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Dr. Phil Nevins
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1964
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That dependable sleuth of pulp fiction fame, Nick Carter, apparently had an equally stalwart son. Chick Carter, Boy Detective...
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1946
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After a two-year absence, the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series returned with The Devil's Playground. William Boyd, now...
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Judge Morton
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1946
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This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract....
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1945
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1940
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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A young, naive schoolteacher gets in over her head when the advances of a suitor grow too ardent. To escape his unwanted...
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1940
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Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer...
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1939
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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1939
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie...
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1939
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Should a Girl Marry? never completely answers its own question, inasmuch as the story concentrates primarily on the male...
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1939
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In this crime drama, a grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to...
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1939
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In this heartwarming drama, a crook endeavors to raise his son in the slums until he kills a teller during a bank robbery....
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1939
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1938
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Previously filmed in 1928, the old Willard Mack stage melodrama The Noose was updated and streamlined in 1936 as I'd Give My...
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1936
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In this crime drama, a woman loses custody of her baby boy after her rich husband dies. She later gets a job working in a...
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1935
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In this drama, a gun moll eludes the pursuing police by hiding out on a fishing vessel. There she meets and falls in love...
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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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While crossing the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, a radio troupe (led by Jack Benny) becomes involved in a murder mystery...
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1934
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The basic difference between the Chesterfield and Invincible productions of the 1930s is that most of the Chesterfields were...
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Sgt. Kerrigan
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1934
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Casey Jones shares his railroad wisdom with a young engineer in this lively train film. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1934
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Set within the steamy Louisiana bayous, this melodrama chronicles the reconciliation between an embittered bereaved mother...
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1934
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Born on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) rises to prominence as a professional gambler....
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1934
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A young woman believes that her mother's gambling house is a hotel. When a gambler angry about being cheated there convinces...
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1933
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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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This unique thriller chronicles the exploits of a doctor who will do almost anything to please his young, second wife. She...
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1933
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What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic"...
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1933
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1933
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A goodly portion of this boxing drama was filmed on location at the real-life Madison Square Garden. Jack Oakie stars as...
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1932
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Gary Curtis, aka Farnsbarns (Richardo Cortez), is really a former hoodlum hired to retrieve some compromising letters from...
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1932
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Upon her release from prison, Joyce Greeley (Edwina Booth) is promptly and mysteriously murdered. Fledgling crime reporter...
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1932
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Priscilla Dean was one of the major star names of the early 1920s. By the time the all-talking quickie Behind Stone Walls was...
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1932
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In this western, a Pony Express rider believes himself to be a Native American. The trouble begins when an Anglo outlaw...
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Capt. Blake
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1932
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A sophisticated, expensively-dressed group of people gather in a spooky old mansion to watch the first performance of a...
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Inspector Taylor
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1931
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Star Witness starts out as a homey family comedy and develops into a rather gutsy thriller. Chic Sale plays a cantankerous...
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1931
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Adapted from the stage play by former newspaperman Louis Weitzenkorn, Five Star Final is an uncompromising look at the...
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1931
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Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is...
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Pete Morgan
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1931
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Detective Dundy
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1931
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1931
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The names have all been changed, but this hard-hitting gangster tale is based on an actual newspaper headline story...
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City Editor
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1931
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Norma Shearer earned an Academy Award for playing the not so gay divorcée in this pre-Code offering based, loosely, on...
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1930
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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 talkie, a vicious crime lord (played by Lew Ayres in a rare villainous role) decides that he has had enough and...
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Capt. O'Grady
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1930
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"Sweet Mamma," a phrase popularized in the Barney Google comic strip, referred to a pretty girl, usually blonde, who attached...
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1930
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At the height of his activity as Hollywood's foremost producer of 2-reel comedies, Hal Roach developed the urge to direct a...
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Sgt. Mooney
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1930
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Based on Dion Boucicauls's Irish play, this early talkie from lower-echelon company Tiffany starred one of the victims of...
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1930
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The Lone Wolf, the gentleman thief created by Louis Joseph Vance, made his talking-picture debut in Columbia's The Lone...
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1929
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Romance of the Underworld was adapted from a barnstorming stage piece by Paul Armstrong. Forced by circumstance into a life...
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Edwin Burke
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1929
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In this newspaper drama, a star reporter learns that prominent city officials are covering for a bootlegging crime lord....
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Wallace Crockett
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1929
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1929
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1928
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Contrary to popular belief, no one speaks into microphones hidden in vases in this, the first 100% "all-talking" feature...
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1928
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1928
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Norma Shearer plays Dora Perkins, a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr....
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1923
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This tense Northwoods mystery originated (as did many other novels about the Canadian wilds) from the pen of...
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1922
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Serial star Pearl White was near the end of her misguided attempt to become a serious actress when she made this commonplace...
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John Miles
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1922
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This melodrama was based on Rex Beach's novel The Net. Countess Margherita (Betty Blythe) is a Sicilian girl who is about to...
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Norvin Blake
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1922
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What was actress Pearl White thinking when she decided to portray a female Tarzan? The resulting picture was one of the more...
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"Bob" Alan
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1921
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This obscure silent Western about an Indian uprising was produced far away from Hollywood by Joseph M. Shear. Robert Elliott,...
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Bartlett Goodale
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1921
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In the silent era, most films were made on the back lot and this one, based on the book by Valentin Mandelstamm, was a novel...
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1920
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This Henry M. Blossom melodrama had a long success on the stage before it was made into an action-packed, serial-like picture...
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1919
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1919
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By mid-1919, Theda Bara's career was on its downslide. The release of A Woman There Was all but killed it. This was a very...
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1919
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Enterprising Chinese-born actress Lady Tsen Mei co-founded the Betzwood Production Company in Philadelphia. As her first film...
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Robert Kenyon
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1918
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Comedienne Mabel Normand came a cropper trying to play it straight in the WWI propaganda piece Joan of Plattsburg. Inspired...
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1918
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1917
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Dwight Tilton's novel Miss Petticoats was visualized on-screen by director Harley Knoles, a British expatriate briefly...
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1916
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