Forbidden Heaven was accurately assessed by "B"-film historian Don Miller as "a weepie unabashed -- and a successful one."...
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1936
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A pre-stardom Mickey Rooney earned top billing when this minor medical drama was re-released in 1939 as Little Pal (Rooney by...
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1936
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A homely woman gets the best kind of revenge upon her philandering husband in this drama. Tired of his constant cheating,...
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1935
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Comparatively little known, this Monogram thriller is a remarkably concise adaptation of Wilkie Collins' lengthy 1868 mystery...
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1934
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In this drama, a convict breaks out of jail and winds up going to college. There he joins the rowing team and helps them to...
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1930
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In this early musical western, Stephen Ghent (Ian Keith) is a businessman who, after the death of his partner, has been...
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1930
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1929
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Two friends, one of them a jockey, pursue a woman who must be wooed with money. The other friend steals cash from his...
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1929
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Adopting a surprisingly effective Southern accent, Vienna-born Joseph Schildkraut plays the title role in...
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1929
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1929
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1928
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Colonel Tim McCoy continued his string of successful historical Westerns with The Frontiersman, a muscular adventure set in...
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1927
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1927
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1926
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Although MGM was known for its streamlined, quality pictures, that didn't mean all its product was glossy, high-budget stuff....
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1925
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This tale of the Northwoods is yet another James Oliver Curwood story brought to the silver screen. Clive Grenfal (Walter...
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1925
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This minor silent Western from small-time Approved Pictures was Jean Arthur's fourth film and the second of 10 program...
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1924
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This romantic drama only used half the clichés of the typical horse racing story. There's the impoverished Colonel (or in...
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1924
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This drama was based on the novel Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene. Jonathan Swift (Frank Keenan) is a wealthy fish...
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1924
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Two of the silent screen's major stars, beautiful blonde Alice Terry and British-born Conway Tearle, starred in this lavishly...
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1924
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1924
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1923
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This Northwest melodrama was based on the novel The Law Bringers by G. B. Lancaster. Andree Grange (Renée Adorée), the...
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1923
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Future MGM star Norma Shearer was still an up-and-coming young starlet when she made an impressive appearance as the flapper...
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1923
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Based on Langdon McCormick's 1919 play, this silent melodrama stars Matt Moore and House Peters as War veterans sharing a...
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1922
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1921
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After committing murder, Hugh Garth (fine character actor Russell Simpson) becomes a fugitive from justice. He takes his...
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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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1921
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Leatrice Joy and Richard Dix play an ambitious couple in this domestic drama. John and Katherine Colby (Dix and Joy) decide...
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1921
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During the early '20s, sentimental films about mother love abounded. As the decade went on, however, such mawkish tales were...
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1921
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This World War I drama was originally a novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, and because of its complicated, overlapping plot...
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1920
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Domestic issues take center stage in this sensationalistic Western directed by Reginald Barker for Goldwyn. A young woman...
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1920
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Geraldine Farrar plays a woman with a past in this domestic melodrama. Her character, Muriel, has become popular in society...
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1919
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It is Mardi Gras in New Orleans' French Quarter, and New Yorker Roland Van Dam (Owen Moore) has come down in search of...
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1919
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Lady Isabel Channing (Geraldine Farrar) finds herself in several dilemmas. First off she meets a handsome Egyptian, Sheik...
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1919
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1918
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1918
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When her father and brother are killed in the Civil War, Jeanne Beaufort (Bessie Barriscale) becomes a spy for the...
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1918
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1918
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While visiting Monte Carlo with her aunt, Rosalie Dean (Geraldine Farrar) meets a young man, Maxfield Gray...
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1918
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Rich orphan Doris Wingate (Enid Bennett) is referred to as the "most snobbish girl in America" in a Sunday feature story. The...
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1917
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Louise Glaum, one of the premier vamps of the 1910s, plays Mercedes Murphy, the tough, but good-hearted, proprietor of a...
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1917
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Triangle's resident vamp Louise Glaum got to play a character here that had a bit more depth than her usual roles. Lola...
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1917
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When World War I breaks out and the Germans invade Belgium, a Russian girl, Olga Raminoff (Clara Williams), is staying at an...
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1917
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Three friends live in a boarding house in New York City. Two of them, Nina Antinni (Clara Williams) and Paul Cardosa...
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1917
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An amusing picture which was shot at the brand new Ince Studios in Culver City, future home of MGM. William Desmond plays...
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1917
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Larry Thomas (Charles Ray) is a country lad who comes to the city to work as an office boy for a friend of his father's....
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1917
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Major Ainslee (Frank Keenan) is a Southern gentleman who has fallen on hard times. His one asset (not counting his daughter,...
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1916
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With American opinion divided over the European war in 1915, no fewer than three major motion pictures were conceived with...
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1916
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In this silent comedy drama, a grizzled mountain man tries to make the best of a disappointing situation when his wife bears...
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1916
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The title to this film is a misnomer since there's no real criminal in the story. Naneta (Clara Williams) is an illegitimate...
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1916
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1916
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1916
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In the days when Woodrow Wilson's campaign for a second term bore the slogan "He kept us out of war," the neutral stance that...
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1916
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Chorus girl Jane Wallace (Bessie Barriscale) has earned the soubriquet "Iceberg" because of her refusal to compromise her...
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1915
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1915
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The Coward is the earliest extant starring vehicle of popular "boy next door" actor Charles Ray, though in fact the film was...
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1915
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A remarkably naturalistic and sophisticated film for its time, The Italian stars George Beban as a dirt-poor Italian farmer....
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1915
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Produced and co-written by Thomas H. Ince, The Wrath of the Gods (aka The Destruction of Sakura-Jima) was a major undertaking...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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