This concluding episode of a two-part story was excerpted from the theatrical feature Superman and the Oil Man. The digging...
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1953
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This first episode of a two-part story was excerpted from the theatrical feature Superman and the Oil Man. Reporters Clark...
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1953
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It's always a pleasure to see ace western director Leslie Selander in action, and Riders of Vengeance is no exception....
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1952
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Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially...
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1951
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1951
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In this romance, an industrial designer is bitterly disappointed when he discovers that upon graduation his daughter decides...
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1951
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Superman, the comic-book "Man of Steel" created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his feature-film debut in...
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1951
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Though released second, Hostile Country was the first of six "Four Star" westerns, filmed back to back within the space of...
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1950
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Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott), a window-dresser and struggling artist, accidentally witnesses a mob-related rub-out of a...
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1950
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A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published...
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1950
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The plot for this Western involves the wives and girlfriends of the Dalton gang, who decide to carry on the gang's criminal...
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1950
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Although Marie Windsor plays the title role in Dakota Lil, she is shunted away to third billing, right after male leads...
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1950
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1949
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1949
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Gloria Henry, best known to modern viewers as Alice Mitchell in TV's Dennis the Menace, was the winsome leading lady of Law...
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1949
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Shep Comes Home was the belated sequel to Screen Guild's My Dog Shep (1946). The title pooch is played by "Flame" (who also...
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1949
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Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy...
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1949
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Western star Donald Barry was both producer and leading man of The Dalton Gang. Barry is cast as straight-arrow marshal Larry...
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1949
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Set in the 1920s and 1930s, 20th Century-Fox's You're My Everything borrows elements from several true-life showbiz stories,...
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1949
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In this western, a lawman looks into a series of murders involving ranchers. A war between Indians and the local land and...
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1949
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William "One Take" Beaudine warms the director's chair for Lippert Pictures' Tough Assignment. The film is essentially a...
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1949
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1948
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This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to...
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1948
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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1948
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1948
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In this western the two sons of the commanding officer of an outpost attempt to clear their father's name after he is...
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1948
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Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the...
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1948
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Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours is a typically witty and wild screwball comedy starring Rex Harrison as a symphony...
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1948
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The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically...
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1948
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A semi-fantasy with sociological overtones, The Luck of the Irish stars Tyrone Power as an American journalist named Stephen...
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1948
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An unimportant but likeable Republic drama, Web of Danger revolves around the rivalry between two hardhat bridge-builders....
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1947
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1947
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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1947
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1946
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One of the greatest movie Westerns, John Ford's My Darling Clementine is hardly the most accurate film version of the Wyatt...
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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1946
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Set in turn-of-the century London, this period thriller stars Laird Cregar as George Harvey Bone, a composer who suffers from...
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1945
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Otto Preminger directed this stylish film noir exercise, intended as a follow-up to his surprise hit Laura. Kicked off a bus...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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This lesser "Inner Sanctum" entry stars Lon Chaney Jr. as unhappily married lawyer Wayne Fletcher. In love with his secretary...
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1945
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The Dolly Sisters is the heavily Hollywoodized biopic of Jennie and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian-born entertainers who took...
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1945
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The bland performance of star George Raft is the only drawback of this splashy 20th Century-Fox musical. Set in...
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1945
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For at least 63 of its 68 minutes, Republic's The Woman Who Came Back is an exciting and compelling journey into the realm of...
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1945
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Those willing to accept Carmen Miranda as a "typical" 1920s type will be able to swallow the rest of the lavish but rather...
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1944
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The East Side Kids are back in Follow the Leader, one of their most consistently funny outings. While on leave from the Army,...
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1944
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This wild, once-controversial comedy stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy single girl whose favorite pastime...
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1944
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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1944
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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1944
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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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1944
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William Boyd once again dons the disguise of a fop in this average entry in the long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" western...
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1944
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Judging by such films as Shadows of Suspicion, it's too bad that leading man Peter Cookson eventually elected to leave the...
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1944
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Also known as Ladies in Washington, this 61-minute quickie utilizes the services of several 20th Century-Fox contractees. Set...
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1944
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Legendary big-game hunter Frank Buck brings 'em back alive once more in PRC's Tiger Fangs. Though it is clear that he never...
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Geoffrey MacCardle
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1943
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True to Life stars Dick Powell as a radio writer in search of saleable material. He comes up with a weekly sitcom about a...
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1943
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Whatever poor Bela Lugosi may have done in a past life, the man did not deserve The Ape Man, arguably the worst of his...
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1943
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Even non-fans of the East Side Kids will get a goodly share of laughs out of the 1943 series entry Clancy Street Boys. The...
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1943
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1942
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Among the few wartime comedies that are still genuinely funny today, Monogram's One Thrilling Night (aka Horace Takes Over)....
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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1942
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In this murder mystery, a re-working of The Sphinx, a distract attorney is determined to prove that the community's most...
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1942
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Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of...
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1942
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A true "guilty pleasure" crime melodrama with horror movie touches, the low-budget The Living Ghost stars future Academy...
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1942
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Bowery at Midnight casts Bela Lugosi as Professor Brenner, a psychology instructor at New York University (which looks a lot...
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1942
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In this zany comedy, based on an enduringly popular comic strip, the irascible mountain man and moonshiner finds himself...
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood....
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1941
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1941
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It's hard to believe that Wild Bill Hickok Rides is a Warner Bros. picture-and harder still to believe that Constance Bennett...
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1941
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Riders of the Timberline was the 38th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. To keep things from getting stale, star...
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1941
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The Great Lie is Soap Opera Deluxe from Bette Davis' peak period at Warner Bros. Davis plays a socialite who is madly in love...
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1941
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Tim Casey
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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Sheriff Austin
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1940
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1940
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A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic....
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1940
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Paramount's "Zane Grey" series continued rolling into the 1940s with Knights of the Range. Taking a break from the studio's...
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1940
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Set in the years leading up to the Civil War and its outbreak, Dark Command tells a fictionalized version of the story of...
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1940
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Monogram hoped that The Gentleman From Arizona would be their "prestige" release for 1940, and to that end the film was...
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Coburn
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1940
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Previous filmed three times (most recently in 1930), the 1940 Paramount production Light of Western Stars was the latest in...
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1940
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I Take This Oath was the first official release from Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), formerly known as Producers...
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Inspector Ryan
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1940
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A retired fireman teams up with an insurance investigator when an old buddy is killed in an arson fire in this surprisingly...
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Jim Hadley
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1940
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The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and...
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1940
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A lesser entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series, Stagecoach War features veteran character actor...
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Jeff Chapman
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1940
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This musical drama follows a young ghetto kid who dreams of being a classical musician like his idol Jascha Heifetz. He first...
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1939
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The sole survivor of an Indian attack, orphan girl Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) becomes the mascot of the Canadian...
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Pat O'Hannegan
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1939
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RKO's Conspiracy attempts to be an up-to-date (for 1939) espionage drama without using such problematic words as "Nazi" or...
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1939
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In this comedy, a gangster's moll gets tired of the mob scene and returns to her mother's house. Her mom is a wealthy...
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1939
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With comedian Stan Laurel temporarily off his payroll due to a contract dispute, Hal Roach hastily put together a solo...
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1939
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This second Republic-serial adaptation of the popular radio series The Lone Ranger abandons the "mystery" angle of the first...
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1939
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Bing Crosby plays a tune-happy cab driver who finds himself the reluctant recipient of an abandoned baby. Together with his...
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1939
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In this heartwarming drama, a crook endeavors to raise his son in the slums until he kills a teller during a bank robbery....
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1939
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Set during World War I, Submarine Patrol stars Preston S. Foster as a naval officer demoted for dereliction of duty. He is...
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1938
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter fights for the love of the woman who disdains him and his chosen profession. She begins...
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Kay's Father
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1938
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Gang Bullets was one of a myriad of late-1930s Monogram crime pictures, bearing such interchangable titles as...
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Reardon
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1938
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1938
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Not a remake of the 1932 James Cagney vehicle of the same name, The Crowd Roars is set in the sweat-stained world of...
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1938
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Extortion was designed as a sort of trial balloon for Columbia's new contractees Scott Colton and Mary Russell. The story...
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1938
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This Roy Rogers musical western (his second starring vehicle for Republic) concerns itself with a group of Texas Rangers,...
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Col. Forbes
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1938
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A concert singer goes blind after a rival throws acid in his face and leaves his New York girlfriend to return to his...
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1938
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Heiress Virginia Bruce tries to prove her worth by taking a job as a shopgirl in the store owned by her family. The pampered...
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1938
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Several second-echelon Universal contractees earn their paychecks in the two-week wonder State Police. John King stars as...
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Charlie
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1938
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Harold Gray's long-running comic strip Little Orphan Annie was first brought to the screen in 1932, with Mitzi Green as...
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Pop Corrigan
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1938
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1938
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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1937
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Nothing of cult director Joseph H. Lewis' much-vaunted flair is on display in this average musical Western, the screen debut...
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Buck Saunders
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1937
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1937
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In this outdoor drama, a plucky young woman inherits her father's logging business and decides to try running it, even...
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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1937
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The building of the great Canadian-Pacific Railroad that stretched from Montreal to Vancouver is chronicled in this...
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1937
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In this musical an agent hawks a new singing star to irritate a wealthy socialite whom he managed to get on the radio. There...
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1937
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Making his debut with Warner Brothers, Henry Fonda plays an apprentice high-voltage lineman working with the no-nonsense, but...
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Pop Traver
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1937
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1937
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A jockey is thrown off the track after it is discovered that gangsters drugged his horse. This drama follows his attempts to...
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Calvin Williams
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1937
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James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America,...
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1937
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Released by Monogram in 1937, Shadows of the Orient was actually produced independently several years earlier by...
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Sullivan
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1937
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The Game That Kills is professional hockey, at least according to this Columbia "B"-picture. Charles Quigley stars as...
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Joe Holland
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1937
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A pre-stardom Mickey Rooney earned top billing when this minor medical drama was re-released in 1939 as Little Pal (Rooney by...
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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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Harrigan
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1936
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1936
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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1936
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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1936
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Wallace Ford plays Terry McCall, a small-town baseball star with a monumental ego. Terry's gift for self-aggrandizement...
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Umpire
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1935
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This fast-paced Warner Bros. comedy stars James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as brothers who fight over the same girl. Mrs. O'Hara...
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1935
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The second of Kermit Maynard's "Mountie" actioners for Ambassador Pictures, Northern Frontier was a major improvement on the...
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Inspector Stevens
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1935
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With Shirley Temple heading the cast of Our Little Girl, it's a moot point as to who plays the title role. Temple is cast as...
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1935
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In this drama, a young boy earns the trust of an especially skittish colt and they form a special bond. Trouble ensues when...
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Trinidad Dorn
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1935
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1935
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In her first starring role, 18-year-old Ann Rutherford plays Joan, a singer in a cheap waterfront café. Gambling-ship...
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O'Brien
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1935
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In this his penultimate Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played Tim Baxter, a cowboy returning to the old homestead...
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1935
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Silent screen leading man Lawrence Gray stars in this low-budget thriller produced by legendary penny-pincher Sam Katzman....
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1935
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Stardom comes to an older entertainer in this drama. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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Riff-Raff begins riff-raffing when boastful fisherman Dutch (Spencer Tracy) marries down-to-earth cannery worker Hattie...
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1935
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In this now-campy drama, a patriotic state college football team takes on a subversive radical group determined to undermine...
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Coach Parker
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1935
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The Arizonian came at a time when Richard Dix's popularity was slipping, providing a welcome shot in the arm for the star and...
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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1935
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James Barton plays a salty old sea captain on the verge of retirement, forced to return to the sea when his funds run out....
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1935
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1935
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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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1935
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Produced independently by Edward Small, this surprisingly realistic gangster yarn stars stalwart Richard Arlen as Mal...
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1935
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Columbia's Once to Every Woman was the first of A. J. Cronin's medical novels to be adapted for the screen. The drama of the...
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1934
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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1934
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Beggar's Holiday was, appropriately enough, filmed on Hollywood's "Poverty Row"--that ramshackle collection of tiny studios...
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1934
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Officer Murphy
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1934
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Two popular film genres were combined by low-budget Chestefield Films in 1934, and the result was Murder on the Campus....
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Capt. Ed Kyne
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Czech leading man Francis Lederer made his Hollywood film debut in the appropriately titled Man of Two Worlds. Based on the...
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Michael
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1934
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Although it is included in TV's "Shock Theater" passage, there's nothing overtly frightening about the heavily plotted...
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1934
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Were it not for the diligence of old-time radio buffs and Three Stooges fans, the 1933 Universal epic Myrt and Marge might...
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Grady
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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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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An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the...
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1933
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1933
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In this drama, the owner of a Chicago meat-packing company falls in love with a beautiful opera singer. Unfortunately, his...
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Shuster
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1933
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Patrick Shamus O'Connell
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1933
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A minor entry from small-scale Progressive Pictures, Under Secret Orders starred the rather pallid Donald Dillaway as Henry...
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John Burke
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1933
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In this drama, a bright young mill worker is left in charge of his late employer's estate. This causes many hard feelings...
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J.C. Stillman
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1933
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Mascot Films, the feisty precursor to Republic Pictures, was responsible for 1933's The Big Payoff. In a rare top-billed...
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1933
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In this comedy drama, a wealthy shoe magnate is bored with his life. The trouble really begins when his chief rival dies....
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Hank Davidson
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1933
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1932
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It is all but impossible to dislike a film as gloriously corny as The Phantom Express. The title is derived from an early...
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1932
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The second of two projected John Wayne serials produced by genre expert Mascot Pictures, this film used the budget-saving...
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1932
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This second filming of Zane Grey's novel (first brought to the screen by Paramount in 1924 with Bebe Daniels as the female...
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Adam Nash
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1932
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Confidence woman Martha Hicks (Alison Skipworth), better known to those who know her at all as "the Countess," is a career...
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1932
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Sally Blane (Loretta Young's look-alike sister) plays Janet, a Manhattan socialite who is fed up with the superficiality of...
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1932
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In this mystery a sensual starlet suddenly dies. Though she was popular with the public, behind the scenes she had many...
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Chief Sommers
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1932
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In this drama, an jewel thief is let out of prison and heads for a New York hotel to find the jewels he hid in the fireplace...
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Martin
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1932
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1932
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Thirteen years after a dinner party where the wealthy host dropped, the thirteen guests are invited to reassemble at the...
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Captain Ryan
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1932
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In this newspaper drama, a dedicated small-town reporter works hard and becomes the editor of a major New York paper....
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Treadway
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1932
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This "gimmick" murder mystery begins during a crucial college football game. Wally Clark (Johnny Mack Brown), the team's star...
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State Coach
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1932
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In this romantic boxing drama, an up-and-comer gets creamed in a fight and decides it is time to take a promoter's advice...
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1932
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A wealthy theatrical producer entices a desperately poor young woman to visit his penthouse. The innocent girl doesn't...
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1932
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In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. The husband feels demeaned by...
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1932
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Danny Dolan (Spencer Tracy) is a good-hearted, streetwise waterfront beat cop in New York City who gets promoted to detective...
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Pat "Pop" Riley
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1932
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In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a...
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1932
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In one of his first westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays Kirby Tornell, who does the "Robin Hood" bit on the wide open spaces....
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Hornet
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1932
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The fast-paced world of polo provides the backdrop for this sports drama that centers upon John Steele, a US Army captain...
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Jerry O'Day
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1932
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1931
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George Arliss is the millionaire of the title, a retired auto tycoon who's been ordered by his doctor to rest and avoid...
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1931
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In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and...
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1931
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Arguably John Ford's weakest film, The Brat was based on a popular 1917 stage play written by and starring Maude Fulton,...
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1931
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William A. Wellman's triangle melodrama "The Steel Highway" -- a title referring to the film's railroad setting -- was...
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1931
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In this western, an orphan who is discovered alone in the desert is raised by a kindly family. The only dark spot in their...
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Jeff Cameron
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1931
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In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of...
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1931
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The second of three versions of James Oliver Curwood's pulp fiction drama of a mountie and his separated-at-birth prey stars...
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1931
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In this gridiron drama, a college football coach and ex-All American will stop at nothing to have a winning team. The trouble...
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1931
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In this melodrama that was considered utterly scandalous in its day, an impoverished, beautiful young ghetto girl quickly...
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1931
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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1931
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This drama is set at Notre Dame and follows the exploits of a great football coach (patterned after Knute Rockne) who is...
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1931
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Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios'...
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1930
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1930
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The Truth About Youth is the third film version of Henry V. Esmond's play, When We Were Twenty-One. Richard Dane (David...
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Colonel Graham
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1930
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1930
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This drama is set during the mid Twenties when gangsters were a bit more genteel than their 1930s counterparts. Based on a...
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1930
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John Ford directed this undersea adventure from the early days of the sound era; it features talking sequences along silent...
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1930
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The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl, this early talkie featured stage actor Alan...
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1929
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Forty-five-year-old Irish tenor John McCormack made his screen debut in Song o' My Heart. Fans of McCormack would have been...
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1929
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1929
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In this comedy drama, an enormous baggage handler earns the reputation of being an all-'round good joe and soon gets...
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Angus McGregor
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1929
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Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the...
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Tad
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1929
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In this comedy drama, a very early talkie, set in the splendiferous South Seas, a French lassie charms a sea captain who...
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Hackett
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1929
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A plucky New Orleans singer becomes a star on the New York city night club circuit in this musical drama. In the midst of it...
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Pa Hudler
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1929
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The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Two...
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The Clown
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1929
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Anne Nichols' Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose was almost universally panned when it opened in 1923. But despite the moans...
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Patrick Murphy
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1928
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Jiggs
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1928
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Failing miserably in the business world, a college hero becomes a lifeguard and falls for a pretty concessionaire in this...
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1928
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A businessman and his partner rush off to Paris in hopes of stopping their children from getting married. Unfortunately, the...
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Mr. Kelly
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1928
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James Riley
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1928
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Earlier in the century, this melodrama about a young girl in the garment industry was a famous stage play. To bring it to the...
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1927
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It's not for nothing that wimpish Willie Angle (Johnny Harron) is known as "Willie the Worm." Victimized and dumped on by...
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1927
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It has often been reported that Howard Hawks tried and failed to create an "art" film with Paid to Love, only to return to...
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Peter Roberts
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1927
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Madge Bellamy plays a vivacious clothes model in Ankles Preferred. Tired of being appreciated only for her beauty, Bellamy...
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1927
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Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of...
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The Photographer
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1927
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Pug Malone
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1927
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A long lost silent comedy-drama, Colleen was a great success for Madge Bellamy, whose popularity reached its zenith in the...
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1927
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1927
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This flimsy but entertaining comedy-drama was based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche. It's a typical yarn of the era, about...
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Diamond Jim O'Grady
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1927
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A stalwart government scout, Tom Kirby (William Boyd) and his best friend, the legendary frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody...
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Wild Bill
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1926
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1926
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Based on a story by Peter B. Kyne, the long-lost John Ford silent Shamrock Handicap begins in Ireland. Because he refuses to...
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Dennis O'Shea
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1926
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Long thought lost, the silent Three Bad Men is an vital ingredient in the cinematic canon of director John Ford. Often...
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Mike Costigan
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1926
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Jean Paul Fippany (J. Farrell MacDonald) is so wrapped up in his horse, a filly named Marseillaise, that he neglects his...
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1926
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The Family Upstairs is based on the same-named play by Harry Delf. The titular family is comprised of losers and layabouts,...
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Joe Hellor
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1926
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Vampy Margaret Livingston and stalwart Earl Foxe seem miscast in this farce comedy. Foxe plays a young hypochondriac who...
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1926
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Sergeant Cassidy
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1926
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Director John Ford was out of his element with this comedy, based on the hit Broadway play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon...
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Judge Townsend
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1925
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Either you loved Tom Mix or you disapproved of his turning westerns into three-ring circuses. The Lucky Horseshoe presented...
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Mack
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1925
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A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore. Beth...
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John Gordon
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1925
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John Ford directed this sentimental horse opera set among the racing crowd in Kentucky. Henry B. Walthall, of Griffith's...
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1925
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The wild behavior of Kenneth Jamieson (George O'Brien) has finally gone too far and his millionaire father (George Fawcett)...
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Andy
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1925
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This comedy-drama was character actor Alan Hale Sr.'s first attempt at directing. Señor Fernando, a wealthy Argentinean...
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1925
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John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on...
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1924
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Track star Frank Merrill stars as Jack Melford in this hackneyed melodrama. Jack wins the track meet at the local college...
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1924
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Although Priscilla Dean is starred in this dramatic Universal character study, it's Tom Santschi who has the meatier role....
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1924
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A below-average Buck Jones oater, Western Luck trotted out the old plot about brothers separated at birth who meet on...
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1924
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Although Universal billed this tense drama as a "Super Jewel," there's nothing epic about it -- it's a straightforward,...
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1924
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Even though Wallace Reid died only a few weeks before this film's release, the genre of racing car movies which he made...
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1923
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With a screenplay by Howard Hawks and direction by Jack Conway, this Mexican border tale couldn't possibly have been anything...
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1923
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Come on Over is the saga of an Irish-American family. What's past is prologue in this case, as the trials and tribulations of...
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Michael Morahan
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1922
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Having played a sheik, it only made sense to cast Rudolph Valentino -- whose first name was still being spelled Rodolph -- as...
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1922
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Tom Mix went the Douglas Fairbanks route with this silent West, augmenting the usual sagebrush melodramatics with a clear...
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1922
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Angela Gaskill (Betty Compson) travels to the South Seas to help sailor John Somers (John Bowers) kick his addition to...
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Captain Gaskell
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1922
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This jumbled light comedy was one of the last pictures featuring silent matinee idol Wallace Reid -- after being given...
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1922
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In the days before air-conditioned theaters, this action-packed tale of the frozen Northwest was a welcome summer release....
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1922
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Max Brand's 1920 novel became a rousing Tom Mix Western less than a year later. A complicated story of love and revenge,...
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1921
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This romance of the post-Civil War days begins in the old West. When her father (Louis Willoughby) is killed by a claim...
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1921
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With this picture, Western star Hoot Gibson graduated to full-length features. He plays Sandy Brouke, one of three...
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1921
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1921
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A stranger (Harry Carey) comes to the Western town of Broken Buckle, but discovers that the gambling hall there is crooked....
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1921
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Director John Ford based this silent western on The Girl He Left Behind by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, turning it into a fine...
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1921
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Following the Civil War, Southerner Jefferson Todd (Frank Mayo) finds himself broke, so he becomes a river boat gambler. One...
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1920
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1920
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This melodrama, made in 1920 but not released until 1923, was based on a novel, The Glory of Love, by "Pan." Henri Santados...
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1920
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1920
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Captain November Jones (William Russell) returns to his home in the West after fighting in the Great War and earning three...
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1919
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Bret Harte's story gets an unusual adaptation in the hands of director John Ford (in the days when he was known as Jack Ford)...
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1919
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John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl,...
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1919
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Legendary director John Ford began his long, eventful screen career helming Harry Carey westerns for Universal. He got that...
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1919
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Margarita Fisher -- who'd dropped the "c" in her last name as part of the "de-Germanization" policies of WWI -- played the...
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1919
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This heartwarming Harry Carey Western was based on the story Three Godfathers by Peter B. Kyne, which appeared in the...
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1919
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In this tale of the Canadian Northwest, Harry Carey plays Cheyenne Harry, who is on the lam after getting tangled up with...
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1919
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Ranch owner Cheynne Harry (Harry Carey) winds up romancing Easterner Aileen Judson-Brown (Neva Gerber) because of an...
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1919
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The relationship between a plucky daughter and her brutish father is dissected in this classic Mary Pickford drama set in a...
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1915
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Author L. Frank Baum adapts his own original story for the silver screen in this fantasy adventure directed by J. Darrell...
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Director
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1914
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Patchwork Girl of Oz is one of a handful of extant productions from author L. Frank Baum's short-lived Oz Film Manufacturing...
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Director
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1914
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Disappointed with the meager box-office returns from such earlier films as Patchwork Girl of Oz and...
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1914
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