A veteran cast gives the 1968 cheapie The Bamboo Saucer what little credibility it has. In his last role, Dan Duryea plays...
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1968
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Heavy on slapstick and light on the more subtle forms of humor, this standard comedy by Frank Tashlin is still an amusing...
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1963
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In the wake of a nuclear war that wipes out 92 percent of the world's population, civilization rebuilds itself with the help...
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1962
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Cliff Robertson plays Tolly Devlin, an embittered ex-convict who has spent a lifetime tracking down the men who murdered his...
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1961
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Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone are Cliff and Laurie Henderson, a married couple on a vacation with their young daughter...
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1960
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A steamship docks in San Francisco, and as one of the passengers, Philip Dressler (Raymond Bailey), is waiting for a cab...
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1958
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The third and (as of 2005) the last film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners...
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1958
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Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the...
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1957
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John Payne always felt that he delivered his best screen performance in The Boss. Set in the years following WW1, the story...
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1956
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"What are you rebelling against?" asks someone. "What've you got?" responds surly, leather-jacketed motorcycle punk...
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1954
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25-year-old Julie Harris convincingly recreates her Broadway role of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams in the 1952 screen...
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1952
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Jan de Hartog's two-person stage play The Fourposter has always seemed to attract married acting couples, a tradition...
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1952
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by...
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1952
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1951
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1951
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Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), a window-dresser and struggling artist, accidentally witnesses a mob-related rub-out of a...
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1950
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Of Men and Music can be described as a live-action Fantasia; indeed, both films feature critic-composer Deems Taylor as...
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1950
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This drama tells about a juvenile delinquent that wavers between loyalty to a fellow crook and a kind-hearted reform school...
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1949
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In this provocative drama, a stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further...
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1948
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1948
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It is said that Henry James' The Aspern Papers were inspired by the romance between Lord Byron and his mistress Claire...
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1947
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Bearing little resemblance to reality, this musical biography of 19th century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov takes...
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1947
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In this musical comedy, Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) is a girl from a small town who comes top New York City with...
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1947
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Pirates of Monterey is set during the early 19th century, at a time when California was asserting its independence from...
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1947
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As appealing as ever in 1946, Deanna Durbin was admittedly getting a bit long in tooth for her ingenue-like role in Because...
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1946
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If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian...
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1946
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In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures. ~...
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1945
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In this crime drama, a former card shark finally gets paroled and decides to take his singing niece to Chicago to make a new...
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1945
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This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and...
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1945
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Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family....
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1944
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1944
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In this musical comedy, a soldier falls in love with a very young woman who in turn has a crush on an older, more...
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1944
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In this crime programer, Arsene Lupin (Charles Korvin) is an expert jewel thief from France who, while aboard a train,...
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1944
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1944
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All but forgotten today, Ladies Courageous was one of the more successful wartime morale-boosters. Loretta Young heads the...
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1944
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In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a...
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1944
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In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help...
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1943
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An expansion of, and improvement upon, Lillian Hellman's stage play of the same name, Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas,...
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1943
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1943
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This third film version of the hectic Margaret Mayo-Salisbury Field stage farce Twin Beds officially stars George Brent and...
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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Hungarian actress Ilona Massey stars as an operative for the Axis in this slightly tongue-in-cheek wartime melodrama. She...
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1941
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Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years...
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1941
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James Stewart once classified Pot O' Gold as his worst film, though this may have stemmed from his reported inability to get...
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1941
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When the Daltons Rode is the much-embellished tale of that celebrated outlaw family, the Daltons. Broderick Crawford,...
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1940
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William K. Howard, a once-prestigious director fallen on hard times in 1939, proved that he still had the "right stuff" with...
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1939
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn't believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object...
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1939
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1939
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The Under-Pup served to introduce Universal's new preteen songstress--and potential Deanna Durbin replacement--Gloria Jean....
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1939
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An undying love is chronicled in this "women's picture." The sweeping tale begins in a quiet New England village during the...
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1938
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In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no...
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1937
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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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In one of his most successful portrayals of a "living dead" man, Boris Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-convict who is framed...
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1936
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Ladies in Love transplants 20th Century-Fox's favorite film plot--three girls on the prowl for rich husbands--into the...
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1936
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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George Ade's turn-of-the-century stage success The County Chairman was retailored as a Will Rogers vehicle in 1935. Set in...
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1935
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, Under Pressure tells of the competition between the crews employed to excavate a complex network of...
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1935
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1915, David Harum is the story of an upstate New York rancher devoted to trotting races. Will Rogers...
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1934
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Warner Oland made his fifth appearance as wily Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. Hired...
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1934
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Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas,...
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1934
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Inasmuch as the film was based on a novel by Swedish author Sigrid Boo, Fox's Servant's Entrance is logically set in Sweden....
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1934
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1934
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Carolina, a melodrama directed by Henry King, follows a young woman's attempt to restore a southern plantation back to its...
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, an American art student goes abroad to study and gets a reputation when she marries a wealthy...
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1933
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1933
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In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live...
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1933
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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1933
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The 1933 State Fair was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller. Some consider it the best of the...
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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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1932
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In this romance, a recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she...
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1932
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This droll, sophisticated comedy stars Constance Bennett as Venice Muir, a shy young lady with no "past" of any kind -- and...
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, an old sea captain and his feisty daughter are squatting upon the land of another. The trouble begins when...
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1932
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1931
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A wealthy man's mistress abandons her luxurious life as a kept woman to be with the struggling Paris artist she has come to...
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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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1931
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1931
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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1931
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This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves...
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1930
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Big Boy may well be the closest a modern audience will ever come to seeing what a genuine Al Jolson Broadway musical looked...
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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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Sometimes all it takes to save a marriage is a good pop, right in the kisser or so this family drama seems to imply. The...
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1930
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The Cohens and Kellys in Africa is the fourth in the seemingly endless movie series based on characters created in the 1925...
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1930
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In this mystery, a producer reopens a theater where five years before, a lead actor was killed on stage during a...
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1929
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In this crime drama, a aging illusionist falls in love with his comely young assistant. Unfortunately, she is enamored with...
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1929
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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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1929
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Mary Nolan, whose own private life was as sensationally scandalous as any of her screen roles, starred in this...
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1929
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The romance between Jerome Bonaparte and Baltimore debutante Elizabeth Patterson was given the full treatment by Warner...
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1928
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Directed by a young Michael Curtiz, this Warner Bros. epic had aspirations of becoming another Intolerance (1916). In the...
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1928
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Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur...
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1928
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1928
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On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound...
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1927
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The David Belasco play had been filmed twice previously, in 1915 and in 1921, before Warner Bros. made this version with the...
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1927
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1927
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The father of footloose Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) has decreed that, until Cynthia finds a husband her two sisters won't be...
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1927
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A Million Bid came about because Warner Bros. promised a film of that title to exhibitors in early 1927. Unable to deliver at...
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1927
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The plot to this underworld drama, based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche, sounds more like something from the 1930s than...
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1927
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Though his glory days as a matinee idol were well behind him in 1926, Francis X. Bushman cut quite a dashing figure in the...
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1926
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Sparrows, Mary Pickford's 1926 release, superbly combines the two elements--sentiment and adventure--that characterized...
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1926
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Hungarian director Michael Curtiz made his American film bow with the highly stylized crime melodrama The Third Degree. Set...
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1926
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1925
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It's hard to tell at times whether director Roland West was aiming for laughs or thrills in The Monster, but this...
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1925
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In spite of the depressing, often tragic, circumstances in this drama, director Finis Fox somehow managed to add in comic...
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1924
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This low-budget Finis Fox drama marked the film debut of Gloria Grey. Grey is Hope Anthony, the motherless daughter of an old...
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1924
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An unscrupulous rancher will do just about anything to cheat a prospective buyer in this two-reel Leo Maloney Western. The...
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1923
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Richard Travers stars in this cheapie Northwoods melodrama. David Manley (Travers) shows his heroic nature right away -- he...
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1922
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1918
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