Veteran film actor Tully Marshall makes his final appearance in PRC's Behind Prison Walls. A reworking of a familiar theme,...
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James J. MacGlennon
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1943
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Hitler's Madman is based on an all-too-real wartime atrocity. John Carradine portrays Heydrich, the vicious SS officer put in...
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1943
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the...
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1942
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Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films,...
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1942
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Alvin Brewster
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1942
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A Clarence Buddington Kelland story was the source for the mildly farcical For Beauty's Sake. If he wants to inherit a...
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1941
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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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Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members...
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1940
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Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and...
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1940
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Henry Fonda plays Chad Hanna, a New York country bumpkin of the mid-nineteenth century who joins a travelling circus. He...
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1940
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1940
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In this musical comedy, a young woman is sent to a National Youth Administration camp after her father is arrested for...
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1940
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Too many of Gene Autry's Republic western sacrificed action in favor of music. A notable exception to this syndrome is Blue...
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Steve
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1939
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In this offbeat western, a cowboy heads into the genteel East to fulfill his dream of becoming a polo player. While there,...
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1939
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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In this comedy, a dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number...
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Ross
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1938
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Most reviewers in the late 1930s considered Columbia's Jack Holt vehicles to be a waste of time, but Holt still had a fairly...
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1938
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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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Harrison
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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1937
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In this sports drama, framed by the annual Army-Navy football game, a freshman footballer at the Naval Academy falls in love...
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1937
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Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in...
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1937
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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1935
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Like many 1930s Warner Bros. films, Black Fury drew its inspiration from the headlines. The story is adapted from a true-life...
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1935
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One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population,...
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1934
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1934
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In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild...
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1933
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Top-billed Bela Lugosi has only a minor role in this routine variant on the Old Dark House scenario, playing a mysterious...
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Richard Rinehart
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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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Gorman
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1933
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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1933
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Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great...
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1932
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Red Dust was lensed almost entirely on MGM's back lot; even so, we are utterly convinced that the film takes place in...
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1932
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Gourney-Martin
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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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Robert Daniels
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1932
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1932
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Penned by prolific pulp writer William Colt MacDonald, this Tim McCoy Columbia Western may have been the forerunner of...
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Sheriff Malcolm
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1932
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Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their...
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1932
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A reluctantly appointed police chief in a crime-riddled city takes his job seriously and works hard to clean the streets of...
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1932
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The second of two projected John Wayne serials produced by genre expert Mascot Pictures, this film used the budget-saving...
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1932
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Night Court is one of those pictures that "hooks" the viewer with one audacious plot twist after another. Walter Huston is...
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1932
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In this newspaper drama, a dedicated small-town reporter works hard and becomes the editor of a major New York paper....
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1932
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Famed aviator Frank Hawks proves anew in Klondike that, as an actor, he was an excellent pilot. Though billed second, Hawks...
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1932
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Director Ernst Lubitsch gained international acclaim for his sophisticated romantic comedies, but he also had a talent for...
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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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Eric Linden is a bellhop who has the extreme misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time in gangster era of...
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Anderson
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1932
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Hatchet Man is a dated but fascinating film set amidst the "tong wars" in San Francisco's Chinatown. Tong hatchet man Wong...
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Long Sen Yat
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1932
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Howard L. Edwards
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1932
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Jim Bridger
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1931
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Virtuous Husband was adapted from Apron Strings, a play by Dorrance Davis. Though his mother has been dead several years,...
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Ezra Hunniwell
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1931
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Baron de Jonghe
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1931
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George Arliss is the millionaire of the title, a retired auto tycoon who's been ordered by his doctor to rest and avoid...
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1931
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In this romantic adventure, a feisty young woman (Velez) toys with the affections of a railroad worker (Withers) and a...
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Hector McCollins
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1930
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Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love...
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1930
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Comedian Frank Fay and director Michael Curtiz reportedly despised one another at sight, and their mutual animosity tends to...
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1930
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Dancing Sweeties is set primarily in a Chicago dance emporium. During a dance contest, Bill (Grant Withers) and Molly...
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1930
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Ellen Neal (Constance Bennett) is a "nice" girl -- just turned 18 -- who's been picked up in a raid on a speakeasy where she...
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W.H. Yates
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1930
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The popular silent-film screen team of Richard Arlen and Mary Brian was carried over into talkies with such films as Burning...
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1930
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Jack Mulhall stars as Leonard Staunton, a businessman whose future is threatened by a trio of mysterious blackmailers. The...
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Dr. Mansfield
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1930
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Tom Sawyer, Paramount's 1930 Christmas release, was the first talkie version of Mark Twain's beloved novel. A rapidly...
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Muff Potter
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1930
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The first "epic" western of the talkie era, The Big Trail is motivated by a hero's search for the murderer of his father....
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Zeke
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1930
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Big John
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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 comedy, a boarding house owner becomes the confidant and advisor to a number of troubled gangsters and racketeers....
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Buckeye Bill
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1930
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The title alone should clue the reader that Numbered Men is a prison picture. Based on the stage play Jail Break, the film is...
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Lemuel Barnes
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1930
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Doctor Gerry
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1929
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Intended as a follow-up (and improvement upon) the 1926 epic western The Vanishing American, Redskin was partially filmed in...
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Navajo Jim
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1929
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1929
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1929
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Warden
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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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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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Warner Oland makes the first of four screen appearances as Sax Rohmer's insidious oriental Dr. Fu Manchu.The film makes an...
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1929
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Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith's days of glory were well behind him when he agreed to direct Drums of Love. Indicative of...
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Bopi
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1928
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The strange and terrible things that the lust for gold can do to the soul comprise the message of this innovative, epic...
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Salvation Jim
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1928
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After holding out for several months, MGM decided to take the talking-picture plunge with Alias Jimmy Valentine. Actually,...
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Avery
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1928
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It's Harry Carey versus Noah Beery in this amusing Western, released during the November elections, 1922. S.S. Thorpe (Beery)...
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1928
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The confident direction of Allan Dwan transformed The Mad Hour into something more than a mere "soap opera." Based on a novel...
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1928
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1928
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That creaky old Ralph Spence stage comedy-melodrama The Gorilla was given the first of its four screen treatments in 1927....
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Uriah Townsend
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1927
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Frank Willard's barn-storming stage melodrama Cat and the Canary was filmed four times over a fifty-year period. This silent...
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Roger Crosby the Lawyer
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1927
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Handsome doctor Bryant Washburn specializes in the ailments of women -- more specifically, wealthy widows. Washburn's...
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1927
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William Boyd, in his pre-Hopalong Cassidy days, played a variety of roles, but he already was showing a flair for Westerns in...
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Dave Mahler
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1927
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The Vincent Blasco-Ibanez novel Entre Naranjos served as the inspiration for Greta Garbo's first American film, The Torrent....
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1926
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A minor silent comedy-drama, Her Big Night featured Grace Darmond, a blond former serial queen, as the secretary of a...
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1926
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Betrayed by his wife and disillusioned by the world in general, British nobleman Lord Gervas Carew heads to Algeria, there to...
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Hosein
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1926
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Set in a not-so-reasonable facsimile of London's Limehouse district, Twinkletoes stars Colleen Moore as the title character,...
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Dad Minasi
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1926
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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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Smouldering Fires is a first-rate silent "soap opera," immaculately performed by its superb cast and brilliantly directed by...
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Scotty
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1925
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The only truly interesting aspect of this melodrama is the spectacular fire aboard an ocean liner. The scene was shot in...
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The Crab
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1925
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After his impressive screen debut in Sally, stage comedian Leon Errol became a full-fledged film star with this picture, set...
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Scute, the Baker
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1925
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This drama, based on the play by Marion Fairfax, concerns a woman who talks big, but does not practice what she preaches....
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Henry Fells
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1925
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Harold Austin plays an impoverished sailor who poses as a British aristocrat. In this guise, he insinuates himself into the...
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1925
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Paula (Fritzi Brunette), a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he...
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Hezekiah Sims
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1925
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Tully Marshall plays "the Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering...
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The Stranger
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1924
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Pulp writer Henry Herbert Knibb wrote the original story of this silent Hoot Gibson western, which enjoyed an above-average...
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1924
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Viola Dana plays Ruth Ambrose, a citified interior decorator who expands her business to the country. The locals don't quite...
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Israel Hubbard
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1924
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Two of the silent era's more forgotten comedians, pert Dorothy Devore and rotund Walter Hiers headlined this feature comedy...
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1924
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Judge Somers
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1924
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Estelle Taylor stars as a stenographer who marries her boss in this maudlin melodrama. When her husband is called away to...
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1924
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This romance, which has the Orient as its background, strongly reflects the racial prejudices of its day. When Frank and...
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1924
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This compelling and exceptionally well-executed silent drama, from new MGM studio executives Irving Thalburg and producer...
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Count Mancini
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1924
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First National dressed up this routine society melodrama with a good cast and a decently written story line. Harrison Bates...
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harrison Bates
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1924
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Since Wallace Beery stood out as King Richard in Douglas Fairbanks' Robin Hood, it wasn't too much of a leap to cast him as...
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1923
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Maurice Tourneur directed this colorful Arabian Nights-type fantasy in his usual picturesque style. After attempting to kill...
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1923
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Although he was completely eclipsed by his incredibly gifted relative, Sidney Chaplin was a fine farceur who could be almost...
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John Ingram
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1923
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Ali Mechmet
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1923
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When Beth Alden (Irene Rich), the daughter of the prominent local banker, goes on a hayride with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue), a...
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1923
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Deft light comedienne Constance Talmadge seems woefully out of place in this historical drama of 17th century England. It was...
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1923
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This obscure silent Western was a typical example of the pioneer spirit still alive in the 1920s. Producer Morris R. Schlank,...
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1923
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In spite of an excellent American cast and two well-established directors, Australian action star Rex "Snowy" Baker isn't...
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1923
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Herbert Rawlinson is Jimmy Dorgan, the spendthrift son of a wealthy man. John "Pick-Handle" Dorgan (Tully Marshall) earned...
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John Dorgan
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1923
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This sentimental rural drama was based on the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Frankie Lee plays Dick Alden, the barefoot boy...
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1923
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Silent screen stunt-man Richard Talmadge also produced this fine action melodrama, one of the few of his starring films to be...
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Exra Sprowl
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1923
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Clinging to one's youth was considered a fault in the 1920s, as evidenced by this domestic drama. Even though lawyer Hugh...
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Hugh Manners
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1923
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James Cruze revived the western genre and presented audiences with the first western epic in the spectacular 1923 film The...
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1923
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Owen Moore has an unlikely dual role in this melodrama. Robert Wells (Moore) is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to...
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1923
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This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle,...
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1923
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Barney Ryan
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1923
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Although the Vitagraph studio had seen better days by 1922, it was still capable of putting out some entertaining films, such...
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Peter Stalton
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1922
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This light romantic comedy was based on Miles Brewster and the Super-Sex by Frank R. Adams. Young Miles Brewster Higgins...
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Mr. Higgins
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1922
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This drama was a rare directing effort from screenwriter Marion Fairfax. Sam Clairborne Sr. (Charles Mailes) wills his estate...
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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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John Henry Jackson (Edward Everett Horton) is a businessman who is in love with his boss' secretary Myra Dalton...
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Amos Comby
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1922
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This contrived and complicated tale of crooked politics would have been a poor vehicle for William Farnum if not for his...
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1922
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This obscure silent western-comedy featured Frank Dill as a cowboy passing himself off as a millionaire's son. As it turns...
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Scenery Simms
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1922
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A couple of old-timers -- character actor Tully Marshall and director Gilbert M. "Bronco Billy" Anderson --bring out the best...
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1922
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Adam Patch
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1922
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While no one could ever call the cast to this melodrama "all star," it certainly features some of the best second-stringers...
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1922
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14-year-old boys are far more sophisticated now than they were during the 1910s and 1920s, so this picture, based on the...
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Mr. Schofield
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1922
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This Hampton Del Ruth production is a very odd comedy-drama. Two sisters, Eleanor and Mary Douglas (Alta Allen and Irene Rich...
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Timothy Lamb
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1922
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Everybody at Mack Sennett's Keystone studios was expected to do a little bit of everything, which is why bassett-faced...
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1922
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This melodrama, with all its standard trappings, was adapted the stage play by Pierce Kingsley, which in turn was based on...
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Squire Simpson
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1922
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This drama, produced by Thomas Ince, featured an excellent cast and a powerful story. Although she only had a second lead,...
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1921
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Lady Tsen Mei played Moy Tai, whose father Quon Foo (Tully Marshall) shelters a clockmaker accused of witchcraft by the...
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1921
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This picture should have been called "What Happened to Mabel?" Mabel Normand's comedy pictures for Goldwyn had slowly been...
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1921
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Velma (Eva Novak) is unhappily married to Sam (Leonard Shumway), a user of demon alcohol and a notorious womanizer. He...
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1921
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Quong Foo
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1921
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This picturesque silent adventure was produced by Thomas Ince. Roy Bradley (Niles Welch) grows up in the United States,...
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Chan Chang
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1921
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Jo Morey (Rose Dione) has a hard life -- her brutal father drinks himself to death, and she toils endlessly to pay the debts...
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1921
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Given the title, the star -- the delightful Mae Marsh -- and the fact that one of her co-stars is a dog, there's not much...
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Giron
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1920
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When "Speed" Carr (Wallace Reid) has to travel from New York to Los Angeles to meet his uncle and claim an inheritance, he...
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1920
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During the early '20s, Wallace Reid starred in a number of snappy car racing films. This one was adapted from the Saturday...
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1920
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This melodrama boasts a solid cast, including Tully Marshall and Lon Chaney in supporting roles. After her father's death,...
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1920
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Reginald Jay (Wallace Reid) has taken to his bed to avoid testifying in a divorce case. He decides that feigning illness...
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1920
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This light comedy, based on the French farce La Veglione by Alexandre Bisson and Albert Carre, should have been funnier than...
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1920
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Even though he's a lazy, worthless bum, Hutch (Will Rogers) is a truly likable guy -- maybe that's why his wife Sary (Mary...
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1920
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Sylvester Tibble (Wallace Reid) comes to New York City to work at the jug business run by his uncle, Enoch Jones...
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1920
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Intolerance, D.W. Griffith's towering achievement interlocking four stories of intolerance throughout the ages, has been...
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1919
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1919
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In this silent romance, an Orthodox Jewish girl falls in love with a Christian fellow, an aspiring author. The girl's...
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1919
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Allegory is a storytelling form little used in cinema today, but it popped up frequently during the silent era, especially...
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1919
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It is Mardi Gras in New Orleans' French Quarter, and New Yorker Roland Van Dam (Owen Moore) has come down in search of...
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1919
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Douglas Fairbanks starred in the original Broadway production of James B. Fagan's Hawthorne of the USA, but Doug was too...
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1919
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Jack Hearns (Jack Holt), aka the Romany Rye, is the son of a Gypsy mother and a wealthy English father. But instead of...
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1919
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This comedy-drama was adapted from the play by Charles Klein. Maggie Pepper (Ethel Clayton) is an outspoken young salesclerk...
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1919
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Newspaperman Jack Wright (Wallace Reid) borrows five hundred dollars from his reluctant friend Foxhall Peyton (Harrison Ford...
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1919
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In spite of an all-star cast and the talents of director Marshall Neilan, there wasn't much that could be done with this...
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1919
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Out of all of Griffith's films about the Great War, this one impressed the least. Perhaps Carol Dempster should share part of...
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1919
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Legendary escape artist Harry Houdini stars in the offbeat adventure yarn The Grim Game. Houdini plays Harvey Hanford, a...
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1919
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Listed in some sources under the title The Thing We Love, this Wallace Reid vehicle was directed by another popular matinee...
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1918
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Walsingham Van Dorn (Wallace Reid) has a fancy name but no money until he inherits 40 million dollars from a pair of wealthy,...
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1918
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The first of Cecil B. DeMille's series of sophisticated romantic comedy-dramas, Old Wives for New was adapted from a novel by...
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1918
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1918
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We Can't Have Everything was at once a typical Cecil B. DeMille marital comedy and also a satire of the whole genre. Aware...
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1918
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Previously filmed in 1915, the Bret Harte story M'liss served as one of Mary Pickford's most memorable vehicles. The...
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1918
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Although a solid supporting cast helps, the buoyant personality of Douglas Fairbanks is the main asset in this slight Arabian...
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1918
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Silent star Douglas Fairbanks made a rare visit to the director's chair (accompanied by his friend and frequent collaborator...
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1918
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1918
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The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille...
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1918
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Douglas Fairbanks Sr. stars as Ned Thacker, who is born during a Kansas cyclone (coincidentally the same manner in which...
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1917
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This typically overbaked Cecil B. DeMille opus takes place off the seacoast of Brittany. While ambling along the beach,...
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1917
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The "heroine" of The Countess Charming was actually the hero, played by legendary female impersonator Julian Eltinge. The...
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1917
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When New England schoolmarm Faith Miller (Anita King) comes West to inspect a mine she has bought, she discovers it is a...
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1917
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1917
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High Priest of Bel
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1916
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Although this classic Charles Dickens tale was filmed at least twice previously, this Lasky version was the first to really...
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1916
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At the time of this picture's release, the market was glutted with pictures detailing the evils of drug abuse. But character...
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1916
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This spoof of temperance melodrama is the last two-reeler directed by Tod Browning. The virtuous John (Jack Brammall) learns...
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Henry
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1916
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What everybody's doing would appear to be writing film scenarios: This satiric two-reel crime story is also a send up of the...
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Crook
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1916
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A sweeping chronicle of the life and death of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orlean, this epic stands as one of director...
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1916
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Norma Talmadge, already a star but not yet a STAR, played the eponymous heroine in 1916's Martha's Vindication. To protect...
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1916
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The Sable Lorcha was inspired by a story by Horace Hazeltine (a pseudonym for Charles Stokes Wayne). Saturnine character...
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1915
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Before getting a "lock" on his "All-American Boy" screen persona, Charles Ray appeared in several films along the lines of A...
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1915
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