A genuine oddity, Life Returns was originally filmed by Universal Pictures in 1935. The story, concerning the efforts by...
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1939
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1938
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In the rough-and-tumble world of post-Civil War Texas, ex-Confederate soldier Kirk Jordan (Randolph Scott) crosses paths with...
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1938
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With the departure of John Wayne to more prestigious films, Robert Livingston returned to the role of Stony Brooke in...
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Newt
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1938
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In this comedy, a dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number...
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1938
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Upset at being forced to do the household chores all weekend long, Our Gang-ers Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer,...
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1937
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Former nightclub crooner Smith Ballew made his singing-cowboy debut in Western Gold. Set during the Civil War, the story...
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Jake
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1937
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It was called "Disney's Folly." Who on earth would want to sit still for 90 minutes to watch an animated cartoon? And why...
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1937
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This musical satire parodies Southern living as it follows the exploits of a traveling medicine show that ends up on a...
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1936
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In this emotional drama, a lonely British housekeeper, uses her hard-earned savings account to finance a trip to America so...
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1936
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In this western, a wagon train is destroyed and all but two children, a brother and sister, are slaughtered. The sister is...
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1935
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Dore Schary, several years removed from his tenure as head of MGM, was screenwriter for the modest Universal actioner...
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1935
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Paul Muni is a prominent physician who is kidnapped by gangsters and forced to tend the needs of head crook Barton MacLaine....
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1935
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Edward Eggleston's best-selling novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster was brought to the screen in 1935 by Monogram Pictures, which...
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Hawkins
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1935
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy, a wealthy socialite pursues a carefree playboy who isn't at all interested in her. After all her regular...
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1934
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Ex-convict Steve Nichols (Onslow Stevens) may be a free man, but it looks like he'll never be able to escape the onus of his...
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Bonn
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1934
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The title tells all in the independently produced romantic drama Marriage on Approval. Set just before the repeal of...
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1934
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W.C. Fields plays the Great McGonigle, the manipulative manager of a large 19th century theatrical troupe. Notorious for...
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1934
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Poverty Row studio Monogram took a stab at musical production with King Kelly of the U.S.A., a cinematic blunder starring...
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1934
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1933
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Having confessed to murder, Nora Moran (Zita Johann) sits sadly on death row, waiting her date with the electric chair. In...
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1933
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Directed by Tenny Wright, The Telegraph Trail features John Wayne as John Trent, a calvary scout who has been sent to put a...
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Zeke Keller
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1933
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Crusading district attorney Jerry Bennett (Gilbert Roland) would give anything to get the goods on unscrupulous criminal...
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"Pop" Everett
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1932
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1932
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Tom Keene's first western entry of 1932, Partners casts the star as the partner of travelling medicine-show entrepreneur...
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1932
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A young football hero learns valuable life lessons on the way to becoming a pro in this sports drama. Tommy is a promising...
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1932
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Ride Him, Cowboy was the first entry in John Wayne's "B"-western series for Warner Bros. Wayne plays John Drury, a handsome...
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Judge Jones
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1932
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Amelia Cruikshank (June Clyde) doesn't know what real trouble is until she inherits her dad's auto-manufacturing business....
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1932
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World War I flying aces, American Bill (Lloyd Hughes) and German Otto (Norman Kerry), now perform for a carnival, and both...
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1932
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Yet another variation on the already then-ancient Madame X theme, this early talkie stars Helen Twelvetrees in the title...
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1931
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Rip Henry
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1931
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1931
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In the South Seas, half-caste Ilanu (Raquel Torres) refuses to marry Kahea (Donald Reed), as she loves Jimmy Bradford...
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1931
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In this comedy, a boozy Brit inherits an estate from his late American uncle. Unfortunately, he is too drunk to claim it and...
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John Walker
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1930
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Reginald Denny, one of Universal's top stars of the 1920s, tried to transfer his light-comedy formula to talkies with...
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Adam Fuller
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1930
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The overall comic tone of Dames Ahoy is implicit in its title. Chubby Otis Harlan is cast as veteran seaman Bill Jones, who...
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Bill Jones
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1930
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This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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1930
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Having recently signed with Universal, Western star Ken Maynard became his own producer with this early talkie Western...
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Prof. Clayton
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1930
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A young woman stands to inherit a million bucks in this comedy. The deal is thus: her aunts will give her a cool million if...
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Major Rupert Harper
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1930
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Western hero Ken Maynard lifted his voice in a campfire song, making the near tone-deaf actor the first "singing cowboy."...
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Jud McTavish
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1930
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Show Boat was a part-silent, part-talkie adaptation of the book by Edna Ferber. The film traces the life of Magnolia Hawkes...
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Capt. Andy Hawks
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1929
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Del Lord, director of many a Three Stooges farce in the 1930s and 1940s, told the actors when to move and when not to move in...
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Samuel Locke
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1929
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Adopting a surprisingly effective Southern accent, Vienna-born Joseph Schildkraut plays the title role in...
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Tiny Beardsley
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1929
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This early musical features several song-and-dance numbers in the midst of a story about underworld criminals. Nick...
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1929
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1929
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This 1929 drama about mistaken identities contains three eight minute scenes that involve talking. The rest of the film is...
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Pussyfoot
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1929
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Reginald Denny starred in this comedy, a part-talkie about a zealous real-estate dealer in love with his client's daughter....
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Jerome Van Dyne
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1929
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In this romance, an early talkie containing approximately 4 minutes of dialog and a song, a man is paroled from prison...
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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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Jimmy McKee
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1929
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Speed Classic went into production under the less formalized title They're Off! Yes, it's an auto-race drama, starring...
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1928
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Edward Everett Horton made a series of eight comic shorts in the late 1920s in which he played a Charley Chase type of...
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1928
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This minor racetrack drama was directed by King Baggot, at one time a prominent silent-film leading man. Robert Agnew stars...
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Babe Dilley
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1927
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Even without the benefit of sound, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg seems to be inundated by Franz Lehar's unforgettable...
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1927
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Mr. Bytheway
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1927
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The Carters (Irene Rich and Huntley Gordon), a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in...
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Magistrate
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1927
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Previously filmed in 1920, Harold Bell Wright's "backwoods" novel Shepherd of the Hills was remade in 1928. The story is...
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1927
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Universal star Laura LaPlante struggles to fill out a very scanty story in this lightweight farce comedy. Molly and Sam...
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1927
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Based on Peter B. Kyne's Tidy Toreador, this fairly outrageous Western romp featured Universal's lackadaisical cowboy...
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1927
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With business at a standstill because of Prohibition, Dutch-born brewer Hans Wagner (George Sidney) returns to his homeland,...
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Bandit Chief
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1926
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One of Ken Maynard's very best silent westerns, The Unknown Cavalier was filmed on locations in Death Valley, California....
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Judge Blowfly Jones
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1926
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What Happened to Jones takes approximately 70 minutes' screen time to tell in this frothy comedy. On the night before his...
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Ebenezer Goodly
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1926
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Long thought lost, the silent Three Bad Men is an vital ingredient in the cinematic canon of director John Ford. Often...
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1926
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Mary Carr, Hollywood's favorite "martyr mother," does her usual in The Midnight Message. Carr plays the widowed, impoverished...
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Richard Macy
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1926
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Papa Chuchu
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1925
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Director John Ford was out of his element with this comedy, based on the hit Broadway play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon...
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1925
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Henry Baxter (Matt Moore) is a dedicated newspaper clerk who longs to marry stenographer Beulah Dyer (Dorothy Devore) in this...
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1925
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Like many sports stars before and after him, champion sprinter Charles W. Paddock wound up in motion pictures, at least...
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1925
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Pasty-faced comedian Larry Semon was both producer and star of the modestly titled The Perfect Clown. Semon plays Bert Larry,...
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The Boss
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1925
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During the 1920s, Reginald Denny was popular in pictures for portraying all-American young men (this changed after the sound...
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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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1925
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Although the theme of this melodrama -- based on the John Golden play Howdy Folks -- was serious, the film also had some...
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1925
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Reginald Denny seems to be doing a Harold Lloyd impersonation in this comedy, right down to the glasses, and maybe he was --...
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Mr Clinch
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1924
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This epic covers all of Lincoln's life. His birth in a blizzard; his boyhood (depicted by Danny Hey as young Lincoln); his...
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1924
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George Washington Belgrave ($Wesley Barry) is the son of Senator Belgrave (William Courtright). When a secret report by the...
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1924
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This romantic drama only used half the clichés of the typical horse racing story. There's the impoverished Colonel (or in...
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Old retainer (in blackface)
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1924
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1924
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More a romantic melodrama set on a western ranch than an out-and-out sagebrush tale, this Vitagraph silent features a couple...
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Uncle Jephon
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1924
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Jane Novak plays a dual role as mother and daughter in this drama. Tony (Robert Anderson) and Felipa (Novak) are an immigrant...
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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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Film pioneer J. Stuart Blackton was nearing the end of his directing career when he made this surprisingly warm human...
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Puddlebox
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1924
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1924
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1924
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Elderly Isadore Solomon (Dore Davidson) arrives in the small New England town of Valley Falls, but is run out of the hotel...
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1924
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During his tenure with the Fox studios, John Gilbert was cast in every imaginable role a male lead could have. He was Marco...
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Hobbs
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1923
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This mediocre comedy-drama starred Herbert Rawlinson as an impoverished nobleman turned pugilist. Lord Waring (Frank Currier)...
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1923
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This comedy-drama starring Gladys Walton used the stale premise of the suddenly-wealthy working class family who are trying...
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Herman Schultz
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1923
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For this tale of old California, producer Benjamin F. Zeidman put together an all-star cast. The governor of California...
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1923
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Although the Vitagraph studio had seen better days by 1922, it was still capable of putting out some entertaining films, such...
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Thomas Gridley
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1922
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The story to this drama is nowhere near as extravagant and sensationalistic as Elinor Glyn's usual fare, perhaps because the...
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Richard Bishop
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1922
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Peter Armitage, the Uncle
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1922
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1922
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When prize fighter Johnny Duffey (Bert Lytell) breaks his hand, the doctor orders him to rest for three months before he...
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1922
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Irving Bacheller was a popular American author during the 1910s, but he refused to allow his stories to be filmed because he...
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1921
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Manly Earle Williams was still very much a box-office draw when he made this entertaining adventure film. Bob Bellamy...
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"Brick" McCann
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1921
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