Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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In rare film appearance, Broadway luminary Elsie Ferguson repeats her 1929 stage role in the 1930 film version of Scarlet...
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1930
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In this western, set aboard a California bound stagecoach, a man and woman passenger begin a flirtation that is interrupted...
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1929
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Mary Condon
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1927
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Jaws of Steel is not the name of a carnival sideshow act, but rather the title of this standard 1928 Rin Tin Tin vehicle. In...
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Mary Warren
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1927
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Financed to a great extent by local businessmen and historical societies, this Colorado-lensed silent western once again...
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1925
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Jack Newberry (E.K. Lincoln) is the millionaire's son who tries to become a Hollywood filmmaker in this melodrama. His father...
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Florence Keaton
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1925
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Like many sports stars before and after him, champion sprinter Charles W. Paddock wound up in motion pictures, at least...
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1925
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Two popular genres merged in this above-average silent comedy-drama: the western and the haunted-house farce. Universal's...
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Elvira
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1925
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Silent-screen stunt performer Richard Talmadge (born Metzetti) produced and starred in this low-budget action melodrama about...
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1925
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Wealthy John Woodbury (Douglas MacLean) is mistaken for a patient by a trio of overeager doctors. After being put through a...
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La Cigale
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1924
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French actress Andree Lafayette made this American film after her success in Trilby. It was a domestic drama which was...
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Janet Carroll
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1924
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This "real life" drama starred some of the best second-string talent at Metro, and first-class screenwriter Frances Marion...
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1923
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Roland West, who directed this mystery, also co-wrote the stage play on which it was based. Inventor Peter Marchmont (Henry...
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Ruth Marsh
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1923
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This is the second time Bayard Veiller's play made it to the silent screen (it would be made one more time in 1939 as a...
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1923
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Western star Buck Jones is a foreman who catches a gang of cattle rustlers in this standard silent oater. Steel Brannon...
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Betty Lawson
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1922
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Humoresque (1920) spawned a large number of human interest films featuring Jewish immigrant mothers in the style of Vera...
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Sara Levin
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1922
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Future director David Butler plays a hobo who aspires to become a business success. Taking a correspondence course which...
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1922
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This brawny Universal picture was the perfect vehicle for its manly action star, Frank Mayo. Mayo is Bruce Henderson, who...
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Lucille Danby
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1922
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1921
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William Russell plays a construction engineer who is held responsible for the collapse of a bridge. The actual culprit is the...
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Mary Ralston
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1921
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Director Fred J. Butler directs his son, David Butler, in this entertaining comedy-drama. Eddie Ramson (David Butler) is the...
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1921
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For a silent screen star, Lois Wilson showed a truly charming lack of ego -- how many other beauty contest winners would be...
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Diana Deacon
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1921
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Before Paramount produced this well-received version of Edward White's novel Conjurer's House, it had been made into a play...
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1921
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A small Western community is terrorized by an unscrupulous empire-builder (G. Raymond Nye) in this early Buck Jones Western...
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Doris Lane
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1921
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A stranger (Harry Carey) comes to the Western town of Broken Buckle, but discovers that the gambling hall there is crooked....
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1921
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This picture was a departure, both for star Buck Jones and director John Ford (in those days known as Jack Ford). Instead of...
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1920
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1919
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