Viva Las Vegas, one of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, adheres as rigidly to formula as a Kabuki dance. Elvis plays a...
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1964
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This lavishly produced, big-budget comedy (it cost $20 million in 1964 dollars) stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow who...
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1964
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A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played...
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1955
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This last remake (thus far) of the Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs was extensively revised to accommodate the talents of...
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1955
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The Hollywood "establishment" had been waiting a long time for maverick director Gregory La Cava to fall from grace, and when...
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1941
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Bette Davis plays a facial cream heiress in this middling comedy, which Warner Bros. filmed partially in Florida. Mistaking...
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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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1936
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1933
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The first of director John Ford's three films for 1931 was the now-forgotten The Seas Beneath. Essentially a reworking of...
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1931
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1930
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The Spirit of Youth begins as sailor Larry Kent discards his uniform to enter the boxing ring. Inspiring him to victory in...
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1929
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MGM contractee Dorothy Sebastian paid a brief visit to Tiffany-Stahl to star in this bit of South Seas exotica. Unable to pay...
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John Rice
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1929
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In this romance, a wealthy old Wall Street financier falls in love with a younger woman. To win her heart, he decides to go...
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Martin Baker
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1929
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Heart of a Follies Girl was based on a story by Adela Rogers St. John, but one would never know it. The cliché-ridden story...
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Derek Calhoun
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1928
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This nonsensical comedy-melodrama was a vehicle for two relics from the dawn of cinema history, walrus-mustached...
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Billy
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1928
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Veteran comedian Charlie Murray plays a serious role in 1928's Head Man. Murray is cast as a senator named Watts, whose...
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Billy Hurd
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1928
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The confident direction of Allan Dwan transformed The Mad Hour into something more than a mere "soap opera." Based on a novel...
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Elmer Grub
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1928
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Long believed lost, this fascinating John Ford-directed silent film was rediscovered and restored in the early 1970s. Based...
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Derrnott McDermott
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1928
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In the tradition of Colleen Moore's best films, Her Wild Oat is nowhere near as "naughty" as its title. Moore is cast as Mary...
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Philip Latour
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1927
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This drama starring Evelyn Brent is a barometer of the moral tone of the late '20s. Sales clerk Dolly Morton (Brent) gets a...
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Jimmy Hays
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1927
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The Lovelorn was inspired by the popular "advice" column by Beatrice Fairfax, here played by Dorothy Cumming. Heroine Georgie...
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Bill Warren
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1927
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Whirlwind of Youth was taken (as far as possible, apparently) from Soundings, a novel by Hamilton Gibbs. Impulsive...
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Lloyd Evans
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1927
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Based on the once-popular "musical extravaganza" of the same name, McFadden's Flats is a serviceable vehicle for Keystone...
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Sandy McTavish
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1927
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Based on the magazine story "Still Face" by pulp writer Clarence Buddington Kelland, The Masked Menace, released by the Pathé...
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1927
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Charles Ramos
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1927
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This silent drama is based on a story by Ernest Grayman and is set in a military academy. There a young man toils in the...
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1926
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Advertised as a "crook society comedy," Columbia's Obey the Law features Bert Lytell in a role not unlike his frequent screen...
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1926
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