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1936
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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1934
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Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and...
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1933
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The pleasures of the flesh confront the discipline of the Lord's teachings in this screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's...
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1932
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1931
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Divesting herself of her own production company, silent-screen queen Gloria Swanson entered into a two-picture deal with...
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1931
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In this elaborate big-budget musical, a handsome businessman follows a beautiful woman aboard a luxury liner and begins to...
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1931
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Based on "Bride 66", a tone poem by composer Herbert Stothart, The Lottery Bride takes place in a distinctly Hollywoodized...
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1930
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Magnificently restored by UCLA to its original "Grandeur" wide-screen format The Bat Whispers may not be a cinematic...
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1930
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This drama chronicles the rise of a famous Madame from casino hostess to king's mistress. Her story begins as she is being...
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1930
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1930
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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1930
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1929
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Terrified at the prospect of making her talking-picture debut, silent-screen queen Norma Talmadge spent several months taking...
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1929
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In this comedy, three GIs return home and discover that they have been officially listed among the dead. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1929
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1929
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Not the best of Buster Keaton's silents, Steamboat Bill, Jr. nonetheless contains some of Keaton's best and most spectacular...
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1928
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Long-reigning screen queen Norma Talmadge's last silent film (albeit with a synchronized musical score) was the exotic...
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1928
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The silent comedy feature College stars Buster Keaton as a scholarly young man who doesn't know beans about sports. When he...
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1927
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Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he...
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1927
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Sorrell and Son, the best-selling (and frequently filmed) British novel by Warwick Deeping, was afforded its first screen...
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1927
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Battling Butler has to be the strangest of Buster Keaton's silent features. Based on the musical comedy of the same name, the...
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1926
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1926
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1925
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Buster Keaton plays a young lawyer who will inherit $7 million at 7 o'clock on his 27th birthday--provided he is married....
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1925
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1925
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Polly Pearl (Norma Talmadge) is a bar manager who doubles as a cabaret performer in this romantic melodrama taken from the...
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1925
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On a train traveling from the West, Grenfall Lorry, an American (Eugene O'Brien), meets the mysterious and beautiful Yetive...
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1925
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Constance Talmadge was at the peak of her career when she made this comedy; she was also near the end of her career. The star...
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1925
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1924
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The enduring power of this silent-era comedy classic from director/star Buster Keaton can be ascertained simply by...
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1924
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1924
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1924
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Although Norma Talmadge was at the height of her stardom, she was not immune to poor material, nor was veteran screenwriter...
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1924
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Buster Keaton's third starring feature (discounting 1920's The Saphead, which was not conceived with Keaton in mind), Our...
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1923
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Thirty years after its release, Buster Keaton admitted that his first feature film was essentially three two-reel comedies...
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1923
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Although The Balloonatic was one of Buster Keaton's final two-reelers before he graduated to feature-length comedies, it has...
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1923
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The massacre of the Huguenots, previously dramatized in broad strokes by Griffith's Intolerance, served as the basis for...
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1923
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Deft light comedienne Constance Talmadge seems woefully out of place in this historical drama of 17th century England. It was...
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1923
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When Buster (Buster Keaton) is spurned by his sweetheart, he decides to forget by sailing around the world. He posts a letter...
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1923
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This is the second time Bayard Veiller's play made it to the silent screen (it would be made one more time in 1939 as a...
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1923
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Although this desert drama was not one of Norma Talmadge's best films, it is notable because the director was screen writer...
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1923
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The homely Longfellow poem about The Village Blacksmith"will never seem the same after viewing this two-reel spoof....
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1922
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1922
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Although it sounds ludicrous to slap a black wig on vivacious blonde Constance Talmadge and try to pass her off as a Chinese...
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1922
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Although Cops is one of the all-time great two-reelers, its creator, Buster Keaton, never thought much of it. He felt it was...
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1922
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Comic filmmaker Buster Keaton always had a love of gadgetry, and that interest in all things mechanical is allowed full...
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1922
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Buster Keaton collides head first with unholy matrimony in this hilarious two-reel comedy. A burly Irishwoman (Kate Price)...
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1922
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Buster Keaton stars in this two-reel comedy as the captive of hostile Indians. His captors tie him to a stake and prepare him...
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1922
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1922
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This two-reeler features the famous theater sequence in which Buster Keaton plays every role, from the stage actors to the...
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1921
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This two-reeler is one big chase film -- or, rather, it's two chases in one film. A drifter (Buster Keaton) is already on the...
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1921
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The first film that Buster Keaton made independently, High Sign portrays the filmmaker as a drifter in search of a job....
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1921
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The plucky little guy that comedian Buster Keaton portrayed throughout most of his two-reel silents is just about out of...
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1921
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While this isn't one of Buster Keaton's best two-reelers, it has some undeniably classic moments. Keaton plays a young bank...
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1921
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In what is perhaps Buster Keaton's most fatalistic short subject, the comedian portrays a husband who has been diligently...
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1921
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Constance Talmadge is clearly the driving force in this farce, based on A Man From Toronto by Douglas Murray. Flighty Leila...
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1921
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In 1922 Norma Talmadge was one of the most popular stars of the silent screen, but every now and then she'd wind up in a...
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1921
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Buster Keaton stars in the short black-and-white silent comedy The Neighbors, also known as Backyard and Mailbox. The story...
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1920
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Buster Keaton's two-reel work in the early '20s was incredibly rich -- nearly every picture is funny and even the shorts that...
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1920
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In Buster Keaton's second two-reel comedy to be released, he is golfing (though not very well) with a group of socialites. He...
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1920
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One Week was the first Buster Keaton-directed film to be released to the public (The High Sign was made earlier but shelved...
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1920
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1920
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This typical Norma Talmadge weeper casts Norma as a social half-caste. She may have had a millionaire daddy, but her mom was...
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1920
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1919
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This two reeler is basically an excuse for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle to make a mockery of various vaudeville turns and back...
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1919
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1918
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Long believed lost, the Fatty Arbuckle two-reeler Good Night, Nurse resurfaced in fragmentary form in the late 1970s. Seeking...
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1918
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1918
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Filmed in late December of 1917 and early January of 1918, the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle two-reeler The Bellboy was shipped to...
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1918
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Having shot his fist five Comique Film Corporation comedies in New York, star-director Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle moved his unit...
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1918
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In cinema's first few decades it was common for Caucasians to play Asian roles, and here Norma Talmadge is San San, the...
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1918
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1917
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This two-reeler by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle involves a man (Arbuckle) who escapes from his battle-axe wife Agnes Neilson by...
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1917
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Oh, Doctor! was the fifth of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's two-reelers for his own Comique Film Corporation (the unlettered...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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