In this drama, a young woman is pretty enough to draw lovers to her like flies to honey. Among her suitors are her wealthy...
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1967
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Mr. Roscoe
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1963
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1962
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Venerable Scandinavian leading-man Nils Asther tops the cast of That Man from Tangier. The story concerns foolhardy American...
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Henri
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1953
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1949
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In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Chan must find out who has been killing people over rare antiques. ~...
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1948
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The trouble begins when glamorous Broadway actress Roberta Baxter (Virginia Bruce) signs for her latest play. She proceeds to...
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Tony Linnard
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1945
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Son of Lassie is about a courageous collie named Laddie, played by a dog named "Pal". A sequel to Lassie Come Home, the film...
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Olav
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1945
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A bit "artier" than most Republic melodramas, Jealousy was directed by Gustav Machaty, the Czech expatriate famous for the...
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Peter Urban
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1945
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This '40s film (based upon a Jack London story) is set in Alaska's gold rush days and revolves around the dilemma faced by a...
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1944
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Bluebeard casts the saturnine John Carradine as Gaston, a popular painter in 19th century Paris. Unbeknownst to the...
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Insp. Lefevre
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1944
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Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone), the scion of an aristocratic rural English family, was traumatized from boyhood by a shooting...
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1944
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A scientist discovers that he can live forever by receiving gland transplants every ten years. Unfortunately, the unwilling...
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Julian Karell
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1944
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The plot of the Pine-Thomas adventure quickie Submarine Alert is more than a little beholden to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps....
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Dr. Arthur Huneker
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1943
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The wartime leading-man shortage obliged Republic Pictures to star draft-proof supporting player Frank Albertson in Mystery...
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Ricky Moreno
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1943
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Sweater Girl is an okay remake of 1935's College Scandal, and like its predecessor is that rare bird, a "musical mystery"....
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Prof. Henri Menard
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1942
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Reclusive Kurt Ingston (Ralph Morgan) finds himself playing host to an extraordinary array of guests at his decaying old...
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1942
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The Night Before the Divorce is when Lynn Thorndike (Lynn Bari) seeks out her ex-husband George (Joseph Allen Jr.), begging...
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Victor Roselle
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1942
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In this war drama, a commercial pilot joins the air corps of a South Pacific island, and there he finds that he must contend...
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1941
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When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly...
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1941
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Flying Blind was the third of William Pine and William Thomas' independent productions for Paramount release. The cast...
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Eric Karolek
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1941
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In this humorous adventure, a Puerto Rican explorer shares a drink with his oddball millionaire double. For a lark, they...
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1941
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Ayn Rand's Broadway stage hit The Night of January 16th was distinguished by a clever gimmick, wherein members of the...
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Bjorn Faulkner
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1941
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In this drama, set in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a pretty niece visits her uncle's plantation. There she finds the drunken sot...
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1938
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In this drama, a doctor disguises himself as a circus clown and starts a new life. When a wealthy young woman is knocked out...
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Bux
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1937
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When Prisoner of Corbal was released in the US in 1939, reviewers were confused as to its country of origin. A bit of extra...
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Varennes
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1936
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Gitta Alper is cast as Mme. Marguerite Savini, a celebrated Hungarian opera star. Her romance with British intelligence...
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Galloni
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1936
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This epic costume drama is set in turn-of-the-century Turkey and chronicles the ruthless reign of a paranoid ruler who...
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Kadar Pash
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1935
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This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of...
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Eric Anderson
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1934
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Nils Asther stars as Dr. Callendar, a modern-day Svengali who hypnotizes women to do his eeeevil bidding. Callendar is...
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Dr. Alexis Collender
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1934
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After directing three of Universal's finest horror films, James Whale shifted gears with the elegant romantic comedy By...
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Count von Bommer
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1934
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One of several variations of the "Mata Hari" and "Fraulein Doktor" legends, Universal's Madame Spy is set during WW I....
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Capt. Franck
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1934
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Love Time is the story of the unhappy life of composer Franz Schubert, here played by Swedish actor Nils Asther. Too poor...
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Franz Schubert
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1934
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A conflict between the Serbs and the Hungarians provides the framework of this drama that centers on a love triangle between...
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Geza
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1933
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The melodrama If I Were Free was adapted from the play Behold, We Live by John Van Druten. War veteran lawyer Gordon Evers...
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Tono Cazenove
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1933
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Overworked and fearing that life is passing her by, eminent plastic surgeon Margaret "Peggy" Simmons (Ann Harding) takes an...
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Dr. Heppling
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1933
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Gen. Yen
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1933
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Perhaps most noteworthy for the first onscreen performance by future Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel, this politcal...
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Brennan
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1932
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Based on a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, this drama chronicles the tangled web woven by a poisonous New York socialite who...
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Emile Renaud
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1932
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1932
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"Sea Bat" is another name for the poisonous sting rays that trouble swimmers in warmer ocean climes. The story is set upon a...
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Carl
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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The fact that leading man Nils Asther was firmly entrenched in Hollywood in 1929 is proof enough that the German Wrath of the...
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1929
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Worried that Greta Garbo's rich, deep voice and thick Swedish accent would not record properly, MGM executives kept Garbo in...
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Packy Cannon
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1929
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In this silent film, the beautiful Lili Sterling (Greta Garbo) meets up with the enchanting Prince de Gace (Nils Asther)...
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Prince De Gace
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1929
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Prince Mauritz
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1928
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Very loosely based on the stage play by Jacques Deval, this comedy was largely rewritten to give comedienne Marion Davies a...
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Andre
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1928
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Erich
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1928
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Raoul Duval
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1928
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1928
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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1928
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Fifteen-year-old Loretta Young is 45-year-old Lon Chaney's winsome leading lady in Laugh, Clown, Laugh. Based on the...
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Count Luigi Ravelli
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1928
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Perhaps it's just as well that Topsy and Eva is available only for archival showings. The film was based on a popular play by...
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1927
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Jenny Hesselquist and Gosta Eckman star in this drama about a young woman who contemplates the murder of her much-older...
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1922
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