Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars...
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1949
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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Despite the film's title, socialite Linda Vickers (Virginia Mayo) isn't smart enough to steer clear of the gambling den...
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1948
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In this romantic melodrama, Bette Davis plays twin sisters for the first time (she would do so again in 1964's Dead Ringer)....
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1946
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RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul...
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1945
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1944
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Mabel Paige, one of Hollywood's most beloved character actresses, was given her one-and-only starring role in this Republic...
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1943
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A Warner Bros. attempt to ape the success of the Universal horror films, The Mysterious Doctor is a moody little piece...
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1943
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This one opens with a live-action shot of a pianist (played by former Chaplin foil Leo White, but voiced by Mel Blanc) as he...
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1942
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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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1941
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This quickie RKO musical is the second retread of Street Girl (1929); the 1937 musical That Girl from Paris was the first...
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1941
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again stars Marjorie Rambeau as the rambunctious female skipper created by Norman Reilly Raine. In this...
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1940
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1940
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Code of the Secret Service was the second of Warner Bros. "Brass Bancroft" series, starring Ronald Reagan as troubleshooting...
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1939
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In this lively adventure aimed at youthful audiences, a wiseacre fireman soon finds himself in trouble with his fire captain...
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1937
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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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1937
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The notorious Orient Express provides the setting for this romance involving two rival reporters in pursuit of a munitions...
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1937
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Sinclair Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street came to the screen in 1936 from Warner Bros. under this rather more mundane title....
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1936
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1936
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Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best...
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1935
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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In this comedy, a waitress at a local lunch counter inadvertently foils a bank robbery and finds herself turned into a...
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1935
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Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis) is a neophyte reporter with ambitions big enough to take on assignments usually reserved for...
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1935
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Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine....
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1935
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A pre-stardom Bette Davis struggles mightily as the "other woman" in this rather obvious divorce court drama from Warner...
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1934
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Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
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1934
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After several false starts, opera star Grace Moore became a motion picture success in the sublimely assembled One Night of...
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1934
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James Cagney is Chesty O'Connor, a tough-as-nails, always-ready-for-a-fight shipyard worker, who loses out to US Navy CPO...
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1934
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Kansas City Princess came at the tail end of the "gold-digger" movie cycle. The inevitable Joan Blondell plays Rosie, a...
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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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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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1934
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In this melodrama, the wife of a wealthy man abruptly leaves him and sets sail for Cuba leaving him to hire a gumshoe to find...
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1933
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Often (and accurately) described as a model of the whodunit genre, The Kennel Murder Case stars William Powell, making his...
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1933
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Based on an 1830 opera entitled "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel F. Auber, the parts of two bit bandits were built up for Laurel and...
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Everybody in The Midnight Club is seeing double, and it's all the handiwork of slick London criminal mastermind Colin Grant...
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1933
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It's hard to separate fact and fancy from the many accounts of what happened on the set when all three of the fabulous...
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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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The 1929 all-talkie adaptation of Bayard Veiller's stage play The Trial of Mary Dugan proved a worthy showcase for MGM-diva...
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1931
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Before he settled down to a long career as a jovial character actor, Lloyd Corrigan functioned as screenwriter and director...
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1931
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Hoot Gibson is left with a foundling on his hands while trying to fend off an evil land-grabber in this slow-moving early...
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1930
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In his second talkie, former silent screen lover John Gilbert plays Jack, a sailor in the merchant marine who takes time out...
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1930
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1930
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Audrey Scott (Shirley Palmer) is a fun-loving but basically proper college coed, who manages to escape the clutches of one...
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1929
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Universal Western star Ted Wells played a Chicago millionaire working incognito as a cowhand in this average silent Western...
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1929
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Never one to take his metier too serious, Universal cowboy hero Hoot Gibson came dangerously close to outright burlesque in...
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Count Baretti
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1929
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1928
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Lovely senorita Maria Alvaro (Dorothy Kitchen) is rescued from a gunshot wedding to foppish Senor Valdez (former...
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Senor Diego Valdez
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1928
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In this silent crime drama, an innocent would-be gambler loses to card sharps and hands them a post-dated check for $50,000...
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1928
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Directed by a very young William Wyler, this fanciful Ted Wells Western from the assembly-lines at Universal reads like a...
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1928
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1927
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Although the plot to this comedy seems forced and unnatural (even for a farce), it does have a stellar cast. Even the smaller...
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1927
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The "Ladybirds" are a gang of crooks who prey upon the rich and famous. At present, the Ladybirds are at large in New Orleans...
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1927
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1927
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Tenement gal Nora Denahy (Gladys Hulette) is the "Bowery Cinderella" in this standard melting-pot drama. While on a slumming...
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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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1927
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Husband Huntley Gordon has convinced himself that he's the head of the household, but the viewer knows full well that wifey...
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1926
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This romance featured respected old-timers (Pauline Frederick in a starring role and Leah Baird as screenwriter) and a fresh...
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Chico
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1926
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A novel by Stephen French Whitman was the source for First National's The Blonde Saint. Lewis Stone stars as Sebastian Maure,...
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1926
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This society drama, adapted from the play by Arthur Richman, was the first directorial effort of cinematographer Silvano...
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Max Froisier
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1926
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The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version...
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1925
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Dorothy Revier plays a woman who decides that all men are scum when her sister dies giving birth to an illegitimate child....
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Roberti
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1925
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During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virgina...
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Merton
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1925
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Dr. Lucien LaPierre (Sam de Grasse) desperately wants to marry Elise Duchanier, the maid to a Parisian burlesque star...
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Stage Manager
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1925
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Based on Blaze Derringer, a 1910 novel by Eugene P. Lyle, Jr., this low-budget silent melodrama starred George Walsh in the...
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1925
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Though Betty Compson is top-billed in Paths to Paradise, the film's real star is the ever-dapper, ever-unflappable...
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1925
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Director Victor Sjostrom and stars Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer made an impressive team on He Who Gets Slapped. They came...
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1925
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Although Clara Bow was not yet a full-fledged star, she had already made a mark by mid-'20s. In this melodrama, said trade...
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1924
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1924
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When the down-market O'Tooles inherit a fortune, the entire clan -- including the dog, Rags -- moved to upscale Pasadena,...
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1923
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Originally released on July 1, 1923, the silent, two-reel Dogs of War may well have been the most schizophrenic entry in the...
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1923
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After she inherits a fortune, Ann Clemance (Viola Dana) travels to Paris to indulge herself in frivolity. She meets up with...
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1923
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Running five reels, Famous Players' The Lady of Quality was a faithful adaptation of the same-named theatrical drama....
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1923
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Harold Lloyd plays a millionaire who suffers from imaginary illness in this memorable comedy. With the help of a beautiful...
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Herculeo
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1923
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1922
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In spite of an original beginning, this Hoot Gibson picture quickly gets down to the usual Western business, with the hero at...
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Honey Giroux
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1922
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Based on The White Peacock Feathers by Du Vernet Rabell, this minor melodrama from the assembly line at Universal starred...
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1921
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Douglas MacLean and Doris May made a number of popular light comedies in the late 1910s and early '20s. In the spirit of...
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Henri
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1921
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Irving Bacheller was a popular American author during the 1910s, but he refused to allow his stories to be filmed because he...
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1921
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Rival
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1920
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Made in between his two classics, Blind Husbands and Foolish Wives, this drama from director Erich von Stroheim centers on a...
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1920
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Idler
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1920
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1918
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Although this two-reel Billy West comedy was released under the banner of the Bull's Eye Film Corporation, it's likely that...
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1918
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Although Diana Rosson (Edith Roberts) is a rich, sophisticated young woman, she can't stand the eligible bachelors that her...
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1918
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Diplomat/Spy and Flophouse owner
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1918
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1917
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Burlesque on Carmen was intended by Charlie Chaplin to be a two-reel film, but to his annoyance additional material, shot by...
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Officer of the Guard
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1916
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Charlie Chaplin launched his 670,000-dollar contract with the Mutual Film Corporation with the hilarious The Floorwalker. The...
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1916
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The Count, filmed during Charlie Chaplin's 1916-17 Mutual period, is a rowdy throwback to his Keystone days. Chaplin plays...
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1916
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The second of Charles Chaplin's Mutual two-reelers, The Fireman is virtually wall-to-wall slapstick. Chaplin is an earnest...
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1916
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1916
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Charlie Chaplin's third film in his Mutual period is his first minor masterpiece. It combines comedy and drama in the style...
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1916
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In Behind the Screen, the seventh of his 12 Mutual Studios two-reelers, Charlie Chaplin pokes some less than gentle fun at...
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1916
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A Night at the Show is the most elaborate two-reeler directed by Charlie Chaplin during his 1915-1916 stay at Essanay...
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1915
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Shanghaied, Charlie Chaplin's 11th film for Essanay was shot largely on board the SS Vaquero, which Chaplin had rented for...
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin's ninth film for Essanay contains his third and last female impersonation. It begins, as so many of Chaplin's...
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1915
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The title of Charlie Chaplin's fifth comedy for Essanay refers to the popular term for a Model T Ford, a jitney. Its theme of...
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1915
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Work, Charlie Chaplin's eighth film for Essanay casts Charlie as a wallpaper-hanger's assistant who must pull the wagon...
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1915
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The Champion, Chaplin's third film for Essanay, is easily one of the funniest and is his most advanced film to date in...
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin began his new job at Essanay Studios, who lured him away from Keystone with an offer of $1250 a week plus a...
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1915
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The Tramp, Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Essanay, is generally considered his first masterpiece. It is the first of his...
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1915
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Elegant Masher
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin's 10th Essanay film marks a further development for him in story construction, gag development and the use of...
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1915
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In 1914 The Ladies' World magazine held a screenwriting contest and the fourth prize winner was Mrs. Wilson Woodrow (no...
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1914
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Although already a matinee idol, handsome Francis X. Bushman reportedly won the leading role in this very popular adventure...
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1914
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