A collection of action filled trailers from early westerns are included in this video. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study...
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1967
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In this western, a gunfighter finds himself mistaken for a judge when he journeys to a beleaguered town that is under the...
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1965
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In this western, a cowboy finally returns to his home after a long absence precipitated by his killing a wicked rancher's...
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1964
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The town of Bad Dog, Oregon is populated by wealthy ranchers who refuse to pay their cattle taxes. Actually, it goes beyond a...
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1961
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Winning a high-stakes poker game, Bart (Jack Kelly) finds himself the owner of the Lucky Lady Saloon in Santa Leora. But when...
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1960
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Wealthy Morgan Gibbs (Robert F. Simon) hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to locate Gibbs' son David (Bud Slater), a fugitive from...
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1960
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Paladin (Richard Boone) receives an urgent message from a notorious con artist named Simon Quill (Adam Williams), who hopes...
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1960
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Set in the new state of Alaska, this 1959 "B" drama features both a romantic quadrangle, if not pentagon, and a failing...
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1959
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Showing up in Virginia City to collect a $4000 debt from Captain Rory Fitzgerald (David Frankham), Bart has trouble believing...
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1959
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Cheated by con artist Paisley Briggs (Claude Akins), Bart trails the man to Denver, where Briggs is preparing to fleece a...
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1958
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The endearingly awful Shake, Rattle and Rock! serves as a showcase for four top rock-and-roll talents of the 1950s. Fats...
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1957
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Invasion of the Saucer Men can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a comedy, a j.d. melodrama or a horror outing. When...
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Larkin
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1957
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Grandfather Jackson (Raymond Hatton) has sewn his life savings into the lining of an old coat. His grandson Bobby (Stephen...
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1957
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George Montgomery stars in Pawnee as Paul, a white man raised by Indians. Upon attaining adulthood, Paul finds himself...
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1957
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Wally (Tony Dow) and his friends build a clubhouse and then (naturally) form a club, with one-dollar dues for their fellow...
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Charlie the Fireman
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1957
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One of the least-known of the American-International "B" westerns of the 1950s, Flesh and the Spur offers the spectacle of...
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Windy
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1957
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The title tells practically all in the American-International exploitationer Motorcycle Gang. The film's main conflict arises...
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Uncle Ed
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1957
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The Day the World Ended was filmmaker Roger Corman's modest entree into the realm of science fiction. The film begins at "The...
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1956
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In this precursor to the "reality" series Survivor, the staff of the "Daily Planet" serve as referees for a treasure hunt...
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1956
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The Bowery Boys--Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall) et. al.--are suckered into buying a uranium mine near the western town...
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Mac-Slim McKenzie
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1956
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Girls in Prison is a typical babes-behind-bars affair, elevated by a better than usual cast. Richard Denning stars as a...
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1956
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Zachary Scott heads the cast of the heavily plotted western Treasure of Ruby Hills. The son of a notorious outlaw, Haney...
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1955
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Twinkle in God's Eye, Mickey Rooney's second personal production for Republic Pictures, is at the very least an improvement...
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1955
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Arriving in the western town of Dry Gulch to cover a rodeo, Lois (Noel Neill) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) attract the attention...
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1955
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A U.S. Army cavalry officer (Dane Clark) leads westward-bound settlers through Indian territory. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1954
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A "big" western by Allied Artists standards, Cow Country is directed with his usual panache by horse-opera expert...
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1953
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1952
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1952
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A series of prospector murders near an abandoned mine are investigated by a lawman in this exciting western. ~ Rovi...
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1951
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Originally slated for release by Eagle Lion, Skipalong Rosenbloom purchased by United Artists -- who gave it a cursory...
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1951
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From the opening credits onward, bombastic comedian Jerry Colonna dominates the proceedings in Kentucky Jubilee. Colonna...
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Ben White
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1951
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1950
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Crooked River is another of Lippert Studio's "Four Star" western series. These six films were shot back-to-back in the space...
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Colonel
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1950
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1950
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The plot for this Western involves the wives and girlfriends of the Dalton gang, who decide to carry on the gang's criminal...
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1950
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County Fair is an amiable racetrack drama starring Rory Calhoun. A veteran horse trainer, Calhoun has developed a somewhat...
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Sad Sam
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1950
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1950
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Fast on the Draw was one of six Lippert Studios "Four Star" westerns, all of which were filmed simultaneously in the space of...
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Colonel
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1950
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Marshal of Heldorado is one of six "Four-Star" westerns produced and released by Lippert Pictures in 1950. If these six films...
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Colonel
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1950
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Veteran character actor Joe Sawyer produced, co-wrote and co-starred in the diverting docudrama Operation Haylift. Based on...
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1950
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Though released second, Hostile Country was the first of six "Four Star" westerns, filmed back to back within the space of...
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Colonel
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1950
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Colorado Ranger was the third in Lippert Studio's six-film "Four Star Western" series. All six entries were filmed...
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Colonel
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1950
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West of the Brazos was one of six westerns filmed back-to-back within a single month by Lippert Studios in 1950. All of these...
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Colonel
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1950
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After his parents are killed, a cowboy vows to avenge their deaths. (AKA Crooked River) ~ Rovi...
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1950
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Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series galloped ever onward in Hidden Danger. This time, Johnny and his saddle pal Banty...
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Banty
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1949
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A rather corpulent Johnny Mack Brown more than fills the title role of Frontier Agent. Once more, Brown plays a government...
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1948
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Three fellows band together to help a woman find her uncle's cache of gold in this western. All they have to help them is a...
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1948
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In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman...
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1948
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In this western, a Texas Ranger and his pardner gallop after a band of desperadoes. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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1948
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Sheriff of Medicine Bow is one of the slower-moving Johnny Mack Brown westerns for Monogram. Once, again, Brown is teamed...
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1948
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"Some were good, some were bad, and all looked pretty much alike." This was "B"-western historian Don Miller's assessment of...
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Bodie
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1948
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In this western, an ol' cowhand and his grandson enter a nice, but lame horse in a trotting race in hopes of raising enough...
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1948
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Back Trail is one of the livelier entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series. Brown rides into a small town where...
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Casoose
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1948
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1948
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1947
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Smokin' guns, swingin' fists, and a lovable side-kick can be found in this western. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1947
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1947
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Trailing Danger is one of Johnny Mack Brown's cookie-cutter Monogram westerns. Once again, Brown is teamed with grizzled...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a female boss villain in this unusual Western from Monogram. Hired to look into dirty...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown races to the rescue in the Monogram western Raiders of the South. But we're a bit ahead of ourselves here:...
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1947
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After a brief mid-1940s burst of originality, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series settled back into the commonplace...
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Shelby
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1947
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A kind-hearted Native American adopts a homeless, orphaned Chinese boy who has only a horse to his name. This touching...
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1947
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One film critic compared Monogram's eight Johnny Mack Brown westerns of 1947 to strawberries: it was up to the viewer sort...
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1947
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Johnny Mack Brown comes to the aid of a beleaguered female freight line operator in this standard Monogram oater directed by...
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1947
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In one of his better Monogram Westerns, Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a crooked saloon owner with more than one murder on...
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1946
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Johnny Mack Brown dons a marshal's badge in the Monogram western Border Bandits. Brown's sworn duty is to bring in a gang of...
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1946
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Monogram added a bit of music to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown oater, courtesy of former star Smith Ballew, who...
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1946
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Johnny Mack Brown stars in the formula oater Shadows on the Range. The film was made at a time when Monogram was...
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1946
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Monogram added several songs and a barn dance to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown hay burner, in which the veteran...
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Pawnee
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1946
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1946
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Veteran cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cattle buyer turned prairie sleuth in this low-budget oater from Monogram,...
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1946
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Produced by Gower Gulch maverick Robert L. Lippert and filmed in not-so-glorious two-strip Cinecolor near Idyllwild,...
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1946
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Technically a reedit of the 1933 serial The Three Musketeers, this 1946 feature stars The Duke himself, John Wayne, as Tom,...
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1946
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The second of William Boyd's self-produced "Hopalong Cassidy" films, Fool's Gold maintains the standards set by the first...
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1946
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Burly Johnny Mack Brown once again plays undercover U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie in this overly complicated series oater from...
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1945
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A bit paunchier but no less energetic, Johnny Mack Brown is back as Nevada Jack McKenzie in Frontier Feud. Once again, Nevada...
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Sandy
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1945
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1945
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Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and...
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Joe Feeney
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1945
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Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton once again play undercover U.S. marshals Nevada McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins. This time,...
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1945
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The trail provides great adventure for a cowboy in this western. ~ Rovi...
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1945
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Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack...
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Sandy
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1945
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Flame of the West has always attracted more attention than most of Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram westerns, if for no other...
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Add
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1945
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Though it wasn't the first of the batch, The Stranger from Pecos would have been an excellent starting point for Johnny Mack...
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Sandy
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1945
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Sandy
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1944
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Law Men is a typically austere entry in Johnny Mack Brown's Monogram western series. This one finds saddle pals Nevada...
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Sandy
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1944
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1944
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1944
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Sandy
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1944
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Sandy
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1944
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Supernatural events on the range prompt an investigation by cowboy Brown in this western. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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The old bromide about the western town run by outlaws as a hideout for their fellow crooks makes a return appearance in...
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1944
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Though the film's title is The Texas Kid, the film's star Johnny Mack Brown plays a cowboy named Nevada. The titular "kid",...
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Sandy
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1943
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Johnny Mack Brown heads the cast of Monogram's Outlaws of Stampede Pass. Per the title, the film concerns a western...
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1943
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In his first of 20 "Nevada McKenzie" Westerns for Monogram Pictures, brawny Johnny Mack Brown plays the title role, a drifter...
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1943
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U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns...
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Sandy Hopkins
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1943
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The old plot device of a western "ghost town" being used as a hideout for criminals is trotted out again in Monogram's Ghost...
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Sandy
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1942
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In this drama, set during the gold-rush, an unsuccessful prospector prepares to leave Alaska. But first he has a grand,...
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1942
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Monogram's "Rough Riders" rolled along smoothly with the 1942 entry Down Texas Way. Once again, the star trio consists of...
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Sandy
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1942
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The last of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders" westerns starring oldtimers Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton, West of the...
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1942
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Sandy
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1942
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In this drama a military cadet must demonstrate his courage to quell accusations of cowardice. His friend assists him. ~...
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1942
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Sandy Hopkins
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1942
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1942
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Riders of the West is another entry in Monogram's repetitious but profitable "Rough Riders" series. Back in the saddle again...
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Sandy
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1942
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Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona....
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1941
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John Wayne stars in this hard-driving oater which was co-written by character actor Paul Fix. Wayne plays Rocklin, a...
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1941
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The "Rough Riders"-Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton-are back in the saddle in Forbidden Trails. As was customary, the...
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Sandy
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1941
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Monogram Pictures launched its lucrative "Rough Riders" western series with 1941's Arizona Bound. Producer Scott Dunlap hoped...
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Sandy Hopkins
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1941
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Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western,...
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1941
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Veteran action and western director Spencer G. Bennet certainly opens this the second of Monogram's eight "Rough Riders"...
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1941
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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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Rusty Joslin
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1940
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This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time,...
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1940
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When an evil land grabbers forces settlers out of their homes, the courageous Three Mesquiteers ride up to stop him. Rootin'...
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Rusty Joslin
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1940
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Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western series hopscotched all over the calendar, with some entries taking place in the...
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Rusty Joslin
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1940
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A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three...
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1940
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Hi-Yo Silver is a 69-minute abridgement of the 1938 Republic serial The Lone Ranger. Departing from the continuity...
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1940
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Though the title character is loosely based on that of the notorious killer/robber Ma Barker, she has been sanitized and...
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1940
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The three Mesquiteers ride the long trail home following the Spanish-American war in this western. En route, they have many...
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1940
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Rusty
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1939
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Even geniuses have to eat, and when Mark Twain was offered a substantial sum of money to slap together a quickie sequel to...
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1939
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Undercover Doctor, like the other entries in Paramount's "FBI" series, could lay claim to being "drawn from today's...
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1939
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Forever keeping apace of current headlines, Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" series came up with the 1939 entry Wyoming Outlaw....
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Rusty Joslin
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1939
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Despite its tantalizing title, Wall Street Cowboy must rank as one of the lesser Roy Rogers films. The story is set in motion...
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Chuckwalla
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1939
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Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early...
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1939
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The Three Mesqueteers attempt to prevent wholesale slaughter in this fine Republic Western starring John Wayne,...
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Rusty Joslin
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1939
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In this episode of the Three Mesquiteers series of westerns the trio must help two rival sides involved in a range war settle...
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Rusty Joslin
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1939
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Rusty Joslin
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1939
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District attorney Walter Pidgeon pursues the conviction of criminals so diligently that word has gone out in the state prison...
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1939
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Finishing out her Paramount Pictures contract, opera star Gladys Swarthout sings not a single note in the tense little...
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1939
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Frontier Pony Express is a fast-paced Roy Rogers program western which could stand up on its own with any big-budgeted "A"...
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Horseshoe
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1939
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In this comedy, a Missouri mule breeder faces financial ruin after the market collapses. He takes his best mule to a Kansas...
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1939
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It can be said with some certainty that Paramount's Touchdown, Army is not a baseball picture. Taking time out from his...
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1938
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Directed by Frank Tuttle, Paris Honeymoon stars Bing Crosby as Lucky Lawton, a wealthy Texan whose plans for a Parisian...
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1938
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In this drama, an innocent man is framed for murder and sent to Sing Sing where he meets a kindly prison chaplain who helps...
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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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This Roy Rogers musical western (his second starring vehicle for Republic) concerns itself with a group of Texas Rangers,...
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Jeff
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1938
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1938
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In this comedy, a milquetoast office clerk is forcibly betrothed to a woman by her overbearing mother. The trouble begins...
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1938
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In their third crime-solving adventure, smart-aleck newspaper woman Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) and slightly dense homicide...
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1937
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One of a slew of prison reform picture that flourished during the Great Depression, this melodrama was banned in Finland....
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1937
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This is the second entry in the Torch Blane reporter series. In this episode, ace reporter Torchy, wanting to impress her...
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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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Tennessee
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1937
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In this football drama, a college gridiron star attempts to leave the game, at the request of his girl friend who does not...
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1937
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The first of three remakes of the 1933 Paul Muni picture Hi, Nellie, Love is on the Air is historically important as the...
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Weston
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1937
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Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid...
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1937
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Coincidentally, Warner Bros. contractee Jane Wyman made her starring debut in the same year as her husband-to-be...
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1937
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The racket-busting activities of New York DA Thomas E. Dewey was the inspiration for several late-1930s crime films,...
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1937
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Returning to his home spread in the Red River border area between Texas and Oklahoma, Tal Holladay (Dick Foran) is falsely...
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1937
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1936
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Ace reporter Casey (Stu Erwin) and city editor Blaine (Paul Kelly) are agreed on only one point: women are trouble! This is...
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1919, the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel Timothy's Quest was remade as a talkie in 1935. Dickie Moore plays...
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1936
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Yet another Zorro imitation, this adventure serial starred Robert Livingston as Don Loring, whose father and brother are...
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1936
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Tracks Williams
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1936
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The 12-episode Universal serial Jungle Jim was based on the Alex Raymond comic strip of the same name. Grant Withers stars as...
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Malay Mike
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1936
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The real-life Yellowstone National Park provides a colorful backdrop to this melodramatic actioner. Henry Hunter stars as...
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1936
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1936
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Former newspaperman Martin Mooney based his script for Exclusive Story on the racket-busting activities of New York district...
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1936
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Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket"...
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1936
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1936
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The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of...
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1936
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Poverty-row director Wallace Fox came up in the world a bit when he signed on to helm RKO Radio's Red Morning. Steffi Duna,...
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1935
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In this drama, a prominent Broadway producer's daughter inherits a fortune when her father dies. Included in the estate is a...
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1935
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In G Men, Warner Bros. "bad boy" James Cagney plays James "Brick" Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round...
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1935
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Having gained considerable audience attention for his appearance in the 1935 "Crime Does Not Pay" 2-reeler Buried Loot, new...
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1935
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Calm Yourself starts off as ace advertising man Pat (Robert Young) is fired from his job when he offends the highly...
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1935
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A much-married man of the world is found murdered in this typical low-budget whodunit and each and every one of his fifteen...
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Sgt. Mead
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1934
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In this crime drama, a famous criminal attorney is abandoned by his wife who has tired of his neglect and heavy drinking....
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1934
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Based on Lea David Freeman's play Ruby, Lazy River takes place somewhere in the Mississippi River Valley. Jean Parker plays...
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1934
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Marian Nixon made the first of a brace of starring appearances at low-budget Liberty Pictures in Once to Every Bachelor....
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1934
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A sleazy lawyer is the focus of this courtroom drama. His favorite technique is to teach his female clients how to use their...
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1934
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Based on John Golden's stage play Four Walls, MGM's Straight is the Way offers the monumentally miscast Franchot Tone as...
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1934
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1934
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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1933
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Jude Pilchuck
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1933
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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In this crime drama, a highway patrolman gives an oil magnate a ticket. He later quits the force to begin working for the...
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Carter
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1933
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This western is an adaptation of a Zane Grey novel and chronicles the exploits of a simple-minded cowpoke who proves his...
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1933
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Tom Mix goes undercover as a prison inmate in this Western from Universal. The reason for Tom's masquerade is a bank robbery...
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1933
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Heroine Mona (Sally Eilers) is "made" in more ways than one in this free-wheeling spoof of the press-agent business. A...
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1933
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We first lay eyes on Jimmy Cagney in Lady Killer while he's working as a movie theater usher. This job lasts just long enough...
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1933
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Renowned animal-trainer Clyde Beatty plays himself as a circus owner in this adventure that centers on an enthusiastic youth...
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Timothy O'Hara
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1933
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1933
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To look at his later dramatic work, one would never guess that award-winning director George Stevens got his start working on...
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1933
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Dorothy Burgess, the fiery Tonia of the Academy award-winning In Old Arizona (1929), plays a woman who will do anything to...
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Rance Danvers
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1933
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Tom Mix once again goes up against corrupt Fred Kohler in this would-be epic Western filmed on-location at Kanab, UT....
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1933
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Tom Mix goes up against a ruthless gang of rustlers headed by a crooked army colonel in this, his penultimate Western for...
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Lucky Dawson
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1933
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Adapted from Alexander Dumas's novel, this adventure is about a trio of Foreign Legion friends who confront the Devil of the...
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1933
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In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company...
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1933
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A rather complicated but well-made little Poverty Row thriller, Drifting Souls features silent screen star Lois Wilson as...
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1932
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1932
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In this romantic drama, a strait-laced preacher creates controversy when he marries a seductive trapeze artist . The two...
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Downey
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1932
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Not the best of Tim McCoy's 16 Westerns for Columbia (1931-1932), Cornered, directed by action specialist B. Reeves Eason,...
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1932
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In this melodrama, a starving orphan deliberately breaks a store window in hopes that she'll be tossed in jail and get a hot...
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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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Waco
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1932
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Alias Mary Smith might have been completely forgotten were it not for the diligent efforts of "B"-picture aficionado John...
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1932
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An early screen version of the oft-filmed tale of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Law and...
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Deadwood
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1932
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The "Crooked Circle" gang consists of a dozen or so hooded villains, all of whom have sworn revenge on the Sphinx Club, a...
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1932
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William Collier Jr. stars as an ambulance surgeon, forced by circumstances to work for a gang of criminals. What the villains...
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1932
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Roly-poly comedian Jack Oakie in a serious role? Yes, that is exactly what you get with Uptown New York, an otherwise humdrum...
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1932
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Homespun vaudeville monologist Chic Sale repeats his "old geezer" characterization in Warner Bros.' Stranger in Town. Sale is...
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Elmer Perkins
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1932
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Lion and the Lamb takes place in Columbia Pictures' idea of London. Upon returning home after a long absence, globetrotting...
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Muggsy
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1931
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The vaudeville and Broadway comedy team of Eddie Dowling and Ray Dooley (husband and wife, despite Dooley's masculine...
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"Dynamite"
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1931
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One of the more prestigious films of its time, John Ford's film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...
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1931
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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1931
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In this western, three rambunctious young cowboys head for the hills after spending a night painting a town red and...
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Joac
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1931
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This somewhat obscure early musical western produced by George W. Weeks for poverty row's Sono Art-World Wide has gone down...
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Pedro
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1930
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A somewhat primitive early talkie version of Rex Beach's lusty 1909 novel of Alaska salmon fishers, RKO's The Silver Horde...
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1930
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In this crime drama, a down-on-his-luck attorney with connections to a diamond thief is framed for the thief's murder by the...
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Drinkwater
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1930
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Nine years before stepping into the role of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone essayed the character of S.S. Van Dyne's...
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1930
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Nick
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1930
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William Wyler was still primarily a western specialist when he was assigned to direct Hell's Heroes. Based on...
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"Barbwire" Gibbons
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1930
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1930
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Elisha Cook Jr. made his screen debut in this early exploitation talkie from De Forest Phonofilm. Cook and Pauline Drake...
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1930
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1929
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In this early, early talkie, a newspaper reporter convinces a judge to release an accused killer who used to be a colleague...
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Pearson
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1929
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In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe...
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Dogey Franks
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1929
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Rodney Ramsbottom
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1928
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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
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"Scoop" McGee, the Reporter
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1928
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A popular comedy duo towards the end of the silent era, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatten once again join forces for this...
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Dead-Eye Dan
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1928
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During the late '20s, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton made a series of comedies for Paramount. Although the studio hyped...
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Ray
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1927
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Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a...
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1927
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Sam Dupont
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1927
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Fireman Save My Child is an exceptionally well-constructed slapstick comedy, utilizing the talents of stars Wallace Beery and...
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Sam
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1927
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A follow-up to the enormously successful Behind the Front, We're in the Navy Now reteams the stars of the earlier film,...
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Stinkey Smith
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1927
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Another entry in Paramount's long-running "Zane Grey" series, Born to the West represented the first directorial effort of...
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Jim Falino
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1926
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Shorty McGee
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1926
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Harry Silvers
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1926
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Filmed in majestic Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon, Utah, this Paramount Zane Grey Western starred Jack Holt as Nevada, a...
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Arizona Pete
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1926
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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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Brown
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1925
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Adventure was an appropriate title for a book by Jack London, and when his tale of the South Seas was made into a film, the...
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Raff
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1925
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Based on a story by Harold Bell Wright, this average silent western starred Warner Baxter as the son who almost loses his...
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Charlie Grey
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1925
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Zane Grey's 1925 story of the great Buffalo hunts became a sprawling silent Western produced by Paramount and starring the...
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Jude Pilchuk
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1925
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The subject matter to this Victor Fleming-directed drama is typically virile -- it takes place in Sacramento during the Gold...
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Mate
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1925
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Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte (Ricardo Cortez) travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood...
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Marquis de Beausant
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1925
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Lois Wilson stars in this drama, which was based on the novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland. Schoolteacher Carmel Lee...
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Launcelot Bangs
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1925
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This romantic drama was based on the novel by Ethel M. Dell, a very popular author of the day. Her work doesn't seem to...
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Capt. Preston
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1925
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Almost 30 years before the Peter O'Toole picture, Joseph Conrad's novel was first filmed as a silent. It was directed in...
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Comelius
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1925
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Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose...
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1924
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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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Danny Dciynes
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1924
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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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When she is deserted by her husband, the Stranger (Anna Q. Nilsson) leaves her baby on a doorstep with half a dollar bill...
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Noodles
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1923
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1923
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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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Shorty
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1923
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This sentimental rural drama was based on the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Frankie Lee plays Dick Alden, the barefoot boy...
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Deocan Halloway
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1923
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Eleanor Boardman and William Haines came to Hollywood when they were winners in the same contest held by the Goldwyn studios....
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1923
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Light-comedy actor Douglas MacLean stars in this hilarious mystery capably directed by James W. Horne. Bruce MacAllister, a...
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Harry Hopwood
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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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This old-fashioned drama was based on the novel Youth Triumphant by George Gibb. Patsy, a little slum girl (Virginia Lee...
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1923
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This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle,...
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1923
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Louisiana-born Leatrice Joy plays Chinese princess Taou Yuen in Java Head. To save himself from being executed in a gruesome...
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1923
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Producer Thomas Ince brought the William Collier/Victor Mapes-penned stage farce to the screen for his light comedy star...
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1922
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The Goldwyn studios had apparently been hanging onto this Mabel Normand comedy for quite a while -- by the time it was...
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1922
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This epic historical romance, based on the novel by Mary Johnston, was one of Paramount's big releases for 1922, and it...
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James I
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1922
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1922
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This melodrama, based on the novel Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley, wasted the talents of James Kirkwood,...
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Jim Wingate
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1922
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This romantic adventure was based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. An old skipper, Captain Davis (George Fawcett), has...
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J.L. Huish
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1922
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After his appearance in The Kid, little Jackie Coogan was obviously destined for stardom. For his first starring role, he was...
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The Grocer
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1921
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Bunty Pulls the Strings was adapted from the immensely popular stage farce by Graham Moffat. Leatrice Joy stars as a Scottish...
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Weelum
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1921
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1921
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Director Edward H. Sloman had only himself to blame for this melodramatic misfire: he also wrote the script. A now forgotten...
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Le Blun
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1921
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This sophisticated light comedy was based on a successful stage play by Herman Bahr. Augustus Martinot (Lewis Stone) is a...
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Dr. Hart
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1921
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Cecil B. DeMille's much-maligned cinemadaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol holds up better than its...
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1921
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Wife May Collins is convinced by a homewrecking female (Marcia Manon) that her husband Richard Dix is unfaithful. Upon...
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1921
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Based on a story by Gouverneur Morris, this drama involves a group of terrorists whose motive is to do away with capitalists...
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1921
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It is said that every actor wants to play Shakespeare. Will Rogers would seem a likely exception to that rule, but here he is...
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Steve Woods/Paris
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1921
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Sylvester Tibble (Wallace Reid) comes to New York City to work at the jug business run by his uncle, Enoch Jones...
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1920
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1920
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Stop Thief was adapted from the popular Broadway comedy of the same name, with Mary Ryan repeating her original stage role....
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1920
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During the silent era, Will Rogers was generally on the losing end of a romantic triangle; this time his good-natured common...
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1920
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Allegory is a storytelling form little used in cinema today, but it popped up frequently during the silent era, especially...
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1919
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Don't let that title fool you: Male and Female is really James M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, as interpreted by...
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1919
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Paramount's silent matinee idol Wallace Reid plays John Craig, a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked...
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1919
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This action-comedy has nothing to do with WWI -- Dalton Trumbo's novel would not be written for another 20 years. Stage...
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1919
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Director Cecil B. DeMille tones down his usual elegance and instead focuses on the drama of America during the Great War....
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1919
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This comedy had several winning elements, among them a screenplay based on O. Henry's story, The Halberdier, and dashing star...
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1919
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This film, based on the stage play Saturday to Monday by William J. Hurlburt, made a nice vehicle for the charms of...
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1919
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In order to rescue his brother, society boy David Strong (Wallace Reid) has to travel through the underworld. He disguises...
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1919
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Silent star Douglas Fairbanks made a rare visit to the director's chair (accompanied by his friend and frequent collaborator...
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1918
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One More American represented one more superb "ethnic" portrayal by the versatile George Beban. The star plays feisty Italian...
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1918
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Van Twiller Yard (Wallace Reid) has drifted from his well-to-do roots and landed on the skids. Along with several other...
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1918
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Abstaining from his usual "Italian" characterization, George Beban played a roistering French Canadian in Paramount's Jules...
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1918
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Played by Raymond Hatton, the "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly...
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1918
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The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille...
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1918
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The plot of Less Than Kin hinges upon the astonishing resemblance between its two protagonists (both of whom, for the sake of...
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1918
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We Can't Have Everything was at once a typical Cecil B. DeMille marital comedy and also a satire of the whole genre. Aware...
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1918
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Jack Pickford plays Sandy, a young Irishman who stows away on a ship headed for America. En route, he meets Ruth Nelson...
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1918
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Character actor Theodore Roberts had to carry this film all on his own, which was a near-impossible task. He plays country...
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1917
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1917
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With the exception of Joan the Woman, which contained a "contemporary" subplot, The Woman God Forgot was Cecil B. DeMille's...
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1917
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Charles Chaplin's next-to-last Mutual Studios 2-reeler is as funny as his other 11 Mutual entries, though there's a stronger...
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1917
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Handsome silent screen idol Wallace Reid takes a job as manager of a stage-line in this early silent western directed by the...
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1917
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Even popular Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa was swept up into the distinctly occidental intrigues of WWI in...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1916
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Although this classic Charles Dickens tale was filmed at least twice previously, this Lasky version was the first to really...
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1916
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The first of several screen versions of Bret Harte's venerable action yarn Tennessee's Pardner was delivered to the...
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1916
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A typical fanciful silent screen romance based on a bodice-ripping pulp novel, To Have and to Hold marked the screen debut of...
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1916
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A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director...
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1916
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This Cecil B. DeMille picture (adapted from the novel by Eleanor M. Ingram) was the screen debut for French actress Rita...
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1915
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The grandfather of Betty Wright (Ina Claire) is willing to give her a substantial amount of money if she marries the son of a...
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1915
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1915 was a big year for civil war films -- this powerful five-reeler was released around the same time as D.W. Griffith's...
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1915
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Famed opera singer Geraldine Farrar had just recently achieved silent film stardom with Carmen (a part she had also sung on...
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1915
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1915
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Bowery toughie Chimmie Fadden was the creation of New York Sun journalist E. W. Townsend. Chimmie proved popular enough with...
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1915
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1915
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1915
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1915
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The Golden Chance was the last of 12 (!) films directed in 1915 by Cecil B. DeMille. Scripted by DeMille and...
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1915
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The hoary old David Belasco stage operetta is given the full DeMille treatment in this classic silent western starring...
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1915
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1915
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The "Armstrong" in Armstrong's Wife was played by Thomas Meighan, just on the verge of his superstardom. As indicated by the...
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1915
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If the larger-than-life approach to this complicated picture (based on the novel The Rose in the Ring by George Barr...
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1914
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