Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known...
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Dr. MacIntyre
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1936
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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1935
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A rich, melancholy family adopts poor orphan Jane Withers who brightens their lives. ~ Rovi...
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Rexford Whittington
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1935
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Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in...
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Jehan
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1935
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O.P. Heggie plays an ageing Parisian book collector who has spent four decades tracking down a rare volume. The trail leads...
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Sylvestre Bonnard
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1935
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1934
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Based on the barnstorming stage play by George W. Peck, Peck's Bad Boy stars Jackie Cooper in the title role. Cooper's...
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Duffy, Handy Man and Town Philosopher
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1934
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Matthew Cuthbert
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1934
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The old "If it were your own daughter" plot device forms the basis of the independently-produced crime melodrama Midnight....
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Edward Weldon
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1934
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A beautiful orphan girl, faced with the prospect of being forced to work as an indentured servant (more like a slave) until...
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Dr. Grunbaum
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1933
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One of George Arliss' "smaller" vehicles, The King's Vacation casts the eminent British stage star (always billed as "...
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1933
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Dr. Owen
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1932
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Lily Damita, an actress best known today for her tempestuous marriage to screen idol Errol Flynn, is the Dietrich-like...
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John Whitcomb
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1931
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Devotion is a stiff, static early talkie in which everybody speaks in stage British and suffers in dinner jackets....
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Mr. Mortimer
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1931
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In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of...
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Cyrus Bumpstead
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1931
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Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted to get a quick laugh, he'd announce to his audience "Next Week: East Lynne."...
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1931
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Henry Taylor
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1930
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Broadway star Marilyn Miller's second starring film was an adaptation of her 1925 stage hit Sunny. Flashing her celebrated...
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Peters
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1930
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The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great...
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Father Benedict
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1930
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The legend of renegade French poet Francois Villon was dramatized in the 1901 Justin McCarthy play If I Were King. This...
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Louis XI
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1930
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Nayland Smith
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1930
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In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment...
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Phillibert
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1930
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In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe...
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1929
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Joyce
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1929
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Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu Manchu.The film makes an...
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Nayland Smith
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1929
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In his second talking picture, Richard Dix is cast as British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat, at present on leave in London....
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Col. John Dangan
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1929
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The Actress is a silent-film adaptation of Arthur Wing Pinero's evergreen stage play Trelawny of the Wells. Norma Shearer...
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Sir William Gower
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1928
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