A Kiss in the Dark opens with a shot of Jane Wyman in a two-piece bathing suit. Alas, the dictates of cinematic construction...
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1949
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Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars...
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1949
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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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The tense psychological drama Cry Wolf offers a fascinating if not altogether successful change of pace for action star...
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1947
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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1947
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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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Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M....
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1945
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Vicki Baum, the author of the novel Grand Hotel, also wrote this similarly structured tale about a group of disparate...
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1945
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Uncertain Glory finds Errol Flynn atypically cast as French criminal Jean Picard, a craven coward whose many misdeeds have...
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1944
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Complete with a final production number filmed in Technicolor, this tuneful musical depicts the highly fictive ups and downs...
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1944
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Underground is an average Warner Bros. suspenser, given a boost by its unrelenting portrayal of Nazis as verminous...
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1941
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The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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1941
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In this actioner, heroic G-man Brass Bancroft must assume the identity of a notorious spy who died in a train wreck so he...
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1940
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This third film version of Maxwell Anderson's play Saturday's Children stars Claude Rains as the impecunious but proud father...
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1940
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Also known as Beasts of Berlin and Hitler: Beast of Berlin, this was the inagural effort of Producers Distributing...
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1939
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1939
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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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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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1939
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James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic Fanny. Madelon (Maureen O'Hara) is a lovely...
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1938
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In response to Republic's Gene Autry westerns of the late 1930s, Warner Bros. created its own singing cowboy, Dick Foran, for...
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1937
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Despite the claim of "an original screenplay by Edward Earl Repp," this entry in Warner Bros.' Dick Foran "singing cowboy"...
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1937
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As originally conceived by detective novelist Frederick Nebel, hotshot girl reporter Torchy Blaine was a male news-hound...
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1936
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW...
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1934
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A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars Ruth Chatterton as Françoise...
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1934
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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1933
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This musical comedy stars Maurice Chevalier as (what else?) a Parisian playboy with a song and a kiss for every beautiful...
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1933
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George Arliss is a world-renowned pianist, engaged to a young woman (Bette Davis) much younger than himself. An explosion...
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1932
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A couple of silent screen "names," Edmund Burns and Molly O'Day flounder badly in this penny-ante shipboard melodrama from...
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1931
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Assigned by the police commissioner to catch a notorious gangster, a young police captain discovers that his adversary is a...
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1931
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A cast of silent-film veterans distinguishes the pedestrian crime drama First Aid. Grant Withers stars as a doctor who is...
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1931
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The first of four low-budget Westerns that veteran cowboy star Harry Carey made for poverty row company Artclass Pictures,...
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1931
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1931
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White-Stetsoned Bill Cody stars in the rugged "B"-western The Montana Kid. While waiting for the arrival of his son...
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"Gabby" Gable
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1931
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1930
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First filmed in 1926, the venerable stage melodrama Three Faces East was remade as a talkie in 1930. Set during WWI, most of...
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1930
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In the opener of Universal's 15-chapter serial Tarzan the Tiger, Tarzan, aka Lord Greystoke (Frank Merrill), returns to...
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1929
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This adventure serial was the last to team the popular Allene Ray and Walter Miller and the last to be produced by Pathé, the...
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1929
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Intended as a follow-up (and improvement upon) the 1926 epic western The Vanishing American, Redskin was partially filmed in...
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1929
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The romance between Jerome Bonaparte and Baltimore debutante Elizabeth Patterson was given the full treatment by Warner...
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1928
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Despite the challenges of his many imitators, there was only one Rin Tin Tin, as proven in such tailor-made vehicles as Rinty...
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1928
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One of the most fondly remembered serials of the late silent era, The Hawk of the Hills became a showcase for Frank Lackteen,...
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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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1927
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The plot to this underworld drama, based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche, sounds more like something from the 1930s than...
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Dopey
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1927
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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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Sally in Our Alley revives the old bromide about the orphan waif who is unofficially adopted by three men of different faiths...
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Tony Garibaldi
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1927
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Jean Paul Fippany (J. Farrell MacDonald) is so wrapped up in his horse, a filly named Marseillaise, that he neglects his...
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1926
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One of a cycle of late-1920s films dealing with the Russian Revolution, Siberia stars Alma Rubens as idealistic Russian...
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Commandant
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1926
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While there were often disasters such as floods, fires, and avalanches in silent films, few of them were actually built...
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Joe Burger
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1926
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When rector Daniel Gilchrist (Edmund Lowe) preaches material sacrifice to his wealthy congregation, he is forced out of his...
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Umanski
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1925
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Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent (Cyril Chadwick) is forcing...
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1925
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner had no love interest. The 1925 movie adaptation, titled...
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The Mariner
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1925
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The Paramount backlot doubled as Basque country for this romantic comedy which proved to be a nice showcase for Richard Dix....
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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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This romance was based on a magazine serial by the talented John Monk Saunders. Dan Savage (Theodore Babcock) prepares his...
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1925
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Although Gloria Swanson was known as a clotheshorse, occasionally her studio would allow her to rely purely on her acting...
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1924
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This epic production was the last film that producer and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst produced for Paramount...
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1923
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The Big Brother organization hadn't yet gone national in 1923, but it had enough of a reputation to inspire the title to this...
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1923
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An epic, 13-reel costume drama produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions -- and it doesn't star his...
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1923
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1923
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Just because movies before the late '20s were filmed without sound recording, it doesn't mean they were truly silent. This...
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1923
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Film critics (at least those who weren't employed by the Hearst Corporation) frequently complained about the amount of money...
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1922
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Florence Lawrence, the motion-picture industry's first real movie star, was at the tail end of her popularity when she...
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1916
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Eclair's When Rome Ruled was an opulent if not entirely successful imitation of the Italian "epic" films then flooding the...
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1914
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The Perils of Pauline was not the first movie serial ever made, but it is perhaps the best known -- though that doesn't mean...
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1914
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It was still possible in the early months of 1915 for an American film company to turn out a piece of pro-German propaganda...
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1914
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Every bit as cool, or maybe more so, to the audiences of 1909 as The Matrix is to the modern moviegoer, Princess Nicotine;...
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1909
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1908
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