Though the most famous and controversial of the WWII "shell shock" documentaries, John Huston's Let There Be Light, was...
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Director
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1948
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A superior Hopalong Cassidy Western, The Leather Burners benefits from a good script by Joe Pagano. In trouble with a gang of...
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1943
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Though the film is called Speed Devils, the only racetrack scenes occur at the very beginning of the picture. After cracking...
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1935
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"East is East, West is West, Never the Twain Shall Meet." That's the lesson to be learned in the low-budget exotic romance...
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Director, Producer
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1930
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"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief played by Ian Keith....
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Director
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1929
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The fact that "all-American" leading man Reginald Denny spoke with a pronounced British accent somewhat worked against his...
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1929
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This 1929 drama about mistaken identities contains three eight minute scenes that involve talking. The rest of the film is...
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1929
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Although a humble stable boy, Ben Lyon is a whiz when it comes to medical know-how. This endears Lyon to his boss, Fred...
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Director
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1929
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Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Mary Astor tearfully breaks off her engagement with Lloyd Hughes, hoping to...
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1928
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1928
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A mother stows away on a ship in order to be close to her long-lost son in this seafaring melodrama from small-time company...
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Director
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1928
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A rather muddled prize-fighting melodrama from low-budget company Gotham Productions, United States Smith featured former...
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1928
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1927
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Thanks to constant exposure in excerpt form in scores of silent-movie compilations, Play Safe is the best-known of the...
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1927
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The lonesomest of the titular lonesome ladies is Polly Fosdick (Anna Q. Nilsson), the wife of wealthy John Fosdick...
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1927
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1927
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A reasonably well-received silent comedy, The Broadway Boob was Merton of the Movies all over again, but with a change of...
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1926
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1926
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This routine romantic comedy was slight of plot and light on name actors. Joseph Schildkraut plays Nicholas Alexnov, an...
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Director
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1926
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Silent screen idol Rudolph Valentino made his next-to-last screen appearance in this romantic comedy/drama. Count Rodrigo...
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1925
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Glenn Hunter was still riding high from his success with Merton of the Movies, and in just a few weeks his co-star, Constance...
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Director
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1925
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Tully Marshall plays "the Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering...
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1924
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1924
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An attorney (Thomas Meighan) becomes the intermediary between an Indian tribe and the territory's settlers in this fine...
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Director
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1924
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Paramount gave their newest star, an adolescent Douglas Fairbanks Jr., every advantage in his film debut. As support, young...
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Director
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1923
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Hefty comedian Walter Hiers stars in this tepid comedy. Jimmy Kirk (Hiers) is a soda jerk in love with Mamie Smith...
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Director
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1923
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Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from...
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Director
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1923
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This farcical melodrama starring Jack Holt was a pleasant program feature. Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has...
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Director
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1923
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Virile Jack Holt was perfectly cast as the title character in this brawling South Seas drama. New Yorker Robert Kendall...
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1922
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Although this comedy had an awful lot of inconsistencies, it still was an nicely entertaining programmer -- plus it had the...
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1922
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A young cowboy turns vigilante after his father is killed in this fine silent Western filmed on location in blistering...
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1922
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Missing Millions was inspired by "A Problem in Grand Larceny", one of the many "Boston Blackie" stories by Jack Boyle. David...
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1922
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This Western -- which like many silent-era pictures was based on a Saturday Evening Post story (this one by Peter B. Kyne) --...
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1922
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Before Paramount produced this well-received version of Edward White's novel Conjurer's House, it had been made into a play...
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Director
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1921
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Mary Miles Minter once more emulates her great rival Mary Pickford in Don't Call Me Little Girl. Ms. Minter plays a Miss...
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Director
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1921
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The Edgar Jepson novel, Ann Annington, was first made into a play, Ann, and then developed as a pleasant light comedy vehicle...
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Director
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1921
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When an Arizona ranchman (Willard Louis) is elected senator, he heads for Washington with his daughter, Judith Baldwin (Mary...
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1921
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Director
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1920
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This lively silent romantic comedy was the second film made by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for the new United Artists company. Much...
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First Assistant Director
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1920
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At first Louise Glaum, famed for her vamp roles, seems to be a bit miscast in this seven-reeler -- Mary Norwood (Glaum) is...
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1920
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1920
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Director, Screenwriter
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1919
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Director, Screenwriter
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1918
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Rancher Warren Bronson (Herbert Standing) is plagued by cattle rustlers, so he gets Western detective Fancy Jim Sherwood...
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Director
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1917
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When John Webster, a leader in high finance, dies, he leaves the Webster Trust Company to his daughter Janice (Dorothy Gish)....
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Director
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1917
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Before becoming famous for her amusing comedies, Dorothy Gish did a number of dramas for the Triangle studios. This was one...
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Director
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1916
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First Assistant Director
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1916
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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John Hale
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1915
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