Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy),...
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1959
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Wallace Beery's final film was the curiously endearing "black comedy" Big Jack. Set in 1820, a time when "science was a crime...
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Big Jack Horner
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1949
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Alias a Gentleman is impeccably tailored to the slovenly talents of MGM star Wallace Beery. He's cast as Jim Breeden, an...
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Jim Breedin
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1948
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Melvin R. Foster
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1948
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Roy "Slag" McGurk
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1946
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Bad Bascomb is an expensive MGM western, tailor-made for the blubbery talents of Wallace Beery. Beery plays the badman of the...
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Zed Bascomb
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1946
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Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery), the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his...
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Ned Trumpet
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1945
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MGM intended Rationing to be an object lesson as well as a comedy, to teach the moviegoers the importance of rationing...
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Ben Barton
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1944
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A con artist heads for the gold fields of Nevada during the 1880s after he is tossed off of San Francisco's Barbary Coast....
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1944
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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Sgt. Maj. William Bailey
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1943
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Marmaduke "Just" Baggott
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1942
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Pancho Lopez
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1941
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Bill Johansen
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1941
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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"Hap" Doan
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1941
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In addition to being a fine Western in its own right, this film served to introduce perhaps Hollywood's oddest romantic...
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Reb Harkness
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1940
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As indicated by the title, 20 Mule Team is all about pioneering borax miners in territorial Arizona. Wallace Beery goes...
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Skinner Bill Bragg
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1940
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Wallace Beery trots out his "lovable lout" act for the zillionth time in Man From Dakota. Beery plays a Union army sergeant...
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Sgt. Barstow
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1940
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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Shaun Madden
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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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Thunder Afloat is set during the first world war. Wallace Beery plays an veteran tugboat captain who harbors a grudge against...
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Jon Thorson
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1939
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Directed with customary haste by Woody Van Dyke, Stand Up and Fight is an excellent dual vehicle for veteran Wallace Beery...
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Capt. Boss Starkey
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1939
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Stablemates is a typically treacly vehicle for Wallace Beery, who goes through his usual slobbery paces as an eternally...
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Tom Terry
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1938
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James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic Fanny. Madelon (Maureen O'Hara) is a lovely...
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1938
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Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is an outlaw with a heart...
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"Trigger" Bill
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1938
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Jack Thompson
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1937
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Good Old Soak was based on a story by Don Marquis, creator of the immortal "Archy and Mehitabel." Wallace Beery is well-cast...
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Clem Hawley
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1937
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In this remake of the 1920 Will Rogers comedy Honest Hutch, Wallace Beery stars as the eponymous Hutch, the ne'er-do-well...
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Hutch
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1936
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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Sgt. Dory
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1936
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! was filmed by MGM in 1935. Impressionable turn-of-the-century lad...
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Sid Davis
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1935
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Windy
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1935
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Big Mike (Wallace Beery) is a tough Army flyer who longs to see his son Little Mike (Robert Young) take to the air like...
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Big Mike
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1935
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China Seas proved that the recently imposed Hollywood production code had little if any effect on the popularity of MGM sex...
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Jamesy MacArdle
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1935
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Long John Silver
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1934
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A far from factual filmed biography of Mexican patriot Pancho Villa, Viva Villa! was written by lengendary screenwriter Ben...
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Pancho Villa
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1934
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Wallace Beery plays P.T. Barnum in this comic biography of the renowned showman. As the story opens, Phineas Taylor Barnum is...
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Phineas T. Barnum
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1934
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Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband...
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Terry Brennan
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1933
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In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on...
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Chuck Connors
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1933
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Dan Packard
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1933
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General Director Preysing
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1932
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Flesh was one of the few big-studio films to deal with the subject of professional wrestling--at least until Hulk Hogan came...
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Polakai
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1932
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Clark Gable was officially elevated to stardom with this airborne MGM action-adventure, but good old Wallace Beery (whom...
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Windy Reicher
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1932
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Wallace Beery won an Academy Award for his tour de force performance as a washed-up boxer. The bibulous Beery travels from...
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Andy Purcell
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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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Louis Scorpio
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1931
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1931
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This early talkie melodrama features a waterfront hotel-owner (Marie Dressler) and her relationship with an area fisherman...
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Bill
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1930
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Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery),...
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Butch Schmidt
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1930
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The life of merchant seamen is realistically portrayed in this adventure.
The story centers around two sailors who find...
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1930
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Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore made her film debut in MGM's A Lady's Morals. The film purports to be the biography of...
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P.T. Barnum
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1930
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The tall and virile Johnny Mack Brown portrays the short and dyspeptic outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid....
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Pat Garrett
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1930
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In his second talkie, former silent screen lover John Gilbert plays Jack, a sailor in the merchant marine who takes time out...
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Tripod McMasters
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1930
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The gruff but lovable Wallace Beery starred in this Zane Grey adaptation from Paramount. He plays the prototype outlaw with a...
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Lacey
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1929
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Chuck Riley
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1929
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In this melodrama set in the South, a plantation owner's son finishes his education in Philadelphia and returns to his...
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Gen. Orlando Jackson
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1929
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Oklahoma Red
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1928
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Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton team up again in this silent comedy, in which they (respectively) play Mike Doolan, a...
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Mike Doolan
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1928
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A popular comedy duo towards the end of the silent era, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatten once again join forces for this...
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Powder-Horn Pete
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1928
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Louis Hozenozzle
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1928
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Fireman Save My Child is an exceptionally well-constructed slapstick comedy, utilizing the talents of stars Wallace Beery and...
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Elmer
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1927
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A follow-up to the enormously successful Behind the Front, We're in the Navy Now reteams the stars of the earlier film,...
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"Knockout" Hansen
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1927
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Because of its heavy reliance on slapstick (a no-no for features in the late '20s), this picture, very loosely based on the...
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Casey
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1927
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Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a...
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1927
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During the late '20s, Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton made a series of comedies for Paramount. Although the studio hyped...
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Wally
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1927
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Jether (William Collier Jr.), a young man of Old Testament days, tends his father's sheep and longs to visit the big city. A...
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1926
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Volcano takes forever to get to the climactic eruption. In the meantime, the audience is subjected to the travails of...
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Quembo
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1926
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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Bos'n
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1926
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Riff Swanson
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1926
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Having tackled a wagon train in the immensely popular The Covered Wagon (1922), James Cruze directed this would-be epic...
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"Rhode Island" Red
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1925
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A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore. Beth...
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Cap Bulliwinkle
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1925
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Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford (Thomas Meighan) marries Alice Rand (Lila Lee), the daughter of his boss, John...
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Joe Lawler
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1925
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This adventure virtually butchers its source, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. But with stop-motion photography and...
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Prof. Challenger
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1925
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Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte (Ricardo Cortez) travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his childhood...
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M. Glavis
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1925
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Adventure was an appropriate title for a book by Jack London, and when his tale of the South Seas was made into a film, the...
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Morgan
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1925
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The subject matter to this Victor Fleming-directed drama is typically virile -- it takes place in Sacramento during the Gold...
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Ben
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1925
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Once he attained full stardom, silk-hatted comedian Raymond Griffith was rushed into several inexpensive Paramount vehicles....
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Dioblo
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1925
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This Cape Cod melodrama was based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln. Calvin Homer (Warner Baxter) expects to be promoted to...
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Capt. Bartlett
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1925
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Wallace Beery displayed a special talent for playing villains, and he has an especially good one here. However, the other...
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Jean Scholast
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1924
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This mystery starring Elaine Hammerstein was based on the novel by Harold McGrath. The story centers around two small...
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Karlov
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1924
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Capt. Wolf
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1924
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The meek and mild Gladstone Smith (Charles Ray) is a reporter for the morning edition. While following a lead on a murder...
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1924
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After the death of her father, Marise La Noue (Enid Bennett) can find no safe haven, so she runs off to Paris with Jean...
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Bobo
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1924
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Alla Nazimova had been away from the screen for over a year when she made this drama, and she was paid well under half her...
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1924
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Klaus Poole
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1924
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Two of the silent screen's major stars, beautiful blonde Alice Terry and British-born Conway Tearle, starred in this lavishly...
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"Dutch"
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1924
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This 12-reel silent adaptation of The Sea Hawk is far more faithful to the Rafael Sabatini original than the 1940...
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1924
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Although Universal billed this tense drama as a "Super Jewel," there's nothing epic about it -- it's a straightforward,...
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Joe Standish
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1924
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Thirty years after its release, Buster Keaton admitted that his first feature film was essentially three two-reel comedies...
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The Villain
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1923
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This Northwest melodrama was based on the novel The Law Bringers by G. B. Lancaster. Andree Grange (Renée Adorée), the...
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Barode Dukone
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1923
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Brothers Wallace and Noah Beery star together in this awkward melodrama. Wallace Beery -- who was known at the time for his...
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William McCabe
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1923
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Priscilla Dean made a name for herself at Universal by playing charming female crooks in a number of films. The character of...
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Jules Repin
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1923
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A crook melodrama whose working title "Lady Raffles" basically told the story, White Tiger was director Tod Browning's last...
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1923
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This is not the 1919 Swedish picture, but an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, That Lass o' Lowrie's. It takes...
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Dan Lowrie
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1923
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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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Richard I the Lionheart
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1923
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This adventurous drama of Russia's revolutionary days was based on the stage play by Earl Carroll. Wallace Beery -- at the...
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Felix Bavu
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1923
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The massacre of the Huguenots, previously dramatized in broad strokes by Griffith's Intolerance, served as the basis for...
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Duc de Tours
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1923
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The rights to Don Cesar, the novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, were originally purchased by Paramount as a vehicle for Rudolph...
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King Philip IV
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1923
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This was the second time Edward Rose's play was committed to celluloid (the first was in 1915). This Jerome Storm-directed...
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Kenwood Wright
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1922
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Robin Hood, Douglas Fairbanks' biggest (though not necessarily best) production of the silent era, represents the first time...
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Richard I the Lionheart
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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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aka Hell's River Just about every actor has to work his way up from supporting roles and this even includes Rin-Tin-Tin....
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Gaspard
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1922
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Not surprisingly, this Northwoods drama was adapted from a James Oliver Curwood novel, The Poetic Justice of Uko San. It...
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1922
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Dorothy Phillips stars in this tale of the sea, which was directed by her husband, Alan Holubar. Lola (Phillips) is the...
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Chris Borg
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1922
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In the ads for this comedy-drama, child-star Jackie Coogan looks almost exactly the same as he did in Charles Chaplin's The...
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Ed Lee
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1922
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Also-ran cowboy star Roy Stewart played a tough law and order sheriff in this independently produced silent western. Having...
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1922
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This melodrama bears no relation to the 1919 Doris Kenyon Western of the same name. It is based on the Cynthia Stockley novel...
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1922
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Even in 1921, tales of the Northwest Mounted Police had already been done countless times before, so this drama -- based on a...
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Bram Johnson
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1921
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This comedy, which was based on a stage play, got high marks from Moving Picture World, but would undoubtedly not be welcomed...
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Gustave Ludermann
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1921
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Douglas MacLean and Doris May made a number of popular light comedies in the late 1910s and early '20s. In the spirit of...
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1921
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1921
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This is one of a number of silent pictures in which a young American is raised as a Chinese girl, and even though she has no...
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Ling Jo
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1921
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No. 12,896
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1921
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Former socialite Maurice "Lefty" Flynn made a bid for western stardom in this mild silent western about a stranger mistaken...
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1921
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America has just entered World War I, and because of his name, German-American Oscar Krug (Hobart Bosworth) is thought to be...
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1920
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After finishing his first costumer swashbuckler The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. reverted to his standard formula...
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1920
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In the '20s, the Turkish empire was considered a lawless and barbaric place by Westerners who didn't understand the people's...
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1920
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Maurice Tourneur was the original director on the 1920 silent version of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, but he...
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Magua
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1920
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For some mysterious reason, producer Adolph Zukor decided to set the slapstick aside for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's first...
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1920
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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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Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great...
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1919
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In order to rescue his brother, society boy David Strong (Wallace Reid) has to travel through the underworld. He disguises...
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1919
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Axel Heyst (Jack Holt) is taught bitter lessons by his father -- that pity is contemptible and sympathy is useless. So the...
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1919
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1918
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1917
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This silent video features Teddy, the Great Dane who rescues Gloria Swanson from a villain. ~ Rovi...
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1916
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An outright farce produced in Chicago by the Essanay company, this film was set in the country of Morovenia, where fat women...
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1915
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1915
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1914
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Ladies World magazine held a contest in which they ran several mystery stories. The winners had to come up with the best...
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1914
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1914
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Before he teamed up with Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy already had a long career in comedy films. While it has been said that he...
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1914
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Narration and music accompany this two part collection of clips. The moments that left you hanging are collected in this...
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