In this war romance, set during WW II, a widow falls for a Marine colonel. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1956
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A pair of top 20th Century Fox contractees were loaned to Paramount as stars of The Mating Season. Gene Tierney plays...
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1951
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Western star Whip Wilson stars in the Monogram oater Crashing Thru. He periodically displays his whip-wielding skill (which...
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1949
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Filmed in two-toned Cinecolor, Romance of the West was the second of PRC's western vehicles for singing cowboy Eddie Dean....
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1946
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1946
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If Republic's skating star Vera Hruba Ralston could go "dramatic", so too could Monogram's skating star Belita. Produced by...
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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By PRC Studios standards, Mr. Celebrity is decidedly an "all-star" picture. The title character is a prize race horse,...
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1942
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled...
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1940
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1940
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Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam...
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1940
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Code of the Secret Service was the second of Warner Bros. "Brass Bancroft" series, starring Ronald Reagan as troubleshooting...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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A big city lawyer returns to his tiny home town to enter the firm of his late father. His father's partner is happy to have...
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1939
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Torchy Plays with Dynamite was the final entry in Warner Bros.' "Torchy Blane" series, based on characters created by...
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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1939
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In this wartime drama, cavalry private Dennis Murphy purchases a nervous horse, Sergeant, after it is deemed unfit for...
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1938
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1938
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German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film...
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1937
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Call It a Day is a Warner Bros. attempt at British light comedy. Nothing much happens of any consequence in this story of a...
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1937
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The title of this Errol Flynn vehicle sprang from an "inside" joke at Warner Bros. Whenever the studio depicted a marquee or...
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1937
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Now decidedly a product of Warner Bros.' grade-B unit, The Case of the Stuttering Bishop brought the Perry Mason series to a...
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1937
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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1937
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As originally conceived by detective novelist Frederick Nebel, hotshot girl reporter Torchy Blaine was a male news-hound...
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1936
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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Still hanging on in 1935 despite several financial setbacks, brave little Majestic Pictures continued turning out such...
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1935
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In this bedroom farce, an ex-wife overhears her former hubby's new wife and her lover planning a tryst for the weekend while...
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1935
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1935
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Consigned to the Warner Bros. "B" unit in the mid-1930s, director Robert Florey must have had a high old time trying to...
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1935
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In this drama, an amateur pilot is driven to living life in the fast lane after he pilots that plane that crashed and killed...
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1935
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In this western, a band of avaricious men kill a rancher in order to take over his land. The dead man's nephew was slated to...
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1934
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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1934
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Kansas City Princess came at the tail end of the "gold-digger" movie cycle. The inevitable Joan Blondell plays Rosie, a...
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1934
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Though well past 50, Harry Carey could still play a virile and convincing cowboy hero in such inexpensive westerns as Without...
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1932
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In this comedy-mystery, an ex-vaudevillian becomes an amateur sleuth and begins helping the police locate an international...
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1932
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In this mystery, a detective is called in to investigate the fate of a derelict ship that was found floating off the coast...
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1932
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In this newspaper drama, a dedicated small-town reporter works hard and becomes the editor of a major New York paper....
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1932
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White-Stetsoned cowboy hero Bill Cody is appointed sheriff by default of a rough-and-tumble cattle-ranch community. The...
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1932
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Based on a story in Golden West magazine by Frederick Ryter, this rather pedestrian Monogram Western starred handsome...
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1932
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Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper enjoyed one of her few top-billed movie roles in the independently-produced thriller...
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A Crook
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1931
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A socially prominent wife must choose between avoiding scandal and her own happiness in this British drama. According to...
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1931
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1931
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One of the most overworked plots of the silent era was the one about an Eastern wastrel who toughens up on a Western ranch....
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1930
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In this action-romance, a fireman captures a lovely little arsonist while heading out to fight a fire. He later has a...
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1930
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Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis...
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1930
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"Trigger Tricks", wrote "B"-western historian William K. Everson, "may well have set a record as the most talkative talkie...
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Joe Dixon
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1930
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In this mysterious comedy, two free-spirited sailors and their parrot find themselves involved in a series of mishaps. The...
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1929
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A circus clown creates trouble when he serves on a jury and refuses to convict an innocent young woman for murder. His vote...
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1929
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While on a "slumming" excursion, debutante Bobbie Walsh (Viola Dana) falls in love with tenement-district doctor Thornton...
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1929
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A Midnight Adventure was a veritable compendium of murder-mystery cliches -- at least, that was the consensus of opinion of...
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1928
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Directed by serial specialist Spencer Gordon Bennet, Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring...
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1928
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Universal's first 100% all-talkie, Melody of Love was completed with the aid of borrowed Movietone sound equipment from Fox...
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Music Publisher
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1928
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Wealthy Helene Chadwick decides to discharge her social obligations by doing charity work in the slums. Upon arriving in the...
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1928
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When Cecil B. DeMille's own production company was absorbed by Pathe in 1928, several DeMille contractees went along for the...
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1928
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Prolific director Richard Thorpe helmed this average silent Western starring one of the era's lesser cowboy heroes,...
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1928
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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
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1928
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Filmed in some small Southern California hamlet, this extremely low-budget silent Western should have been called "Across the...
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Joe Stewart
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1928
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1928
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This fast-paced melodrama is set in Tall Timber country, with a few side trips to the High Society set. Kenneth Harlan stars...
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1927
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The small-time Chesterfield company attempted to promote canine performer Sandow as a competitor to Warner Bros.'...
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Trigger Kincaid
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1927
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The silent Catch as Catch Can starts out as a baseball picture before wildly riding off in all directions at once....
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1927
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The identical twin of a murdered prospector tracks down the killer in this silent Western produced by Sam Bischoff....
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1927
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British director Wilfred Noy did his best to make heads or tails of this poverty-row melodrama. Betty Blythe plays Coney...
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1927
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Tall, strapping Tom Tyler was poverty-row studioFBO's final silent western hero. A better actor than most of his...
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Arthur Butterworth
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1927
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Silent-movie ingenue Alice Lake was well past her prime when she headed the cast of this second-string drama. Lake is cast as...
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The Husband
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1926
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Minor league star Billy Sullivan heads the cast of Heart of a Coward. A writer of pulp novels, Sullivan is swept up in a...
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1926
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Mary Carr, who though relatively youthful and energetic specialized in playing downtrodden old matriarches, starred in the...
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1926
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Ever since he was wounded in WWI, jockey Bobby Robertson (William Collier Jr.) has been able to predict when it's going to...
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1926
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William Barrymore, no relation to the famous acting family, stars as Jack Randall, the titular orphan. Upon learning that...
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William Hampton
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1926
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1926
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A millionaire's son once again toughens up on a western ranch in this low-budget silent western produced by veteran director...
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1925
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1924
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1924
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Prolific action adventure director Alvin J. Neitz (AKA Alan James) helmed this minor western released by the poverty row...
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Red Carson
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1924
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Joseph Saneth produced this obscure silent western in which troubled star Art Acord plays a cowboy who must fight a former...
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jack hawkesby
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1924
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1924
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A young man's jealousy causes him to rapidly rise from humble laborer to world heavyweight champion in this campy silent...
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1924
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While this comedy was pretty standard fare for producer Mack Sennett in the 1920s, it is notable for being the first film in...
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1924
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This seafaring melodrama was based on the Harkins and Barber stage play by the same name. His ship capsized in a storm,...
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'Butch' Anderson
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1924
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This melodrama was made nine or ten years before its release, and one has to wonder why it was released at all. In the first...
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The Creole
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1924
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Hunt Stromberg produced this above-average western in which hero Tiger Thompson (Harry Carey) promises a dying train robber...
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1924
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Gentleman Jack
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1924
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Sam Warner, of the pioneering Warner Bros., produced this minor oater starring 1910s serial queen Juanita Hansen as an...
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1923
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1923
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This independently made drama featured some notable cast members -- Charles Emmett Mack was a D.W. Griffith protégé (although...
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1923
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Sheriff Holmes
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1923
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The career of influential comedian Max Linder was nearing its end when he directed and starred in this burlesque of Douglas...
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Walrus
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1922
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Actor/director William Duncan was known for his rugged characterizations, but here -- for at least part of this complicated...
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Frederick apthorpe
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1922
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The ill-fated Wallace Reid -- who would die of morphine addiction in 1923 -- was in top form in this Paramount action...
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Tyler Hellis
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1921
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Manly William Desmond stars in this virile, low-budget Western. When Bud McGraw (Desmond) returns from the Great War, he is...
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1921
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1921
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William S. Hart added a bit more suspense and drama in this otherwise typical Hart western. The greatest western star of the...
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1920
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Gretchen Barker (Gretchen Lederer) has gotten herself involved with a group of German spies in the U.S. This is particularly...
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1919
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Other than the title (and the fact that the hero takes said advice), this picture has nothing to do with Horace Greeley. Dick...
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1919
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Baby Marie Osborne was the Shirley Temple of the 1910s. Here she plays Christine, the daughter of a couple of circus...
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1919
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1919
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1918
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1918
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William Desmond stars as "The Sea Panther," a gentleman pirate plying his trade in Days of Olde. Though ruthless with his...
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1918
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Since Jane Whiting (Belle Bennett) has shown that she has both brains and street smarts, her boss at the DA's office assigns...
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1918
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1917
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1917
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For reasons unknown, it took two directors to put the modestly budgeted The Sawdust Ring together. Bessie Love stars as Janet...
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1917
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Future top director Frank Borzage and equestrienne Anna (later Ann) Little starred in this low-budget silent oater, one in a...
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1916
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