The Firechasers, a British film, was given what was assumed to be an added boxoffice boost by having an American star,...
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1970
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Director John Ford traveled to England to film this adaptation of the novel by J.J. Maraca, which details a typical day in...
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1958
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In this crime drama, a Yankee rocket scientist stationed in Great Britain becomes an undercover investigator when he...
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1958
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In this African adventure set in Kenya, a woman gets involved in a love triangle involving a big-game hunter. ~ Sandra...
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1957
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In this British comedy, a young man resorts to spying, extortion and just plain begging after he learns that he is to be...
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1957
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Story of Esther Costello is the cinematic equivalent of eating a whole box of potato chips; you may hate yourself, but you'll...
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1957
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In this drama, Madeleine Damien (Hedy Lamarr) is a successful magazine editor with a free-spirited private life, but a number...
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Felix Courtland
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1947
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Alexandre Dumas' famous fictional count gets revenge in this lively sequel to the original story. The Monte Cristo count...
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1946
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In this comedy, an adaptation of the play The Animal Kingdom, a liberal, social reformist photographer falls in love with a...
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1946
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Columbia Pictures' entree into the swashbuckling genre was the opulent 18th century costumer The Fighting Guardsman. Willard...
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Sir John Tanley
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1945
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Rainsford
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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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Dr. Matt Adams
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1945
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John Loder plays a prominent London actor, lately starring in a play about a maniacal strangler. When the theatre is bombed...
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Reginald
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1945
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A bit "artier" than most Republic melodramas, Jealousy was directed by Gustav Machaty, the Czech expatriate famous for the...
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Dr. David Brent
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1945
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Despite a few Hollywood compromises, The Hairy Ape remains one of the more artistically successful filmizations of Eugene...
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Second Engineer Tony Lazar
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1944
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Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on-...
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1944
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Allan Dwan directed this light-hearted service comedy starring William Bendix (best known from the television series The...
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Cyril North
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1944
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The oft-filmed story of the WW I espionage agent known as "Fraulein Doktor" was given another go-round in the British Under...
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Lt. Peter Carr
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1943
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At 49 minutes, Murder on the Waterfront was the shortest-ever Warner Bros. B picture. Alas, brevity is not the soul of wit in...
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Lt. Cmdr. Holbrook
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1943
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Preston Drake
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1943
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A Warner Bros. attempt to ape the success of the Universal horror films, The Mysterious Doctor is a moody little piece...
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Sir Henry Leland
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1943
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Its wartime setting notwithstanding, the fast-paced Warner Bros. B-picture Adventures in Iraq is a remake of the 1930...
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George Torrance
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1943
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the...
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1942
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In this espionage drama, a battle-fatigued British commando is diagnosed as clinically insane by doctors who are in reality,...
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Capt. Craig Killian
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1942
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With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who...
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Paddy Carson
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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Clinton DeWitt
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1942
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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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Cmdr. Peter Walmsley
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1941
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Don Ameche, an American news bureau chief stationed in London, is frustrated by the British government's censorship of his...
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Capt. Channing
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1941
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In this remake of the 1930 film of the same name, a bank robber suffers a war wound and undergoes plastic surgery. Upon his...
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Sir John Lasher
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1941
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Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining...
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1941
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British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some...
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Michael Barclay
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1940
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Characterized by some critics as a "South African western", Diamond Frontier stars Victor McLaglen as ruthless diamond hunter...
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Charles Clayton
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1940
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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1940
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This mystery is set aboard the Orient Express bound for Istanbul. There a French agent thwarts a scheme by revolutionaries...
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1939
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Maxwell Archer, Detective was adapted from Hugh Clevely's novel Meet Maxwell Archer. John Loder plays the famed ficitional...
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Maxwell Archer
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1939
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1939
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1938
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Owd Bob is a remake of the silent film of the same name, which in turn was based on a story by Alfred Olivant. Dominating the...
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David Moore
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1938
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Incredibly, Maurice Tourneur's 1938 romantic tragedy Katia has been designated as "delightful" by more than one film...
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1938
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While W.C. Fields poked fun at the asinine notion of a high-speed airplane with an open observation deck in...
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Inspector Jim Grant
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1937
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Henry Curtis
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1937
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Sixty-nine-year-old George Arliss at first seems an unlikely casting choice for Dr. Syn, the 18th-century...
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Denis Cobtree
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1937
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The oft-filmed life of Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is again cinematized in this elaborate but ponderous British...
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Prince Lopkonitz
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1936
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Gitta Alper is cast as Mme. Marguerite Savini, a celebrated Hungarian opera star. Her romance with British intelligence...
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Richard Carter
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1936
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Hollywood leading-man John Lodge later became governor of Connecticut. Before he turned to politics, however, Lodge found...
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Capt. Wiltshire
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1936
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Derek Cooper
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1936
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Attractive scientist Dr. Clare Wyatt (Anna Lee) fondly declines the proposal of journalist Dick Haslewood (John Loder), who...
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Dick Haslewood
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1936
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Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife...
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Ted Spencer, the police officer
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1936
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1935
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Ratoff is a lion tamer who hears that a rival of his has died by a lioness. Ratoff adopts the daughter of the deceased man,...
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Trelawney
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1935
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After spending time working as dialogue director on a number of films, Carol Reed made his directorial debut as co-director...
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1935
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Peter Haddon plays Dorothy L. Sayers' amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey in the Anglo-American The Silent Passenger. A...
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1935
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In this crime thriller, a renowned German crime scientist becomes the victim of a con and loses his life savings. To get his...
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Inspector Yorke/Barraclough
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1934
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Set in the mythical kingdom of Ruritania, this romantic comedy centers on an enamored prince who abdicates his position to...
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1934
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A man's love for his wife overcomes his hatred for the family that brought her up in this period romantic adventure. Jan Ridd...
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Jan Ridd
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1934
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In this musical-comedy, a good-hearted composer sees a beautiful woman at a traffic light and is inspired to write a song....
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Harry Berne
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1934
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1934
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In this British comedy, a plucky Lancashire millworker is out of a job when her mill is forced to close for the summer. She...
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1934
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The Battle is the English-language version of the French La Bataille; both versions starred Charles Boyer in one of his...
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Fergan
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1934
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Filmed in German and English back in 1932, this Pagliacci-like musical drama serves as a superb showcase for internationally...
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1933
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In this thriller, a detective pursues a fleeing murderer into an airport where the killer puts on a disguise and boards a...
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1933
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Big Bill Summers (Cyril McLaglen) is the undisputed king of the dirt-track motorcyclists. He also fancies himself quite the...
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Mitch
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1933
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Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII....
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1933
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In this classic two-reel comedy from the Hal Roach Studio, blonde Thelma Todd and plain-Jane ZaSu Pitts are depressed because...
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1932
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1932
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Quite popular when first released, Wedding Rehearsal is a bit obscure today, which is a shame when one considers the talented...
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"Bimbo"
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1932
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The first of director John Ford's three films for 1931 was the now-forgotten The Seas Beneath. Essentially a reworking of...
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1931
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So many silent favorites had fallen by the wayside with the comic of talkies that one shouldn't be surprised that canine star...
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George Castle
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1930
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Other Men's Wives, a play by Walter Hackett, was the source for this early-talkie comedy-melodrama. The scene is a sinister...
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1930
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Alfred Hitchcock's second talkie was a surprisingly static adaptation of the Sean O'Casey stage drama Juno and the Paycock....
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1930
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In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and...
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1930
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Silent screen sweetheart Corinne Griffith, who originally wanted to retire when talkies came in, proved the wisdom of her...
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Walter Harker
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1930
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In her second film, Broadway actress Ann Harding plays the vacationing wife of a judge who finds herself blackmailed by a...
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Carl Weild
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1930
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In this comedy, a boarding house owner becomes the confidant and advisor to a number of troubled gangsters and racketeers....
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1930
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In this romantic drama, a wealthy, young heiress suffers from ennui and begins rebelling against the restrictions of her...
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1929
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Produced in Hollywood by Herbert Wilcox, who had been unable to obtain sound equipment in London, this "haunted house"...
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1929
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The Doctor's Secret was adapted by director William C. DeMille from James M. Barrie's play Half an Hour. After marrying...
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Hugh Paton
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1929
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This late-20s gangster movie features Carole Lombard as a young gal who agrees to marry a smooth-talking gangster in exchange...
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Jack Oakhurst
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1929
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A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled...
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1929
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Filmed at glorious locations on the Navajo reservation at Tuba City and in Flagstaff, AZ, this Zane Grey adaptation stars...
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Ashleigh Preston
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1929
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Dick Westfield
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1928
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1928
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1928
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Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928....
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1927
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Originally released as Madame Wunscht Keine Kinder, this Alexander Korda production served as a showcase for the...
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1926
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