Modern audiences may not be familiar with Our Mister Sun, but many students growing up in the '50s and '60s (and into the...
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1956
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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1953
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Bannerline was Don Weis' first solo directorial credit for MGM. Keefe Brasselle stars as cub reporter Mike Perrivale, who...
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Hugo Trimble
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1951
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Andrew Jackson
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1951
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Sean O'Malley
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1950
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1949
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This full-blooded saga of the 19th century whaling industry stars Lionel Barrymore as tough old salt Captain Bering Joy and...
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Capt. Bering Joy
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1949
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James Temple
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1948
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After 15 entries, MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series came to a quiet end with Dark Delusion. Although Dr. Leonard Gillespie...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1947
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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Dr. Richard Gaunght
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1946
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Senator McCanles
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1946
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This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt...
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Mr. Potter
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1946
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The Secret Heart is a psychological drama starring June Allyson as a disturbed teenager obsessed with the memory of her dead...
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Dr. Rossiger
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1946
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Based on Marcia Davenport's novel and set in 1870, Valley of Decision details the romance between a housemaid named Mary...
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Pat Rafferty
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1945
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MGM's popular Dr. Kildare series spanned 1938-47. Lew Ayres played the title character, but parted in 1942. Though crusty and...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1944
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This lavish, 145-minute cinemadaptation of the Pearl Buck best-seller Dragon Seed was intended by MGM as a followup to the...
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1944
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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The General
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1944
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The oft-used movie title Between Two Women was resurrected once more for this entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series. Though...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1944
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1944
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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1943
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The third of MGM's Dr. Kildare series to dispense with the services of Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres), Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1943
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When Lew Ayres' wartime conscientious-objector status caused MGM to drop the actor like a hot potato, Ayres' "Dr. Kildare"...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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Thad Stevens
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1942
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On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) realizes that it's time to appoint a new...
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Dr. Gillespie
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1942
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In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI...
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"Grandpop" Logan
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1941
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The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score)...
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Judge Murdock
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1941
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In this episode of the popular medical series, Kildare finds himself involved in a dispute between to competing hospitals....
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1941
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Dr. Jim Kildare (Lew Ayres) plays Good Samaritan with potentially disastrous results in The People vs. Dr. Kildare. Happening...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1941
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Uncle Henry Jones
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1941
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When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly...
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Composer (Music Score), Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1941
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Appointed resident assistant at the Byng State Hospital by his mentor Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), young Doctor...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1940
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis is actually one suffered by his fiancee, nurse Mary Lamont (Laraine Day). Mary's financier brother...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1940
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This fourth entry in MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series once again stars Lew Ayres as Kildare, Laraine Day as his sweetheart Mary...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1940
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In this third installment of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Dr. James Kildare (Lew Ayres) comes to the rescue when his...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1939
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Julian Northrup, "Gramps"
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1939
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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Thomas Logan
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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The second of MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series, Calling Dr. Kildare finds the title character (Lew Ayres) transferred to Blair...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1939
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Grandpa Martin Vanderhof
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1938
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Though not the first Dr. Kildare film ever made, this is the first entry in MGM's long-running series set at Blair General...
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Dr. Leonard Gillespie
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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Howard B. Drake
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1938
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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Dan Sheridan
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1938
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Judge James Hardy
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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Grandpa Clayton
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1937
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A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based...
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Captain Disko
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1937
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MGM's Navy Blue and Gold prettily dresses up some of the oldest cliches in the "military cadet" movie genre. The film charts...
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Capt. "Skinny" Dawes
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1937
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Papa LaRoche
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1936
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Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist,...
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PaulLavond
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1936
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Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy....
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Monsieur Duval
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1936
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The Gorgeous Hussy purports to be based on the life of Margaret "Peggy" O'Neill, the controversial wife of early 19th-century...
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Andrew Jackson
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1936
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Based on the novel by MacKinlay Kantor, this 1936 drama from director Richard Thorpe stars Lionel Barrymore as Springfield...
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Spring Davis
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1921 and 1926, this venerable 1911 David Belasco stage play provides a good, if slightly risible,...
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Peter Grimm
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1935
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Shirley Temple's first costume picture -- and one of her best pictures of any kind -- was 1935's The Little Colonel. The...
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Colonel Lloyd
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1935
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Prof. Zelen
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1935
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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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Dr. Josiah Glass
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1935
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad...
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Nat Miller
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1935
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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Dan Peggotty
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1935
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Billy Bones
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1934
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T.R. Paige
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1934
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Carolina, a melodrama directed by Henry King, follows a young woman's attempt to restore a southern plantation back to its...
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Bob Connelly
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1934
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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Martin Turner
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, a middle-aged woman married to a much older man begins a harmless flirtation with an artistically...
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Augustus Merrick
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1933
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Robineau
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1933
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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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Grandpa Storr
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1933
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Adapted from John Balderston's successful stage fantasy (itself based on a story by Henry James), Berkeley Square is the...
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays a Marshall Field-like Chicago businessman who emerges from the wreckage of the 1871 fire to build a...
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Daniel Pardway
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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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Michael Benton
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1933
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Lionel Barrymore plays one of those selfless general practitioners that seem to exist exclusively in the movies in One Man's...
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Dr. Eli Watt
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1933
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1933
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Oliver Jordan
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1933
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Dr. Haggett
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1933
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"So much for Carlotta" muses the head of German Espionage (Lewis Stone), shortly after secret agent Karen Morley is put to...
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Gen. Serge Shubin
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1932
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Det. Guerchard
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1932
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Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal...
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Jeff Keane
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1932
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Director Ernst Lubitsch gained international acclaim for his sophisticated romantic comedies, but he also had a talent for...
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Dr. Holderlin
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1932
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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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Rasputin (aka Father Grisha)
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1932
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Otto Kringelein
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1932
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Richard Grant
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1931
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Based upon a much-filmed play by Michael Morton (which may in turn have been based upon a story by Frank Harris, The Yellow...
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Baron Igor Andreeff
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1931
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Ten cents a dance, that's what they pay her -- "her" being downtrodden taxi dancer Barbara (Barbara Stanwyck). The only thing...
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1931
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In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family,...
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Stephen Ashe
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1931
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1930
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Metropolitan opera star Lawrence Tibbett headed the cast of The Rogue Song, an opulent Technicolor adaptation of the...
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1930
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Love Comes Along was based on Conchita, a stage melodrama by Edward (Kismet) Knoblock. The story takes place on the mythical...
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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In this adventure set in South America, the captain of a yacht moored there is really a fugitive criminal. The passengers...
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1929
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Alexandre Brisson's weepy 1906 play had already been filmed three times when the 1929 talkie Madame X made its debut....
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1929
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Based on Olympia, a 1928 Ferenc Molnar stage soufflé, His Glorious Night has gone down in history as having more or less...
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1929
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Jules Verne's fantastic 19th century novel Mysterious Island provided the title and little else for this spectacular...
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Count Dakkar
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1929
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A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled...
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1929
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In this lurid Tod Browning melodrama, boasting a thoroughly creepy performance by Lon Chaney, Chaney plays Phroso, a...
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Crane
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1928
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After holding out for several months, MGM decided to take the talking-picture plunge with Alias Jimmy Valentine. Actually,...
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Doyle
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1928
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John "Ready Money" Ryder
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1928
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Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith's days of glory were well behind him when he agreed to direct Drums of Love. Indicative of...
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Duke Cathos De Alvia
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1928
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Alfred Atkinson
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1928
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Henry Grayson
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1928
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Bill Lefty
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1928
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Long believed to be a "lost" film, The Show resurfaced in the mid-1970s, proving to be a real treasure trove for aficionados...
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The Greek
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1927
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Dr. Leyden
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1927
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The whole cast looks like they're enjoying themselves in this spoof on crime melodramas. A series of thefts are being...
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Professor Leroy
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1927
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1927
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Also known as Women Love Diamonds, this MGM picture was to have been a Greta Garbo vehicle, but when Garbo went on strike for...
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1927
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Slim Jim Carey
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1926
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Another of Raoul Walsh's "lost" silent films, Lucky Lady stars Gretta Niessen as the title character. Convent-bred to assume...
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Grand Duke
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1926
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Paris at Midnight was freely adapted from Pere Goriot, a novel by Honore de Balzac. Lionel Barrymore stars as the "Robin Hood...
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1926
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MGM's silent programmers were often more elaborate than the "A" product from most other studios, and The Barrier was no...
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Stark Bennett
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1926
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1926
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The Temptress was Greta Garbo's second American film, and while it may strike modern viewers as excessively melodramatic,...
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Canterac
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1926
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Dan Clehollis
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1925
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This horse racing meller was based on the play by George V. Hobart and George Broadhurst. Claire Barrington (Aileen Pringle)...
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1925
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In spite of the presence of Lionel Barrymore, this old-fashioned drama was nothing more than mediocre program fare. Daniel...
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1925
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Johnny Walker stars in this routine, independently made crime drama. After serving a stretch in jail, Larry Brainerd (Walker)...
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1925
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Mary Hale (Marguerite de la Motte) hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent (Lionel Barrymore) comes...
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Gordon Kent
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1925
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Produced and directed by Whitman Bennett, this minor society melodrama features Mildred Harris as Claire Bowdoin, whose...
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Philip Durban
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1925
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Edwin Ainsworth,John Wells
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1924
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This video contains two abridged version films: America, in which a Boston patriot and the daughter of a Tory fall in love...
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1924
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During the 1920s, it was a common occurrence for British filmmakers to lense their productions in Germany, and vice versa....
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Suladin
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1924
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This epic tale about the American Revolution broke the bank for filmmaker D.W. Griffith. Robert W. Chambers loosely adapted...
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1924
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James McQuade
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1924
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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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Sir Geoffrey Wildairs
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1923
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This epic production was the last film that producer and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst produced for Paramount...
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Prince Lubimoff
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1923
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This predictable Northwest melodrama was one of the first made by William Randolph Hearst's film company, Cosmopolitan, for...
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Conrad Dean
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1923
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Bruno, a tramp (Richard Bennett), takes in a waif, David, who is later adopted by a man whose daughter, Roma, wants a...
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Baron Bonelli
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1923
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Although Lionel Barrymore was miscast as a gunman, he overcame this drawback by giving the role of Boomerang Bill an...
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Boomerang Bill
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1922
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Writer Jack Boyle created a timely adventure for the character of Boston Blackie Dawson in this mystery (at least it was...
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Blackie Dawson, reformed crook
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1922
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Lionel Barrymore stars in this melodrama, based on the play by Sir James L. Young. Jim Ralston (Barrymore) is a country bank...
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James Ralston
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1921
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Comedy was not the forte of great character actor Lionel Barrymore, and this picture, based on the novel by Arnold Bennett,...
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Priam Faril
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1921
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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 Dale (Lionel Barrymore), a servant for Lord Barradine (H. Cooper Cliffe), marries Mavis, a maid (Doris Rankin,...
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1920
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Lionel Barrymore played Milt Shanks, the "Copperhead" of the title, on stage and repeated the role for this Paramount studios...
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1920
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Henry Allen (Lionel Barrymore) swears revenge when attorney Cortland Wainwright (Ralph Kellard) sends his innocent brother to...
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1920
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In the later stages of his career, Lionel Barrymore was often cast as an irascible millionaire plagued with irresponsible...
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1917
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One would liked to have been a fly on the wall of the set of Life's Whirlpool. Its leading lady was the imperious...
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1917
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Wealthy clubman Richard Dorian (Lionel Barrymore) is a lighthearted soul who can't seem to take anything seriously, including...
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1916
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Hard to think of Lionel Barrymore as a romantic lead, much less a young coward who makes good. Yet Barrymore plays both in...
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1916
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Although Lionel Barrymore is the star of this picture, his role sounds better suited for his brother Jack, who specialized in...
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1916
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Wall street broker Barry Dale (Lionel Barrymore) is systematically ruined financially by his alleged best friend Richard...
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1915
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Conservative Biograph Studios, having galloped to prominence on the coattails of their star director D.W. Griffith, refused...
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1914
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Produced by Colonial productions and released by the World Film Company, the six-reel Seats of the Mighty was based on the...
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1914
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Steve Carson
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1914
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Based on a popular stage play, the Biograph three-reeler Strongheart was originally released in May of 1913. The film was...
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1914
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Although not as remembered as The Perils of Pauline (also 1914), The Exploits of Elaine was by all accounts the superior...
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1914
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Forced by the dictates of his Biograph contract to give up directing in favor of "supervising," D.W. Griffith left the studio...
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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A besieged blockhouse containing a frightened Lillian Gish, marauding Indians, and a Mexican who heroically brings the...
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1913
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The "three friends" in this sentimental Gaumont effort are an elderly cab driver, his faithful horse and his pet dog. Early...
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1913
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A wagon train is attacked by marauding Indians in this typically grisly Biograph one-reel western melodrama preserved in the...
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1911
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