The little-known melodrama Wink of an Eye was given a brief American distribution by United Artists. Jonathan Kidd plays...
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1958
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After a string of such serious projects as The Shrike and I Accuse, director-star Jose Ferrer lightens up a bit with the...
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1958
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Also known as Bop Girl, this diverting musical time capsule features several of the best Calypso performers of the late...
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Professor Winthrop
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1957
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Night watchman Clyde Matik has been stabbed to death in an appliance store warehouse. One of the dead man's fellow employees...
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1956
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Having forsaken westerns for detective melodramas in Dial Red O, William "Wild Bill" Ellliot continues in this vein in Sudden...
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1955
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1954
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Eccentric "Daily Planet" stringer Horatio Hinkle (Lucien Littlefield) invents a robot named Hero, which he uses to break up a...
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1953
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Attractively filmed in Cinecolor, Roar of the Crowd is a better-than-average actioner from Allied Artists. Howard Duff plays...
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1953
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At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by...
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1951
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Director Kurt Neumann, more closely associated with science fiction and mystery programmers, delivers a powerhouse of a...
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1949
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1949
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Jinx Money is not so much a Bowery Boys vehicle as a murder mystery that happens to star the Bowery Boys. It all begins when...
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1948
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Lightnin' in the Forest is a rare Republic Studios foray into the comedy field, kept alive by the rapport between its stars....
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Joad
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1948
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John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst,...
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1948
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Sexual harassment can work both ways as can be seen in this romantic comedy when ad man endeavors to maneuver out of a...
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1948
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1947
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1947
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Director Joseph Kane adapted his own story Diamond Carlisle for the screenplay of In Old Sacramento--the third film version...
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1946
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Director Allan Dwan moved to Republic Pictures in 1946, there to make the same sort of marital farce he'd been specializing...
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1946
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In this melodrama, a self-absorbed mother unwittingly teaches her daughter some terrible habits. From her, the girl learns...
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1946
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For his first post-WWII starring film, 26-year-old Mickey Rooney returned to familiar territory in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy....
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1946
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This comedy centers around an inept reporter who wouldn't recognize a hot story if it burned him on the hand. The trouble...
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1945
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1945
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In this effervescent musical comedy, a stuffy college professor secretly works as a burlesque comedian during the summer....
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John Alden Compton
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1944
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Another of Jack Haley's comedy vehicles for Pine-Thomas productions, One Body Too Many casts Haley as timid insurance...
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1944
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In this drama a big-city reporter moves to a tiny town to begin running the newspaper he half-owns. His in-your-face...
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1944
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Roy Rogers saves Dale Evans from being hoodwinked by a rodeo competitor in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, B-Western...
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1944
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Yet another tuneful Roy Rogers Western named after a song, The Cowboy and the Senorita features Roy and sidekick Teddy Bear...
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1944
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Singing, dancing, and ice skating are featured in this musical that focuses on ice-skating sensation Belita. The story...
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1944
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Popular latter-day serial queen Linda Stirling starred in the title role in this well-made 12 chapter serial produced by...
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1944
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Henry's friends think he's a coward because he refuses to fight a local bully, but his reason for refusing had more to do...
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1943
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For his first independently-produced starring effort, James Cagney chose the sentimental drama Johnny Come Lately. Cagney...
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1943
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This final entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Charlie Chan" series is set in a huge mansion, smack-dab in the middle of the Mojave...
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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1942
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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1942
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In his final film before entering war service, Gene Autry joins the World Wide Wild West Show, a faltering enterprise about...
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Pa McCracker
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1942
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Popular comic strip characters Snuffy Smith, his pal Barney Google, and their loyal horse Spark Plug come to life in this...
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Professor James
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1942
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This second entry in MGM's "Whistling" series is more elaborate than the first (Whistling in the Dark) and equally as funny....
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1942
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Adenoidal teenager Henry Aldrich (James Lydon) "gets glamour" when he wins first prize in a movie-magazine contest. Before he...
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1942
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The box-office success of Paramount's What a Life (1939), coupled with the popularity of the spinoff Henry Aldrich radio...
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1941
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"Mr. and Mrs. North" started as a series of comic articles about a Park Avenue married couple, written by Richard and Frances...
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1941
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Fresh from his contract-player duties at Warner Bros., future TV "Superman" George Reeves heads the cast of 20th...
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1941
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Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941...
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1941
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Henry Aldrich for President was the second of Paramount's "Henry Aldrich" series to star Jimmy Lydon in the teenaged title...
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1941
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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment...
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1941
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Marjorie Weaver, frequently cast as the "Girl Friday" in 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne pictures, is permitted to solve a...
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1941
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This is the first of two filmed adaptations of Al Capp's classic comic strip, in which the title hillbilly (Granville Owen)...
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1940
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In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a...
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1940
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1940
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The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the...
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1940
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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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Mystery Plane is one of the better-known entries in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series, if only because of its frequent TV...
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1939
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In this drama, a young businessman is forced to dig with a pick for a day after he almost caused a fire. While toiling away,...
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1939
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In this comedy drama, young high school student Henry Aldrich tries to tone down his natural mischievousness and shuck the...
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1939
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In this sentimental drama, a washed-up boxer falls for a nightclub owner whose business has nearly been ruined by...
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1939
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In this drama, a waitress leaves her husband after getting sick of being alone while her husband, a commercial pilot, plies...
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Dr. Pettingill
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1939
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In this patriotic wartime drama set during WW II, a test plane crashes killing all aboard and causes the locals to accuse...
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Eli
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1939
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Among the best-known of Republic's "B" pictures of the late 1930s, Hollywood Stadium Mystery is a neat and satisfying...
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Watchman
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1938
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In this often funny crime melodrama, a librarian moves to a small town and finds herself the butt of local gossip. While the...
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1938
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In this crime comedy, a fortune is stolen and every gangster in town is looking for it. They all end up staying at a young...
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1938
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In this action-packed crime drama, an ace reporter declares war on the mobsters that killed his best friend, helps a...
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Parrish
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1938
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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1938
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This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian...
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1938
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Prof. Danner
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1938
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In the fourth of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" action-thrillers, the intrepid adventurer (John Howard) makes the grizzly...
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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Paramount borrowed John Wayne from Republic Pictures for the studio's second screen version of Zane Grey's Born to the West,...
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1937
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1937
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In the second of Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" thrillers, Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) is finally about to marry...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation,...
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Bill Hawkins
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1937
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1937
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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In this musical, a talented young boy escapes from his orphanage and joins a traveling show where he is adopted by a has-been...
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1936
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Screen Story
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1936
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1936
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1936
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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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Elmer
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1935
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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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1935
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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second...
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1935
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If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with...
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Hubert Dilley
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1935
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Heroic and crusty old Cappy Ricks takes on lobbyists who are trying to pass a law banning shingles on roofs to force...
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Skinner
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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In this drama, a studio script girl works very hard to support her no-account family. One day she wins a lottery, gives her...
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1935
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Hoping to avoid the new inheritance tax, eccentric millionaire Jasper Whyte (Charles Grapewin) gathers together his greedy...
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by...
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1935
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In this comedy-drama, an enterprising college football coach's desire to win overshadows his common-sense when he cuts a...
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1935
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1934
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One of the least known of Cary Grant's starring vehicles, Kiss and Make Up was based on a European play by Stephen Bekeffi....
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Max Pascal
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1934
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The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film,...
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Mr. Peters
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1934
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Love Time is the story of the unhappy life of composer Franz Schubert, here played by Swedish actor Nils Asther. Too poor...
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1934
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Based on a story by Zona Gale, When Strangers Meet concentrates on a small, interrelated community separated down the middle...
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Barney Crane
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1934
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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1934
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Although this Laurel and Hardy short is quite funny, it's often neglected. The boys, playing chimney sweeps, don't appear...
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1934
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A European princess heads for New York in order to see if the U. S. will back her country's bond issue. Unfortunately, she...
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1934
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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While U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan (James Dunn) is on leave in San Pedro, he unexpectedly falls in love with the beautiful...
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1933
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Mascot Films, the feisty precursor to Republic Pictures, was responsible for 1933's The Big Payoff. In a rare top-billed...
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1933
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1933
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In this musical, a Kansas City family despises their stepmother who selfishly moves them to New York so she can make her...
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Timothy
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1933
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Perennial sidekick George E. Stone is given the leading role in The Big Brain. Stone plays a small-town barber, short of...
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1933
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This drama, set within a boarding house, centers around a pregnant show girl abandoned by her boyfriend, a married man who...
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1933
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An earthy, fun-loving radio pitchwoman finds it difficult to live up to her squeaky-clean public persona as the "Purity Girl...
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1933
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A spoiled rich girl marries a gas station owner in this dated romance starring Joel McCrea, Ginger Rogers, and Marion Nixon....
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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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1933
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Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read:...
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Dr. Horace Meddick
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1933
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Monogram's Skyway stars Ray Walker in his usual role as a brash troublemaker who can't hold down a job. This time he's a...
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1933
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1932
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Disparate twin brothers, a phony will, and a beautiful woman provide the main ingredients for this romantic comedy. The...
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1932
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Barbara Stanwyck overcomes a veritable ocean of clichés and manages to make her "shopworn" heroine come to life in this...
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Fred
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1932
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Also known as The Hidden Corpse, Strangers of the Evening is an effective blend of horror and humor. There's dirty work at...
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Frank Daniels
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1932
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A young football hero learns valuable life lessons on the way to becoming a pro in this sports drama. Tommy is a promising...
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1932
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Based on Abel Kandel's 1931 play Hot Money, this delightfully daffy comedy from Warner Bros. is a typical example of that...
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1932
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A mentally unstable naval officer goes mad with jealousy when his wife's recent lover shows up as a lieutenant on the...
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1932
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In this romance, an impoverished Viennese aristocrat becomes a gigolo. While on the job, he encounters a Yankee widow who is...
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1932
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In this police drama, a cop, known for being a rock under pressure, endeavors to cope with the aftermath of a...
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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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1932
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In this murder mystery, a nurse with an unusual eye for detail solves a puzzling case. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1932
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Anyone who believes that the career of silent screen idol John Gilbert ended because his voice has too high for the talkies...
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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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Schultz
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1932
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In this drama, the son of a shipping tycoon is left to reflect upon his life after his lover abandons him. He decides that...
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1932
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In this slapstick comedy set in a posh beauty salon, the owner asks her matronly sister, a postman's wife, to come and...
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Elmer Truffle
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1931
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A remake of a 1919 silent film based on the stage farce by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, the light romantic comedy...
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Adams
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1931
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When European princess Lee comes back to her Midwestern hometown, she is thought to be a seamstress and goes along with the...
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1931
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Mark Flint (George Bancroft) is the editor of the titular scandal sheet, possessing all of the gall and none of the ethics of...
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McCloskey
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1931
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In this comedy, a successful owner of a meat-packing plant tries to pass on his obsession for punctuality and rules to his...
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Marley
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1931
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Two former Fox contractees star in RKO Radio's She's My Weakness, a flat adaptation of Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson's...
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Warren Thurber
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1930
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In this early musical western, Stephen Ghent (Ian Keith) is a businessman who, after the death of his partner, has been...
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Texas tommy
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1930
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Tom Sawyer, Paramount's 1930 Christmas release, was the first talkie version of Mark Twain's beloved novel. A rapidly...
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Teacher
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1930
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Clancy (Charles Murray) is a pugnacious Irish-American plumber in partnership with parsimonious Scotsman Andy MacIntosh...
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Andy MacIntosh
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1930
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In this faithful adaptation of the popular 1925 Broadway hit musical, a Bible salesman helps three women with their troubles...
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Jim Smith
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1930
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1930
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This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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1930
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This version of Shakespeare's most famous love story is set in Scarsdale, New York. This time, the heroine comes from an old...
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1930
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Thomas Hayden
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1929
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In her second talking picture, Loretta Young stars as Gladys Cosgrove, the ticket-taker at a small-town movie house. Although...
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Sheik Smith
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1929
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This is the first sound film of Vilma "the Hungarian Rhapsody" Banky, a popular romantic star from the silent era. She plays...
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Frank Chase
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1929
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No, Richard Barthelmess doesn't don women's apparel in the 1929 talkie The Drag. Barthelmess plays a Vermont newspaper...
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Pa Parker
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1929
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For 55 of its 63 minutes, Making the Grade is a silent picture; only the opening sequence and a brief "radio broadcast" scene...
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Silas Cooper
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1929
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This 1929 drama about mistaken identities contains three eight minute scenes that involve talking. The rest of the film is...
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Plinge
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1929
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A love triangle between two twin brothers and a lovely young woman provides the framework for this drama (it was the first...
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1929
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Playwright Maxwell Anderson's domestic comedy drama Saturday's Children was adapted for the screen three times between 1929...
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Willie
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1929
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D. W. Griffith had originally been announced as the director of the Universal "super-production" version of Uncle Tom's...
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1928
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The "man in hobbles" (a reference to his unique trousers) is young professional photographer John Harron. Upon marrying...
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1928
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Uncle Joe
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1928
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1928
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Based on the comic strip by Carl Ed, Harold Teen stars future "Dagwood Bumstead" Arthur Lake in the title role. Upon arriving...
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Dad Jenks
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1928
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1928
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The Pleznik family from Hungary arrives in New York -- after landing at Ellis Island, the parents, Peter (Rudolph...
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1928
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In this silent police drama, a New York cop struggles to clear his name after he is convicted of tippling on the job. After...
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Andy McIntosh
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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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Ed Barnes
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1928
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Mary Pickford stars as the "Miss Fix-it" for her eccentric family. Pickford's job at a dime-store keeps her postman dad...
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Po Johnson
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1927
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Frank Willard's barn-storming stage melodrama Cat and the Canary was filmed four times over a fifty-year period. This silent...
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1927
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Though Will Rogers was still packing 'em in on Broadway, he was considered a Hollywood has-been when he starred in the...
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1927
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1927
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Lazare
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1927
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Caught in a heavy rainstorm without a car, Edward Everett Horton purchases a dilapidated taxicab so that he can get his...
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1927
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Having squandered his allowance, gay blade Tom Eggett (Reginald Denny) is given a second chance when he inherits his uncle's...
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Cyrus Crabb
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1926
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Set in a not-so-reasonable facsimile of London's Limehouse district, Twinkletoes stars Colleen Moore as the title character,...
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Hank
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1926
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The Vincent Blasco-Ibanez novel Entre Naranjos served as the inspiration for Greta Garbo's first American film, The Torrent....
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Cupido
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1926
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1926
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Bell
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1926
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Tom Mix's faithful horse Tony portrays a wild stallion in this average Mix western in which the hero saves a girl...
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1926
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The Fox company, who championed Buck Jones as Western star Tom Mix's possible heir, began cutting back a bit with Gold and...
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1925
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1925
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"Kentucky Rose"
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1925
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Sidney Chaplin, Charlie's talented half-brother, was well known on the Hollywood-party circuit for his devastating female...
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Brasset
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1925
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Based on a 1911 novel by Elinor Glyn, this melodrama seems at first to focus on the dilemma of whether to marry for material...
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1925
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1925
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Joe Lake
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1925
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1924
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A prospector (Tom Mix), falsely accused of murdering a deputy (Lucien Littlefield), comes across a wounded dog (Duke) who has...
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1924
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Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose...
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1924
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1924
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1924
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Wealthy John Woodbury (Douglas MacLean) is mistaken for a patient by a trio of overeager doctors. After being put through a...
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Griggs
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1924
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Filmed on magnificent locations at Cedar City, Utah and Zion Canyon, this lavishly mounted Tom Mix Western was based on The...
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Charlie Winter
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1924
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In 1919, Fox made a very successful film out of Checkers, a novel by Henry Blossom Jr., which also became a popular stage...
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1924
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In spite of the depressing, often tragic, circumstances in this drama, director Finis Fox somehow managed to add in comic...
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Rev. Hillburn
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1924
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This powerful drama, based on the novel The Master of Man, by Sir Hall Caine, was the first time Swedish director Victor...
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1924
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1923
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Marshall Neilan's fame as a director of quality films was at its peak during the period this romantic melodrama was made....
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1923
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Although rotund Walter Hiers was frequently seen in motion pictures all throughout the silent era, he was generally playing a...
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1923
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Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from...
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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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This film is based on the novel by F. Marion Crawford, and involves the court of King Philip II of Spain. Philip is jealous...
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1923
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In the days before air conditioning, filmmakers liked to release Northwest melodramas in the summer in the belief that the...
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1922
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Silent matinee idol Wallace Reid played a speed demon in quite a few popular light comedies for Paramount. Here he takes a...
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1922
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Wallace Reid starred in a legion of comedy-dramas involving speeding cars and most of them (generally written by Byron...
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1922
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Mary Miles Minter -- the most infamous of Mary Pickford imitators -- was at the peak of her popularity when this film was...
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Doc Weaver
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1922
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This epic historical romance, based on the novel by Mary Johnston, was one of Paramount's big releases for 1922, and it...
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1922
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Because the drab Under the Lash failed at the box office, Paramount was more than happy to put their star, Gloria Swanson,...
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Slithy Winters
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1922
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1922
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This lighthearted political satire marked the first time humorist George Ade wrote a story directly for the screen. The...
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1922
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1921
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The story to this mild little romance obviously owed a lot to the play Polly of the Circus, which was made into a 1917 film...
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1921
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The ill-fated Wallace Reid -- who would die of morphine addiction in 1923 -- was in top form in this Paramount action...
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Jimmy Hodmon
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1921
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This romantic costumed adventure is the film that cemented Rudolph Valentino's reputation as a legendary screen lover. Sheik...
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Gaston
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1921
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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1921
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This powerful drama, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Byron Morgan (who also adapted it for the screen), proved to...
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Silas Hoskins
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1921
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When Gerald Elliot (Jay Eaton) becomes involved with Lotta St. Regis, a notorious snake dancer (Nell Craig), his cousin...
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1920
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For some mysterious reason, producer Adolph Zukor decided to set the slapstick aside for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's first...
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1920
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Reginald Jay (Wallace Reid) has taken to his bed to avoid testifying in a divorce case. He decides that feigning illness...
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1920
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This light comedy was based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham. While Maugham's witty dialogue is sorely missed, the silent...
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1920
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Given that silent star Mary Miles Minter was famous for her wide, deep-blue eyes, it's not surprising that many of her films...
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1920
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When "Speed" Carr (Wallace Reid) has to travel from New York to Los Angeles to meet his uncle and claim an inheritance, he...
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1920
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One of the best of Cecil B. DeMille's sophisticated sex comedies of the silent era, Why Change Your Wife? hinges upon a...
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1920
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Allegory is a storytelling form little used in cinema today, but it popped up frequently during the silent era, especially...
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1919
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Many film critics felt that Wallace Reid graduated from mere leading man to full-fledged star in his 1917 vehicle...
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1917
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When New England schoolmarm Faith Miller (Anita King) comes West to inspect a mine she has bought, she discovers it is a...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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Actor-director-playwright Willard Mack made up in chutzpah what he lacked in originality. Mack's stage melodrama A Gutter...
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1916
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1916
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A typical fanciful silent screen romance based on a bodice-ripping pulp novel, To Have and to Hold marked the screen debut of...
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1916
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A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director...
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1916
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1916
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Famed opera singer Geraldine Farrar had just recently achieved silent film stardom with Carmen (a part she had also sung on...
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1915
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Although she was on the sunny side of 40, stage star Fannie Ward was still able to convey extreme youth in such movie...
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1915
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1915 was a big year for civil war films -- this powerful five-reeler was released around the same time as D.W. Griffith's...
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1915
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The grandfather of Betty Wright (Ina Claire) is willing to give her a substantial amount of money if she marries the son of a...
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1915
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1915
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1914
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