John Miljan
Birthday: 1892-11-08
Place of Birth: Lead, South Dakota, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Miljan (November 9, 1892 – January 24, 1960) was an American actor. He appeared in 201 films between 1924 and 1958. He was the tall, smooth-talking villain in Hollywood films for almost four decades, beginning in 1923. Miljan made his first sound film in 1927 in the promotional trailer for The Jazz Singer, inviting audiences to see the upcoming landmark film. In later years he played imposing, authoritative parts such as high-ranking executives and military officers. He is best remembered as General Custer in Cecil B. De Mille's film The Plainsman. Miljan died from cancer in Hollywood in 1960, aged 67. He was married to Victoire Lowe and adopted her two sons from her first marriage to actor Creighton Hale.
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Estrellados
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The Beast of the City
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his police detective brother Ed...
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I Accuse My Parents
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. Aft...
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
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The Fallen Sparrow
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Devil's Island
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Charlie Chan in Paris
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The Sin of Nora Moran
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The Secret Six
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Queen of the Night Clubs
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Free and Easy
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Sinbad the Sailor
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Brooding Eyes
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The Flame
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A Man's Man
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The Boss of Big Town
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Submarine Alert
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The Last Crooked Mile
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Possessed
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Sailor Izzy Murphy
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Stark Mad
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Belle of the Nineties
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Bonzo Goes to College
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Emma
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The Rich Are Always with Us
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If I Were King
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Flesh
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
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The Kid from Spain
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Silent Sanderson
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The Nuisance
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Miracle Money
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Double Cross
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Johnny Moccasin
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Twin Husbands
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The Ghost Walks
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Arsène Lupin
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Are You Listening?
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Young and Beautiful
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Criminal Investigator
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Blind Adventure
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
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Glorious Betsy
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Politics
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The Unchastened Woman
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Pirates of Tripoli
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Fast and Furious
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Untamed
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West of Broadway
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Murder at Glen Athol
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Whistling in the Dark
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Under the Pampas Moon
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Hell Divers
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land....
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Almost a Lady
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The Sea Bat
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Riot Squad
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an under...
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The Poor Rich
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Lost City of the Jungle
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Devil-May-Care
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Man-Proof
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The Merry Monahans
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Flaming Waters
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Adventure in Baltimore
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. ...
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The Final Extra
The alert atmosphere of a large-city newspaper office and its giant presses combines with the back-s...
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Unashamed
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover....
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
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Women Without Names
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Bride by Mistake
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M
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police searc...
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The Desert Song
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Quarantined Rivals
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Private Number
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Whirlpool
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists....
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Remote Control
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The Mad Game
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The Woman Racket
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although s...
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The Voice of the City
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Love Letters
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Stranded
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In Gay Madrid
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The Yankee Clipper
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right ...
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Son of India
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude....
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy director...
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Obliging Young Lady
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor...
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Paying the Price
Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating a...
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The Cowboy and the Blonde
A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and ...
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Paid
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plot...
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The Desired Woman
The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he i...
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Wildfire
Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali...
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Samson and Delilah
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeanc...
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The Plainsman
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner....
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Speedway
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest dr...
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Sutter's Gold
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush....
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Innocents of Paris
A Parisian junk dealer has to choose between love and fame after he rescues a boy....
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The Oklahoma Kid
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw ...
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The Gentleman from Louisiana
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of smal...
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What! No Beer?
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters...
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King for a Night
A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is in...
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The Unholy Three
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks....
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Juarez
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f...
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That's My Man
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he s...
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Arizona Mahoney
When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cat...
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Our Blushing Brides
Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while...
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Night Court
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special p...
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Forced Landing
On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military offic...
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Border G-Man
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horse...
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The Devil's Circus
In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circu...
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medall...
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Emergency Squad
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emer...
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Ride a Crooked Mile
The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and h...
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Perilous Waters
Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by...
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North of Nome
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island...
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Pardon Our Nerve
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to ...
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The Killers
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, ...
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Morals for Men
Joe (Tearle) and Bessie (Ayres), living in sin and just scraping by. Bessie thinks Joe has stolen th...
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Husbands for Rent
A newlywed couple, after six months of marriage, decides that they've made a mistake and plan to div...
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The Little Snob
May Banks (May McAvoy) is a working-class girl who gets ideas above her station in life when her fat...
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Young Bill Hickok
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are tryi...
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Run for Cover
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town....
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Footloose Widows
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Sm...
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Iron Man
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around...
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Madame Spy
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigne...
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Stampede
In 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-l...
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On the Stroke of Three
Lafayette Jordan (Davis), financier, plans to inundate Caribou Canyon and turn it into a reservoir, ...
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Not So Dumb
Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves t...
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The Wet Parade
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich ...
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War Nurse
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I....
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Bombardier
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U...
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Unknown Blonde
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds ...
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Mrs. Mike
This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Fl...
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The Deadly Game
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed a...
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The Satin Woman
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Do...
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North of the Rockies
Morgan and his gang are smuggling furs across the border. Both the Mounties on the Canadian side and...
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The Ten Commandments
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...
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The Wild Dakotas
When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River ...
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Gossip
A husband and wife arguing about which sex gossips more. Just then a friend they both know comes to ...
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Women They Talk About
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequenc...
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Walk Softly, Stranger
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter....
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Hardboiled Rose
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to sui...
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The Home Towners
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly suppo...
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The Terror
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror"....
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Inspiration
The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include ...
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Camera Sleuth
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion pictur...
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The Devil with Hitler
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premis...
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The Amateur Gentleman
Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Mer...
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Queen of the Amazons
Jean Preston is determined to find her fiancée, Greg Jones, who went on a safari and didn’t come bac...
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What Happened To Father
William Bradberry, an absent-minded Egyptologist, turns from a henpecked husband to a dominating one...
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My Official Wife
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the...
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The Way to Love
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved c...
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The Unholy Night
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an E...
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Lucky Fool
Scion of a distinguished family J. Anthony Bowden is considered unworthy by his father, a feeling he...
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3 Kids and a Queen
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq...
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Empty Hearts
Milt Kimberlin is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and ...
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A Sailor's Sweetheart
Cynthia Botts, the headmistress of a girls’ school, stands to inherit a fortune on the condition tha...
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The Phantom of the Opera
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
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Back to Bataan
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines....
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It's in the Bag!
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in....
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White Tie and Tails
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involv...
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The Jazz Singer
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...
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Land of the Silver Fox
Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in the fa...
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The Silver Slave
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, tur...
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Mississippi
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in ...
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Queen of the Mob
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns...
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The Big Street
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses...
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The Eternal Woman
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister ...
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Mule Train
A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the ...
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The Painted Lady
After being released from imprisonment for a crime committed by her sister, Violet is forced to beco...
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The Unnamed Woman
The marriage between Donald and Flora Brookes is under pressure. Donald has eyes for a new girl, inn...
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Wolf's Clothing
Barry Baline, a guard at a subway station, has worked at his job for six years without a day off. On...
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Unknown Treasures
A poor man refrains from proposing to the woman he loves until he can secure the fortune left him by...
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The Overland Limited
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful ...
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Romance Ranch
Carlos Brent's grandfather informs him that he is rightful owner of a ranch in the possession of the...
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The Lone Chance
Penniless inventor Jack Saunders, in search of a girl he loves, assumes the guilt for a murder in re...
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Wreckage
In order to protect Grant Demarest from a siren named Margot, Stuart Ames attempts to disillusion hi...
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Lovers
Young José lives with his guardian, Don Julian, a middle-aged diplomat recently married to young Fel...
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