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1952
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Directed by Tenny Wright, The Telegraph Trail features John Wayne as John Trent, a calvary scout who has been sent to put a...
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Alice Ellis
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1933
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Unlike the unintentionally amusing vehicles of many another western star, most of Hoot Gibson's starring films are funny on...
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1933
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Flash, yet another German shepherd in a long line of would-be Rin Tin Tin successors, took center stage in this obscure...
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1933
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Although venereal disease was considered as delicate a subject then as it is now, this was nonetheless the third filmed...
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1933
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Former silent screen cowboy star Jack Hoxie played a Pony Express rider in this, the fourth of six low-budget oaters produced...
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1933
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When a patient dies of heart failure, society doctor Michael Travers (Lew Cody), takes an interest in her 14-year-old...
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1933
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The Crusader was one of the earliest efforts from Majestic Pictures, for many years the most ambitious of the independent...
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1932
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In 1932, Monogram Pictures was essentially the clearing house for the films of independent production firms. Monogram was...
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1932
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In his fourth Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played a lawman chasing a masked villain known only as "the Shadow."...
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Judith
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1932
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Also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne, this Rex Bell vehicle is an excellent amalgam of the western and gangster genres....
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1932
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As evidenced by its title, Chesterfield's The King Murder was partially inspired by the infamous Dot King extortion case of...
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1932
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Sky Raiders may be a talkie, but its plotting and performances are strictly from the silent era. Lloyd Hughes plays Bob, a...
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Grace
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1931
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Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper enjoyed one of her few top-billed movie roles in the independently-produced thriller...
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Joan
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1931
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This offbeat WWI drama concentrates not on Men in War (there are in fact no men in the picture!), but on their women. The...
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Dorothy Quinlan
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1931
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The Pocatello Kid must have been sheer ambrosia for Ken Maynard fans, offering their idol in a dual role. Maynard is cast as...
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1931
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The second all-talking entry in the "Bulldog Drummond" series, Temple Tower is also the most obscure of the Drummond films --...
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Patricia Verney
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1930
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Sunny Skies was the first of two attempts by Tiffany Studios to make a major talkie star out of Jewish dialect comedian...
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Mary Norris
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1930
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The second of comedian Benny Rubin's two starring features for Tiffany Studios, Hot Curves is a spoof of baseball manager...
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1930
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In this low-budget romantic musical, a sweet-young-thing heads for the South Seas to be with her betrothed. A typhoon brews...
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Ellen
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1930
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Not a remake of the 1922 film of the same name, Reckless Youth takes place in a college town where everybody parties on and...
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Dixie Calhoun
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1929
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While the silent comedy team of Karl Dane and George K. Arthur made some very entertaining films in the latter half of the...
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1929
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In this film, the irresponsible Stella Ames (Clara Bow) spends her college career attending parties rather than studying....
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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In this comedy, an aging fellow falls in love with a free-spirited flapper. His crush causes the normally dignified...
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Maggie
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1929
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Easy-to-please rural audiences got two aging Western stars for the price of one with this low-budget silent oater directed by...
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Mary Gale
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1929
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In this mostly silent drama, an overprotective brother tries to keep his sister from getting further involved with a group...
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Sue Randall
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1929
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Marceline Day plays two women in the late-silent Fox release One-Woman Idea. The actress is cast as haughty aristocrat Lady...
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Alizar,Lady Alicia Douglas
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1929
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This is one of the last films from Buster Keaton's classic period, before the coming of sound and interference from MGM...
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Sally Richards
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1928
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Even mighty MGM succumbed to the Rin Tin Tin craze by developing its own in-house canine star, a handsome German shepherd...
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1928
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The "certain young man" of the title is Lord Gerald Brinsley, played by Ramon Novarro. A carefree young bachelor, Lord Gerald...
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Phyllis
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1928
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Sunshine
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1928
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Driftwood was based on a South Sea yarn penned by colorful turn-of-the-century journalist Richard Harding Davis. En route to...
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Daisy Smith
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1928
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1928
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Having grown up under the thumbs of her two maiden aunts, 17-year-old Joan Hastings (Marceline Day) has never had a...
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Joan Hastings
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1928
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Lewis Stone, best known to modern viewers as kindly Judge Hardy from the "Andy Hardy" series, was on occasion not so kindly...
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June Westcott
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1928
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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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Charlotte de Vauxcelles
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1927
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The Road to Romance is a heavily Hollywoodized adaptation of the Joseph Conrad/Ford Maddox Ford novel Romance (which served...
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Serafina
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1927
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The most tantalizing of the "lost" Tod Browning films, London After Midnight has gained a near-legendary status in recent...
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Lucille Balfour
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1927
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Betty Wayne
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1927
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Directed by one of "Uncle" Carl Laemmle's many relatives, this Universal "Blue Streak Western" sat on the shelf for two years...
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1927
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Lars Hanson had recently appeared as Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter when he was called on once again to play a man...
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Mary Phillips
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1927
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1926
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Directed in the manner of a lamp-lighted melodrama by Louis J. Gasnier, That Model From Paris was based on the old Goveneur...
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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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Necia
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1926
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No relation to the much-later musical comedy of the same name, The Boy Friend focuses on the misadventures of dreamy-eyed...
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1926
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1926
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MGM's The Gay Deceiver was based on Toto, a stage play by Maurice Hennequin and Felix DuQuesnal. Lew Cody stars as Toto, a...
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1926
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Unlike most "collegiate" films of the 1920s, College Days paints a fairly realistic portrait of campus life. To be sure, the...
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Mary Ward
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1926
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This melodrama was based on the novel The Just and the Unjust by Vaughn Kester. District attorney John North (Harrison Ford)...
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1926
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1925
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One of the more popular western plots of the silent era detailed the trials and tribulations of a spoiled Easterner growing...
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1925
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While this comedy was pretty standard fare for producer Mack Sennett in the 1920s, it is notable for being the first film in...
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1924
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1924
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