In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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Marlene Dietrich was supposed to have starred in Universal's Sin Town, but the script was not to her liking. Dietrich was...
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1942
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Although Warner Bros. "officially" disbanded its B-picture unit in 1941, the studio continued to grind out lower-berth...
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1942
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1942
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Though history is distorted almost beyond recognition in Warner Bros.' They Died With Their Boots On, audiences in 1941 ate...
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1941
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Boss Frank Davis
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1941
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A good wife's innocence is shattered when she learns that her wealthy husband is actually an amoral big-shot jewel thief....
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1941
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars...
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1941
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Possibly inspired by Universal's The Invisible Woman, Warner Bros.' The Body Disappears is an agreeably daffy comedy with...
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1941
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Filmed after the star and his producer already had signed a new deal with rival company Monogram, this Grand National Tex...
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John "Gospel" Moody
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1938
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This 15-chapter Columbia serial is largely set on a remote Carribean island (which looks suspiciously like Catalina)....
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Dr. X
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1938
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Old-timer Hobart Bosworth heads the cast of the independently produced Wolves of the Sea. Bosworth is cast as Captain Wolf...
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Capt. Wolf Hansen
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1938
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Producer George A. Hirliman attempted to revive the popular "Rex, King of Wild Horses" films of the 1920s with his 1938...
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Uncle Hank
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1938
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1937
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Charles Carson
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1936
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Kermit Maynard, Ken's less famous brother, plays a Mountie impersonating a killer impersonating a Mountie in this low-budget...
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Dr. Martin
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1936
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Having successful moved his top comedians Laurel & Hardy from short subjects to features, producer Hal Roach endeavored to do...
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1936
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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1935
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Writer-director-star Willard Mack had been dead and gone for several years by the time Together We Live managed to attain a...
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Col. Dickenson
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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1935
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In early 1930s, Monogram pictures held a virtual monopoly on the bucolic novels of Gene Stratton Porter. When Monogram...
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Bee Master
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1935
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Inspired by the Titanic tragedy, Whom the Gods Destroy is a tour de force for character actor Walter Connolly. The star is...
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1934
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1934
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May Robson plays Apple Annie, a slatternly Broadway apple peddler. Annie has a curious setup whereby she is able to finagle...
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1933
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It is all but impossible to dislike a film as gloriously corny as The Phantom Express. The title is derived from an early...
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1932
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A San Francisco gangster hot foots it out of town to cool down after his crime boss is suddenly killed. He ends up in a...
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1932
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Alexander Carr, a Jewish-dialect comedian usually confined to small roles, is practically the whole show in the sentimental...
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Doctor
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1932
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Colonel Ainsworth
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1932
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Filmed at Kernville, CA, and the Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, this serial version of James Fenimore Cooper's immortal tale...
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1932
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A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd is the robust star of this logging camp melodrama which also featured a very young Ginger...
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Jim Gannon
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1932
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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1932
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Joe E. Brown had a fondness for playing milquetoast characters forced into situations calling for acute athletic prowess,...
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1931
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A pair of US Navy pilots, Lt. Cmdr. Jack Braden (Jack Holt) and Lt. "Frisky" Pierce (Ralph Graves), have a longstanding...
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Louis Rondelle
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1931
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Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in...
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Adm. Corbin
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1931
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The inimitable Edna May Oliver makes a meal of the title role in the Technicolor backstage drama Fanny Foley Herself. The...
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Seely
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1931
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With a blonde wigged Joan Crawford offering one of her more high-handed performances, and veteran silent star Pauline...
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1931
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In this drama, the children of a recently deceased firefighter are sent to an orphanage. Two other firefighters offered to...
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Captain
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1930
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Illicit office romances provide the basis of this melodrama. The story centers around an older man's secretary who drops her...
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Mr. McGowan
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1930
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Nancy Carroll brings a touch of freshness to the well-worn plot convolutions of Devil's Holiday. Ms. Carroll plays a...
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Ezra Stone
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1930
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Silent film star Norma Talmadge's last film was the 100 percent all-talkie Dubarry. Adapted from the popular stage play by...
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Cosse de Brissac
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1930
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Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love...
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Meadows
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1930
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This drama chronicles the rise of a famous Madame from casino hostess to king's mistress. Her story begins as she is being...
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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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Made in 1930, this well-known sci-fi musical chronicles the adventures of a lightning-struck man who awakens to find himself...
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1930
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Rev. Tass
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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This costume drama is the first all dialog film in which Barrymore appeared. He plays a mercenary who will serve anyone who...
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Count Hensdorff
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1929
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That marvelous old barnstormer Hobart Bosworth stars in this early Columbia talkie as a rough-and-tumble sea captain named...
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Hurricane Martin
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1929
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Filmed in 1917 with Jack Pickford, Gene Stratton Porter's 1904 piece of Americana came back to the screens 11 years later...
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McLean
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1928
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Directed by Cabanne, himself a graduate of Annapolis Naval Academy, this is a schmaltzy propaganda film aggrandizing the male...
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Father
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1928
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Long believed lost, this fascinating John Ford-directed silent film was rediscovered and restored in the early 1970s. Based...
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James O'Brien, Lord Chief Justice
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1928
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Isaiah
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1928
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Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could...
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1928
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This high-seas melodrama tells the tale of a self-righteous sea captain who steals his son and leaves his wife because he...
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Manin Dane
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1928
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Durant
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1928
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That indefatigable old trouper Hobart Bosworth topped the cast of the Columbia "B"-plus feature The Blood Ship. The villain...
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Newman
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1927
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Mary Pickford stars as the "Miss Fix-it" for her eccentric family. Pickford's job at a dime-store keeps her postman dad...
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Mr. Merrill
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1927
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Jonathan Durkin
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1927
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In this lavishly produced MGM production, the ethereal Lillian Gish is a bit more earthy than normal, due in part to the...
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The MacDonald Chieftain
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1927
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This "lost" film would be especially valuable to see again, if only for two reasons: It was the second American effort of...
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P.J. Madden
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1927
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Jud Morgan
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1926
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Spangles was adapted by actress Leah Baird from the novel by Nellie Revell, with Revell receiving "star" billing in the...
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1926
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This society drama, adapted from the play by Arthur Richman, was the first directorial effort of cinematographer Silvano...
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Julian Marsh
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1926
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Chickie Bryce (Dorothy Mackaill) is a stenographer, who, encouraged by her mother (Gladys Brockwell), longs to marry a...
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Jonathan
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1925
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A wealthy father turns his back on his son after he marries a woman whose mother is a bordello madame in this routine...
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John Jordan
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1925
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1925
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The Big Parade was designed as a modest programmer concerning one young man's disillusionment in the face of war. When the...
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Mr. Apperson
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1925
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Although this isn't a top-notch Marion Davies film, she's still very charming in it. Mamie Smith (Davies in pigtails and...
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1925
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Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The...
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Sam Kirby
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1925
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The only truly interesting aspect of this melodrama is the spectacular fire aboard an ocean liner. The scene was shot in...
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John Gutherie
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1925
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This melodrama was supposedly the first to be shot on-location at an actual steel mill. Steelworker Wally Gay (William Boyd)...
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James Creeth
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1925
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Alla Nazimova, an ethereal Russian actress who preferred to bill herself as just plain Nazimova, tops the cast of My Son. The...
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Ellery Parker, the Sheriff
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1925
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Although Colleen Moore made this drama before Flaming Youth, it came out later, which wound up being a big help at the box...
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Warden
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1924
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John Brent (Hobart Bosworth) returns from the East to tell his fellow cattlemen that they will have to leave the range and...
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John Brent
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1924
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This powerful drama, based on the novel The Master of Man, by Sir Hall Caine, was the first time Swedish director Victor...
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Douglas Stowell
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1924
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Jeremiah Judkins
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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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Judge Davis
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1924
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Hearts of Oak is, alas, one of the many "lost" silent films of pantheon director John Ford. Filmed not long after Ford's epic...
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Terry Dunnivan
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1924
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After his impressive directorial effort on The Sea Hawk, Frank Lloyd made this far smaller and more intimate film. The...
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John Steele, "The Chief"
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1924
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After seeing their mother (Eugenie Besserer) struggle to eke out a meager existence for her family, her daughters Jeanette...
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Mr. Corcy
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1924
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This famous old stage melodrama by Owen Davis is directed with a lot of spirit by Emmett J. Flynn and features a first rate...
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1924
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Victor Schertzinger both wrote and directed this melodrama. John Corbin (Percy Marmont) works for years on an invention, only...
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"Iron Man" Moore
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1923
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Ben Dixon (Hobart Bosworth) is a middle-aged owner of a gold mine who falls for a young society girl. She breaks off their...
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Henry Neville
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1923
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This film is based on the novel by F. Marion Crawford, and involves the court of King Philip II of Spain. Philip is jealous...
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Mendoza
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1923
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Dr. Frank R. Walters
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1923
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Author Anthony Hope's sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda had been filmed once before, in 1915. But filmgoers were far more...
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Col. Sapt
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1923
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Filmmaker Hugo Ballin) pulled out all the stops on this adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the Napoleonic...
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Marquis of Steyne
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1923
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As his first picture for the Goldwyn studios, director Marshall Neilan decided to adapt Donn Byrne's sprawling novel to the...
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Shane Keogh
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1923
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The Little Church Around the Corner is important as the first major financial success for the fledgling Warner Bros. studios....
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Motion
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1923
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Manly Hobart Bosworth tackles one of his characteristic roles -- that of a brutal sea captain -- in this drama written by C....
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"Hurricane" Hardy
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1922
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This picturesque silent adventure was produced by Thomas Ince. Roy Bradley (Niles Welch) grows up in the United States,...
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'Bully' Brand
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1921
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Although Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives had been released only a few short months earlier, the title to this drama...
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Dr. Ian Fraser
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1921
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Hobart Bosworth both produced and starred in this rugged drama. Lars Larson (Bosworth) and John Thomas (Wade Boteler) are...
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Producer, Lars Larson
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1921
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John Nelson (Hobart Bosworth) is a cruel sea captain who has harbored a grudge against humankind ever since his wife deserted...
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Producer
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1921
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America has just entered World War I, and because of his name, German-American Oscar Krug (Hobart Bosworth) is thought to be...
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1920
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Mormonism was considered something of a hot potato in 1917, with many sideline observers (including such self-proclaimed...
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1917
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One of the most overused titles in the history of films, Betrayed was affixed to this early effort from director Raoul Walsh....
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1917
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This typically overbaked Cecil B. DeMille opus takes place off the seacoast of Brittany. While ambling along the beach,...
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1917
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1917
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With the exception of Joan the Woman, which contained a "contemporary" subplot, The Woman God Forgot was Cecil B. DeMille's...
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1917
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Big Hobart Bosworth plays Big Bill Brent in the five-reel redemption melodrama The Target. After killing a man in a barroom...
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1916
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Although this classic Charles Dickens tale was filmed at least twice previously, this Lasky version was the first to really...
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1916
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The Yaqui was the sort of film that was bluntly described in the trade journals of the time as a "Redskin Melodrama." Based...
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1916
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A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director...
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1916
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1916
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As was often the case in the pre-1920 period, the title of this four-reel Universal drama was far more lurid than the film's...
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Director
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1915
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Director
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1915
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The stars of the groundbreaking silent western The Squaw Man (1914), the first feature film lensed in Hollywood,...
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Director
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1915
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Intolerance wasn't the only mid-1910s picture in which a theme carried over several different eras. In fact, it wasn't even...
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Director
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1915
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Although Paul Potter (Hobart Henley) is working his way through college, his status on the Yale football team gets him in...
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1915
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Unlike some others in his line of work, trapper Na-Ta-Nan-Gan (Hobart Bosworth) is a friend to Native Americans, and one...
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Director
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1915
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The sentimental drama starring Hobart Bosworth was released when the baseball season of 1915 was at its height. Charles E....
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1915
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1915
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The talent line-up for this 6-reel melodrama was quite impressive by 1914 standards: It was produced and directed by its...
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Director
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1914
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Early silent filmmaker Hobart Bosworth both directed and starred in this drama of the frozen north. Not surprisingly, it is...
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Director
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1914
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Country Mouse was one of several pre World War 1 features produced by star Hobart Bosworth. In addition to appearing in the...
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Screenwriter
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1914
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Hobart Bosworth, the "renaissance man" of the pre-1920 movie industry, was producer, director, writer and star of the 5-reel...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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1913
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Director
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1913
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Written by and starring pioneering screen actress Kathlyn Williams, this Selig Polyscope Company melodrama in two reels...
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1913
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Based on the classic revenge tale by Alexander Dumas, this film was one of the first feature-length American movies, and...
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1912
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Harold Lockwood's second film for the Selig Polyscope Company and his first of at least 19 with that studio's blond leading...
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1912
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1910
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1907
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