This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the...
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1990
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Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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James Toback wrote and directed this typically intense and idiosyncratic satiric thriller. Byron Levin (Ray Sharkey) is an...
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Walter Klein
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1982
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1965
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The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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Very freely based upon the book by Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater is set in San Francisco during the Tong...
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1962
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Romance, treachery, intrigue and spiritual awakenings abound in the Biblical film adaptation of Solomon and Sheba. Trouble...
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Director, Producer
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1959
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War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1956
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In this deceptively titled and paced Western, Kirk Douglas shines in the hyper-macho role of Dempsey Rae, a good-natured...
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Director
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1955
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Filmmaker King Vidor does wonders with the unpromising material at hand in Japanese War Bride. Don Taylor stars as Jim...
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Director
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1952
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Director, Producer
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1952
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In Lightning Strikes Twice, Ruth Roman stars a Shelley Carnes, a stage actress who champions the cause of Richard Trevelyan...
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Director
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1951
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The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned...
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1949
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1949
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"What a dump!" That's the classic line delivered by Bette Davis at the halfway point of Beyond the Forest, her final Warner...
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1949
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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1948
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Director
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1946
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Director King Vidor intended An American Romance as the third entry in his "War, Wheat and Steel" trilogy (the War had been...
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Director, Producer
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1944
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1941
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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Director
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1940
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A half-hearted derivation of Ninotchka, Comrade X stars Clark Gable as an American news reporter stationed in Russia. Gable...
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1940
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Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to...
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Director
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1938
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Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined...
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Director
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1937
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Made with the full cooperation of the real-life Texas Rangers (who never met a publicity gimmick they didn't like), this...
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Director, Producer
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1936
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So Red the Rose is a Civil War drama that plays like a warm-up for Gone With the Wind--and, unlike Wind, has two genuine...
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Director
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1935
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Director
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1935
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Unable to secure Hollywood-studio backing for his Depression-era agrarian drama Our Daily Bread, director King Vidor financed...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1934
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Based on a novel by Phil (State Fair) Stong, The Stranger's Return is one of the most accomplished projects of director...
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1933
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1932
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1932
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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1932
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1931
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Wallace Beery won an Academy Award for his tour de force performance as a washed-up boxer. The bibulous Beery travels from...
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Director
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1931
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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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Director, Producer
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1930
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Director
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1930
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Hallelujah! was, for its time, an impressive achievement. Director King Vidor, anxious to make a "personal" project for the...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1929
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1928
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1928
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As was the case with every film project that he cared deeply about, filmmaker King Vidor had to fight long and hard with his...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1928
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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 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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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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King Vidor does a nice job of making an insignificant novel by Lawrence Rising into a pleasant light comedy. Fernanda...
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Director, Producer
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1925
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Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia (John Gilbert), is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except...
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Director, Intertitle Writer
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1924
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1924
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John Gilbert was on the brink of superstardom when he appeared in this routine domestic drama -- his fame would explode...
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1924
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Although she was well over forty when Happiness was filmed, Laurette Taylor was still specializing in girlish charm. Director...
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1924
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It's a pity that there are apparently no longer any public copies available of this suspense drama by King Vidor because at...
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1924
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Almost an instant classic, Booth Tarkington's 1921 small-town morality tale reached the screen two years later courtesy of...
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1923
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Eleanor Boardman and William Haines came to Hollywood when they were winners in the same contest held by the Goldwyn studios....
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1923
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In this drama based on the novel by Henry Kistaemaecher, Clara Kimball Young plays Vivian Hunt, a woman married to aspiring...
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1923
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This is not one of the better collaborations between director King Vidor and his then-wife, Florence Vidor. She stars as...
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1922
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Laurette Taylor played the orphan Peg for so long on stage that by the time she starred in the motion picture, she was...
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1922
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The emancipation of women was still growing in fits and starts in 1922 (they had won the right to vote only a couple years...
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Director, Producer
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1922
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As a young director, King Vidor certainly wasn't adverse to taking chances -- this picture, based on Katherine Hill's novel,...
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1922
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Richard Barthelmess stars in this classic silent melodrama as David Kinemon, the youngest son of a family living in a small...
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1921
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"Sky Pilot" was early 20th-century slang for a preacher man. The title character, played by John Bowers, arrives in the...
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1921
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Parental indiscretions break up a marriage in this rare surviving melodrama directed by King Vidor. Upon learning that her...
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1921
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An early directorial effort by King Vidor, The Jack Knife Man is based on a sentimental story by Ellis Parker Butler. Vidor...
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1920
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Even though this drama was made early in King Vidor's directing career, his sense of humanity -- one of the defining...
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1919
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Director King Vidor would always take the slightest excuse to champion the common man (or woman), and that he does with this...
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1919
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Comic actress ZaSu Pitts got her first really big break when she starred in this King Vidor-directed feature. Ezra Scroggs...
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1919
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Although this is one of King Vidor's earlier directorial efforts, it has a lot of the qualities that defined his best work...
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1919
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