Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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1945
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In this tuneful comedy adventure, a free-spirited fellow with a keen eye for easy money is assigned to sail to a remote...
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1945
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U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante....
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1944
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In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless...
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1944
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In this swashbuckler, a princess is raised by gypsies and becomes their queen. The trouble really begins when a count is...
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1944
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The Lone Star Trail was the last of Johnny Mack Brown's series westerns for Universal; thereafter, he pitched camp at...
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1943
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1943
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Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the...
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1942
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Despite its title and the fact that it was made by Universal Studios, 1942's The Silver Bullet has nothing to do with...
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1942
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In this western, a frontier detective disguised as an entertainer performs for the leader of an outlaw gang. At the same...
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1942
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John Wayne stars in this hard-driving oater which was co-written by character actor Paul Fix. Wayne plays Rocklin, a...
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1941
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In this western, a mining engineer vengefully seeks out the claim jumpers that murdered his brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1941
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Teenaged soprano Gloria Jean plays the Little-Miss-Fixit heroine in Universal's Little Bit of Heaven. The most precocious...
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1940
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This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature...
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1940
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The assistant to a railroad president battles an evil empire builder in this 13 chapter adventure serial produced by...
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1940
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In his third starring Western, former radio singer Tex Ritter played a minstrel performer turned tax collector! During a...
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1937
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The first of three inexpensive serials produced by Louis Weiss for Poverty Row company Stage and Screen Productions, The...
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1936
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The second of singing cowboy Dick Foran's Warner Bros. westerns, Song of the Saddle was a decided improvement on the first...
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1936
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1936
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In his second "Range Rider" music Western for poverty row newcomer Grand National, Tex Ritter played Tex Saunders, the...
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1936
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1936
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Yet another Zorro imitation, this adventure serial starred Robert Livingston as Don Loring, whose father and brother are...
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1936
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This western tells the story of a brave Army captain assigned to escort an important official's daughter through Indian...
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1936
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Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned...
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1936
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This 12-chapter cliffhanger serial concerns a masked avenger who tries to stop a corrupt General from seizing enough gold to...
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1936
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Although billed fourth, Veteran silent screen actor Franklyn Farnum is the real star of this ultra low-budget Western from...
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1935
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In this adventure set in the Canadian wilderness, a courageous Mountie risks it all to bring in the crooks who killed his...
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1935
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This B-grade western from director Robert Emmett Tansey stars Bobby Nelson, Jimmy Aubrey and William Desmond, in its tale of...
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1935
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1935
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William Colt MacDonald's 1934 story based on the Three Mesqueteers characters was brought to the screen the following year by...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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In this western, a family is threatened by poison pen letters. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1935
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The Mounties get their man in this adventure. This time they enlist the aid of Captain Dog and Dynamite the Horse to destroy...
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1935
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A streamlined, fast-paced silent B-Western, this Tom Tyler vehicle was one of several oaters featuring a very young, still...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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Louis Weiss (of Poverty Row's Weiss Bros.) produced this commonplace B-Western starring one of the lesser names of the genre,...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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His dramatic fall broken by sacks of flour, Dick (Richard Talmadge) once again emerges unharmed and the voyage to the...
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Captain Carson
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1934
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1934
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A young auto mechanic gets a job with Three Points Airlines, and helps to get them a government mail contract in this action...
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1934
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Perhaps the weirdest Western from Poverty Row entrepreneur Victor Adamson, The Rawhide Terror features Art Mix (aka...
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1934
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Ex-convict Steve Nichols (Onslow Stevens) may be a free man, but it looks like he'll never be able to escape the onus of his...
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1934
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Written (under the pseudonym of Jimmy Hawkey) and directed by Robert F. Hill, this very low-budget Western from poverty row...
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1934
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According to legend, B-movie star Blanche Mehaffey valiantly but unsuccessfully attempted to keep her old potboilers out of...
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1934
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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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The strapping Tom Tyler, in his fourth and last serial for Universal, played a daredevil pilot coming to the aid of a...
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1933
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The first of five Western serials Buck Jones was to make for Universal, this film was based on a story by Peter B. Kyne, Oh,...
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1933
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Curley Fletcher's famous lament "The Strawberry Roan became Ken Maynard's favorite Western and went a long way to popularize...
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1933
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Adapted from Alexander Dumas's novel, this adventure is about a trio of Foreign Legion friends who confront the Devil of the...
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1933
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1933
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A serial remake of a 1926 Western feature starring William Boyd, The Last Frontier became an early opportunity for young Lon...
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1932
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1932
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Ken Maynard searches for a wayward youngster in this average Western from his days with low-budget KBS Productions. A rancher...
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sheriff
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1932
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Mascot Pictures' second all-talkie sound serial, Phantom of the West starred Tom Tyler as Jim Lester, a young man attempting...
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Martin Blain
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1931
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A cast of silent-film veterans distinguishes the pedestrian crime drama First Aid. Grant Withers stars as a doctor who is...
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1931
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Charles Delaney, an all-purpose actor who appeared in several Poverty Row productions of the early 1930s, assumes the role of...
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1931
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"Suggested" by the book The West That Was by legendary showman William F. Cody, this 12 chapter Universal serial was merely...
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1931
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In this western, the Indians are chasing a cowboy whom they blame for a young woman's suicide. They believe the white guy...
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1931
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Filmed at Newhall, CA, with exteriors shot at Universal City, Mascot Pictures' The Vanishing Legion became the little...
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1931
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In this crime drama, a down-on-his-luck attorney with connections to a diamond thief is framed for the thief's murder by the...
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1930
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Although his popularity eroded with each successive talkie appearance, silent-film favorite Monte Blue fulfilled his Warner...
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John Harper
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1929
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1928
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Hardly an important film, Finger Prints pleased the crowd with its heady combination of slapstick comedy and old-dark-house...
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1927
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Directed by one of "Uncle" Carl Laemmle's many relatives, this Universal "Blue Streak Western" sat on the shelf for two years...
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1927
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Mae Busch's career was at its nadir when she starred in this low-budget political drama. Helen Hanby (Busch) weds governor...
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1927
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Smiling Bill Flannigan (William Desmond), a once-renowned prizefighter, escapes West after accidentally killing an opponent...
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Smiling Bill Flannigan
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1925
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Jesse J. Goldburg's small-scale Independent Pictures scooped the competition when they managed to hire such proven box-office...
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1925
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1925
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The oft-filmed Oklahoma land rush took center stage once again in this lavish 15-chapter Universal Western serial starring...
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Dan Harvey
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1925
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The Robin Hood legend reached the West with this exciting oater starring the veteran William Desmond. Desmond plays a Wall...
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Richard Gilmore
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1925
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"God Damn" O'Day (William Desmond) swears off gambling after he is falsely accused of murdering the husband of a saloon vamp,...
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1925
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J.P. McGowan, who specialized in directing low-budget action pictures during the silent era, focuses on bootlegging here....
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Rex Brandon
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1925
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Taking a breather from Westerns and serials, action hero William Desmond starred in this silent comedy-drama about a crook...
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1924
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The second version of novelist Henry Herbert Knibbs' western romance Overland Red, previously filmed in 1920 under that title...
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1924
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This crude melodrama starring William Desmond seems like it came from an earlier age when it's compared to other films of the...
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John Fairmeadow
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1924
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Burned by a recent series of scandals that included the Fatty Arbuckle manslaughter case and the February 1, 1922, murder of...
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1923
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Edison Marshall's 1922 novel about prospectors in Northern Canada, The Skyline of Spruce, came to the screen the following...
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1923
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Released in 12 chapters, two reels each, this Universal serial starred the veteran William Desmond as Phineas Fogg III, the...
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Phineas Fogg III
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1923
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Mabel Normand's last feature-length film is also one of her most entertaining. Sue Graham (Normand) lives in the tiny hamlet...
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1923
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In this tale of the Northwest Mounted Police, William Desmond goes through his paces without a lot of enthusiasm (and, at the...
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Bob McGuire
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1923
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Manly William Desmond stars in this virile, low-budget Western. When Bud McGraw (Desmond) returns from the Great War, he is...
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Bud McGraw
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1921
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For their screen debut, stage stars Mr. and Mrs. Carter DeHaven played Signor Monti and Blanche Hawkins in the bedroom farce...
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1920
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John Maude (William Desmond) was working for his uncle, but has just been fired because he overstayed his vacation when he...
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1919
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William Desmond stars as "The Sea Panther," a gentleman pirate plying his trade in Days of Olde. Though ruthless with his...
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1918
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William Desmond, he of the dazzling smile and sleek physique, was starred in the Triangle feature Society for Sale. Desmond...
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1918
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When World War I breaks out and the Germans invade Belgium, a Russian girl, Olga Raminoff (Clara Williams), is staying at an...
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1917
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Jules (William Desmond) is the last of the once-respected Ingraham family. He is a drunk, scorned by everyone in the New...
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1917
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An amusing picture which was shot at the brand new Ince Studios in Culver City, future home of MGM. William Desmond plays...
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1917
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This William S. Hart film would never pass muster with present day Native Americans! Hart plays half-breed Joe Elk who wavers...
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1916
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1916
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Lieutenant Danny Ward (William Desmond) has just graduated from West Point and is sent down to the U.S.-Mexican border. He...
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1916
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In this silent drama, a socialite and her family lose their fortune. In order to make some fast money, she becomes a model...
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1916
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Stage luminary Lenore Ulrich played the titular heroine in the Morosco-Paramount production Kilmeny. Kidnapped by gypsies as...
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1915
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