This adventurous horror movie chronicles the exploits of a boy whose father is changed into a wolfman. The trouble begins...
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1973
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1965
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Suspense builds around the investigation of a plane crash that caused 53 deaths in this dramatic adaption of Ernest K. Gann's...
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1964
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A man makes the highly unexpected discovery that he has two wives in this romantic comedy. Widower Nick Arden (James Garner)...
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1963
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1960
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Wanting to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fortune, a glamorous wife talks her lover, who is also her...
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1960
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Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol. John Gregson plays Captain Williams, a martinet...
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1958
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1957
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Now and Forever is a very slight piece, buoyed by the charm and attractiveness of its young stars. Janette Scott and Vernon...
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1956
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Jack Hawkins is starred as a gruff, intensely dedicated Scotland Yard superintendent. Working as much by instinct as through...
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1956
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The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous...
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1955
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The title tells all in this seventh entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series. This time around, Ma (Marjorie Main) and...
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1955
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1955
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1953
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They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base,...
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1953
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This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the...
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1953
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1952
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Fresh from radio and TV, "America's Favorite Family" stars in Here Come the Nelsons. That's right: this harmless little...
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1952
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"Angels One Five" is the cognomen bestowed upon a group of WW II British fighter pilots. The squadron leader is Tiger Small...
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1952
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The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young...
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1952
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One man's good luck leaves a very bad impression in this comedy. Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and Mildred Goodhug (Jane...
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Despite its somewhat lofty, Zane Grey-flavored title, The Vanishing Westerner is a modest Republic western, off and on the...
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1950
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If ever there was an actor born to play Billy the Kid, it was the combustible Audie Murphy. In Kid from Texas, Murphy is cast...
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1950
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The title tells all--or at least most--in I Was a Shoplifter. The title character, played by Mona Freeman, is Faye Burton, a...
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1950
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Jimmy Durante plays the patriarch of a down-on-their-luck family of acrobats, who suddenly finds a great deal of money hidden...
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1950
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This gentle Ealing Studios comedy features young William Fox as a mischievous English lad. A goodly portion of the film shows...
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1950
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This hastily assembled "feature" is comprised of several episodes of an early-1950s TV series starring Buster Keaton. One of...
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1950
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Many observers felt that western star Monte Hale finally hit his stride with Law of the Golden West. This time, Hale plays...
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1949
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One of the less famous Humphrey Bogart films is this 1949 drama about post-war guilt and remembrance. Bogart plays U.S....
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1949
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In this suspenseful espionage actioner, the US radar defense system is about to be breached by enemy saboteurs and now only...
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1949
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1949
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1948
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In this film noir drama, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) is a former Prisoner of War living in England whose experiences have...
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1948
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Whenever veteran stuntman Yakima Canutt held the directorial reins of a Republic western, it was a sure bet that there'd be...
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1948
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In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the...
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1948
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Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen,...
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1948
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1947
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Slave Girl is the sort of fare that the Universal higher-ups used to dismiss as "tits and sand;" nonetheless, this kind of...
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1947
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Lucille Ball stars as the wife of a war correspondent, anxiously awaiting her husband's return. Ball is convinced that hubby...
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1946
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The title states the case in Monogram's Don't Gamble with Strangers. It's all about a pair of crooked gamblers, Mike...
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1946
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Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a...
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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In this comedy, a milque-toast bookkeeper buckles under his overbearing girl friend's constant nagging and begins investing...
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1943
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A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing...
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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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Filmed on a B-picture budget, Buck Privates was Universal's biggest box-office hit of 1941, firmly securing the movie...
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1941
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In this war drama, a commercial pilot joins the air corps of a South Pacific island, and there he finds that he must contend...
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1941
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In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a...
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1941
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You'll Never Get Rich was the first of two films made by Fred Astaire at Columbia, and also the first in which he was paired...
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1941
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Escaped gangster Steve McBirney (Marc Lawrence), vowing to get even with Oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler), lies in...
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1940
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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1940
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Universal's Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a modern western with a dash of music, not unlike the standard fare at Republic Pictures....
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1940
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While Cesar Romero could usually be relied upon to ladle out the charm in his film roles, Romero's handful of appearances as...
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1940
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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1939
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The sole survivor of an Indian attack, orphan girl Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) becomes the mascot of the Canadian...
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1939
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John Ford's fine direction distinguishes this highly fictionalized account of the early life of Abraham Lincoln. The film...
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1939
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Too Busy to Work is not a remake of the 1932 Will Rogers film of the same name-but it is a partial remake of Rogers' 1935...
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1939
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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1939
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There was no getting around the fact that child star Jane Withers was growing up in a hurry by the time she made...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she...
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1938
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1938
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Sonja Henie is the "lucky star" in this enjoyable 20th Century-Fox musical. Henie plays Kristina Nelson a humble department...
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1938
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1938
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In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law after the damning corpse is found...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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By 1937, everyone was tired of films about silent stars who couldn't make the transition to talkies (and would be until...
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1937
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1937
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A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and...
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1937
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1936
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Scoutmaster Elmer Brown (Buster Keaton) loses his heart to the pretty carhop (Lona Andre) who works in a drive-in diner....
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1936
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1936
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After six years' worth of tragic and noble roles, Irene Dunne began a new phase in her career as a top comedienne in Theodora...
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1936
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Dialogue only punctuates this inventive, near-silent two-reeler starring the great Buster Keaton. He plays the titular Elmer,...
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1935
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In this western, a wagon train is destroyed and all but two children, a brother and sister, are slaughtered. The sister is...
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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1935
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1934
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1934
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To say that Smoking Guns is one of Ken Maynard's strangest Westerns is understating the case. The film wastes no time getting...
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Hank
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1934
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The relative importance of social class differences is examined in this drama that centers on the daughter of a disinherited...
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1934
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Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of...
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1934
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Curley Fletcher's famous lament "The Strawberry Roan became Ken Maynard's favorite Western and went a long way to popularize...
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1933
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Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and...
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1933
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1933
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In this misleadingly-titled 1932 medical (not musical) drama, the resolve of a young surgeon is severely tested. Dr. Felix...
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1932
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Though produced by Supreme Pictures and distributed by Artclass, the poverty-row sex drama Pleasure is neither supreme, arty,...
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1932
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Based on a novel by Rian James, Hat Check Girl stars Sally Eilers as the title character, a pert little number named Gerry...
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1932
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Richard Arlen more or less revives his aviation-ace role from Wings in the Paramount programmer Sky Bride. Arlen plays Speed...
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1932
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Movie Crazy was Harold Lloyd's best-received sound film. It is the semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic aspiring movie...
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1932
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Columbia spent the 1920s and 1930s dusting off its reliable "two guys/one girl" military plotline and dressing it up in a...
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1931
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In this drama, an eager-beaver cub reporter looking for the big scoop that will give him his big break is sent to interview...
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1931
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In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is...
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1931
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The Widow from Chicago is Polly Henderson (Alice White) -- only she isn't really a widow and in fact has never been married....
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1930
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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join...
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1930
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Steve Roberts
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1929
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This is one of the last films from Buster Keaton's classic period, before the coming of sound and interference from MGM...
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Harold Stagg
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1928
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The outcome of a love triangle is once again decided by a "big race" in this lighthearted silent comedy-drama from FBO, the...
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1928
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Still another of the seemingly endless stream of "collegiate" pictures, The Cheer Leader starred athletic Ralph Graves as the...
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1928
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The silent comedy feature College stars Buster Keaton as a scholarly young man who doesn't know beans about sports. When he...
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Jeff Brown, a Rival
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1927
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Young Robert Agnew discovers that he's first in line to inherit three million dollars. But there's always a hitch; in this...
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1927
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James Pierce is one of the lesser-known film Tarzans, partly because this picture -- his debut as an actor -- has apparently...
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1927
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Rin Tin Tin wannabe Ranger is the canine hero of When a Dog Loves. The story gets underway when both Ranger and a valuable...
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1927
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Evelyn Brent was known for playing lady crooks in the 1920s (in fact, she carried this typecasting into the sound era). In...
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1926
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The Better 'Ole was based on a play by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot, which was itself inspired by a cartoon character...
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Bert
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1926
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Marking the 50th anniversary of General George Armstrong Custer's famous defeat at Little Big Horn, Universal re-created the...
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1926
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Corpulent middle-aged Willard Louis fancies himself God's gift to women, indulging in various affairs while his frumpy wife...
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Flint Lambert
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1926
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1925
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This drama, based on the play by Marion Fairfax, concerns a woman who talks big, but does not practice what she preaches....
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1925
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer produced this drama with the cooperation of the Navy Department, and many of the scenes -- including the...
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1925
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Charles Abbey
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1924
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This picture was based on an old time melodrama by Lincoln J. Carter. Pauline Starke stars as Katherine Keith, whose brother...
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1924
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Alla Nazimova had been away from the screen for over a year when she made this drama, and she was paid well under half her...
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1924
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Almost an instant classic, Booth Tarkington's 1921 small-town morality tale reached the screen two years later courtesy of...
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1923
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A young and still inexperienced Norma Shearer was originally cast in the lead role of Myra Hastings in this society drama --...
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1923
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As naïve chorus girl, Sunny Duane (Elaine Hammerstein), finds herself in a load of trouble in this comedy-melodrama. She is...
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1923
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Keeping in mind that "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend," a Northwest Mounted Police...
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Rose Darby
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1923
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Julia (Bessie Love) is a small-town girl who falls in love with George Crum (Frank Elliott) a much-older man. Though the...
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Noble Dill
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1923
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Driven out of town by the local bully, Universal's rumpled cowboy star Hoot Gibson hops a freight train, only to be declared...
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1923
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This was the second time Edward Rose's play was committed to celluloid (the first was in 1915). This Jerome Storm-directed...
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1922
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Best known for western series starring the likes of Hoot Gibson and Jack Hoxie, Universal of the '20s also issued several...
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1922
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Marie Prevost got her start as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty, and even though this romantic comedy runs rather short for a...
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1922
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Pretty Eileen Pearcy plays the title character in this adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel. Cora (Pearcy) is the spoiled...
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1922
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Harry Carey's final western for Universal was the story of a South Sea island beachcomber who sobers up after returning to...
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1922
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Modernizing any classic story is a questionable pursuit, and few are successful (the musical West Side Story, which took...
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1921
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Ishmael Worth (Harold Goodwin) gives up the love of a young woman because of the social stigma attached to his illegitimacy....
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Ishmael Worth
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1921
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Universal ace director Lynn Reynolds directed this better-than-average silent western about a hobo Harry Carey who stumbles...
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1920
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1920
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Roma (Edith Roberts) is a girl with too much energy and time on her hands. She becomes bored living with her staid aunt...
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1919
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This film was one of Mary Pickford's attempts to add at least a touch of maturity to her little girl characterizations. She...
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1919
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For reasons unknown, it took two directors to put the modestly budgeted The Sawdust Ring together. Bessie Love stars as Janet...
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1917
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1915
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