Having struck pay dirt with his 1958 western Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks more or less remade the picture twice in the 1960s. The...
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1967
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Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer...
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1958
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In his third starring feature, Onionhead, Andy Griffith plays a character somewhere inbetween the bucolic ingenuousness of...
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1958
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The Enemy Below is a study of submarine warfare from the vantage point of both sides. Robert Mitchum plays the captain of an...
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1957
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Can evil be inherited? That's the question posed by Maxwell Anderson in his stage play The Bad Seed. This 1956 film...
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1956
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This high-flying thriller utilizes exciting footage of the USAF Thunderbirds in action--an interesting and authentic look...
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1956
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Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a...
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1955
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Greer Garson's first non-MGM starring vehicle was the stylish western Strange Lady in Town. That lady is Julia (Garson), who...
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1955
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This very expensive Italian-made adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey" stars Kirk Douglas as seafaring hero Ulysses. The story...
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1954
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Unable to find work in Hollywood due to the Blacklist, director Robert Rossen filmed his 1954 production Mambo in Italy....
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1954
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This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous...
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1953
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Esther Williams stars in this button-cute musical about a health-conscious family of swimmers who fall in with con man Windy...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of...
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1952
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Though completed in 1950, Love Is Better Than Ever was held back from release until 1952, due in great part to the "political...
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1952
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1951
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1951
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter...
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1950
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Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He...
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1950
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George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco,...
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1950
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Both Van Johnson and Gregory Peck were considered for the role of baseball star Monty Stratton in the 1949 biopic The...
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1949
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1949
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In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
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1949
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1948
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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1948
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When he was first offered the film version of the best-selling Frederick Wakeman novel The Hucksters, Clark Gable turned it...
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1947
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Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget...
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1947
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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1946
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In this WWII musical, a young hero and his buddy decide to celebrate his receiving the Medal of Honor by partying. He is...
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1946
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In later years, director Fred Zinneman seldom referred to My Brother Talks to Horses as one of his career highpoints. Even...
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1946
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1946
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The oft-used movie title Between Two Women was resurrected once more for this entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series. Though...
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1944
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Billed third, Spencer Tracy plays Lt. Col. James P. Doolittle, who led the bombing raid over Tokyo. Most of the footage...
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1944
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Director King Vidor intended An American Romance as the third entry in his "War, Wheat and Steel" trilogy (the War had been...
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1944
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This airy bit of MGM fluff stars Lana Turner as small-town soda clerk Peggy Evans. After telling off the self-important new...
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1943
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Unable to convince their isolationist New York editor (Charles Dingle) that America must be alerted to the threat of...
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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With a little extra effort, Washington Melodrama might have passed muster as an A picture. Frank Morgan stars as millionaire...
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1941
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In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI...
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1941
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Robert Taylor toughened up his image considerably with this gangster movie, which was unusual both in its plot and origins,...
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1941
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The marvelous rapport between stars Clark Gable and Lana Turner makes MGM's Honky Tonk seem far more substatianal than it...
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1941
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In this sequel to the 1938 boxoffice hit Boys Town, Spencer Tracy repeats his Oscar-winning role of Father Flanagan, with...
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1941
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Clark Gable is "Big John" and Spencer Tracy is "Square John"; both "Johns" seek their fortunes in the Texas oil fields. They...
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1940
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1940
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Appointed resident assistant at the Byng State Hospital by his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), young Doctor...
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1940
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This soapy drama stars Hedy Lamarr as a would be model who meets a research doctor en route to the US from Europe. They meet...
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1940
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MGM had a tendency to overglamorize the sort of rough-hewn film fare that Warner Bros. offered to its public without...
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1940
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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1939
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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1938
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1938
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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1937
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In this WW II era drama, a timid, pacifistic clerk is befriended by a gutsy circus barker while they are in the military....
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1937
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Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
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1937
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1936
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As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is...
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1936
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The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s:...
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1936
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1936
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Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred...
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1935
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1934
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had...
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1933
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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1933
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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1933
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There's nothing wrong with Hold Your Man that a little editing wouldn't cure. Clark Gable plays a raffish young petty crook...
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1933
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In this drama, Diana (Myrna Loy) is a beautiful tourist from the United States who is visiting Cairo, accompanied by her...
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1933
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Hell Below transcends its hackneyed World War I plot to emerge as a drama of rare originality and gutsiness. Walter Huston...
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1933
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"Are you listening?" was the catchphrase of early-1930s radio personality Tony Wons. Though Wons does not appear in the 1932...
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1932
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Tarzan, The Ape Man was not only MGM's inaugural "Tarzan" film, but also the first to star former Olympic swimming champ...
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1932
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Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions for MGM release, Feller Needs a Friend teams child-star...
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1932
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In this two-hanky drama, a physically challenged boy wants his overprotective parents to relinquish their tight control so...
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1932
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Jack Conway complained about being assigned to direct this comedy, claiming that a woman like the title character had almost...
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1932
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A remake of West of Zanibar, this strange, gut-wrenching melodrama set in the African jungles, offers a disturbing portrait...
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1932
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Anyone who believes that the career of silent screen idol John Gilbert ended because his voice has too high for the talkies...
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1932
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Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM's back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in...
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1932
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1931
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An young boy is en route to Bombay with his wealthy father when they are ambushed by highwaymen and his father is mortally...
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1931
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1931
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this...
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1931
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1931
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In this espionage drama set during WW I, a French agent sneaks behind enemy lines into Alsace-Lorraine and decides to see...
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1930
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The second of Cecil B. DeMille's talkies (as well as his second for MGM), Madam Satan is an exercise in incoherence, but this...
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1930
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In this drama, a two wealthy cousins find themselves involved in an unfortunate love triangle. The trouble begins when the...
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1930
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1929
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In this melodrama, set in the Far North, a half-Eskimo woman leaves her tribe and her husband to find adventure with a...
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1929
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A lesser-known effort from director Josef Von Sternberg, The Case of Lena Smith has been unfairly chastised for all the wrong...
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1929
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In this comedy drama, a very early talkie, set in the splendiferous South Seas, a French lassie charms a sea captain who...
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1929
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In this romance, a greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the...
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1929
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The smokily erotic ambience of Josef Von Sternberg's silent Docks of New York is best appreciated on a big theatrical...
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1928
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Anne Nichols' Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose was almost universally panned when it opened in 1923. But despite the moans...
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1928
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The present unavailability of 1928's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is especially frustrating for those who'd like to compare this...
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1928
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The Clara Bow vehicle Three Week Ends was based on a story by Elinor Glyn, the romance novelist who bestowed the "It Girl"...
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1928
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1928
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William Boyd, in his pre-Hopalong Cassidy days, played a variety of roles, but he already was showing a flair for Westerns in...
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1927
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1927
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It stands to reason that the sartorially splendid Adolphe Menjou would star in a picture called Evening Clothes. At the...
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1927
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Directed with his usual dry wit by the talented and underrated Harry D'Arrast, Gentleman of Paris was based on a short story...
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1927
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"Rough House Rosie" Reilly (Clara Bow) just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Hoping to become a Broadway actress, Rosie...
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1927
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The titular "man bait" is svelte shopgirl Madge Dreyer (Marie Prevost), who can't convince her customers and male co-workers...
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1926
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1926
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This romance was based on the best-selling novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. While serving in the Great War, Owen Bradley...
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1925
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The Paramount backlot doubled as Basque country for this romantic comedy which proved to be a nice showcase for Richard Dix....
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1925
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With this comedy-melodrama, Richard Dix was bumped up from leading man to star status. This also marked the first film for...
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1924
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Although an executive at Paramount came up with the racy title for this comedy-drama, the plot came from a Saturday Evening...
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1924
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This society comedy-drama was given witty direction by Allan Dwan, and was based on The Laughing Lady by respected playwright...
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1924
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The plot to this routine Paramount drama was apparently inspired by current interest in the work of Emile Coue, a hypnotist...
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1923
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After Hollywood was rocked by several scandals, the specter of censorship reared its ugly head. To keep local community...
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1923
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Jack Pickford made a strong showing in this romantic drama, adapted from the novel by W.B.M. Ferguson. Two schemers, Crimmins...
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1923
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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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1923
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This well-cast drama was based on the play by Samuel Shipman. When Marion Dorsey (Hope Hampton) is away in Europe, her...
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1923
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May McAvoy was on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's most popular stars when she appeared in this pleasant comedy-drama....
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1922
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1922
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1921
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Polly Hopkins (Mildred Harris) belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at...
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1920
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1917
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Although this classic Charles Dickens tale was filmed at least twice previously, this Lasky version was the first to really...
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1916
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1915
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