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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1945
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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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Bradford
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1944
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Based on the comic book by the same name, the hero takes on a crazed scientist who creates deadly machines for his own...
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1944
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The most obvious discrepancies concerning this otherwise well-remembered cliffhanger from genre specialist Republic Pictures...
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1944
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In this entry in the long-running western series, Hoppy is running for sheriff and is beaten by the yellow-belly who had...
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1944
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Edwards
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1944
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This lightning-paced Republic western stars Don "Red" Barry as lawman Tennessee Colby. When sinister forces try to prevent a...
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1943
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In this western, Wild Bill and his assistant, try to learn why a young med school graduate is being spurned by the members...
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Robert Warren
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1943
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After an opening scene at a Washington DC cocktail party where it is demonstrated that "loose lips sink ships", the plot...
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Amos Hanlin
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1942
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The Three Mesquiteers are back in the saddle in Republic's Code of the Outlaws. In this outing, the Mesquiteers are played by...
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1942
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There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any...
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1942
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Originally titled Dawn Express, this PRC spy melodrama was hastily rechristened Nazi Spy Ring to keep abreast of current...
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1942
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1942
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Glenda Farrell reprises her fast-talking girl reporter persona in PRC's Night for Crime. Ms. Farrell is cast as Susan, a...
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1942
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Talented B-picture director Joseph H. Lewis wasn't yet in the "auteur" class when he helmed the PRC quickie Criminals Within....
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1941
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In yet another full-length version of an earlier serial, Dick Tracy (Ralph Byrd) is out to get the bizarre Ghost, a dastardly...
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1941
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A saboteur who tampered with an experimental aeronautics device is pursued by a man and his dog in this tale of adventure...
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1941
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Ace police reporter Wally Williams (Wallace Ford) is so devoted to his job that he even neglects his new bride Alice...
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1941
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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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The Three Mesquiteers are back in Republic's Gangs of Sonora. The story is set in Wyoming, just before statehood was bestowed...
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1941
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The Pals of the Pecos are our old pals The Three Mesquiteers, portrayed herein by Robert Livingston (as Stony Brooke),...
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1941
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A mystery man works behind the scenes in this tuneful Roy Rogers western in which the local theatre owner attempts to ruin...
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1941
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Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to James Cagney, is perfectly cast in One Man's Law. When plans...
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1940
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In this melodramatic historical drama, the lives of Mexico's Maximilian and Carlotta are chronicled. The story follows their...
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1940
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In this drama, a despondent fellow contemplates suicide after he is abandoned by his last girlfriend. To ensure that his...
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1940
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The Tex Ritter Monogram Westerns had a change of directors with Riders of the Frontier, Spencer Gordon Bennet having replaced...
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1939
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Filmed on the very cheap, Mystic Circle Murder (aka Religious Racketeers) is distinguished by the presence of Mme. Harry...
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1939
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The FBI goes up against a female gang leader in this ultra-low-budget thriller directed by Raymond K. Johnson. Grant Withers...
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1939
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A federal agent and a petty Naval officer are both investigating the theft of top-secret defense plans. Since neither one is...
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1939
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In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman...
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1939
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Veteran character star Charles B. Middleton ("Ming the Merciless") escapes from a penitentiary after 15 years of imprisonment...
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1939
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Radio crooner Tex Fletcher was given a one-time-only chance at western stardom in Grand National's Six-Gun Rhythm. The plot...
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1939
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1939
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This adventure is the last entry in the "Renfrew of the Mounties" series. This time the tuneful Mountie travels to the north...
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1939
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This spy thriller is centered upon the actions of the Cipher Bureau, a part of a government agency devoted to intercepting...
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1938
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All expense was spared in bringing this sleazy "exposé" to the screen. It's all about Mrs. Miller (Martha Chapin), the...
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1937
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Veteran western star Buck Jones both co-produced (with Lesley Selander) and directed this well-mounted Universal B-Western...
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Homer Truesdale
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Norwegian skating sensation Sonja Henie made her Hollywood screen debut in the splashy 20th Century-Fox musical...
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1936
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The first of three inexpensive serials produced by Louis Weiss for Poverty Row company Stage and Screen Productions, The...
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1936
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Playwright Greg Stone (Reginald Denny) spends most of his spare time at the theater where his latest effort is in rehearsals....
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1936
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1936
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Eccentric professor Einfeld (Lee Kohlmar) is lecturing a select group of scientists at a darkened planetarium when one of the...
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1936
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The second of three serials produced by the Weiss Bros. for low-budget Stage and Screen Productions, The Clutching Hand...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Ex-cop Russell Hopton, framed for a crime he didn't commit, gets a second chance in life after enduring a train wreck. His...
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1936
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The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such...
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1936
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1936
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"Suggested" by the notorious trial of gangster Lucky Luciano, this typical low-budget sexploitation-melodrama came complete...
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1936
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1935
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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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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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1935
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Not to be confused with the prominent British film Never Too Late to Mend, which was released in the U.S. in 1937 as Never...
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Commissioner George Hartley
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1935
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Perhaps the best of Mascot Pictures' feature-film releases, Ladies Crave Excitement is also one of the fastest 69 minutes...
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1935
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A daredevil pilot saves the inventor of a new airplane from a gang of thieves in this stunt-oriented melodrama starring...
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Cardigan
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1935
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Ostensibly based on James Oliver Curwood's Caryl of the Mountain, but bearing little or no resemblance to the 1935...
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1935
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In this romance, a young woman falls in love with a bacteriologist who is married to a hot-tempered opera star. When his...
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1935
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In this drama, a department store clerk is falsely accused of stealing and attempted murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1934
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In this crime drama, policemen pursue a convicted killer as he diligently searches for the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1934
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A lover selflessly dumps her boy friend so that he will obey the wishes of his wealthy benefactor and marry someone more...
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1934
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This melodramatic cheapie stars former silent-screen leading lady Barbara Bedford as a woman who loses her beloved son in a...
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Harry Roberts
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1934
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Kermit Maynard, the talented brother of western favorite Ken Maynard, launched his own starring series for Ambassador Films...
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1934
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Loosely based on a story by pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this Lone Star Western released by Monogram starred a young...
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1934
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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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1934
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This north-western was originally a ten-part serial. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1934
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1934
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Some people never know what they have until someone else is about to get it as can be seen in this romance that centers upon...
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1934
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In this drama, a teenage girl threatened by a man who wants to steal her virtue, kills him. She is taken to court and her...
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1934
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Heroes and villains alike use airplanes instead of horses in this generally well-made Mascot serial featuring diminutive...
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1933
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Unlike the unintentionally amusing vehicles of many another western star, most of Hoot Gibson's starring films are funny on...
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1933
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In this syrupy tear-jerker a young girl is adopted by the judge who sent her daddy to prison. The father agreed to this...
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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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With customary lack of restraint, Bela Lugosi tore into his role of Professor Strang, a foreign agent masquerading as a wax...
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1933
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1932
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In this mystery a sensual starlet suddenly dies. Though she was popular with the public, behind the scenes she had many...
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1932
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In this haunting low-budgeter, Bela Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a shadowy character who exercises supernatural powers...
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Charles Beaumont
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1932
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As evidenced by its title, Chesterfield's The King Murder was partially inspired by the infamous Dot King extortion case of...
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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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Released by Syndicate, a forerunner of sorts to Monogram Pictures, this Western serial stars veteran silent actor Robert...
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1932
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The arrival of a new rider creates a furor at a rodeo in this average Tom Keene Western from RKO. Joining Fred Burns'...
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Rance
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1932
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In 1932, Monogram Pictures was essentially the clearing house for the films of independent production firms. Monogram was...
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1932
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Bloodsucking winged creatures who may take human shape appear to have returned after centuries of dormancy to the...
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1932
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1931
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Ten Nights In a Bar-room is as corny and hackneyed as its title, but that doesn't mean it isn't fun to watch. Based on the...
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Dr. Romaine
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1931
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1931
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1930
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Separated during an Indian raid, childhood pals Tim McCoy and Robert Frazer grow up on each side of the Indian Wars in this...
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Lone Eagle
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1929
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This early talkie, set in French Indochina, centers around the conflict between a French magistrate's wife and his lecherous...
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1929
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Filmed in the waning days of FBO Pictures, Woman I Love was ultimately released by FBO's successor RKO Radio. Although Robert...
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1929
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An innocent maid stands accused of killing her employer in this courtroom melodrama from the silent era. During the trial it...
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Roger Lane
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1929
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In this melodrama, set in the Far North, a half-Eskimo woman leaves her tribe and her husband to find adventure with a...
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Lanala
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1929
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Sergeant Paul Gilbert
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1928
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Director James W. Horne, best known today for his Laurel and Hardy comedies, called the shots on the inexpensive "emotional"...
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David Goddard
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1928
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Raised in a convent, pretty young heiress Mara (Josephine Boro) has been slated from birth to wed Russian officer Ivan Orloff...
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Alex Petroff
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1928
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Previously filmed in 1918, Edwin Baird's play City of Purple Dreams was given a second cinematic go-round in 1928....
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1928
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Burning Up Broadway contains no burning and precious little Broadway. Small-town hero Ernest Hilliard decides to take in the...
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1928
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No relation to the classic 1947 "film noir" of the same name, Out of the Past, is a tearful romantic drama with a WWI...
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Beverly Carpenter
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1927
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Bob Stanton
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1927
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James Warren
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1927
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Jobyna Ralston and Margaret Livingston play actresses touring with a "Topsy & Eva" act. In Chicago, they meet and flirt with...
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Lee Stewart
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1927
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A soldier of fortune, Robert Garland (Robert Frazer), foolishly announces to the press that all men are cowards, including...
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1927
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Produced and directed by poverty row regular Duke Worne, this silent Northwest melodrama starred Napoleon (who, of course,...
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1927
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Dick Gale
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1926
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1926
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1926
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Victor McLaglen (then billed as Victor M'Laglen) easily stole this drama away from its star, Robert Frazer. Frazer's...
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1926
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This sordid drama was based on the Clyde Fitch stage play. George Rand (Robert W. Frazer) grows up in the small town of...
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1926
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Evelyn Brent was known for playing lady crooks in the 1920s (in fact, she carried this typecasting into the sound era). In...
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1926
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The Speeding Venus is Emily Carol (Priscilla Dean), forced by circumstance to embark on a cross-country motor trip. It all...
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John Steele
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1926
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Bebe Daniels is Colette Girard, a French actress who is traveling to London to visit her friend Gloria (Diana Kane). On the...
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Larry Charters
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1925
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This romantic melodrama was based on the novel Peggy of Beacon Hill by Maysie Greig. Because she is so badly treated by her...
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Douglas Wyman
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1925
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Mariposa (Pola Negri) is a dancer in a Spanish café who is discovered by theatrical manager Señor Sprotti (Cesare Gravina)...
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Dan Murray
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1925
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Financed to a great extent by local businessmen and historical societies, this Colorado-lensed silent western once again...
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1925
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The Other Woman's Story begins as Bennett Colby (Robert Frazer) is convicted of the murder of Robert Marshall...
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Bennett, Colby
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1925
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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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Keith
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1925
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Although Blanche Sweet was often busy making films with her then-husband Marshall Neilan, during 1925 and 1926, she also made...
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Rodney O'Malley, the Captain
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1925
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Stanton Halliday
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1925
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Gene Stratton-Porter's 1875 novel was still very widely read 50 years later, when it was made into a motion picture. James...
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James MacFarlane
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1925
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1925
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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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1924
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After her brilliant career in Europe, Pola Negri, came to America to make films for Paramount. Her first few pictures for the...
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Georges Kieber
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1924
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Phil Acton
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1924
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Jailed for a robbery he didn't commit, Bullets Bernard (Art Acord) enlists an alcoholic jailhouse lawyer (Paul Weigel) to...
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1924
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After seeing their mother (Eugenie Besserer) struggle to eke out a meager existence for her family, her daughters Jeanette...
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Martin Devlin
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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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Captain Joe Cradlebow
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1924
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1924
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Arthur Trevelyan (Gaston Glass) spends his life partying and one of his revels ends in a wedding ceremony. His father (Thomas...
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1924
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Martin Van Huisen
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1923
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This was the second time Lois Weber filmed Clara Louise Burnham's Christian Science novel Jewel (the first time was in 1915...
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1923
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This fluffy Mae Murray vehicle was dressed up with a Graustarkian veneer, but in reality it was merely an excuse for the star...
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Capt. Valmar
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1923
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Frances Nelson, a minor Metro star of the 1910s, starred in this her final film as an innocent girl forced by her aunt,...
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1922
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"The eyes are the windows of the world," a title card from this silent melodrama states. Spoiled, rich Robert Frazer proposes...
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Sherry Mason
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1922
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For a while, Mae Murray and her then-husband, director Robert Z. Leonard, were an unstoppable team. They had their own...
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1922
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This drama, which takes an anti-atheist stance, was based on the novel Doctor Rameau by Georges Ohnet. Young George Dryden...
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1922
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Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son...
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David Marlowe
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1921
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Norman Bradshaw
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1919
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Upon the death of her father, country girl Glory Moore (Frances Nelson) heads to the City to live with her aunt, Mrs....
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1916
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The immensely successful playwrighting team of Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf were well represented by this adaptation of...
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1916
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Aurora Fernandez (Clara Kimball Young), the daughter in an aristocratic but impoverished family, has fallen in love with a...
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1916
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Actress Alice Brady was the star player at the World Film Studios, which was as much due to her versatility as to the fact...
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1916
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This routine Western tale was dressed up with some very picturesque scenery. Easterner Roger Latham (Robert W. Frazer)...
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1914
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