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1966
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Stunt man Hugh Hooker starred in the title role of this late Grade-Z Western, written and directed by the redoubtable...
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1954
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1954
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1953
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Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with...
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1953
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Randolph Scott is the commander of a Confederate raiding party. They rob a Yankee gold shipment and are told by a dying Union...
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1952
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Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's...
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1952
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The eponymous Rose is played by Mala Powers, a white girl raised by Cherokee Indians after her family was massacred. Powers...
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1952
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In this western, a cowboy rides out to avenge the death of his fiancee. Three outlaws are responsible for the murder. He...
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1951
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Snake River Desperadoes affords Charles Starrett another opportunity to don the mask of the do-gooding Durango Kid. In this...
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Jim Haverly
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1951
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This Republic "special" stars Rod Cameron as deep-sea diver Gunner McNeil. When his partner (James Brown) drowns under...
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1951
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1951
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This Side of the Law stars Kent Smith as David Cummins, a man caught up in an epic subterfuge. At the behest of attorney...
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1950
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Unlike his earlier Warner Bros. westerns, Errol Flynn's Montana was strictly a programmer, inexpensively produced and...
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1950
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When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey (Gordon MacRae) goes on a search for his army buddy Steve...
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1950
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Lippert Studio's first 1951 release was the compact western 3 Desperate Men. The title characters are the Denton Brothers,...
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Pete Coleman
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1950
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With Dallas, Gary Cooper revived his long-dormant association with westerns. Cooper plays ex-Confederate officer Blayde...
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1950
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Dorothy Patrick is The Blonde Bandit in this Republic time-filler. The script establishes a degree of sympathy for Gloria...
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1950
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Iroquois Trail (British title: The Tomahawk Trail) could be classified as a western, but for the fact that the story is set...
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Sagamore
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1950
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1949
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Virginia Mayo is Flaxy Martin in this complicated Warner Bros. melodrama. Flaxy is a bad girl but good company, especially...
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1949
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Though Errol Flynn was well past his prime (and obviously well lubricated in certain scenes), he rises to the occasion of The...
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1949
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Sheriff
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1949
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The short but colorful life of American musical comedy star Marilyn Miller is given the standard prettified Hollywood...
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1949
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Though not acknowledged by contemporary reviewers, Colorado Territory is a westernized remake of the 1941 crime drama...
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1949
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Ranger of Cherokee Strip stars Republic horse-opera hero Monte Hale. This time, Steve Howard (Hale) comes to the aid of Joe...
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1949
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Speed to Spare is an efficient entry from the Pine-Thomas Productions assembly line. Ricard Arlen, who'd been a "regular"...
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1948
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Love leads a man to his most evil deeds and forces him to change his ways in this Western. After being handed a dishonorable...
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1948
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After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy...
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1948
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In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a...
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1948
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Sheriff Ben Wade
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1948
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Produced by Milton Sperling's United States Pictures, South of St. Louis was given a widespread release by Warner Bros. The...
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1948
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A mysterious crook by the name of "The Poet" is robbing Wells Fargo stages and creating havoc in the Old West. The sheriff is...
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Timberline
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1947
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We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning...
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Norris
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1947
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Though not readily apparent at first, The Unfaithful is a remake of the 1940 Bette Davis vehicle The Letter, which in turn...
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact,...
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1947
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Bells of San Fernando was advertised as a romantic adventure, but it plays more like a Western. Donald Woods plays an Irish...
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1947
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The 1931 George Arliss vehicle The Millionaire was updated and retailored in 1947 as That Way With Women. Sidney Greenstreet...
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MacPherson
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1947
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The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
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Policeman
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1947
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Romantic comedy was never Errol Flynn's forte, but he occasionally gave it the old college try in such films as...
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1946
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In this romantic melodrama, Bette Davis plays twin sisters for the first time (she would do so again in 1964's Dead Ringer)....
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1946
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Ida "Don't mess with me" Lupino takes a job as a singer in Robert Alda's seedy Santa Monica nitery. Lupino ignores Alda's...
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1946
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By 1946, MGM's musical output was in the hands of two men: the incisive, progressive Arthur Freed, and the sentimental,...
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1946
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Fannie Hurst's novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends...
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1946
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1946
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This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but...
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1946
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1946
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1946
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In this drama, an amoral, manipulative womanizer gets his comeuppance. The story begins as the handsome cad is witnessed...
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1945
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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1945
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Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at...
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1945
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Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on-...
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1944
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This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive...
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1944
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Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film...
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1944
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Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today,...
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1944
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Zachary Scott made his screen debut in this clever bit of film noir that has gained a cult reputation in recent years. Dutch...
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1944
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1943
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The fact that star Errol Flynn had been recently embroiled in a real-life rape trial only served to increase the box-office...
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1943
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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1943
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The Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation of their country inspired several wartime films from Hollywood, including...
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1943
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In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a...
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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1942
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Maybe Errol Flynn was never the war hero that he often played, but he was a capable boxer, and Gentleman Jim makes full use...
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1942
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Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons...
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1942
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Having accidentally caused a merchant ship to blow up, stowaways Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are shipwrecked on the African...
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1942
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1942
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1942
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Made in 1942 but released early in 1943, Secret Enemies is a Warner Bros. espionage quickie, putting the studio's...
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1942
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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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A lively espionage drama that reunited the stars and director of the previous year's The Maltese Falcon, Across the Pacific...
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1942
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1942
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One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director...
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1942
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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1942
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that bosom buddies (and fellow Universal contractees) Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney...
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1942
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In this drama, a dedicated forest ranger begins suspecting that a recent series of fires has been caused by arson. He...
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1942
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings was the second in a series of B pictures based on the long-running radio series...
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1941
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Not to be confused with his later Home in Wyomin', Gene Autry's Sunset in Wyoming is essentially a musical with western...
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1941
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A mystery man works behind the scenes in this tuneful Roy Rogers western in which the local theatre owner attempts to ruin...
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1941
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1941
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In this serial, onetime football hero Slingin' Sammy Baugh stars as Tom King, a Texas Ranger on the hunt for the Nazis who...
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1941
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The down-home Weaver family stars in this countrified drama set in Peaceful Valley where if things went any slower they'd be...
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1941
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The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former...
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1941
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Fred MacMurray is a breezy New York street photographer; Mary Martin is a small town girl hoping to make her fortune in the...
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1941
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PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood....
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1941
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The Great Train Robbery is not a remake of the 1903 landmark film of the same name; if it had been, it wouldn't have run any...
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1941
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This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature...
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1940
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1940
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Evidently Paramount had a great deal of faith in Mystery Sea Raider, else why would a mere B picture be permitted to run...
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1940
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Filmed on location at Mesa, AZ, this minor Paramount western featured newcomer Ellen Drew as "Slats" Dangerfield, a young...
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1940
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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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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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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Even geniuses have to eat, and when Mark Twain was offered a substantial sum of money to slap together a quickie sequel to...
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1939
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Metropolitan Pictures' Port of Hate was directed by one of the studio's two chief executives, Harry S. Webb (the other,...
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Hammond
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1939
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Frontier Pony Express is a fast-paced Roy Rogers program western which could stand up on its own with any big-budgeted "A"...
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1939
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Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The...
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1939
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The late cinema historian William K. Everson once wrote an article titled "Movies Out of Thin Air", referring to films that...
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1939
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Donald Barry plays the legendary outlaw of the title in this Roy Rogers Western which, needless to say, plays fast and loose...
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1939
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A big city lawyer returns to his tiny home town to enter the firm of his late father. His father's partner is happy to have...
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1939
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This landmark western -- which, along with Stagecoach, has often been credited with revitalizing what had become a stagnant...
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1939
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The visual wizardry in this period action picture about Alaskan fishermen won a special honorary Oscar in the years before...
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1938
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The oft-filmed Zane Grey story The Mysterious Rider was given another go-round by Paramount Pictures in 1938. Produced by...
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1938
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The legendary Cocoanut Grove nightclub is the setting for this all-star Paramount musical. Fred MacMurray heads the cast as...
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1938
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This 12-episode serial stars Herman Brix as Kioga, a young man who is raised by natives after wrecking his ship on a remote...
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1938
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In this comedy, a scientist endeavors to turn into a caveman after drinking a secret formula. Instead he becomes a child. In...
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1938
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We never actually see J. Carroll Naish in Alcatraz, but there's no doubt he's the "king" of the title. Most of the action...
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1938
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J. Carroll Naish positively oozes immigrant gangster charm in this fairly entertaining thriller from Paramount. He plays...
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1938
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Very cheaply produced, Rebellious Daughters was released on a theater-by-theater basis as an "exploitationer." Such familiar...
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1938
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Co-directed by former supporting player Mack V. Wright and Sam Nelson, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is considered...
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1938
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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1937
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Stafford
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1937
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Thunder Trail is a thoughtful, intelligent adaptation of the Zane Grey yarn. Arizona Ames. The storyline is a Grey favorite,...
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Jeff Graves
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1937
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Paramount borrowed John Wayne from Republic Pictures for the studio's second screen version of Zane Grey's Born to the West,...
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Bart Hammond
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1937
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In trying to help Betsy (Joan Barclay), who has stolen a diamond her father left for collateral with loan sharks Crone...
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1937
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Puritan Pictures seldom turned out a film that looked most expensive than it really was. The studio's Million to One appears...
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John Kent, Sr.
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1937
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Outcasts of Poker Flat is an adaptation of Bret Harte's western story of the same name, with elements of Harte's...
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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Supporting actor Scott Kolk was elevated to playing the title role in this Graustarkian spy thriller, serialized in 12...
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Baron Michael Karston
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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While heading West in a wagon train, two brothers lose track of each other when their family is attacked and killed. Years...
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1937
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1936
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Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket"...
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1936
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Republic's The Lawless Nineties reteams the studio's up-and-coming cowboy star John Wayne with 19-year-old ingenue...
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1936
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This western tells the story of a brave Army captain assigned to escort an important official's daughter through Indian...
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Col. Drummond
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1936
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1936
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Clem Dillon
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1936
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The Texas Rangers vs. the United States Cavalry. That is basically the main thrust of the plot in this tuneful, fairly...
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Tavibo/Duval
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1936
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Prison Shadows was put together by the Mercury Productions division of Puritan Pictures, the same folks responsible for the...
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1936
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1936
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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1935
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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1935
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The second of eight low-budget versions of Peter B. Kyne short stories, Hot Off the Press starred Jack LaRue as Bill Jeffry,...
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1935
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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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Doyle
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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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1935
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Jack Kells
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1934
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1934
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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1934
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1934
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Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited...
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1934
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1934
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1933
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Police officer Tom Malone is the only honest man left who can salvage his crooked city after his partner is killed on his...
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1933
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Her Forgotten Past was released by Mayfair Studios, meaning that all the characters suffer in evening clothes in a handful of...
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1933
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Just before his demotion to the ranks of minor character actors, Monte Blue starred in an above-average series of programmers...
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Dick
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1932
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This thriller involves a shipboard murder, castaways on a desert island, another murder, a wild man, and the hapless hero...
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John Brandt
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1932
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Set in the Mississippi Valley, The Flood spends the bulk of its running time concentrating on a romantic triangle. Heroine...
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1931
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In this melodramatic blend of romance and adventure set in the South Seas, Stella Blackney (Betty Compson) is married to Tom...
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David Wade
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1930
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In this romantic adventure, a feisty young woman (Velez) toys with the affections of a railroad worker (Withers) and a...
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Devlin
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1930
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Those Who Dance is not so much a film as a "class reunion" for several former silent-screen favorites. Monte Blue stars as...
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Dan Hogan
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1930
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In this drama, a railroad engineer and a fireman are best pals until the fireman falls for a dubious woman whom the engineer...
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Monte Jones
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1929
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Most of Monte Blue's talking-picture career was spent in small character roles, but he was still regarded as a bankable...
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Happy Smith
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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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Donald Overton
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1929
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Joe Daley
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1929
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Although his popularity eroded with each successive talkie appearance, silent-film favorite Monte Blue fulfilled his Warner...
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Monte Collins
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1929
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1928
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Filmed on location in Tahiti, White Shadows in the South Seas was originally intended as a project for famed documentary...
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Dr. Matthew Lloyd
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1928
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Brass Knuckles opens with a prison break, which is quelled by good-natured convict Monte Blue. As a reward, Blue is pardoned,...
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1927
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One of Hollywood's true professionals, Irving Cummings showed little of his later directorial sophistication in this terrible...
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"Easy Going" Sondes
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1927
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Monte Blue, one of Warner Bros.' most dependable silent film stars, plays the title role in One-Round Hogan. The son of a...
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Robert Emmett Hogan
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1927
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One of seven Monte Blue vehicles filmed by Warner Bros. in 1927, Bitter Apples casts the reliable Blue as wealthy John...
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John Wyncote
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1927
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The popularity of MGM's Slide, Kelly, Slide led to a brief cycle of baseball pictures in 1927. Warner Bros.' contribution was...
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1927
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New York subway guard Barry Baline (Monte Blue) is struck down by a speeding car on New Years' Eve. The driver, a mentally...
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Barry Baline
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1927
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The screenplay for Warner Bros.' Black Diamond Express was credited to "Mark Canfield," one of the many pseudonyms of Warner...
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1927
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This melodrama, which involves the Philippine revolt during the final years of the 1800s, was based on a popular play from...
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Monte
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1926
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Monte Blue stars in this mystery, which was based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Geoffrey West (Blue) is a soldier of...
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1926
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Two graduates of Mack Sennett's "Bathing Beauties," Marie Prevost and Phyllis Haver, are co-starred in Warner Bros.' Other...
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Dick Lambert
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1926
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Dr. Paul Giraud
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1926
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Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller star in this snappy farce. While out on a drive, society man Al Jones (Blue) spies pretty...
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1925
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This romance is based on the best-selling novel by Robert Keable, which was a sequel to yet another novel, Simon Called...
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Peter Graham
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1925
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During the mid-'20s, Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller starred together in a number of pleasantly entertaining comedy-dramas...
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Lefty O'Brien
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1925
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This action-packed melodrama was adapted from the stage play by Elmer Vance, the man who did the adapting was future film...
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Bob Snobson,Bob Wilson
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1925
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Gaston Fleury
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1925
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In spite of its racy title, this society drama is really a down-to-earth look at the effects that sudden wealth has on a poor...
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Kent Merrill
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1924
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After becoming an unwed mother, Joline Hofer (Viola Dana) is cast out of her father's house. After placing her baby in a...
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Paul Granville
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1924
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A bachelors' club is shaken when one of its members forfeits his five thousand dollar fee to wed. Then another member adopts...
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1924
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Jean Gaspard Deburau
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1924
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Darius Carpenter (Frank Currier) prides respectability above all else, and he's not thrilled when his son, Charles...
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Charles Carpenter
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1924
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Eve Quinn (Marie Prevost) is the classic, flirty, 1920s flapper. She easily outshines her quieter, more reserved half-sister,...
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Lewis Dike
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1924
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1924
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Viennese doctor Monte Blue is madly in love with his wife Florence Vidor--so much so that many suspect that they aren't...
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Dr. Franz Braun
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1924
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For a husband, Carol Pelham (Beverly Bayne) chooses hard-working Bob Hilton (Monte Blue) over the wealthy but idle Ted Lowe...
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1924
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This melodrama was the first collaborative effort between MGM and the husband-wife/director-actress team Robert Z. Leonard...
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1924
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Right after Dan Stover (Monte Blue) marries Ellen Craig (Evelyn Brent), he is hired by Ellen's former sweetheart, Tom Hayden...
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Capt. Dan
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1924
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Warner Bros. was hoping that this epic rendition of the Sinclair Lewis novel would become a blockbuster to rival the big...
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Dr. Will Kennicott
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1923
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Although his homely handsome face definitely showed traces of his Cherokee ancestry, versatile Monte Blue played everything...
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The Berbr Caid
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1923
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Although Moving Picture World claimed that director Sidney A. Franklin's work on this drama earned him a long-term contract...
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Philip Baldwin
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1923
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Lest exhibitors didn't think the source material's title (based on a novel by then-popular writer Kathleen Norris) was...
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Stephen Winship
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1923
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This light comedy is based on the stage play Dear Me written by Luther Reed and Hale Hamilton. Madge Kennedy returned from...
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Edgar Prentice (Edgar Craig)
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1923
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When Beth Alden (Irene Rich), the daughter of the prominent local banker, goes on a hayride with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue), a...
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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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Richard Goodloe
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1922
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Once again, Mae Murray plays -- what else? -- a dancer. But while the ex-Follies girl had made an enormous success in her...
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Tom Dorcy
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1922
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1922
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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1921
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Author John Fox was known for his tales of the Blue Grass State and its mountain people. This romantic drama was based on one...
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Boone Stallard
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1921
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During the early '20s, the star/director team of Mae Murray and her husband Robert Z. Leonard was nearly unbeatable. Murray's...
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Elmer Harmon
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1921
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It's hard to say what Metro's intention was when they bought the film rights to Big Game, an unsuccessful melodrama by...
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Tod Musgrove
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1921
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Tommy Dawes (Monte Blue) is a simple-minded young man who works on the ranch belonging to Bill Nyall (Les Bates). Dawes...
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1921
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When an Arizona ranchman (Willard Louis) is elected senator, he heads for Washington with his daughter, Judith Baldwin (Mary...
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1921
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The homely but likable Monte Blue teams up with director Allan Dwan for this pleasing comedy-drama, adapted from a short...
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Wally Griggs
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1921
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The trade magazine Motion Picture News called Mary Miles Minter "a clever little star when she has the right backing." Read...
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1920
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During the late teens and early '20s, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille reveled in much cinematic pomp and circumstance, mixing epic...
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1920
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Allegory is a storytelling form little used in cinema today, but it popped up frequently during the silent era, especially...
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1919
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Like many another Constance Talmadge vehicle, Romance and Arabella was based on a popular stage play, this one written by...
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1919
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This meller is about as old-fashioned as the play (by Augustus Thomas) on which it was based. Sheriff Jim Radburn...
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1919
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1919
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Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was...
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1918
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1918
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Previously filmed in 1915, the Bret Harte story M'liss served as one of Mary Pickford's most memorable vehicles. The...
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1918
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A college-educated Native American (Monroe Salisbury) returns to his homeland to work on an irrigation project in this early...
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1918
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The first Tarzan starring Elmo Lincoln did so well that, in time-honored cinematic tradition, the studio, First National,...
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1918
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During World War I, every director made at least one film about the battles going on in Europe, even Cecil B. DeMille. These...
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1918
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1918
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Rancher Warren Bronson (Herbert Standing) is plagued by cattle rustlers, so he gets Western detective Fancy Jim Sherwood...
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1917
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Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) is the extremely naive son of a wealthy Eastern family -- he loves the Old West so much...
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1917
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One of the most overused titles in the history of films, Betrayed was affixed to this early effort from director Raoul Walsh....
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1917
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It's hard to imagine the vivaciously stylish Constance Talmadge as a boarding-house drudge, but that's the part she plays...
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1917
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1916
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The charisma of Douglas Fairbanks keeps this two-reel idea interesting for five reels. Jimmy Conroy (Fairbanks) wants to...
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1916
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Old Ira Dayton (F.A. Turner) is a hypochondriac, so when Doc Arnold (Wilfred Lucas) says there is nothing wrong with him, he...
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1916
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Veteran Biograph leading man/director Wilfred Lucas essays the title role in Hell-to-Pay Austin. A rough-and-tumble...
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1916
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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