The first of director Frank Capra's independent productions (in partnership with Robert Riskin), Meet John Doe begins with...
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1941
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1940
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Those wily Egyptians are once again selfishly attempting to keep the treasures of the Pharaohs to themselves in this...
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1940
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The third of six feature films based on radio's popular Dr. Christian series, Dr. Christian Meets the Women once more stars...
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Prof. Kenneth Parker
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1940
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1939
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International Crime is the second of two Grand National programmers inspired by the popular "Shadow" pulp novels by...
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Lamont Cranston/The Shadow
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1937
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The Shadow, the famed radio and pulp-novel hero with the mysterious power to "cloud men's minds" so that they cannot see him,...
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"The Shadow"
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1937
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In this romance a run away schoolgirl impersonates a socialite to hook a handsome RAF pilot. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1937
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Former silent-movie matinee idol Rod LaRocque does what he can with the Poverty Row quickie Taming the Wild. LaRocque is cast...
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Dick Clayton
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1937
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1936
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It's a black night in Hollywood when matinee idol Neil DuBeck (Rod LaRoque) is murdered at the preview of his latest film....
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1936
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John Carroll made his screen debut in the RKO Radio musical actioner Hi Gaucho. Set in 19th-century Argentina, the story...
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1936
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1936
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In this taut WW I espionage thriller set in 1914, an English actor falls in love with a German actress. When the war erupts,...
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Carl Schrottle
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1936
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In this Argentine western, a South American gaucho saves a beautiful girl from a shady bandido who masquerades as the...
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1936
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Frisco Waterfront stars Ben Lyon as California gubernatorial candidate Glenn Burton. A freak election-day accident at the...
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Dan Elliott
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1935
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Lifelong mystery buff Samantha Kinsey (Kellie Martin) is thrilled when she inherits a bookstore that sells only "whodunits."...
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Jacques Benoit
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1935
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In the same year that she directed Victory of the Faith (1933), her first of several famous cinematic projects for the Nazi...
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Cinematographer, Dr. Carl Lawrence
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1933
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In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where...
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Bob Brown
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1930
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Montera
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1930
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The second of three versions of the Ferenc Molnar play The Swan, One Romantic Night represented the talkie debut of the great...
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1930
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In this drama, a notorious pirate meets a Yankee dance-hall girl in the port of Tapit. He also meets her jealous lover whom...
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Lastro
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1929
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Marceline Day plays two women in the late-silent Fox release One-Woman Idea. The actress is cast as haughty aristocrat Lady...
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Prince Ahmed
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1929
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Abbott
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1929
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In this drama, which marks Barbara Stawyck's Hollywood film debut, a woman is taken to an illegal cabaret set aboard a...
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Frank Devereaux
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1929
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Two young people get married for all the wrong reasons in this romance. Both are wealthy and are trying to run away from...
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Michel
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1929
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1928
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1928
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Basically a silent film, Pathe's Captain Swagger was released with a synchronized music and sound-effects track, courtesy of...
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Hugh Drummong
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1928
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Robbed at gunpoint, subway change-maker Rod LaRocque is led to believe that passenger Jeanette Loff was an accomplice in the...
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1928
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Rod La Rocque stars in this silent farce about an Argentinean playboy, who in spite of being trailed by a bumbling detective...
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Jaime Alvarado Montez
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1928
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Roger Norman
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1928
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Etienne Gerard
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1927
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1926
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A novel by Edna Ferber was the source for this Rod LaRocque vehicle. The story begins just before the outbreak of WWI, when...
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Gideon Gory
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1926
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This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Alan Beckwith (Rod La...
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Alan Beckwith
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1926
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1926
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Admah Holtz
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1925
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Produced but not directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Coming of Amos nevertheless has many earmarks of a typical DeMille film,...
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Amos Burden
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1925
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This mediocre Paramount comedy-drama has one interesting feature -- part of it was shot on-location at New York's El Fey...
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Ronald Bentley
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1925
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Bebe Daniels stars in this action-packed comedy -- one of Edward Sutherland's first directoral efforts. Susan Van Dusen...
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Tod Waterbury
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1925
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A young, football-playing Indian (Rod La Rocque) is sent to law school by the tribe in order to learn the ways of the white...
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Braveheart
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1925
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The story to this sea melodrama was written by Byron Morgan. Morgan was best known for the fast-paced auto tales he wrote for...
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Bruce McDow
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1924
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Capt. Alexis Czerny
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1924
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This society comedy-drama was given witty direction by Allan Dwan, and was based on The Laughing Lady by respected playwright...
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Harrison Peters
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1924
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King Garnet
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1924
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While this Cecil B. DeMille production has many of the elements common to his pictures -- lavish, expensive sets and...
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Kerry Harlan
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1924
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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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Dan McTavish
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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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Jerry Langdon
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1923
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Pedro Carrova
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1923
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The answer to the burning question posed by this low-budget domestic drama was that they tended to want more from life than...
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Jack Lee
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1922
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This society crook drama was one of Irene Castle's last films (she retired from the screen in 1923). John Clinton Warren...
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Richard Langden
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1922
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Pigeon Deering (Maurine Powers) is the poor girl from the slums who is witness to a murder in this moral melodrama. She...
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1922
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1920
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This average drama has little to offer, although it does feature a couple of notable up-and-comers in small roles: Rod La...
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1919
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Surprisingly, there's nary a shipwrecked castaway in sight in Miss Crusoe. The title character, played by Virigina Hammond,...
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1919
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1918
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1917
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