Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery

Birthday: 1885-03-31

Place of Birth: Clay County, Missouri, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, his titular role in a series of films featuring the character Sweedie, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Beery appeared in some 250 movies over a 36-year span. He was the brother of actor Noah Berry.

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The Lost World
The Lost World

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric c...

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Three Ages
Three Ages

The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villa...

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Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache....

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The Secret Six
The Secret Six

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, mastermind...

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The Champ
The Champ

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son....

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Treasure Island
Treasure Island

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is c...

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Viva Villa!
Viva Villa!

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in ...

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The Last Trail
The Last Trail

The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town, and ...

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The Hour and the Man
The Hour and the Man

A lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man was ...

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Looking for Trouble
Looking for Trouble

Mr. Simp is subservient to all his wife does or says, and as his wife is a militant suffragette, Mr....

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Grass County Goes Dry
Grass County Goes Dry

Grass County Goes Dry...

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Wrong All Around
Wrong All Around

Howard Simpkins suspects his wife and is therefore jealous....

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A Queer Quarantine
A Queer Quarantine

Jack Hastings writes a letter to his sweetheart, Kate, to come to his assistance as Count Caesar de ...

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One-to-Three
One-to-Three

Willie Brace. Harry Bitt and Johnny Argue are three typical hall-room boys. They come up with a sche...

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The Bargain Hunters
The Bargain Hunters

This is a pleasing story of a young married couple, who are the victims of a boarding house. They de...

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The Winner
The Winner

Dan Ryan and Fritz Noodle, two would-be politicians, succumb to the charming mannerisms of the Widow...

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And He Came Back
And He Came Back

Mr. Secondchoice becomes very much peeved when he discovers early one morning that his wife has deco...

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The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar
The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar

Thomas Terpin. James Riding and Jack Hazard are sitting in the club when the talk drifts to a daring...

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Mrs. Manly's Baby
Mrs. Manly's Baby

Mrs. Manly and Mrs. G. Howe Wise are close friends and sisters in the same Suffrage Legion in a smal...

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Jane
Jane

Because her father breaks her engagement to a young man, Jane, a spoiled girl of luxury, retires to ...

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Making Him Over -- For Minnie
Making Him Over -- For Minnie

Ruth, a young manicurist, is desperately in love with Jimmie White, a mechanic. Ruth's friends make ...

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Actor Finney's Finish
Actor Finney's Finish

James Finney, a would-be actor, is discharged from the Gaiety Theater and thrown bodily into the str...

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Curing a Husband
Curing a Husband

His greatest fault was drink....

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Oh, Doctor
Oh, Doctor

Beulah Crane, a student at boarding school, becomes very much interested in a young fellow she think...

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Three Little Powders
Three Little Powders

Mrs. Wallace Williams is much given to conversation and, when she and her husband have a word battle...

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The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine

The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine...

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This Is the Life
This Is the Life

Farmer Stebbens and his son, Hiram, attend a convention in New York City, and while there become acq...

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Sweedie the Swatter
Sweedie the Swatter

Mrs. Highstrung's maid leaves her at a very inopportune time, as she has just received a telegram fr...

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The Epidemic
The Epidemic

Argentino Boldo has a valuable book in his possession that Texas Tommy, Hesitation Nell and One-Step...

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The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps
The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps

He was too big for this world when a Phrenologist told him he was a modern Napoleon....

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Countess Sweedie
Countess Sweedie

Countess Von Swatt goes on a slumming party and loses one of her calling cards in the "hash house" w...

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Sweedie's Hero
Sweedie's Hero

Sweedie gets a job as mop artist in a hotel. She starts out from home encumbered with baggage and a ...

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The Fickleness of Sweedie
The Fickleness of Sweedie

Henry Bigger, a short fat fellow, and Danny Slimson, short but slim, are rivals for the hand of Swee...

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Sweedie at the Fair
Sweedie at the Fair

Sweedie, the cook at the Rich household, buys a donkey from the captain of the police, but forgets t...

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Sweedie Collects for Charity
Sweedie Collects for Charity

Mrs. Goodheart, a charity worker, comes home one evening very much discouraged as she is unable to g...

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Sweedie the Trouble Maker
Sweedie the Trouble Maker

Sweedie has two admirers, and is undecided as to which one she prefers to marry. Her parents are in ...

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Their Cheap Vacation
Their Cheap Vacation

The Newlyweds read in the newspaper of an ideal automobile trip which only costs $12. Mr. Newlywed d...

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The New Teacher
The New Teacher

The country school board assigns a new teacher, and the lot falls to none other than Sweedie....

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Sweedie and the Hypnotist
Sweedie and the Hypnotist

Sweedie is the scrub lady in the theater. She makes eyes at the stage manager and the hypnotist and ...

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The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify
The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify

Rube Homer Splivins imitates the actions of a famous matinee idol in order to woo his lady love....

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Madame Double X
Madame Double X

Mr. Von Crooks and his son are in love with Madame Double X. One night Von Crooks, Jr., elopes with ...

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Sweedie's Suicide
Sweedie's Suicide

Sweedie decides to commit suicide when she is jilted by her sweetheart, the captain of the police de...

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Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind
Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind

Two excellent fables in one reel. "The Fable of Another Side-Track an dthe Fatal Album," and "The F...

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Two Hearts That Beat as Ten
Two Hearts That Beat as Ten

Mildred refuses Archie's proposal of marriage. Shortly after Fred arrives and she accepts him as her...

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Sweedie and Her Dog
Sweedie and Her Dog

Mr. Dingy engages Sweedie as their cook. She insists upon bringing her dog "Skinny" and her parrot a...

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Sweedie and the Sultan's Present
Sweedie and the Sultan's Present

Sweedie while reading a book in the kitchen, falls asleep. She dreams that Kao Yama, Sultan of Puff ...

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The Victor
The Victor

When Mrs. Justwed receives a note from her mother telling her that she expects to arrive next day, h...

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The Our Gang Story
The Our Gang Story

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed s...

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Sweedie's Skate
Sweedie's Skate

Sweedie the cook adorns herself in her employer's jewels and goes to the skating rink where she is t...

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Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie
Golf Champion 'Chick' Evans Links with Sweedie

"Chick" Evans, western amateur golf champion, is seen playing golf with his sister. Sweedie is the c...

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Sweedie's Clean-Up
Sweedie's Clean-Up

Sweedie's father is the owner of a grocery store, and Sweedie takes care of the trade while father p...

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The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man
The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man

Buchanan Bartlett, shiftless son of Hiram Bartlett, farmer retired, is sent to college to learn thin...

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The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed
The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed

The coming "champ" decides he is so good he can go around a Dub like a Cooper around a Barrel....

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A Maid of War
A Maid of War

While Sweedie is studying her war map in her grog shop, two bums enter the place and start drinking ...

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The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in
The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in

The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week...

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When Knights Were Bold
When Knights Were Bold

The Earl is disgusted when his parents insist that he marry the girl of their choice, not his own. H...

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The Prevailing Craze
The Prevailing Craze

Dancing instructor Madame Cassell spends the day having her feet trampled by auto enthusiast Wally t...

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The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth
The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth

Old man Suggs was feeling Kippy one day, so his son Joel, a little short of pocket money, persuades ...

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Sweedie and the Double Exposure
Sweedie and the Double Exposure

The boy has a camera and snaps Sweedie, the cook, while sitting on the bench in the back yard. Later...

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Topsy-Turvy Sweedie
Topsy-Turvy Sweedie

Mr. Rhyme, a poet, is distracted at his work by the different noises in his home. To cap the climax ...

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She Landed a Big One
She Landed a Big One

Sweedie tells her beau that her love has grown cold, so he decides to jump in the lake and end it al...

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Three Boiled Down Fables
Three Boiled Down Fables

#1: The Household Comedian; #2: Why Essie's Friends Got the Fresh Air; #3: The Prevailing Craze....

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Sweedie and the Lord
Sweedie and the Lord

Mr. and Mrs. Skidoo receive a letter from Lord Bunkum, saying he is coming to pay them a visit. They...

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Sweedie Springs a Surprise
Sweedie Springs a Surprise

Sweedie, the cook at the Prim household, is a little too rough to suit Mr. Prim, who is about three ...

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In and Out
In and Out

Hans and Fritz are two street musicians. Hans plays the flute and Fritz the bass violin. They have g...

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Rivalry and War
Rivalry and War

Krautmeyer owns a bakery while Schmidt runs a delicatessen store next door. They fight continually a...

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Love and Soda
Love and Soda

The plumber, a powerful fellow, decides to give up his trade and become a soda fountain clerk in ord...

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The Plum Tree
The Plum Tree

A young woman's father arranges a loveless marriage for her to a banker to whom he owes money, but s...

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Cheering a Husband
Cheering a Husband

Light comedy silent short starring Wallace Beery....

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The Ups and Downs
The Ups and Downs

The Ups and Downs of life on the range with a young Wallace Beery....

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A Pound for a Pound
A Pound for a Pound

Starvation faces the little post of Red Gold. Jack Thorpe, in a final effort to obtain food for his ...

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Love and Trouble
Love and Trouble

Sweedie holds a clandestine meeting with her beau in the kitchen of her employers, a young married c...

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The Fable of the Roistering Blades
The Fable of the Roistering Blades

Out in the celery belt there is a stunted flag station whose leading citizens still wear gum arctics...

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Just a Few Little Things
Just a Few Little Things

Archie, a man well past the age of forty-five proposes to Mildred, a young and pretty girl and is re...

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The Bouquet
The Bouquet

The girl gets a beautiful bouquet of flowers from her fiancé, who wants her to enjoy the fragrance b...

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A Capable Lady Cook
A Capable Lady Cook

Hubby can't stand his wife's cooking and he goes to the employment agency and gets Sweedy as a new c...

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The Slim Princess
The Slim Princess

Gloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey. All effo...

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Sweedie Learns to Ride
Sweedie Learns to Ride

Sweedie, with her arms splattered by dough, looks out the window and sees her mistress just mounting...

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Ain't It the Truth?
Ain't It the Truth?

When Donald Wellington is ordered from the house by his sweetheart's father, they decide to elope. H...

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Maggie's First False Step
Maggie's First False Step

Maggie's First False Step...

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Sweedie's Hopeless Love
Sweedie's Hopeless Love

Sweedie has fallen in love with the grocery boy, and in order to gaze upon his smiling face orders g...

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Sweedie in Vaudeville
Sweedie in Vaudeville

Sweedie, the theater's scrubwoman, in love with the unappreciative props, become enamored with the i...

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Are Waitresses Safe?
Are Waitresses Safe?

Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock...

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Father's New Maid
Father's New Maid

Mr. Grouch has a decided antipathy for young men who call on his daughter. He shows it by ejecting a...

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Done in Wax
Done in Wax

Once upon a time a professor ordered the wax figure of King Woof, a celebrated eastern potentate who...

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Sweedie's Finish
Sweedie's Finish

Sweedie, the servant girl, is in love with a fireman, but her affections are not returned. The firem...

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The Janitor
The Janitor

John, the janitor, has a pet monkey that accompanies him on his different jobs. Because of the monke...

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Bombs and Banknotes
Bombs and Banknotes

The Janitor arrives, turns his things over to the valet, puts on overalls and jumper and gets to wor...

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Sweedie, the Janitor
Sweedie, the Janitor

A janitor finds a piece of jewelry dropped by a young woman, which he in turn gives to his wife. Fee...

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Cactus Nell
Cactus Nell

Cactus Nell...

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A Bedroom Blunder
A Bedroom Blunder

A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the l...

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That Night
That Night

There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune ...

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The Lone Wolf's Daughter
The Lone Wolf's Daughter

At a London auction, Princess Sonia bids against her husband, exiled Prince Victor, for a Corot land...

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Patsy
Patsy

Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother ...

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813
813

Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power unde...

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Only a Janitor
Only a Janitor

A mild-mannered, well-meaning but bumbling janitor gets unwittingly involved in a battle between two...

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The Love Burglar
The Love Burglar

A young man infiltrates the underworld by pretending to be a convicted burglar. While undercover, he...

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Soldiers of Fortune
Soldiers of Fortune

Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits i...

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A Beach Nut
A Beach Nut

A Beach Nut...

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The Policeman and the Baby
The Policeman and the Baby

A crook returns home to find his mother dead and about to be buried in Potters Field. This prompts h...

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The Rookie's Return
The Rookie's Return

A young soldier is discharged from the service and has trouble making a living. However, when he inh...

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Sleeping Acres
Sleeping Acres

Australian actor Snowy Baker's first American movie made for producer Willian N. Selig who specializ...

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The Ne'er to Return Road
The Ne'er to Return Road

A mother is waiting for her boy, not knowing that he is dead. An escaped convict falls exhausted at ...

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Sweet Revenge
Sweet Revenge

Mr. Phil Culture provokes his friends by boasting of his remarkable strength and physical perfection...

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Dad's Insanity
Dad's Insanity

Dad's Insanity...

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Day by Day
Day by Day

Day by Day film...

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A Successful Failure
A Successful Failure

Ray and Roy Cheep are both in love with the charming manicurist, but each is unaware of his brother'...

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Kitty's Knight
Kitty's Knight

"Pudge" Malone, an artist's model, is in love with Kitty Casey, but Mike McMann is fast making his w...

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The Usual Way
The Usual Way

The Usual Way...

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A Foot of Romance
A Foot of Romance

Jim Foley is a splendid fellow, but his huge feet, which are almost as large as his heart, are conti...

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The Right of Way
The Right of Way

The Right of Way...

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Love Incognito
Love Incognito

Jack has fallen in love with an unknown beauty, and when he and his friend Tom meet her on the stree...

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Their Wives' Indiscretion
Their Wives' Indiscretion

Tom Brown cannot persuade his wife to go calling with him. Mr. Jones, an intimate friend, is disappo...

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At the Old Maid's Call
At the Old Maid's Call

At the Old Maid's Call...

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Hello, Trouble
Hello, Trouble

Hello, Trouble...

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Smithy's Grandma Party
Smithy's Grandma Party

Smithy's Grandma Party...

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Wild Honey
Wild Honey

Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. ...

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The Flame of Life
The Flame of Life

Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derric...

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Only a Shop Girl
Only a Shop Girl

Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culpr...

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I Am the Law
I Am the Law

Brothers Tom and Bob Fitzgerald are both members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob falls in love ...

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Bavu
Bavu

An illiterate, uncouth brute rises to power during the Russian Revolution, plots to wreak vengeance ...

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Let Women Alone
Let Women Alone

A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Vio...

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Another Man's Wife
Another Man's Wife

Vengeful husband pursues, kidnaps his wife aboard a deserted ship when he becomes injured and taken ...

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Unseen Hands
Unseen Hands

A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for ...

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The Devil's Cargo
The Devil's Cargo

John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspap...

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Coming Through
Coming Through

Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford marries Alice Rand, the daughter of his boss, John Rand....

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In the Name of Love
In the Name of Love

Naturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his child...

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Wife Savers
Wife Savers

While stationed in Switzerland, soldiers Louis and Rodney fall in love with local damsel Colette, mu...

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Fireman, Save My Child
Fireman, Save My Child

Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled an...

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Rugged Water
Rugged Water

After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin ...

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Two Flaming Youths
Two Flaming Youths

Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby G...

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Dinner at Eight
Dinner at Eight

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver...

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The Big House
The Big House

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he m...

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China Seas
China Seas

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: ...

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The Sea Hawk
The Sea Hawk

The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Mo...

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The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War...

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The Stolen Jools
The Stolen Jools

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...

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Into Society and Out
Into Society and Out

This amusing and diverting comedy depicts the trials and tribulations of a French nobleman to win th...

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Money Talks
Money Talks

Mr. Forflush has a great desire for spending money, but his salary does not warrant the luxuries his...

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The Image Book
The Image Book

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, tele...

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Min and Bill
Min and Bill

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy,...

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Tugboat Annie
Tugboat Annie

Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholi...

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Beggars of Life
Beggars of Life

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond....

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A Date with Judy
A Date with Judy

Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance...

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Salute to the Marines
Salute to the Marines

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese inva...

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Thunder Afloat
Thunder Afloat

A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I....

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The Bugle Sounds
The Bugle Sounds

An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post....

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This Man's Navy
This Man's Navy

During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New J...

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Jackass Mail
Jackass Mail

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father....

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Ah, Wilderness!
Ah, Wilderness!

At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of g...

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The Mighty Barnum
The Mighty Barnum

20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Bee...

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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...

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When Comedy Was King
When Comedy Was King

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, B...

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The Spanish Dancer
The Spanish Dancer

The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells p...

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West Point of the Air
West Point of the Air

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer....

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The Mighty McGurk
The Mighty McGurk

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from Eng...

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The Mollycoddle
The Mollycoddle

An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time...

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Flesh
Flesh

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to Ame...

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A Message to Garcia
A Message to Garcia

A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba....

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Stand Up and Fight
Stand Up and Fight

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom....

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Port of Seven Seas
Port of Seven Seas

In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius....

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A Tale of Two Worlds
A Tale of Two Worlds

A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one ...

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Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid

Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted...

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Victory
Victory

Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island....

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The Man from Dakota
The Man from Dakota

A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates....

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Slave Ship
Slave Ship

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again...

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Barnacle Bill
Barnacle Bill

A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture....

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20 Mule Team
20 Mule Team

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it i...

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Way for a Sailor
Way for a Sailor

A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea....

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White Tiger
White Tiger

Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin ...

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The Red Lily
The Red Lily

Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, t...

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Hell Divers
Hell Divers

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land....

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Stablemates
Stablemates

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down...

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Big Jack
Big Jack

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America....

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Sergeant Madden
Sergeant Madden

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime....

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Bad Bascomb
Bad Bascomb

A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl....

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Rationing
Rationing

A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing....

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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
O'Shaughnessy's Boy

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative...

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Ashes of Vengeance
Ashes of Vengeance

This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and...

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The Signal Tower
The Signal Tower

A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out...

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The Bowery
The Bowery

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had g...

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Behind the Door
Behind the Door

Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is...

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A Lady's Morals
A Lady's Morals

Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs....

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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Checking Out: Grand Hotel

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MG...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Going Hollywood: The '30s

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...

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Teddy at the Throttle
Teddy at the Throttle

Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Glo...

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The Bad Man of Brimstone
The Bad Man of Brimstone

A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own ...

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Casey at the Bat
Casey at the Bat

Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable abili...

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The Christmas Party
The Christmas Party

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his footbal...

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My Wife's Relations
My Wife's Relations

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him ni...

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Barbary Coast Gent
Barbary Coast Gent

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and ...

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Partners in Crime
Partners in Crime

After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Ri...

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Alias a Gentleman
Alias a Gentleman

Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters....

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A Blind Bargain
A Blind Bargain

Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man...

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Land of Liberty
Land of Liberty

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939....

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Old Hutch
Old Hutch

Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing th...

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The Man from Hell's River
The Man from Hell's River

A girl engaged to a member of the Royal Mounted Police is forced to marry a vicious blackmailer afte...

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A Clever Dummy
A Clever Dummy

An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to pro...

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Chinatown Nights
Chinatown Nights

Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Ch...

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The Little American
The Little American

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i...

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Behind the Front
Behind the Front

During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not kn...

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We're in the Navy Now
We're in the Navy Now

"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with P...

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The River of Romance
The River of Romance

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been br...

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Stormswept
Stormswept

Despondent over the infidelity of his wife, William McCabe wanders on the waterfront considering sui...

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine f...

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Adventure
Adventure

David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fe...

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Old Ironsides
Old Ironsides

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Iron...

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Wyoming
Wyoming

With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nic...

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Going Hollywood
Going Hollywood

The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. ...

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That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment!

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...

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The Round-Up
The Round-Up

A lovesick sheriff protects his town, embroiled in a feud between a crafty bandit leader and the fam...

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The Drums of Jeopardy
The Drums of Jeopardy

The story centers around two small statuettes containing valuable emeralds, which are said to projec...

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Sweedie Learns to Swim
Sweedie Learns to Swim

Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming ...

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Robin Hood
Robin Hood

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince Joh...

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The Sagebrush Trail
The Sagebrush Trail

Having banned the carrying of firearms in his jurisdiction, Larry Reid, the sheriff of Silvertown (R...

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Patria
Patria

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States,...

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Johanna Enlists
Johanna Enlists

A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army re...

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The Pony Express
The Pony Express

The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by P...

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The Bad Man
The Bad Man

Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia ...

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The Good Old Soak
The Good Old Soak

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction....

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So Big
So Big

After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peak...

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We're switching to Hollywood
We're switching to Hollywood

A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who ...

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The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

Overview of director King Vidor's filmography....

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Now We're in the Air
Now We're in the Air

Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. T...

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The Night Club
The Night Club

After having been stood up at his own wedding, a young man vows that he will have nothing more to ev...

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The Laundress
The Laundress

Wallace Beery dresses up as a lady to fool the man....

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From the Ends of the Earth
From the Ends of the Earth

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Fe...

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The Virgin of Stamboul
The Virgin of Stamboul

Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Th...

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Drifting
Drifting

In Shanghai, an American girl who helps run an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a min...

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Judy Garland: By Myself
Judy Garland: By Myself

As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever ...

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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Hollywood: Style Center of the World

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It ...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...

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Mr. Dippy Dipped
Mr. Dippy Dipped

Mr. Dippy and his daughter Ruth are both very fond of the water and spend a good deal of time at the...

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His Athletic Wife
His Athletic Wife

Mrs. Strong, by reason of a good right arm, is absolute manager of her husband and his finances. Whi...

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Complicated Women
Complicated Women

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...

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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...

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Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...

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The Wanderer
The Wanderer

Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to...

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The Eternal Struggle
The Eternal Struggle

Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vanc...

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The Great Divide
The Great Divide

Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken br...

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The Unpardonable Sin
The Unpardonable Sin

Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at t...

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The Life Line
The Life Line

Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the right...

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Trouble
Trouble

Danny, a ragamuffin orphan, is adopted by a brutal plumber and his frail wife. His fear of hunger, r...

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The Big Killing
The Big Killing

The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hi...

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Hurricane's Gal
Hurricane's Gal

Allen Holubar silent seafaring pirate ship adventure thriller...

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The Big Parade of Comedy
The Big Parade of Comedy

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....

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Madonna of the Streets
Madonna of the Streets

Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherit...

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The Northern Trail
The Northern Trail

A thousand dollar prize is offered to the winner of a dog race, and Jan Ducet would have used the mo...

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The Rosary
The Rosary

After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with on...

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The Golden Snare
The Golden Snare

Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer B...

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The White Mouse
The White Mouse

Sergeant Blake of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the border to break up a ring of smugglers...

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Richard the Lion-Hearted
Richard the Lion-Hearted

Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the pr...

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A Dash of Courage
A Dash of Courage

A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fe...

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Hearts and Sparks
Hearts and Sparks

Hearts and Sparks is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Parrott (Charley Chase) ...

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Volcano
Volcano

Zabette de Chauvalons leaves a convent in Brussels to join her father on the island of Martinique, e...

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Dynamite Smith
Dynamite Smith

Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees ...

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Sweedie Goes to College
Sweedie Goes to College

Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for coll...

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The Broken Pledge
The Broken Pledge

Three young girls, pledged to spinsterhood and contempt for mankind, go camping in the woods. Three ...

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Stairs of Sand
Stairs of Sand

An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in lov...

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Showbiz Ballyhoo
Showbiz Ballyhoo

Rare footage reveals how stars were created and motion pictures sold, and how the the advent of soun...

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Alias Julius Caesar
Alias Julius Caesar

Billy Barnes gets into trouble over a practical joke on a golf course and ends up in jail, despite h...

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