Filmed on location in Canada, The Wild North stars Stewart Granger as renegade trapper Jules Vincent. Forced to kill in...
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1952
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After Columbia's 1951 biopic Valentino laid an egg, leading man Anthony Dexter was persona non grata at the studio. Still,...
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1952
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll is Edward Jekyll, played by Louis Hayward. The film's events take place long after the unpleasantness...
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1951
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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1951
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At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by...
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1951
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1951
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Jean Peters is at her feisty best in Anne of the Indies. Harboring a grudge against all men (and not without reason), Anne...
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1951
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Highly respected defense attorney Dwight Bradley Mason (Walter Pidgeon) is able to clear young Rudi Wallchek...
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1951
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1950
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Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He...
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1950
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Iroquois Trail (British title: The Tomahawk Trail) could be classified as a western, but for the fact that the story is set...
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1950
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Quickie king Sam Katzman was responsible for the 64-minute swashbuckler Barbary Pirate. Set mostly in the bay of Tripoli in...
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1949
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Warren Douglas is Post Office Investigator Bill Mannerson in this diligent Republic programmer. Top billing, however, is...
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1949
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Both Van Johnson and Gregory Peck were considered for the role of baseball star Monty Stratton in the 1949 biopic The...
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1949
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This adventure is based on Longfellow's famous poem. It's the story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his...
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1948
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In this family farce, an older couple falls in love and decide to marry and embark upon a peaceful honeymoon without the...
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1948
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1948
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"Tarzan with clothes on". That's how one reviewer summed up Sam Katzman's newest film series Jungle Jim, starring ex-Tarzan...
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1948
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When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30-minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an...
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1948
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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1948
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In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a...
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1947
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Returning to Singapore after a five-year absence, WWII veteran Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) mournfully recalls his romance...
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1947
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1947
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In his final starring vehicle as a singing cowboy, Ken Curtis saves Doc Henderson's Medicine Show from being robbed by the...
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1947
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back was the second and last entry in Columbia's abortive attempt to revive the "Bulldog Drummond"...
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1947
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay was the title of two entries in the long-running "Bulldog Drummond" series. The later film, lensed in...
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1947
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In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with...
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1947
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The novel The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill had been filmed in 1928 as The Perfect Crime and again in 1934 as The Crime...
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1946
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The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin...
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1946
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For his first post-WWII starring film, 26-year-old Mickey Rooney returned to familiar territory in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy....
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1946
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1946
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The...
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1946
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Based on the prolific Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, Sherlock Holmes is on the job again. This time the inmate of a...
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1946
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Fabric designer Harry Quincey (George Sanders) has the unhappy task of caring for his tiresome unmarried sisters, Lettie...
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1945
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A bit "artier" than most Republic melodramas, Jealousy was directed by Gustav Machaty, the Czech expatriate famous for the...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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Like the same-named 1934 and 1935 films, RKO Radio's 1945 musical George White's Scandals uses the eponymous Broadway revue...
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1945
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Ostensibly taking place twenty-five years after the events of The Mummy's Ghost, this sequel marks the last of Universal's...
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1944
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This 20th Century-Fox programmer stars Preston Foster as breezy detective Steve Carromond. When a man dies of a suspicious...
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1944
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The Uninvited is one of the rare Hollywood ghost stories that does not cop out with a "logical" ending. In fact, the film has...
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1944
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In this crime programer, Arsene Lupin (Charles Korvin) is an expert jewel thief from France who, while aboard a train,...
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1944
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1944
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay was based on the lighthearted joint autobiography of actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and humorist...
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1944
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One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also...
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1943
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There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out...
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1943
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In this first of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" mysteries, Lon Chaney Jr. plays a neurologist plagued by a faithless wife. He...
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1943
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Randolph Scott was the star of Corvette K-225, a tribute to the World War II corvette escorts which guided Allied convoys...
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1943
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Too expensive for a "B"-picture, yet not quite an A, Two Tickets to London is an acceptable vehicle for French leading lady...
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1943
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One of two 20th Century-Fox horror melodramas released in 1942 (Dr. Renault's Secret was the second), The Undying Monster is...
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1942
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Irene Dunne plays a flibbetygibbet socialite who inherits a farm in Arizona. She can't seem to manage either her money or her...
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1942
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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A college student's passion for swinging music leads him to found his own band. When he starts spending more time playing...
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1942
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1941
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1941
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In this remake of the 1930 film of the same name, a bank robber suffers a war wound and undergoes plastic surgery. Upon his...
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1941
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A hunter finds himself in a world of danger when he decides to stalk Adolf Hitler in this taut WWII thriller. Capt. Thorndike...
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1941
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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1940
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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An Angel from Texas was the fourth of five film versions of the venerable George S. Kaufman stage farce The Butter and Egg...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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Though set during WW1, British Intelligence was obviously thrown together to capitalize on the outbreak of WW2. A remake of...
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1940
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Musical comedy favorite Elsie Janis, who gained renown in WW1 as "The Sweetheart of the AEF", returned to the screen after a...
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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1940
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In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor...
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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A typical, fast-paced Grade-B murder mystery, Mystery of the White Room was based on the then revolutionary medical...
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1939
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In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a...
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1939
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Jack Holt is impossibly heroic as usual in the Columbia quickie Hidden Power. In his quest to perfect a cure-all for severe...
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1939
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Based on a story by Jack London, this film follows the adventures of young Michael Vance (John Carroll) as he travels with...
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Winton
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1939
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20th Century Fox's Christmas gift to moviegoers in 1939, this fanciful comedy-drama features the studio's darling of the ice,...
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1939
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Independently (and very cheaply) produced, Bad Boy stars Johnny Downs as the title character, one John Fraser. In truth, John...
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1939
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly...
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1939
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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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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The second film in the mystery series about a Chinese sleuth, this one concerns the theft of the "Eye of the Daughter of the...
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1939
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Japanese detective Mr. Moto finds himself hip-deep in international espionage in this adventure tale. In Port Said, a pair of...
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1939
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Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce make their second screen appearances as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in The Adventures of...
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1939
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1939
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A remake of Paul Leni's The Last Warning (1929), this "Crime Club" series entry once again presents the spectacle of an actor...
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1939
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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1938
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1938
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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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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1938
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The Black Doll is one of the better entries in Universal's "Crime Club" series. Most of the action takes place on a dark and...
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1938
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The rollicking music of Gilbert and Sullivan is featured in this musical. It tells the story of a dance hall girl with a love...
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1937
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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1937
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Set during World War I, Lancer Spy stars a young George Sanders as Michael Bruce, an officer in the British Navy who bears an...
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1937
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The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates...
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1937
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In this detective adventure, a young woman is accused of stealing a valuable necklace from her boss and takes off for Spain...
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1937
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A young man is in danger of losing his inheritance in this muddled thriller from the waning Chesterfield Motion Picture...
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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Flash Casey (Eric Linden), per his nickname, is an ace photojournalist--at least, he will be once he gets out of high school....
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Maj. Addison
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1937
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Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may...
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1936
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Norwegian skating sensation Sonja Henie made her Hollywood screen debut in the splashy 20th Century-Fox musical...
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1936
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1936
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In this drama, set at the turn-of-the-century an ingenious young jockey finds his reputation sullied by criminals. He...
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1936
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Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of...
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1936
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1936
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Hoping to prove to her insurance-investigator uncle that she's a good detective in her own right, Jane Martin (Claire Trevor)...
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1936
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1936
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Novelist Ursula Parrott's biggest best-seller was 1928's Ex-Wife; less successful was her subsequent book Brilliant Marriage,...
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1936
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In this drama, two disparate brothers use radically different methods to raise their sons. The brothers co-own a successful...
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1935
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1935
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Cabot, Sr.
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1935
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Major in Dugout
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1935
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When British actor Robert Donat dropped out of Warner Bros. Captain Blood, the studio took a chance on its new contractee,...
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1935
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Frank Galloway
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1935
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In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when...
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John Scorsby
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1935
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George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Bruce Rogers
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1933
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages...
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1933
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A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn...
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1933
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In this murder mystery, a nurse with an unusual eye for detail solves a puzzling case. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1932
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In this romantic drama, an ambitious young dress designer decides to make an upward career move by making a play for her...
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1932
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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In this comedy, a carefree carouser creates trouble for his cousin the chaperone as they go 'round the world. ~ Sandra...
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John Hackett, Sr.
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1931
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In this entry in the mystery series, the Chinese criminal mastermind exacts revenge upon his enemy Fletcher, the man...
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1931
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This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic...
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Dr.Lanyan
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1931
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Class distinction rears its ugly head in this otherwise tuneful little musical from the pens of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz...
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Mr. Hunter
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1931
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In this comedy, a lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent...
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1931
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Maj. Bradford
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1931
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In this high-seas adventure, a ship's steward goes 'round the bend, mutinies, throws the captain into the briny, and turns...
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Paul Thorpe
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1930
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In one of his few film leading roles, dependable British character actor Holmes Herbert plays Peter Dwight, whose wife...
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1929
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The Careless Age was based on Diversion, a play by John Van Druten. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays Wyn, a headstrong young...
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Sir John Hayward
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1929
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Based on Zoë Akins's 1923 novel Déclassée and the 1925 film of the same title, Her Private Life stars Billie Dove as Lady...
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1929
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This early talkie, set in French Indochina, centers around the conflict between a French magistrate's wife and his lecherous...
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Carouge
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1929
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Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut....
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Noel
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1929
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MGM's paranoid fear of audience reaction to Greta Garbo's speaking voice must have been the only reason for this plodding...
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Lassalle
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1929
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Dr. Robert Merrill
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1929
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Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first...
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Sir Roscoe Crosby
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1929
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Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
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Howard Presley
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1929
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Owen Davis' 1898 barnstormer about a fun-loving socialite turned castaway on her former fiancee's South Seas island came to...
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1928
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First filmed 1917, the Elmer Rice play On Trial was remade as a talkie eleven years later. The original stage version was...
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Gerald Trask
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1928
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The present unavailability of 1928's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is especially frustrating for those who'd like to compare this...
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Henry Spofford
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1928
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1928
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James
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1928
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Jerry (John Harron), a $40-a-week working stiff, is in love with Peggy (June Marlowe). But while attending a weekend society...
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Cora's Father
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1928
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The Silver Slave is Bernice Randall (Irene Rich), who marries for money rather than love. This she has done for the sake of...
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Tom Richards
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1927
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As the comic relief in What Price Glory?, Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara were hits. Unfortunately, when the Fox studios tried...
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1927
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One of many silent-movie satires of the "beauty salon" craze, Slaves of Beauty gets under way when chemist Leonard Jones...
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1927
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The Nest was based on Les Noces d'Argent, a play by Paul Geraldy. Having sacrificed all for her children, staid Mrs. Hamilton...
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Richard Elliott
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1927
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This portentously (and pretentiously) titled Fox Studios release stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of...
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Charles Paris
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1927
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Previously filmed in England in 1919, the barnstorming Harry Maurice Vernon-Harold Owen play Mr.Wu re-emerged as a Lon Chaney...
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Mr. Gregory
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1927
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The venerable stage drama The World and His Wife formed the basis for the MGM production Lovers?. Ramon Novarro and...
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1927
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1927
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The "Salome" of this heavy-breathing melodrama is Helene (Alma Rubens), who is betrayed by her wealthy lover Monte Carroll...
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Count Boris
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1927
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1927
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Pauline Frederick plays the title role in this cinemadaptation of Kathleen Norris' novel Josselyn's Wife. Jilted by her...
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Thomas Josselyn
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1926
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1926
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Jether (William Collier Jr.), a young man of Old Testament days, tends his father's sheep and longs to visit the big city. A...
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1926
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Corpulent middle-aged Willard Louis fancies himself God's gift to women, indulging in various affairs while his frumpy wife...
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1926
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Arguably the best of Charles Ray's four MGM vehicles, The Fire Brigade casts Ray as the youngest in a large and rambunctious...
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James Corwin
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1926
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In spite of the warnings of his friend, Stuart Ames (Holmes E. Herbert), Grant Demarest (James Morrison) persists in seeing...
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Stuart Ames
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1925
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This sophisticated and well-made comedy-drama was one of Pola Negri's best vehicles for Paramount. More often than not, the...
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Richard Granger
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1925
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This horse racing meller was based on the play by George V. Hobart and George Broadhurst. Claire Barrington (Aileen Pringle)...
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Garrison
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1925
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Julian (Percy Marmont) is an artist with a restless soul. When he runs into Edith, his childhood sweetheart (Alice Joyce), he...
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1925
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This routine domestic drama was based on a stage play by Owen Davis. Jane Cornwall, a wealthy heiress (Virginia Valli),...
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Robert Newhall
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1925
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David Teririurit
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1924
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This South Seas tale, based on the novel by Clive Arden, very much reflects the morals of its era. Barbara Stockley...
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Hugh Rochedale
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1924
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1924
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After breaking away from Paramount, the company he helped form in 1912, W. W. Hodkinson had to make do with tiny budgets and...
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1924
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The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes...
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1924
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The biggest draw for this feature was its Italian backgrounds, all of them shot on location and not on a studio backlot. This...
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Sandro
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1923
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1922
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1922
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This society drama is a tightly woven little programmer. Linda Catherton comes from a poor but aristocratic Georgia family....
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1922
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The reviewer for Motion Picture News got a little too wrapped up in his own hyperbole when he gushed that Mary Alden as...
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John Plummer
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1922
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This satisfying drama was one of Elaine Hammerstein's better vehicles. When Florette, an actress (Hammerstein), marries...
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Judge Rowland
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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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Frank Manners
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1921
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Edward J. Wellman
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1921
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Indiana Stillwater (Alice Joyce) is the spoiled daughter of a Midwestern railroad magnate (Frank Sheridan). She falls in love...
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1921
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This drama was an interesting, although unsuccessful, attempt at combining a film with on-stage scenes (about the only one...
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The Sculptor
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1921
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Since stars Mae Murray and David Powell, director George Fitzmaurice and writer Ouida Bergere had such a success with On With...
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1920
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A priceless jeweled garter is stolen from a British museum, and the thief is assumed to be the Hawk, an infamous criminal...
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1920
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Young country nurse Helen Armes (Dorothy Dalton) arrives in New York City to visit a friend and her husband. They go out for...
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1919
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Lord Angus Cameron (H.E. Herbert), a Scottish nobleman, becomes tired of his common-law wife Marion (Mabel Ballin) and tries...
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1919
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Even though Cynthia Maitland (Helen Montrose) throws wild parties and is having an affair with Boresky (Robert Cain), a...
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1918
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The Whirlpool was based on the novel of the same name by Victoria Morton. Alice Brady stars as Belle Cavello, the mercenary...
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1918
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Produced by Thanhouser, this first full-length adaptation of Edward Everett Hale's classic story The Man Without a Country...
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1917
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