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1990
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The X-117 satellite is launched to explore an area of deep space more than 200 miles above Earth, which is bounded by what is...
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1958
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Originally released as The Return of Dracula (and also known by the irrelevant title The Fantastic Disappearing Man), this...
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1958
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Small-town doctor Paul Beecher (John Beal) is given some strange pills by a dying elderly researcher. Later, when Paul gets a...
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1957
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To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass...
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1953
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1950
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In this three-hanky movie, an orphaned newsboy decides to care for a crippled young girl after her alcoholic mother is...
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1949
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Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun, both of whom went on to star in their own TV western series, head the cast of the Monogram...
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1949
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The third of western hero James Warren's trio of RKO Radio vehicles, Code of the West was like its predecessors based on a...
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1947
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1947
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Based on Zane Grey's 1922 novel To the Last Man, filmed previously by Paramount in 1923 and 1934, this fine RKO Western...
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1947
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Based on the popular "Lum 'n' Abner" radio show, this comedy tells the funny tale of how the two teamed up to save Pine...
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1946
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1946
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Inspired by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin's famous painting, this seminal horror film marked the first of three collaborations...
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1945
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In this drama, an amnesiac awakens and finds himself accused of murder. Fortunately, a female cabbie helps prove his...
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1945
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A loose remake of the 1935 Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy of the same name, Mama Loves Papa stars Elisabeth Risdon in the...
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1945
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The last and least of RKO Radio's B-series based on radio's "Great Gildersleeve", Gildersleeve's Ghost is a standard "scare"...
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1944
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Originally titled Passport to Destiny, RKO's Passport to Adventure manages to be both whimsical and melodramatic all at once....
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1944
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A strong contender for the title of Universal's worst horror film of the 1940s, Jungle Woman continued the melodramatic...
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1944
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Ever so slightly, the quality of PRC Pictures' film output improved as the 1940s rolled on. In PRC's Dixie Jamboree,...
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1944
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In this adventure the young lively daughter of wealthy Virginia parents bridles under the stern tutelage of her new English...
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1944
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This irresistably-titled comedy is arguably the best of RKO Radio's Wally Brown-Alan Carney vehicles. The daffy duo is cast...
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1944
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Gildersleeve on Broadway was the third in a series of RKO B-pictures inspired by the radio sitcom The Great Gildersleeve....
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1943
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The title of this "Lum 'N' Abner" comedy isn't explained until the film is half over. Chester Lauck and Norris Goff repeat...
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1943
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In this comedy, Gildersleeve is assigned to be a contentious jury foreman who refuses, despite the opinions of all the other...
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1943
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1943
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RKO brought its "Mexican Spitfire" saga to a close with the eighth film in the series, Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event. Lupe...
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1943
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Tom Conway makes his second appearance as amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence, aka "The Falcon", in RKO Radio's The Falcon Strikes...
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1943
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1943
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In this entry in the "Dead End Kids" series (later they would reappear as "The Bowery Boys") the lads encounter a terribly...
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1943
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1943
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Timber is a typical Universal Pictures amalgam of he-man virility and endless spools of stock footage from earlier films....
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1942
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The first "Mexican Spitfire" entry of 1942, Mexican Spitfire at Sea is set mainly on a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Combining...
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1942
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Highlights from World War II are documented in this award-winning film. ~ Rovi...
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1942
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This raucous series entry reunites Lupe Velez as Carmelita (aka "The Mexican Spitfire") and Leon Errol as Uncle Matt, with...
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1942
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RKO Radio's film series based on the popular radio serial Scattergood Baines rolled into 1942 with Scattergood Rides High....
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1942
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The title neatly gives away the ending in RKO Radio's Scattergood Survives a Murder. Guy Kibbee once again stars as...
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1942
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings was the second in a series of B pictures based on the long-running radio series...
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1941
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Scattergood Meets Broadway was the third of RKO's film series based on the long-running radio favorite Scattergood Baines....
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1941
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Even non-fans of RKO Radio's "Mexican Spitfire" series will garner a few healthy laughs from Mexican Spitfire's Baby. This...
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1941
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Inspired by the long-running (1937-1949) radio series of the same name, Scattergood Baines came to the screen in 1941, with...
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1941
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Seven years after helping to rescue RKO Radio from bankruptcy as the heroine of King Kong, Fay Wray returned to the studio as...
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1940
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In addition to his yearly manifest of six 2-reel comedies, Leon Errol always managed to squeeze a few feature-film...
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1940
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In this third of RKO's "Mexican Spitfire" series, star Lupe Velez doesn't get any further west than Reno, Nevada. Lupe feels...
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1940
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Though he lacked the casual charisma of his brother Bing, bandleader Bob Crosby starred in a series of reasonably successful...
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1940
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A hapless young socialite attempts to overcome an embarrassing romantic problem in this silly crime comedy. It seems every...
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1940
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Thanks to a practical joker, hotshot radio newscaster Steve (Kent Taylor) announces that prominent financier Pomeroy (Morgan...
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1939
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The titular girl is Lupe Velez, a tempestuous cabaret entertainer. Donald Woods plays a staid American ad man who hires her...
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1939
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Zany radio comedian Joe Penner delivers one of his best (and most believable) screen performances in the Runyonesque comedy...
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1939
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The excellent response to RKO Radio's The Girl from Mexico prompted the studio to fashion an entire series based on the...
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1939
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Though it may be difficult for modern audiences to understand or appreciate the appeal of canary-voiced boy soprano...
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1938
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When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone...
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1938
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RKO Radio's ace short-subjects director Leslie Goodwins graduated to features with the economically produced Crime Ring....
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1938
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In this comedy, a woman is left destitute after her father dies. To make ends meet, she begins working as a secretary to a...
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1938
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Peck's Bad Boy and his gang of mischievous misfits (including Spanky McFarland) make all kinds of trouble around the circus....
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1938
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Set in New York City's famed music hall and featuring an all-star cast, this musical chronicles the desperate search of two...
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1938
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Boy soprano Bobby Breen dons a pair of skates in the oddball musical Breaking the Ice. Escaping his super-strict Mennonite...
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1938
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This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer...
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1937
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In this crime comedy, a lazy feller and his family take-up residence in an abandoned house. The squatters have no idea that...
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1937
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Douglas MacLean, who starred in the original 1919 version of this World War I comedy, produced this remake starring...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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After 25 years, notorious western outlaw Harry Carey is released from prison. He returns to his frontier home town, only to...
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1936
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After retiring from a boxing career, Johnny Cave (James Cagney) accepts an appointment to serve as head of the Bureau of...
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1936
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In this Argentine western, a South American gaucho saves a beautiful girl from a shady bandido who masquerades as the...
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1936
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A horse and a dog share the same birthday in this exciting children's drama. Both are born in captivity, but end up escaping...
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1936
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1936
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John Carroll made his screen debut in the RKO Radio musical actioner Hi Gaucho. Set in 19th-century Argentina, the story...
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1936
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In this crime drama a high-school principal's principles are put to the test when he, also a member of a parole board, is...
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1936
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Anxious to graduate from 2-reel comedies to feature films, producer Hal Roach began phasing out his short-subject manifest in...
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1935
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The multitalented James Gleason was both star and co-director of the RKO Radio programmer Hot Tip. Gleason is cast as...
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1935
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1935
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Charming but ruthless fugitive gangster Dutra (Brian Donlevy) demands that a doctor (Oscar Apfel) perform plastic surgery...
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1935
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For all his Broadway success, George M. Cohan was never able to "make it" in motion pictures. In 1934, he made another try at...
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1934
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An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror outing that is based on...
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays one of those selfless general practitioners that seem to exist exclusively in the movies in One Man's...
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1933
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Based upon the phenomenally successful Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie covers a lot of ground in its short 60...
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1932
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Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of...
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1932
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This Depression-era comedy takes place in the boarding house run by the indomitable Sarah Austin (Edna May Oliver). Sarah's...
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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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1931
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In this drama, a blue collar steelworker marries a wealthy socialite. It all begins after he saves two workers during a...
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1931
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1931
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In this British murder mystery, a host is murdered just before a gala dinner party at his country estate. The killers are...
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1931
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1931
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In this early talkie, Capt. Matt Denant (Gerald du Maurier) is a former war hero who intervenes when he sees a crooked...
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1930
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1930
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Dr. Bruce Smith (Basil Gill) refuses to violate his Hippocratic oath of secrecy by testifying in a divorce case. This earns...
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1930
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Approximately 40 minutes of the 59-minute Whispering Winds were filmed with sound; the rest, to quote Shakespeare, is...
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1929
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In this drama, a singer finds himself stuck with his best friend's newly orphaned son. Now he must juggle both parenthood and...
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1929
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Taxi dancing provides the framework for this romantic drama that chronicles the attempted love affair between a shipping...
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1929
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In this drama, an impoverished songwriter from the South travels to Tin Pan Alley with his trusty piano. He stays at a...
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1929
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Douglas MacLean, who made his mark during the 1920s as a light comedian, stars as a Marine sergeant in this comedy-drama,...
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1927
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1927
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Though Will Rogers was still packing 'em in on Broadway, he was considered a Hollywood has-been when he starred in the...
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1927
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1926
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Anita Stewart, once the pride and joy of Metro Pictures, had to make do with lesser productions at smaller studios in the...
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1926
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This so-so comedy starring Edward Everett Horton is notable because his co-star, Mae Busch, plays a domineering wife -- the...
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1926
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Despite its Victrola-inspired title, His Master's Voice was a silent film (though it was released with an accompanying...
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1925
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Once he was established as a star, light comedian Douglas MacLean began producing his own films. This was one of a string of...
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1925
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Written and directed by Henry McCarthy, this water-logged silent melodrama from poverty row company Gotham sunk soon after...
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1925
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Part Time Wife was inspired by a racy novelette originally seen in the pages of Spicy Stories magazine. The happy marriage...
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1925
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This melodrama, the first release from a small-time independent company called Gotham, is an old-fashioned thriller. David...
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1925
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Wealthy John Woodbury (Douglas MacLean) is mistaken for a patient by a trio of overeager doctors. After being put through a...
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1924
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A typical low-budget social drama from Sam Sax's Gotham Productions, Unmarried Wives starred Charles Chaplin's first wife,...
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1924
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Jane Novak plays a dual role as mother and daughter in this drama. Tony (Robert Anderson) and Felipa (Novak) are an immigrant...
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1924
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The "shocking" (by 1923 standards) title to this picture was just a smokescreen -- in reality, it was merely a domestic soap...
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1923
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Based on a novel by once-popular author Marie Corelli, this melodrama starred Jane Novak as the title character. Thelma and...
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1922
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This mystery melodrama was based on a novel by British author William Garrett. Antonio Moreno stands out as Guy Fenton, an...
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1921
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Several big wars in the 20th century have inspired films about the fate of the soldiers who returned and had to readjust to...
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1921
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1921
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Earle Williams stars in this unusual comedy-drama. Austin Crane (Williams) is the author of several detective novels which...
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1921
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This Graustark-ian tale stars virile Earle Williams. After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent...
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1921
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Manly Earle Williams was still very much a box-office draw when he made this entertaining adventure film. Bob Bellamy...
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1921
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Popular action star Earle Williams thrills his fans in the 1920 5-reeler The Purple Cipher. The plot centers around a Tong...
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1920
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This tale of moonshiners in the Cumberland mountains was based on the novel by Charles Neville Buck. Turner Stacy, otherwise...
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1919
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1917
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