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1979
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George Hamilton confounded his detractors by turning in a first-rate comic performance in Love at First Bite. Hamilton plays...
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1979
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1977
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Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody...
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1974
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In one of his last TV roles, Sam Jaffe guest stars as Alex Zubatuk, a retired cobbler. When Zubatuk comes forth and confesses...
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1974
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After missing several episodes due to illness, Bea Benaderet returns to her familiar Petticoat Junction role as Kate...
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1968
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In 1950, Maj. Jefferson Pike (James Garner), an Army intelligence agent who served with distinction in World War II, awakens...
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1964
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1964
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Ordered to London, Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason) finds he has been selected for a dangerous espionage mission in Occupied France....
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1963
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Every time Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Viv (Vivian Vance) embark on a double date with Harry (Dick Martin) and Eddie (Don...
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Headwaiter
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1963
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Having been invited to spend the weekend at a lavish estate, Donald Stuart (John Hudson) is upstairs preparing for dinner...
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1960
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1957
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1956
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No sooner has Lucy (Lucille Ball) arrived in Paris than she is greeted by a friendly citizen (Larry Dobkin) -- who is willing...
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Waiter
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1956
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Dishonest politician Duke Taylor (George E. Stone) and his henchman Little Jack (Richard Reeves) conspire with crooked Dr....
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1956
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1955
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Warner Bros.' followup to its 3D hit House of Wax, Phantom of the Rue Morgue bears only the slightest resemblance to its...
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1954
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1954
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Tony Curtis makes his musical-comedy debut in the frolicsome Universal production So This is Paris. Curtis, Gene Nelson and...
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1954
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Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei...
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1953
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1953's The Mississippi Gambler was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each...
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1953
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1953
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Something to Live For is the last of director George Stevens' "small" films, before he concentrated full-time on such...
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1952
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1952
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1951
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Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is...
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1951
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1950
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1950
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Though one might have expected friction between MGM's resident "nice lady" Greer Garson and Warner Bros. notorious "bad boy"...
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1949
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San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong...
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1941
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1941
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Actress/ballerina Vera Zorina stars as a phony countess, working in cahoots with two international con artists...
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1940
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Monogram's Laughing at Danger finds page-boy Frankie Kelly (Frankie Darro) trying to solve a murder at a fancy beauty salon....
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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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"Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put Greta Garbo, a...
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1939
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies,...
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1939
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20th Century Fox's Christmas gift to moviegoers in 1939, this fanciful comedy-drama features the studio's darling of the ice,...
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1939
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1939
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In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Before he became the high priest of realism, producer/director Andrew L. Stone was fascinated with classical music (he'd...
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1938
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After several years' faithful service in supporting parts, Frank Jenks and Dorothea Kent were promoted to leading roles in...
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1938
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In this upbeat drama, a disillusioned millionaire, sick to death of the attempts of greedy friends and relatives to sponge...
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1938
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Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's...
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1938
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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1937
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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1937
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The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little...
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1937
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In this musical comedy, a struggling songwriter fakes a letter of admittance into the apartment of a rich composer. It is...
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1937
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Cafe Metropole stars Tyrone Power as an international playboy with a habit of writing rubber checks. Heavily in debt to cafe...
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1937
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1937
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Spanky tries to escape his "command performance" at the Spring Street School's annual Arbor Day show, but local truant...
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1936
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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1936
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1936
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Ann Sothern is a magazine model looking for a rich husband. Wealthy Gene Raymond attends a photo shoot; Sothern mistakes him...
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1936
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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1935
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This truly offbeat filmization of Jean Bart's stage drama The Man Who Reclaimed His Head has been misleadingly released to TV...
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by...
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1935
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Robert Pryor can't spend $720,000 in twelve...
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best...
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1935
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Filmed on what MGM considered a B-picture budget and schedule (14 days, which at Universal or Columbia would have been...
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1934
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1934
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In director Edwin L. Marin's film Paris Interlude, a beautiful French woman named Julie Bell (Madge Evans) unexpectedly falls...
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1934
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Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter...
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1934
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Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris'...
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1934
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This time around, the Our Gang Kids are residents (or rather, inmates) of the Bleak Hill Boarding School, where the crabby...
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1933
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Design for Living was based on the stage comedy by Noel Coward, though little of his dialogue actually made it to the screen....
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1933
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The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this...
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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1933
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Romance throws a spanner into the works of a con game in this light drama. Donald Free (William Powell) is a private...
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1933
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Based on an 1830 opera entitled "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel F. Auber, the parts of two bit bandits were built up for Laurel and...
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1933
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1932
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James Cagney stars as a popular prizefighter who loses his winnings through too much partying and too many women. Cagney's...
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1932
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Two small-town youths head for the Big Apple and somehow get mixed up with mobsters during a visit to the title park in this...
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1932
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Though silent-screen favorite William Haines wasn't able to sustain his popularity into the talkie era, he insisted upon...
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1931
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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1930
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Other Men's Wives, a play by Walter Hackett, was the source for this early-talkie comedy-melodrama. The scene is a sinister...
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1930
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In this comedy, a young man slated to inherit a big fortune is conned into dressing up as Napoleon by his aunt and uncle who...
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1930
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For 55 of its 63 minutes, Making the Grade is a silent picture; only the opening sequence and a brief "radio broadcast" scene...
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1929
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A hotel is gearing up to welcome its prestigious new guest, a European Prince (Captain John Peters). But before he appears,...
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1929
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Louis XIII
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1929
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In this melodrama, a wealthy girl decides to disguise herself and work as a laborer in her father's factory so she can be...
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1928
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This classic Laurel and Hardy comedy is famous for the pants-ripping scene at the end, but the other parts of it are just as...
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1928
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The Denver Dude is Rodeo Randall, played by the eternally likeable Hoot Gibson. At first just another cowpoke, Rodeo begins...
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Henry Bird
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1927
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Mr. and Mrs. Weedle (William Gillespie and Charlotte Mineau) are in a jam: For years, they've been receiving substantial...
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1926
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A bulky, verbose novel by Herman Suderman was the source for the exquisitely silent Flesh and the Devil. On leave from the...
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1926
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Smouldering Fires is a first-rate silent "soap opera," immaculately performed by its superb cast and brilliantly directed by...
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1925
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The Our Gang kids are sorely confused by the new kid in town, who transforms from a sissy to a tough guy and back again...
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1924
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Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values....
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1924
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This fast-paced but undistinguished farce was Laura La Plante's second starring vehicle for Universal. Colonel Faraday...
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1924
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Nila Lyons (Laura La Plante) is a suburban housewife who craves excitement in her life. She gets it -- and how! -- when she's...
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1924
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