The motivating factor of The Missing Corpse is a feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (J. Edward Bromberg) and McDonald...
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1945
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Like many PRC films, Lady in the Death House was run incessantly in the early days of television, then disappeared into the...
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1944
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Tim Holt's third RKO Radio western for 1943 was The Avenging Rider. The story finds Holt trying to clear himself and his...
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1943
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A virtual remake of Rustlers' Valley (1937), this average "Hopalong Cassidy" Western features Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers, a...
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1943
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The Last Stand is among the better Bob Baker westerns, with the star getting to show off his athletic prowess as well as his...
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1938
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Legion of Missing Men was one of three Monogram "specials" produced in 1937 by I. E. Chadwick. Foreign legion officer Bob...
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1937
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1937
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After several overlong "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns, Rustler's Valley brings things back under control with a short-and-sweet...
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1937
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In this western, a singing outlaw and a US marshal kill each other in a fight. Their demise is witnessed by an opportunistic...
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1937
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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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Columbia's The Thrill Hunter is more of straight action film than a western, though leading man Buck Jones still wears his...
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1933
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A shipwreck strands a newpaperman, his fiancee, and a man falsely accused of murder, on an African island. ~ Jason Ankeny,...
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1933
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Based on a story in Golden West magazine by Frederick Ryter, this rather pedestrian Monogram Western starred handsome...
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1932
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In this romantic comedy, a woman is utterly bored by her nice life and devoted husband, so she decides to find a lover. She...
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1931
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The dank underbelly of suburban youth is revealed in this dark drama based on a sensational 1930 novel written by an 18-year...
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1930
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In this drama, a woman falls for a rumrunner who promises to quit bootlegging and marry her. But first he needs to make one...
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1930
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1929
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Passion Song was directed by Harry Hoyt, a talented hack best known today for his work on the landmark sci-fi/fantasy...
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1928
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In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar...
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1928
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Veteran stage actor/playwright James Gleason made his film debut in the Universal comedy The Count of Ten. In fact, Gleason...
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1928
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A prize-fighter and a professional wrestler meet in a benefit match in this routine comedy-drama. Believing boxer Jack...
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1928
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The success of First National's Harold Teen prompted Universal to cast gangly juvenile Arthur Lake as lead in Stop That Man....
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1928
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1928
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In this silent crime drama, a clown comes home and finds his wife in bed with his colleague. He naturally flies into a...
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1927
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1927
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Glenn Tryon stars as Hiram Hastings, a cabdriver who aspires to be the next Charles Lindbergh. Trouble is, he's never been in...
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1927
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1927
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Small town girls get a taste of the world when they go fortune seeking in the big city. The big sister goes first and gets a...
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1927
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One of seven Monte Blue vehicles filmed by Warner Bros. in 1927, Bitter Apples casts the reliable Blue as wealthy John...
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1927
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1927
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Footloose flapper Peggy Marston (Dorothy Revier) runs away from her oppressive household and right into the arms of Big...
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1927
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Set during the turn of the century, The Belle of Broadway starts out in Paris, where celebrated stage star Madame Adele...
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1926
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The Columbia "special" Sweet Rosie O'Grady was purportedly inspired by the ballad of the same name. Orphaned at birth, Rosie...
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1926
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1926
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The Roberston-Cole Studio had just merged with Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices when the company released the 1926...
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1926
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This adventure virtually butchers its source, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. But with stop-motion photography and...
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1925
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This romantic melodrama was based on the novel Peggy of Beacon Hill by Maysie Greig. Because she is so badly treated by her...
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1925
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Love had already grown cold for Natacha Rambova and her ex-husband, Rudolph Valentino, when this film came out. Why Rambova,...
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1925
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Even though Clara Bow was close to achieving true stardom, she was still being cast in crass, low-budget fare. In fact, she...
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1925
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The Unnamed Woman stars veteran film player Leah Baird, who also wrote the script. The actress plays the greedy, covetous...
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1925
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Although the plot to this heavy-handed drama sounds like typical Hollywood hokum, it actually came from a very successful...
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1924
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Starring action hero Charles Hutchison and veteran leading lady Leah Baird, The Law Demands was a belated feature version of...
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1924
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No one in the bathtub-gin 1920s took Charles Blaney's hoary old stage melodrama The Curse of Drink seriously. This didn't...
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1922
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Celebrated prize fighter Jack Dempsey was a natural for serials, and industry leader Pathé dutifully cast him in this...
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1920
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Montagu Love has a different type of dual role in this drama -- instead of playing lookalikes or twins, he plays two...
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1919
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1919
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Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to...
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1919
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Henri Lamont (Jack Drumier) is a post trader who runs illegal liquor on the side. Two of his associates, Jean and Pierre...
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1919
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June Elvidge plays two sisters, Fanny and Evelyn, in this melodramatic feature. They have been sent to a finishing school by...
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1918
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In one of her best pre-adult roles, little Madge Evans was cast as nine-year-old troublemaker Clarissa Leigh. Our heroine...
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1918
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Mary Miles Minter, moviedom's chief rival to Mary Pickford, stars in Dimples. Mary plays the daughter of miserly William...
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1916
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