This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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Bazin
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1930
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In this crime drama, a aging illusionist falls in love with his comely young assistant. Unfortunately, she is enamored with...
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1929
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The racetrack provides the setting of this drama that tells the tale of a jockey who throws a race to impress a sexy girl....
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1929
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A very topical early talkie from low-budget companyColumbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer...
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John Willard
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1929
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George O'Brien, Fox Studios' general-purpose leading man, heads the cast of Honor Bound. The story opens in the bedroom of...
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1928
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Even those who can't recall the plot of the silent Our Dancing Daughters (and there admittedly isn't much to remember) can...
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1928
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Canine star Rin-Tin-Tin had dozens of movie competitors and imitators. One of the best of these was FBO Studios' Ranger the...
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Cinematographer
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1928
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This solid gangster flick from director Lewis Milestone was based on a stage play and earned a Best Picture nomination at the...
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1928
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Popular young B-Western star Bob Steele left the prairie behind this time around and instead found himself playing Jack...
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1928
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Lars Hanson had recently appeared as Reverend Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter when he was called on once again to play a man...
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1927
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1927
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Talleyrand
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1927
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Comte de Mortfontaine
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1927
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Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack...
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1927
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Wreck of the Hesperus was "suggested" by the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It will be recalled that...
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Captain David Slocum
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1927
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Love's Blindness was another bit of hothouse exotica from romance novelist and self-appointed social arbiter Madame Elinor...
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Benjamin Levy
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1926
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Warner Brothers' Broken Hearts of Hollywood is still another of the "mother love" dramas that festooned the silent era....
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1926
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Pirate Lieutenant
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1926
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Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a...
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Colonel Lestron
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1926
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1926
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Based on a musical comedy by Edward Dowling, this picture was Joan Crawford's breakthrough film. Her Charleston in this and...
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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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Dr. Lucien La Pierre
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1925
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Just as Reginald Denny could only play an all-American boy until talkies revealed his British accent, Conrad Nagel could only...
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Sheriff Weeks
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1925
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Ellie Byrne (Colleen Moore) and Don Lane (Ben Lyon) are childhood pals -- their fathers (Charles Murray and Russell Simpson)...
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1924
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This romantic drama of love and revenge is taken from the Spanish ballad by Julio Sabello. David Kent (Kenneth Harlan)...
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Ricardo Ruiz
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1924
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Having achieved fame and fortune in a series of bucolic country-boy roles, Charles Ray decided he was ready to become his own...
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1923
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This film is based on the novel by F. Marion Crawford, and involves the court of King Philip II of Spain. Philip is jealous...
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Philip II of Spain
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1923
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1923
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This tale of the Canadian Northwest was originally a stage play by Willard Mack and David Belasco. Belasco worked with Warner...
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Dr. Cusick
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1923
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This heart-warming drama was one of Colleen Moore's first films for First National, but her star would not ascend until later...
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Father De Rance
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1923
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This was the second silent version of the oft-filmed Rex Beach novel (made three more times in the sound era). Roy Glennister...
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1923
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Robin Hood, Douglas Fairbanks' biggest (though not necessarily best) production of the silent era, represents the first time...
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Prince John
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1922
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Colleen Moore had not yet become the epitome of Flaming Youth when she co-starred with Cullen Landis in this pleasant little...
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1922
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This minor dramatic programmer was an independent production. In spite of the fact that she's loved by Howard...
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1921
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Sidney Franklin, formerly the principal director of the "Fox Kidlettes" series, works with grownups in the silent Courage....
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Stephan Blackmoore
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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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Captain Stanley
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1921
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Silent matinee idol William Russell has a dual role in this drama. He plays twin brothers, minister Luther McCall and Lefty,...
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Thomas Edinburgh
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1921
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Edith Storey plays a French girl who, as a child, wandered into an Arab tribe after her mother was murdered. The tribe raises...
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1920
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Made in between his two classics, Blind Husbands and Foolish Wives, this drama from director Erich von Stroheim centers on a...
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1920
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The conservative, political sentiments of Americans in the 1920s were decidedly anti-communist, and this comedy-drama lends a...
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1920
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During her years at Universal, Priscilla Dean became known for her lady crook roles. Here she is Blue-Jean Billie, who is...
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1919
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Jack Boyle's Boston Blackie stories were a popular part of Redbook magazine in the late 'teens, and this film wasn't the...
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1919
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This film was one of Mary Pickford's attempts to add at least a touch of maturity to her little girl characterizations. She...
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1919
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Dr. Armstrong
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1919
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Fannie Ward plays Marion Clark, a manicurist who gets involved with a family who live in the boardinghouse where she resides....
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1918
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After striking it rich in Alaska, Smith (Monroe Salisbury) is robbed of his gold by Amy (Betty Schade) and her partner (Sam...
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1918
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Though he was obliged to share directorial credit with Wilfred Lucas, Tod Browning graduated to "prestige" pictures with his...
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1917
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Playboy Franklyn Farnum inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain (none...
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Sir Mortimer Beggs
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1917
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Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) is the extremely naive son of a wealthy Eastern family -- he loves the Old West so much...
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1917
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This drama was based on the then-popular novel by Richard Hardin Davis. Billy Winthrop (Franklyn Farnum) is the idle son of...
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1917
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1916
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The Good Bad Man is at once a straight western and a gentle spoof of the genre. Douglas Fairbanks plays a fellow who calls...
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1916
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Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s splendid physique was seen in all its pristine glory in the 1916 western The Half-Breed. In what...
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1916
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Wilfred Lucas plays a distinguished banker, falsely accused of murder. Though acquitted in court, Lucas' reputation is...
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1916
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One might be inclined to dismiss the title of this film as a contradiction in terms -- but with Lillian Gish in the lead, how...
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1916
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Supervised by D.W. Griffith, Martyrs of the Alamo was directed by Griffith's loyal but considerably less inspired assistant...
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1915
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A rare visitor to films in general and westerns in particular, Broadway actor Henry Woodruff starred in this primitive oater...
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1915
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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1914
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While busy with The Birth of a Nation, director D.W. Griffith began a small-scale contemporary drama called The Mother and...
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1914
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1914
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