A man finds himself running from both the police and his own troubling memories in this drama. Hans Muller (Kirk Douglas), a...
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1953
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Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing brash Americans in British films, makes his final screen appearance in the...
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1952
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At the time of its release the RKO "B"-western Road Agent raised eyebrows, not because of its violent content, but because of...
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1952
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Director Leslie Selander pulls out all the stops in this the last of RKO's Tim Holt Westerns. A wounded parolee, Carver...
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1952
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1952
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Tim Holt rides again in RKO's Gunplay. This time, Holt and saddle pal Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin) try to solve a murder....
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1951
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Footlight Varieties was the third and last of a series of RKO all-star musical revues. Unlike Variety Time (1948) and...
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1951
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Saddle Legion stars RKO Radio's resident cowboy hero Tim Holt. As in most of his postwar vehicles, Holt is teamed with...
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1951
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Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a...
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1951
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Pistol Harvest starred RKO's "house cowboys" Tim Holt and Richard Martin. In this one, the two heroes are accused of killing...
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1951
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For a Tim Holt western, Border Treasure is surprisingly light on action scenes. The plot is the main consideration, as Ed...
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1950
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Westerner Tim Holt and his sidekick Richard Martin are hired to act as border guards on the Rio Grande. This being a modern...
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1950
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Kill or be Killed is a leisurely crime caper, largely filmed in Mexico. Playing a sympathetic role for a change,...
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1950
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The Lawless was director Joseph Losey's second feature-length film. The story concerns a group of Mexican-American migrant...
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1950
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RKO's resident cowboy star Tim Holt made his first 1950 appearance in Storm over Wyoming. Tim and his saddle pal Chito...
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1950
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1949
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1949
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1949
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1949
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In this dark crime drama, the trouble begins when a San Francisco bookie attempts to lead an honest life by marrying a...
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1948
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1948
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In this western, a troubled, battle-weary youth must somehow put his life together after he is discharged from Roosevelt's...
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1948
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Tim Holt stars in Gun Smugglers, stretching his range by playing a character named Tim Holt. Our Hero, once again teamed with...
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1948
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The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen....
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1948
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Bearing no resemblance to the two previous Westerns of the same title, Under the Tonto Rim retained little more than the...
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1947
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Not by any means a great film, The Devil Thumbs a Ride nonetheless has an indefinable audience allure that sucks the viewer...
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1947
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Quick-draw legend Bat Masterson is summoned to Kansas to end a small-town feud between local farmers and criminal ranch...
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1947
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This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning...
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1947
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1947
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Black Beauty, Anna Sewell's classic tale of a beautiful horse is adapted in a disappointingly flat fashion by independent...
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1946
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John Loder plays a prominent London actor, lately starring in a play about a maniacal strangler. When the theatre is bombed...
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1945
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1945
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What a Blonde gets under way when wealthy lingerie manufacturer Fowler (Leon Errol) runs out of valuable gas-ration coupons....
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1945
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Exiled from his own country during WW2, French filmmaker Leonide Moguy worked briefly in Hollywood, where he directed the...
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1944
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Heavenly Days was the last of three RKO Radio film vehicles for the popular radio duo of Fibber McGee and Molly (aka Jim and...
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1944
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When an instructor dies mysteriously at an exclusive girl's school, Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), a devil-may-care sleuth known...
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1943
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RKO producer Val Lewton seemed to thrive upon taking the most lurid film titles and coming up with pocket-edition works of...
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1943
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Tim Holt's third RKO Radio western for 1943 was The Avenging Rider. The story finds Holt trying to clear himself and his...
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1943
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This musical chronicles the history of jazz music and features many of the most popular musical acts from the early 1940s,...
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1942
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1942
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In this patriotic war drama, a unit of Army recruits train for a parachute corps. One is an arrogant football star who finds...
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1941
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RKO Radio's Thundering Hoofs was the first of several Tim Holt westerns directed by "Hopalong Cassidy" veteran Lesley...
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1941
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One of the less laudable results of the United States' wartime "good neighbor" policy with South America was the relentlessly...
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1941
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Retired frontier postal inspector Dan Clark (George O'Brien) is summoned back to active duty when the stagecoach line owned...
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1940
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Responding to star George Sanders' complaint that his role of "modern Robin Hood" Simon Templar was becoming a bore, RKO...
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1940
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A wedding ceremony is rudely interrupted by a bank robbery next door, the bridegroom is shot and the best man is accused of...
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1940
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1940
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In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home...
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1940
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Festooned with flashbacks, Married and in Love is a minor domestic drama given Tiffany treatment by director John Farrow....
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1940
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The One Crowded Night of the title takes place at a tourist camp on the outskirts of the Mojave Desert. In true "Grand Hotel"...
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1940
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This romance chronicles the relationship between a stuntman and his movie star wife. When a colleague of his is killed on a...
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1940
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Eleanor Browne's novel Highway to Romance was the source for this moneyspinning RKO Radio comedy. Obviously inspired by...
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1940
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1940
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Based on Memory of Love, a novel by Bessie Breuer, In Name Only is soap opera par excellence, blessed with a peerless cast....
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1939
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1939
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The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and...
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1939
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In this thriller, a man is brutally murdered and an innocent man takes the rap. The real murderer later confesses his crime...
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1939
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It matters not at all that the famed "wrong way" flight of aviator Douglas Corrigan, who in 1938 tried to fly from New York...
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1939
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Carnival promoter Fixer Dugan (Lee Tracy) is so named because of his ability to mollify angry customers and process-serving...
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1939
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A remake of 1933's One Man's Journey, A Man to Remember was the auspicious film directorial debut of Garson Kanin. Told in...
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1938
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Set in New York City's famed music hall and featuring an all-star cast, this musical chronicles the desperate search of two...
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1938
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Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when...
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1938
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Despite its title and its potent lineup of cowboy talent, RKO Radio's The Law West of Tombstone is more comedy than western....
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1938
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Katharine Hepburn's association with RKO Radio Pictures came to an abrupt end when she refused to star in the studio's...
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1938
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Having paid $255,500 for the rights to John Murray and Allen Boretz' Broadway hit Room Service, RKO Radio then scouted about...
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1938
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Boy Slaves is an effective indictment of the exploitation of reform school labor. Several troublesome boys are offered an...
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1938
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New Faces of 1937 was supposed to be the vanguard of a series of annual musical comedies -- RKO Radio's latest attempt to...
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1937
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A doctor (John Beal) who loses faith in his skills renounces his profession and hides himself in a variety of jobs. He takes...
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1937
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In this musical, a nightclub singer (Lily Pons) secretly aspires to sing at the Met. To help her, her agent (Jack Oakie)...
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1937
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1937
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In this crime drama, a highly superstitious racehorse owner spends his time off the track helping the less fortunate in any...
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1937
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In this actioner, a tough Coast Guard officer endeavors to marry his lovely daughter to a handsome sailor. The trouble is,...
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1937
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In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately,...
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1937
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This light-hearted musical romance follows the exploits of Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star who stows...
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home...
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1936
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1936
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When New York police commissioner Lewis J. Valentine instructed his men that the best way to handle criminals was to "muss...
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1936
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In this drama, a flamboyant womanizing airline pilot competes with another, rather dull, pilot for the love of a fetching...
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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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1936
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Newlywed Carolyn Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) has been raised to expect the finer things in life, but these are things that...
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1936
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In this action film, a rebellious cop doesn't hesitate to bend the rules when it comes to roughing up prisoners and bringing...
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1936
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RKO Radio's spectacular production The Last Days of Pompeii utilizes the title but precious little else of the famous...
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1935
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Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in...
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1935
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Randolph Scott, whom Cooper borrowed from Paramount, plays Leo Vincey, an explorer searching for the "flame of life," a...
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1935
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This highly fictionalized biopic of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley stars Barbara Stanwyck as "Little Sure Shot" Annie....
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1935
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Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by...
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1935
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1935
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Beyond the fact that both films shared a "railroad" background, RKO Radio's 1935 actioner The Silver Streak bore no relation...
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1934
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Dry-goods store owner Tillie Prescott (ZaSu Pitts) has promised to marry meek barber Chris Peterson (El Brendel), but he...
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1934
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In this drama, a doctor and his wife find themselves dreaming of others and thinking about divorce. The wife decides to sow...
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1934
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John Barrymore wisely turned down this contrived courtroom melodrama that instead trapped poor Ricardo Cortez. He plays...
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1934
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1933
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Based on Dicken's classic novel, this is the first sound version of the oft-filmed tale of a plucky orphan who struggles to...
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1933
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Joan Colby (Ann Harding) is the unmarried older daughter in a once-wealthy family. She's always been the mature, level-headed...
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1933
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The scandalous doings behind the high-toned exterior of a private school for rich young women provides the framework for...
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1933
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Though the story isn't much, this actioner does offer a neat behind-the-scenes look at the travails of Hollywood stuntmen as...
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1933
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1933
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In this western, a newcomer to a Western community is suspected of precipitating a crime wave. To prove his innocence and...
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1933
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In this drama, a young surgeon and his driver must combat the racketeers who have taken over the hospital where he works. ~...
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1933
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Running just under an hour, Sport Parade stars Joel McCrea as a sportwriter who accidently becomes a champion wrestler. In...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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An eager cub reporter visits a roadhouse, stumbles across a corpse and decides to drum up a little notoriety for himself by...
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1932
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1932
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In her final starring role, silent screen diva Mae Murray plays Dolly, a young gold digger who manages to trap a rich...
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1931
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1931
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Hoping to benefit from the popularity of the 1927 silent version of P.C. Wren's Beau Geste, RKO Radio reunited the earlier...
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1931
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The old bromide about joining the Foreign Legion to "forget," so often parodied by such comedians as Laurel and Hardy, was...
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1931
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Lily Damita, an actress best known today for her tempestuous marriage to screen idol Errol Flynn, is the Dietrich-like...
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1931
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Love Comes Along was based on Conchita, a stage melodrama by Edward (Kismet) Knoblock. The story takes place on the mythical...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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In this musical, adapted from the earlier Musical Present Arms, a Marine private falls in love with a socialite and is...
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1930
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Hoping to repeat the success of its 1929 musical spectacular Rio Rita, RKO Radio reteamed leading lady Bebe Daniels and the...
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1930
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Bebe Daniels plays a safecracker posing as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a...
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1930
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This war drama, set in WW I Germany, is based on a novel by Arnold Zwieg. The story follows the harrowing trials of an...
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1930
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Gary Cooper, as a lanky Wyoming ranch and foreman, places his gun on a poker table after being insulted by one of the...
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1929
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The Doctor's Secret was adapted by director William C. DeMille from James M. Barrie's play Half an Hour. After marrying...
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1929
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In this 1929 comedy, two white minstrel comedians, Moran and Mack, in black-face, re-create their most beloved routines in...
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1929
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This tuneful tale revolves around a shy warehouse clerk who, at the encouragement of his girlfriend finally musters up his...
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1929
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A vaudevillian working in a third-rate burlesque show suffers marital turmoil when success swells his head in this silent...
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1929
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The early Paramount talkie The Dummy represented a collaboration of sorts between screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who...
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1929
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In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe...
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1929
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1928
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Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's...
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1928
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1928
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1928
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A criminal with a conscience will go to any lengths to give his daughter a better life in this silent drama. "Heliotrope...
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1928
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1928
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Though she hadn't been a Hal Roach "bathing beauty" for nearly ten years, Bebe Daniels still cut quite a svelte figure in...
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1927
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1927
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Spider Webs is one of the few American films directed by British filmmaker Wilfred Noy. Niles Welch stars as Bert Grantland,...
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1927
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Filmed on location in Manhattan, the 1927 silent New York explores themes later developed more fully in such films as...
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1927
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The physical attributes of lovely leading lady Esther Ralston are amply displayed in American Venus. This satire of beauty...
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1926
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Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the...
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1926
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Believe it or not, Betty Bronson, who starred in the title role of Peter Pan, was the first choice to play jazz baby Kittens...
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1926
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As a whimsical adaption of James M. Barrie's stage version of the Cinderella story, this film was not immediately appreciated...
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1926
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Who better to play Ace of Cads than that charming reprobate Adolphe Menjou? This time, however, Menjou is reasonably...
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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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1925
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1924
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There is a dispute over the ownership of some valuable Long Island farmland -- the Clarks and the Sullivans both claim it. It...
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1924
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Helene Chadwick, Gaston Glass, and a relative newcomer to the screen named Basil Rathbone were the stars of this...
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1924
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1924
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John Leslie (Conrad Nagel) and Craig Burnett (Antonio D'Algy) land their plane near a small Quebec town. Leslie becomes...
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1924
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Stage actor Alfred Lunt makes one of his rare screen appearances in this light comedy, based on the novel by Allen Updegraff....
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1924
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John Barrymore's impressive performance in this picture is a testament to the strength of his talent, because it had a lot to...
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1922
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This picture had three things in its favor right from the start -- its star, Constance Talmadge; the fact that women had...
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1921
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Lily Gibbs (Anna Q. Nilsson), who has led a life outside of the law, works with fake spiritualist Dr. Joe (George Majeroni)....
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1921
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In 1922 Norma Talmadge was one of the most popular stars of the silent screen, but every now and then she'd wind up in a...
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1921
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This typical Norma Talmadge weeper casts Norma as a social half-caste. She may have had a millionaire daddy, but her mom was...
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1920
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Becky Warder (Madge Kennedy) habitually tells white lies, and this eventually lands her in hot water with her husband Tom...
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1920
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Filmmaker Herbert Brenon indulged in his usual spectacular excesses in The Eternal Sin. Victor Hugo's novel Lucretia Borgia...
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1917
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1916
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