This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927...
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1939
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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1935
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After nearly a decade of nominal "leading lady" roles, Carole Lombard landed her first genuine starring vehicle with Hands...
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1935
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Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of...
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1934
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Tall-in-the-saddle Rex Bell stars in this Monogram western. Bell, a Navy boxing champ, returns to his family's ranch, only to...
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1933
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The son of a famed race car driver is so traumatized by witnessing his father's fatal racetrack crash that he refuses to...
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1933
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In this action film, a New York reporter follows a group of East Coast jewel thieves trying to move their operation to the...
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1933
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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1932
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A bookish Easterner (Hoot Gibson) is shipped off to a Western ranch for toughening up. Once on the ranch, he falls for a...
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1929
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Produced by FBO Pictures, Yellowback was ultimately release by FBO's successor RKO Radio. Tom Moore stars as Canadian Mountie...
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1929
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One of Rin Tin Tin's many canine imitators, Ranger, starred in this silent Western melodrama as a sheep dog falsely accused...
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1928
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If a silent film had the word "fangs" in the title, it usually meant that the film starred a dog (or sometimes, that the film...
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1928
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Would you trust an adventurer named "Captain Careless"? Hero Bob Steele bears this curious moniker, though in his case...
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1928
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Canine star Rin-Tin-Tin had dozens of movie competitors and imitators. One of the best of these was FBO Studios' Ranger the...
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1928
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One of Rin-Tin-Tin's many competitors, Ranger starred in this low-budget dog adventure produced by poverty row company FBO....
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1928
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Swift Shadow was one of several FBO programmers built around the talents of Rin Tin Tin clone Ranger the Dog. Trained to obey...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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The screen popularity of "All American Boy" Charles Ray was fading in the mid-1920s, forcing the 34-year-old actor to return...
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1926
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After The Courtship of Miles Standish bombed, a bankrupted Charles Ray had to go back to working for other studios and trying...
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1925
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Priscilla Dean's star was beginning to fade around the time she appeared as a passionate Andulusian peasant in this drama....
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1924
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1924
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Jazz babies and gents danced and partied their way through dozens upon dozens of motion pictures during the Roaring Twenties....
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1923
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During his tenure with the Fox studios, John Gilbert was cast in every imaginable role a male lead could have. He was Marco...
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1923
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Starring New Zealander Shayle Gardner in the title role, this British screen version of Augusta J. Evans-Wilson's sentimental...
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1923
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John Gilbert felt his talents were being wasted at Fox, and he was very vocal about his feelings towards the studio. But this...
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1923
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The career of William Russell was on the wane when he starred in this cheaply-made comedy melodrama. Russell, a serious,...
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1923
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Three years before they made Hollywood history as the stars of King Vidor's World War I epic The Big Parade, John Gilbert and...
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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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1922
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On the whole, John Gilbert's starring vehicles at Fox were not as beneficial to him professionally as his films at MGM....
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1922
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On the verge of leaving Fox Studios for MGM, silent romantic star John Gilbert appeared in California Romance. Gilbert plays...
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1922
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Charles Ray takes his country bumpkin to Paris, albeit briefly, in this comedy-melodrama. After fighting in World War I,...
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1920
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For the thousandth time (or so it seemed to non-fans), Charles Ray plays a bashful bucolic in Alarm Clock Andy. A humble...
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1920
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Charles Ray's country bumpkin becomes an aspiring detective in this lightweight comedy. The inept attempts of farm boy...
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1920
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1920
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With a title like this one, it's practically a given that this silent picture starred Charles Ray. But this time around,...
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1920
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Country boy Ben Trimble (Charles Ray) saves up a thousand dollars and heads out to the big city to make good. But he doesn't...
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1919
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Bill Henry Jenkins is a typical Charles Ray character, a country boy determined to make good. At first he tries selling...
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1919
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Jim Kelly (Charles Ray) works for an express company in a small Midwest town and has developed quite a punch from hefting egg...
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1919
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As might be guessed by the title, The Busher is a baseball film. Charles Ray plays Ben Harding, a country greenhorn who is...
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1919
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This silent feature has all the qualities one would expect of a Charles Ray vehicle -- excitement, humor and loads of...
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1919
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When heroine Enid Bennett leaves the small rural community of her birth, she is the epitome of sweet innocence. When she...
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1918
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The vamp here isn't Theda Bara, or even one of her rivals like Valeska Suratt, but sweet young thing Enid Bennett. As Nancy...
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1918
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In this light comedy, Charles Ray does a typical turn as a country bumpkin who makes good. Ray plays Joel Parker, who is sent...
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1917
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The racial prejudices of 1800's America died hard; in fact, they were still strong enough in 1916 for this film to be made....
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1917
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This William S. Hart adventure opus is currently unavailable for reappraisal, though all evidence indicates that it is no...
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1916
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With American opinion divided over the European war in 1915, no fewer than three major motion pictures were conceived with...
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1916
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