Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff...
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1959
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If Jet Pilot seems hopelessly out of date today, imagine how filmgoers in 1957 reacted when this relic from 1949 was taken...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1957
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Peking Express was the second remake of Josef vonSternberg's Shanghai Express. In the original film, a group of railroad...
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1951
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Best known to posterity as the third wife of Cary Grant, Betsy Drake enjoyed a substantial film career during the postwar...
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Screen Story
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1950
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Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters,...
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1947
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A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in...
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1947
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1946
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Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie...
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1944
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Perhaps Hollywood's greatest success du scandal of the 1940s, this odd psychological Western became a box office hit largely...
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1943
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1941
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This is the third film based on a story by Lajos Biro and Jules G. Furthman. The first two were silent films,...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1940
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Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes....
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1939
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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1938
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Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the...
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1936
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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1935
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Jean Harlow is the "bombshell" of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl...
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1933
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Marlene Dietrich stars as Helen Faraday, a German cabaret singer in the States whose husband, Ned, falls ill and his only...
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1932
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1932
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Based upon a much-filmed play by Michael Morton (which may in turn have been based upon a story by Frank Harris, The Yellow...
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1931
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This melodrama tells the tale of young American pilots who felt strongly about WWI before the US intervened. These men...
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1931
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1931
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In this drama a pianist-composer falls in love with the charwoman who cleans his boardinghouse room. Eventually, she too,...
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1931
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Ellen Neal (Constance Bennett) is a "nice" girl -- just turned 18 -- who's been picked up in a raid on a speakeasy where she...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Like so many campaigners before him, Gary Cooper joins the Foreign Legion to "forget." At a smoky cabaret in Morocco, Cooper...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi...
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1930
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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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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1929
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A lesser-known effort from director Josef Von Sternberg, The Case of Lena Smith has been unfairly chastised for all the wrong...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Anne Nichols' Broadway comedy Abie's Irish Rose was almost universally panned when it opened in 1923. But despite the moans...
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1928
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The smokily erotic ambience of Josef Von Sternberg's silent Docks of New York is best appreciated on a big theatrical...
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1928
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1928
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Barbed Wire was based on The Woman of Knockaloe, an antiwar novel by Sir Hall Caine. The original novel dealt with the...
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1927
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This was Emil Jannings' first American-made picture, and his portrayal is reminiscent of his characters in his previous...
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1927
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Because of its heavy reliance on slapstick (a no-no for features in the late '20s), this picture, very loosely based on the...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Made during Hollywood's first "gangster cycle," The City Gone Wild stars Thomas Meighan as an honest prosecuting attorney....
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1927
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George Marion Sr. plays a carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1926
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Raymond Griffith's famed nonchalance adds to the humor of this delightful mystery-comedy. During a posh party on a houseboat,...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1926
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Polly Freeman (Dorothy Sebastian, then a fresh newcomer from Ziegfeld's Follies) is a frivolous young girl who goes West and...
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Screenwriter
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1925
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Filmed on location in Italy, where director Henry King ruled over a huge set that covered 17 acres, Romola stars...
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Intertitle Writer
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1925
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When Ellen Linden (Alice Terry) returns from finishing school, she discovers that her father has lost his fortune. Although...
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Screenwriter
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1925
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William Russell plays a prizefighter with both eyes on the heavyweight crown. Russell's nephew is freckle-faced...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1925
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1924
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Before hitting his stride at MGM later in the 1920s, director Clarence Brown was contracted to make five "Super-Jewels" for...
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1923
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1923
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Cowboy star Tom Mix takes a break from the far West to play a rancher headed for the far North in this action-adventure....
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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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1923
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Starring New Zealander Shayle Gardner in the title role, this British screen version of Augusta J. Evans-Wilson's sentimental...
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Screenwriter
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1923
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On the whole, John Gilbert's starring vehicles at Fox were not as beneficial to him professionally as his films at MGM....
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Screenwriter
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1922
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This Peg O' My Heart-type character was a typical role for Shirley Mason. When her father is carted off to prison,...
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1922
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Drifter Dick Manners (John Gilbert) arrives at a ranch owned by Colonel Angus McClelland (James Gordon). When he wagers that...
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Screenwriter
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1922
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Silent film star John Gilbert was in the middle of his treadmill days at the Fox studios when he was cast in this drama as an...
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1922
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Considering the kind of material he was given, it's no wonder that John Gilbert was not very happy at the Fox studios. This...
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1922
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1922
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Although Dustin Farnum continued to star in pictures for a couple more years (illness would pretty much sideline him after...
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1922
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"Fox Introduces Unusually Promising Star in John Gilbert," proclaimed trade paper Moving Picture World in its review of this...
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Screenwriter
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1922
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Screenwriter Jules Furthman made a rare plunge into directing with Blushing Bride. The title character, played by...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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Former socialite Maurice "Lefty" Flynn made a bid for western stardom in this mild silent western about a stranger mistaken...
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Screenwriter
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1921
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A naive Colorado rancher falls prey to a predatory female in this melodrama written and directed by former Chicago journalist...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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Early silent screen hero William Russell starred as a miner killing a claim jumper in self defence in this average Western...
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Screenwriter
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1921
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Silent matinee idol William Russell has a dual role in this drama. He plays twin brothers, minister Luther McCall and Lefty,...
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1921
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This mystery-melodrama stars William Russell. The husband of Sally McTurk (Florence Deshon, in her final film role) is...
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1921
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1921
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Larry Lannigan (William Russell) is the lumber foreman in a lawless Western town. Thirty years earlier, his father (George...
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1920
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Eileen Percy stars as a woman who seeks treatment in a mental-health facility. She is upset because her best friend is in...
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1920
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In this dream-within-a-dream story, Gladys Brockwell plays a prima donna who, under ether, dreams of a past life when she...
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1920
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Outlaw Dan Malloy (House Peters) is notorious throughout the West. After his latest train robbery, he seeks refuge in a cabin...
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1920
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"Safety second is my motto" -- so said daredevil pilot Ormer Locklear. After doing his duty as an aviator in World War I and...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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Dickey Derrickson (William Russell) is rich and happily idle. This, however, does not suit his fiancée, Madge Earle...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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William Russell did his best work in Westerns, and here he plays saloon owner Bill Lark, who is given three days to live when...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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This Western was typical Tom Mix fare -- it gave the cowboy star a load of opportunities to show off his fine stunt work,...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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The Lincoln highwayman is terrorizing motorists on a coastal highway and the latest victims are a San Francisco banker and...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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William Russell does the good-bad man shtick in this feature. He's Big Jim O'Kane, rough foreman of a lumber camp and in...
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Screenwriter
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1920
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When pre-1920 silent films weren't glorifying the Northwest Mounted Police, it seemed like they were hailing the Texas...
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1919
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Axel Heyst (Jack Holt) is taught bitter lessons by his father -- that pity is contemptible and sympathy is useless. So the...
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Screenwriter
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1919
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John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl,...
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Screenwriter
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1919
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Kingston Hollister (William Russell) admires Bernice Cleveland (Eileen Percy) from afar. He asks Officer Callahan (Frank...
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1919
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1919
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Director Henry King was really beginning to show what he was capable of around the time he made this witty little western. It...
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1919
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The already successful screen career of ingenue June Caprice picked up even more momentum when direction of her Fox vehicles...
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1918
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1918
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William Russell was a very popular star in the 1910s, best known for his action-packed features and serials. So when he...
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1918
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Honoring the wishes of their wealthy parents, Gregory Thorne (William Russell) and Marta Milbanke (Charlotte Burton) become...
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1918
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1917
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