Venerable character actor Ferdinand Gottschalk dominates the proceedings in the Universal crime meller Secret of the Chateau....
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1935
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With William Boyd in the cast, one would think that Flaming Gold was a "Hopalong Cassidy" western -- and one would be wrong....
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Tess
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1934
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1934
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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1934
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Frank Craven, the actor-playwright best known for his performance as The Stage Manager in the original Broadway production of...
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1934
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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1933
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In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live...
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Pomposia
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1933
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Katharine Hepburn won her first Oscar for her portrayal of Eva Lovelace, a small-town community-theatre actress who comes to...
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1933
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The missing girl in this weak whodunit from Warner Bros. is redheaded Peggy Shannon, once seen as the successor of "It Girl"...
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1933
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One of the earliest girls-in-prison yarns, Ladies They Talk About has everything but Ida Lupino as the warden--and had she...
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1933
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Sol Glass (Ferdinand Gottschalk) is a man with a problem -- in the depths of the Great Depression, his garment business can't...
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1933
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A multi-character drama set in a suburban neighborhood, The Night of June 13th takes place in four households. One of these...
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1932
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Elinor of Serblant
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1931
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Based on a novel by Geoffrey Barnes, Party Husband is a weak-tea drawing room comedy utterly dependant upon the charms of its...
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1931
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Aunt Bessie
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1931
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In this drama, a hard-working New York model abandons her family values for the love of a suave, handsome man who offers her...
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1931
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Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin (Evelyn Brent) hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French...
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Corbett's Wife
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1930
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Two former Fox contractees star in RKO Radio's She's My Weakness, a flat adaptation of Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson's...
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1930
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This simple tale of peace-loving hillbillies defeating a gang of outlaws was based on a story by Joseph Hergesheimer and was...
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1930
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In this comedy, a boarding house owner becomes the confidant and advisor to a number of troubled gangsters and racketeers....
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Susie
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1930
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To date, this D.W. Griffith epic is the only talking-picture effort to encapsulate the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, from...
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1930
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In this murder mystery, set in a carnival, a performer loses her boyfriend, a trapeze artist, when his partner "accidently"...
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Mme. Elsie
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1929
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In this drama, an unemployed young woman who must support her younger brother pays a visit to a gambler who wants her body....
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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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Min
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1929
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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1929
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Director John Ford made his talking-picture debut with the 3-reel (32-minute) Fox "featurette" Napoleon's Barber. Faithfully...
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Barber's Wife
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1928
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Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) studies music in Paris, but his parents (Lee Baker and Effie Shannon) call him home and ask...
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1925
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Thomas Dixon, who wrote The Clansmen (which became Birth of a Nation), wrote and directed this melodrama. Dr. David Hale...
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1923
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If her scenes had not ended up on the cutting-room floor, this uneven drama would have been the film debut of Clara Bow...
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1922
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For a while, Mae Murray and her then-husband, director Robert Z. Leonard, were an unstoppable team. They had their own...
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1922
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A naive Colorado rancher falls prey to a predatory female in this melodrama written and directed by former Chicago journalist...
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1921
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Director Raoul Walsh made a very busy version of the melodrama by Paul Armstrong and Wilson Mizner. But even if he tries to...
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1920
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Harold Lockwood stars in this confusing, but nevertheless amusing comedy. Richard Hudson (Lockwood) has a friend in China,...
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1917
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Secret Love was based on The Lass of Lowries, a story by Frances Hodgson Burnett (of Little Lord Fauntleroy fame). The story...
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1916
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