Even taking into consideration Of Mice and Men, One Million BC was inarguably the most ambitious feature-film project ever...
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1940
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1938
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1937
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and...
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1937
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In this crime comedy, a street-savvy gangster involves himself with a Miami socialite. Together, they conspire to turn her...
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1936
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In this polished soap opera from MGM, Robert Taylor plays Chris Claybourne, a dedicated scientist researching a possible...
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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1936
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second...
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1935
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The short comedy The Fatal Glass of Beer stars the legendary W.C. Fields as Mr. Snavely, a prospector who is awaiting the...
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Mrs. Snavely
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1933
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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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1931
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A Flask of Fields consists of three short subjects starring the inimitable W.C. Fields. All three will be familiar to Fields...
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1930
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Here we go again with plot number 3729-B. Golden-hearted chorus girl Sally Casey (Priscilla Bonner) is in love with wealthy...
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"Alabam" Kenyon
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1929
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The cheapo-sleazo Montmartre Rose is little more than a "chorus girl" drama, transplanted to Gay Paree. The titular heroine,...
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1929
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Its title and 1929 vintage notwithstanding, Dream Melody was a silent picture. John Roche plays Richard Gordon, an aspiring...
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Alicia Harrison
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1929
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Wilbur's Wife
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1929
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Several of Hollywood's best Chinese actors are prominently featured in the mystery melodrama Peacock Fan. The titular prop is...
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1929
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Capricious Constance Bannister (Sally Eilers) has had 12 fiances, but has yet to take her marital vows. Fiance number 13,...
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1929
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Far in the mysterious East there lies an island that exists under the radar of any law or authority. This haven for thieves...
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1928
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1928
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Tenement gal Nora Denahy (Gladys Hulette) is the "Bowery Cinderella" in this standard melting-pot drama. While on a slumming...
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Mrs. Chandler
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1927
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Husband Huntley Gordon has convinced himself that he's the head of the household, but the viewer knows full well that wifey...
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1926
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This muddled murder mystery-comedy was based on the Max Marcin stage play The Night Cap. Bank president Robert Andrews...
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Mrs. Lester Knowles
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1925
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Mrs. Tory Serecold
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1925
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In spite of the warnings of his friend, Stuart Ames (Holmes E. Herbert), Grant Demarest (James Morrison) persists in seeing...
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Margot
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1925
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Dr. Lucien LaPierre (Sam de Grasse) desperately wants to marry Elise Duchanier, the maid to a Parisian burlesque star...
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Lolette
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1925
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Harold Bell Wright, a popular author during the silent era, was known for his sentimental and unsophisticated stories. This...
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1925
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Evelyn Beaudine
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1925
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After the death of her father, Marise La Noue (Enid Bennett) can find no safe haven, so she runs off to Paris with Jean...
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Nana
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1924
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1924
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1923
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A now forgotten star of the later silent era, Sylvia Breamer took on the old David Belasco stage chestnut in this remake of...
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1923
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Metro pulled out all the stops on this picture, which was based on the novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart and starred...
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Countess Olga
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1923
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Starring veteran leading man House Peters, this Raoul Walsh-directed silent melodrama was filmed on location in Tahiti....
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Madge
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1923
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This light comedy featured an "all-star cast" that really did contain some of the better also-rans of the silent era....
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Aunt Pearl
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1923
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Trade paper Moving Picture World laid on the praise a little heavily when it proclaimed that this solidly made melodrama was...
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Countess Dagmar
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1923
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No wonder Enid Bennett never rose above second-string stardom -- all too often she was thrust into shoddy pictures like this...
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Mrs. Beatrice Madison
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1923
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After she inherits a fortune, Ann Clemance (Viola Dana) travels to Paris to indulge herself in frivolity. She meets up with...
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1923
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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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Carmen
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1922
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For a director with less-than-stellar talents, Louis J. Gasnier certainly led a charmed life for a while, something attested...
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Mrs. Lindley-Blair
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1922
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Madame de Serizy
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1922
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Those who see the title to this picture and think it must be based on a hoary old melodrama are absolutely correct. The play,...
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Josephine Clifford
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1922
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Former socialite Maurice "Lefty" Flynn made a bid for western stardom in this mild silent western about a stranger mistaken...
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1921
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This eight-reel Fox feature is a blatant example of the rampant racial prejudice that existed in the early part of the 20th...
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1921
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Two couples, Helen (Louise Lovely) and Byron (Philo McCullough), and Frances (Rosemary Theby) and John (William Scott) get...
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1921
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Story has it that Douglas Fairbanks was approached for the role of the Yankee, Martin Cavendish. It certainly would have made...
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Morgan Le Fay
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1921
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Miriam Holt (Sylvia Breamer) is an innkeeper's daughter who is born with psychic abilities. She falls for a young hunter who...
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Winifred
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1921
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Rosemary Theby is American heiress Katherine Brinkley, a selfish young lady who believes that every woman should be out for...
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Katherine Brinkley
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1921
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Manly William Desmond stars in this virile, low-budget Western. When Bud McGraw (Desmond) returns from the Great War, he is...
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Nita de Carma
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1921
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This first film version of the Edward Knoblock theatrical chestnut Kismet stars the actor who made the play famous (and...
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1920
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When Jimmy Doyle (H.B. Warner) is released after serving yet another prison term, his dying pal, jewel thief Bill Preston...
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1920
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Expert farceur Emmy Wehlen plays the title character in The Amateur Adventuress. A plain girl of modest means, Wehlen decides...
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1919
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Rosemary Theby is granted a divorce, only to discover that the decree is invalid in certain other states. Naturally, the plot...
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1919
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This war-time D.W. Griffith film was literally filler -- some of the footage was left over from around the time he shot...
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1918
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Long before he became Hollywood's favorite blustery blowhard, Thuston Hall enjoyed a substantial leading-man career. In...
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1918
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The Winged Mystery was supposed to have been taken seriously, but audiences and critics alike regarded the film as a laugh...
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1917
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Light comedian Harry Meyers wrote, directed and co-starred in 1915's The Earl of Pawtucket. The title role, however, was...
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1915
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Noted stage personality Wilton Lackaye was ostensibly the star of Universal's The Man of Shame. But since Lackaye's...
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1915
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1913
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1913
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1912
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