Guilty? could be regarded as a precursor to Citizen Kane -- except that the first film isn't one-20th as good as the second....
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1930
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Behind Closed Doors was one of the last silent films released by Columbia Pictures. Set in a mythical Slavic country, the...
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1929
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Released in both silent and sound versions, Isle of Lost Ships stars Jason Robards Sr. as Frank Howard, an accused criminal...
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Dorothy Whitlock/Renwick
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1929
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The Lost Zeppelin offers a bonanza of special effects and art-deco sets with a nickel's worth of plot. The film begins at a...
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Mrs. Hall
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1929
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This second filmization of Paul Armstrong's play Escape is a bleak study of slum life. Virginia Valli plays May Joyce, the...
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May Joyce
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1928
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Street of Illusion was based on a story by once-popular playwright Channing Pollock. Ian Keith is well-cast as a pompous ham...
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Sylvia
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1928
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After several collaborative efforts, Alfred Hitchcock made his solo directorial debut in the German-British co-production...
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Patsy Brand
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1927
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Victor Heerman wore two creative hats during the filming of Ladies Must Dress; not only did he direct the picture, but he...
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Eve
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1927
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It stands to reason that the sartorially splendid Adolphe Menjou would star in a picture called Evening Clothes. At the...
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Germaine
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1927
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Becka
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1927
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Believe it or not: The domestic drama Marriage was based on a story by H.G. Wells. Alan Durant plays scientist R.A.G....
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Marjori Pope
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1927
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It has often been reported that Howard Hawks tried and failed to create an "art" film with Paid to Love, only to return to...
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Gaby
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1927
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Although Virginia Valli is given top billing in this drama about World War I, Orville Caldwell has the biggest role, and the...
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Margaret Dix
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1927
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Upon becoming a wife and mother, prima ballerina Mme. Lamphier (Virginia Valli) gives up her stellar career. But she can't...
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Madame Lamphier
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1927
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Claudia Langham
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1926
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The Family Upstairs is based on the same-named play by Harry Delf. The titular family is comprised of losers and layabouts,...
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Louise Hellor
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1926
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This melodrama -- one of the last gasps from Associated Exhibitors -- features an excellent cast, with Jean Hersholt taking...
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1926
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During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virgina...
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Fay Kennion
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1925
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Tom Macaulay (Thomas Meighan) and his brother Edwin (Russell Griffin) both hold positions at the bank belonging to their...
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Nora Brooks
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1925
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This routine domestic drama was based on a stage play by Owen Davis. Jane Cornwall, a wealthy heiress (Virginia Valli),...
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Jane Cornwall
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1925
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This ordinary romantic programmer starred Universal regulars Norman Kerry and Virginia Valli. Linnie Randall, a shopgirl...
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Linnie Randall
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1925
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Mary Alden stands out as the powerful matriarch in this drama. Elderly Aunt Augusta (Alden) runs the great Ruyland Iron...
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Fredericka
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1925
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It's a pity that there are apparently no longer any public copies available of this suspense drama by King Vidor because at...
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Nellie Stope
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1924
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Wade (George Nash) is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan (Thomas Meighan) and Larry Maddox...
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Margaret Leland
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1924
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Sidney Page (Virginia Valli) is studying to be a nurse. All the young men are in love with her in the small town where she...
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Sidney Page
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1924
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Running five reels, Famous Players' The Lady of Quality was a faithful adaptation of the same-named theatrical drama....
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Clorinda Wildairs
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1923
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This tale of a crook's reform takes place in the San Francisco of the early 1900s. Predictably, Lon Chaney plays a crook and...
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1923
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Based on Langdon McCormick's 1919 play, this silent melodrama stars Matt Moore and House Peters as War veterans sharing a...
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1922
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This mystery is based on the novel by Louis Joseph Vance. While on vacation, Billy Kirkwood (Herbert Rawlinson) meets pretty...
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Dorothy Calendar
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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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Alice
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1922
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Between the time Franz Molnar's play Liliom was first seen on-stage and 1956, when the Rodgers and Hammerstein version,...
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Nora O'Brien
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1921
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When the brutal Captain Briggs (a miscast Dustin Farnum) destroys a Malay idol, a native witch (Evelyn Selbie) puts a curse...
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Laura
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1921
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Tommy Sandys (Gareth Hughes) is a poor Scottish boy who has an endless imagination. At the age of 16, he comes to the town of...
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1921
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1920
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In a poker game, an English aristocrat (Lawrence D'Orsay) loses his valet, Marmaduke Ruggles (Taylor Holmes), to an American....
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1918
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Mary Pierce
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1917
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This simple scenario is based on a story by Henry Irving Dodge which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Skinner...
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1917
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