This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film...
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1961
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Charlie Chan was the Jessica Fletcher of the 1930s; no matter where he took a vacation, someone got murdered! This time, the...
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Charlie Chan
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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Charlie Chan
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1937
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In New York to attend a police testimonial in his honor, Honolulu detective Charlie Chan runs smack dab into another murder....
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Charlie Chan
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1937
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Charlie Chan
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1936
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Enjoying a break from crime-solving, oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) takes his 12 children to the circus. It...
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Charlie Chan
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1936
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En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow...
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Charlie Chan
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1936
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A serial-like pace and some stylish directorial choices by Gordon Wiles distinguish this "Charlie Chan" entry. The reading of...
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Charlie Chan
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1935
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The stigma of miscegenation (horrors!) is at the base of this very dated romantic melodrama. Charles Boyer stars as Dmitri...
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Ambassador Lun Sing
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1935
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After wrapping up his last case in Egypt, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) heads to Shanghai for a well-deserved rest. It isn't...
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Charlie Chan
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1935
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As much a horror film as a murder mystery, Charlie Chan in Egypt is one of the best entries in the "Chan" series. The story...
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Charlie Chan
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1935
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Originally intended as a vehicle for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this Universal production predated The Wolf Man by six...
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Dr. Yogami
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1935
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The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his...
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Charlie Chan
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1935
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The official cast list of Warner Bros. Mandalay states that Kay Francis plays a character named Tanya. For most of the film,...
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Nick
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1934
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Hippolitus
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1934
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Gen. Yu
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1934
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Honolulu detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) spends an eventful weekend at an English country estate in this fog-bound...
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Charlie Chan
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1934
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This second and final "Bulldog Drummond" film to star Ronald Colman, finds the famed sleuth in the midst of a sinister plan...
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Prince Achmed
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1934
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Warner Oland made his fifth appearance as wily Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. Hired...
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Charlie Chan
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1934
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Warner Oland returns as wily, philosophical oriental detective Charlie Chan in this expensive-looking series entry. This...
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Charlie Chan
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1933
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This suspenseful, exciting mystery is based upon an Edgar Wallace story and centers upon the search for $1 million in buried...
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Dr. Paul Cornelius
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1933
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In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries...
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Baron von Sydow
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1932
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San Francisco's Chinatown provides the setting of this dramatic romance set in 1911. At this time in China, a major uprising...
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Fen Sha
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1932
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Warner Oland's third appearance as humble oriental sleuth Charlie Chan was in the 1932 release Charlie Chan's Chance. This...
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Charlie Chan
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1932
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Henry Chang
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1932
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Charlie Chan
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1931
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Mr. Andrew North
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1931
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Actress Shelah Fane (Dorothy Revier) is in Honolulu to shoot a movie, but her chaotic personal life is keeping her from...
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Charlie Chan
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1931
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In this entry in the mystery series, the Chinese criminal mastermind exacts revenge upon his enemy Fletcher, the man...
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Fu Manchu
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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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Gen. von Hindau
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1931
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Most existing prints of the 1931 melodrama Drums of Jeopardy are in pretty bad shape, but it's worth enduring the tinny...
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Boris Karlov
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1931
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The legend of renegade French poet Francois Villon was dramatized in the 1901 Justin McCarthy play If I Were King. This...
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Thibault
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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Dr. Fu Manchu
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1930
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Joseph Conrad's novel Victory inspired some of this South Sea drama. Alma (Nancy Carroll), a violinist hired to play at an...
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Schomberg
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1930
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Boston Charley
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1929
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A good cast was wasted in this poor silent melodrama about a young wastrel, Frank Clayton (Gaston Glass), who engages a fake...
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1929
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The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery....
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Rupert Borka
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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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Dr. Fu Manchu
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1929
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In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe...
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"Shiv" Sterky
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1929
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The Duke, Current Dicator
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1928
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Chika
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1928
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Mosher Turkeltaub
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1928
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Zaneriff
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1928
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On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound...
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Cantor Rabinowitz
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1927
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Andre Lescaut
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1927
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A Million Bid came about because Warner Bros. promised a film of that title to exhibitors in early 1927. Unable to deliver at...
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Geoff Marsh
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1927
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Warner Oland took time out from his customary screen villainy to play the title character in the sentimental backstage drama...
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Good Time Charley
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1927
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Chris Buckwell
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1927
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The girl's father
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1927
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Long before he was established as screendom's Charlie Chan, Warner Oland was Warner Bros.' "all-purpose" character actor,...
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W. Bradberry
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1927
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The publicity packet for The Mystery Club boasted an "all-star cast" -- which, by 1926 standards, it was. Nat Carr,...
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1926
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Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no...
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Cesare Borgia
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1926
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Although she made an unforgettable impression in Charles Chaplin's The Gold Rush, Georgia Hale spent the rest of her short...
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1926
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A tough-as-nails Marine sergeant sets about training a rag-tag group of boys into men. Though sporting a rough and gruff...
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1926
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Though his glory days as a matinee idol were well behind him in 1926, Francis X. Bushman cut quite a dashing figure in the...
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MCLK Rovenal
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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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1926
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Douglas Fairbanks returns as the great Spanish swashbuckler in this sequel to The Mark of Zorro. Don Cesar de Vega...
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Archduke Paul of Austria
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1925
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Adapted from a novel by Julian LaMothe, The Winding Stair stars Edmund Lowe as Paul, a fearless French Foreign Legion...
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Petras
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1925
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Judge Dyer,Lew Walters
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1925
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According to the Paramount publicity mill, Joseph Hergesheimer wrote this unoriginal tale of California's early days...
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Luke Rand
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1925
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The story to this romantic satire was penned by William Elwell Oliver, the winner of a writing contest that Universal Studios...
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Fu Shing
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1924
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This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar...
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King David
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1924
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The story to this melodrama came from one of the "Limehouse" stories written by Thomas Burke, the same author who wrote the...
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Shanghai Dan
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1924
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Although Laurette Taylor starred in this drama on Broadway and reprised her role for the screen, she seems miscast. Taylor...
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1924
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Osman Pasha
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1924
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It was impossible for director Sam Wood to include all of Arthur Train's sprawling novel in this picture. Instead he seems to...
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1923
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Although it sounds ludicrous to slap a black wig on vivacious blonde Constance Talmadge and try to pass her off as a Chinese...
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Charley Yong
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1922
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This virile drama, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures, was based on the novel by then-popular author...
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1922
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Elsie Ferguson has a dual role, as mother and daughter, in this tale of gambling fever. Chichita (Ferguson) has a gambler...
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1919
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1919
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In the days before television and the Internet, faraway places such as the Middle East and Asia -- and their cultures --...
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1918
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Like virtually all of Theda Bara's starring vehicles, The Eternal Sappho is a lost film. Contemporary historians, however,...
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1916
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That cinematic "vampire" Theda Bara played the wicked wife of a Pennsylvania foundry owner who not only kills her own stepson...
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1915
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1915
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