Two Canadian Mounties and the son of Rin Tin Tin join forces to solve a complex mystery in the north woods. The trouble...
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Mr. Barlow
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1939
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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A young man is in danger of losing his inheritance in this muddled thriller from the waning Chesterfield Motion Picture...
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1937
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League of Frightened Men was the second and last entry in Columbia's short-lived mystery series based on the "Nero Wolfe"...
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1937
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An actor creates a devious murder plot in this suspenseful, ironic drama. For many years, the aging thespian has been...
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1937
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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by...
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1936
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In this drama, a manicurist is mistaken for the winner of a large sweepstakes and finds herself pursued by fortune hunters....
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1936
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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1935
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1935
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In this mystery, an international news correspondent is fatally shot with three bullets. Now three men stand accused of the...
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1935
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In this crime drama, a woman loses custody of her baby boy after her rich husband dies. She later gets a job working in a...
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1935
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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1935
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In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when...
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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As much a horror film as a murder mystery, Charlie Chan in Egypt is one of the best entries in the "Chan" series. The story...
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1935
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Former child actor Johnny Downs acts his first adult lead in this nonsensical but charming little musical which benefits...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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This is the second movie version of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel that tells the story of a bride-to-be whose...
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1934
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Comparatively little known, this Monogram thriller is a remarkably concise adaptation of Wilkie Collins' lengthy 1868 mystery...
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Godfrey Ablewhite, Rare Book Dealer
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1934
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling...
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King Westley
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1934
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This version of the Charlotte Bronte classic is the first to use sound. The story closely follows the book as it chronicles...
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Charles Craig
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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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In this comedy, an experienced newspaperman caves in to the constant badgering of his thoughtless family and ends up losing...
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1934
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The Mongram "special" Beggars in Ermine was based on a novel by Esther Lynd Day. Having lost both legs in an accident,...
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James Marley
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1934
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1934
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Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter...
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1934
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The independently produced Stolen Sweets was lensed in a hurry on standing sets at Universal. Future western star Charles...
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Barrington Thorne
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1934
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A nightclub singer with a strong work ethic marries a freeloading heir in this romantic drama. Trouble ensues when the...
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1933
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A wealthy, but sad young woman falls in love with an impoverished fellow in this bittersweet romance. While her father is...
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1933
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A mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark spectacles, has taken a room at a cozy inn...
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1933
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A young woman believes that her mother's gambling house is a hotel. When a gambler angry about being cheated there convinces...
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1933
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Legendary songwriter and vaudevillian George M. Cohan made his first appearance in a sound film with this satiric musical...
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1932
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Didn't the beautiful, ubiquitous Sally Blane ever take a day off in 1932? In Escapade, the busy Blane is cast as Kay Whitney,...
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John Whitney
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1932
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Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious...
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1932
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Glamorous Jean Harlow had her first big starring role in this standard story of an innocent small town young woman corrupted...
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1932
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Yates
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1931
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Seldom was there a less appropriately named film company than Artclass Pictures, a firm which specialized in the lowest of...
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Bruce Allan
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1931
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In this melodrama, a recently-abandoned wife consoles herself by heading for Reno and falling in love. Her new lover is...
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1931
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In emulation of such "all-talking, all-singing, all-star" Hollywood extravaganzas as The Show of Shows and...
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1930
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The marriage between Jim and Esther Hamilton (Owen Moore and Dorothy Christy) spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases...
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1930
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The Hate Ship starts out as a fancy yacht, presided over by wealthy scoundrel Vernon Wolfe (Jameson Thomas). On board the...
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Vernon Wolfe
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1930
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That notorious criminal "Flash Jack" is at large in London, striking terror in the hearts of everyone (though just why is...
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Deacon Lake
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1930
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A novel by C. M. Matheson formed the basis of this creaky early British talkie. Jameson Thomas plays Roger Dalton, an...
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Roger Dalton
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1929
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Based on a play by Pemberton Billing, High Treason is set in The Future -- 1940, to be exact. The Federated Countries of...
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Michael Deane
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1929
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Just before making his talkie directorial debut with Atlantic, director E.A. DuPont dashed off the silent "backstage" drama...
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Valentine Wilmot
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1929
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In this British mystery, a diplomat's wife, thinking she is protecting her lover, takes the rap for her husband's murder. It...
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1929
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The White Sheik
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1928
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In this drama, a Russian dancer marries a shell-shocked WW I veteran. She has a baby, but it belongs to the fellow's best...
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Robert Dobree
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1928
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Samuel Sweetland
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1928
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Henri Monard
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1928
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1927
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1927
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Roses of Picardy was based on Spanish Farm and Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four, a novel by R. H. Mottram. The story is set during...
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1927
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Everyone acts up a storm in this British melodrama. The scene is New Guinea, where trader Martin South...
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Mardyke
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1926
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The Daughter of Love is winsome Violet Hopson. The film's euphemistic title alludes to the legitimacy of Hopson's birth, or...
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1925
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This is a 7-reel British romantic drama, written by and starring Mrs. John Russell. Russell plays a woman vexed by an...
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1925
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Omar
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1925
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A British western? No, Apache is about a French "demimonde" dancer. Producer/director Adelqui Millar casts himself in the...
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1925
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During the 1920s, it was a common occurrence for British filmmakers to lense their productions in Germany, and vice versa....
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1924
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