Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As...
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Steve Bramley
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1934
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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Don Antonio de la Prada
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1933
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This story centers around a love triangle between two construction workers and a girl. The film climaxes with a fight on top...
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Gunner Smith
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1933
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Anyone who believes that the career of silent screen idol John Gilbert ended because his voice has too high for the talkies...
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Screen Story, Karl
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1932
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In this melodrama, a magician finds himself accused of murdering his lover's father. He flees and the lover marries her...
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Cheri-Bibi
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1931
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Silent screen star John Gilbert had a tough time adapting to the talkies--not due to his voice, as is commonly believed, but...
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Jack Thomas
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1931
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Though silent star John Gilbert's talking pictures were habitual money-losers, the stubborn actor insisted that MGM honor his...
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Jerry
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1931
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Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, this film was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but it was held...
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Fedya
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1930
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In his second talkie, former silent screen lover John Gilbert plays Jack, a sailor in the merchant marine who takes time out...
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Jack Berley
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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Adapted from a 1925 play by Patrick Kearney, A Man's Man was popular MGM leading man William Haines' final silent film...
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1929
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Based on Olympia, a 1928 Ferenc Molnar stage soufflé, His Glorious Night has gone down in history as having more or less...
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Capt. Kovaas
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1929
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Desert Nights was the last silent film made by MGM's resident heartthrob John Gilbert -- and the last of his truly successful...
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Rand
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1929
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1928
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Lukashka
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1928
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Masks of the Devil was director Victor Seastrom's final silent film for MGM -- and his next-to-last American film before his...
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Baron Reiner
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1928
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Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could...
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Neville Holderness
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1928
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Starring Joan Crawford and John Gilbert, this suspenseful, silent crime-drama follows the exploits of a gangster who does his...
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Benny
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1928
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Albert Whitcomb
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1927
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Long believed to be a "lost" film, The Show resurfaced in the mid-1970s, proving to be a real treasure trove for aficionados...
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Cock Robin
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1927
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John Gilbert was one of MGM's top stars when he appeared this melodrama. Playing against his usual matinee idol type, Gilbert...
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Jerry Fay
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1927
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Count Vronsky
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1927
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A bulky, verbose novel by Herman Suderman was the source for the exquisitely silent Flesh and the Devil. On leave from the...
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Leo von Sellenthin
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1926
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The Rafael Sabatini swashbuckler Bardelys the Magnificent served as an excellent vehicle for MGM's top male star...
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Bardelys
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1926
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Amidst much fanfare, Lillian Gish was signed to a fabulous MGM contract in 1925 which not only assured her $400,000 per...
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Rodolphe
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1926
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The Big Parade was designed as a modest programmer concerning one young man's disillusionment in the face of war. When the...
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James Apperson
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1925
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This silent adaptation of Franz Lehar's famous operetta (in which precious little of the original story was retained) was a...
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Prince Danilo
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1925
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Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia (John Gilbert), is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except...
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Gritzko
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1924
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Jean Lawrence (Marian Nixon) is a failed musical comedy star who is befriended by Nan Norton (Trilby Clark), whose boyfriend...
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Stephen Moore
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1924
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This is melodrama, not a horror film, and it's booze, not a full moon, that changes John Gilbert's character from man to...
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Gerald Stanley
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1924
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This tense but implausible melodrama was John Gilbert's last film for Fox before moving over to the greener pastures of MGM....
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1924
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Although cowboy star Buck Jones plays a prizefighter in this drama, he's only getting in the ring to pay for a ranch -- which...
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1924
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Paul
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1924
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This very average silent western starred John Gilbert right before MGM made him an international superstar as the doughboy in...
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Carlos Brent
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1924
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This compelling and exceptionally well-executed silent drama, from new MGM studio executives Irving Thalburg and producer...
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Bezano
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1924
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John Gilbert was on the brink of superstardom when he appeared in this routine domestic drama -- his fame would explode...
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Jeffrey Dwyer
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1924
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Although John Gilbert became famous for playing the romantic lover, there was something inside him that occasionally rebelled...
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Eugene Curry
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1924
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1924
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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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St. Elmo Thomton
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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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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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Truxton King
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1923
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On the verge of his superstardom at MGM, John Gilbert played the lead in the Fox production The Exiles. Gilbert essays the...
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Henry Halcombe
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1923
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Page Emlun
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1923
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Drifter Dick Manners (John Gilbert) arrives at a ranch owned by Colonel Angus McClelland (James Gordon). When he wagers that...
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1922
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1922
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"Fox Introduces Unusually Promising Star in John Gilbert," proclaimed trade paper Moving Picture World in its review of this...
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Gleam O'Dawn
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1922
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Silent film star John Gilbert was in the middle of his treadmill days at the Fox studios when he was cast in this drama as an...
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Donald Keith
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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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Norman Stone
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1922
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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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On the verge of leaving Fox Studios for MGM, silent romantic star John Gilbert appeared in California Romance. Gilbert plays...
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Don Patricio Fernando
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1922
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Considering the kind of material he was given, it's no wonder that John Gilbert was not very happy at the Fox studios. This...
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1922
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aka The Count of Monte Cristo Much of John Gilbert's early work as a leading man was done at the Fox Studios. He made...
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Edmund Dantes, a sailor at the Count of Monte Cristo
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1922
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This eight-reel Fox feature is a blatant example of the rampant racial prejudice that existed in the early part of the 20th...
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David Fielding
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1921
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This drama was director George Loane Tucker's last film; in fact his health was failing as he completed it. Too bad the maker...
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1921
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The poetic work of director Maurice Tourneur was highly respected during the silent era. Producer Jules Brulatour was anxious...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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Outlaw Dan Malloy (House Peters) is notorious throughout the West. After his latest train robbery, he seeks refuge in a cabin...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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Manson, a servant (Jean Hersholt), comes to work for a curate, William Smythe (Edward Piel). The curate has spent his life...
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1920
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While this drama has all the earmarks of director Maurice Tourneur, he had quite a bit of help from future silent idol John...
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1920
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After he has gambled away money belonging to a secret Italian society called "the White Circle," banker Bernard Huddlestone...
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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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There is a shipwreck near a small fishing village, and one of the survivors is the wealthy Clarissa Sedgwick (Lydia Knott)....
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1920
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Lord Angus Cameron (H.E. Herbert), a Scottish nobleman, becomes tired of his common-law wife Marion (Mabel Ballin) and tries...
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1919
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Gloria Grey (Marguerite Clark) is not very successful as a music teacher -- primarily because if her students display no...
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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 film was one of Mary Pickford's attempts to add at least a touch of maturity to her little girl characterizations. She...
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1919
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Louise Glaum, who outside of Theda Bara was perhaps the screen's most popular "vamp," headed the cast of Shackled. Glaum was...
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1918
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The title of this emotionally supercharged melodrama could just as well have been "Deadlock." Low-born Marjery Harding...
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1918
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From all outward appearances, Harvey Deering (John Gilbert) is a fine, upstanding young citizen, and thus his father Lemuel...
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1918
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Harold Chester Winthrop Gordon (J. Warren Kerrigan) wakes up one afternoon to discover that because of his spendthrift ways,...
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1918
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This Western romance was adapted from Bret Harte's novel, The Judgment of Bolinas Plains, which had been made into a stage...
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1918
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Louise Glaum, one of the premier vamps of the 1910s, plays Mercedes Murphy, the tough, but good-hearted, proprietor of a...
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1917
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The quintessential William S. Hart western, Hell's Hinges stars two-gun Bill as gunslinger Blaze Tracy, "a man wholly evil."...
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1916
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1916
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William S. Hart took a respite from his "good-badman" groove to play a preacher in Apostle of Vengeance. Ministering to one...
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1916
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