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1950
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1950
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No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up...
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1949
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Desert Fury is a rarety for the 1940s, a Technicolor "film noir." Set in a Nevada gambling town, the story concerns the...
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1947
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Barton MacLane dominates the proceedings in the PRC quickie Man of Courage. Taking a break from his usual gangster and...
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1943
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In this upbeat WW II musical, a popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During...
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1942
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In this drama, a woman performs a mercy killing and ends up in jail. To clear her name, she escapes and ends up hiding out...
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Lucy Walker
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1942
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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As one of Harry Carey's mid-1930s independent westerns, Ghost Town is noted for its good, atmospheric cinematography (as...
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Rose
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1937
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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Intended as a follow-up (and improvement upon) the 1926 epic western The Vanishing American, Redskin was partially filmed in...
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Judy
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1929
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Frank S. Hagney, best known for his performance as mean old Mr. Potter's bodyguard in It's a Wonderful Life, has a much...
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Flossie Moore
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1928
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Closed Gate was produced by Joe Rock, a former purveyor of 2-reel comedies who yearned to break into the Big Time. Based on a...
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1927
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This portentously (and pretentiously) titled Fox Studios release stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of...
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1927
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Though no director was credited for Dangerous Virtue, it is known that Alfred Hitchcock edited the film and wrote the titles....
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Beatrice Audley
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1926
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Louis J. Gasnier, whose directorial technique suffered a case of arrested development sometime in 1912, wielded the megaphone...
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Natalie Travers
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1926
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1926
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This programmer came out of Columbia, which, during the 1920s, was just another Poverty Row studio. Cyrus Browning (Robert...
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1925
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Charles "Buck" Jones, normally a heroic Western star, takes a surprising turn by playing a shiftless rural character in this...
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Agnes Fanning
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1925
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This heavy-handed drama from the Arrow film company is based on a particularly unrealistic premise -- that a man, suddenly...
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Hilda Nevers
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1925
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Lightning the Dog, Columbia Pictures' answer to Rin Tin Tin, heads the cast of Lure of the Wild. Displaying a range of...
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Agnes Belmont
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1925
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Jane Novak plays a dual role as mother and daughter in this drama. Tony (Robert Anderson) and Felipa (Novak) are an immigrant...
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Felipa Antoinette
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1924
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This independently made feature boasted to have an all-star cast. That statement had a certain amount of truth to it; the...
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1924
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1924
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Victor Schertzinger both wrote and directed this melodrama. John Corbin (Percy Marmont) works for years on an invention, only...
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Hope Moore
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1923
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The "shocking" (by 1923 standards) title to this picture was just a smokescreen -- in reality, it was merely a domestic soap...
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Jane Parker
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1923
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People do all kinds of nutty things in this silent melodrama from producer/director Maurice Tourneur. Take Ramon Martinez...
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1923
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This was yet another Northwestern melodrama -- several dozen were released in 1922 alone. At least this one has the capable...
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Virginia Tremont
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1922
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This was the second time Edward Rose's play was committed to celluloid (the first was in 1915). This Jerome Storm-directed...
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Vera mather
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1922
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Based on a novel by once-popular author Marie Corelli, this melodrama starred Jane Novak as the title character. Thelma and...
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Thelma Guildmar
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1922
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In all likelihood the only surviving film starring early silent screen leading man Monroe Salisbury, this very old fashioned...
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Floria Heatherton
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1921
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Twin brothers, separated at birth, are again found on opposite sides of the law in this typical William S. Hart western....
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Ethel Barton
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1921
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David Marsh (John Bowers) and his brother Lewis (Richard Tucker) are both in love with Ann Hardy (Jane Novak). Lewis, who has...
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Ann Hardy
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1921
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America has just entered World War I, and because of his name, German-American Oscar Krug (Hobart Bosworth) is thought to be...
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1920
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Scottie Dean (Edward Pell) and his wife Isobel (Jane Novak) are passengers on board a whaling ship. Dean has a fight with the...
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1920
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Lewis Stone (yes, the future Judge Hardy) both wrote and starred in this Northwest lumber drama. Tom Denton (Stone) comes...
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1919
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After a year's absence from the screen, Rupert Julian put all his talents into play -- he portrays both of the main...
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1919
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A lesser-known William S. Hart vehicle, The Money Corral casts two-gun Bill as a rodeo story. A Chicago banker hires Hart to...
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1919
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As usual serving as his own producer and director, William S. Hart played the title role in the six-reel western Selfish...
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1918
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David Clary (Charles Ray), fed up with the old-fashioned way his father is running the family dry-goods store, decides to go...
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1918
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, this silent romantic drama follows the love life of Mary Ellen Ellis (Miriam Cooper), a country girl...
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1917
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Big Hobart Bosworth plays Big Bill Brent in the five-reel redemption melodrama The Target. After killing a man in a barroom...
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1916
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Although Paul Potter (Hobart Henley) is working his way through college, his status on the Yale football team gets him in...
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1915
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Unlike some others in his line of work, trapper Na-Ta-Nan-Gan (Hobart Bosworth) is a friend to Native Americans, and one...
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1915
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As was often the case in the pre-1920 period, the title of this four-reel Universal drama was far more lurid than the film's...
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1915
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1915
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