Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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1940
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Elmer and Elsie was adapted from To the Ladies, a play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Former movie tough guy...
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1934
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In this drama, a young surgeon and his driver must combat the racketeers who have taken over the hospital where he works. ~...
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1933
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1930
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Romance of the Underworld was adapted from a barnstorming stage piece by Paul Armstrong. Forced by circumstance into a life...
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1929
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Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the...
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1929
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In this 1929 comedy, two white minstrel comedians, Moran and Mack, in black-face, re-create their most beloved routines in...
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1929
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Much of this drama is comprised of newsreel footage. It chronicles the exploits of a luckless college prize-fighter...
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1929
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Popular film lore has it that The Jazz Singer was the film that established the talkie as the pre-eminent film medium in...
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1928
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1928
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The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow goes to heck in a...
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Marie
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1928
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Often misrepresented as an entry in Paramount's Zane Grey series, Showdown is actually based on a novel by Houston Branch. In...
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Goldie
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1928
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Having grown up under the thumbs of her two maiden aunts, 17-year-old Joan Hastings (Marceline Day) has never had a...
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Ruth
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1928
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Personable Owen Moore starred in this romantic comedy from Warner Bros. featuring Dolores Costello. About to marry his...
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1927
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The small-time Chesterfield company attempted to promote canine performer Sandow as a competitor to Warner Bros.'...
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Mary Kirkham
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1927
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1927
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Little Big Horn was a cheapjack attempt to recount the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand on June 25, 1876. John Beck...
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Betty Rossmon
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1927
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Underworld opens with a series of title cards setting its mood, telling of "a great city in the dead of night...streets...
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1927
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Yet another amiable Hoot Gibson western in which the somewhat bumbling star is caught up in, of all things, a Chinese Tong...
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1926
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My Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle of New York City. Joining a...
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1926
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Poverty-row studio Film Booking Office (the later RKO) had a winning combination in the strapping Tom Tyler and freckle-faced...
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Pandora Golden
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1926
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Smouldering Fires is a first-rate silent "soap opera," immaculately performed by its superb cast and brilliantly directed by...
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1925
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Tourist Mary Brown (Dorothy Devore) spends Three Weeks in Paris -- which looks suspiciously like the Warner Bros. backlot....
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1925
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1925
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He may have been Maurice B. Flynn on the studio payroll, but to his fans this popular action star was best known as "Lefty"...
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1925
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Produced by Anthony J. Xydias' low-budget Sunset Productions and directed by B-Western expert Robert North Bradbury (father...
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1924
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Nan Miller
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1924
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Richard Talmadge was one of the greatest movie stunt men who ever drew breath. But he was no actor, so his film vehicles were...
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Gloria Winthrope
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1924
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Raymond McKee stars as a young man suspected of being a revenue officer in moonshine country in this forgettable film. He...
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1924
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Reginald Denny seems to be doing a Harold Lloyd impersonation in this comedy, right down to the glasses, and maybe he was --...
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1924
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Cecil B. DeMille was busy developing Leatrice Joy into a glamorous star a la Gloria Swanson when she was loaned out to...
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Stepsister
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1923
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1923
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This nature-themed silent feature from 1922 concerns a fur trapper who befriends a wild dog, after the animal has spent...
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1922
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This crime thriller, "suggested by" the story by Hugh McNain Kahler, benefited from the fine directorial hand of Marshall...
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1922
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Future Judge Hardy Lewis Stone plays a restless middle-aged man in this drama. After 20 years of marriage, Mary Emerson (Cleo...
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1922
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1921
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