Having worked as a duo in the first three entries of Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" series, veteran Western stars Ken...
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Kirk
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1944
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A playboy imprisoned for a bank robbery he didn't commit gets involved with a convict who's determined to make a daring...
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1943
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In this drama, a rural family, displaced by the dust-bowl and the foreclosure of their family farm, moves to the city in...
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1943
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Starring the engaging Donald Barry (nicknamed, for obvious reasons, "Red"), this average Republic Western was filmed...
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1943
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In a rather desperate attempt to duplicate the success of Republic Pictures' Three Mesqueteers B-Western series, Monogram...
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1943
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In this flag-waving adventure, the Masked Marvel helps keep the world safe for capitalism by taking on the evil Japanese...
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1943
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The seemingly ageless Eddie Quillan heads the cast of the Monogram musical Melody Parade. Eddie plays Jimmy Tracy, a...
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1943
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The second entry in Monogram's low-budget "Trail Blazers" B-Western series, The Law Rides Again marked the final directorial...
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1943
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Believe it or not, this bizarre wartime "B"-picture was based on a true story. In the early stages of WWII, a prominent...
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1942
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Despite the typical Monogram drawbacks -- murky photography, stolid staging, ramshackle sets -- The Corpse Vanishes remains...
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1942
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In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a...
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1942
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After an opening scene at a Washington DC cocktail party where it is demonstrated that "loose lips sink ships", the plot...
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1942
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Originally titled Dawn Express, this PRC spy melodrama was hastily rechristened Nazi Spy Ring to keep abreast of current...
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1942
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1942
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In this murder mystery, a re-working of The Sphinx, a distract attorney is determined to prove that the community's most...
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Lieutenant Jim Brady
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1942
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Director Curtis Bernhardt hadn't wanted to make Juke Girl, but he was under contract to Warner Bros. and had to tow the line...
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1942
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Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas...
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1942
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Director William "One Take" Beaudine slapped together Foreign Agent in a week or so, enabling Monogram to ship the picture to...
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1942
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Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over...
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Hackett
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1942
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A courageous cowboy dons the guise of a Texas Ranger to keep murderous cattle rustlers from harming a beautiful young woman,...
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1942
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Muggs Maloney (Leo Gorcey) is supposed to be preparing for the Golden Gloves competition but he doesn't want to train anymore...
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1941
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In yet another full-length version of an earlier serial, Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) is out to get the bizarre Ghost, a dastardly...
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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Paper Bullets (aka Crime Inc.) was the first production by former slot-machine entrepreneurs Maurice and Frank Kozinski,...
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1941
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This action film, follows the travails of two chorus girls as they try to leave South America and get back home. Their...
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1941
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1941
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In this upbeat drama, a lovely European heiress is disturbed to discover from her lawyer that her father made his fortune by...
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1941
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A good wife's innocence is shattered when she learns that her wealthy husband is actually an amoral big-shot jewel thief....
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1941
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A superior B-Western in every way, this Hopalong Cassidy series entry features an especially compelling performance by former...
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1941
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Dangerous Lady is yet another variation on the "Thin Man" formula, courtesy this time from bargain-basement PRC Pictures....
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1941
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In this crime drama, a naive young woman receives an unpleasant wake-up call when she learns that her seemingly wonderful...
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Billings
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1941
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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1940
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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1940
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In this actioner, heroic G-man Brass Bancroft must assume the identity of a notorious spy who died in a train wreck so he...
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1940
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An average Columbia B-Western, Prairie Schooners once again features William Elliott as a highly fictitious Wild Bill...
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1940
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Veteran character star Charles B. Middleton ("Ming the Merciless") escapes from a penitentiary after 15 years of imprisonment...
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1939
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In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a...
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1939
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Metropolitan Pictures' Port of Hate was directed by one of the studio's two chief executives, Harry S. Webb (the other,...
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Bob Randall
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1939
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Dick Tracy's G-Men is the second of three Republic serials starring Ralph Byrd as Chester Gould's granite-jawed comic strip...
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1939
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1939
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1939
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I Am Not Afraid was the preview title for the 60-minute Warner Bros. crime melodrama The Man Who Dared. A remake of 1931's...
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1939
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Blondes at Work is number four in Warner Bros.' lively "Torchy Blane" series. Glenda Farrell returns as girl reporter Torchy...
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1938
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In this western, Roy Rogers plays a cowboy-congressman from a dustbowl state who travels to Washington, DC to lobby for badly...
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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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Harper
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1938
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William Boyd, alias "Hopalong Cassidy," dons the guise of fop in order to catch the bad guys in this above-average series...
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1938
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In this romance, a wealthy heiress decides that she wants a man who loves her for herself and not for her money. She finds...
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1938
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Sometimes mistakenly referred to as Bride of the West, this superior "Hopalong Cassidy" entry packs every conceivable...
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1938
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1938
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Law of the Texan is another of the above-average Buck Jones westerns produced by Coronet Films for Columbia release. Jones...
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Spencer
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1938
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Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Hayward's superior...
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1938
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Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when...
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1938
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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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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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McBride
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1938
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Jim Turner (Barton MacLaine) loves "wine, women and horses," though not always in that order. Our hero's revelry is...
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1937
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Real-life flying ace Frank Hawks stars in the 15-chapter Columbia serial The Mysterious Pilot. Running the gamut of emotions...
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Snowden
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1937
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Another good entry in Warner Bros' Dick Foran western series, Blazing Sixes casts Foran as Red, an undercover federal agent....
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1937
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An uneven mix of '30s crook melodrama and Rose Marie-inspired mountie romance, Renfrew of the Royal Mounted of radio fame...
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1937
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The Shadow, the famed radio and pulp-novel hero with the mysterious power to "cloud men's minds" so that they cannot see him,...
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Capt. Breen
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1937
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Paramount's resident "big mouth" Martha Raye was afforded her first top-billed screen assignment in Hideaway Girl. The script...
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1937
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One of the timelier Three Mesquiteers westerns, Gunsmoke Ranch was inspired by the Ohio and Mississippi river floodings of...
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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Puritan Pictures seldom turned out a film that looked most expensive than it really was. The studio's Million to One appears...
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William Stevens
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1937
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Based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, China Clipper was released only a year after the first transpacific flight...
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1936
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In this comedy, a model finds herself inadvertently embroiled in the theft of a society woman's valuable pearl necklace...
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1936
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Trail Dust was the eighth entry in the 66-film "Hopalong Cassidy" series. William Boyd, of course, is Hoppy, while his...
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1936
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Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a...
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1936
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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In one of his most successful portrayals of a "living dead" man, Boris Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-convict who is framed...
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1936
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Margaret Lindsay stars in the title role, playing a young woman imprisoned for a crime which she didn't commit. The real...
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1936
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The all-purpose title Man Hunt was trotted out for this 1936 Warner Bros. "B". Aging country newspaper editor Chic Sale is...
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1936
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The second of singing cowboy Dick Foran's Warner Bros. westerns, Song of the Saddle was a decided improvement on the first...
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1936
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The Three Stooges try to break into show business in this Columbia short subject. They're first seen as stowaways on a train...
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1936
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Perry Mason (Warren William) actually marries his secretary, the redoubtable Della Street (Claire Dodd) in this, the fourth...
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1936
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Heroic and crusty old Cappy Ricks takes on lobbyists who are trying to pass a law banning shingles on roofs to force...
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1935
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1935
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Mascot produced their serials fast and furious with little concern for believability, acting prowess, or technical niceties....
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1932
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A bored noblewoman wagers that she can steal a valuable diamond necklace and then return it without discovery in this minor...
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Peter Lawton-Bond
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1932
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Silent screen serial star Charles Hutchison produced and directed this low-budget marital drama, which benefitted from one of...
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1931
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A couple of holdovers from the silent era, Kenneth Harlan and Edna Murphy, starred in this below-average Universal serial...
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Gary Gordon
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1931
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Sono Art-World Wide, an enterprising minor-league studio of the early talkie era, did its best to seek out subject matter...
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Jerry
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1931
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In this low-budget romantic musical, a sweet-young-thing heads for the South Seas to be with her betrothed. A typhoon brews...
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Thorne
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1930
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Clay Conning
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1930
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1929
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A rather muddled prize-fighting melodrama from low-budget company Gotham Productions, United States Smith featured former...
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Corporal Jim Sharkey
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1928
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A criminal mastermind is bringing down government airplanes using a "death ray" machine in this silent action melodrama which...
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1928
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Easy Pickings was one of a rash of "old dark house" comedies produced in the wake of 1926's The Bat. This time Mary Ryan...
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Peter Van Horne
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1927
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Helene Chadwick stars as Fay Leslie, a slightly blowzy but basically good-hearted chorus girl. When Fay falls in love with...
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1927
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The scene is Shanghai, where virginal missionary Pauline Garon finds herself the object of lust of the local Chinese crime...
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1927
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This fast-paced melodrama is set in Tall Timber country, with a few side trips to the High Society set. Kenneth Harlan stars...
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1927
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Tom Palmer
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1927
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King of the Turf has more plot twists than a Charles Dickens novel. It begins as no-account horse breeder Martyn Selsby...
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John Due Smith
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1926
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A robust potboiler from Universal, The Ice Flood stars Kenneth Harlan as Jack De Quincey, a handsome youth returning from...
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Jack De Quincy
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1926
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Stalwart movie hero Kenneth Harlan has the situation well in hand during most of The Fighting Edge. Disguised as half-breed,...
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1926
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Set in a not-so-reasonable facsimile of London's Limehouse district, Twinkletoes stars Colleen Moore as the title character,...
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Chuck Lightfoot
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1926
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When Billy Laidlaw (Kenneth Harlan) sees Peggy Laurence (Bebe Daniels) and her partner, Matt Wilde (T. Roy Barnes),...
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Billy Laidlaw
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1925
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This mystery was based on a novel written by 20 popular authors, each of whom contributed a chapter. The point of each...
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David Lacy
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1925
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Based on a 1910 novel by Hamlin Garland, Cavanagh, Forest Ranger; a Romance of the Mountain West, this silent Western from...
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Ross Cavanagh
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1925
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Corinne Griffith stars in this jazz-age drama, which contains a seemingly endless round of wild parties and bootleg gin....
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Arthur Carleton
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1925
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Mary Carr (the charming old woman from Over the Hill to the Poorhouse) plays Drusilla Doane, a charity case at an old ladies'...
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Colin Arnold
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1925
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Harold Bell Wright, a popular author during the silent era, was known for his sentimental and unsophisticated stories. This...
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1925
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This independently made feature boasted to have an all-star cast. That statement had a certain amount of truth to it; the...
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1924
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This mediocre romantic drama was vastly improved by the presence of a certain WAMPAS Baby Star (a popularity award given by...
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1924
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Alice Joyce stars in this tale of darkest Africa. Lady Andrea Pellor (Joyce) agrees to marry a rich South African mine owner...
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1924
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Craig
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1924
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This romantic drama of love and revenge is taken from the Spanish ballad by Julio Sabello. David Kent (Kenneth Harlan)...
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Davied Kent
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1924
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This formulaic drama didn't miss a cliché -- there was the small-town boy with big dreams (Kenneth Harlan), his old mother...
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Judson Forrest
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1924
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The all-star cast of this plodding and somber melodrama does little to add any spark to the story from Pearl Doles Bell....
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1924
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Danny O'Rourke (Kenneth Harlan) is the son of a cop who died in the line of duty. His sweetheart is Maggie Muldoon (Colleen...
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Danny O'Rourke
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1923
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The Little Church Around the Corner is important as the first major financial success for the fledgling Warner Bros. studios....
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David Graham
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1923
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This was Miriam Cooper's last film, and in her autobiography, Dark Lady of the Silents, she claimed "It was not only the...
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Philip Marvin
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1923
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Clinging to one's youth was considered a fault in the 1920s, as evidenced by this domestic drama. Even though lawyer Hugh...
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Robert Belmar
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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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Norries
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1923
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This second of four film versions of Owen Wister's The Virgininian stars Kenneth Harlan as the nameless principal character....
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The Virginian
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1923
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There seems to be some debate over exactly who directed this amusing Constance Talmadge picture. Since John Emerson directed...
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1922
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It is a surprising and little-known fact that Louis J. Gasnier, who today is most well known for directing the...
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Alan Randolph
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1922
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This tragic tale of the Orient was only the second feature film in which a color film process invented by Technicolor was...
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Allen Carver
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1922
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Anthony
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1922
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The story to this drama is nowhere near as extravagant and sensationalistic as Elinor Glyn's usual fare, perhaps because the...
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Wallace Foster
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1922
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Light comedienne Constance Talmadge did some of her best work with the husband/wife, director/writer team of John Emerson and...
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Donald Wales
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1922
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This lighthearted comedy-drama, which has an unexpected twist at the end, was considered quite "modern" in its day. Although...
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1922
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Eve Orrin (Constance Talmadge) is at the mercy of her possessive mother (Effie Shannon), who has a case of "nerves" every...
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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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John Warren
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1921
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This picture had three things in its favor right from the start -- its star, Constance Talmadge; the fact that women had...
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Jim Bradley
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1921
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Tom Smith and his wife (Kenneth Harlan and Jewel Carmen) vacation in Palm Beach, where Mrs. Smith attracts the attention of...
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Tom Smith
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1921
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Roger Strong
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1921
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Constance Talmadge teams up once again with the writer/director team of Anita Loos and John Emerson for this light comedy....
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1920
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Among Lon Chaney's early villainous roles was Blizzard, the criminal mastermind of this melodrama set in San Francisco's...
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1920
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William Williams (Henry Harmon) named his daughter (Wild Bennet) Conscience for a reason -- he's a Puritanical New Englander...
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1920
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Hazel Farron (Madge Kennedy) is a chorus girl with high moral standards -- a novel concept to 1920 audiences. Even though the...
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1920
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Magazine stories frequently were fodder for film stories in the 1910s, and that's the case with this programmer. This time...
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1919
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Amy Burke (Mary Pickford) is as spoiled, temperamental and contrary a lass as her grandfather, Alexander Guthrie...
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1919
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This Universal programmer was based on a short story by Larry Evans. With a name like Steele Valiant (Kenneth Harlan), you...
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1918
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Kenneth Harlan stars as the enigmatic Mr. Tiller, who may or may not be a notorious jewel thief. Eluding both criminals and...
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1918
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The Wine Girl is pretty Bona (Carmel Myer), who toils away as kitchen help in the home of her wealthy uncle. Her years of...
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1918
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Her Body in Bond was another money-spinning collaboration between actress Mae Murray and her director husband...
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1918
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Iva Seldon (Mary McLaren) models clothes for Armande, a modiste. Gold digger Violet Challoner (Edna Earle) has convinced her...
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1918
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Eileen Orton (Carmel Myers) finds herself broke after the death of her father (Joseph Girard), but when she meets Seward...
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1918
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The title of the 1918 silent film Bread was meant to be allegorical. The fate of a loaf of bread is paralleled with that of...
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1918
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My Unmarried Wife was the rather blatant title imposed upon this adaptation of Doris Schroeder's novel Molly and I. Breaking...
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1918
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John Rand (Kenneth Harlan) has a sneaking desire to bring Napoleon's tactics to the world of American finance. This is easier...
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1917
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Inasmuch as J. Warren Kerrigan was (in the eyes of his female fans at least) the embodiment of virility, the actor was...
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1917
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It's hard to imagine the vivaciously stylish Constance Talmadge as a boarding-house drudge, but that's the part she plays...
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1917
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