Why Sailors Go Wrong was directed by Henry "Pathe" Lehrmann, whose comedy technique hadn't changed much since his days with...
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Mac
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1928
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Gateway of the Moon is set in Bolivia (with Southern California serving as a "stand-in"). Dolores Del Rio stars as Toni, the...
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Henry Hooker
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1928
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Technically, Mother Machree was director John Ford's first sound film -- even though the sound was limited to a Fox Movietone...
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Harpist of Wexford
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1928
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The play The Monkey Talks by Rane Fauchois, which was an international sensation, became one of the silent era's more unusual...
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1927
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As the comic relief in What Price Glory?, Sammy Cohen and Ted McNamara were hits. Unfortunately, when the Fox studios tried...
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Ted McHiggins
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1927
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This long-lost John Ford production was based on The Snake's Wife, a story by Wallace Smith. The scene is a theatrical...
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1927
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From the minute it opened on Broadway in 1924, Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson's gritty WWI comedy-drama What Price...
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1926
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The silent Shore Leave was the first film version of the Hubert Osborne play of the same name (later musicalized as...
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"Bat" Smith
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1925
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