Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret...
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1949
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The very real dangers of venereal disease provide the framework of this informational Canadian docu-drama. The basic story...
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1948
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The Shadow Returns was the first of three above-average Monogram features based on the popular radio melodrama The Shadow....
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1946
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In this espionage drama, a WW II veteran teams up with a government secretary and begins hunting a gang of Nazi agents who...
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1946
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Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) heads south of the border in this so-so series entry. With the help of Mexican police official...
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1946
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More tightly scripted than most of the Monogram Charlie Chan whodunits, The Scarlet Clue is set in a radio station that,...
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1945
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The second of Monogram's 1945 trio of "Cisco Kid" westerns, In Old New Mexico stars Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and...
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1945
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With Universal nearly out of the "B"-grade horror film business by 1945, it was up to Monogram to take up the slack with...
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1945
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Birmingham Brown joins pal Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) in solving this missing government documents mystery, set at a New...
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1945
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This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract....
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1945
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Having ended its 11-year run at 20th Century-Fox, the "Charlie Chan" series set up shop at Monogram with the singularly...
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1944
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An engagingly silly Charlie Chan whodunit from Poverty Row company Monogram, The Jade Mask mixed science fiction with Old...
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1944
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Meeting at Midnight is the reissue title of Black Magic, a Charlie Chan "B" effort from Monogram Studios. A murder occurs...
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1944
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Few B-picture factories ground out topical wartime dramas with as much regularity as Monogram. In Army Wives, Elyse Knox...
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1944
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Campy Bela Lugosi plays a deranged scientist in this Monogram -produced horror movie. This time, Lugosi and his partner...
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1944
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1944
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Charlie Chan's second mystery for Poverty Row company Monogram, The Chinese Cat is one of the inscrutable detective's better...
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1944
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Burlesque queen Ann Corio took time out of her runway activities in the 1940s to star in three Monogram features, of which...
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1944
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Even by Monogram standards, Wings Over the Pacific is a modest effort. In his final film role, Montague Love plays WW I...
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1943
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Mike Hallett (Barton MacLaine) is A Gentle Gangster in this satisfactory Republic programmer. A big shot during prohibition,...
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1943
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1943
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Thanks to the canny production team of Maurice and Franklin King, I Killed That Man is superior to the general run of...
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1942
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An unusually sentimental endeavor from rough-and-ready Monogram pictures, Road to Happiness stars former 20th Century-Fox...
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1942
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The Mystery of Marie Roget is more faithful to its Edgar Allan Poe original than most Universal films of its ilk, even though...
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1942
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Long forgotten, Monogram's Man With Two Lives has recently resurfaced on the videocassette market, proving itself a most...
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1942
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Paper Bullets (aka Crime Inc.) was the first production by former slot-machine entrepreneurs Maurice and Frank Kozinski,...
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1941
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Stars-on-the-downslide Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh briefly rallied in the above-average Monogram melodrama Murder by...
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1941
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In their first of two Monogram spook comedies, the East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi square off in yet another haunted house. On...
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1941
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1941
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Ace police reporter Wally Williams (Wallace Ford) is so devoted to his job that he even neglects his new bride Alice...
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1941
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In this melodrama, a wealthy man finds that his good life is threatened by his deeply buried, dark past. It seems that years...
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1940
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This adventure is based on Jack London's tale of a Northwestern woman who owns a riverboat who sends her daughter to...
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1940
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Throughout most of the running time of Universal's Double Alibi, it looks as though ostensible hero Stephen Wayne...
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Director
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1940
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In the last of Monogram's "Mr. Wong" whodunits, Keye Luke takes over from Boris Karloff as the Chinese detective Jimmy Lee...
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Director
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1940
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An innocent young woman is accused of murder by her wicked stepmother. The poor lass ends up in prison. Fortunately, a...
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Director
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1940
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G-Man Bill Collins (Preston Foster) swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the...
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1939
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In this boxing drama, an ex-champ finds himself working as a doorman at a nightclub. His son aspires to a high caliber...
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1939
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The Marines are Here exhumes the old bromide about the reckless young sprout who learns how to be an all-around good fellow...
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1938
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Sentenced to prison for a crime they did not commit, a desperate pair of young lovers attempts to capture the culprits...
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Director, Producer
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1937
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It Could Happen to You is one of those captivating "little" pictures whose reputation is built up via word of mouth....
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1937
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This cinematic meringue stars Loretta Young as a young woman whose second husband (Lyle Talbot) is a hard working but dull...
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1937
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1937
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In this detective story, a super sleuth is hired by an insurance company to find a stolen emerald belonging to a rich man's...
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1937
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In this outdoor drama, a plucky young woman inherits her father's logging business and decides to try running it, even...
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1937
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The title may be Bridge of Sighs, but don't expect any location shots of Venice in this Invincible Studios cheapie. Heroine...
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1936
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1936
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A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by...
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1936
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In this melodrama a chorine endeavors to become a star, but it isn't easy. Her wealthy boyfriend wants to marry her until...
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1936
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1936
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The Calling of Dan Matthews is a modernized and sanitized version of Harold Bell Wright's muckraking novel. Minister Dan...
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1936
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Novelist Ursula Parrott's biggest best-seller was 1928's Ex-Wife; less successful was her subsequent book Brilliant Marriage,...
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1936
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Three confidence men set up in a luxury hotel, but wind up as their own victims when several swindles backfire. ~ John Bush,...
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1936
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From low-rent company Invincible comes this hardy survivor, a cheap-looking but fairly engrossing account of a convicted bank...
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1936
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Playwright Greg Stone (Reginald Denny) spends most of his spare time at the theater where his latest effort is in rehearsals....
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1936
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1936
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1935
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This racetrack drama centers upon a horse breeder with a strong aversion to orphans. Howard Chamberlain, himself an orphan,...
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1935
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Two of Hollywood's duller actors, Conrad Nagel and Florence Rice, star in this overly complicated melodrama from Columbia...
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1935
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Born to Gamble was one of the more palatable efforts of M.H. Hoffman's poverty-row Liberty Films. The four protagonists are...
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1935
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Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by...
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1935
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This follow-up to RKO Radio's near-perfect adaptation of Little Women was produced by small but enterprising Mascot Pictures...
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1935
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Although released as an "Allied Pictures Special," Picture Brides revealed its Poverty Row origins in almost all departments,...
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1934
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A story by Earl Derr Biggers, of Charlie Chan fame, was the springboard for the Monogram melodrama Take the Stand. An...
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1934
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A British aristocrat and his son travel to Russia to embark upon a thrilling search for the father's other son, who was...
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1934
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This drama was adapted from a minor story by Dashiell Hammett and chronicles the attempts of an ex-con to stay on the...
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1934
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Assistant DA Bob Martel (Bruce Cabot) is in love with sweet Muriel (Mary Brian). This in itself is not earth-shattering,...
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1934
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Formerly known as Allied Pictures, M. J. Hoffman's Liberty Pictures turned out quite a few potentially interesting...
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1934
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The Mongram "special" Beggars in Ermine was based on a novel by Esther Lynd Day. Having lost both legs in an accident,...
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1934
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This brisk Monogram melodrama includes all the requisite entertainment elements: Talented cast, solid story, a plenitude of...
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1933
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Before it became one of Hollywood's busiest B-picture mills, Monogram Pictures had a fondness for literary adaptations...
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1933
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1933
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This Monogram melodrama gets off to a quick start as a young man is shot to death -- while he's being led to the electric...
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1933
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A young woman believes that her mother's gambling house is a hotel. When a gambler angry about being cheated there convinces...
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1933
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Hopscotching between westerns and modern-dress actioners in 1933, Tim McCoy once more finds himself at large in the Big City...
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1933
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A brutal murder has been committed, and an eyewitness has placed wealthy philanthropist Jerome Breen (Lionel Atwill) at the...
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1933
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A pet monkey saves the day in this otherwise unusually adult Bob Steele Western. The bantam-weight Steele plays Nick, aka...
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1933
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Hoot Gibson's first 1932 western was the breezy The Gay Buckaroo. The ol' Hooter plays Clint Hale, a rancher in love with...
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1932
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Cowboy star Ken Maynard trots out one of his favorite plot devices in Whistlin' Dan. Once again, Maynard poses as a crook in...
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1932
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In one of his first westerns, Johnny Mack Brown plays Kirby Tornell, who does the "Robin Hood" bit on the wide open spaces....
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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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In this western, an outlaw gang leader leaves his bad-guy bunch after they have a heated dispute about giving an injured...
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1932
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In his fourth of six inexpensive Westerns for Allied Pictures in 1932, veteran cowboy ace Hoot Gibson played a foreman...
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1932
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1932
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Two Gun Man was one of the better entries in Ken Maynard's variable western series for Tiffany Productions. Armed with a...
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1931
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Ken Maynard's Branded Men wasn't up to the standards of his previous Range Law, but it was still better than the usual...
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1931
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Considered by many the prototypical low-budget Ken Maynard oater, Range Law starred Maynard as Hap Connors, a prisoner making...
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1931
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1931
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In this romantic comedy, a woman is utterly bored by her nice life and devoted husband, so she decides to find a lover. She...
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1931
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The Pocatello Kid must have been sheer ambrosia for Ken Maynard fans, offering their idol in a dual role. Maynard is cast as...
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1931
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In his third Western for low-budget company Tiffany, Ken Maynard plays Ken Neville, a cowboy returning to the old homestead...
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1931
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1930
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The dank underbelly of suburban youth is revealed in this dark drama based on a sensational 1930 novel written by an 18-year...
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1930
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The marriage between Jim and Esther Hamilton (Owen Moore and Dorothy Christy) spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases...
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1930
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In this melodrama, a young man loses his sight during a plane crash and swears to get revenge upon the man whose company...
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1930
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In this convoluted melodrama, a wife frames her husband, an inventor, for the murder she committed. He gets a life sentence,...
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1929
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Several of Hollywood's best Chinese actors are prominently featured in the mystery melodrama Peacock Fan. The titular prop is...
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1929
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A good cast was wasted in this poor silent melodrama about a young wastrel, Frank Clayton (Gaston Glass), who engages a fake...
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1929
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1928
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The "modern" mother in this modest melodrama released by Columbia was played by Helene Chadwick, a minor screen vamp of the...
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1928
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Danny Eagan (Reed Howes) is on trial for his life, charged with the murder of a prominent gangster leader. Danny refuses to...
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1928
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Wealthy collegiate Charles Delaney inherits a row of tenement buildings in the city's slum district. Visiting his new...
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1928
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Burning Up Broadway contains no burning and precious little Broadway. Small-town hero Ernest Hilliard decides to take in the...
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1928
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1928
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One of the more palatable non-Frank Capra silent films from Columbia Pictures, The Apache is not a western. The title...
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1928
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An inventor attempts to sell his new invention and still has time to fall in love in this romantic comedy. The fellow...
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1927
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Closed Gate was produced by Joe Rock, a former purveyor of 2-reel comedies who yearned to break into the Big Time. Based on a...
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1927
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Motorcycle cop Rex Lease falls in love with Charlotte Stevens, the daughter of political boss James Gordon. This results in...
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1927
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Though its title evokes memories of that old theatrical chestnut Salvation Nell, FBO's Salvation Jane starts out as a "crook"...
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1927
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1927
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One would never guess that the idea for this maudlin exercise sprang from the mind of the usually reliable Anita Loos....
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1927
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The minor-league Thumbs Down stars Creighton Hale as Richard Hale, a carefree socialite who falls in love with stenographer...
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1927
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It was an open secret in Hollywood that actress Lilyan Tashman preferred the company of women to men. Who better, then, to...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1927
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Rose of the Tenements is a vehicle for Shirley Mason, cast as the adopted daughter of a Jewish family. A crisis arises when...
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1926
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Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused...
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1926
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Enid Bennett, best known for her portrayal of Maid Marian in Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s Robin Hood, stars in the low-budget A...
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1926
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When a young man confesses to theft, his wealthy and influential father has him "shanghaied" aboard one of the company ships...
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1925
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This low-budgeter was adapted from A Wise Son, a novel by Charles Sherman. Bryant Washburn plays wealthy wastrel Hal Whitney,...
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1925
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Both businessman Michael Mont (Thomas Holding) and artist Wilfred Desert (Henry Victor) love Fleur Forsyte (Barbara LaMarr)....
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1925
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1925
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Irene Rich was one of Warner Bros.' new stars when she made this drama. Poverty-stricken singer Carol Drayton (Rich) attempts...
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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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1924
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1924
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Darius Carpenter (Frank Currier) prides respectability above all else, and he's not thrilled when his son, Charles...
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1924
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Wallace Reid starred in a legion of comedy-dramas involving speeding cars and most of them (generally written by Byron...
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1922
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The quality of Wallace Reid's films were starting to slip, quite possibly because of his drug problems, and this comedy-drama...
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1922
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Having played a sheik, it only made sense to cast Rudolph Valentino -- whose first name was still being spelled Rodolph -- as...
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1922
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Mary Bird (Mary MacLaren) marries a young physician, Dr. Shaw (Edward Peil), and they settle down in a little cottage on the...
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1920
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1920
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A group of crooks in New York City's Chinatown hear about an old hermit (Joseph J. Dowling) in a small upstate village who's...
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1919
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You'd never know it from the title, but The Darling of Paris was a film version of Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame. The...
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1917
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1917
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Theda Bara couldn't have gotten any farther away from her vamp roles than the part of Juliet in this silent adaptation of...
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1916
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