The last of the Richard "The Jaw" Dix films. Dix, the trucking company owner, is pitted against time to discover who...
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1947
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In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he...
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1947
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The Whistler, mysterious narrator of the radio series of the same name, "knows many things" for he "walks by night." This...
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1946
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Mysterious Intruder was the fifth entry in Columbia's B-picture series based on the radio anthology "The Whistler". Richard...
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Don Gale
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1946
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In this drama based on a popular radio series, a millionaire believes he has six months left to live and so marries his...
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John Sinclair
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1945
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The third of Columbia's "Whistler" series, Power of the Whistler once more stars Richard Dix as the tortured protagonist....
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William Everest
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1945
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The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler,...
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Earl Conrad
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1944
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The Whistler, the unseen mystery-story narrator of radio fame, relates another tale that he's gleaned from "walking by night"...
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Lee Nugent
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1944
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Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as...
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Stephen Bent
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1943
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Like several other Harry Sherman Productions of the 1942-43 season, The Kansan was originally slated for a Paramount release,...
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John Bonniwell
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1943
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RKO horror producer Val Lewton dished up seven reels of brooding psychological terror with The Ghost Ship. Richard Dix stars...
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Captain
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1943
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In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help...
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Tom Warren
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1943
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Originally slated for release through Paramount Pictures but ultimately distributed by United Artists, American Empire is a...
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1942
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Some unexpected casting choices distinguish this so-so Universal actioner. Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry,...
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Richard Bryan
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1942
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This Western is set in the Arizona town and centers on former gunslinger Wyatt Earp who has been recently deputized and is...
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Wyatt Earp
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1942
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Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first...
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Steve
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1941
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Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas...
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Wild Bill Hickok
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1941
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Dave Morrell
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1940
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Richard Dix is his usual strong, silent self in RKO Radio's Men Against the Sky. Dix plays a washed-up pilot who designs a...
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Phil Mercedes
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1940
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Set in the Central American jungle, Lucille Ball plays plantation owner Joan Grant in The Marines Fly High. When a platoon of...
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Lt. Dan Darrick
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1940
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Man of Conquest was the first "super production" from Republic Pictures, a studio not known for its lavish budgets. This...
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Sam Houston
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1939
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In this drama, a miserable wife takes her son and leaves her alcoholic spouse. She ends up traveling to England to begin her...
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Duke Allen
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1939
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The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and...
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Bill Shear
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1939
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Another worthwhile entry from the RKO Radio B-picture division, 12 Crowded Hours stars stalwart Richard Dix as crime-busting...
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Nick Green
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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A French sculptor travels to LA and, with the help of Ace the Wonder Dog, pretends to be blind so he can sneak into a museum...
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Paul Dover
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1938
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Handsome aerial footage highlights this rousing RKO adventure tale that combines a frozen-North survival drama with a...
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W. R. "Stag" Cahill
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1938
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Dorgan
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1937
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By 1937, everyone was tired of films about silent stars who couldn't make the transition to talkies (and would be until...
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Tim Bart
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1937
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In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an...
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Paul Driscoll
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1937
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College mineralologist Bob (Richard Dix) decides to put his education to good use by prospecting for gold out West. Teaming...
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Culpepper
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1936
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In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important...
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Paul Redmond
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1936
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Richard Dix is as stalwart and oaklike as ever in Special Investigator. Here he plays courtroom-movie cliche #22B: The...
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Bill Fenwick
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1936
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The Arizonian came at a time when Richard Dix's popularity was slipping, providing a welcome shot in the arm for the star and...
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Clay Tallant
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1935
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Pecos Smith
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1935
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Transatlantic Tunnel is the English-language version of the 1932 French-German speculative drama The Tunnel. Set sometime in...
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McAllan
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1935
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The "greatest gamble" in the life of Philip Eden (Richard Dix) is to restore his long-estranged daughter Alice's...
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Philip Eden
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1934
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Richard Dix plays the title-role, of a dashing highwayman and bandit in 1870's Australia, in this strangely delightful mix of...
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Stingaree
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1934
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Ace of Aces was based on Bird of Prey by John Monk Saunders, an acknowledged master of aviation epics. Richard Dix stars as...
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Lt. Rex Thorne
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1933
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Previously filmed in 1923, Zane Grey's To the Last Man manages to pack plenty of A-level production values into what was...
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1933
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In this romantic drama, set at the turn of the century, a womanizing Irish motorman ignores his marital vows, but only to a...
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Jasper Horn
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1933
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A boozy newspaper reporter is booted out of his job for drinking too much. A few fateful twists later, he becomes partners...
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Bruce Foster
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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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John Day
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1933
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Richard Dix stars as a heroic riverboat captain in this lurid action-melodrama produced under the aegis of David O. Selznick....
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Carson
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1932
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Often referred to as an imitation of Warner's legendary prison drama I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), RKO's stirring...
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Frank "Duke" Ellis
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1932
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This Depression-era morale-booster looks at the ups and downs of a banking family from the 1870s to the 1930s (and borrows...
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Roger Standish
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1932
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Capt. Gibson
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1932
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Made to exploit the panic caused by Black Tuesday, this thriller centers on the attempts of a broker to prove that a...
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Pike Winslow
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1931
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In this crime drama, a crime lord adopts the little brother of a slain colleague. Later a child-care inspector intervenes,...
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Jim Donovan
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1931
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Capt. Lewis Dumont
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1931
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1931
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Yancey Cravat
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1930
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In this lively drama, a gambler believes he has killed a man and so boards the first train out of town. Unfortunately, a...
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"Lucky" Larry Sheldon
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1930
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Richard Dix plays a working stiff who submits to an odd experiment. It is scientist Allen Kearns' contention that a man and a...
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Peter Darby
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1930
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In his second talking picture, Richard Dix is cast as British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat, at present on leave in London....
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Capt. Leslie Yeullat
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1929
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This second of three film versions of the durable James Montgomery stage farce Nothing But the Truth was also the first...
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Robert Bennett
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1929
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Intended as a follow-up (and improvement upon) the 1926 epic western The Vanishing American, Redskin was partially filmed in...
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Wingfoot
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1929
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William Magee
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1929
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The old Winchell Smith-Victor Mapes stage comedy The Boomerang was the source for the Richard Dix vehicle The Love Doctor....
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Dr. Gerald Sumner
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1929
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Richard Dix's star power goes a long way towards assuring the success of Easy Come, Easy Go. Dix plays radio announcer Robert...
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Robert Parker
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1928
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Michael Moran
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1928
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Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby (Richard Dix) develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of...
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Richard Shelby
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1928
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Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Warming Up is an early baseball film starring Richard Dix and Jean Arthur. After pitcher Bert...
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Bert Tulliver
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1928
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This two-fisted Richard Dix vehicle casts the muscular star as virile caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts. It is...
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Tom Roberts
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1927
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Steelworker Dundee Reilly (Richard Dix) comes to the defense of Mary Malone (Mary Brian), who is being annoyed by a brawny...
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Dundee Reilly
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1927
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The freewheeling direction of Gregory LaCava helps to enliven the otherwise standard actioner The Gay Defender. Decked out...
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Joaquin Murrieta
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1927
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It's a shame that so many of the silent directorial efforts of the innovational Gregory La Cava no longer exist. LaCava's...
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Steve Porter
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1927
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This rugged Richard Dix vehicle casts the star as rough-and-tumble sea captain Jim Bucklin. Landing at a Chinese port,...
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Jim Bucklin
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1927
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This characteristically free-wheeling Greg LaCava production was based on The Man From Mexico, a play by Harry A. Douchet....
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Billie Dexter
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1926
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Injured in a small European kingdom during a revolution, American soldier-of-fortune Bob Howard (Richard Dix) lies in a...
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Bob Howard
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1926
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Jack Stone
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1926
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Fascinating Youth was designed as a showcase for the winners of Paramount's Junior Star contest of 1926. Newcomer...
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1926
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If the plot to this breezy romantic comedy sounds like something that would have starred the late Wallace Reid, there's a...
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Bill Phelps
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1925
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Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock...
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Will Prescott
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1925
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This romance was based on a magazine serial by the talented John Monk Saunders. Dan Savage (Theodore Babcock) prepares his...
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Ranny Savage
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1925
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Richard Dix and Esther Ralston starred together in several films during the latter half of the 1920s. This Western-comedy was...
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Bill Dana
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1925
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The Paramount backlot doubled as Basque country for this romantic comedy which proved to be a nice showcase for Richard Dix....
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Richard Gaylord, Jr
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1925
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The Paramount team of Richard Dix and Lois Wilson starred in this top-notch silent western in which a Native American is the...
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Nophaie
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1925
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When Geoffrey Farnell (Richard Dix) returns from the war, the only job he can find is as a reporter on a New York scandal...
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Geoffrey Farnell
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1925
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This South Seas tale, based on the novel by Clive Arden, very much reflects the morals of its era. Barbara Stockley...
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Alan Croft
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1924
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It seems like the flashier Cecil B. DeMille made his films, the more intimate were those made by his older brother William C....
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Ben Jordan
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1924
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With this comedy-melodrama, Richard Dix was bumped up from leading man to star status. This also marked the first film for...
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Peter Minuit
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1924
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Tully Marshall plays "the Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering...
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Larry Darrant
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1924
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This Paramount drama was based on the novel Face, by Lucy Stone Terrill. It was a change of pace for light comedienne...
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Douglas Albright
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1924
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Even though Wallace Reid died only a few weeks before this film's release, the genre of racing car movies which he made...
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Roddy Smith
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1923
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Leading lady Lois Wilson considered this fine western her favorite of six films she starred in opposite virile leading man...
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Jean Isbel
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1923
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Childhood sweethearts with lofty goals do not a good Christian lifetime make, in this doomed romance directed by...
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John Storm
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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Frank Claymore
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1923
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With a screenplay by Howard Hawks and direction by Jack Conway, this Mexican border tale couldn't possibly have been anything...
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First Lieutenant
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1923
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As might be expected, director Victor Fleming, who always did well with outdoorsy material, deftly handles this adaptation of...
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Glenn Kilbourne
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1923
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Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45...
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John McTavish
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1923
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This implausible crime drama had the benefit of Betty Compson's presence: she was best known for playing lady criminals....
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1923
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This crime thriller, "suggested by" the story by Hugh McNain Kahler, benefited from the fine directorial hand of Marshall...
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Tommy Frazer
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1922
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Angela Gaskill (Betty Compson) travels to the South Seas to help sailor John Somers (John Bowers) kick his addition to...
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Lee Marvin
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1922
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This character study was adapted from Henning Berger's play, Synafloden, which was known as The Deluge in its English...
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1922
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This adventurous story-within-a-story was based on a novel by Gouverneur Morris. Parrish (Richard Dix), a young author,...
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Parrish
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1922
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Even though this light comedy never leaves the confines of its hospital setting, it's still highly amusing. Billy Grant...
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Billy Grant
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1922
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Writer Rupert Hughes chose this predictable story as his first directorial effort, but he brings it fresh life with the help...
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Walt Breen
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1922
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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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A man who believes he is a murderer travels the world to escape his past in this often confusing crime drama. Richard Dix...
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1921
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When she starred in this drama, Helene Chadwick was being referred to as "the most photographed girl in America." Phoebe...
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Harley Jones
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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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John Colby
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1921
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1917
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