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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A Mississippi flood saves the life of a petty crook who is about to be lynched for a murder he did not commit. After he...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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1937
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The Lonely Trail, directed by Joseph Kane, stars John Wayne as veteran Union officer John Ashley. Ashley (Wayne), upon his...
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known...
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1936
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Ken Maynard goes the Zorro route in this lethargic Western produced by Larry Darmour for Columbia. Ailing rancher Cal Pierson...
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Cal Pierson
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1936
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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1935
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In this western, a wagon train is destroyed and all but two children, a brother and sister, are slaughtered. The sister is...
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1935
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A best-selling nonfictional book of the 1920s provided the title for this Will Rogers vehicle. Rogers plays a small town...
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1935
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Poverty-row director Wallace Fox came up in the world a bit when he signed on to helm RKO Radio's Red Morning. Steffi Duna,...
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1935
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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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1934
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Typical of Ken Maynard's offbeat approach to westerns, Honor of the Range stars Maynard as twin brothers -- one strong and...
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1934
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1934
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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1934
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Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress was the...
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1934
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Loosely based on a story by pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this Lone Star Western released by Monogram starred a young...
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1934
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Curley Fletcher's famous lament "The Strawberry Roan became Ken Maynard's favorite Western and went a long way to popularize...
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1933
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Ken Maynard goes undercover to prove that his father (Horace B. Carpenter), a bank president, did not commit suicide but was...
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Joel Winters
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1933
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In this western, the locals are being plagued by "Black Death" an evil outlaw who shoots victims with chemical bullets that...
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1933
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1933
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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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Cowboy star Bill Cody trades his Stetson and chaps for the red uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Mason of the...
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1932
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Bette Davis was on loan from Universal when she appeared in this little juvenile delinquent melodrama from independent...
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1932
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Danny Dolan (Spencer Tracy) is a good-hearted, streetwise waterfront beat cop in New York City who gets promoted to detective...
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1932
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One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
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1931
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1931
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1930
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This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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Marnay
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1930
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In this melodramatic early sound-film an innocent country gal tires of her dull pastoral life and equally boring beau so she...
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1930
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The tall and virile Johnny Mack Brown portrays the short and dyspeptic outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid....
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1930
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With a title like The Texan and a star like Gary Cooper, one might assume that this 1930 actioner is a western -- and one...
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John Brown
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1930
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1929
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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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Pappy
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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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Joe Horn
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1928
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Mexican-born Dolores Del Rio is convincingly cast as a fiery Hungarian lass in Revenge. Yet another variation on...
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Costa
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1928
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Major Hartman
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1928
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The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers. It is here that...
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1928
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For a humble "B" picture, The Broken Mask was able to assemble an impressive cast. Cullen Landis stars as an Argentine dancer...
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1928
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Sam Billings
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1927
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In this lively comedy (a predecessor of the screwball comedies of the '30s and '40s) a young woman lies to the policeman who...
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1927
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1927
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Lars Hanson had recently appeared as Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter when he was called on once again to play a man...
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1927
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1927
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Life of an Actress was based on a play by Langdon McCormick. Farm girl Nora Dowen (Barbara Bedford) gets in trouble with her...
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1927
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Belle Bennett stars as Odette, who early in life is forced to give up all dreams of love so that she can look after her...
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1926
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Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a...
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1926
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Hell Bent Fer Heaven was based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Hatcher Hughes. Most of the story takes place high...
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Dave Hunt
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1926
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1926
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One of a cycle of late-1920s films dealing with the Russian Revolution, Siberia stars Alma Rubens as idealistic Russian...
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1926
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Lady of the Harem was based on Hassan, a play by James McElroy Flecker. It all begins when the Caliph of Kornassah (Sojin)...
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1926
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Director John Ford was out of his element with this comedy, based on the hit Broadway play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon...
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1925
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This romantic melodrama was based on the novel Peggy of Beacon Hill by Maysie Greig. Because she is so badly treated by her...
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1925
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Kyrilla Troekouroff
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1925
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Silent-screen stunt performer Richard Talmadge (born Metzetti) produced and starred in this low-budget action melodrama about...
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1925
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Silent screen cowboy star Fred Thomson plays a drifter arrested for vagrancy in this above-average oater from FBO. On his way...
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1925
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While his reputation has faded next to stronger talents such as Cecil B. DeMille, Erich Von Stroheim, and King Vidor, James...
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1925
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Cowboy ace Tom Mix allowed himself a change of pace with this costume adventure produced by Fox. Mix plays the legendary...
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Squire Crabstone
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1925
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John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on...
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1924
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Track star Frank Merrill stars as Jack Melford in this hackneyed melodrama. Jack wins the track meet at the local college...
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1924
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John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel. Thanks to his sartorial...
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1924
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This silent era classic was based on the swashbuckling adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, the author whose works later...
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1923
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As his first picture for the Goldwyn studios, director Marshall Neilan decided to adapt Donn Byrne's sprawling novel to the...
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1923
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Come on Over is the saga of an Irish-American family. What's past is prologue in this case, as the trials and tribulations of...
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Carmody
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1922
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Eastern boy Malcolm McGregor takes a job in a Western lumber camp to improve his manliness. In his job as overseer, he meets...
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Pat Mulcahy
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1922
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Ostensibly a vehicle for Jackie Coogan, the 1922 Oliver Twist refuses to realign the Charles Dickens novel to accommodate the...
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1922
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This slow-moving, romantic adventure was certainly a family affair -- the director was Raoul Walsh, the star, Miriam Cooper,...
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Pepuso, his Father
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1921
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Mary Pickford was at the height of her fame as "America's Sweetheart" when she took on the challenge of playing two roles --...
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Hobbs, the Grocer
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1921
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Even though Ruth Fulton (Miriam Cooper) has been raised around horses and horse racing, she is a very naive young girl. It is...
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1919
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1918
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One of the most overused titles in the history of films, Betrayed was affixed to this early effort from director Raoul Walsh....
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1917
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The oft-told story of Sam Houston's emergence as the "father" of Texas was given an expensive and expansive treatment in the...
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1917
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This socially conscious, well-wrought silent drama made an earnest plea for prison reform over two decades before it became a...
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1917
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Raoul Walsh both wrote and directed this typically bosom-heaving Theda Bara melodrama about a Russian peasant girl who is...
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1916
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Perhaps the name of this picture is a misnomer, because the tools of mediation that Lish Henley (George Walsh) uses are his...
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1916
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One of the finest films of the pre-1920 era, The Regeneration was the first truly important directorial effort by...
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1915
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