One man's good luck leaves a very bad impression in this comedy. Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and Mildred Goodhug (Jane...
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1951
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took...
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1945
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In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a...
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1944
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In his book on "screwball" comedies, the late William K. Everson described What a Woman as "indistinguishable from a dozen...
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1943
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1943
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A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the...
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1942
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A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells...
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1942
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1941
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1941
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1941
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Hollywood's handful of Technicolor cameras got a real workout on 20th Century-Fox's Down Argentine Way. Don Ameche stars as...
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1940
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Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star....
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1940
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Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a...
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1939
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This fictionalized biography of the famed American inventor's life provided actor Don Ameche with his signature role. For...
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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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Just Around the Corner is the film in which little Shirley Temple ends the Depression all by herself! The story starts...
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1938
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1938
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All...
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1937
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Merry-Go-Round of 1938 was the first (and last) of a proposed series of films spotlighting top Broadway talent. Three...
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1937
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Small-town waiter Will Wright (Edward Everett Horton) can't help but feel that his Kansas community has lost its civic pride....
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1936
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1936
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To finance such major productions as Ramona and Lloyds of London, 20th Century-Fox had to maintain a quota of such minor but...
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1936
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French actress Simone Simon made her American film debut in Girls' Dormitory. Simon portrays a twentyish student in a Swiss...
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1936
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1935
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1935
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In this tepid melodrama, an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search...
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1934
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Dedicated to "the memory of Florence Nightingale," White Parade might have been better dedicated to the cliche experts at Fox...
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1934
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This drama, an adaptation of a novel by A.J. Cronin, chronicles the exploits of an alcoholic doctor whose career is in...
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1934
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Junior Durkin who burst upon the movie scene as Huck Finn in 1930's Tom Sawyer, is the teenage star of Man Hunt. Durkin plays...
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1933
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In this adventure, a brave hero races across Middle-Eastern desert dunes to win the love his best friend's wife, the manager...
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1933
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A man on the wrong side of the law has a chance to turn over a new leaf in this crime drama. Edward Carson (Spencer Tracy) is...
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1933
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In this drama, an ambitious lawyer doesn't think twice about convicting an innocent man on circumstantial evidence to...
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1932
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In this detective drama, a gumshoe falls in love with a torch singer who is unfortunately, involved with a crook. The two...
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1932
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A night club owner under heavy police protection is murdered anyway, and a clever police commissioner figures out that it...
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1932
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In this western, a wealthy eastern returns from a polo match to find that his father has been murdered. Later, he is...
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1931
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1931
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This early talkie is the third version of the popular Booth Tarkington play. It is set in the mid 19th-century and centers...
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1930
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In this drama, a macho ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New...
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1930
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A Devil with Women is the best way to describe soldier-of-fortune Jerry Maxton (Victor McLaglen). At large in South America,...
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1930
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In this early, early talkie containing only 15 minutes of spoken word, an aging nightclub performer takes a young woman...
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1929
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Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously...
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1929
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Romance of the Underworld was adapted from a barnstorming stage piece by Paul Armstrong. Forced by circumstance into a life...
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1929
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Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the...
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1929
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Most of Dressed to Kill takes place at a swank nightclub which serves as an Underworld rendezvous. Heroine Jean (Mary Astor)...
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1928
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Far in the mysterious East there lies an island that exists under the radar of any law or authority. This haven for thieves...
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1928
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One of Hollywood's true professionals, Irving Cummings showed little of his later directorial sophistication in this terrible...
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1927
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Earlier in the century, this melodrama about a young girl in the garment industry was a famous stage play. To bring it to the...
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1927
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This early Janet Gaynor vehicle was based on Pigs, a play by John Golden. While vain Gladys O'Connell busies herself with her...
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1926
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1926
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While there were often disasters such as floods, fires, and avalanches in silent films, few of them were actually built...
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1926
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Based on a magazine serial by the prolific Peter B. Kyne, this silent Western featured rising star George O'Brien as Bradley...
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1926
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Dr. Lucien LaPierre (Sam de Grasse) desperately wants to marry Elise Duchanier, the maid to a Parisian burlesque star...
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1925
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Steel worker Robert Holden (Conway Tearle) becomes president of the corporation, thanks to his involvement in an invention...
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1925
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Proving once and for all that Western filmmaking was treacherous work even for the greatest of stars, Colleen Moore broke her...
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1925
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1925
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This rather trite romance was saved by its colorful backdrop; the setting is the New York Bowery of the early 1890s. Mamie...
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1924
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1924
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A young American girl in Paris is loved by three handsome men in this romantic melodrama based on Belonging, a popular 1920...
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1924
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Although the ending to this routine mystery was easily guessed, star Herbert Rawlinson does credible work. A gentleman crook...
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1924
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Although the plot to this romance was complicated, the actors didn't have all that much to do, which was just as well; the...
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1924
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Most films about horse racing during the silent era were either Drury Lane-style melodramas, or involved the glamorous life...
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1924
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1923
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Other than its title, this drama bears no relation to the 1927 Allan Dwan picture, nor to Mervyn LeRoy's 1949 film. It begins...
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1923
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Pop quiz: When was the Hollywood film Drug Traffic produced? 1968? 1985? Try 1923! This exploitationer details the...
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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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1923
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1922
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aka Hell's River Just about every actor has to work his way up from supporting roles and this even includes Rin-Tin-Tin....
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1922
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Marguerite de la Motte comes through with an excellent performance in this romantic drama. Before he goes to France to fight...
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1922
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Alice Lake plays a con artist who reforms in this melodrama. She's Sally Dolan, better known as Chicago Sal, and one night,...
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1922
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Following a year-long absence from the screen, Gladys Brockwell returned to films in this Universal melodrama. When she tries...
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1922
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Lon Chaney Sr. plays David Webster, an honest lawyer unjustly sentenced to a 15-year jail term. Upon his release, Webster...
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1922
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1922
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Produced in Canada by Ernest G. Shipman's aptly-named Winnipeg Productions, this minor Northwest Mounted melodrama starred...
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Dick Raven
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1921
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The Saphead was based on the tried-and-true Winchell Smith stage comedy The New Henrietta, previously filmed in 1915 as...
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1920
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1920
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Norine Lawton (Carmel Myers) works with two con artists, and their latest victim is Christopher Gibbons (Pell Trenton), a...
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1920
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For some mysterious reason, producer Adolph Zukor decided to set the slapstick aside for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's first...
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1920
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Anita Stewart plays a young woman with an unfortunate past in this unoriginal drama, based on a magazine story by Kathleen...
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Tony Pope
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1920
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Not only does Louise Glaum perform a seductive "Spider Dance" in this provocatively titled but deeply moralistic melodrama,...
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1920
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Robert Warwick returned from World War I with the rank of major and wound up starring in this movie about the Civil War as...
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1919
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1919
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Kitty Gordon plays a vampy villain in this drama. Cora (Gordon) is a Spanish adventuress whose travels have taken her to...
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1919
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1919
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Allegory is a storytelling form little used in cinema today, but it popped up frequently during the silent era, especially...
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1919
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1919
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This is yet another sensationalistic Fox melodrama which banks on the name of once-notorious former showgirl Evelyn Nesbit....
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1918
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Upon the death of her aristocratic father, Southern belle Jane Cameron (Kitty Gordon) finds that she has inherited nothing...
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1918
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1917
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This Northwoods drama stars Ruth Sinclair and Irving Cummings. Ruth (Sinclair) is an orphan who lives with her foster-father,...
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1917
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Actor/director Frank Reicher, most familiar to modern movie fans as "Captain Englehorn" in King Kong (1933), wielded the...
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1917
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This charming little Graustarkian tale, which stars Virginia Pearson, sounds like it was borrowed from a comic opera. Since...
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1917
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1916
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Helen (Hazel Dawn) is yet another country girl who tries to make it in the big city. While living in a sleazy boarding house,...
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1916
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Long before she became a top character actress, Alice Brady was the in-house ingenue for the World Film Manufacturing...
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1916
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A huge undertaking in its day, this 30 chapter serial is arguably the best known film to emerge from the American "Flying A"...
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1915
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Grossing a cool 1.5 million dollars on a 125,000-dollar investment, this action serial, produced in 23 chapters by the New...
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1914
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It was still possible in the early months of 1915 for an American film company to turn out a piece of pro-German propaganda...
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1914
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There had been several film adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin before 1914, but this effort from...
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1914
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The Alexandre Dumas classic Lady of the Camelias was given its first screen treatment in this Pathe one-reeler. With only 15...
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1910
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