Like the contemporaneous Columbia feature Party Wire, RKO Radio's Grand Old Girl paints a surprisingly bleak and cynical...
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1935
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James Barton plays a salty old sea captain on the verge of retirement, forced to return to the sea when his funds run out....
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1935
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With Shirley Temple heading the cast of Our Little Girl, it's a moot point as to who plays the title role. Temple is cast as...
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1935
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The "greatest gamble" in the life of Philip Eden (Richard Dix) is to restore his long-estranged daughter Alice's...
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1934
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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1934
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1934
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Lionel Barrymore plays one of those selfless general practitioners that seem to exist exclusively in the movies in One Man's...
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1933
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Based upon the phenomenally successful Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie covers a lot of ground in its short 60...
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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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1931
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A troubled production that suffered from both severe cuts and retakes under a different director (Edward H. Griffith), this...
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1931
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Made in the final years of director John S. Robertson's career, Night Ride is a crime drama starring Joseph Schildkraut as...
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1930
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W.B. Maxwell's novel served as a film vehicle for Alla Nazimova in 1924; in 1930 it made an even better (although...
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1930
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This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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1930
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Mary Nolan, whose own private life was as sensationally scandalous as any of her screen roles, starred in this...
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1929
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Worried that Greta Garbo's rich, deep voice and thick Swedish accent would not record properly, MGM executives kept Garbo in...
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1929
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Lars Hanson had recently appeared as Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter when he was called on once again to play a man...
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1927
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In this lavishly produced MGM production, the ethereal Lillian Gish is a bit more earthy than normal, due in part to the...
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1927
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The Road to Romance is a heavily Hollywoodized adaptation of the Joseph Conrad/Ford Maddox Ford novel Romance (which served...
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1927
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Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) studies music in Paris, but his parents (Lee Baker and Effie Shannon) call him home and ask...
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1925
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The silent Shore Leave was the first film version of the Hubert Osborne play of the same name (later musicalized as...
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1925
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1925
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1924
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The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes...
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1924
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Although Richard Barthelmess was one of the bigger stars of the silent era, not all his films were worthy of his talents....
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1923
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Richard Barthelmess plays completely against type in this romantic costume drama. Instead of the usual homespun boy, here he...
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1923
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This drama about Cuba's unsuccessful 1850 revolution was based on the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer. Andres Escobar...
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1923
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Not every film John S. Robertson directed could be Sentimental Tommy or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He also did his share of...
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1922
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Mary Pickford had recently put out a couple of mediocre pictures and her latest, Little Lord Fauntleroy, wasn't an immediate...
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1922
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Tommy Sandys (Gareth Hughes) is a poor Scottish boy who has an endless imagination. At the age of 16, he comes to the town of...
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1921
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This mediocre Constance Binney programmer nevertheless had a nice twist at the end. Whenever scullery maid Mary Malloy...
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1921
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Katherine Dereham (Alice Brady) believes herself to be in love with Prince Anton from the mythical kingdom of Argovinia...
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1920
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In 1920, filmgoers were treated to no fewer than two different film versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr....
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1920
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This light comedy, based on a none-too-successful play by Avery Hopwood, features Billie Burke as its fickle, feather-brained...
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1920
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Constance Binney starred in the stage version of this story (written by Rachel Crothers) before playing the same character in...
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1920
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Still in her ingenue stage (at age 35!), Broadway favorite Billie Burke stars in Away Goes Prudence. Burke plays a dizzy...
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1920
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Erstwhile Susan was based on Helen R. Martin's novel Barnabetta, which previously had served as the basis for a play by...
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1919
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1919
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Claudia Daingerfield (Marguerite Clark) is part of an aristocratic but impoverished Southern family. Her father...
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1919
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Written by Robert W. Chambers, who the following year would pen the scurrilous "red scare" novel The Crimson Tide, The Girl...
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1918
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This film was purely a showcase for the charms of ex-Follies girl (and future Glenda the Good Witch from The Wizard of Oz)...
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1918
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This drama was based on the Miriam Michelson novel Michael Thwaite's Wife, and it gave Alice Brady the chance to play a dual...
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1918
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Doctor Burnell (Herbert Prior) and his wife (Lelia Blow) adopt a baby from an orphanage because they believe theirs has been...
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1918
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Little Miss Hoover is not the story of a female vacuum cleaner salesperson. The title is a reference to Herbert Hoover, who...
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1918
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This capital-versus-labor drama has a novel twist. When a British ship captures an American smuggling craft, everyone escapes...
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1917
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Helen Ogden (Dorothy Kelly) inherits a mine after her father (Logan Paul) is killed in an explosion set off by his...
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1917
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Margaret Mayo's stage hit Baby Mine was a very slight piece, but evidently held out infinite fascinations for filmmakers: no...
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1917
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