Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and...
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1944
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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In this 15-episode serial, Detective Spike Holland must solve the mystery of Garr Castle. He does so after he is hired to...
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1940
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A federal agent and a petty Naval officer are both investigating the theft of top-secret defense plans. Since neither one is...
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1939
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In what must have seemed like a good idea at the time, Grand National pictures attempted to build a series of westerns around...
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1939
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A bad seed tries to keep his older brother from making the same mistakes in this crime drama. The latter is a prize fighter...
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1939
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This adventure is the last entry in the "Renfrew of the Mounties" series. This time the tuneful Mountie travels to the north...
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1939
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1938
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Cheap-looking even by the standards of Grand National Pictures, Held for Ransom appears to have been completed several years...
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1938
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This independently-produced exploitationer is set in a nudist colony, populated almost exclusively by attractive young women....
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1938
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The first of six Ken Maynard Westerns produced on the cheap by the Alexander brothers, Max and Arthur, Whirlwind Horseman...
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Jim Radford
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1938
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A courageous Texas Ranger leaves his job to mediate a violent, long-standing dispute between his family and that of his...
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1937
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In this western, a citified writer of pulp westerns decides to head into the West to experience it first hand....
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Groth
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1937
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In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's...
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1937
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Based on the notorious Black Legion which had created quite a turmoil in Michigan a few years earlier, screenwriter Edmund...
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1937
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Although slow-moving at times, Aces and Eights is nevertheless a fine little Western and certainly the best of the ten Tim...
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1936
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The second of three serials produced by the Weiss Bros. for low-budget Stage and Screen Productions, The Clutching Hand...
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1936
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Though released by Republic, The Oregon Trail was actually filmed by the Lone Star unit at Monogram. John Wayne stars in a...
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1936
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Buck Jones was producing as well as starring in his own western series by the time Ride 'Em Cowboy hit the screen. A heady...
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Sam Parker
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1936
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1935
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1935
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This Western stars Kermit Maynard as a man who goes to jail for a crime actually committed by his brother and his gang. Upon...
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1935
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Unlike most low-budget B-Westerns, several of Hoot Gibson's vehicles from Diversion Pictures were based on a literary source,...
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1935
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Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers (played by Pat O'Brien...
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1935
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In this crime drama, a jockey, wrongfully imprisoned for riding at an "illegal" racetrack, escapes from prison just prior to...
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1935
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Based on "The King of Cactusville", a 1923 short story by Johnston McCulley, the creator of Zorro, The Outlaw Deputy was the...
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1935
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In this Western, neighboring sheep farmers engage in a long-standing feud over that results in tragedy. The problem began...
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1935
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Kermit Maynard, the talented brother of western favorite Ken Maynard, launched his own starring series for Ambassador Films...
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1934
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The distinguished Henry B. Walthall, a major star of the early silent screen, headlined this cheap whodunit that fully...
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1934
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Plodding through the dialogue-heavy script, this is still a timely movie topic. Dealing with white collar crime, this is the...
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1933
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Police officer Tom Malone is the only honest man left who can salvage his crooked city after his partner is killed on his...
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1933
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Former silent screen cowboy star Jack Hoxie played a Pony Express rider in this, the fourth of six low-budget oaters produced...
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1933
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In this drama, Joe Tomasso, a slightly corrupt gambler, goes completely straight after he catches an orphan hanging around...
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1933
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In this musical western, everybody sings, even the outlaws. The story follows a government agent who goes undercover as a...
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1933
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Produced by one of Hollywood's few women executives, Fanchon Royer, this inexpensive "Zorro" rip-off features future Cisco...
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Colonel Holbert
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1932
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The 1932 Tom Mix western talkie Texas Bad Man has much in common with the sombre silent efforts by Mix's former rival...
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1932
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The Crusader was one of the earliest efforts from Majestic Pictures, for many years the most ambitious of the independent...
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1932
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1932
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A vengeful cowpoke rides out for revenge against the cattle rustlers who killed his pa in this western. Along the way, he...
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1932
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The second of two projected John Wayne serials produced by genre expert Mascot Pictures, this film used the budget-saving...
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1932
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The concept of radio patrol cars was still brand-spanking new when this fast-moving programmer came off the Universal...
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1932
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1931
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To say that ace stuntman Richard Talmadge was invariably better than his movie vehicles is small praise, indeed, since most...
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1931
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A decidedly minor entry in the then-popular aviation melodrama cycle, The Sky Spider was the first film produced by sound...
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1931
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Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise....
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1931
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In this western, the leader of an outlaw band gets conned on a steamship voyage. To get revenge he holds the con man's...
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1931
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The answer to the question asked by small-scale Sono Art/World Wide Pictures in this minor crime drama was a resounding --...
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1931
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Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper enjoyed one of her few top-billed movie roles in the independently-produced thriller...
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1931
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Assigned by the police commissioner to catch a notorious gangster, a young police captain discovers that his adversary is a...
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1931
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In this comedy, a bumbling rube from a small town manages to get involved in a gang war. The trouble really begins when one...
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1931
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A remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly...
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1930
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1930
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In this drama, the children of a recently deceased firefighter are sent to an orphanage. Two other firefighters offered to...
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1930
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Made in 1930, this well-known sci-fi musical chronicles the adventures of a lightning-struck man who awakens to find himself...
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1930
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Rex Lease, Tiffany Studios' all-purpose leading man, heads the cast of Troopers Three. Eddie Haskins (Lease) and his buddies...
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1930
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The dashing Ken Maynard, who always warned that he sang loudly rather than well, finished his 1929-1930 stay at Universal...
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Martin Stavnow
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1930
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Intended as a follow-up (and improvement upon) the 1926 epic western The Vanishing American, Redskin was partially filmed in...
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1929
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Marceline Day plays two women in the late-silent Fox release One-Woman Idea. The actress is cast as haughty aristocrat Lady...
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1929
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The Girl from Havana is a kaleidoscopic early-talkie brew of comedy, melodrama, romance, and high-steppin' musical numbers....
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1929
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Most of Monte Blue's talking-picture career was spent in small character roles, but he was still regarded as a bankable...
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1929
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Stuntman extraordinaire Richard Talmadge starred in several movie vehicles in the 1920s and 1930s, few of which advanced the...
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1929
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1929
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A bookish Easterner (Hoot Gibson) is shipped off to a Western ranch for toughening up. Once on the ranch, he falls for a...
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Butts, Sr.
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1929
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Independently produced by one Frank McConnell, this minor western starred Jack Donovan and McConnell's daughter,...
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1928
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When Cecil B. DeMille's own production company was absorbed by Pathe in 1928, several DeMille contractees went along for the...
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1928
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Rival telephone companies race to complete a line between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Rawhide in this lively Tom Mix Western...
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Fremont Cody
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1928
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The success of First National's Harold Teen prompted Universal to cast gangly juvenile Arthur Lake as lead in Stop That Man....
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Capt. Ryan
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1928
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1928
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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
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1928
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1928
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The "Ladybirds" are a gang of crooks who prey upon the rich and famous. At present, the Ladybirds are at large in New Orleans...
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1927
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Producer-writer Frank Grandon reserved himself a juicy leading role in the low-budget Was He Guilty? This cautionary fable...
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Homer Moore
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1927
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In one of his several 1927 vehicles, action star Billy Sullivan plays wealthy Billy Mathewson, who is disowned by his father...
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1927
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Fireman Save My Child is an exceptionally well-constructed slapstick comedy, utilizing the talents of stars Wallace Beery and...
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1927
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A follow-up to the enormously successful Behind the Front, We're in the Navy Now reteams the stars of the earlier film,...
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1927
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Produced and directed by poverty row regular Duke Worne, this silent Northwest melodrama starred Napoleon (who, of course,...
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1927
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Starring Buck Jones, Fox's second-string cowboy hero, this fine silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized...
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1927
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Shield of Honor is predicated on the fact that, in 1927, several big-city police departments were contemplating formation of...
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1927
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Produced and directed by Harry J. Brown, this minor silent action melodrama starred former male model Reed Howes as a...
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1926
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Ace stuntman Billy Sullivan stars as Billy Meeks, who gets into hot water at the very start of the picture when he's forced...
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1926
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Filmed in majestic Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon, Utah, this Paramount Zane Grey Western starred Jack Holt as Nevada, a...
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1926
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Who better to star in Doubling with Danger than one of Hollywood's premiere stunt doubles, Richard Talmadge? "The Prince of...
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1926
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Popular silent screen light leading man Johnny Walker starred in this low-budget melodrama about a cub reporter helping the...
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1926
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Long before he became established as Hollywood's favorite headwaiter, character actor Gino Corrado enjoyed a brief fling at...
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1926
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Leon Kent (Walter McGrail) is a ne'er-do-well who throws wild parties. His wife eventually tires of him. She finds sympathy...
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1925
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Frank Merrill appears in this hackneyed melodrama in which he never drives the featured racecar alluded to by the title of...
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1925
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Motion Picture News warned that this melodrama, which was sentimental to the point of "hokum," would be better appreciated in...
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1925
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1925
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By 1925, the formula for Richard Talmadge features was down pat: give the actor a lot of impressive physical stunts, keep the...
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Clint Taggart
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1925
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This Richard Talmadge action picture based its premise on a current event -- in Great Britain, a "death ray" machine had...
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1924
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Action star Ben Wilson enjoyed a modicum of success as an independent producer in the 1920s. One of Wilson's least typical...
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1924
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Herbert Rawlinson starred in this silent, action melodrama based on Gerald Beaumont's Red Book Magazine serial. A tough...
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1924
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1924
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Most of the elements that made the first Potash and Perlmutter film so successful are brought back here: Frances Marion is...
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1924
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An unscrupulous gang attempts to corner the wheat market in this low-budget but popular serial from Universal starring future...
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1923
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A rancher comes to the assistance of an Indian prospector friend in this low-budget silent Western directed by genre star...
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1923
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Western star Tom Mix enjoyed doing comedy as much as performing daring stunts on his horse, Tony, and this film, about a...
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1923
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This above-average Tom Mix western contains one of the star's more spectacular stunts -- a jump on horseback across the...
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Annie's Father
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1923
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Pert Shirley Mason is the brightest spark in this Fox comedy-melodrama. Besse Belwin (Mason) works as a stenographer for...
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Belwyn
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1923
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This Universal melodrama took the "rescuing the hero at the last minute" ploy to ridiculous extremes. Milton Sills has the...
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1923
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Back in the 1920s one quality that benefited an actress was "the ability to wear clothes." The beautiful Katherine MacDonald...
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1922
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Serial star Ben Wilson produced and directed this lively potboiler. Ann Little plays the daughter of self-sacrificing...
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Col. George Bradley
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1922
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1922
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Sheriff
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1921
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After the father of Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey) is shot dead, His mother makes him promise to put down his guns. He agrees,...
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1919
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This Universal crime drama has an intricate, but not illogical plot. Peter James Slaney (William Sheer), who has just...
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1919
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Englishman Wade Hildreth (Darrel Foss) is sent to America by his employer, Richard Carlow. His assignment is to pick up a...
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1919
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Few directors were as successful in coaxing a convincing performance out of the beautiful but highly variable actress...
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1918
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Stenographer Marjorie Helmer (Dorothy Phillips) embarks upon the "risky road" when she agrees to be the kept woman of her...
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1918
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Blond Juanita Hansen, a runner-up to Pearl White and Ruth Roland in the serial queen sweepstakes, starred as Rosalind Joy,...
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1918
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During World War I, Erich von Stroheim wasn't the only "man you loved to hate." Rupert Julian also proved pretty hateful as...
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1918
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1918
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A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful...
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Judge Brant
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1917
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1917
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This Universal drama starred minor mid-1910s star Grace Cunard. Lena Rogers (Cunard) supports herself and her brother Paul...
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1917
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1917
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Based on a novel by Meredith Nicholson, The Lords of High Decision whisks the viewer into the rarefied world of millionaire...
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1916
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This Universal Studios melodrama gave King Baggot a juicy role. Jim Herron (Baggot) comes home to Virginia to find that his...
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1916
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The 1916 silent version of Jules Vernes' 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was "sold" on the basis of its advanced underwater...
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1916
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