Directed competently by the veteran William Nigh, this ultra low-budget Western from diminutive Crescent Pictures Corp....
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Frago
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1938
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Inasmuch as diminutive Frankie Darro was Hollywood's foremost portrayer of jockeys, it should come as no surprise that Darro...
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1938
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1937
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Russell Gleason, the personable and talented son of actors James and Lucille Gleason, is afforded a rare starring role in the...
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Dorsky
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1937
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Warren William stars as Dr. Phillip Wendel Jones, a doctor whose patient dies under questionable circumstances. He is...
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1937
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Though now all but forgotten, early 20th Century actor Charles Ray once reigned as one of the most popular comedic film...
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1936
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A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant...
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1936
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Two of Hollywood's finest juvenile actors, Frank Coghlan Jr. and Dickie Moore, top the cast of The Little Red Schoolhouse....
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1936
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The first of three inexpensive serials produced by Louis Weiss for Poverty Row company Stage and Screen Productions, The...
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1936
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Buster Keaton is on the lam from the law in this Educational two-reeler. He attempts to elope with his fiancée...
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1935
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Produced independently by Edward Small, this surprisingly realistic gangster yarn stars stalwart Richard Arlen as Mal...
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1935
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Produced by parsimonious Majestic Pictures, Reckless Roads stars Regis Toomey as perennial wise-guy Speed Demming. To gain...
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1935
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Ostensibly based on James Oliver Curwood's Caryl of the Mountain, but bearing little or no resemblance to the 1935...
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1935
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Shirley Grey plays The Girl Who Came Back in this Chesterfield Pictures "special". Grey is cast as Gilda, a former gun moll...
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Smoky
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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1935
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When a playboy becomes entangled in the affairs of gamblers he eventually locates an underwater treasure. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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Based on a Peter B. Kyne short story, The Final Assignment (which was also the film's alternate title), Fighting Coward...
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1935
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Fearing that her unsavory past will be revealed, a young girl is prepared to kill her erstwhile benefactor in this hectic...
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1935
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After being framed in a warehouse robbery, a police officer goes undercover as a drunk in order to get the goods on the real...
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1934
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Columbia Pictures workhorse Lambert Hillyer was both writer and director of Men of the Night. Bruce Cabot plays Kelly, a...
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1934
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1934
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages...
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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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If MGM could cast an Olympic champion it its Tarzan series, so could Sol Lesser's Principal Pictures. Thus it was that...
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1933
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Eagle Productions was another of those exotically named independent studios that came and went in the early 1930s. Eagle's...
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1933
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I Have Lived takes place in a New York penthouse, a Broadway theater, and a seedy speakeasy, though not necessarily in that...
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Blackie
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1933
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In this crime drama, a highway patrolman gives an oil magnate a ticket. He later quits the force to begin working for the...
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Jarvis
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1933
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A decidedly minor entry in Tim McCoy's Western oeuvre, The Whirlwind was released in the middle of McCoy's unsuccessful...
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1933
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A minor entry from small-scale Progressive Pictures, Under Secret Orders starred the rather pallid Donald Dillaway as Henry...
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1933
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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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An average entry in Columbia Pictures' Tim McCoy Western series, The Western Code features perennial Bad Guy Wheeler Oakman...
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1932
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Tim McCoy is falsely accused of killing his own father in this typical low-budget oater directed by the generally efficient...
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Red Larkin
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1932
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The second of six sound Westerns starring Jack Hoxie and produced by poverty row company Majestic, this film, like most...
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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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The second of two projected John Wayne serials produced by genre expert Mascot Pictures, this film used the budget-saving...
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1932
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Alias Mary Smith might have been completely forgotten were it not for the diligent efforts of "B"-picture aficionado John...
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1932
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1932
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In this comedy, a lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent...
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1931
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1931
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The delightful Winnie Lightner was afforded her own movie vehicle in Side Show. Lightner stars as Pat, one of several members...
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1931
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In this religious (but not overbearingly so) drama, a good man gets involved with a woman who wants to marry the man who...
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1931
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A dedicated priest sets up a mission in the slums of a great metropolitan city, hoping to clean up the community by cleansing...
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Jim Blake
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1931
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Helen Twelvetrees became a major star in this laundered version of the "naughty" Broadway play Frankie and Johnny. A singer...
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1930
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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1930
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Silent-screen comedian Harry Langdon was the darling of the critics in 1927, but his career quickly lost momentum, and by the...
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Inspector McGann
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1930
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In this lively drama, a gambler believes he has killed a man and so boards the first train out of town. Unfortunately, a...
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Martin
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1930
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In this crime melodrama, a bootlegger orders the death of his rival. Meanwhile the bootlegger's wife dallies with his best...
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1930
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Accused of murdering her employer, nightclub vocalist Alice Carroll (Madge Bellamy) is vigorously prosecuted in court by...
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1929
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In this drama, a young woman gets angry when her boyfriend's father, a motorcycle cop, stops her for speeding, refuses her...
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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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"Doc" Striker
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1929
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Red
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1928
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The great German actor Emil Jannings closed out the American phase of his film career with the Paramount part-talkie...
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1928
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Joe Connors
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1928
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Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur...
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1928
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Onoto (Myrna Loy) is slated to be sold to a wealthy Mandarin, but is rescued from the auction block by white fugitive from...
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1928
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1928
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Previously filmed in 1920, Harold Bell Wright's "backwoods" novel Shepherd of the Hills was remade in 1928. The story is...
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Wash Gibbs
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1927
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Such was Richard Barthelmess' popularity in 1927 that audiences were willing to sit through all 12 reels (approximately 130...
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Jake Stuke
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1927
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1926
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1926
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Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused...
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1926
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The Little Irish Girl is Dot Walker (Dolores Costello), the pretty come-on for a tawdry gambling house. Dot lures country boy...
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Jerry Crawford
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1926
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This rugged melodrama was based on Jack London's last novel. Joe Holland (Walter Perry) is the superintendent of the Lucky 13...
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1925
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The Summons by Katherine Newlin Burt made for such tired movie material that director Robert G. Vignola and scenarist...
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Matt
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1925
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Because Little Old New York was so successful, MGM and newspaper/sometime film magnate William Randolph Hearst decided to put...
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1925
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Few leading ladies appeared in as many films in 1926 as the vivacious Clara Bow. In My Lady's Lips, Bow plays the feisty...
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Eddie Gault
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1925
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Although Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning had made a couple of films together earlier in their careers, this unique...
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1925
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Although MGM was known for its streamlined, quality pictures, that didn't mean all its product was glossy, high-budget stuff....
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1925
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The off-screen husband-and-wife team of James Kirkwood and Lila Lee played just that in this silent crook melodrama from...
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1924
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This melodrama was personally supervised by producer Thomas Ince, and, depending on how one looked at it, it was either...
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1924
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Although Milton Sills was a leading man in his own right, he also supported many female stars of the silent era. In this...
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1924
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Although Norma Talmadge was at the height of her stardom, she was not immune to poor material, nor was veteran screenwriter...
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Ole Hanson
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1924
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Priscilla Dean's star was beginning to fade around the time she appeared as a passionate Andulusian peasant in this drama....
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1924
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Based on a play by Owen Davis, Lighthouse By the Sea top-bills Warner Bros.' most successful male star of 1924: dauntless...
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Joe Dagget
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1924
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This routine circus drama was a typical rags-to-riches vehicle for minor Universal Studios star Gladys Walton. Nita Moore...
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1923
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Silent screen stunt-man Richard Talmadge also produced this fine action melodrama, one of the few of his starring films to be...
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1923
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This poorly made domestic drama was called "a program picture for program theaters" by trade paper Motion Picture News. Tim...
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1923
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Light comedian Johnny Hines specialized in entertaining, action-packed films, and this is one of the snappiest of the bunch....
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1923
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Other than the title, this horseracing melodrama had little to do with the Stephen Foster song. Kentucky native Richard...
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1922
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After making a hit in the Torchy series of two-reelers, Johnny Hines chose this lively picture as his first full-length...
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1921
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Nell Sanders (Pauline Starke) has grown up on New York's Lower East Side. While working in a sweatshop she becomes involved...
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1921
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Although already a matinee idol, handsome Francis X. Bushman reportedly won the leading role in this very popular adventure...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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