Also known as Stormy, the Thoroughbred with an Inferiority Complex, this live-action Disney short subject was originally...
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Screen Story
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1954
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Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives...
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1951
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With Return of the Frontiersman, Warner Bros. continued to test the acting abilities of their singing star Gordon MacRae....
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Sam Barrett
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1950
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The title King of the Bullwhip could only refer to one of two western-movie favorites: Lash LaRue or Whip Wilson. Since...
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James Kerrigan
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1950
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The plot for this Western involves the wives and girlfriends of the Dalton gang, who decide to carry on the gang's criminal...
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1950
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Filmed in eye-pleasing Trucolor, Republic's Trail of Robin Hood is one of the most entertaining and likable of Roy Rogers'...
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1950
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Don Barry stars as the Pecos Kid in Red Desert. The Kid is a federal agent, assigned by President Ulysses S. Grant to locate...
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Deacon Smith
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1950
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Republic's program westerns of the 1940s fell into two categories: the Saturday-matinee fare of Roy Rogers,...
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Mort Pemberton
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1949
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In pageant-like fashion, Warner Bros.' Task Force traces the history of the American aircraft carrier, as experienced by a...
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1949
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The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western...
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Marshal Walter Greenside
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1949
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Gene Autry goes in search of the man who killed his friend during a blackout in this action-packed western from Columbia....
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Dave Randall
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1948
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1948
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Gene Autry's equine sidekick Champion takes the center stage in western drama, based on a story by fellow sagebrush star Ken...
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Walt Bailey
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1948
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When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and...
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1948
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In this western, a troubled, battle-weary youth must somehow put his life together after he is discharged from Roosevelt's...
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Rawhide Morgan
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1948
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Cowboy star Allan "Rocky" Lane teams with a sagebrush favorite of yore, Jack Holt, in Republic's The Wild Frontier. In an...
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Charles "Saddles" Barton
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1947
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Alan Curtis plays a hired Union agent who's been dispatched to capture a Confederate gal who's the leader of some ravaging...
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1946
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In this low-budget espionage adventure, an ex-FBI agent is convinced by an active agent to help him find a stolen map...
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1946
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Originally slated for release through Monogram Pictures, The Chase was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Adapted by...
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1946
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This gentle, tuneful western is one of cowboy crooner Roy Rogers' best and most successful films; it is also his personal...
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Brett Scoville
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1946
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John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) believes in PT boats, and as a lowly U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in the Philippines,...
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1945
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays himself-or at least the screen version of "himself"-in the 15-chapter Columbia serial Holt of...
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Farrell
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1942
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On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War One pilot Steve Britt (Preston Foster) trains flyers to fight in World War...
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Col. McDonald
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1942
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In this North western, Indians orphan two boys who are then raised by a Mountie. The boys are different as night and day:...
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Duncan Frazier
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1942
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Handed the exploitive title Cat People, RKO producer Val Lewton opted for a thinking man's thriller--a psychological mood...
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Commodore
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1942
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In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get...
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Jack Regan
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1941
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Another of Columbia's myriad of Jack Holt actioners, Passport to Alcatraz casts the star as supposed enemy saboteur George...
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George Hollister
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1940
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It's ironic that leading man Jack Holt, who in real life was deathly afraid of flying, should appear in so many...
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Mike Henderson
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1940
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Good-ol' sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison...
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Sheriff Lawson
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1940
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In this crime drama, a government investigator looks into a counterfeiting ring that passes its fake bills through a...
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Treasury Agent Conway
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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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Major
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1939
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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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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a dual role in Columbia's Fugitives at Large. Civil engineer George Storm (Holt) finds himself...
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Storm
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1939
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Silent-screen leading lady Dolores Costello adds a touch of class to the threadbare Jack Holt vehicle Whispering Enemies....
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Stephen Brewster
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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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Dr. Garfield
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1939
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In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in...
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Dr. Meade
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1939
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1938
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Most reviewers in the late 1930s considered Columbia's Jack Holt vehicles to be a waste of time, but Holt still had a fairly...
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Nagel
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1938
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In this socially conscious drama, a man is appointed warden at a boys reformatory on the condition that he can keep unwanted...
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Robert Dean
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1938
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When this politically charged crime drama came out in 1938, many viewers saw that the themes therein echoed those of the...
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Walter Forbes
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1938
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Jack Holt does his usual Jack Holt thing in the Columbia quickie Flight into Nowhere. Holt is cast as airline pilot Jim Horne...
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Jim Horne
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1938
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Jack Holt is so tight-jawed in Outlaws in the Orient that one wonders how his bridgework will hold up. Holt plays Chet Eaton,...
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Chet Eaton
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1937
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North of Nome is where the audience is first introduced to jut-jawed seal hunter John Raglan (Jack Holt). When he's not busy...
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John Raglan
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1937
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In this outdoor drama, a plucky young woman inherits her father's logging business and decides to try running it, even...
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Jim Sherwood
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1937
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Though not the most versatile of actors, granite-jawed Jack Holt does just fine with a dual role in Columbia's...
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Bill Donovan,Martin Galloway
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1937
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In this adventure set in Cairo, two foreign correspondents are assigned to investigate a ring of arms smugglers. One of them...
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Paul Cluett
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1937
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Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various...
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Robert Bailey
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1937
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In this melodrama the captain of a decrepit boat must get it to port but finds that racketeers are trying to prevent him...
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Jim Marlowe
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1936
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In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler...
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Dale Brittenham
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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Jack Burley
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1936
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This action movie provides interesting information about the special training and experiences of motorcycle cops. The story...
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"Crash" Donovan
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1936
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Bob Kent
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1935
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The old Edward Peble play The Littlest Rebel was gussied up in 1935 as a Shirley Temple vehicle. The curly-topped child star...
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Union Col. Morrison
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1935
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This racetrack drama centers upon a horse breeder with a strong aversion to orphans. Howard Chamberlain, himself an orphan,...
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Howard Chamberlain
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1935
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Jack Holt plays Jim Burke, a he-man construction foreman whose stomach is turned by his namby-pamby, violin-playing son...
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Jim Burke
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1935
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Tobu (Edmund Lowe) and Nick (Jack Holt) are championship scuba divers who fall out when Tobu loses his arm saving Nick's...
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Nick
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1935
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I'll Fix It is a strange bit of goods, condemning the excesses of capitalism while still allowing the chief capitalist to...
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Bill Grimes
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1934
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No relation to the 1949 20th Century-Fox melodrama of the same name, Columbia's 1934 Whirlpool stars Jack Holt as a shifty...
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Buck Rankin
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1934
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In this bizarre drama, a young wife and mother begins dabbling in voodoo and soon finds herself hopelessly entangled in...
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Lane
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1934
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A sleazy lawyer is the focus of this courtroom drama. His favorite technique is to teach his female clients how to use their...
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Matthew Mitchell
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1934
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The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife...
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Chuck Regan
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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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Jim Bradler
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1933
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One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Walling, a woman who is...
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Buck Garrett
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1933
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In this action-drama, a railroad worker plys his trade at the straits of Malay. He begins a steamy affair with a spoiled...
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Steve Rand
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1933
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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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Johnny McCloud
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1932
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In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. While there, he falls for...
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Jim Kenyon
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1932
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The fast-paced world of polo provides the backdrop for this sports drama that centers upon John Steele, a US Army captain...
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Capt. John Steele
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1932
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Behind the Mask is a typically virile Jack Holt vehicle, with the hero at one point shooting himself in the arm to establish...
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Hart
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1932
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Two rough-and-ready guys; one beautiful dame; a tough job that has to be done, and "one of us may not come out alive"; the...
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Lt. McHenry
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1931
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In this war drama, two buddies in WW I return stateside. One of them becomes a police sergeant, but the other cannot find...
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Cookie Leonard
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1931
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In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her...
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Gordon Kent
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1931
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Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a...
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Inspector Killian
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1931
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A truly jaw-dropping experience, Makers of Men is an unabashed celebration of Conditional Love. Jack Holt plays Dudley, a...
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Dudley
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1931
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Columbia spent the 1920s and 1930s dusting off its reliable "two guys/one girl" military plotline and dressing it up in a...
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Jack Bradon
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1931
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In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older diver, and his younger...
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Tim Burke
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1931
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Actor Ralph Graves was responsible for the original story upon which Vengeance was based -- although, perhaps wisely, he...
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John Meadham
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1930
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In this crime melodrama, a bootlegger orders the death of his rival. Meanwhile the bootlegger's wife dallies with his best...
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Charles Hart
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1930
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In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her...
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Mac
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1930
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Jack Kells
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1930
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Panama Williams
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1929
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This comedy-mystery is famed director Frank Capra's first all-talking film. It tells the story of a bungling police inspector...
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Inspector Killian
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1929
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Filmed at glorious locations on the Navajo reservation at Tuba City and in Flagstaff, AZ, this Zane Grey adaptation stars...
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Jack Rock
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1929
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A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child...
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Frank Fields
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1929
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Based on Zane Grey's Collier's short story, this fine Paramount Western starred the underrated Nancy Carroll as an Eastern...
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Philip Randolph
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1928
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Recorded sound effects punctuate this silent drama, the first big-budget release from the then-Poverty Row studio Columbia....
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Jack Reagon
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1928
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An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining...
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Jack Dunton
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1928
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Based on a story by Elmer Harris, the above-average Columbia production Court Martial was set during the Civil War. Carrying...
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James Camden
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1928
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This silent Paramount Zane Grey Western marked the screen debut of the then 7-year-old Tim Holt. Young Tim's father,...
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Anthony Ballard/John Ballard
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1928
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Nelson
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1928
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Produced by Columbia Pictures, The Tigress is set in Spain, where a band of gypsies help themselves to the livestock on a...
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1927
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This typically hard-nosed Jack Holt vehicle casts the star as opium smuggler Tom Fellows. While in Shanghai on "business,"...
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Tom Fellows/Col. Robert Wellsley
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1927
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Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon). The villain is...
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Bent Wade
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1927
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Another entry in Paramount's long-running "Zane Grey" series, Born to the West represented the first directorial effort of...
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"Colorado" Dare Rudd
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1926
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Although she made an unforgettable impression in Charles Chaplin's The Gold Rush, Georgia Hale spent the rest of her short...
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1926
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Filmed in majestic Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon, Utah, this Paramount Zane Grey Western starred Jack Holt as Nevada, a...
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Nevada
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1926
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Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
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George Glanville
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1926
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Like most Westerns of the era, this Jack Holt vehicle from Paramount includes automobiles and even airplanes. But Holt went...
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Lee Purdy
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1926
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Even though Big Bill Devens (Ernest Torrence) is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife...
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Hugh Dillon
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1926
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Veteran Western director William K. Howard does a solid job with this routine Zane Grey story. Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and...
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Gene Stewart
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1925
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Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the...
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Tom Doan
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1925
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a rugged logger in The Ancient Highway. When not cutting down trees and shouting...
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Cliff Brant
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1925
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Chane Weymer
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1925
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Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve (Betty Compson) is an unkempt country...
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The Duke of Poltava
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1925
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Based on Zane Grey's 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler, this fine silent melodrama was...
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Adam Larey
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1924
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Michael Lanyard
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1924
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North of 36 was conceived in the wake of the immensely popular Covered Wagon, right down to the casting of that earlier...
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Don McMasters
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1924
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Grimshaw
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1924
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Paramount brought the exotic Pola Negri over from Europe, and then it seemed like they didn't know what to do with her. Bella...
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Dudley Drake
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1923
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This fantasy tale was based on the stage play The Faun by Edward Knoblock, which starred William Faversham on Broadway....
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Lord Stonbury
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1923
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Jack Holt stands out in this adaptation of the William LeBaron stage hit. A pair of con artists have published a book under...
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John Webster
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1923
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This farcical melodrama starring Jack Holt was a pleasant program feature. Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has...
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Robert Pitt
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from...
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Sam Sandell
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1923
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Although this comedy had an awful lot of inconsistencies, it still was an nicely entertaining programmer -- plus it had the...
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Horace Winsby
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1922
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A young cowboy turns vigilante after his father is killed in this fine silent Western filmed on location in blistering...
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Bob Haddington
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1922
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Virile Jack Holt was perfectly cast as the title character in this brawling South Seas drama. New Yorker Robert Kendall...
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Robert Kendall
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1922
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The second time George Broadhurst's play was filmed, William C. deMille was the director, and his intimate approach suited it...
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1922
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This Western -- which like many silent-era pictures was based on a Saturday Evening Post story (this one by Peter B. Kyne) --...
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Phil
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1922
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1922
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This melodrama of the high seas sandwiches pretty silent star Dorothy Dalton between the handsome, virile Jack Holt and the...
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Jim Dom, a Stoker
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1922
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One year shy of the scandal that would destroy her film career, Mary Miles Minter starred in the mystical romantic drama All...
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1921
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While Cecil B. DeMille busied himself with lavish sex comedies and garish historical melodramas, his director brother...
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Larry Taylor
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1921
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Before Paramount produced this well-received version of Edward White's novel Conjurer's House, it had been made into a play...
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Ned Trent
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1921
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Bebe Daniels breezes through the comic complications of Ducks and Drakes. Daniels plays Teddy Simpson, the flirtatious...
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Rob Winslow
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1921
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Kenneth Traynor
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1921
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Although this was a mediocre programmer at best, Jack Holt still manages to shine in an unsympathetic role. Actress Marie...
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Harvey Martin
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1921
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In contrast to the spectacles of his brother Cecil, William DeMille's directorial efforts tended more towards small, simple...
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Mark Sheridan
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1921
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Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse,...
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1920
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This spy melodrama was based on a novel by Samuel Merwin called Dinner at Eight, though it bears no relation whatsoever to...
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1920
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The careful direction of William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil) brought fresh life to Cosmo Hamilton's all-too-typical story,...
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1920
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Marie (Anita Stewart), a young princess, finds herself shipwrecked and uses this as a way to escape her royal duties. She...
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1919
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Director Cecil B. DeMille tones down his usual elegance and instead focuses on the drama of America during the Great War....
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1919
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Axel Heyst (Jack Holt) is taught bitter lessons by his father -- that pity is contemptible and sympathy is useless. So the...
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1919
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In what is perhaps one of his lesser vehicles, Douglas Fairbanks plays a Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman who impersonates a...
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1918
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One More American represented one more superb "ethnic" portrayal by the versatile George Beban. The star plays feisty Italian...
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1918
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1918
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1917
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Even popular Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa was swept up into the distinctly occidental intrigues of WWI in...
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1917
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Rupert Julian was both star and director of the episodic historical drama Naked Hearts. The story begins in Colonial America,...
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1916
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Dumb Girl of Portici is famous today as the film in which Boris Karloff made his movie debut. This "fact" is open to debate:...
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1916
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When a young man from a socially prominent family commits suicide over his love affair with chorus girl Estelle Ryan...
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1916
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We could be cute and say that The Campbells are Coming is about invading hordes of tomato soup cans. But we won't. Set during...
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1915
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The prima donna of the California Motion Picture Company, California-native Beatriz Michelena starred in this silent...
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1914
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