All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama....
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1966
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In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of...
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1966
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Released in some areas as Violent Journey, The Fool Killer is a bloody melodrama, combining various aspects of the western...
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Dirty Jim Jelliman
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1965
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Master of the World was adapted by Richard Matheson from two Jules Verne novels, Robur le Conquerant (1896) and its sequel,...
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Prudent
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1961
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At the height of the bloody feud between the McFaddens and the Hadfields, Alonzo McFadden (Douglas Spencer) hires the dreaded...
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1960
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Feeling responsible for the massacre of a troop of soldiers, former Army scout Charlie Trent (Henry Hull) has become the town...
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Charlie Trent
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1960
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As the Oregon Territory prepares to welcome settlers in 1846, wagons traveling the Oregon trail face increasing hostility...
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Seton
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1959
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A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while...
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1958
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When Cecil B. DeMille was set to direct a re-make of his 1938 swashbuckler The Buccaneer and suddenly became ill, his...
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1958
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Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is...
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Mayor Masters
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1958
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Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced...
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Doc
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1957
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In order to pass through Comanche territory, the stranded passengers of a West-bound wagon train must sell the Indians their...
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1955
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The Man with the Gun in this well-paced western is played by Robert Mitchum. A notorious gunslinger, Mitchum has been hired...
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Marshal Sims
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1955
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Brief and very much to the point, Inferno is a grim, fascinating tale of survival. Breaking his leg on a vacation trip,...
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Sam Elby
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1953
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1953
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Gentlemanly William Powell is cast spectacularly but effectively against type in Treasure of the Lost Canyon. Powell plays...
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Cousin Lucius
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1952
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Economically utilizing the Universal Studio itself as a "set," Hollywood Story is a murder mystery centered in the film...
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Vincent St. Clair
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1951
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Return of Jesse James is an excellent example of how to get full value for money from an attenuated budget. John Ireland...
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Hank Younger
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1950
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Though occasionally hampered by its tiny budget, The Great Dan Patch is a reasonably satisfying horse story. The title...
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Dan Palmer
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1949
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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Henry Cameron
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1949
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Bargain-budget Screen Guild Productions was in the process of metamorphosing into Lippert Studios when Rimfire was filmed in...
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Editor Greeley
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1949
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Though her acting range was limited, Wanda Hendrix was cute as all get out, and this cuteness is pretty much all that's...
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Deacon Parry
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1949
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Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama...
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Winslow
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1949
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1949
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Produced in garish Cinecolor, this aspiring "A" Western features John Payne as Clay Fletcher, an Eastern lawyer assigned to...
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1949
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Excellent Technicolor photography, principally in the aerial scenes, is the main asset of the cliché-ridden Fighter Squadron....
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Brig. Gen. Mike McCready
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1948
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Though the title sounds like something from a Big Band era tune, it actually refers to commands used during the training of...
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1948
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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1948
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In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While...
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1948
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A young woman rides out for vengeance against the marshall who killed her notorious outlaw mother in this western sequel to...
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1947
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In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the...
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1947
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1947
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Just as she had in High Sierra (1941), Ida Lupino enjoys a brief moment of bliss with a man on the run in this highly...
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Cliff Saul
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1947
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A few corny moments aside, Objective Burma must rate as one of the best combat films of WW2. Errol Flynn stars as Captain...
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Mark Williams
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1945
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Originally, producer Harry Sherman's Woman of the Town was slated for Paramount release, but that studio was overloaded with...
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1944
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In this drama a big-city reporter moves to a tiny town to begin running the newspaper he half-owns. His in-your-face...
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Jeff Parker
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1944
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In this romantic drama, an office clerk's quiet personal life is disrupted when a sick woman appears at his doorstep in...
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1944
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Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all...
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1944
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Don "Red" Barry took a break from westerns to star in the fair-to-middling sentimental drama The West Side Kid. Barry is cast...
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Sam Winston
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1943
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This unique wartime propaganda drama is a film within a film; one of those films is Russian-director Sergei Eisenstein's...
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[in American Cast]
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1943
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1941
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This painfully-bad Monogram feature wastes the talents of two of horrordom's finest -- star Boris Karloff and co-writer...
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1940
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This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after...
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Maj. Rufus Cobb
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1940
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Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, My Son My Son stars Brian Aherne as a self-made success determined to give his son...
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Dermont O'Riorden
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1940
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The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by...
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Major Rufus Cobb
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1939
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If Judge Hardy and Son had been filmed in the 1990s, it would have been titled Andy Hardy VII. In this latest edition of...
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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1939
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Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared...
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Dave Duvallo
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1939
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1939
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A plucky orphan girl runs away from the orphanage. Her only possession is her beloved Bible in which she has complete faith...
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1939
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Pulp-novel detective Nick Carter was created in the 1880s, but most film versions of the character have been updated to...
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John A. Keller
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1939
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In this Mexican version of the popular southwestern series, Cisco barely escapes the deadly bullets of a firing squad. He...
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Colonel Jonathan Bixby
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1939
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In this campus drama, an orphan wins a cadet scholarship to the Culver military academy. He is a cocky fellow, and is very...
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Doc Allen
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1939
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1938
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The Sidney Howard/Paul de Kruf Broadway play Yellow Jack was transferred to the screen by MGM in 1938. The film is set at the...
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Dr. Jesse Lazear
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1938
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Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to...
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Dave Morris
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1938
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The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann...
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1938
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Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of...
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1938
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The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such...
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1936
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In this drama, a traveling ice show comes to a small southern town run by an amiable mayor. His mischievous younger brother,...
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Sen. Hamp Baxter
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1935
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Originally intended as a vehicle for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this Universal production predated The Wolf Man by six...
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Dr. Glendon
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1935
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The old "If it were your own daughter" plot device forms the basis of the independently-produced crime melodrama Midnight....
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Nolan
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1934
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Twelve years before David Lean's definitive filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations, Hollywood had a go at the novel, with...
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Abel Magwitch
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1934
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1931
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1925
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In spite of the presence of Lionel Barrymore, this old-fashioned drama was nothing more than mediocre program fare. Daniel...
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1925
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Seemingly the only reason for this drama was its proliferation of cameos -- the gambling hall where the action takes place...
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1924
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The year is 1853 and Ralph Hartsook (Henry Hull) arrives in the Indiana town of Flat Creek to teach school. He boards with...
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Ralph Hartsook
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1924
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Jimmy Poe (Henry Hull) receives an offer he can't refuse from his Aunt Octovia (Marcia Harris) in this ultra light comedy....
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Jimmy Poe
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1924
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June Paige (Seena Owen) is pressured by her parents to marry a millionaire in this romantic melodrama. Her old lover...
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The Fool
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1924
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Horror flicks were few and far between when this melodramatic-thriller was released by Goldwyn. The powerfully named Hercules...
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1923
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At the time he made this confusing blend of melodrama, mystery, and comedy, D.W. Griffith was in financial trouble. This...
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John Fairfax
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1922
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This picture, made in the thick of America's involvement in World War I, is a combination of real life and fiction. Because...
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1918
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