An obscure backstage drama from Poverty Row company Puritan Pictures, The Reckless Way stars Marion Nixon as Helen Rogers, a...
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1936
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In this melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until...
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Treasure McGuire
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1936
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1936
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Set in the scenic South Seas, this high-seas adventure centers on a sailor who creates all kinds of trouble when he tells a...
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Madge
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1936
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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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In this emotional but fast-paced comedy, a husband/businessman creates an ingenious cure for his mid-life crisis. He suggest...
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Andrea
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1935
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William Gargan plays his first movie detective (but definitely not his last) in Columbia's The Lineup. The hero, a gumshoe...
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Peggy
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1934
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Trying a bit too hard to qualify as a "screwball" comedy, RKO Radio's We're Rich Again is based on Alden Nash's stage play...
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Arabella
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1934
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Marian Nixon made the first of a brace of starring appearances at low-budget Liberty Pictures in Once to Every Bachelor....
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1934
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Looking for all the world like a 2-reel comedy bloated to 6-reel proportions, Embarrassing Moments was directed by...
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Jane
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1934
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Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian...
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Sylvia Montgomery
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1934
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John Ford directed this emotional drama, which was a considerable change of pace from the westerns and war pictures for which...
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Mary Saunders
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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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Glory Franklyn
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1933
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Lena Schneider
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1933
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In this romance, two travelling sign painters find themselves inspired by a young woman's lovely smile. Soon her face is...
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Madge
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1933
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Will Rogers is Dr. Bull, a small-town physician with precious little book learning. This doesn't stop him from ministering to...
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May Tupping
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1933
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In this comedy, a young couple are forced to marry after they are accidentally locked in a store overnight. Unfortunately...
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1933
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A goodly portion of this boxing drama was filmed on location at the real-life Madison Square Garden. Jack Oakie stars as...
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Bee
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1932
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Mildred Cram's novel Scotch Valley was transformed by the scenarists at Fox into the Warner Baxter vehicle Amateur Daddy....
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Sally Smith
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1932
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James Cagney stars as a popular prizefighter who loses his winnings through too much partying and too many women. Cagney's...
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Peggy Harmon
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1932
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Sidney Taylor
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1932
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The second film version of Ben Ames Williams' magazine serial Jubilo, and the second to star Will Rogers, Too Busy to Work...
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Rose
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1932
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Originally filmed with Mary Pickford in 1917, the Kate Douglas Wiggin children's classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was...
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Rebecca
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1932
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Warner Oland's third appearance as humble oriental sleuth Charlie Chan was in the 1932 release Charlie Chan's Chance. This...
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Shirley Marlowe
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1932
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In this drama, an orphan girl marries a kindly crook to stay out of reform school. The crook is the head thief in a robber...
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1932
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The exciting world of horse-racing provides the setting for this lively comedy that centers on luckless Bud Doyle, a jockey...
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Babe Ellis
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1931
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Women Go On Forever is almost as old-fashioned as its title. Silent-screen queen Clara Kimball Young makes a comeback attempt...
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Betty
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1931
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As the low-budget Liberty Pictures Corporation emerged from the chrysalis of the late Tiffany Studios, the new company...
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Lady Catherine Austin
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1931
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In this youthful sports comedy two football jocks, Eddie Smith and Tiny Courtlay are grid iron rivals competing to win the...
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1930
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In rare film appearance, Broadway luminary Elsie Ferguson repeats her 1929 stage role in the 1930 film version of Scarlet...
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Nora Mason
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1930
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Nancy Porter
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1930
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In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist...
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Dolores Delfino
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1930
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Muriel Colbrook
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1930
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Geraldine
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1929
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In this drama, an elevator operator in a big hotel gets in big trouble after he and a chambermaid are found in a guest's...
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Annie Jackson
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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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1929
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This costume drama is the first all dialog film in which Barrymore appeared. He plays a mercenary who will serve anyone who...
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Archduchess
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1929
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The racetrack provides the setting of this drama that tells the tale of a jockey who throws a race to impress a sexy girl....
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Lucy Calhoun
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1929
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Katherine Lane
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1929
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In this drama, a singer finds himself stuck with his best friend's newly orphaned son. Now he must juggle both parenthood and...
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Mary Lane
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1929
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1929
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Another of RKO Radio's "leftovers" from its previous existence as FBO Pictures, The Red Sword is set in a backlot Russia....
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Vera
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1929
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Beatrice Fairbanks
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1928
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Elsa Hausmann
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1928
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Yvonne Gilbert
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1928
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Shoe clerk Andy Whittaker (George Lewis) decides to quit his job when a bank unexpectedly extends him $10,000 in credit. This...
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June Allen
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1928
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Red Lips was based on the novel The Plastic Age by Percy Marks, previously filmed under its original title in 1925....
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Cynthia Day
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1928
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The founder of Universal, "Uncle" Carl Laemmle, had, as the writer Ogden Nash once pointed out, "quite a big faemmle."...
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1927
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Fate is a funny thing: If young physician John Graham (Reginald Denny) had not been stuck in a faulty elevator overnight with...
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Molly O'Day
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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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Rose Zimmerman
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1927
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This minor racetrack drama was directed by King Baggot, at one time a prominent silent-film leading man. Robert Agnew stars...
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Kotie Kelly
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1927
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Rex Lease and Cullen Landis star as Tom and Joe Riley, respectively a fireman and a cop. The Riley boys both fall in love...
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1927
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Jewish comedian George Sidney stars as the title character in The Auctioneer. Sidney also doubles as a pawnbroker, which...
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Ruth Leui
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1927
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This "lost" film would be especially valuable to see again, if only for two reasons: It was the second American effort of...
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Sally Phillmore
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1927
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Mary
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1927
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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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The Girl He Loves
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1926
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Spangles was adapted by actress Leah Baird from the novel by Nellie Revell, with Revell receiving "star" billing in the...
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1926
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This romance featured respected old-timers (Pauline Frederick in a starring role and Leah Baird as screenwriter) and a fresh...
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1926
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What Happened to Jones takes approximately 70 minutes' screen time to tell in this frothy comedy. On the night before his...
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Lucille Bigbee
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1926
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Phyllis
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1926
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1925
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During the 1920s, Reginald Denny was popular in pictures for portraying all-American young men (this changed after the sound...
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Alicia Stone
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1925
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There are only two ways the Earl of Woodstock (Ralph Graves) can get out of debt -- either his horse Lady Love wins the Derby...
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1925
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Silent screen cowboy Hoot Gibson handled situation comedy better than any of his rivals, with the possible exception of...
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Joan Longdon
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1925
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Reginald Denny is Alec Dupree, a young but serious college professor who is hard at work on a book. He is interrupted by a...
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Hazel Deeming
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1925
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Silent western star Hoot Gibson enjoyed showing off his rodeo skills in his westerns. This time, he mistakenly assumes he...
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1925
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A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands starred Buck Jones in the title role, a rancher falsely...
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1925
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Pulp writer Henry Herbert Knibb wrote the original story of this silent Hoot Gibson western, which enjoyed an above-average...
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Rena Newhall
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1924
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Jean Lawrence (Marian Nixon) is a failed musical comedy star who is befriended by Nan Norton (Trilby Clark), whose boyfriend...
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Jean Lawrence
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1924
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Searching for his wayward brother, saddle tramp Donnegan (Buck Jones) gets in trouble with a bully and is thrown off a...
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Louise
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1924
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Zane Grey's often-filmed tale of the gunfighter's pacifist son who is forced into action by his father's erstwhile enemies...
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Jenny
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1924
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Cowboy Buck Saxon (Buck Jones) is falsely accused of attempting to murder his rival in love (Jack McDonald) and is on the run...
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1924
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Having achieved fame and fortune in a series of bucolic country-boy roles, Charles Ray decided he was ready to become his own...
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1923
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Fox Western star Buck Jones enjoyed a change of pace in this boxing melodrama directed by a young William Wellman. Returning...
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1923
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This historical comedy-drama resulted from the unlikely collaboration of girlish silent star Mary Pickford and sophisticated...
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1923
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In this simple little romantic drama, Charles "Buck" Jones plays fireman Andy McGee. McGee becomes a fireman over the...
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Agnes Evans
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1923
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