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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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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1934
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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1934
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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1934
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Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at...
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1930
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Directed by James Cruze, this silent drama stars William Haines as Duke, a wealthy young heir who takes up prizefighting in...
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1929
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A typical interim serial, the ten-chapter Ace of Scotland Yard was released in both a silent version and as a part-talkie....
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Lord Blanton
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1929
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MGM's highly popular comedy team of Karl Dane and George K. Arthur starred in this silly but enjoyable silent comedy in which...
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1929
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No relation to the earlier John Ford western of the same name, The Last Outlaw was a vehicle for Paramount's up-and-coming...
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Bert Wagner
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1927
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Hayden Stevenson played the title role in this, one of Universal's most popular silent serials. A mystery villain, known only...
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Lord Blanton
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1927
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Based on a magazine serial by the prolific Peter B. Kyne, this silent Western featured rising star George O'Brien as Bradley...
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Tom Martin
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1926
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Who better to star in Doubling with Danger than one of Hollywood's premiere stunt doubles, Richard Talmadge? "The Prince of...
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1926
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This early Janet Gaynor vehicle was based on Pigs, a play by John Golden. While vain Gladys O'Connell busies herself with her...
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1926
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One of the more popular western plots of the silent era detailed the trials and tribulations of a spoiled Easterner growing...
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1925
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Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his...
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Jackson Pierce
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1925
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Alla Nazimova had been away from the screen for over a year when she made this drama, and she was paid well under half her...
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1924
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Jack Pickford made a strong showing in this romantic drama, adapted from the novel by W.B.M. Ferguson. Two schemers, Crimmins...
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1923
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George Walsh, usually known for his athletic roles, stars in this fantasy based on the famous story by Honoré de Balzac. Poet...
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1923
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This was yet another Northwestern melodrama -- several dozen were released in 1922 alone. At least this one has the capable...
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Kenly Lounsbery
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1922
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Before her nasally voice was exposed, making her a more appropriate choice as a working class girl, Marie Prevost achieved...
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Jay Howard
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1922
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A man who believes he is a murderer travels the world to escape his past in this often confusing crime drama. Richard Dix...
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1921
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1921
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Tom Moore stars in this light comedy. He is Tom O'Gara, who arrives in New York from Ireland and takes a job as a fireman...
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1921
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For her first United Artists release, silent superstar Mary Pickford decided to play it safe, even though it galled her to do...
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1920
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Given the title, the star -- the delightful Mae Marsh -- and the fact that one of her co-stars is a dog, there's not much...
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Judge Carteret
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1920
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1919
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Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots began life as an Augustus Thomas play, originally written as a vehicle for Margaret Illington. The...
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1918
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After WWI, opera singer Gerve (Grace Cunard) meets a member of the German army, Karl Wetz (Herbert Prior) and his wife, Vyera...
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1918
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A bittersweet tale of a little rich girl so sheltered by the parents she hardly ever sees that she has no idea of what is...
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1917
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This 1917 filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations manages to pack quite a lot of the complex storyline into a brisk five...
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1917
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Marguerite Clark stars as Bernice Somers, mockingly nicknamed "Miss George Washington" because of her inability to tell the...
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1916
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In this silent tragic crime drama, an impoverished fellow becomes so desperate that he goes along with a plot to murder a...
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1915
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Jack Leigh portrays Eugene Aram, a poverty-stricken 18th-century scholar. In dire straits, Aram plans to murder a wealthy...
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1914
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1911
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1910
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1909
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1909
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