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1914
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An all-star cast (by Ince Productions standards, that is) distinguished the domestic drama Home. Bessie Barriscale plays...
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1916
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William S. Hart took a respite from his "good-badman" groove to play a preacher in Apostle of Vengeance. Ministering to one...
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1916
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Just in case there was any doubt, the plot of Wooden Shoes begins in Holland, where we are introduced to heroine Pampy...
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1917
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An amusing picture which was shot at the brand new Ince Studios in Culver City, future home of MGM. William Desmond plays...
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1917
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In this light comedy, Charles Ray does a typical turn as a country bumpkin who makes good. Ray plays Joel Parker, who is sent...
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1917
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Louise Glaum, one of the more successful "vamp" rivals of Theda Bara, stars in An Alien Enemy. Set during World War I, the...
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1918
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The Biblical title And a Still, Small Voice was applied to this tale of crime and redemption. Henry B. Walthall plays a bank...
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1918
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1918
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From all outward appearances, Harvey Deering (John Gilbert) is a fine, upstanding young citizen, and thus his father Lemuel...
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1918
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Although Henry Walthall's career went downhill after he stopped working with D.W. Griffith, occasionally he would appear in a...
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1918
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1919
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Dauntless Dustin Farnum stars in the rugged western Man in the Open. A retired sailor, Farnum heads to the wide open spaces,...
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1919
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1919
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A group of crooks in New York City's Chinatown hear about an old hermit (Joseph J. Dowling) in a small upstate village who's...
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1919
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Kitty Gordon plays real-life Red Cross nurse Adele Bleneau in this World War 1 drama. Captured by the Germans, Adele must...
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1919
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Kate Carewe (Alma Rubens) lords over the dancehall in a lawless gold rush town. When preacher Ralph Bowen (Albert Roscoe)...
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1919
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1919
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Small town politician and banker Brent Warren (Robert McKim) is responsible for a murder, but only George Roan (Joseph J....
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1920
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Veteran producer Benjamin B. Hampton had an affinity for filming the works of pulp writer Zane Grey. Grey's The Desert of...
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1920
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This comedy-drama was Olive Thomas' last film before her tragic poisoning death. Mary (Thomas) is "everybody's sweetheart" at...
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1920
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Manly William Desmond stars in this virile, low-budget Western. When Bud McGraw (Desmond) returns from the Great War, he is...
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James McGraw
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1921
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Robert McKim, who was a popular villain in silent films, has a more subtle and complex badguy to play in this adaptation of...
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Colonel Culpepper
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1921
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Uncle Peter Bines
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1921
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Although this was a mediocre programmer at best, Jack Holt still manages to shine in an unsympathetic role. Actress Marie...
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1921
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Mary Pickford was at the height of her fame as "America's Sweetheart" when she took on the challenge of playing two roles --...
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Haversham, the Earl's Counsel
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1921
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Katherine MacDonald essayed a dual role in the silent romantic romantic comedy Beautiful Liar. It seems that office girl...
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MacGregor
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1921
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This above-average British melodrama was based on "The Living Dead", a story by Mary Lerner. Bessie Barriscale stars as a...
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1921
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Director Allan Dwan does the best he can with middling material in this routine drama. When Arnold Barry (Niles Welch)...
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1921
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This murky, rambling Western was an adaptation of the stage play by Oliver Morosco. Cattle buyer Delmar Spavinaw (Wheeler...
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1922
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In spite of its dramatic foundation, this Western sported a few comic touches. This, however, didn't hide the tired plot...
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1922
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This virile drama, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures, was based on the novel by then-popular author...
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Don Miguel
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1922
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Dustin Farnum stars in this predictable Northwoods melodrama. As in The Yosemite Trail, the film he made just prior to this...
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1922
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Veteran silent star Henry Walthall shines in this drama, based on the novel by Frances Nimmo Greene. In spite of the...
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1922
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Ezra Wood, a Patriarch
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1922
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Based on the popular novel of rural life by Charles Felton Pidgin, this motion picture featured most of the star names that...
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1922
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For this tale of old California, producer Benjamin F. Zeidman put together an all-star cast. The governor of California...
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The Governor
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1923
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Having achieved fame and fortune in a series of bucolic country-boy roles, Charles Ray decided he was ready to become his own...
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1923
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Except for one low-budget production, Miriam Cooper had been away from the screen for over a year when she signed up with...
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Convict 565
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1923
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This old-fashioned drama was based on the novel Youth Triumphant by George Gibb. Patsy, a little slum girl (Virginia Lee...
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1923
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Hallam Cooley stars as a slick-haired slickster who comes to a small town to promote an oil well scam. So persuasive is...
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Zannon Carthy
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1923
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This tale of the Canadian Northwest was originally a stage play by Willard Mack and David Belasco. Belasco worked with Warner...
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Father Thibault
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1923
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This bizarre seafaring melodrama starred the ill-fated John Bowers (in 1936 he committed suicide by walking into the ocean,...
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David Rollins
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1924
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Wallace Beery displayed a special talent for playing villains, and he has an especially good one here. However, the other...
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Joseph Le Quintrec
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1924
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This melodrama was made nine or ten years before its release, and one has to wonder why it was released at all. In the first...
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1924
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William Tudor
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1924
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This drama was based on the novel Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene. Jonathan Swift (Frank Keenan) is a wealthy fish...
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Captain Bijonah Keeler
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1924
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The Priest
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1924
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1924
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Baby Peggy, a popular child star of the 1920s who grew up to become film historian Peggy Carey, who stars in The Law Forbids....
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1924
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Almost 30 years before the Peter O'Toole picture, Joseph Conrad's novel was first filmed as a silent. It was directed in...
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Stein
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1925
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Director Victor Sjöström gave MGM this well-crafted adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's novel, Kings in Exile. The King of...
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1925
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Olympe (Betty Compson) is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy...
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1925
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Patsy Ruth Miller plays a female Tarzan in this adventure drama. When John Livingstone marries a circus performer, his father...
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1925
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According to the Paramount publicity mill, Joseph Hergesheimer wrote this unoriginal tale of California's early days...
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Don Geraldo y Vilalon
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1925
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Ever since he was wounded in WWI, jockey Bobby Robertson (William Collier Jr.) has been able to predict when it's going to...
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Father Murphy
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1926
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The saga of the Jones Family continues in 1937's Borrowing Trouble. When Pa Jones's drugstore is robbed, the evidence points...
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1937
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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1938
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G-Man Bill Collins (Preston Foster) swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the...
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1939
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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1942
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