This biographical documentary examines the early life and career of Charlie Chaplin. A repeated feature of American Public...
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1972
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A video compilation of cutting-room-floor footage from the works of Charles Chaplin. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. narrates. ~ Rovi...
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1967
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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This volume includes three separate shorts of comedy from the '30s. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1933
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Upon her release from prison, Joyce Greeley (Edwina Booth) is promptly and mysteriously murdered. Fledgling crime reporter...
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1932
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1932
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1931
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In this youthful comedy, a child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. The bright girl's parents take her and her...
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1931
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Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, this film was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but it was held...
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1930
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"Sea Bat" is another name for the poisonous sting rays that trouble swimmers in warmer ocean climes. The story is set upon a...
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1930
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In this mystery, a producer reopens a theater where five years before, a lead actor was killed on stage during a...
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Robert
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1929
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This comedy is the first episode of the five-movie series "The Cohens and Kellys." In each movie the rivalry between the...
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Mr. Kelly
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1929
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In this drama, which marks Barbara Stawyck's Hollywood film debut, a woman is taken to an illegal cabaret set aboard a...
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1929
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1928
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Tillie's Old Man/Gen. Pilsner
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1928
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The present unavailability of 1928's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is especially frustrating for those who'd like to compare this...
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Francis Beekman
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1928
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Detective Krausschmidt
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1928
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One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted...
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Mr. Gaidaroff
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1927
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Finnegan's Ball was typical of the low-comedy ethnic shenanigans common to films of the 1920s. The warm relationship between...
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Patrick Flannigan
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1927
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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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1927
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One of the better "Abie's Irish Rose" derivations of the late 1920s, The Shamrock and the Rose was adapted from a play by...
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1927
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Despite its posh MGM trappings, Becky is at heart a "B" picture, sacrificing pretentiousness in favor of good, solid...
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1927
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Glottenheimer
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1927
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Charlie Oelze, the Hal Roach Studio's special effects and "gadget" maestro, was given co-director credit on the silent,...
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1927
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Although it ran a very scant four reels (it was actually 3,303 feet in length), comedy producer Mack Sennett marketed this...
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1927
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Beloved Rogue stars John Barrymore as legendary Parisian poet/vagabond Francois Villon. The film follows the basic chronology...
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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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A minor silent comedy-drama, Her Big Night featured Grace Darmond, a blond former serial queen, as the secretary of a...
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1926
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With Mack Swain and Arthur Houseman in the cast, it's obvious that this murder mystery-melodrama has a lot of comic relief....
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1926
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Howard Hawks' final effort as a screenwriter before becoming a full-time director was the trifling comedy Honesty -- The Best...
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1926
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1926
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Sophisticated, silk-hatted silent-film comedian Raymond Griffith had at least one classic in him, and Hands Up was that film....
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Silas Woodstock
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1926
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Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
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Bimbo-Bomba
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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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1926
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Jerome Underwood
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1926
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He may be called "The Lone Prospector" in The Gold Rush, but the character played by Charlie Chaplin is the same wistful,...
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Big Jim McKay
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1925
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In the final film of his First National contract (an early working title was The Tail End), Charlie Chaplin spoofs small-town...
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The Deacon
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1923
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Foreman
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1922
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Charlie Chaplin's eighth film under his million dollar contract with First National is a return to the two reel form, and to...
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Her Father
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1921
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Velma (Eva Novak) is unhappily married to Sam (Leonard Shumway), a user of demon alcohol and a notorious womanizer. He...
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1921
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This volume on the history of cinema contains early, short, silent films - mostly before 1920 - including: Melies'...
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1919
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Instead of his usual two-reel format, Mack Sennett made a five-reel, feature-length film to spoof the recently ended World...
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1919
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1916
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Charlie Chaplin's 2-reel laugh parade The Rink was based on "Skating," a sketch Chaplin had previously performed while a...
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1916
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1915
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1915
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1915
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Love, Speed and Thrills is about a loving husband and a wife-stealing wolf, both after the same woman. ~ Rovi...
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1915
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1915
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Charlie Chaplin's 30th Keystone comedy is again set at the auto races, as were his earlier films, Kid's Auto Race,...
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1914
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Notable as Charlie Chaplin's first female impersonation film, the half-reel A Busy Day is another of the Keystone shorts in...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 13th film for Keystone marked his first solo effort as writer and director. It follows the well-trodden...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's penultimate Keystone comedy takes us back to the scene of so many of his Keystones, Westlake Park. It is...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's musical career is as a piano mover for a music store in this, his 31st comedy for Keystone. The film was a...
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1914
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In his 32nd film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin is a married man, an unusual state for his film character. His wife, played by...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 15th comedy for Keystone is another violent park farce. It is the only teaming of this quartet of Keystone...
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1914
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Charlie Chaplin's 20th film for Keystone marks a turning point in his career. From this point on, with one exception, he was...
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1914
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1914
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In his 19th film for Keystone, Charlie Chaplin plays a somewhat more sympathetic role as the husband of comedienne...
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1914
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This Keystone comedy, Charlie Chaplin's 33rd, is the first feature-length comedy ever made and contributed to making Chaplin...
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John Banks, Tillie's Father
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1914
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1914
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1914
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