In this unique murder mystery, that reveals the killer at the beginning of the film. The story concerns some women living in...
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1943
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, China Clipper was released only a year after the first transpacific flight...
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1936
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After 25 years, notorious western outlaw Harry Carey is released from prison. He returns to his frontier home town, only to...
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Calvin Yates
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1936
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Edmund Lowe made his only screen appearance as S. S. Van Dine's dilettante sleuth Philo Vance in The Garden Murder Case. The...
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1936
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First-time director Lew Ayres performs miracles on a tiny budget in the Civil War drama Hearts in Bondage. The story offers a...
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Buchanan
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1924 by producer Sol Lesser, Harold Bell Wright's popular suspense novel The Mine with the Iron Door was...
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David Burton
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1936
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Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist,...
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1936
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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In this drama, an impoverished dreamer saves a group of people during a terrible storm by leading them to shelter in a ghost...
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Abner Meadows
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1935
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1935
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This tuneful melodrama is set upon a college campus and follows the attempts of a pretty young woman who slyly helps her...
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Professor Barth
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1935
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Marshall Neilan, a great silent film director on the verge of obscurity, had one last big-studio stand with The Lemon Drop...
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1934
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A weak-willed gambler's compulsion destroys his life in this dramatic character study. In the beginning, he is seen working...
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1934
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Love Time is the story of the unhappy life of composer Franz Schubert, here played by Swedish actor Nils Asther. Too poor...
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Duke Johann von Hatzfeld
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1934
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In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the...
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1934
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The distinguished Henry B. Walthall, a major star of the early silent screen, headlined this cheap whodunit that fully...
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1934
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Col. Ransome
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1934
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1934
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The Mongram "special" Beggars in Ermine was based on a novel by Esther Lynd Day. Having lost both legs in an accident,...
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Marchant
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1934
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Set within the steamy Louisiana bayous, this melodrama chronicles the reconciliation between an embittered bereaved mother...
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Dr. Amon
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1934
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Will Rogers stars as Judge William "Billy" Priest, the common-sense Kentucky jurist created by humorist Irvin S. Cobb. The...
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Reverend Ashby Brand
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1934
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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1934
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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President Valenzuela
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1933
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Flash, yet another German shepherd in a long line of would-be Rin Tin Tin successors, took center stage in this obscure...
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1933
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With customary lack of restraint, Bela Lugosi tore into his role of Professor Strang, a foreign agent masquerading as a wax...
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1933
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Having confessed to murder, Nora Moran (Zita Johann) sits sadly on death row, waiting her date with the electric chair. In...
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1933
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Headline Shooter is a brisk comedy/melodrama about a newsreel photographer (William Gargan). He prefers to risk his neck to...
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1933
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Her Forgotten Past was released by Mayfair Studios, meaning that all the characters suffer in evening clothes in a handful of...
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1933
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In this western, John Wayne plays a bronc buster who flees to Mexico after he is falsely accused of rigging a stagecoach...
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Bob Leadly
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1933
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A young woman believes that her mother's gambling house is a hotel. When a gambler angry about being cheated there convinces...
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1933
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1933
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1932
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Alias Mary Smith might have been completely forgotten were it not for the diligent efforts of "B"-picture aficionado John...
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1932
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Ride Him, Cowboy was the first entry in John Wayne's "B"-western series for Warner Bros. Wayne plays John Drury, a handsome...
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John Gaunt
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1932
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In this drama, an jewel thief is let out of prison and heads for a New York hotel to find the jewels he hid in the fireplace...
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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Eph Clinton
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1932
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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Aging has-been silent star Henry B. Walthall plays an aging has-been silent star in this low-budget drama from Monogram...
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Nat Barry
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1932
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Based on the radio serial of the same name, Chandu the Magician is a veritable rollercoaster ride of thrills and terror,...
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Robert Regent
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1932
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Famed aviator Frank Hawks proves anew in Klondike that, as an actor, he was an excellent pilot. Though billed second, Hawks...
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Mark Armstrong
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1932
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Danny Dolan (Spencer Tracy) is a good-hearted, streetwise waterfront beat cop in New York City who gets promoted to detective...
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1932
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The title character is played by Dorothy Revier in this lower-case melodrama. She plays a gossip columnist whose brother, a...
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1931
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The answer to the question asked by small-scale Sono Art/World Wide Pictures in this minor crime drama was a resounding --...
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District Attorney John Raymond
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1931
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"East is East, West is West, Never the Twain Shall Meet." That's the lesson to be learned in the low-budget exotic romance...
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Capt. Adams
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1930
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The second all-talking entry in the "Bulldog Drummond" series, Temple Tower is also the most obscure of the Drummond films --...
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Blackton
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1930
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Though it eventually collapsed under the weight of mounting debts, the small firm of Sono Art-World Wide managed to turn out...
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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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Amos Hatburn
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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 adventure set in South America, the captain of a yacht moored there is really a fugitive criminal. The passengers...
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Capt. Rhodes
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1929
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1929
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Most of Monte Blue's talking-picture career was spent in small character roles, but he was still regarded as a bankable...
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Buffalo Bill Ryan
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1929
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Father Juniper
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1929
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Well-known Hollywood producer and public-relations expert Russell Birdwell was the prime mover of the multi-part "actuality"...
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1929
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In this convoluted melodrama, a wife frames her husband, an inventor, for the murder she committed. He gets a life sentence,...
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1929
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In this melodrama set in the South, a plantation owner's son finishes his education in Philadelphia and returns to his...
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Gen. Jeff Rumford
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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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Piano player
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1929
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In this mostly silent drama, an overprotective brother tries to keep his sister from getting further involved with a group...
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Mr. Maxwell
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1929
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Fuller
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1929
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Though its title was inspired by a popular song, Love Me and the World is Mine was based on Die Geschichte von der Hannerl...
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1928
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Lewis Stone, best known to modern viewers as kindly Judge Hardy from the "Andy Hardy" series, was on occasion not so kindly...
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John Ballard
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1928
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Wings, the first feature film to win an Academy Award, tends to disappoint a little when seen today. Too much time is...
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1927
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Enchanted Island is more than a little beholden to Shakespeare's The Tempest. For 15 years, Tim Sanborn (H. B. Walthall) and...
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Tim Sonbom
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1927
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The most tantalizing of the "lost" Tod Browning films, London After Midnight has gained a near-legendary status in recent...
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Sir James Hamlin
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1927
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1927
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Filipo Navarro
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1927
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Light in the Window is nearly as maudlin as its title. Henry B. Walthall, one of the great actors of the silent screen, goes...
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Johann Graff
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1927
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George Bennett
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1926
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A robust potboiler from Universal, The Ice Flood stars Kenneth Harlan as Jack De Quincey, a handsome youth returning from...
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1926
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Roger Chillingworth
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1926
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The Unknown Soldier starts out in life as Fred Williams (Charles Emmett Mack), a garage mechanic who signs up for the Army on...
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Mr. Phillips
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1926
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This sentimental comedy begins when four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage...
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Thorpe
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1926
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Having nothing whatever to do with the Rudyard Kipling poem, The Road to Mandalay is a typically bizarre collaboration...
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Father James
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1926
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MGM's silent programmers were often more elaborate than the "A" product from most other studios, and The Barrier was no...
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Gale Gaylord
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1926
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With Kit Carson over the Great Divide is a typically disappointing western "epic" from fly-by-night producer Anthony J....
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1925
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1925
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The influential New York critic Mordaunt Hall declared this circus melodrama a "light after-dinner entertainment which won't...
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Brandt
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1925
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John Ford directed this sentimental horse opera set among the racing crowd in Kentucky. Henry B. Walthall, of Griffith's...
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1925
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Produced by Preferred Pictures on rental stages at FBO and on-location at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, The Plastic Age...
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Henry Carver
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1925
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Col. Peake
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1925
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Mary Hale (Marguerite de la Motte) hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent (Lionel Barrymore) comes...
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William Hale
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1925
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As the year anniversary of her marriage nears, Betty Jordan (Corinne Griffith) realizes that her husband, Perry...
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1924
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1924
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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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The G. Marion Burton poem served as inspiration for several films (including the 1914 comic satire by Charles Chaplin), but...
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1923
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1923
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The 1920s version of women's liberation had nothing to do with women having equal pay for equal work -- it meant that a wife...
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1923
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Before he became the king of bottom-barrel B pictures, director William Beaudine turned out several silent films of...
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William Lotimer
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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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Peter Marchmont
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1923
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Veteran silent star Henry Walthall shines in this drama, based on the novel by Frances Nimmo Greene. In spite of the...
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Henry Garnett
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1922
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Philipp Whittemore
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1922
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This Hampton Del Ruth production is a very odd comedy-drama. Two sisters, Eleanor and Mary Douglas (Alta Allen and Irene Rich...
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Dr. Paul Graydon
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1922
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One of the silent screen's prettiest ingenues, Marjorie Daw, plays both mother and daughter in this romantic western directed...
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Harley P. Hennage
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1922
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Veteran western star Harry Carey came up with the story of The Kick Back -- ranch owner battles villains attempting to take...
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Aoron Price
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1922
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Breezy Bright
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1922
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Henry Walthall made a name for himself as the Little Colonel in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation. Unfortunately, that was...
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1921
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Henry Walthall plays a priest who is duty bound to keep secret a terrible confession in this melodramatic thriller. Father...
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1920
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This is yet another picture claiming to be something other than a war film in the days immediately post-World War I. Its...
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1919
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1919
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Because of his successful Wall Street dealings, millionaire George Mannister (Henry B. Walthall) has inspired the envy and...
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1919
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This war-time D.W. Griffith film was literally filler -- some of the footage was left over from around the time he shot...
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1918
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The Biblical title And a Still, Small Voice was applied to this tale of crime and redemption. Henry B. Walthall plays a bank...
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1918
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Although Henry Walthall's career went downhill after he stopped working with D.W. Griffith, occasionally he would appear in a...
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1918
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Little Shoes was essentially a "Cinderella" story, albeit with a bit more depth than usual. Henry B. Walthall was cast as...
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1917
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Compiled by the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry and distributed to theaters across the United States,...
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1917
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1916
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Theda Bara wasn't the only vamp at the Fox studios, the company heads always had a few others meant, at the very least, to...
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1916
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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Ben Cameron, the Little Colonel
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1915
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This the second full-length film version of Henrik Ibsen's stage tragedy Ghosts (the first was a Russian production directed...
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1915
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Although Henry B. Walthall (the "Little Colonel" in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation) made a strong showing as Edgar Allen...
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1915
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This Reliance four-reeler starred Dorothy Gish as the title character, a rambunctious frontier dance-hall gal named Nell....
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1914
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Forced by the dictates of his Biograph contract to give up directing in favor of "supervising," D.W. Griffith left the studio...
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1914
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The 4-reel Gangsters of New York was an acceptable imitation D.W. Griffith picture, directed by Griffith associate...
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1914
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1914
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The direction of 1914's His Last Dollar has often been attributed to D.W. Griffith. However, since Griffith was preoccupied...
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1914
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Conservative Biograph Studios, having galloped to prominence on the coattails of their star director D.W. Griffith, refused...
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Holofernes's Eunuch Attendant
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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The Mutual four-reeler The Floor Above was based on a novel by the indefatigable E. Phillips Oppenheim. In one of her first...
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1914
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Based on a popular stage play, the Biograph three-reeler Strongheart was originally released in May of 1913. The film was...
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1914
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This innovative psychological drama represents one of D.W. Griffith's early full-length feature films and contains...
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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A besieged blockhouse containing a frightened Lillian Gish, marauding Indians, and a Mexican who heroically brings the...
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1913
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1913
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The "three friends" in this sentimental Gaumont effort are an elderly cab driver, his faithful horse and his pet dog. Early...
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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Filmed during the Biograph Company's yearly winter excursion to sunny California, this one-reel Western melodrama features...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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No relation to the 1910 D.W.Griffith production of the same name, the 1913 release The Iconoclast was a three-reeler from the...
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1910
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This Biograph "temperance melodrama" was filmed at the company's Bronx Studios, with location work completed in...
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1910
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1910
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The outskirts of Paterson, New Jersey proved an interesting substitute for 18th-century Paris in Biograph's French Revolution...
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1910
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1910
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Running just shy of a full 1000-foot reel, Biograph's One Night -- and Then was what was known at the time as a "bohemian"...
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1910
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In his characteristic fashion, D.W.Griffith attacked modern-day hypocrisy and bigotry by using a historical example in Rose...
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1910
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Like most of the director's Biograph Civil War dramas, D.W. Griffith's The Honor of His Family can be regarded today as...
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1910
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Filmed between December 12 and 14, 1909, the Biograph "triangle drama" On the Reef was ready for theatrical display within...
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1910
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1910
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Peggy (Mary Pickford) is a strong-willed young woman who lives during the 18th century. She is not attracted to any of her...
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Having moved to the California facilities of Biograph studios in late January of 1910, D.W.Griffith wasted no time getting to...
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1910
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This Biograph "monastic drama" was set during Feudal Times. Kidnapping the wife of one of his vassals, a despotic Duke forces...
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1910
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Described by the Biograph publicity department as a "circus romance," D.W. Griffith's The Call was partially filmed on...
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1910
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This 989-foot D.W. Griffith production was advertised by its home studio of Biograph as a "contemporary melodrama." Most of...
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1910
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1909
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Running 211 feet (approximately 4 minutes), Little Darling was filmed right after the more ambitious D. W. Griffith...
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1909
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Incorrectly reviewed by the trad magazine Variety under the title The Sealed Door, this Renaissance melodrama is among the...
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1909
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1909
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Biograph's The Convict's Sacrifice was lensed by D. W. Griffith on location at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Released from prison, a...
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1909
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Completed in late 1909, Biograph's Choosing a Husband was a rare comedy effort from D.W.Griffith. The heroine is ardently...
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1909
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This 386-foot-long D.W. Griffith production was released by Biograph on the same reel as Griffith's 587-foot comedy...
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1909
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Advertised by Biograph studios as a "Contemporary Temperance Melodrama," D. W. Griffith's The Broken Locket was filmed in...
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1909
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