In this high-seas adventure, a ship's steward goes 'round the bend, mutinies, throws the captain into the briny, and turns...
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1930
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Show Boat was a part-silent, part-talkie adaptation of the book by Edna Ferber. The film traces the life of Magnolia Hawkes...
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1929
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In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and...
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1929
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In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar...
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1928
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1928
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Jack Kearney
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1928
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1927
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Buttons was another mild entry in the ever-fading career of juvenile star Jackie Coogan. This is the story of a London slum...
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1927
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Douglas Fairbanks returns as the great Spanish swashbuckler in this sequel to The Mark of Zorro. Don Cesar de Vega...
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General de Muro
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1925
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Edmund Lowe plays a writer whose efforts to seek out story material leads him into an exhilarating adventure. Lowe gets mixed...
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1925
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Smouldering Fires is a first-rate silent "soap opera," immaculately performed by its superb cast and brilliantly directed by...
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1925
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The Fox company's number two cowboy star (Tom Mix was, of course, top of the heap) Buck Jones starred as a cowboy who comes...
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1924
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1924
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The director formerly known as Sean O'Feeney is billed as John Ford for the first time here, and he helps make this one of...
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1923
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The story to this drama is nowhere near as extravagant and sensationalistic as Elinor Glyn's usual fare, perhaps because the...
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Cy
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1922
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On the verge of leaving Fox Studios for MGM, silent romantic star John Gilbert appeared in California Romance. Gilbert plays...
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Don Manuel Casca
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1922
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This adaptation of the R.D. Blackmore novel won acclaim for Madge Bellamy, and helped bring her stardom. Sir Charles Ensor...
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1922
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The poetic work of director Maurice Tourneur was highly respected during the silent era. Producer Jules Brulatour was anxious...
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Bennett Barton the Fisherman
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1921
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Jed's Friend
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1921
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This drama was director George Loane Tucker's last film; in fact his health was failing as he completed it. Too bad the maker...
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1921
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Early silent screen hero William Russell starred as a miner killing a claim jumper in self defence in this average Western...
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1921
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This melodrama, made in 1920 but not released until 1923, was based on a novel, The Glory of Love, by "Pan." Henri Santados...
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1920
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Maurice Tourneur was the original director on the 1920 silent version of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, but he...
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1920
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Comic actress ZaSu Pitts got her first really big break when she starred in this King Vidor-directed feature. Ezra Scroggs...
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1919
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During World War I, Erich von Stroheim wasn't the only "man you loved to hate." Rupert Julian also proved pretty hateful as...
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1918
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was the first film version of the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel and play. Mary Pickford, 23 years old...
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1917
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Parts of this adventure/drama, written by Rex Beach, were actually shot at the Panama Canal during and after its...
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1916
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The 1914 version ofThe Spoilers, the first of five movie adaptations of Rex Beach's two-fisted Alaska Gold Rush novel, was...
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1914
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