Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays himself-or at least the screen version of "himself"-in the 15-chapter Columbia serial Holt of...
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1942
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1942
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White villains once again agitate a friendly tribe of Indians in this average Columbia serial starring nonentity Robert...
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1942
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Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western,...
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1941
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One of silent serial queen Pearl White's best efforts, The Iron Claw was remade by Columbia Pictures starring brunette Joyce...
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1941
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The sequel to Columbia's 1938 hit The Spider's Web, this typical war-time serial again starred the stalwart Warren Hull as...
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1941
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Don Douglas, a rather bland supporting actor from Scotland, was elevated to the starring role in this low-budget Western...
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1940
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In this 15-episode serial, Detective Spike Holland must solve the mystery of Garr Castle. He does so after he is hired to...
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1940
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Based upon the classic radio series and pulp magazine character, The Shadow is a 15-episode serial in which scientist Lamont...
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1940
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Best remembered today as the upwardly mobile errand boy in Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940), busy juvenile...
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1940
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The then-popular government agents, the so-called G-Men, took to the air in this standard 15-chapter serial thriller courtesy...
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1939
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Based on a series of popular pulp-magazine stories, the 15-chapter Columbia serial The Spider's Web stars Warren Hull as one...
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1938
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1937
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Prospectors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy head to the western town of Brushwood Gulch, two men on a top-secret mission. The...
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1937
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1936
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Stanley MacLaurel (Stan Laurel), the American "black sheep" of the MacLaurel clan, stows away on a cattle boat to Scotland in...
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1935
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To look at his later dramatic work, one would never guess that award-winning director George Stevens got his start working on...
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1933
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Comedian Charley Chase has a dual role in this Hal Roach picture -he's the wimpy assistant to a rancher (Billy Gilbert) and a...
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1932
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have just returned from a whaling trek. They check into a run-down hotel, the Mariner's Rest,...
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1932
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Not only has Oliver Hardy established a successful business -- in fertilizer -- he has also decided to run for mayor. General...
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1931
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While this isn't one of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's best shorts, its premise is very similar to one of their finest...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are victims of the depression in this tworeeler. They do have an old car, a tent and some...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Oliver Hardy finds that getting married is more difficult than he had planned in this two-reeler. It starts off with partner...
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1931
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1930
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Officially an "Our Gang" comedy, "When the Wind Blows" is really a vehicle for adult comic Edgar Kennedy, here playing his...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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This Charley Chase talkie was expanded to three reels to include five songs (Chase had a nice singing voice). It's a WWI...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) are selling Christmas trees door-to-door. Stan unintentionally insults their...
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1929
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Director James W. Horne, best known today for his Laurel and Hardy comedies, called the shots on the inexpensive "emotional"...
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1928
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In an attempt to broaden his image, former Fox cowboy Buck Jones both produced and starred in this silent aviation melodrama....
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1928
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The silent comedy feature College stars Buster Keaton as a scholarly young man who doesn't know beans about sports. When he...
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1927
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1926
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Based on the musical comedy of the same name, Kosher Kitty Kelly stars Viola Dana in the title role. The story is a variation...
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1926
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By 1925, the formula for Richard Talmadge features was down pat: give the actor a lot of impressive physical stunts, keep the...
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1925
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Mariposa (Pola Negri) is a dancer in a Spanish café who is discovered by theatrical manager Señor Sprotti (Cesare Gravina)...
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1925
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English orphan Andrew Lackaday (Ernest Torrence) grows up and becomes a clown for a French circus. After the circus becomes...
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1924
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This action picture has everything anyone could possibly want out of a Richard Talmadge picture -- a lot of stunts and...
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1924
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This Richard Talmadge action picture based its premise on a current event -- in Great Britain, a "death ray" machine had...
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1924
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1924
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Warner Baxter lifts himself up from poverty to unlimited riches. The audience knows that Baxter couldn't have done it without...
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1924
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1924
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This farce starring Douglas MacLean was based on an old musical comedy by Henry Blossom, Jr. and Alfred G. Robyn. The wealthy...
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1924
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Matt Moore stars as Judson Clark, a wealthy but idle young man who is in love with actress Beverly Carlysle (Nita Naldi). Her...
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1924
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Light-comedy actor Douglas MacLean stars in this hilarious mystery capably directed by James W. Horne. Bruce MacAllister, a...
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1923
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This was one of Warner Baxter's early starring vehicles. He's World War I veteran Jack Dunbar who, like a lot of veterans...
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1923
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Director James W. Horne's work in comedy and action pictures is well known, so it's surprising to see his name in the credits...
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1923
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Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man...
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1923
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Producer Thomas Ince brought the William Collier/Victor Mapes-penned stage farce to the screen for his light comedy star...
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1922
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A major -- and rare -- failure from legendary producer Thomas H. Ince, The Bronze Bell starred British-born stage idol...
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1921
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Lew Cody plays yet another "male vamp" here -- Bruce Sands (Cody) is an artist who spends more time fooling around with his...
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1920
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A pretty movie star is stalked by a strange gang whose leader is infatuated with her in this superior Pathé serial written...
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1920
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Ruth Roland starred in this 15-chapter adventure serial as Echo Delane, a magazine writer thought to be the reincarnation of...
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1918
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Starring one of the early silent era's best female riders, Marin Sais, this Kalem series told the episodic story of two...
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1916
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Produced near Los Angeles by the pioneering Kalem Company, this series of 12 self-contained episodes depicting the career of...
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1915
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Not a continuing serial, The Girl Detective was instead a series of vaguely connected two-reel melodramas (the exact number...
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1915
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