Jail Bait was the place where Edward D. Wood Jr.'s career as a director entered the mainstream. Having exposed the world of...
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Doctor Gregor
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1954
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Randolph Scott makes his 3-D debut in the stereoscopic western Stranger Wore a Gun. This time, Scott plays Jeff Travis, a...
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1953
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The sole survivor of the doomed planet Krypton is the baby son of scientist Jor-El (Robert Rockwell) and Lara (Aline Towne),...
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1952
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Gene Autry is back in the saddle again, albeit North of the Border. Montana marshal Autry and another lawman pursue a bank...
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1951
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Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy...
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1949
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The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western...
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1949
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Only faintly related to the old stage play The Argyle Case, The Argyle Secrets is based on a half-hour radio program...
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1948
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When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and...
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1948
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In this the final Hopalong Cassidy Western, Hoppy (William Boyd), California Carlson (Andy Clyde), and Lucky Jenkins (Rand...
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1948
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1948
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This adventure is the first live-action Superman serial and was one of the most successful multi-chapter films ever made....
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1948
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Hypnotism and mind control take center stage in this unusual latter-day "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry produced by its star,...
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1948
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"This town ain't big enough to hold both of us," saloon owner Dink Davis (Cliff Clark) tells his new rival Steve Mawson...
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1948
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1948
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The long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series trudged on with its 61st entry, Sinister Journey. William Boyd, looking pretty...
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1948
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Accomplice was the "pilot" for a proposed PRC series based on Frank Gruber's short-tempered detective hero Simon Lash....
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1946
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In his third western for Republic Pictures, Allan Lane plays Tex Jordan, a cattle rancher en route to sell his stock to...
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1944
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1944
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Two wild western towns battle it out for the position of county seat. Fortunately, Red Ryder and his little side-kick are...
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1944
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In this campy jungle adventure, an embezzler's daughter is the sole survivor of a plane crash. Hurt and afraid, the woman is...
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1944
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1944
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In this entry in the long-running western series, Hoppy is running for sheriff and is beaten by the yellow-belly who had...
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1944
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In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante....
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1944
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Originally released under the more informal cognomen Goin' to Town, this was the fifth RKO B-picture based on the popular...
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1944
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Arthur Lake takes a break from his Dagwood Bumstead duties in the "Blondie" series to star as furloughed sailor Marble Head...
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1944
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Though it's not readily obvious from the title, Lumberjack is the 52nd entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series....
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Buck
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1944
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U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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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 comic murder mystery, two bail bondsmen try to help out a man who is suspected of stealing bonds from his partner....
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1944
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This socially conscious drama examines the causes of juvenile delinquency and centers on one girl who joins a gang of punks...
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1943
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1943
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Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the...
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1943
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Two newcomers, Robert Mitchum and Richard Crane, take center stage in this lavishly budgeted entry in the long-running...
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1943
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The winning streak of superior Hopalong Cassidy westerns continued with 1943's Colt Comrades. In this one, Hoppy...
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1943
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Some clever directorial touches by veteran Elmer Clifton help lift Days of Old Cheyenne from the B-western norm. Don "Red"...
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Gov. Shelby
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1943
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According to Doughboys in Ireland, there were those who sang their way through WW2. Radio tenor Kenny Baker plays Manhattan...
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1943
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A virtual remake of Rustlers' Valley (1937), this average "Hopalong Cassidy" Western features Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers, a...
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1943
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The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat...
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1943
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Columbia's belated effort to cash in on the popularity of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates was the raucous and generally...
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1942
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Stagecoach Buckaroo was Johnny Mack Brown's final Universal western of the 1941-42 season. A gang of holdup men has been...
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Kincaid
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1942
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In this patriotic film, a good-hearted boy donates his best friend to the Dogs for Defense, an government organization that...
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Titus
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1942
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In this Victorian-era adventure, a blue-blooded girl is dismayed to discover that her recently deceased father, a compulsive...
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1942
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Thanks to the canny production team of Maurice and Franklin King, I Killed That Man is superior to the general run of...
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Warden
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1942
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Short of funds to buy baseball uniforms, the East Side Kids are forced to go to work for their crooked ex-pal Hank (Gabriel...
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1942
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Magazine writer and editor Fulton Ousler's stern police commissioner Thatcher Colt came to the screen in April of 1942...
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District Attorney
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1942
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Director William "One Take" Beaudine slapped together Foreign Agent in a week or so, enabling Monogram to ship the picture to...
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1942
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1942
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This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious...
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District Attorney
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1942
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The direction of Warner Bros.' Lady Gangster is credited to one "Florian Roberts," who on closer examination turns out to be...
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1942
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1942
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White villains once again agitate a friendly tribe of Indians in this average Columbia serial starring nonentity Robert...
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1942
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Strange but true: Norma Shearer turned down the title role in Mrs. Miniver to star instead in the insignificant trifle We...
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1942
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A mystery man works behind the scenes in this tuneful Roy Rogers western in which the local theatre owner attempts to ruin...
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Judge Gary
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1941
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Arizona Cyclone is usually cited as the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series, if only because of the...
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Randolph
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1941
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Three disparate young men struggle to become Army Air Corps pilots in this rousing drama that earned an Oscar for its...
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1941
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In this serial, onetime football hero Slingin' Sammy Baugh stars as Tom King, a Texas Ranger on the hunt for the Nazis who...
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1941
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Veteran screen menace Jack LaRue is the unlikely hero of Monogram's Gentleman From Dixie--and no one seems more surprised at...
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1941
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This Monogram quickie stars Richard Cromwell as Dr. Tom, an idealistic young tenement-district physician. When his best pal,...
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1941
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Scattergood Meets Broadway was the third of RKO's film series based on the long-running radio favorite Scattergood Baines....
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1941
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Mugs McGinniss (Leo Gorcey), top dog of the East Side Kids, takes a job at an airplane plant. Here he grows suspicious of Dr....
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1941
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In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a...
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1940
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Ironically, the marriage between Dick Powell and Joan Blondell was beginning to fall apart at the time they co-starred in...
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1940
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Reporter Albertson works to solve a murder case in order to clear his name and get a great story for his paper. ~ Rovi...
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1940
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Free, Blonde and 21 was one of a handful of films directed by former leading man Ricardo Cortez. Two of 20th Century-Fox's...
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1940
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This British-American, coproduction was released in England by Pathe, and in the US by Monogram. Blind Fools is the old...
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1940
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Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for nearly fifty years before the first film version was made...
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1940
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The twelve-chapter serial King of the Royal Mounted stars Allan Lane as Zane Grey's fictional Canadian Mountie Sergeant...
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1940
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Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as a troublemaker has gotten...
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1940
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Like the other entries Columbia's "Five Little Peppers" series, The Five Little Peppers at Home is based on characters...
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1940
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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1939
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In this drama, an young, orphaned heir is dismayed to discover that his inheritance will no longer cover the tuition and...
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1939
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A young punk hooks up with a mobster and helps him rob a gas station in this crime drama. From there the crimes become more...
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1939
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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1939
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In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is...
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1939
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Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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Kay Francis fights off tears, deprivations and a mediocre script in Warner Bros.' Secrets of an Actress. La Francis plays Fay...
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1938
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Though Kay Francis' Warner Bros. vehicle had slipped from "A" attractions to B-plus programmers by 1938, she was still worth...
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1938
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1938
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Though it may be difficult for modern audiences to understand or appreciate the appeal of canary-voiced boy soprano...
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1938
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In this entry in the "Torchy Blane" series, the plucky young reporter tries to expose a ring of counterfeiters led by a man...
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1938
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In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's...
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Commander Boyle
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1937
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1937
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It has been said that Ray Mala was the only Jewish Eskimo actor in Hollywood. Whatever his religious or racial origins, Mala...
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Jackson
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1937
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter spies a young man during a street fight. Deciding that the lad shows promise, he begins...
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1937
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Rivalry, romance, and brotherly love in logging camps are chronicled in this drama. The trouble begins when the brother of a...
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1937
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An intrepid amputee must pass a test to prove his devotion to his sweetie in this romantic drama. The hero lost his leg...
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1937
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In this newsroom drama, a tabloid's ace reporter's investigations lead to a chorine's conviction for murdering her husband....
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1937
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Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys'...
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1937
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James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America,...
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1937
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The first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie, Love is on the Air is historically important as the...
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1937
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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1937
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In this football drama, a college gridiron star attempts to leave the game, at the request of his girl friend who does not...
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1937
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Silver-haired silent film leading man Herbert Rawlinson plays Scotland Yard inspector Sir James Blake in this 15-episode...
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Sir James Blake
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1937
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1937
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Two-fisted New York police detective Edward G. Robinson is so volatile that he manages to get himself thrown off the force in...
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1936
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This crime drama is set in the fictional San Francisco eatery, Mary Grady's Chowder House which is presided over by the...
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1936
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The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of...
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1936
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Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a...
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1936
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In this comedy, an amnesiac takes off with a young woman. This causes the woman's father to hire a detective to find them....
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1936
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Dancing Feet stars Joan Marsh as Judy, a society deb who lands a job as a dime-a-dance girl to spite her wealthy grandfather...
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1936
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Virtually all of the Chesterfield Pictures efforts of the 1930s served as starring vehicles for Hollywood's best character...
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Melville De La Ney
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1936
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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Treasury agent Dave Elliot (Donald Cook) dedicates himself to smashing a crime syndicate, especially after his best friend is...
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J.W. Keaton
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1935
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Filmed on location in Atlantic City, Convention Girl is the story of Babe Laval (Rose Hobart), whose job it is to keep...
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Ward Hollister
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1935
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Taking refuge from a rainstorm in a deserted farmhouse, young married couple Joe and Loretta Martin (Edward Norris and...
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1935
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1935
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The title refers to those special government agents who go undercover to flush out criminal gangs. In his second starring...
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1935
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The late "B"-picture historian Don Miller once referred to the "teenage sex" exploitationers of the 1930s as the "...
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Dr. Richard Stevens
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1934
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Vaudeville performer George Dwight (Roger Pryor) finds himself stranded in the small town of Walkerville, and talks his way...
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Sport Powell
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1933
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John Ince, the brother of pioneering Hollywood mogul Thomas Ince, was producer, director and star of The Hour of Reckoning....
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1927
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Wages of Conscience was something of a halfway house for several faded film favorites, including John Ince (who also...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1926
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Set during the turn of the century, The Belle of Broadway starts out in Paris, where celebrated stage star Madame Adele...
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Paul Merlin
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1926
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According to critics of the day, the sentimentality of this crook drama was a bit too much even for the 1920s, when mother...
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J. Rupert Dodds
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1926
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A love-starved wife (Priscilla Dean) hires a dim-witted delivery man (Stan Laurel) to make love to her and revive the waning...
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1926
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Alma Rubens, a hauntingly beautiful silent screen actress whose career was cut short by drug addiction, stars in The Gilded...
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Courtney Roth
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1926
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This overwrought program drama was given a racy title to promote the up-and-coming Clara Bow, but all it really did for her...
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The Sweetheart
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1925
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Silent screen comedienne Dorothy Devore left comedy producer Al Christie with hopes of going dramatic. She succeeded -- at...
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Duncan MacKail
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1925
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The Unnamed Woman stars veteran film player Leah Baird, who also wrote the script. The actress plays the greedy, covetous...
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Donald Brookes
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1925
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Not long after their honeymoon, Mr. Randolph and Mrs. Randolph (Herbert Rawlinson and Elaine Hammerstein) begin having a...
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Mr. Randolph
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1925
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Released in ten chapters by low-budget Beacon Films, The Flame Fighter starred one of the silent era's better serial heroes,...
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1925
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Jack Newberry (E.K. Lincoln) is the millionaire's son who tries to become a Hollywood filmmaker in this melodrama. His father...
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Alen Allwright
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1925
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1925
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Universal luminary Herbert Rawlinson, whose star was on the wane by 1924, has the lead in this rather predictable murder...
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Sheldon Polk
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1924
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Based on a 1918 magazine serial by Fred Jackson, this typical silent-action melodrama from Universal starred Herbert...
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1924
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Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent, action melodrama based on Gerald Beaumont's Red Book Magazine serial. A tough...
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1924
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Brownlow Clay
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1924
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This mediocre comedy relies on the stereotypical concept of country rubes for much of its humor. The village tomboy,...
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1924
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Fading Universal star Herbert Rawlinson, whose acting ability was never one of his strong points, shows a surprising flair...
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1923
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It seems like nearly everything written by George Barr McCutcheon found its way to the silent screen. Castle Craneycrow was...
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Philip Quentin
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1923
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This political drama, based on the story by George Randolph Chester, is not related to the 1917 film of the same name. Jim...
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Billy Winthrop
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1923
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Herbert Rawlinson is Jimmy Dorgan, the spendthrift son of a wealthy man. John "Pick-Handle" Dorgan (Tully Marshall) earned...
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Jimmy Dorgan
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1923
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Herbert Rawlinson is the star of this mediocre crime drama from Universal. When his father's business fails, Jimmy Nevins...
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Jimmy Nevins
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1923
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Lively Universal star Herbert Rawlinson may have been past his prime, but he still made a good showing in this pleasant...
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Montgomery Bixby
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1923
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Although Herbert Rawlinson's acting talents never received great notices, he was well-cast in this blend of mystery and...
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1923
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Richard (Herbert Rawlinson), the son of Judge Garbin (David Torrence), is railroaded into prison. He angrily swears vengeance...
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Richard Ragland
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1923
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This mediocre comedy-drama starred Herbert Rawlinson as an impoverished nobleman turned pugilist. Lord Waring (Frank Currier)...
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Cecil Fitzhugh Waring
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1923
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Universal star Herbert Rawlinson has the lead in this rather unusual romantic crime drama. James Harrington Court (Rawlinson)...
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James Harrington Court
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1922
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As a cheap programmer, this romantic mystery had little to recommend it. Star Herbert Rawlinson overacts as John D. Curtis,...
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1922
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Universal bragged that this standard crime melodrama was written by Louis Victor Eytinge, a "lifer" at the Arizona state...
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Paul Porter
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1922
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This mystery is based on the novel by Louis Joseph Vance. While on vacation, Billy Kirkwood (Herbert Rawlinson) meets pretty...
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Billy Kirkwood
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1922
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Pleasant-looking British-born Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent comedy-drama as look-alike cousins Stuart Granger and...
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1922
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Just about all the major players in this romance were miscast here; in the 1920s heavy ethnic characterizations (offensive as...
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1922
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1922
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Popular silent star Anita Stewart is the draw in this soap opera-like feature. Julie Laneau, a French-Canadian girl (Stewart)...
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Geoffrey Arnold
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1921
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Cosmo Hamilton, a popular author of the era, wrote the novel on which this drama was based. During a train trip, Mary McLeod...
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Phillip Dominick
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1921
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After spending quite a long while as a leading man, Herbert Rawlinson was upped to star status by Universal. Jack Norman...
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Jack Norman
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1921
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Priscilla Dean, Universal's most popular leading lady of the early twenties, heads the cast of Conflict. Compelled by family...
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Devons
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1921
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Though made over seventy years ago, Charge It tells a story that will be all too familiar to the Yuppie generation....
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Phillip Lawrence
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1921
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Although the story to this drama -- based on the novel, Barry Gordon, by William F. Payson -- was ludicrous, female filmgoers...
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Barry Gordon
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1921
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Director J. Stuart Blackton was a cinema pioneer, but by 1920, the kind of heavy, self-righteous melodrama he specialized in...
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1920
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1919
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Randolph Shorb (Herbert Rawlinson) and his father have always been on the level when it comes to business. Their competitors,...
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1918
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Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won't leave him alone about...
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1918
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1918
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The motivating factor of the Universal five-reeler Brace Up was the then-new science of Psychology -- or, as it was labelled...
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1918
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1917
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Billy "Sky-High" Wardwell (Herbert Rawlinson) and his pal "Domino" Dominick (Frank McQuarrie) are veteran sideshow hucksters...
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1917
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Velma Gay (Alice Lake) gets engaged to Buck Linsay (Roy Stewart), a rich Westerner, even though she loves someone else. Buck...
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1917
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Pretty Nina Potter (Neva Gerber) runs the local five and dime owned by her father (Johnnie Cook). When she turns down a...
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1917
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A young society man (Herbert Rawlinson) decides to marry a nice country girl (Betty Schade) instead of his Follies girlfriend...
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1917
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Since Herbert Rawlinson's fans craved action, Mr. Rawlinson was ever eager to please. In fact, there was so much action in...
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1917
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Sanford Quest
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1915
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1914
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1914
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Produced by the Italian Ambrosio company, Her Only Son manages to squeeze its entire narrative into a slim two reels. The...
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1913
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A silent melodrama produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, The Child of the Sea starred Kathlyn Williams as a girl who saves...
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1913
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1913
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