This made-for-cable documentary traces the filming of the imperishable classic Gone with the Wind, from its inception to its...
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1989
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The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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Herself
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1984
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The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western...
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Marion Starrett
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1953
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Phoebe Frost
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1948
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In this domestic comedy, a housewife nervously awaits the return of her husband from military service. They married after a...
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Janie Anderson
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1944
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Mollie Truesdale
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1943
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To fully appreciate The More the Merrier, it is important to know that, during WW2, there was an acute housing shortage in...
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Connie Milligan
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1943
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Nora Shelley
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1942
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest...
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Mary Jones
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1941
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The W. Somerset Maugham play Home and Beauty was successful Americanized as Too Many Husbands (British title: My Two...
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Vicky Lowndes
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1940
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Wesley Ruggles's Arizona is an epic western set in an impoverished Arizona outpost. It tells the story of the feisty,...
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Phoebe Titus
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1940
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Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes....
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Bonnie Lee
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1939
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Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama established James Stewart as a lead actor in one of his finest (and most archetypal)...
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Clarissa Saunders
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1939
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Alice Sycamore
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1938
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Calamity Jane
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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Mary Smith
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1937
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History is Made at Night has been described as a romantic tragedy, which it indeed is, up to a point. The film begins...
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Irene Vail
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1937
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Crime reporter George Melville (Joel McCrea) arrogantly repeated accurate predictions about jewel robberies. He befriends...
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Claire Peyton
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1936
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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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Babe Bennett
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1936
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Paula Bradford
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1936
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Secretary Carol Baldwin (Jean Arthur) is in love with her boss, health-magazine publisher Fred Gilbert (George Brent). So...
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Carol Baldwin
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1936
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Jim Buchanan (Herbert Marshall) is a wealthy, highly successful automobile company president, who is about to enter into a...
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Joan Hawthorne
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1936
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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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Theresa O'Reilly
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1935
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The film that revived Edward G. Robinson's career after a string of flops, along with A Slight Case of Murder (1938), it was...
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Wilhelmina "Bill" Clark
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1935
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A streamlined, fast-paced silent B-Western, this Tom Tyler vehicle was one of several oaters featuring a very young, still...
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1935
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In one of his few movie leading roles, Victor Jory plays an unmarried small-town creamery owner. Jory falls in love with...
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Marge Oliver
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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Jane Matthews
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1935
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In this lively comedy, a cocky reporter follows a gangster aboard an ocean liner. While on board, the overconfident fellow...
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Cassie
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1935
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No relation to the 1949 20th Century-Fox melodrama of the same name, Columbia's 1934 Whirlpool stars Jack Holt as a shifty...
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Sandra Morrison
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1934
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An impoverished waitress marries a rich college boy against the wishes of his parents. Shortly after bearing his son, the...
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1934
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A sleazy lawyer is the focus of this courtroom drama. His favorite technique is to teach his female clients how to use their...
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Joan Hayes
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1934
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1933
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A former opera star loses her voice, her career evaporates, and she takes to drinking heavily and blaming her son for her...
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Joan Hoyt
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1933
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Virtuous Husband was adapted from Apron Strings, a play by Dorrance Davis. Though his mother has been dead several years,...
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Barbara Olwell
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1931
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Ethel Simmons
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1931
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In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is...
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Beatrice Stevens
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1931
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In this comedy, a bumbling rube from a small town manages to get involved in a gang war. The trouble really begins when one...
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Sylvia Martine
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1931
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A somewhat primitive early talkie version of Rex Beach's lusty 1909 novel of Alaska salmon fishers, RKO's The Silver Horde...
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Mildred Wayland
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1930
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This fact-based drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a notorious gambler. The story begins when a young...
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Judith Marsden
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1930
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In this drama, an older railroad supervisor is engaged to a lovely young woman. Unfortunately, she falls in love with the...
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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Guest Star
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1930
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Aerial photography highlights this early sound actioner, set during World War I. Lt. Robert Banks (Charles "Buddy" Rogers),...
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Mary Gordon
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1930
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Lila Eltham
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1930
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Clara Bow and her sister Jean Arthur are wisecracking department store employees with ever-roaming eyes for eligible...
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Janie
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1929
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In this murder mystery, set in a carnival, a performer loses her boyfriend, a trapeze artist, when his partner "accidently"...
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Greta Nelson
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1929
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The gruff but lovable Wallace Beery starred in this Zane Grey adaptation from Paramount. He plays the prototype outlaw with a...
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Ruth Hutt
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1929
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In this early "talkie," William Powell stars as sophisticated detective Philo Vance, who is brought in to investigate the...
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Ada Greene
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1929
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This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it...
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Alice LaFosse
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1929
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Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu Manchu.The film makes an...
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Lia Eltham
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1929
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The great German actor Emil Jannings closed out the American phase of his film career with the Paramount part-talkie...
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Mary Spengler
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1928
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1928
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Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Warming Up is an early baseball film starring Richard Dix and Jean Arthur. After pitcher Bert...
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Mary Post
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1928
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Richard Dix's star power goes a long way towards assuring the success of Easy Come, Easy Go. Dix plays radio announcer Robert...
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1928
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Wallflowers was based on a novel by Temple Bailey. The central character, a scheming social climber played by...
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1928
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Margie
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1927
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Horse Shoes wasn't quite as spectacular as Monty Banks' previous comedy Play Safe, but it still packed plenty of laughs into...
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Miss Baker
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1927
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Dapper, diminutive slapstick comedian Monty Banks spoofed the aviation-film cycle in Flying Luck. Most of the story deals...
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The Girl
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1927
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Fading star Mae Busch and up-and-coming Jean Arthur play major roles in Husband Hunters. A variation of the old "Gold-Diggers...
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Letty Crane
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1927
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Ruth Hale
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1927
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Based on the magazine story "Still Face" by pulp writer Clarence Buddington Kelland, The Masked Menace, released by the Pathé...
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1927
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Veteran Western bad boy Hank Bell played a rare good guy in this otherwise routine silent oater from assembly-line studio...
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1926
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Margaret Cranston
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1926
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A typically streamlined silent action melodrama from poverty row company FBO, The Cowboy Cop starred Tom Tyler and a very...
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1926
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A very young brunette Jean Arthur provided romantic interest in this otherwise average low-budget Western from Lester F....
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1926
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Although she did her fair share of low-budget Westerns prior to major stardom, this film, from poverty row studio Goodwill,...
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1926
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Ralph Lewis stars as "Jovial" Joe Ryan, an aging but still vital railroad engineer. Suffering from failing eyesight, Joe is...
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Grace Ryan
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1926
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Buster Keaton plays a young lawyer who will inherit $7 million at 7 o'clock on his 27th birthday--provided he is married....
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1925
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Returning to the homestead, lower-echelon cowboy star Bill Cody finds the place taken over by cattle rustlers, one of whom...
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1925
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Serious-looking, silent-screen cowboy Bob Custer co-starred with a very young, brunette Jean Arthur in this middling oater...
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1925
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In the more naive times of the 1920s (at least when it came to narcotics), drug store cowboys had nothing to do with drugs....
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1925
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This minor silent Western from small-time Approved Pictures was Jean Arthur's fourth film and the second of 10 program...
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Bonnie Norton
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1924
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If this rather ordinary Western picture stood out from the pack it was because of the name of its star, Buffalo Bill Jr. Not...
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1924
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1924
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The director formerly known as Sean O'Feeney is billed as John Ford for the first time here, and he helps make this one of...
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1923
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