Dean Jagger stars as Ed Lindsay, a cranky middle-aged man living in a boarding house with several other old-timers, including...
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1961
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After speculating on the possibility that a person can travel back in time and change history, Peter Corrigan...
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1961
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One the finest of all Twilight Zone episodes, "Walking Distance" benefits not only from a superb Rod Serling script and a...
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1959
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Blackjack Ketchum, the real-life gunslinger who'd previously been a peripheral character in several westerns, is herein...
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1956
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Don Siegel's classic exercise in psychological science fiction has often been interpreted as a cautionary fable about the...
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1956
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The life story of West Point athletic director Marty Maher was the inspiration for John Ford's The Long Gray Line. Told in...
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1955
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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1954
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"What are you rebelling against?" asks someone. "What've you got?" responds surly, leather-jacketed motorcycle punk...
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1954
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A good man tries to warn his daughter away from a bad man who has stolen her heart in this melodrama. Steve Latimer...
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1953
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In his final Durango Kid Western (and final film appearance), Charles Starrett once again played an avenger named Steve,...
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1952
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Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet...
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1952
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Gene Autry was clearly tiring of the rigors of moviemaking by the time he starred in The Old West. Even so, Autry gives his...
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1952
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This Disney feature-length cartoon combines the most entertaining elements of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through...
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1951
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Valley of Fire is a fairly gutsy title for this formula Gene Autry western. This time, Autry plays the reform-minded mayor of...
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1951
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This 1951 Gene Autry vehicle is based on a supposedly true incident. At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern...
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1951
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Gene Autry stars in the 1951 sagebrusher Whirlwind. In this outing, Autry plays a frontier postal inspector known for his...
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1951
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Though the hit song "Mule Train" is most closely associated with Frankie Laine, it was Gene Autry who first sang the tune on...
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1950
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At first glance, Cow Town seems to be a documentary, as an unseen narrator describes the changes made in the Old West by the...
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1950
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Glenn Ford is top-billed in Man From Colorado, though he's anything but a hero. Ford plays a seriously disturbed Civil War...
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1949
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Gene Autry enjoyed considerable success with his recording of Stan Jones' haunting "Riders in the Sky". He then parlayed this...
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1949
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career...
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1949
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In this final episode of the Boston Blackie mystery series, our hero and his side-kick find themselves accused of murder...
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1949
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Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the...
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Cyril Proudbottom
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1949
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A blend of melodrama and film noir, The Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, a suburban housewife whose...
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1949
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One of the many Bowery Boys movies, in this one Slip and Sach are mistaken for two private investigators and risk their lives...
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1947
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The last of the Richard "The Jaw" Dix films. Dix, the trucking company owner, is pitted against time to discover who...
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1947
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With a title like Singin' in the Corn, how could the star be anyone else but rambunctious rustic comedienne Judy Canova. This...
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1946
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1944
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Arthur Lake takes a break from his Dagwood Bumstead duties in the "Blondie" series to star as furloughed sailor Marble Head...
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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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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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1944
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The Iron Major is the saga of WW1 hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh, played with his usual no-nonsense professionalism...
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1943
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Lee Falk and Ray Moore's famous syndicated comic strip hero came to the screen in this 15 chapter serial produced by Rudolph...
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1943
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Bob Kane's 1939 Detective Comics superhero The Batman came to the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures and...
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1943
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Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have...
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1943
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Substantially, Lupe Velez' Columbia vehicle Redhead from Manhattan was the same as her previous RKO starrers-boisterous,...
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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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A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing...
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1942
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Pacific Rendezvous is a B-picture remake of the 1935 MGM A-picture Rendezvous, updated to accommodate WW2. Lee Bowman plays...
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1942
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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1942
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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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1942
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Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas...
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1942
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Thru Different Eyes is a remake of the 1929 film of the same name. The original was hailed for its creative use of sound and...
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1942
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The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's...
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1942
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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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A "B" picture with "A" aspirations, Bombay Clipper mostly takes place on a flight from India to San Francisco. Someone has...
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1942
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1942
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This parody of gangster flicks centers on an incarcerated gangster who decides to reform after he is released from Sing...
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1942
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1941
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In this boxing drama, champion fighter Johnny Rocket decides to leave the ring to please his new bride. Unfortunately, his...
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1941
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In this drama two children return from their separate boarding schools to a nasty surprise. The father of one is...
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1941
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Johnny Mack Brown saves the day in the Universal western programmer Law of the Range. Finding himself in the middle of a...
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Steve's Father
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1941
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The Pals of the Pecos are our old pals The Three Mesquiteers, portrayed herein by Robert Livingston (as Stony Brooke),...
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1941
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Based on the long-running comic strip by Gene Byrne, PRC's Reg'lar Fellers was intended as the first of a series of 6-reel...
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1941
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No relation to the Cracked Nuts he directed in 1931, this hokey sci-fi-comedy from director Edward F. Cline stars Stuart...
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1941
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Responding to star George Sanders' complaint that his role of "modern Robin Hood" Simon Templar was becoming a bore, RKO...
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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Set during the war of 1812, Hal Roach's Captain Caution is an unusual swashbuckler in that the "hero" is actually the...
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1940
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Singing cowboy Gene Autry makes a rare appearance outside his usual Republic Pictures stamping grounds in 20th Century-Fox's...
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1940
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Judy Garland performs her only on-screen death scene early in the proceedings of Little Nellie Kelly. But despair not!...
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1940
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1940
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In this B movie actioner, a plucky female cub reporter is determined to get her boss a front page scoop and so finagles a...
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1940
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1940
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This "Three Mesquiteers" western entry stars Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke, Raymond Hatton as Rusty Joslin and...
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1940
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W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a...
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1940
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Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is...
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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1940
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In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is...
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1939
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Based on a story by Jack London, this film follows the adventures of young Michael Vance (John Carroll) as he travels with...
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1939
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Ace Secret Service agent Lt. Brass Bancroft is on the case in this crime drama. This time he is assigned to break up a major...
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1939
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Set in a northern California logging community the trouble in this western begins when a lumberjack is killed while sawing...
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1939
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Stunt Pilot is a typically lively entry in Monogram's "Tailspin Tommy" series. Hired to work on an aviation picture, ace...
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1939
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Based on a classic tale from Rudyard Kipling, this melodrama chronicles the desperate attempt of a painter to finish his...
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1939
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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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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front,...
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1939
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Ronald Reagan is his usual sprightly self as ambitious insurance claims adjuster Eric Gregg. While diligently investigating a...
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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1938
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an...
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1938
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The "suspense" in the RKO Radio musical comedy Music for Madame lies in whether or not golden-voiced Operatic tenor...
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1937
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Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to his teenaged daughter...
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1937
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James Dunn is once more cast as a reporter, this one named Murphy. On the outs with practically every newsroom in America,...
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1937
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A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim...
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1937
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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Actual footage of the 1936 Rose Bowl game is cleverly (if not seamlessly) integrated into the action of this sports-oriented...
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1936
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In this western, a cowboy finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine...
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1936
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This lavishly appointed Sam Goldwyn soap opera is set in Ireland during "the troubles." Irish rebel leader Dennis Reardon...
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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Though its title and cast suggests a lighthearted romantic comedy, Trouble for Two is actually a fairly faithful adaptation...
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1936
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Its the US Marines against the pirates in this spliced-together adventure serial. The Marines are trying to set up a landing...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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After wrapping up his last case in Egypt, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) heads to Shanghai for a well-deserved rest. It isn't...
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1935
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Eight year old Paddy O'Day (Jane Withers) arrives at Ellis Island after a long sea voyage from Ireland, to be with her...
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1935
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A variation on the Lady for a Day theme, Universal's Lady Tubbs stars Alice Brady as Henrietta "Mom" Tubbs, the no-nonsense...
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1935
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Still hanging on in 1935 despite several financial setbacks, brave little Majestic Pictures continued turning out such...
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1935
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Richard Cromwell stars in Columbia's Men of the Hour as dedicated newsreel cameraman Dave Durkin. When Dave and his...
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1935
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W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second...
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1935
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The stringent censorship imposed upon Hollywood of the mid-1930s dictated that gangsters could no longer be the "heroes" in...
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1935
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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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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1934
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The 1934 Universal serial The Perils of Pauline borrows the title and very little else from the pioneering Pearl White...
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1934
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His dramatic fall broken by sacks of flour, Dick (Richard Talmadge) once again emerges unharmed and the voyage to the...
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John Craig
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1934
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Some people never know what they have until someone else is about to get it as can be seen in this romance that centers upon...
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1934
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In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief. After his latest job,...
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1934
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The fourth and last of Columbia's "Inspector Trent" mysteries, Girl in Danger once more stars Ralph Bellamy as the...
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1934
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In this drama, a recently convicted criminal boards a train bound for the prison where he will be hanged. His wife rides...
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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1933
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The Mystery of the Wax Museum begins in London in the 1920s. Lionel Atwill plays Ivan Igor, a brilliant sculptor who manages...
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1933
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In this romance, an ambitious young career woman is slated to marry a wealth man until she gets into a fender-bender and...
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1933
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This dark, brooding ancestor to Hang 'Em High features Buck Jones as a happy-go-lucky cowpoke who is duped by a gang of...
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Lafe Armstrong
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1933
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1933
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A decidedly minor entry in Tim McCoy's Western oeuvre, The Whirlwind was released in the middle of McCoy's unsuccessful...
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1933
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Sing, Sinner, Sing is one of several 1930s films based on the notorious, well-publicized romance between nightclub singer...
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1933
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New York Police Commissioner Mulroney opens Penal Code with a stern warning for parents about keeping the children off the...
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1933
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Jenny (Ruth Chatterton) becomes pregnant by a young man who is killed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Bearing her child...
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1933
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A couple of demoted cops fight over a gangster's moll in this cheap crime drama produced and directed by Harry S. Webb. A...
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Bob Larkin
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1933
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Running a swift 55 minutes, Trial of Vivienne Ware packs in more sheer entertainment value than its longer, more prestigious...
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1932
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A remarkably ambitious endeavor from low-budget World Wide Studios, Those We Love was adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from a play...
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1932
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Buck Jones took a break from his cowboy duties to play a speedway driver in this highly implausible but fast-paced action...
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1932
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Famed aviator Frank Hawks proves anew in Klondike that, as an actor, he was an excellent pilot. Though billed second, Hawks...
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1932
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1932
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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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1932
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Mascot produced their serials fast and furious with little concern for believability, acting prowess, or technical niceties....
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1932
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Tim McCoy is falsely accused of killing his own father in this typical low-budget oater directed by the generally efficient...
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Deputy Ed Myers
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, the son of a shipping tycoon is left to reflect upon his life after his lover abandons him. He decides that...
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1932
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As directed by Norman Houston, this newsroom-themed melodrama from 1932 stars Walter Byron as an alcoholic reporter who...
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1932
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This western serial features the famous trained German Shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Rinty gets involved in an Indian uprising caused...
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Sheriff
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1931
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In this melodrama, a recently-abandoned wife consoles herself by heading for Reno and falling in love. Her new lover is...
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1931
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The title character is played by Dorothy Revier in this lower-case melodrama. She plays a gossip columnist whose brother, a...
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1931
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A decidedly minor entry in the then-popular aviation melodrama cycle, The Sky Spider was the first film produced by sound...
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1931
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In this crime drama, dedicated to the police forces of America, a gangster searches for his estranged son, also a gangster....
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1931
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The Fall Guy isn't Lee Majors in this 1930 RKO Radio programmer but instead a hapless druggist played by Jack Mulhall. Upon...
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Charles Newton
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1930
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The pain of raising children alone is presented in this tragedy that centers on the failure of a widowed mother of four...
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1930
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Director Roland West was a moody and mysterious Hollywood character, who insisted upon making his pictures in utter secrecy...
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1929
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Bearing no relation to the popular torch song of the same name, The Man I Love is a prizefight picture, courtesy of Paramount...
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D.J. McCarthy
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1929
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House of Scandal gets under way when Irish-born New York cop Danny Regan (Harry Murray) is reunited with his brother Pat...
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Pat Regan
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1928
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To keep her daddy from going to prison, heroine Lillian Rich agrees to marry villainous Ernest Wood. When an attorney offers...
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1927
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Although she is primarily remembered as a foil for the comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch worked in...
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1927
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Allen Harvey
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1927
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According to the original studio press releases, contentious Columbia president Harry Cohn not only produced Pleasure Before...
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1927
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1927
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Tenement gal Nora Denahy (Gladys Hulette) is the "Bowery Cinderella" in this standard melting-pot drama. While on a slumming...
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Larry Dugan
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1927
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Barry Nunan
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1927
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First filmed in 1915, the time-honored Albert Chevalier stage success My Old Dutch was remade (this time sans Chevalier) in...
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Joe Brown
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1926
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James Langham
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1926
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Grand Duke Sergius
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1926
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Spangles was adapted by actress Leah Baird from the novel by Nellie Revell, with Revell receiving "star" billing in the...
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1926
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A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore. Beth...
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Tom Benham
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1925
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Laura La Plante stars in this light comedy, directed by her future husband, William Seiter (the couple were wed in 1927 and...
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James McDonald
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1925
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Freckle-faced Wesley Barry was one of the most popular juvenile stars of the 1920s. In The Fighting Cub, Barry plays Thomas...
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1925
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Although MGM was known for its streamlined, quality pictures, that didn't mean all its product was glossy, high-budget stuff....
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Barry
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1925
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Paul Bern became more well known as an MGM producer under Irving Thalberg than he did as a director, but had he stuck to...
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Robert Stanley
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1925
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King Vidor does a nice job of making an insignificant novel by Lawrence Rising into a pleasant light comedy. Fernanda...
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Her Contractor
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1925
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This rather trite romance was saved by its colorful backdrop; the setting is the New York Bowery of the early 1890s. Mamie...
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Mike Kildare
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1924
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The story to this romantic satire was penned by William Elwell Oliver, the winner of a writing contest that Universal Studios...
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Bill Pendleton
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1924
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There wasn't much story to this lightweight romance starring Viola Dana. Dana plays Connie DuBois, a manicurist who leaves...
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1924
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Although she was well over forty when Happiness was filmed, Laurette Taylor was still specializing in girlish charm. Director...
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Fermoy MacDonough
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1924
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This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove...
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1924
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After seeing their mother (Eugenie Besserer) struggle to eke out a meager existence for her family, her daughters Jeanette...
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Roy Beardsley
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1924
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Before he became a producer at MGM, Paul Bern showed a flair for directing, adding a sophisticated touch to this...
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Fred Hopper
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1924
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This second of four film versions of Owen Wister's The Virgininian stars Kenneth Harlan as the nameless principal character....
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Steve
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1923
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This Northwest melodrama was based on the novel The Law Bringers by G. B. Lancaster. Andree Grange (Renée Adorée), the...
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Bucky O'Hara
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1923
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Silent movie audiences must have had an insatiable appetite for mythical kingdoms because it seems like just about anything...
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Robert Browne
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1923
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This comedy-drama was just one of dozens made in the early '20s which cautioned against the evils of jazz while showing its...
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1923
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This heart-warming drama was one of Colleen Moore's first films for First National, but her star would not ascend until later...
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1923
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Steve Cline (Milton Sills) returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the paper that his...
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Philip Logan
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1923
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Although this drama was named after the famous Chauncey Olcott song, it was actually based on the stage play The Shaughraum...
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Conn, the Shaughraun
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1922
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This drama was a rare directing effort from screenwriter Marion Fairfax. Sam Clairborne Sr. (Charles Mailes) wills his estate...
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1922
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Patsie Hannon was a model when Erich Von Stroheim discovered her and gave her the name of Miss DuPont. Duly signed to...
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Paul
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1921
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Director Marshall Neilan brought his cast and crew to Montana for this extravagant re-telling of the famous last stand at...
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Lt. Brant
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1921
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This above-average British melodrama was based on "The Living Dead", a story by Mary Lerner. Bessie Barriscale stars as a...
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Phillip Bradley
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1921
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Mild-mannered Wilkins (William V. Mong) has been a bookkeeper for the firm of Bates and Stryker for 15 years without...
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Jimmy
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1921
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Dinty O'Sullivan (Wesley Barry) is the son of poor Irish immigrants. His father was killed the day he and his mother arrived...
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1920
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Viola Dana was Metro Pictures' top star when False Evidence came out in 1919. Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon...
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1919
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By 1918, Priscilla Dean's popularity was quickly growing; however, this comedy is not one of her best efforts. Daphne...
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1919
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Even though World War I had just reached its end, the war films kept coming. While The Heart of Humanity had a similar plot...
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1918
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1917
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The first British screen version of Oscar Wilde's classic novel of the libertine who remains perpetually young while his...
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1916
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1915
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