Filmed in England, Flying Squad was the final effort of veteran silent-film director Herbert (Peter Pan) Brenon. The script...
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1940
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An embarrassed headwaiter provides the basis for this classical tale set in pre-war Russia. He conceals his lowly profession...
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1939
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1938
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In this comedy, an aged spinster leaves her communist nephew $20,000. Before she died, he and she constantly argued about...
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1938
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In this British comedy, a Yankee con artist hides out in England. Trouble ensues when he follows a pretty girl into a office...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1936
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1936
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The son must pay for the crimes of the father when art-dealer Samson frames the son of the man who ruined his career. Samson...
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1935
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His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued...
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1935
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1934
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Dolores Del Rio plays Dolores in Girl of the Rio -- which, one supposes, makes perfect sense. The heroine is a cabaret dancer...
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1932
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Hoping to benefit from the popularity of the 1927 silent version of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste, RKO Radio reunited the earlier...
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1931
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In this drama, a bored wife amuses herself with a lover from Spain. Later she writes a letter to her spouse explaining her...
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1931
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This war drama, set in WW I Germany, is based on a novel by Arnold Zwieg. The story follows the harrowing trials of an...
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1930
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Based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst, this dreary and primitive early talkie was unleashed on a derisive audience in January...
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1930
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This drama, based on a Joseph Conrad novel, follows the exploits of a British adventurer who helps hide an island prince and...
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1929
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Fifteen-year-old Loretta Young is 45-year-old Lon Chaney's winsome leading lady in Laugh, Clown, Laugh. Based on the...
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1928
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Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien (Madge Bellamy) can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she...
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1927
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Sorrell and Son, the best-selling (and frequently filmed) British novel by Warwick Deeping, was afforded its first screen...
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1927
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1926
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Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the...
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1926
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As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated...
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1926
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1926
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Believe it or not, Betty Bronson, who starred in the title role of Peter Pan, was the first choice to play jazz baby Kittens...
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1926
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The scene is New Orleans, during Mardi Gras week. The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren (Jack Mulhall),...
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1926
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This romance was based on the best-selling novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick. While serving in the Great War, Owen Bradley...
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1925
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This colorful drama of the Bowery of the 1890s was directed by Herbert Brenon. Diamond Mike (Riley Hatch) runs a Bowery...
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1925
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1924
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When Paramount bought the rights to the delightful James M. Barrie story, every actress in Hollywood wanted the role of Peter...
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1924
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Matt Moore stars as Judson Clark, a wealthy but idle young man who is in love with actress Beverly Carlysle (Nita Naldi). Her...
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1924
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Fernand, a member of the Paris underworld (Charles DeRoche), is called off to fight in the Great War and when he is reported...
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1924
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English orphan Andrew Lackaday (Ernest Torrence) grows up and becomes a clown for a French circus. After the circus becomes...
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1924
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This romantic drama is based on the novel by Cosmo Hamilton. Unlike many other motion picture adaptations of the day,...
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1923
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Mary Carr has her usual role as a maternal, self-sacrificing type in this melodrama, which was based on the novel by Florence...
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1923
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This implausible crime drama had the benefit of Betty Compson's presence: she was best known for playing lady criminals....
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1923
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The rights to Don Cesar, the novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, were originally purchased by Paramount as a vehicle for Rudolph...
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1923
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This society melodrama, based on the play, Samson, by Henri Bernstein, had little to offer except its star, William Farnum,...
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1922
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1922
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This costume drama was an odd vehicle for William Farnum; he was known for his virility and here he has but one fist fight....
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1922
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1922
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This above-average British melodrama was based on "The Living Dead", a story by Mary Lerner. Bessie Barriscale stars as a...
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1921
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Although Raimunda (Eualie Jensen) marries Esteban (Courtenay Foote), he holds a secret passion for his stepdaughter, Acacia...
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1921
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1921
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After building his reputation on Hollywood "spectaculars," director Herbert Brenon returned to his native British Isles,...
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1919
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1918
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Filmmaker Herbert Brenon indulged in his usual spectacular excesses in The Eternal Sin. Victor Hugo's novel Lucretia Borgia...
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1917
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1917
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1916
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When screenwriter/director Herbert Brenon returned from the West Indies, he brought some footage with him which was used to...
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1916
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Two of Fox's top directors pooled their talents for this modernized adaptation of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin. Trapped in a...
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1916
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1916
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1915
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This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the...
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1915
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1915
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Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as...
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1915
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Just because the studio already had an in-house "vamp" in the form of Theda Bara didn't prevent Fox Films from developing a...
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1915
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1914
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1914
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Though he was perhaps better suited to multi-reel "superproductions," director Herbert Brenon occasionally concentrated his...
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1914
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This silent adventure, based on Sir Walter Scott's classic epic novel, is filled with pageantry and excitement as it...
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1913
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