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1945
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A true "guilty pleasure" crime melodrama with horror movie touches, the low-budget The Living Ghost stars future Academy...
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1942
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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1942
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1941
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Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman headline this screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, directed by Gone with the...
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1941
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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1941
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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1940
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Musical comedy favorite Elsie Janis, who gained renown in WW1 as "The Sweetheart of the AEF", returned to the screen after a...
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1940
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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1939
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In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
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1939
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In this touching drama, a young woman cons her father the Colonel to put their colt in the Kentucky Derby. They do, but the...
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1939
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"Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put Greta Garbo, a...
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1939
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1939
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A comparatively little-known entry in the "screwball comedy" genre, David O. Selznick's The Young in Heart goes for quiet...
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1938
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In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does...
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1938
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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1938
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In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's...
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1937
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1937
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It took British author James Hilton six weeks to write his visionary novel Lost Horizon. It took director Frank Capra two...
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1937
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German director Joe May brought a decidedly Teutonic ambience to his American film Confession--no surprise, since the film...
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1937
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David O. Selznick's first independent production upheld the producer's tradition, established at Paramount, RKO and MGM, of...
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1936
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Famed Swedish director Victor Sjostrom was coaxed out of retirement to direct his final film, Under the Red Robe, a...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent...
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1936
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Based on a novel by Meredith Nicholson, The House of 1000 Candles is one of the slickest films ever to emerge from the...
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1936
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Mr. Tanner
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1935
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Legendary stage actress Pauline Lord made but a few films, but was always worth watching whenever she took command of the...
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1935
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Originally intended as a vehicle for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this Universal production predated The Wolf Man by six...
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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1935
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Director Josef Von Sternberg and his greatest discovery, Marlene Dietrich, worked together for the last time on this...
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1935
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After directing three of Universal's finest horror films, James Whale shifted gears with the elegant romantic comedy By...
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Count von Rischenheim
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1934
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1934
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A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip...
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1934
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1934
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In this handsomely-staged adaptation of the story by Emile Zola, Anna Sten plays Nana, a woman of the streets who is spotted...
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1934
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1934
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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1933
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A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had...
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1933
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If Queen Christina is not the best of Greta Garbo's films (as many Garbo fanatics insist), it is certainly the most...
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1933
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A splashy journalist finds herself embroiled in international intrigue when she hooks up with a sneaky Russian correspondent...
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1933
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Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly...
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1932
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1932
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A young boy from a broken home must choose between his real dad and his step-father in this drama. His real dad is...
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1932
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Count Vonesse
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1932
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This imitation-Lubitsch romantic comedy stars William Powell as an elegant jewel thief plying his trade in Vienna. Powell's...
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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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1932
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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In this entry in the mystery series, the Chinese criminal mastermind exacts revenge upon his enemy Fletcher, the man...
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1931
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Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to...
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1931
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Vellenburg
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1931
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1931
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"Boudoir Diplomat" was, of course, a 1930s euphemism for a wealthy man who slept around. Ian Keith plays Baron Valmi, who...
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1930
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1930
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In this lightweight musical comedy, an aspiring songwriter tries to make it big on Broadway. Later his uncle decides to show...
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1930
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In this musical comedy, based on a failed Broadway play, two American sailors are stationed in Naples to find a wooden...
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1930
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In this romantic fantasy, a delightful flapper princess refuses to marry her intended, a prince she has never met. Later she...
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1929
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Victor Molnar
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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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1929
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This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise Brooks. A detective story, it...
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1929
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Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for...
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Doctor Lakington
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1929
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"Doomsday" is the name of a valuable patch of British farm property owned by self-made millionaire Percival Fream...
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Percival Fream
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1928
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It was romance novelist Elinor Glyn who dubbed Clara Bow the "It" girl, so it was hardly a surprise when Bow starred in this...
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Judge Rufus Lennon
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1928
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1928
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Victorien Sardou's 1882 stage play Fedora was transformed by future director John Farrow into the Pola Negri vehicle The...
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The General
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1928
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Earl of Rochester
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1928
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Directed with his usual dry wit by the talented and underrated Harry D'Arrast, Gentleman of Paris was based on a short story...
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1927
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Josef Bruckner
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1927
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King Boris
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1927
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Constance Talmadge's sole 1926 effort was the forgettable comedy The Duchess of Buffalo. Set in a country that seems to be...
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1926
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Though his career went into decline in the talkie era, director Mal St. Clair was responsible for some of the funniest,...
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Grand Duke Peter
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1926
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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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This epic covers all of Lincoln's life. His birth in a blizzard; his boyhood (depicted by Danny Hey as young Lincoln); his...
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1924
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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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1924
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Paramount was taking a chance by making this picture -- based on a novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim -- almost two years after...
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1921
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When a musical comedy goes to New Haven for a try-out before hitting Broadway, actress Marcia Meadows (Viola Dana) stumbles...
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1920
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Jim Burke, also known as "the Dancer" (Edmund Lowe), is a Raffles-type character -- a gentleman jewel thief who only steals...
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1920
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The notion that dreams can have a powerful effect on "real life" was satirized in Doug Fairbanks' When the Clouds Roll By....
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1919
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During World War I, Erich von Stroheim wasn't the only "man you loved to hate." Rupert Julian also proved pretty hateful as...
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1918
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To Hell with the Kaiser is considered a lost film, but if contemporary accounts can be believed, the picture was not nearly...
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1918
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