jerker a young girl is adopted by the judge who sent her daddy to prison. The father agreed to this...
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1933
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1933
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Dr. Houston
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1933
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This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses. ~...
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William Gerhardt
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1933
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A Woman Commands is often cited as silent screen star Pola Negri's first talking picture. Actually, it was her first...
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Col. Stradimirovitsch
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1932
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It took nerve for low-budget producer M.H. Hoffman to update Gustave Flaubert's 19th century novel Madame Bovary and relocate...
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Dr. Gregory
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1932
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Such were the ways of Hollywood that the dignified H.B. Warner, who played Jesus in 1927's King of Kings, found himself in...
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Gerald Waring
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1932
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Warner Oland's third appearance as humble oriental sleuth Charlie Chan was in the 1932 release Charlie Chan's Chance. This...
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Inspector Fife
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1932
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1932
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The Crusader was one of the earliest efforts from Majestic Pictures, for many years the most ambitious of the independent...
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Phillip Brandon
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1932
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Gary Curtis, aka Farnsbarns (Richardo Cortez), is really a former hoodlum hired to retrieve some compromising letters from...
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Priam Andes
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1932
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San Francisco's Chinatown provides the setting of this dramatic romance set in 1911. At this time in China, a major uprising...
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1932
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William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old...
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Dr. Henry Brown
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1932
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Dolores Costello spent the twilight months of her Warner Bros. contract in such trifles as Expensive Women. The star is cast...
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Melville Raymond
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1931
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In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man...
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Maj. Hugh Schmidt
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1931
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In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her...
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Walter Nichols
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1931
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Adapted from the stage play by former newspaperman Louis Weitzenkorn, Five Star Final is an uncompromising look at the...
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Michael Townsend
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1931
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Chief Magistrate
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1930
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In this British adventure, a plane crash results in the capture of the survivors by a despotic Rajah who hates the British....
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Maj. Crespin
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1930
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In this comedy, a plumbing magnate's son, who has started on the bottom rung of his father's business, is hired to fix the...
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1930
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This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents. He soaks them...
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Henry Grayson
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1930
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The plays of Zoe Akins were so stilted and mannered that one critic referred to watching them as "the curse of an Akins...
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Oliver Bedlow
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1930
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In this romantic adventure, a feisty young woman (Velez) toys with the affections of a railroad worker (Withers) and a...
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Dr. Cusick
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1930
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In this drama, a New York dressmaker struggles to make it big so she can provide a good life for her beloved son. As her son...
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Raymond Pryer
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1930
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In this romance, two sisters fall in love with the same man. He in turn, falls for and marries the most sophisticated of the...
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Lewis Dike
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1930
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In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and...
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Inspector Bray
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1930
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The Doctor's Secret was adapted by director William C. DeMille from James M. Barrie's play Half an Hour. After marrying...
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Richard Garson
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1929
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Frank Lloyd both produced and directed The Divine Lady, a Hollywood slant on the 19th century romance of Lord Horatio Nelson...
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Sir William Hamilton
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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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Hurley
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1929
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In this adventure set in South America, the captain of a yacht moored there is really a fugitive criminal. The passengers...
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Prof. Dangerfield
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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In this well-executed courtroom drama, a Broadway chorine is accused of stabbing her wealthy boy friend to death. The girl...
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District Attorney Galway
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1929
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The 1929 Wall Street crash was still two months in the future when Warner Bros.' Gamblers was released in the late summer of...
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James Darwin
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1929
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James Farnham
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1929
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The Naughty Duchess was the come-on title affixed to this filmization of the novel Indiscretion of a Duchess (apparently...
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1928
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In a departure from his usual fare of Richard Talmadge action melodramas, low-budget entrepreneur A. Carlos produced this...
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1928
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The piquant Leatrice Joy starred in this frothy marital comedy about a wife who leaves her boring husband (John Boles) to be...
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Jules Moret
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1928
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The same year H.B. Warner portrayed Jesus Christ in The King of Kings, he let down his hair in the drawing-room comedy French...
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Phillip Grey
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1927
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Jesus Christ
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1927
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Sorrell and Son, the best-selling (and frequently filmed) British novel by Warwick Deeping, was afforded its first screen...
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Stephen Sorrell
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1927
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Jim Warren
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1926
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Gaunt, aristocratic-looking character-actor H.B. Warner was slightly miscast as author Frank Hamilton Spearman's popular...
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"Whispering Smith"
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1926
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Virginia Carter (Alma Rubens) has two suitors -- the carefree Robert Whitney (Frank Mayo) and the more restrained, but far...
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Jordan Southwick
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1924
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As a play, Zaza had been around for some 30 years and had already been filmed once before when Allan Dwan updated it and made...
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Bernard Dufresne
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1923
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Stage star William Elliot (no relation to cowboy hero William "Wild Bill" Elliott starred in this first movie version of the...
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1921
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1921
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Author George Clayton (H.B. Warner) is a skeptic when it comes to hypnotism. Nevertheless, he allows mesmerist Norman Osgood...
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1920
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This mystery comedy was based on the novel, House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholsorf (the book was also made into a...
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1920
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The conservative, political sentiments of Americans in the 1920s were decidedly anti-communist, and this comedy-drama lends a...
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1920
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Irishman Felix O'Day (H.B. Warner) sees his life crumble when his so-called friend Austin Bennett (Ray Ripley) convinces his...
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1920
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When Jimmy Doyle (H.B. Warner) is released after serving yet another prison term, his dying pal, jewel thief Bill Preston...
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1920
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This drama was based on the novel by William J. Locke. Physician Sylvester Lanyon (H.B. Warner) has such high ideals when it...
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1920
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H.B. Warner takes a break from his usual heavy dramas to star in this light comedy. Stephan Van Courtlandt (Warner) belongs...
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1919
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This Arabian tale starring H.B. Warner (returning to the screen after an extended Broadway performance) may seem racist...
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1919
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A pair of con artists, Gorgone (Genevieve Hamper) and Peppo (Stuart Holmes) wreak havoc in the life of Count de Mornay...
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1916
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1916
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Popular scenarist C. Gardner Sullivan uses India's Sepoy Rebellion as a backdrop for this tale of drug addiction and...
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1916
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1914
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