In one of his final performances, Oscar-winning character actor Victor McLaglen is cast as Mike O'Hare, the two-fisted...
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1958
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Victor McLaglen made his last film appearance in the British Sea Fury. McLaglen plays the brawny captain of a salvage vessel,...
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Capt. Bellew
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1958
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Riding into town with a corpse in the back of his wagon, Sam Rickers (Don Keefer) claims to have killed fugitive outlaw Bob...
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Director
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1957
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After a bloody shootout in which three members of an outlaw gang are killed, Marshall Matt Dillon (James Arness) brings in...
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Director
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1957
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Andrew V. McLaglen directs his actor father Victor McLaglen in The Abductors. The elder McLaglen plays a 19th century...
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1957
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as...
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Cadmus Cherne
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1955
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To say that Lady Godiva is historically inaccurate is a moot point, since most historians agree that the whole Lady Godiva...
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Grimald
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1955
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Big Tim Channing
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1955
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Donovan
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1955
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Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in...
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1954
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Trouble in the Glen was one of several felicitous collaborations between Hollywood's Republic Pictures and England's Herbert...
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Parlan
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1954
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Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure...
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O'Brien
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1953
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Returning to the Ireland of his birth, director John Ford fashions a irresistable valentine to the "Auld Sod" in The Quiet...
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Red Will Danaher
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1952
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John Wayne stars as Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke, whose devotion to duty has cost him his marriage to his beloved Kathleen...
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1950
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The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in...
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Sgt. Quincannon
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1949
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1948
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1948
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Jon Hall, Universal's beefcake kid, usually comported himself in South Seas or Arabian nights outfits. In Michigan Kid (based...
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Curley
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1947
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Frank Yerby's Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. 20th Century-Fox boiled the...
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Capt. Mike Farrell
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1947
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving...
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Matthew O'Neil
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1947
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A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann...
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1946
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In this drama, Mary (Ava Gardner) returns to her small town after she becomes a success in the city. Meeting up with her old...
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Gillo
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1946
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The trouble begins when glamorous Broadway actress Roberta Baxter (Virginia Bruce) signs for her latest play. She proceeds to...
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Terry
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1945
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Owen McCarey
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1945
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The Hook
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1944
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Melodramatic gangster action characterizes this tough and freely fictionalized biography of notorious, murderous Chicago...
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Owl Banghart
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1944
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Not to be confused with the 1971 film of the same name, this World War II espionage drama was the second to last film from...
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Fred Adamson
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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RKO Radio's Powder Town has the makings of an A picture, but the budget and approach is strictly "B" grade. Adapted by...
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Jeems O'Shea
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1942
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Maj. Bull Weed
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1942
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McGinnis
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1942
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Mike
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1941
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Characterized by some critics as a "South African western", Diamond Frontier stars Victor McLaglen as ruthless diamond hunter...
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Terrence Regan
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1940
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Beefcake star Jon Hall shows off his sleek physique in the exotic melodrama South of Pago Pago. The son of an island...
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Bucko Larson
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1940
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In this boxing drama, an ex-champ finds himself working as a doorman at a nightclub. His son aspires to a high caliber...
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Gunner Grey
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1939
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In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he comes across some...
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Warden Whitlock
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1939
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In this thriller, a man is brutally murdered and an innocent man takes the rap. The real murderer later confesses his crime...
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McGinnis
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1939
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An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to...
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Crusher McKay
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1939
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This exciting adventure is set in the rugged Australian outback back when the continent was used as a giant penal colony for...
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Blackie
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1939
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Dirk
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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Sgt. MacChesney
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1939
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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Chris Mulligan
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1939
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This musical features many popular ballads from the 1880s as it tells the tale of a cabaret singer and her boozy husband who...
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Dobbie Dobson
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1938
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This melodrama chronicles the enduring friendship between four boys in New York's Hell's Kitchen. As boys, the made a pact...
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Marty Malone
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1938
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The titular battle is the one that noisily rages between American legionnaires Big Ben Wheeler (Victor McLaglen) and Chesty...
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Big Ben Wheeler
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1938
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Jock Ramsay
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1937
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Sgt. MacDuff
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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Nancy Steele was the baby daughter of a munitions tycoon who was kidnapped by an antiwar activist who did it to protest the...
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Dannie O'Neill
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1937
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In this actioner, a tough Coast Guard officer endeavors to marry his lovely daughter to a handsome sailor. The trouble is,...
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Medals Malone
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1937
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Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is...
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Maj. Doyle
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1936
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Capt. Bull Brackett
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1936
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Adventurer-for-hire Victor McLaglen is hired by a political faction in a mythical European kingdom. McLaglen's job is to...
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Michael Donovan
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1936
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A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes...
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Big Steve Andrews
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1936
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The Informer, Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, was first filmed in England in 1929,...
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Gypo Nolan
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1935
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A writer of mysteries helps a house detective solve a murder in this murder mystery. The murder occurs in the hotel in which...
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Andy McCabe
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1935
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, Under Pressure tells of the competition between the crews employed to excavate a complex network of...
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Jumbo
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1935
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It's Grand Hotel on the high seas, with a remarkable cast -- particularly for the usually parsimonious Columbia Pictures. As...
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Schulte
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1934
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The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this murder mystery...
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Bill Murdock
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1934
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The rivalry between two deep-sea diver is chronicled in this adventure. The trouble begins when a young woman inherits one...
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Forty-Fathom
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934....
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The Sergeant
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1934
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Adapted from an earlier European film, Wharf Angel stars Dorothy Dell as Toy, a golden-hearted prostitute stranded in San...
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Turk
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1934
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The exploits of 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin have been immortalized in scores of poems, ballads, novels, plays...
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Dick Turpin
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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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McHale
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1933
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In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub.Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with...
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Flagg
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1933
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While Paris Sleeps is a grim expose of the European white slave trade. To save his daughter Manon (Helen Mack) from falling...
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Jacques Costaud
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1932
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Detective McKinley
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1932
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College football is satirized in this comedy that begins as racketeer "Knucks" McGoin buys Canarsie College and fills it...
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"Knucks" McGloin
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1932
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In this western, an eastern football star inherits the cattle ranch that paid his way through college. Unfortunately, he...
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1932
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The Calcutta Sweepstakes is the unifying factor of The Devil's Lottery. Among the winners of the sweepstakes are Evelyn...
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Jem Meech
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1932
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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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Scott Burrows
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1931
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Contemporary viewers who go into Dishonored expecting a musty, dated espionage melodrama will be in for a surprise....
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Lieutenant Kranau
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1931
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Sgt. Flagg
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1931
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In this screwball comedy, Annabelle Leigh (Jeanette MacDonald) happily spends the $5,000 sent her each month by her husband,...
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John Rawson
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1931
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In this western, three disreputable cowboys begin pursuing a beautiful lady because she possesses a map to a valuable gold...
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Bull Stanley
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1931
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1931
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In this romance, a none-too-bright sailor (Victor McLaglen) takes a trip to Paris, not realizing he had just won the...
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John Patrick Duke
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1930
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Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios'...
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1930
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A Devil with Women is the best way to describe soldier-of-fortune Jerry Maxton (Victor McLaglen). At large in South America,...
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Jerry Maxton
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1930
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In this drama, a macho ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New...
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Biff Williams
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1930
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Virile Victor McLaglen goes shirtless throughout most of the late silent Captain Lash. After rescuing wealthy ship's...
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Capt. Lash
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1929
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Top Sergeant Flagg
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1929
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In this comedy drama, an enormous baggage handler earns the reputation of being an all-'round good joe and soon gets...
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William "Strong Boy" Bloss
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1929
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In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned...
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Capt. Donald Gordon King
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1929
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Long believed lost, this fascinating John Ford-directed silent film was rediscovered and restored in the early 1970s. Based...
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Citizen Hogan
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1928
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The rampant male chauvinism in A Girl in Every Port might be hard for contemporary audiences to stomach, but fans of director...
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Spike Madden
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1928
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One of the first talkies, this film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous...
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Sailor Frinz
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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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Torrence O'Dowd
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1928
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Escamillo
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1927
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Men of Steel was the last of Milton Sills' four starring films in 1926. Sills plays Jan Bokak, a self-educated steelworker...
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Peter Masarick
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1926
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Victor McLaglen (then billed as Victor M'Laglen) easily stole this drama away from its star, Robert Frazer. Frazer's...
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1926
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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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Capt. Flagg
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1926
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Ronald Colman plays the title role in the first of several screen adaptations of Christopher Wren's tale of adventure in the...
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1926
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Early silent-screen star Charles Ray's career was in a dramatic decline when he starred in this average western melodrama...
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1925
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Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The...
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Poleon Doret
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1925
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Although Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning had made a couple of films together earlier in their careers, this unique...
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Hercules
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1925
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Track star Frank Merrill stars as Jack Melford in this hackneyed melodrama. Jack wins the track meet at the local college...
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1924
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A daring young pugilist saves a woman from a terrible fate at the hands of gypsies in this silent British adventure. ~...
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1924
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English-born character star Victor McLaglen made his Hollywood debut in this highly successful Western melodrama about...
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1924
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In this silent British boxing drama, a conniving woman frames her stepson into entering the squared circle in place of his...
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1923
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Victor McLaglen plays Frank Wilson, who early in the film is lost at sea. Declared legally dead, Wilson nonetheless returns...
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1923
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In this star-studded British mystery, the title refers to a band of blackmailers who have marked a group of important people...
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1922
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Comedy was not the forte of great character actor Lionel Barrymore, and this picture, based on the novel by Arnold Bennett,...
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1921
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Color cinematography was in its very early infancy when filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton made this period drama with an...
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1921
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Silvio Steno (Matheson Lang) is an actor who also manages the theater company that includes his wife Simonetta (Hilda Bayley...
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1921
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In this British silent film, future Hollywood star Victor McLaglen played a jockey whose winnings pay for a young woman's...
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1921
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