Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are contacted by an accident-insurance adjuster, who is convinced that some...
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1959
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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New York Confidential is based on the Jack Lait-Lee Mortimer bestseller of the same name. Richard Conte plays Nick Magellan,...
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1955
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19th century Louisiana is the setting for Duel on the Mississippi. Patricia Medina stars as Lili Scarlet, a vengeful Creole...
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1955
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1955
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It Came From Beneath the Sea was the first of several fruitful collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer and...
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Adm. Burns
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1955
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Tony Curtis always seemed a little uncomfortable in costume epics, but this trait serves him well in Black Shield of...
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1954
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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1948
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Ralph Byrd returns to the character he had originated ten years earlier in the serial Dick Tracy. This time, Chester Gould's...
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Vitamin Flintheart
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1947
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Despite the producer claiming Border Feud to be a "New PRC Picture," this Western is essentially the same old wheeze that the...
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1947
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Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters,...
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Pete
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1947
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They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber...
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1947
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B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer managed to direct a few A-pictures during his long career; he was personally selected by...
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1946
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Mr. Hex was the first Bowery Boys epic in which the goofy Sach (Huntz Hall) is given superhuman powers. Hypnotized by a...
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1946
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There's no "valley" in Valley of the Zombies, and only one "zombie," played with relish by Ian Keith. At large in a great...
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Ormand Murks
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1946
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Produced by Gower Gulch maverick Robert L. Lippert and filmed in not-so-glorious two-strip Cinecolor near Idyllwild,...
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1946
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Morgan Conway made his final screen appearance as Chester Gould's granite-jawed detective Dick Tracy in this RKO Radio...
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Vitamin Flintheart
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1946
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An early low-budget spin on Ten Little Indians, this cheap but entertaining PRC production features a wonderful cast of...
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1945
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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1945
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Statehood for Wyoming became the weighty focal point in this very low-budget music Western from poverty row company PRC,...
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1945
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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In this western, Red Ryder and his young sidekick Little Beaver help prevent an impressionable duchess from being duped by a...
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1945
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One of the last of Universal's "pocket" musicals, Under Western Skies packs a surplus of entertainment value into its brief...
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1945
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It's every man for himself when Charles Laughton bites into the role of infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd....
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1945
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This western features a singing cowboy, a brave hero, and a bumbling sidekick who band together to defeat a ruthless range...
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1944
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In their third and final "Trail Blazers" Western together, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson and Bob Steele witness what appears to be...
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Polini
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1944
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In this effervescent musical comedy, a stuffy college professor secretly works as a burlesque comedian during the summer....
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J. Boggs-Robinson
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1944
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By the time Bowery Champs came out, the East Side Kids had become so domesticated that they actually had jobs. Muggs...
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1944
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Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better...
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1944
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With a title like I Escaped from the Gestapo, it's a wonder that there's any suspense at all in this Monogram programmer....
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1943
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Starring the engaging Donald Barry (nicknamed, for obvious reasons, "Red"), this average Republic Western was filmed...
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J. Richard Spencer
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1943
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel...
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1943
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Lee Tracy once more plays a fast-talking, slightly amoral newspaper reporter in PRC's The Payoff. Tracy is cast as Brad...
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1943
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In a rather desperate attempt to duplicate the success of Republic Pictures' Three Mesqueteers B-Western series, Monogram...
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Carson
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1943
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In this western, a cowboy and his pals must stop outlaws from stealing a cache of gold ore. Action ensues, and they succeed....
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1943
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Kelly (Eddie Quillan) is a tough little wiseacre who can't keep his fists to himself. As a result, he loses one job after...
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1943
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Outdistancing all competing studios, tiny PRC managed to register the title Corregidor for copyright within hours after the...
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1943
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Chief
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1943
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No sooner had the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 than Republic Pictures managed to register the title...
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Capt. Hudson
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1942
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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1938
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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1938
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Set in the land Down Under but filmed at Sunland, CA, and on Catalina Island, this low-budget action-adventure stars one of...
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1937
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In this drama, an honest gambler tries to go straight. Although the gambling house he runs is illegal, the man insists that...
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John Crane
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1936
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It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film....
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E. Gordon Smith
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1936
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As the Panama Canal is under construction, a group of doctors try to find a cure for yellow fever, or "Yellow Jack," a deadly...
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Dr. Murray
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1936
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1936
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Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by...
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Martin Chatfield
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1935
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de Rochefort
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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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Saladin
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1935
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1934
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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Count Magnus
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1933
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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Tigellinus
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1932
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It was once theorized by critic Andrew Sarris that this 1931 Greta Garbo vehicle was subtitled "Her Fall & Rise" rather than...
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1931
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1931
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Talking pictures made a star out of veteran movie villain Louis Wolheim, perhaps because his voice revealed a heart and soul...
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Marsden
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1931
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Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of...
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Reginald Thorpe
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1931
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In this melodrama, a magician finds himself accused of murdering his lover's father. He flees and the lover marries her...
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1931
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"Boudoir Diplomat" was, of course, a 1930s euphemism for a wealthy man who slept around. Ian Keith plays Baron Valmi, who...
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Baron Valmi
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1930
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In this early musical western, Stephen Ghent (Ian Keith) is a businessman who, after the death of his partner, has been...
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Stephen Ghent
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1930
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The title character, played by Ian Keith, is wealthy diamond merchant Rupert Endon. Falling in love with gorgeous Eve Marlay...
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Rupert Endon
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1930
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The first "epic" western of the talkie era, The Big Trail is motivated by a hero's search for the murderer of his father....
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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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John Wilkes Booth
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1930
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Frank Lloyd both produced and directed The Divine Lady, a Hollywood slant on the 19th century romance of Lord Horatio Nelson...
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Charles Greville
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1929
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"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief played by Ian Keith....
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Light Fingers
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1929
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In this early talkie that contains very little talking, an Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief....
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Nicholas Cathy
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1929
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Street of Illusion was based on a story by once-popular playwright Channing Pollock. Ian Keith is well-cast as a pompous ham...
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1928
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1922 WAMPAS Baby Star Jacqueline Logan starred in this mystery drama as Dixie Mowbray, a young girl fleeing from a mysterious...
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1928
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Smith
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1927
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Dr. Fontaine
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1927
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In this instance at least, What Every Girl Should Know doesn't come in a plain brown wrapper. Patsy Ruth Miller stars as...
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1927
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1927
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Husband Huntley Gordon has convinced himself that he's the head of the household, but the viewer knows full well that wifey...
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1926
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Prince of Tempters was adapted from The Ex-Duke a story by prolific author E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story focuses on two...
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Mario
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1926
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Pauli Birbach
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1926
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Belle Bennett stars as Odette, who early in life is forced to give up all dreams of love so that she can look after her...
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1926
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This drama, based on the play by Marion Fairfax, concerns a woman who talks big, but does not practice what she preaches....
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Ned Hollister
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1925
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While it seems extremely tame now, Clive Arden's novel was considered quite racy in its day. While doing relief work in...
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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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Felipe Vargas, a Fisherman
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1925
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Director Victor Sjostrom and stars Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer made an impressive team on He Who Gets Slapped. They came...
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Lars
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1925
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Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she made this film, and while it isn't one of her best -- a Graustarkian...
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Captain Kavor
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1924
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This adaptation of Kathleen Norris' best-selling novel came out just weeks before its producer, Thomas Ince, mysteriously...
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Ivan Vianney
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1924
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Although an executive at Paramount came up with the racy title for this comedy-drama, the plot came from a Saturday Evening...
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Robert Brandt
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1924
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