Officially, America had no intention of entering the Second World War in 1940: Why, then, were there so many "preparedness"...
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1940
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Code of the Secret Service was the second of Warner Bros. "Brass Bancroft" series, starring Ronald Reagan as troubleshooting...
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1939
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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1939
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Banking on the popularity of the Warner Bros.' boxing saga Kid Galahad (37), the studio rushed into production with another,...
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1939
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Otis Ferguson has said of Each Dawn I Die that "the story is of the kind you would have to see to disbelieve." And to be...
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1939
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Filmed in Technicolor, the 2-reel Lincoln in the White House was one of a series of "patriotic" short subjects produced by...
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1939
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Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis...
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1939
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In this drama, a remake of The Crowd Roars, two auto racing brothers become rivals on the racetrack when the older brother...
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1939
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James Cagney stars in the humorous Western The Oklahoma Kid, set during the land rush of 1893. John Kincaid (Hugh Sothern)...
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1939
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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1939
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Torchy Runs for Mayor stars Glenda Farrell as fast-lipped newspaper reporter Torchy Blaine. In possession of a crooked...
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1939
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The third of Warner Bros.' series based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter stars...
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1939
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A tough football scout thinks he has finally found a potential star quarterback when he sees a burly country-store stock boy...
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1939
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1939
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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1939
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In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is...
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1939
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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1939
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In this comedy, a young waitress is given $1,000 from her grandfather. She desires to buy a race horse and so trustingly...
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1939
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Torchy Plays with Dynamite was the final entry in Warner Bros.' "Torchy Blane" series, based on characters created by...
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1939
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Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays...
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1939
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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1938
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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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1938
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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1938
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Dick Powell stars as a Brooklynite who becomes a cowboy in spite of himself. Drifting into a small western town, Powell takes...
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1938
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With Glenda Farrell having temporarily taken leave of Warner Bros., the actress' signature role of fast-talking girl reporter...
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1938
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Who better to direct Warner Bros.' Daredevil Drivers than B. Reeves "Breezy" Eason, the fast-action specialist who staged the...
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1938
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Mystery House is a perfunctory Warner Bros. programmer which coasts along on the appeal of its stars. When a prominent banker...
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1938
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Michael Curtiz directs this Technicolor Western based on the familiar story by Clements Ripley about the rivalry between...
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1938
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In this entry in the "Torchy Blane" series, the plucky young reporter tries to expose a ring of counterfeiters led by a man...
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1938
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Boris Karloff starred in this rather static whodunit from the Warner Bros. B-unit as Jeffries, a civilian employee at a...
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1938
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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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1937
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Despite the claim of "an original screenplay by Edward Earl Repp," this entry in Warner Bros.' Dick Foran "singing cowboy"...
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1937
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This low-budget musical offers a peek behind the scenes in Hollywood. It centers on a recently unemployed talent scout who...
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1937
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The racket-busting activities of New York DA Thomas E. Dewey was the inspiration for several late-1930s crime films,...
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1937
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The first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie, Love is on the Air is historically important as the...
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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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1937
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1936
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This drama is based on a true story and chronicles the story of a veteran musician who must give up his beloved career after...
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1935
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The independently produced Stolen Sweets was lensed in a hurry on standing sets at Universal. Future western star Charles...
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Sam
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1934
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The distinguished Henry B. Walthall, a major star of the early silent screen, headlined this cheap whodunit that fully...
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1934
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Charlie Hooper
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1934
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Ronnie Ross
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1933
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Howard Hawks directed this fast-paced auto racing drama. Joe Greer (James Cagney) is a top-ranked race car driver; his...
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1932
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In this haunting low-budgeter, Bela Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a shadowy character who exercises supernatural powers...
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Neil Parker
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1932
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Before he moved to MGM, director Richard Thorpe virtually lived at the tiny production firm of Chesterfield-Invincible....
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Jeffery Colt
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1932
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Inspired, it was stated at the time, by a real event, this minor but well-made Poverty Row mystery features Claudia Dell as...
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Erich
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1932
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This Depression-era comedy takes place in the boarding house run by the indomitable Sarah Austin (Edna May Oliver). Sarah's...
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Hepburn
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1931
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Befitting its title, the old-fashioned meller Law of the Tongs is set in wicked old Chinatown. This time, the criminal...
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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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Ostensibly based of the life and violent death of glamorous New York mobster Arnold Rothstein, this early talkie from...
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Jay Grant, the reporter
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1930
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Big Boy may well be the closest a modern audience will ever come to seeing what a genuine Al Jolson Broadway musical looked...
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1930
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The first official release from RKO Productions (previous films from this company had been produced by RKO antecedent FBO...
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Mike Fall
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1929
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Carter
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1928
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The "man in hobbles" (a reference to his unique trousers) is young professional photographer John Harron. Upon marrying...
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The Bay
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1928
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Jerry (John Harron), a $40-a-week working stiff, is in love with Peggy (June Marlowe). But while attending a weekend society...
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Jerry
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1928
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While merely a program picture, this drama features an excellent cast and an entertaining story. Before the Great War, Max...
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Max
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1927
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A young boy (Johnny Harron) defends his mother against his violently abusive stepfather (Noah Beery) in this tragic...
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The Boy
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1927
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Paying a visit to a fortune-teller, impressionable heroine Pauline Garon is told that she will go on a vacation, fall in love...
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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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1927
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Universal star Laura LaPlante struggles to fill out a very scanty story in this lightweight farce comedy. Molly and Sam...
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1927
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Closed Gate was produced by Joe Rock, a former purveyor of 2-reel comedies who yearned to break into the Big Time. Based on a...
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1927
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"Love of money is the root of all evil." That's the message conveyed to the audience with the subtlety of a sledgehammer in...
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Jack Welby
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1926
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Hell Bent Fer Heaven was based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Hatcher Hughes. Most of the story takes place high...
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Sid Hunt
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1926
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Rose of the Tenements is a vehicle for Shirley Mason, cast as the adopted daughter of a Jewish family. A crisis arises when...
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1926
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The Little Irish Girl is Dot Walker (Dolores Costello), the pretty come-on for a tawdry gambling house. Dot lures country boy...
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Johnny
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1926
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This melodrama, released after Vitagraph had been bought by Warner Bros., was one of the last directorial efforts from film...
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Dick Wayne
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1926
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The Night Cry was a tailor-made vehicle for canine star Rin-Tin-Tin, who at the time was Warner Bros.' most valuable...
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John Martin
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1926
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One of a cycle of late-1920s firefighting melodramas, Columbia's False Alarm stars John Harron as rookie fireman Joe Casey....
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Joe Casey
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1926
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Billy Carmichael
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1925
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As their 25th anniversary approaches, Stuart Borden (Huntley Gordon) and his wife (Irene Rich) are not exactly happily...
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Stuart Borden, Jr.
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1925
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After leaving D.W.Griffith's stock company, Henry B. Walthall tended to flounder for several years in such indifferent...
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The millionaire
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1925
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This melodrama required less stunts than usual from dog star Rin-Tin-Tin and more "acting." Always the trouper, Rin-Tin-Tin...
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Donald Case
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1925
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Considering how unsympathetic Lowell Sherman's character was, this melodrama about Parisian high life made for questionable...
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Paul Yervedoff
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1925
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Young Bob Mannering (John Harron) is out for a ride with his fast-living pals when they're involved in a car accident which...
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Bob Mannering
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1925
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1924
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Hugh Belmont
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1924
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Jeanie Andrews (Dorothy Mackaill) wonders what to do when her husband loses his memory and she is left to fend for herself...
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Jeck Nelson
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1924
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This clever comedy-drama was based on the famed stage play by Avery Hopwood. All the actors gave enjoyable performances, even...
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1923
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Johnny Harron, brother of actor Robert Harron, heads the cast in this mediocre crime drama. Country boy Johnny Miller...
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1923
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Dulcy--better known as Dulcinea--was the cliché-spouting young bride created by newspaper humorist Franklin Pierce Adams....
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Billy Parker
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1923
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A classic melodrama is featured in this film that is listed as a romantic adventure. ~ Rovi...
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1923
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Larry Donovan
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1922
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14-year-old boys are far more sophisticated now than they were during the 1910s and 1920s, so this picture, based on the...
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Robert Williams
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1922
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This Peg O' My Heart-type character was a typical role for Shirley Mason. When her father is carted off to prison,...
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Glen Wharton
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1922
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For her fourth United Artists picture, Mary Pickford once again plays a poor little rich girl. This one, Jeanne, is so...
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1921
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The six-year-old son of director B. Reeves Eason, Breezy Eason Jr., was killed by a runaway truck during the filming of this...
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Dick Farwell
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1921
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1921
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Although this was a mediocre programmer at best, Jack Holt still manages to shine in an unsympathetic role. Actress Marie...
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1921
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On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director...
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1918
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