With customary lack of restraint, Bela Lugosi tore into his role of Professor Strang, a foreign agent masquerading as a wax...
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1933
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1930
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The tall and virile Johnny Mack Brown portrays the short and dyspeptic outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid....
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Swenson
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1930
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Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown star in this high budget horse opera from M-G-M. She is Joan Prescott, a spoiled...
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1930
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Sven Swanson
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1930
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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This cookie-cutter William Haines vehicle was filmed in part at the Indianapolis Speedway. As usual, Haines plays a fresh...
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Dugan
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1929
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Although both of their starring careers would be cut short by the talkie revolution, MGM house comedians Karl Dane and...
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1929
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MGM's highly popular comedy team of Karl Dane and George K. Arthur starred in this silly but enjoyable silent comedy in which...
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1929
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Karl Dane, the hulking comedy relief in many an MGM film, is top-billed in the FBO action melodrama Voice of the Storm. Dane...
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1929
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While the silent comedy team of Karl Dane and George K. Arthur made some very entertaining films in the latter half of the...
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1929
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Directed by James Cruze, this silent drama stars William Haines as Duke, a wealthy young heir who takes up prizefighting in...
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Barney
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1929
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Jules Verne's fantastic 19th century novel Mysterious Island provided the title and little else for this spectacular...
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1929
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1928
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Oscar Thrush
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1928
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Oswald Hardy
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1928
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1928
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The strange and terrible things that the lust for gold can do to the soul comprise the message of this innovative, epic...
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Lars Peterson
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1928
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After holding out for several months, MGM decided to take the talking-picture plunge with Alias Jimmy Valentine. Actually,...
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Swede
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1928
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Sergeant Diggs
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1927
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1927
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One of the most popular baseball films ever made, Slide, Kelly, Slide also solidified the stardom of MGM leading man...
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1927
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This lavish adaptation of Victor Herbert's operetta The Red Mill proved to be one of Marion Davies' most delightful and...
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Capt. Jacob Edam
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1927
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Amidst much fanfare, Lillian Gish was signed to a fabulous MGM contract in 1925 which not only assured her $400,000 per...
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1926
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The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast improvement upon)...
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Ramadan
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1926
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Giles
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1926
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Colonel Tim McCoy had worked as an advisor on Indian sign languages and other things western during the making of...
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1926
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Lew Cody stars as Tony Townsend, a top-hatted "international adventurer" who gets into a heap of trouble when he runs out of...
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Doorman
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1926
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The Rafael Sabatini swashbuckler Bardelys the Magnificent served as an excellent vehicle for MGM's top male star...
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1926
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Cowboy Mark King (Tom Mix) comes to the aid of an old miner, Honeycutt (George Berrell) who, in gratitude, reveals the...
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1925
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Norma Shearer, who hadn't yet become the queen of the MGM lot (or won mogul Irving Thalberg as her husband), stars in this...
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Janitor
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1925
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The Big Parade was designed as a modest programmer concerning one young man's disillusionment in the face of war. When the...
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1925
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Certainly the best-known of the out-and-out WWI propaganda films, My Four Years in Germany is also one of the silliest of the...
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1918
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