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1956
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Based on the best-selling book by Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us is a superior underwater documentary. Produced by future...
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1952
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1950
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Dropped by RKO Radio in 1946, the "Falcon" mystery series was briefly revived by low-budget Film Classics productions in...
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1948
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1946
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1945
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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This 20th Century-Fox programmer stars Preston Foster as breezy detective Steve Carromond. When a man dies of a suspicious...
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two...
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1943
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Flight for Freedom was an "a clef" version of the Amelia Earhart story. Rosalind Russell plays the Earhart-like aviatrix...
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1943
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This rambling historical drama covers 109 years in the life of one woman. Encased in convincing old-age makeup,...
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1942
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Man in the Trunk is a variation on the "Topper" theme, with Raymond Walburn carrying the weight of the film as a restless...
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1942
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A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing...
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1942
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The box-office success of Paramount's What a Life (1939), coupled with the popularity of the spinoff Henry Aldrich radio...
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1941
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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1941
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Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist...
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1941
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The oft-used title A Shot in the Dark was affixed in 1941 to this Warner Bros. B-picture. Much of the film takes place in the...
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1941
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When World War I hero Alvin York agreed to sell the movie rights to his life story to Warner Bros., it was on three...
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1941
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The title I'll Wait for You effectively gives away the ending of this MGM second feature. Robert Sterling plays a gangster on...
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1941
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It's ironic that leading man Jack Holt, who in real life was deathly afraid of flying, should appear in so many...
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1940
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Baker
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1940
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula...
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1940
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1940
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Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms...
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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1940
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In this espionage drama, a young woman enrolls in the US Army Intelligence Corps so she can avenge her brother's death. She...
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1939
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1939
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front,...
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1939
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1939
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In this heartwarming drama, a good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an...
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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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A wealthy older man and a poor young woman each get a chance to see how the other half lives in this comedy. Alfred Borden...
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1939
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Legion of Lost Flyers is a typically action-packed entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine series (if one can call a...
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1939
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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1938
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Gary Cooper stars in this lavish and often comic retelling of the life of the famed Italian explorer. Marco Polo (Cooper)...
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1938
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1938
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I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney...
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1938
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"Ripped from today's headlines", RKO Radio's Smashing the Rackets was inspired by the career of colorful New York district...
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1938
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A woman is brutally strangled and her body stuffed into a suitcase in this otherwise rather frivolous low-budget thriller....
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Clark
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1938
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Blondes at Work is number four in Warner Bros.' lively "Torchy Blane" series. Glenda Farrell returns as girl reporter Torchy...
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1938
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Drawing heavily on both Madame X and Stella Dallas, this cheap exploitation-melodrama was produced by the ill-named...
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1938
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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1937
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1937
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For a studio specializing in glossy soap operas, costume pictures and musicals, MGM made an inordinate number of "B"-grade...
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1937
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Sentenced to prison for a crime they did not commit, a desperate pair of young lovers attempts to capture the culprits...
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1937
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1937
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This action drama features John Wayne in an early, non western role. He plays a trucker who owns half of a small but...
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James Gifford
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1937
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In this detective story, a super sleuth is hired by an insurance company to find a stolen emerald belonging to a rich man's...
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1937
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In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just...
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1937
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Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, came up with the story upon which The Emperor's Candlesticks was based. As...
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1937
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1937
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The Westland Case was the opening volley in Universal's "Crime Club" series. The film was based on Headed for a Hearse, a...
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1937
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The Man Betrayed in this Republic actioner is hero Eddie Nugent, though this doesn't occur until the film is half over....
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1937
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This lavishly appointed Sam Goldwyn soap opera is set in Ireland during "the troubles." Irish rebel leader Dennis Reardon...
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1936
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Blending equal amounts of comedy, romance and thrills, High Tension is a near-perfect 20th Century-Fox "B" effort....
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1936
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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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1936
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Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less...
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1936
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Sinner Takes All shines with the production gloss only MGM could create; the prettiness of the images helps to hide the plot...
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1936
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1936
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In this comedy, an amnesiac takes off with a young woman. This causes the woman's father to hire a detective to find them....
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1936
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Ex-cop Russell Hopton, framed for a crime he didn't commit, gets a second chance in life after enduring a train wreck. His...
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Flash Ackroyd
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1936
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Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which...
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1936
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Ostensibly based on James Oliver Curwood's Caryl of the Mountain, but bearing little or no resemblance to the 1935...
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Kincaid
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1935
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1935
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This typically lightning-paced Mascot Studios production stars Heather Angel as the title character, a thrill-seeking...
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1935
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Like the contemporaneous Columbia feature Party Wire, RKO Radio's Grand Old Girl paints a surprisingly bleak and cynical...
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1935
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A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a...
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1935
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Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits...
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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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Spencer Tracy plays a hard-driving newsman with a special instinct for solving sensational murders before the police can....
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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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In this rather black comedy, a nervous office worker goes to a local quack for a check up and learns that he has only three...
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1935
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Treasury agent Dave Elliot (Donald Cook) dedicates himself to smashing a crime syndicate, especially after his best friend is...
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1935
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The first major film about psychiatry, Private Worlds stars Claudette Colbert as a psychiatrist with more than a few problems...
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1935
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Ruthless criminal attorney Raymond Cortell (Sidney Blackmer) is not above bending and twisting the law to suit his purposes,...
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J.C. Owen
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1935
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1934
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Some people never know what they have until someone else is about to get it as can be seen in this romance that centers upon...
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Charles Browne
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1934
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This Side of Heaven is an early, muted example of what would refine itself into the "screwball comedy" genre....
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1934
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Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas,...
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1934
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Before retiring from films to become Mrs. Charles Boyer, actress Pat Paterson was a popular and appealing Fox Studios leading...
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1934
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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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Her Splendid Folly is an old-fashioned comedy/drama from the misleadingly named firm of Progressive Pictures. Lillian Bond...
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Wally
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1933
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While travelling through Arizona, carnival huckster Smiley Wells (James Dunn) makes the acquaintance of sweet small-town girl...
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Wayne
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1933
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1933
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This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses. ~...
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1933
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This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean...
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1933
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1933
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Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse...
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Albert Valraine
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1933
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The melodramatic No Other Woman is a remake of the 1925 silent film Just a Woman which was based on the play of the same name...
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1933
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1933
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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1933
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In this sentimental drama, a race-car driver falls for a lovely lady reporter. Together, they begin caring for a crippled...
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Larry Winston
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1933
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A young woman believes that her mother's gambling house is a hotel. When a gambler angry about being cheated there convinces...
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1933
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One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Walling, a woman who is...
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Grenaker
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1933
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"Thou Shall Not Be Caught" is the commandment referred to in this low-budget melodrama ostensibly based on Ella Wendel, a New...
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Wayne Winters
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1933
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In this drama, an jewel thief is let out of prison and heads for a New York hotel to find the jewels he hid in the fireplace...
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Bennett
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1932
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Midnight Lady is a low-budget variation of the evergreen stage and screen meller Madame X. In one of her rare starring roles,...
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Byron Crosby
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1932
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In this drama, a politician must deal with the aftermath of a young girl's damning accusation. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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District Attorney
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1932
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Sylvia Sidney is again in her "victim" mode in Paramount's Ladies of the Big House. Shortly after their wedding, young...
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1932
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A rather complicated but well-made little Poverty Row thriller, Drifting Souls features silent screen star Lois Wilson as...
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1932
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1932
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Trent Travers
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1932
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Also known as The Hidden Corpse, Strangers of the Evening is an effective blend of horror and humor. There's dirty work at...
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1932
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In this murder mystery, everyone around a murdered movie producer is a suspect, including his girl friend. Most of those...
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1932
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1932
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In this drama, an orphan girl marries a kindly crook to stay out of reform school. The crook is the head thief in a robber...
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1932
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In this drama, a Russian woman marries a British aristocrat, bears him a daughter, and is forced to abandon them by his...
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1931
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A troubled production that suffered from both severe cuts and retakes under a different director (Edward H. Griffith), this...
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1931
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1931
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It was once theorized by critic Andrew Sarris that this 1931 Greta Garbo vehicle was subtitled "Her Fall & Rise" rather than...
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1931
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Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband...
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Tony Rande
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1931
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Bootleggers Louis Scorpio (Wallace Beery) and Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy), with the advice of their alcoholic lawyer...
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1931
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In this romance, an aspiring writer encounters a wealthy publisher who gives him an advance on the first two chapters of his...
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1931
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Edward Knoblock's warhorse theatrical piece Kismet, first filmed in 1920, resurfaced as a talkie in 1930. Repeating the role...
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1930
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1930
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Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the silent screen, goes through the motions of the Cinderella yarn Love Among the Millionaires. A...
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1930
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Warner Baxter, who had won an Academy Award for playing the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (1929), is at it again, fake Spanish...
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Nick Hoyt
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1930
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The plays of Zoe Akins were so stilted and mannered that one critic referred to watching them as "the curse of an Akins...
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Owen McDonald
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1930
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1929
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Karl Dane, the hulking comedy relief in many an MGM film, is top-billed in the FBO action melodrama Voice of the Storm. Dane...
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1929
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In this comedy, a wealthy couple cannot manage to conceive the child they so desperately want and so hearken to the advice...
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George Green
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1929
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This drama, based on a Joseph Conrad novel, follows the exploits of a British adventurer who helps hide an island prince and...
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Carter
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1929
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As if to justify the title of this film, leading lady Jacqueline Logan shows up wearing next to nothing in the first few...
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Phil Standish
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1928
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This silent gangster tale centers on a scarred racketeer, ironically called Handsome Williams (Mitchell Lewis), who has been...
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1928
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This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the...
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Lieutenant Castleton
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1928
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A prison melodrama with a heart, Life's Mockery starred Betty Compson as Kit Miller, the daughter of notorious gangster Wolf...
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1928
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A wild stallion becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter in this fine Western adventure produced by...
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1927
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This Hal Roach two-reeler was comedian Stan Laurel's last film as a solo player (all his films after this one would be with...
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1927
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Lt. Donald Macready
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1927
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John Bruce
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1927
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FBO Pictures, the feisty little precursor to RKO Radio, managed to pull itself up to the big leagues with the help of such...
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Daniel Hammon
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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Ralph Ince both directs and stars in Jack London's oft-filmed tale of the sea. The Ghost, a seal-poaching schooner, has as...
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1926
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The silent era's foremost comedienne, Mabel Normand, plays a taxi dancer in this 2-reel farce produced by Hal Roach. In order...
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1926
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Aspiring playwright Lila Lake (Alice Day), gypped by a phony theatrical agency, finds herself stranded in New York....
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Philip Thorne
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1926
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The Rafael Sabatini swashbuckler Bardelys the Magnificent served as an excellent vehicle for MGM's top male star...
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1926
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Three of Hollywood's more enterprising women created this sentimental treatise on sin and redemption: Mrs. Wallace Reid (the...
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1925
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Jahn Talbot
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1925
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This film is based on the novel The Dear Pretender by Alice Ross Colver. A bank is robbed, and Rose Lore (Edith Roberts)...
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Dr. Paul Jackson
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1925
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Wealthy Northern sportsman Darrell Thornton (Lou Tellegen) wants to marry society girl Patricia Winthrop (Dorothy Phillips),...
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Robert Selby
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1925
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John Hemingway
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1924
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The Turmoil was one of Booth Tarkington's most popular novels, and when Universal brought it to the screen, they assigned it...
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1924
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Matt Moore stars as Judson Clark, a wealthy but idle young man who is in love with actress Beverly Carlysle (Nita Naldi). Her...
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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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Stephen O'Connell
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1924
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Hearts of Oak is, alas, one of the many "lost" silent films of pantheon director John Ford. Filmed not long after Ford's epic...
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Ned Fairweather
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1924
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This implausible crime drama had the benefit of Betty Compson's presence: she was best known for playing lady criminals....
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Jim Hartin, a convict
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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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1923
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The blend of comedy and melodrama in this picture did not work very well; perhaps that was because the material on which it...
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Egbert Winslow
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1923
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Even though this light comedy never leaves the confines of its hospital setting, it's still highly amusing. Billy Grant...
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1922
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Clyde Van Ness
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1922
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Trade paper Moving Picture World saw the title to this states-rights melodrama as a definite drawback. "Give this picture an...
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1922
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When Bebe Daniels spent a publicity-filled ten days in jail for speeding, her studio saw an even bigger way to cash in and...
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1921
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During the early '20s, sentimental films about mother love abounded. As the decade went on, however, such mawkish tales were...
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1921
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Although this mystery-comedy came out mere weeks after John Barrymore portrayed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous...
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1921
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Brawny Howard Mitchell doubled as director and title character in the Thanhouser production The Traffic Cop. Mitchell plays...
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1916
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