The fifth of eight Metropolitan Bob Steele B-Westerns, The Pal From Texas featured the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to...
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1939
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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1939
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Gene Autry goes up against a crooked oil company in this delightful music Western restored in 2001 by Gene Autry...
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1939
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1938
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In this comedy, an American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in...
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1938
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Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937...
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1937
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The rollicking music of Gilbert and Sullivan is featured in this musical. It tells the story of a dance hall girl with a love...
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1937
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The first of three inexpensive serials produced by Louis Weiss for Poverty Row company Stage and Screen Productions, The...
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1936
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Produced by poverty row organization Stage and Screen, this less-than-faithful serialized version of the historical battle...
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1936
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Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less...
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1936
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Western star Buck Jones essays a dual role in Boss Rider of Gun Creek. In time-honored sagebrush tradition, one of the Bucks...
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Lafe Turner
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1936
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Caryl is played by Lois Wilde, but despite her title-character status Ms. Wilde is third-billed behind a pair of "juniors."...
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1936
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Now-forgotten actress Betty Compson largely made her mark in silent pictures, but like many performers of the era, found it...
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1936
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1936
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in...
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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1935
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Invincible Studios' Cross Streets is something of a watershed film, providing leading roles for fading silent stars...
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1934
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The legendary so-bad-it's-good serial The Lost City manages to keep the audience on its toes for 12 full chapters. It all...
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1934
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1934
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Return of Chandu is a 65-minute feature version of the 12-chapter Principal Pictures serial, based on the radio program...
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Chief Yogi
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1934
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A Somerset Maugham story was adapted for The Narrow Corner, a film about Man's inability to escape his destiny. Douglas...
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1933
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Having basically bankrolled the struggling Warner Bros., the era's most popular canine, Rin Tin Tin, signed a...
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Juan Valdez
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1932
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A wild stallion is blamed for "kidnapping" local mares to build a harem! Cowboy Jack Perrin, however, believes the real...
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Col. Van Horn
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1930
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This early sound western was cowboy-star Ken Maynard's second to last under his 1929-1930 contract with Universal. The...
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1930
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In this drama, a woman falls for a rumrunner who promises to quit bootlegging and marry her. But first he needs to make one...
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1930
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One of the most ambitious productions ever to emerge from parsimonious Tiffany Studios, Mamba is also one of the few 1930s...
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Count von Linden
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1930
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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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1929
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1929
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1929
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Well-known Hollywood producer and public-relations expert Russell Birdwell was the prime mover of the multi-part "actuality"...
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1929
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Produced and directed by Poverty Row entrepreneur Harry S. Webb, this very low-budget silent Northwest melodrama starred...
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1929
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Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (or is it all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic...
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Hazy
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1929
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Escaping from a revolution, the King (Joseph Swickard) of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds...
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The King
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1929
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Emmett J. Flynn had directed everyone from William S. Hart to Laurel and Hardy by the time he wielded the megaphone for his...
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1928
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1928
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George O'Brien stars as George, a footloose sailor who adheres to a philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em." While on leave in...
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1928
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Warner Bros. contractees Myrna Loy and Walter Pidgeon were "borrowed" by low-budget Lumas pictures for the 1928 military...
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1928
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Joan Forsythe (Molly Malone) arrives in the town of Cache D'Orr, near the Canadian border, to find and claim an inheritance...
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1927
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Don Hernandez Vasquez
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1927
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1927
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Duc deBellecontre
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1927
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One of the most frustrating items in the list of missing Bebe Daniels comedies, Senorita certainly sounds fascinating. When...
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Don Francisco Hernandez
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1927
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This portentously (and pretentiously) titled Fox Studios release stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of...
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1927
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Dapper "polite" comedian Raymond Griffith starred in this so-so vehicle. Griffith is cast as French Alfred Sava-Goiu, who,...
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Elvire's Father
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1927
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Although some elements of this drama smack of the tired ploys of Drury Lane melodramas -- the demand for either the payment...
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1926
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Supposedly based on the musical comedy of the same name, Stop, Look and Listen emerged as a typically slapsticky vehicle for...
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1926
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In one of his many low-budget action adventures for poverty row producer Harry J. Brown, former "Arrow Collar Man"...
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1926
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Former "Arrow Collar" man Reed Howes once again gets to show off his pecs in the low-budget Kentucky Handicap. Howes plays a...
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1926
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Sebastian Castaneda
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1926
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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1926
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The Night Patrol is a lesser vehicle for silent actor (Richard Talmadge). He plays Dick Bradley, an Irish policeman. Bradley...
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1926
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Filmed on location in Texas, this very minor silent crime drama starred Roy Hughes in the title role, a cop who catches a...
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1926
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In his first Western for First National and producer Charles J. Rogers, Ken Maynard played Don Luis O'Flagherty, a daredevil...
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Juan Estrada
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1926
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1926
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One of Ken Maynard's very best silent westerns, The Unknown Cavalier was filmed on locations in Death Valley, California....
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1926
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Gene Stratton-Porter's 1875 novel was still very widely read 50 years later, when it was made into a motion picture. James...
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Bee master
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1925
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One of the silent screen's better also-ran cowboys, Jack Perrin starred in this entertaining oater about a drifter who...
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1925
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1925
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Character actor William V. Mong rarely landed a role that was a real tour de force, but he has one -- or, rather, two -- in...
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Master
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1925
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As its title implies, this independently made, routine melodrama takes place in the Canadian North Woods. Raoul LaFane...
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1925
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Germaine (Alma Rubens) is unhappy when her parents force her into a marriage with the wealthy Lucien D'Artois (Jack Mulhall)....
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1925
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A minor mystery melodrama, producer Philip Goldstone's creaky The Verdict employed the oldest cliché of them all. Yes, the...
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1925
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This silent drama, based on the novel by the Countess de Chambrun, had quite a few unusual twists. Amy and Matthew Dale...
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1925
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Popular silent film comedian Larry Semon literally sold the ranch to secure film rights to L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz...
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1925
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Silent western hero Jack Hoxie assumes the guise of an avenging angel called "Whitehorse Cactus" when his father is killed...
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Hayes
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1925
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Joseph Ludani
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1925
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1924
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This standard but solid programmer was put out by a company called C.B.C., a Poverty Row studio derisively called "Corned...
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1924
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After her brilliant career in Europe, Pola Negri, came to America to make films for Paramount. Her first few pictures for the...
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Cleo's Father
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1924
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This mediocre romantic drama was vastly improved by the presence of a certain WAMPAS Baby Star (a popularity award given by...
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1924
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This so-so Jackie Coogan vehicle was based on the novel, A Dog of Flanders, by Ouida -- and the dog in the film, by the way,...
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Jan Van Dullen
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1924
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When old rancher Mark Ridgeway (Josef Swickard) passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to trusted...
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1924
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This odd program drama seemed out of pace with the Roaring Twenties, and is only redeemed by its excellent cast. The Southern...
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Michael Brescia
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1924
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Eugene Craig
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1924
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This mystical tale of India was based on the novel by E.M. Hull, the author of The Sheik, the book which became the film that...
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1924
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Dinky Dean plays a royal prince who is kidnapped as an infant by henchmen loyal to a villain (Sam De Grasse) who hopes to be...
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1923
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This adventurous drama of Russia's revolutionary days was based on the stage play by Earl Carroll. Wallace Beery -- at the...
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Prince Markoff
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1923
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Although rotund Walter Hiers was frequently seen in motion pictures all throughout the silent era, he was generally playing a...
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Estaban Juarez
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1923
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Gloria Swanson is My American Wife in this farfetched but entertaining romantic drama. Married to Argentinian horse rancher...
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Don Fernando deContas
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1923
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Janet Loring (Myrtle Steadman) marries millionaire Malcolm Trask (Frank Truesdell). The only catch is that she has to desert...
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1923
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This Northwest melodrama was based on the novel The Law Bringers by G. B. Lancaster. Andree Grange (Renée Adorée), the...
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1923
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This society drama only existed to give moviegoers of the Roaring Twenties a chance to see the wealthy behave scandalously in...
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1923
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Although its popularity didn't endure, The Cricket on the Hearth was originally the favorite of Charles Dickens' Christmas...
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Caleb Plummer
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1923
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One of the opening titles to this drama was "A mother-in-law is just a mother with another child to love" -- rather an...
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Newton Wingate
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1923
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Estelle Taylor, the off-screen wife of boxer Jack Dempsey, starred in this silent whodunit from newcomer Columbia Pictures....
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1923
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Pleasant-looking British-born Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent comedy-drama as look-alike cousins Stuart Granger and...
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1922
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Having served her apprenticeship as leading lady to Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, Alice Lake graduated to stardom in the...
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Leonati
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1922
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Based on Langdon McCormick's 1919 play, this silent melodrama stars Matt Moore and House Peters as War veterans sharing a...
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Jacques Fachard
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1922
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Manly Universal star Frank Mayo stars in this tale of the Northwest. Gilead, a lumber town, is divided into two halves: on...
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1922
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Although Frank Packard proved his talent by coming up with The Miracle Man, he was also responsible for the story to this...
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1922
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Having played a sheik, it only made sense to cast Rudolph Valentino -- whose first name was still being spelled Rodolph -- as...
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1922
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After a string of successes including Outside the Law and The Virgin of Stamboul, Universal gave director Tod Browning's next...
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1921
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Sylvia Lacey (Edith Roberts) is sent to relatives in New England when her irresponsible artist father dies penniless. She is...
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Sam Lacey
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1921
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Rosamond Athelstane (Anita Stewart) has been raised in a convent, ignorant of the fact that the woman who claims to be her...
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1921
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For all her life, Ruth Burns (Claire Anderson) has been kept in the dark about her father's line of work -- he is a...
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Jacques Marbot
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1921
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Instead of marrying any of her suitors, aristocratic Frenchwoman Cleo de Bromsart (Edith Storey) leaves on a cruise hosted by...
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1921
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This slow-moving, romantic adventure was certainly a family affair -- the director was Raoul Walsh, the star, Miriam Cooper,...
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Domingo Maticas
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1921
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Marcelo Desnoyers
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1921
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Although the story to this drama -- based on the novel, Barry Gordon, by William F. Payson -- was ludicrous, female filmgoers...
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1921
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Edith Storey plays a French girl who, as a child, wandered into an Arab tribe after her mother was murdered. The tribe raises...
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1920
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Theda Bara doesn't do much vamping in her follow-up to Salome. She is Lillian Marchard, nursemaid to the lecherous Mortimer...
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1918
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One of the big hits in 1917, this epic retelling of Dicken's classic tale features exceptional production values and special...
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1917
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William Farnum's features never failed to pack 'em in, no matter what the plot. In American Methods, Farnum plays a...
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1917
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1915
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin's 20th film for Keystone marks a turning point in his career. From this point on, with one exception, he was...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 12th film for the Keystone company was also his directorial debut, receiving co-directing credit with...
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1914
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In Charlie Chaplin's 21st Keystone film, Chaplin is the prop man and general factotum at a vaudeville house. The artists...
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Assistant Prop Man
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin once said, "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." In this, his 11th film for...
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1914
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Filmed during the Biograph Company's yearly winter excursion to sunny California, this one-reel Western melodrama features...
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1912
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