This second theatrical-feature spin-off of TV's Lone Ranger series stars, as ever, Clayton Moore as the Masked Rider of the...
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1958
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Keith Larsen stars as the Apache Kid, an Indian scout. He is willing to cooperate with the US cavalry until his brother is...
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Nantan
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1957
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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1956
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1955
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Malek
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1955
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The Paramount publicity department had a field day heralding the news that Charlton Heston portrays a Native American named...
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1953
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Bonzo Goes to College is the one that Ronald Reagan isn't in. The focus, of course, is on brainy chimpanzee Bonzo, who...
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1952
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It took nerve for director Joseph Losey to attempt a remake of Fritz Lang's classic chiller M, but by and large Losey was up...
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1951
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Though the hit song "Mule Train" is most closely associated with Frankie Laine, it was Gene Autry who first sang the tune on...
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1950
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1949
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Dick Powell stars as Canadian Mountie Sgt. Mike Flannagan. When Boston-bred Kathy O'Fallon (Evelyn Keyes) marries Mike, she...
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Mr. Howard
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1949
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Set in the early 1900s, Adventure in Baltimore is a romantic comedy about the woman's suffrage movement. Shirley Temple plays...
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1949
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1949
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1947
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Carlotta Duval (Vera Ralston) is willing to help her boyfriend George McAllister (John Carroll) get his hands on his ailing...
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1947
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A man's addiction to gambling almost destroys his life in this racetrack adventure. Joe Grange is nearly broke when he buys...
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1947
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In the RKO swashbuckler Sinbad the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. nostalgically emulates his famous father. The first seven...
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1947
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Future TV writer/producer Don Castle heads the cast of Monogram's Perilous Waters. Most of the action takes place aboard the...
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1947
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In this adventure, a devoted fiancee journeys to the jungle to take on the terrifying Amazon women who have been holding her...
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1947
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Republic contractee Don Barry plays private eye Tom Dwyer, whose ability to irritate both cops and crooks alike hides his...
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1946
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In this comedy drama, a butler and a crap-shooting chauffeur find themselves having the run of their employer's mansion...
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1946
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British character actor Lionel Atwill, in his final performance, appeared as a power-mad Englishman attempting to rule the...
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1946
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1946
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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1945
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Edward Dmytryk's Back to Bataan stars John Wayne as Colonel Joe Madden. After General MacArthur decides to follow his order...
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1945
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Wildfire was the first release from Screen Guild Productions, the adventuresome little independent that would eventually...
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1945
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I Accuse My Parents was one of PRC's entries in the "wartime juvenile delinquent drama" sweepstakes, as exemplified by such...
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Dan Wilson
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1945
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The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly...
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1944
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1944
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Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for...
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Craig
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1943
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The plot of the Pine-Thomas adventure quickie Submarine Alert is more than a little beholden to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps....
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1943
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A major moneymaker for RKO Radio, Bombardier stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott as trainers at a school for bomber pilots....
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1943
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John Garfield was borrowed from Warner Bros. by RKO Radio for the tense espionage melodrama The Fallen Sparrow. Garfield is...
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1943
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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1943
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A better-than-average crime thriller from Poverty Row company Monogram, the plainly titled Criminal Investigator (aka Crime...
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1942
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In this musical comedy set during WW II, a circus aerialist desires to be closer to her lover, a soldier. When she finds...
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1942
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Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big...
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1942
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The title neatly gives away the ending in RKO Radio's Scattergood Survives a Murder. Guy Kibbee once again stars as...
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1942
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This back-stage romantic comedy pokes fun at Hollywood cowboys as it tells the story of a champion rodeo rider who is...
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Bob Roycroft
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1941
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This Monogram quickie stars Richard Cromwell as Dr. Tom, an idealistic young tenement-district physician. When his best pal,...
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1941
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The studio concocted the film as a showcase for its 9-year-old discovery Joan Carroll, here cast as precocious Bridget...
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1941
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1941
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In this action film, an officer is thrown off the force by his father the chief of police. The bitter ex-cop then joins a...
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Nick
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1941
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In this war drama, a commercial pilot joins the air corps of a South Pacific island, and there he finds that he must contend...
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1941
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature...
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Nicholas Tower
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1940
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Paramount's "B" pictures of the early 1940s were generally more interesting than their star-studded "A"s, as witness...
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Assistant District Atty. John Marlin
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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In this B movie actioner, a plucky female cub reporter is determined to get her boss a front page scoop and so finagles a...
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1940
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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1940
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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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Dr. Dolan
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1939
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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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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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Harry Kurnitz' fictional book-dealer/detectives Joel and Garda Sloane appeared in three MGM "B"s of the late 1930s, each with...
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1939
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1939
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Louis Rankin
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1938
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A macho Cossack immigrant to the U.S. goes West and joins a ring of rustlers. Later his son follows him to states and he too...
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Lt. Col. Stuart
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1938
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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1938
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1938
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Based upon the book The Four Marys, by Fanny Heaslip Lea, Man-Proof involves members of the smart and sophisticated set of...
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1938
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1937
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North of Nome is where the audience is first introduced to jut-jawed seal hunter John Raglan (Jack Holt). When he's not busy...
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Dawson
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1937
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Private Number is the old saw about the wealthy young man who marries his family's serving girl. This time Richard Winfield...
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1936
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In this drama, set at the turn-of-the-century an ingenious young jockey finds his reputation sullied by criminals. He...
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Baltimore
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1936
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The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such...
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Bill Holt
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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1936
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Fabled Broadway comedian Joe Cook, who hadn't been seen on screen since 1930's Rain or Shine, essayed the title role in...
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1936
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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1935
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In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen...
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Graham Scott
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1935
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The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his...
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Dufresno
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1935
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Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS...
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Gordon Douglas
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1934
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Ace Lamont
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1934
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In the tradition of the classic scare piece Banquo's Chair, The Ghost Walks features one phony spectre and one supposedly...
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Prescott Ames
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1934
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In this horror movie, a psycho professor experiments on resuscitating the dead. One night a prowler comes to rob his house....
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1934
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Frank Wilson
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1934
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One of several variations of the "Mata Hari" and "Fraulein Doktor" legends, Universal's Madame Spy is set during WW I....
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Weber
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1934
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William Gargan plays his first movie detective (but definitely not his last) in Columbia's The Lineup. The hero, a gumshoe...
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Fields
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1934
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The basic difference between the Chesterfield and Invincible productions of the 1930s is that most of the Chesterfields were...
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Jerry Van Trevor
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1934
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No relation to the 1949 20th Century-Fox melodrama of the same name, Columbia's 1934 Whirlpool stars Jack Holt as a shifty...
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1934
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In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
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1934
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In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer...
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Butch Lorado
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1933
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In this crime-comedy, an aspiring pulp writer elopes with a young woman and ends up in a boot-legger's lair. There he...
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Charlie
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1933
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In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a...
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1933
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A man on the wrong side of the law has a chance to turn over a new leaf in this crime drama. Edward Carson (Spencer Tracy) is...
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William Bennett
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1933
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In this boxing drama/murder mystery, an aspiring small-town prizefighter ignores the objections of his pacifistic father, a...
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Walter Douglas
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1933
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J. Phineas Stevens (Lee Tracy) is a personal injury lawyer whose practice has become a nightmare to any number of defendants,...
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Calhoun
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1933
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Regan
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1933
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Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A...
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1933
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Having confessed to murder, Nora Moran (Zita Johann) sits sadly on death row, waiting her date with the electric chair. In...
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Paulino
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1933
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In director Leo McCarey's film The Kid From Spain, actor Eddie Cantor plays mischievious college boy Eddie Williams, who,...
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Pancho
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1932
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Prefect of Police
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1932
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of...
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1932
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Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom...
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1932
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Directed by Harry Beaumont, the courtroom drama Unashamed stars Robert Young as Dick Ogden, who will do anything to protect...
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District Attorney Harris
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1932
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Night Court is one of those pictures that "hooks" the viewer with one audacious plot twist after another. Walter Huston is...
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1932
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Directed by Victor Fleming, Wet Parade chronicles the effects of alcoholism and the Prohibition on the lives of two families...
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1932
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Maggie Warren (Marie Dressler) is the matriarch of a banking family who has run the Warren Bank for years, until she turns it...
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1932
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"Are you listening?" was the catchphrase of early-1930s radio personality Tony Wons. Though Wons does not appear in the 1932...
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1932
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Flesh was one of the few big-studio films to deal with the subject of professional wrestling--at least until Hulk Hogan came...
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Joe Willard
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1932
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A talented cast does its best with a nonsensical script in The Rich are Always With Us. Ruth Chatterton stars as a witty...
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Greg Grannard
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1932
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Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper...
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District Attorney
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1932
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter is left by his money-grubbing showgirl wife who aspires to be a movie star. The...
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Paul H. Lewis
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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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1931
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Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer...
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1931
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An young boy is en route to Bombay with his wealthy father when they are ambushed by highwaymen and his father is mortally...
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1931
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In this comedy, a female mayoral candidate promises to rid the town of gangsters. She joined the race in the first place...
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1931
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Not every Greta Garbo film is an imperishable classic; this was seldom truer than in the case of her repetitious 1931 vehicle...
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1931
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Joan Crawford is her usual upwardly mobile self in this melodrama co-starring Clark Gable. She plays Marian Martin, a cynical...
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1931
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In this historical drama, set in 1775, the hardships faced by a courageous band of settlers traveling from Virginia to...
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1931
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It was once theorized by critic Andrew Sarris that this 1931 Greta Garbo vehicle was subtitled "Her Fall & Rise" rather than...
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Burlingham
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1931
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Inspector Burke
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1930
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1930
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In this comedy, a radio announcer works at the same station as a bogus psychic who while ostensibly answering fan letters on...
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Prof. Kruger
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1930
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This wonderful Warner Bros. epic was one of the earliest talkie musicals with a Hollywood background -- and the last of its...
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Frank Buelow
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1930
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A remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly...
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Prosecuting Attorney
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1930
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"Sea Bat" is another name for the poisonous sting rays that trouble swimmers in warmer ocean climes. The story is set upon a...
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Juan
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1930
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In this crime drama, a policeman marries a nightclub hostess. Together, they move into a cramped, ramshackle apartment....
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1930
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In this drama, a junkman, Maurice Chevalier in his American film debut, rescues a drowning boy from the Seine. The boy's...
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1929
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This romantic drama marks the first talking movie done by popular silent film star Adolph Menjou who plays a philandering...
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Frank Martin
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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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This romantic adventure chronicles the escapades of one of Napoleon's followers. After his leader's exile, the follower is...
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DeGrignon
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1929
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To sophisticated filmgoers of 1929, the designation "queen of the nightclubs" could mean only one person: Colorful Manhattan...
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1929
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Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in...
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Bennock
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1929
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Writer/director/actor Willard Mack took one look at the blockbuster stage play Broadway and said to himself "I can do that,...
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Wilkes
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1929
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This cookie-cutter William Haines vehicle was filmed in part at the Indianapolis Speedway. As usual, Haines plays a fresh...
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Lee Renny
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1929
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After literally inventing the movie musical with The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. purchased the motion picture rights to the...
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1929
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In this adventure set in South America, the captain of a yacht moored there is really a fugitive criminal. The passengers...
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1929
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In this essentially silent drama, a cultured Southern belle must work in a gambling house after her deeply indebted father...
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1929
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An early independently produced "part-talkie," this Tin Pan Alley melodrama starred future director Arthur Lubin as Benjamin...
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1929
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Most of the films of silent screen starlet Olive Borden have apparently been lost to the ages, and Columbia's The Eternal...
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Gil Marlin
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1929
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Unable to utilize the original George Gershwin score, this silent version of the Broadway musical Lady Be Good concentrates...
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Murray
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1928
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1928
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The romance between Jerome Bonaparte and Baltimore debutante Elizabeth Patterson was given the full treatment by Warner...
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Preston
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1928
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Onoto (Myrna Loy) is slated to be sold to a wealthy Mandarin, but is rescued from the auction block by white fugitive from...
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Gregory Kent
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1928
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May McAvoy plays the nose-in-the-air title character in Warner Bros' The Little Snob. The daughter of Coney Island...
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1928
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Land of the Silver Fox was one of the last silent starring vehicles for celebrated canine star Rin Tin Tin. In this one,...
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James Crawford
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1928
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1928
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Advertised as a talking picture, the 6-reel Women They Talk About contains only 2 reels of sound. Widowed Irene Mervin Hughes...
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1928
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A wealthy man hits the half-century mark and promptly suffers a mid-life crisis in this silent romantic comedy. Like...
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1928
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1927
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A rare surviving melodrama from small-scale Gotham Productions, The Final Extra features Grant Withersas Pat Riley, a...
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1927
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Quarantined Rivals was based on the stage farce by George Randolph Chester. Per the title, a pair of young lovers, played by...
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1927
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This minor Columbia effort is a cautionary fable against alcohol abuse. Despite the efforts of a pious minister, two pretty...
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1927
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The venerable stage drama The World and His Wife formed the basis for the MGM production Lovers?. Ramon Novarro and...
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1927
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Even in the early stages of his Warner Bros. career, director Michael Curtiz was eager and willing to tackle any sort of...
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Lt. Kellogg
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1927
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Maurice
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1927
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It would seem that Warner Bros. was trying to develop hoydenish Louise Fazenda and diminutive Clyde Cook into a screen team,...
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Mark Krisel
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1927
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In this silent crime drama, a clown comes home and finds his wife in bed with his colleague. He naturally flies into a...
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Bert Colton
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1927
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One of the most readily available features of the silent era, The Yankee Clipper is happily also one of the best. A pre-...
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Richard
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1927
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"Rough House Rosie" Reilly (Clara Bow) just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Hoping to become a Broadway actress, Rosie...
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1927
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One would never guess that the idea for this maudlin exercise sprang from the mind of the usually reliable Anita Loos....
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Grant Payne
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1927
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1927
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Personable Owen Moore starred in this romantic comedy from Warner Bros. featuring Dolores Costello. About to marry his...
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Hugh Frazer
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1927
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New York subway guard Barry Baline (Monte Blue) is struck down by a speeding car on New Years' Eve. The driver, a mentally...
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Johnson Craigie
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1927
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Based on the George W. Sutton Jr. story Dawn of My Tomorrow, Framed turned out to be another winner for box-office "reliable"...
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Lola's Husband
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1927
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Don Luis
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1927
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Long before he was established as screendom's Charlie Chan, Warner Oland was Warner Bros.' "all-purpose" character actor,...
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Victor Smith
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1927
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The Silver Slave is Bernice Randall (Irene Rich), who marries for money rather than love. This she has done for the sake of...
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Philip Caldwell
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1927
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1926
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1926
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In the tradition of the venerable stage comedy The Gold Diggers, Footloose Widows zeroes in on two girls who hope to land...
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1926
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This romance featured respected old-timers (Pauline Frederick in a starring role and Leah Baird as screenwriter) and a fresh...
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Andre LeFevier
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1926
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Lieberkind
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1926
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Henri
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1926
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Lon Chaney stars as Erik, the Phantom, in what is probably his most famous and certainly his most horrifying role. Produced...
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1925
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The Unnamed Woman stars veteran film player Leah Baird, who also wrote the script. The actress plays the greedy, covetous...
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Archie Wesson
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1925
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In spite of the warnings of his friend, Stuart Ames (Holmes E. Herbert), Grant Demarest (James Morrison) persists in seeing...
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Maurice Dysart
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1925
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Based on a play by Louis Anspacher, The Unchastened Woman starred Elsie Ferguson as the title character, aka Grace Valentine....
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1925
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This drama was based on the novel The Love Serum by Gouverneur Morris. Bootlegging lovers Joe Strickland (Conway Tearle) and...
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1925
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Veteran cowboy star Harry Carey starred in the title-role in this fine silent Western produced by Hunt Stromberg for Cecil B....
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Jim Downing
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1925
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After several years' absence, seafaring young boy Dan O'Neil (Malcolm McGregor) returns to his hometown. He quickly discovers...
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Jasper Thorne
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1925
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Polly Freeman (Dorothy Sebastian, then a fresh newcomer from Ziegfeld's Follies) is a frivolous young girl who goes West and...
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1925
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Milt Kimberlin (John Bowers) is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and engaging...
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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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Clifton Venable
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1924
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This formulaic drama didn't miss a cliché -- there was the small-town boy with big dreams (Kenneth Harlan), his old mother...
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1924
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