Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than...
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1945
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in...
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1943
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A man trying to leave his fame behind discovers the perils of choosing to be the wrong unknown person in this farcical...
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1943
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In this serial action film, a group of criminals, led by a costumed villain named the Lightning, are in possession of a...
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1943
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Even by Monogram standards, Wings Over the Pacific is a modest effort. In his final film role, Montague Love plays WW I...
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Jim Butler
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1943
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From the first frame of its opening credits, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror promises (and subsequently delivers)...
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1942
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Andrew Jackson is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is...
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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1941
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest...
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1941
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The unlikely combination of John Wayne and Joan Blondell adds a bit of vinegar and spice to the so-so costume drama Lady for...
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1941
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In this melodrama, a loyal research psychologist escapes from Budapest after the nature of his work is discovered. He...
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Dr. Blake
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1941
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This sweeping drama chronicles the foundation a Canadian institution: the Hudson's Bay Trading Company. Set in the 17th...
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula...
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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1940
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An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a...
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running series, the reformed master jewel thief rushes to help a lovely heiress whose pearl...
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1940
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Cecil B. De Mille directed this lavish all-star spectacular paying tribute to America's neighbors to the North. In 1885, as...
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1940
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film...
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1940
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This is perhaps the best of the many Zorro films as Tyrone Power gives an outstanding performance as the alternately swishing...
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1940
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Noble Bullerton
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1940
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In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf...
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1940
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Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian, whose...
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1939
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In the 1830s, despite the development of the steamboat at the outset of the 19th century, all trans-Atlantic travel was still...
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Malcolm Grant
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1939
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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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Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title...
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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1939
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1939
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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1938
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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1938
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Harold Lloyd plays a professor of Egyptology, frightened by the notion that he has fallen under an ancient Egyptian curse....
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1938
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1938
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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The United States Marine Corps. became the focus of this typical Republic Pictures serial directed by two of the best in the...
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Gen. White
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1938
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Two members of the Russian monarchy pose as French servants while hiding the Czar's fortune. This unlikely plot is at the...
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1937
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Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though...
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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The second of Paul Muni's biographical films for Warner Bros., the Oscar-winning The Life of Emile Zola is by far the best,...
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1937
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London by Night was filmed entirely on the MGM back lot, which admittedly looked more like England than England. Adapted from...
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1937
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1937
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In the South Seas, Seaman Duke (John Wayne) boards a whaler, and asks the owner, Capt. Drew (Montague Love) and his daughter...
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Capt. Abner Drew
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1937
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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1937
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"Champagne" Charlie Courtland (Paul Cavanaugh) is a smooth, sophisticated and highly unethical gambler, plying his trade...
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1936
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Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of...
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1936
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1936
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The well-publicized (and overexploited) birth of Canada's Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 formed the basis of The Country Doctor....
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1936
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1936
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Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent...
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1936
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Norwegian skating sensation Sonja Henie made her Hollywood screen debut in the splashy 20th Century-Fox musical...
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1936
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John Carroll made his screen debut in the RKO Radio musical actioner Hi Gaucho. Set in 19th-century Argentina, the story...
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Hillario
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1936
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In this Argentine western, a South American gaucho saves a beautiful girl from a shady bandido who masquerades as the...
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1936
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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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1936
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's...
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1935
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The old British musical-hall ditty "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" provides the title for this lightweight...
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Director
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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1935
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It's "Never the twain shall meet" time again, this time in London's Limehouse district. George Raft stars as Harry Young, a...
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Pug Talbot
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1934
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Not to be confused with Universal's 1932 The Menace, Paramount's 1934 Menace does however included a "revenge" motif similar...
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1934
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A wealthy young playboy becomes involved in the hunt for a master criminal when he catches one of the criminal's henchmen in...
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1934
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His Double Life is a sweet, charming adaptation of the venerable Arnold Bennett play Buried Alive. Roland Young plays Priam...
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1933
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1932
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This socially-conscious drama is set in a slum and centers on the events that lead a parsimonious slum lord to change her...
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Michael Moore
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1932
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A depressed dance hall girl causes all kinds of problems when she stows away on a freighter and is discovered by the second...
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1932
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Midnight Lady is a low-budget variation of the evergreen stage and screen meller Madame X. In one of her rare starring roles,...
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Harvey Austin
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1932
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A typical low-budget but competently made Columbia Western, The Riding Tornado featured Tim McCoy as a famous rodeo champ...
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Walt Carson
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1932
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Golddigging Verna Wilson (Natalie Morehead) files suit against married millionaire John Randolph (Montague Love) for breach...
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John Randolph
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1932
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First filmed in 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair has undergone several cinemadaptations, most...
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1932
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In this sea-going thriller, an unsavory seaman, working on a cargo ship bound for Singapore, enlists the aid of another and...
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1932
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Lion and the Lamb takes place in Columbia Pictures' idea of London. Upon returning home after a long absence, globetrotting...
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Tottie
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1931
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Alexander Hamilton was not precisely the life story of America's first secretary of the treasury--in fact, it doesn't even...
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1931
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The plays of Zoe Akins were so stilted and mannered that one critic referred to watching them as "the curse of an Akins...
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1930
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In this crime drama a reformed safecracker is pressured by his ex-cellmate to pull off one last job. The cellmate gives the...
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Gene Dyke
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1930
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In this melodramatic early sound-film an innocent country gal tires of her dull pastoral life and equally boring beau so she...
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Charles Wheeler
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1930
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Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, was responsible for the international-espionage yarn Inside the Lines. The...
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Governor of Gibraltar
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1930
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Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role...
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1930
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Love Comes Along was based on Conchita, a stage melodrama by Edward (Kismet) Knoblock. The story takes place on the mythical...
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Sangredo
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1930
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This unusual supernatural drama, based on a 1924 Broadway stage hit, concerns a disparate group of people who find themselves...
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1930
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The sacrifice of a socialite is chronicled in this romantic drama. To be with her beloved musician, the wealthy woman gives...
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Sir Thomas Hanley
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1930
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Silent serial queen Ruth Roland made an unsuccessful bid at talking-picture stardom in the low-budget Reno. After six years...
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Alexander W. Brett
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1930
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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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McHugh
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1929
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1929
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Frank Lloyd both produced and directed The Divine Lady, a Hollywood slant on the 19th century romance of Lord Horatio Nelson...
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1929
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Based on Zoë Akins's 1923 novel Déclassée and the 1925 film of the same title, Her Private Life stars Billie Dove as Lady...
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1929
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Colleen Moore's starring vehicles were never as "naughty" as their titles suggested. In Synthetic Sin, for example, Moore is...
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1929
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1929
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Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his services as adventurer for...
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Carl Peterson
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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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1929
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Jules Verne's fantastic 19th century novel Mysterious Island provided the title and little else for this spectacular...
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Falon
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1929
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In this romance, a wealthy old Wall Street financier falls in love with a younger woman. To win her heart, he decides to go...
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Dr. Nelson
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1929
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John Williams
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1929
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The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type,...
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Mate
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1928
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The Wind, Victor Sjostrom's final American film, is a western only in its locale: its symbolism-laden story of physical and...
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Roddy Wirt
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1928
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This nonsensical comedy-melodrama was a vehicle for two relics from the dawn of cinema history, walrus-mustached...
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1928
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The Noose was based on a story by H. H. Van Loan -- or rather, the play adapted from that story by Willard Mack. Cheap crook...
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Buck Gordon
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1928
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Dan Daugherty
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1928
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Based on a story by 17th-century Spanish playwright Calderon de la Barca, A Night of Love is based on the ancient (and...
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Duke de la Garda
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1927
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J. W. McKay
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1927
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The Haunted Ship was adapted from the Jack London story White and Yellow. Villainous schooner captain Montague Love casts his...
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1927
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1927
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Billie Dove stars as Marcia Kane, whose head is turned by the charming but sinister Grand Duke Sergei (Montague Love)....
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Grand Duke Sergei
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1927
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Silent cowboy star Fred Thomson raised quite a bit of controversy by portraying the famous outlaw in a sympathetic vein --...
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Frederick Mimms
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1927
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Warner Oland took time out from his customary screen villainy to play the title character in the sentimental backstage drama...
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John Hartwell
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1927
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This tale of California's Spanish days is gorgeous fiction, from the sumptuous settings to the stars -- the leads are lovely,...
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General Romero
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1927
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The Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's last film, may well be his best. A sequel to (and vast improvement upon)...
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Ghabah
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1926
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Once again the battle between cattle ranchers and encroaching sheep farmers takes center stage in a silent western, this time...
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Jim Martin
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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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Capt. Logan
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1926
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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Count Giano Donati
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1926
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Pat Callaghan
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1926
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So far as his fans were concerned, Milton Sills could have played a ballerina and still cashed in at the box office. In this...
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1926
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The Social Highwayman is a light-fingered jewel thief who preys on high-society folk. Greenhorn newspaper reporter Jay Walker...
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Docket Nelson
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1926
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Granite-jawed Jack Holt plays a rugged logger in The Ancient Highway. When not cutting down trees and shouting...
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Ivan Hurd
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1925
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Stage ingenue Rosemary Davies, in her only film appearance, starred in this romantic melodrama written and directed by...
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1925
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This domestic drama was supposed to be an indictment of the supposedly lax divorce laws then current. Because Redfield...
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Bronson Gibbs
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1924
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By 1924, sheik pictures were old hat, but director Edwin Carewe tried to add a little spice to this one by filming it...
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1924
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Seemingly the only reason for this drama was its proliferation of cameos -- the gambling hall where the action takes place...
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Dan Carrington
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1924
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This South Seas tale, based on the novel by Clive Arden, very much reflects the morals of its era. Barbara Stockley...
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1924
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Dorothy Chappell, who wrote the story for this film, stars as June Waugh in this romantic melodrama. June falls in love with...
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1924
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1924
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Bruno, a tramp (Richard Bennett), takes in a waif, David, who is later adopted by a man whose daughter, Roma, wants a...
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Leader of the Reds
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1923
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What was Paramount thinking when it cast ladylike Alice Brady as a white girl raised amongst South Sea savages? This...
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Scott Quaigg
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1923
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When her father dies, Charmion Winship (Betty Blythe) is left completely penniless. But she wants to live well so she travels...
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Peyton Martin
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1923
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Musical comedy star Raymond Hitchcock portrayed the character of Dr. Arbutus Budd both on stage and on screen. The only...
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1922
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The answer to the burning question posed by this low-budget domestic drama was that they tended to want more from life than...
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James Belden
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1922
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Lew Cody leads an excellent cast in this colorful romance. While visiting France, Prince Rudolph (Cody) falls in love with a...
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The Schoolmaster
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1922
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Even though he pays all her bills, Herbert Porter (Montagu Love) refuses to give his wife Helen (Barbara Castleton) any cash....
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Herbert Porter
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1921
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1921
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Professor Balzamo
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1921
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In 1922 Norma Talmadge was one of the most popular stars of the silent screen, but every now and then she'd wind up in a...
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Frederick Kent
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1921
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aka Forever George du Maurier's classic novel was made into a play by John Raphael which starred John and Lionel Barrymore....
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Colonel Ibbetson
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1921
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1920
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This low-budget melodrama was released by Republic. Nellie Vaughan (Grace Davison) leaves home because of the constant...
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1920
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"The world and his wife" is a reference to those gossips who lurk in the background, talking about everyone else's affairs....
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1920
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Montagu Love has a different type of dual role in this drama -- instead of playing lookalikes or twins, he plays two...
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1919
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Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to...
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1919
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Vengeance is set somewhere in India, where disgraced nobleman Montague Love tries to carve out a new life for himself. After...
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1918
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Even though the plot to this World Film programmer was slight, the cast included some of the studio's most well-known names....
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1918
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For John Pollard (Charles Bowser), drink and debt go hand in hand. He's ready to marry his daughter Polly (Ethel Clayton) off...
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1917
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A young Russian woman rises to become one of the world's most famous ballet dancers in this romantic silent drama. Her story...
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1917
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1917
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The Awakening resurrected the time-honored bromide about the brilliant peasant artist who is seduced and corrupted by wicked...
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1917
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This melodrama involves the old twin sisters mix-up. Exiled Russian Nihilist Ivan Pavloff (Philip Hahn) has twin daughters....
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1916
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1916
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Long before she became a top character actress, Alice Brady was the in-house ingenue for the World Film Manufacturing...
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1916
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This comedy-drama, based on a popular play of the era by George Broadhurst, is the classic story of a poor girl who marries a...
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1916
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1916
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In this melodramatic silent outing, a young girl gets into trouble when she marries a bigamist who robs her of her jewels...
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1916
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Screenwriter Frances Marion, who wrote the scenario for this picture early in her career, takes the classic story of a...
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1916
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1916
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A Royal Family was produced by Columbia Films -- no relation to the later Columbia, but instead a division of Metro Pictures....
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1915
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The John Oxenham stage melodrama Hearts in Exile was first transferred to the Big Screen in 1915 by the World Film...
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1915
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1915
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The Face in the Moonlight in this World Films 5-reeler belonged to a wanted criminal, played by Robert Warwick. The heroine...
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1915
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Evidently, this 1914 British four-reeler was the first film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club....
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1914
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