In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies...
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1942
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A good wife's innocence is shattered when she learns that her wealthy husband is actually an amoral big-shot jewel thief....
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1941
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Shadows on the Stairs is a slimmed-down adaptation of Frank Vosper's stage play Murder on the 2nd Floor. There's dirty work...
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1941
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A daffy romantic comedy released in Great Britain under the title Good Morning Doctor, this film reunites the two stars of...
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1941
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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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Possibly inspired by Universal's The Invisible Woman, Warner Bros.' The Body Disappears is an agreeably daffy comedy with...
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Barrett, the Butler
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1941
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In this remake of the 1930 film of the same name, a bank robber suffers a war wound and undergoes plastic surgery. Upon his...
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1941
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A Child is Born is a remake of 1932's Life Begins, softened to conform to stricter movie censorship and lengthened to qualify...
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1940
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again stars Marjorie Rambeau as the rambunctious female skipper created by Norman Reilly Raine. In this...
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1940
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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1940
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Olivia DeHavilland stars as a music student whose education is secretly subsidized by the aging owner of a phonograph factory...
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1940
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Though set during WW1, British Intelligence was obviously thrown together to capitalize on the outbreak of WW2. A remake of...
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1940
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1940
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A violin-playing British doctor's life changes forever after he takes in a distraught Austrian ballerina who tries to kill...
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1939
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Ace Secret Service agent Lt. Brass Bancroft is on the case in this crime drama. This time he is assigned to break up a major...
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1939
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In this, the premiere entry in the "Brass" Bancroft series (starring the man who would-be President, Ronald Reagan), Brass is...
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1939
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1939
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It's Swing Music vs. the Classics in the easy-to-take Warners tunefest Naughty But Nice. Dick Powell dons the obligatory...
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1939
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In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a...
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1939
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In this family-style comedy, the trouble begins when a good father loses his job at the local newspaper when the publication...
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1939
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Bette Davis earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this classic four-hanky tearjerker. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) is a...
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1939
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Unlike many another pre-WW II spy melodramas, Espionage Agent clearly identifies the villains as Germans. Joel McCrea plays...
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1939
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In this comedy, a young waitress is given $1,000 from her grandfather. She desires to buy a race horse and so trustingly...
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1939
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Louis Armstrong steals the show as the groom to Jeepers Creepers, a skittish racehorse that can only settle down and run when...
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1939
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A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), this middling melodrama features Kay Francis as Carol Nelson, a medical doctor blaming...
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1939
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1938
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In this lighthearted drama, a lazy trumpeter has developed a sure-fire system for making big bucks in the stock market. His...
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1938
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This 1938 remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film The Dawn Patrol is faithful to the original's basic plotline. The story is set...
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1938
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Once a staple of summer stock and community theatres, Bella and Samuel Spewack's Broadway farce Boy Meets Girl dates rather...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Edward G. Robinson shines in a fine comic role as Dr. Clitterhouse, a brilliant psychiatrist doing research into the criminal...
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1938
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Despite the presence of Busby Berkeley in the director's chair, Comet Over Broadway contains nary a single musical number....
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1938
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The Baroness, daughter of the Hungarian prime minister, is played by Annabella. The Butler, last of a long line of family...
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1938
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The ever-suffering Kay Francis once again makes an assault on the audience's tear ducts in My Bill. Francis is cast as Mary...
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1938
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Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connelly (Pat O'Brien) grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky...
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1938
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In this crime drama, a young couple decides to rob the bank where the woman works as a teller. They get 100,000 dollars and...
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Claudette Colbert is a young freethinking woman living in Salem, Massachusetts during the notorious 17th century "witch...
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1937
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Girl with Ideas was Universal Pictures' version of MGM's matchless Libeled Lady. Wendy Barrie plays a society girl miffed at...
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1937
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Call It a Day is a Warner Bros. attempt at British light comedy. Nothing much happens of any consequence in this story of a...
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1937
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The Three Smart Boys in this one-reel "Our Gang" comedy are Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billy "Buckwheat"...
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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1937
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This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer...
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1937
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En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow...
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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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Though its title and cast suggests a lighthearted romantic comedy, Trouble for Two is actually a fairly faithful adaptation...
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1936
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Veteran character actress Zeffie Tilbury steals the show in this immensely satisfying "Our Gang" comedy. On the occasion of...
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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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Universal plunged into the clutches of its creditors with its expensive fiasco Sutter's Gold. Edward Arnold plays Swiss...
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1936
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Based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel The Narrow Corner, the melodramatic adventure Isle of Fury is one of Humphrey Bogart's...
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1936
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The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such...
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1936
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Produced independently by Edward Small, this surprisingly realistic gangster yarn stars stalwart Richard Arlen as Mal...
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1935
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A man who has ruined a woman's life attempts to make good on his debt to her (and his conscience) in this sudsy drama based...
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1935
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This espionage thriller with romantic comedy touches was loosely based on the book American Black Chamber by the real-life...
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1935
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This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character,...
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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1934
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Glamorous American jewel-thief Sophie Lang (Gertrude Michael) not only regularly outwits Scotland Yard, but has great fun...
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1934
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A much-married man of the world is found murdered in this typical low-budget whodunit and each and every one of his fifteen...
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1934
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In this comedy, two impoverished cousins inherit a British mansion and decide that one of them should marry a wealthy...
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1934
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In this crime drama, Flicker Hayes (James Cagney) is a safecracker who has just been released following a stretch in prison;...
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1934
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Harold Lloyd plays Ezekial Cobb, a missionary's son who has spent his entire life in China. Cobb is sent to his father's home...
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1934
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Eight people, many of them strangers to one another, are summoned to a ritzy Manhattan penthouse apartment by an unidentified...
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1934
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The strapping Tom Tyler, in his fourth and last serial for Universal, played a daredevil pilot coming to the aid of a...
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1933
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Preston Foster, Mischa Auer, and Evalyn Knapp star in this tale of political intrigue centering on the quest of a powerful...
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1933
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In this melodrama a father rejects his son after his wife dies in childbirth. As a result, the boy is sent to live with his...
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1933
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An old man learns the sad truth of the old saw about being careful what you wish for in this horror outing that is based on...
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1933
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Young football hero Jim Fowler (Robert Young) isn't in it for the love of the game. The hardworking young man is simply using...
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1933
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1933
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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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A wealthy, but sad young woman falls in love with an impoverished fellow in this bittersweet romance. While her father is...
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1933
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Based upon the phenomenally successful Harold Gray comic strip, Little Orphan Annie covers a lot of ground in its short 60...
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1932
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Zoë Akins' archetypal "gold-digger" stage comedy The Greeks Had a Word for It was transferred to the screen in 1933, with the...
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1932
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This thriller involves a shipboard murder, castaways on a desert island, another murder, a wild man, and the hapless hero...
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1932
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As directed by Norman Houston, this newsroom-themed melodrama from 1932 stars Walter Byron as an alcoholic reporter who...
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1932
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Produced at the little Tec Art studio by sound engineer Ralph M. Like, this film is one of those modest whodunits where the...
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1932
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It is difficult to believe that this ultra-cheapie ever actually scared anyone; it's just possible that audiences laughed as...
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1932
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Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious...
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1931
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Ten cents a dance, that's what they pay her -- "her" being downtrodden taxi dancer Barbara (Barbara Stanwyck). The only thing...
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1931
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Lion and the Lamb takes place in Columbia Pictures' idea of London. Upon returning home after a long absence, globetrotting...
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1931
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1931
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Two rough-and-ready guys; one beautiful dame; a tough job that has to be done, and "one of us may not come out alive"; the...
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1931
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In this actioner, a sleazy sea captain not only treats his crew terribly, he also steals a sailor's wife and child. He is so...
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1931
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Adapted from a play by Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison, Subway Express takes place entirely on a single subway car. When a...
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1931
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Most of The Deceiver takes place in the Broadway theater where matinee idol Thorpe (Ian Keith) is starring in a production of...
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1931
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Every so often, western star Buck Jones got it in his head that he could play a Mexican, and never mind that his accent...
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1931
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1931
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Buster Keaton's second starring talkie finds him cast as wealthy, pampered Elmer, who heads down to the local employment...
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1930
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Nine years before stepping into the role of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone essayed the character of S.S. Van Dyne's...
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1930
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1930
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Sometimes all it takes to save a marriage is a good pop, right in the kisser or so this family drama seems to imply. The...
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1930
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Based on Leo Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, this film was originally scheduled as John Gilbert's first talkie, but it was held...
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1930
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In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and...
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Alfred
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1930
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In this sassy romantic comedy, Clive Brook plays Neil Dunlap, a lawyer who is heartbroken when his wife leaves him. Neil is...
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1930
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1930
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Separated during an Indian raid, childhood pals Tim McCoy and Robert Frazer grow up on each side of the Indian Wars in this...
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Cheyenne Jones
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1929
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Milton Sills, one of the silent era's great matinee idols, starred in this follow-up to his sound debut in the part-talkie...
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1929
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Though filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim's notorious profligacy had made him virtually unhirable in the US by 1929, screen-star...
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1929
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This is one of the last films from Buster Keaton's classic period, before the coming of sound and interference from MGM...
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Editor
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1928
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This nonsensical comedy-melodrama was a vehicle for two relics from the dawn of cinema history, walrus-mustached...
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1928
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1928
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Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur...
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1928
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A pleasant but unremarkable comedy from Universal, Home James featured the studio's premiere light comedian Laura La Plante...
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1928
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1928
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The piquant Leatrice Joy starred in this frothy marital comedy about a wife who leaves her boring husband (John Boles) to be...
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1928
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Francis X. Bushman, who had made a comeback two years previously as Messala in Ben Hur, was still trying to hang onto stardom...
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1927
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Pola Negri and director Mauritz Stiller fail to make much of this somber and unoriginal melodrama, which was based on the...
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1927
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Secretary
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1927
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The popularity of Priscilla Dean had eclipsed by 1927, but she still proved an attractive and talented leading lady in...
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1927
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Mary Pickford stars as the "Miss Fix-it" for her eccentric family. Pickford's job at a dime-store keeps her postman dad...
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1927
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Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of...
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1927
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The publicity packet for The Mystery Club boasted an "all-star cast" -- which, by 1926 standards, it was. Nat Carr,...
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1926
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This characteristically grim Lon Chaney/Tod Browning collaboration stars "The Man of a Thousand Faces" in two distinct...
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1926
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1926
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1926
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Norma Shearer stars in this routine light comedy. Katherine Emerson (Shearer) decides to leave her small hometown in Iowa to...
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1925
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This silent adaptation of Franz Lehar's famous operetta (in which precious little of the original story was retained) was a...
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1925
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1925
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This low-budgeter was adapted from A Wise Son, a novel by Charles Sherman. Bryant Washburn plays wealthy wastrel Hal Whitney,...
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1925
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1924
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This comedy-drama was based on the successful play by Avery Hopwood, who was known for his tales of domestic turmoil. It...
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1924
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This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar...
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1924
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Darius Carpenter (Frank Currier) prides respectability above all else, and he's not thrilled when his son, Charles...
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1924
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A spectacular trains wreck -- courtesy of stock footage -- highlighted this otherwise pedestrian silent melodrama from...
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1924
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Edward Everett Horton, who was still new to film, was perfectly cast as the meek and mild English valet Ruggles in this...
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1923
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Herbert Rawlinson is the star of this mediocre crime drama from Universal. When his father's business fails, Jimmy Nevins...
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1923
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Gladys Walton plays an inept newspaper reporter in this mediocre farce comedy. Leslie Adams (Walton) is secretary to the city...
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Jenkins
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1923
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1923
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Although Wallace Reid stars in this picture (based on the comic opera by Richard Harding Davis), Walter Long just about...
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Henry Bolton
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1922
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1922
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As a cheap programmer, this romantic mystery had little to recommend it. Star Herbert Rawlinson overacts as John D. Curtis,...
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1922
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This farce from Paramount was loosely adapted from the play The Open Door by Oscar Blumenthal and Gustave Kadelberg. Arthur...
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1922
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This romance was based on William J. Locke's novel The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, which was made into a film once before in...
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1921
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Lizbeth Ann Palmer (Bebe Daniels) is the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire who is traveling to New York to visit her...
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1921
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His Valet
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1921
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Filmed on location at Monterey, CA, and starring exotic stage dancer Mlle. Doraldina, this long-lost South Seas romance...
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1921
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Wanda Hawley stars in this farce comedy based on the play All Night Long by Philip Bartholoae. Dorothy Ralston (Hawley) is a...
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1921
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1921
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Wanda Hawley debuted as a star in her previous film, Miss Hobbs. So it is suggested that the poor material in this pointless...
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1920
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This wasn't the first time the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel was made into a motion picture -- it was filmed before in 1913. The...
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1917
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This crime drama was one of the last starring films of Hobart Henley before he switched over to directing. He is gangster Jim...
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1916
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Florence Lawrence, the motion-picture industry's first real movie star, was at the tail end of her popularity when she...
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1916
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1916
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1916
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Harry Benham stars as a big-city businessman who swears off women when he sees his fiancee smooching with another man. With...
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1916
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