Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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1948
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In this musical drama set at the turn-of-the-century, a saloon singer marries a wealthy attorney and then begins fooling...
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1948
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The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the...
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1948
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This episodic holiday film centers around a rich spinster aunt whose greedy nephew is attempting legal action to take her...
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1947
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His movie career on a roll since the surprise success of 1946's Johnny Angel, George Raft was starred in the Benedict Bogeaus...
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1946
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1946
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In this musical, two writers endeavor to write an innovative operetta in order to establish themselves. They end up writing a...
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1945
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It's every man for himself when Charles Laughton bites into the role of infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd....
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1945
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Her Favorite Patient is the TV title for Bedside Manner, an improbable comedy directed by future master of "realism"...
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1945
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1944
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Originally titled simply Sensations, this musical comedy was the final starring film for dancer Eleanor Powell and the final...
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1944
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The illustrious National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan provides the backdrop for this musical that chronicles the ups...
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1941
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Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz...
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1941
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Idealism vs. Practicality is the Disputed Passage in this lavishly mounted soap opera. Based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas...
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1939
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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1939
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In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert....
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1939
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In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny...
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1939
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A macho Cossack immigrant to the U.S. goes West and joins a ring of rustlers. Later his son follows him to states and he too...
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1938
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In this often funny crime melodrama, a librarian moves to a small town and finds herself the butt of local gossip. While the...
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1938
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Herman Bahr's German play The Yellow Nightingale from 1907 became Paramount's 1938 entry in the then-popular operetta cycle....
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1938
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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry...
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1937
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A remake of 1929's The Greene Murder Case, Paramount's Night of Mystery was the first "Philo Vance" thriller not to use the...
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1937
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In this comical murder mystery, three playwrights use $500 in advance money to get an apartment in which to write a mystery....
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1937
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Fabled Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who hadn't been seen on screen since 1930's Rain or Shine, essayed the title role in...
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1936
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A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant...
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1936
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It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film....
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1936
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G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric Father Brown was first brought to the screen in 1934, in the corpulent form of...
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1935
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In this musical, a coal stoker for a ship finds himself turned into a singing sensation when someone hears him lustily...
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1935
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Two Fisted is based on the James Gleason-Richard Taber stage play Is Zat So?, previously filmed under its original title in...
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1935
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Inspired by the eccentric, reclusive Wendel Family of New York's Fifth Avenue, Elizabeth MacFadden's stage melodrama Double...
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1934
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German actress Dorothea Wieck, who achieved international fame in Maedchen in Uniform, was given a brief shot at Hollywood...
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1934
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1934
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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1934
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To date, this D.W. Griffith epic is the only talking-picture effort to encapsulate the entire life of Abraham Lincoln, from...
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1930
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Magnificently restored by UCLA to its original "Grandeur" wide-screen format The Bat Whispers may not be a cinematic...
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1930
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The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great...
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1930
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1929
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Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith's days of glory were well behind him when he agreed to direct Drums of Love. Indicative of...
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1928
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A remake of a 1914 D.W. Griffith potboiler, The Battle of the Sexes is a highly entertaining, if cautionary, tale of a...
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1928
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1925
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Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith directed W.C. Fields in his first starring role in this silent comedy. When Mary Foster...
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1925
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This epic tale about the American Revolution broke the bank for filmmaker D.W. Griffith. Robert W. Chambers loosely adapted...
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1924
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1922
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D.W. Griffith garnishes this romantic fable with a dreamy gauze of Victorian melodramatic sensibility. As an intertitle of...
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1921
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As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her...
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1920
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1920
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"I'm not a bad businessman", filmmaker D.W. Griffith once protested, "Honestly I'm not!" Yet industryites were certain that...
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1920
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A more exotic story than 1920s audiences had come to expect from D.W. Griffith, The Love Flower nonetheless adheres to...
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1920
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1919
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True Heart Susie is one of D.W. Griffith's "pastoral" films, wherein plot takes second place to characterization and romance....
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1919
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Since much of this film takes place in rural Kentucky, where director D.W. Griffith grew up, it no doubt has many...
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1919
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This D.W. Griffith picture has the distinction of being, arguably, the worst film that the director ever made. For starters,...
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1919
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Out of all of Griffith's films about the Great War, this one impressed the least. Perhaps Carol Dempster should share part of...
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1919
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On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director...
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1918
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In the sentimental world of filmmaker D.W. Griffith, the greatest thing in life is love. Obtaining it and understanding it,...
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1918
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This war-time D.W. Griffith film was literally filler -- some of the footage was left over from around the time he shot...
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1918
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1916
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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Paul Armstrong's venerable stage melodrama The Escape was first brought to the screen by D.W. Griffith in 1914. In true...
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1914
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1914
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This innovative psychological drama represents one of D.W. Griffith's early full-length feature films and contains...
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1914
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1914
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Conservative Biograph Studios, having galloped to prominence on the coattails of their star director D.W. Griffith, refused...
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1914
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