bootlegging
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    The Great Gatsby (1949)

    In this "adaptation" of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, a Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way...

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    Hills of Peril

    Buck Jones stars as Buck Laramie, an itinerant cowpoke who wanders into a wide-open frontier town....

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    His Darker Self

    Blackface comedy may make modern day Americans cringe, but in the late 1800s up to the 1920s it was...

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    The Last Parade

    In this war drama, two buddies in WW I return stateside. One of them becomes a police sergeant, but...

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    Lawful Cheaters

    Clara Bow is the sole redeeming factor of the cheaply produced melodrama Lawful Cheaters. Actually,...

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    Lights of New York

    Contrary to popular belief, no one speaks into microphones hidden in vases in this, the first 100%...

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    Lost in a Big City

    This melodrama was based on an old stage play by N.S. Wood. The film starred John Lowell, who had...

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    The Mad Game

    A man on the wrong side of the law has a chance to turn over a new leaf in this crime drama. Edward...

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    Madison Square Garden

    A goodly portion of this boxing drama was filmed on location at the real-life Madison Square Garden....

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    Making of O'Malley

    With his masculine, upstanding good looks, Milton Sills was well-cast as a cop in this drama. Jim...

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    Man of the Forest

    The Man of the Forest was one of a seemingly endless stream of Zane Grey novels that were brought to...

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    Meddling Women

    Lionel Barrymore has a dual role in this play-within-a picture. Grace Ainsworth (Sigrid Holmquist)...

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    The Midnight Taxi

    Anticipating Robert DeNiro by nearly fifty years, New York cabdriver "Taxi" Driscoll (Antonio...

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    My Buddy

    A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable...

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    Ned McCobb's Daughter

    This very early talkie stars Irene Rich as the daughter of gruff old ferryboat captain Theodore...

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    Protection

    In this newspaper drama, a star reporter learns that prominent city officials are covering for a...

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    The Purchase Price

    A nightclub singer (Barbara Stanwyck) on the run becomes a Midwestern farmer's (George Brent)...

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    The Racket (1928)

    Complications arise when a police captain (Thomas Meighan) tries to bring a powerful bootlegger...

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    The Raiders

    The rugged Franklyn Farnum stars in this tale of Northwest bootleggers. Two revenuers, Fitzgerald...

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    Red Dice

    This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance....

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    Roadhouse Nights

    Jimmy Durante made his movie debut in Roadhouse Nights, a strange amalgam of musical comedy and...

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    Robes of Sin

    The "Golden Age" of silent movies had its share of cheap potboilers, as witness Robes of Sin. Sylvia...

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    Sally's Shoulders

    This late FBO Pictures silent was based on a novel by Beatrice Burton. Having lost her family...

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    Second Hand Love

    This stereotypical rural tale wastes the talents of Charles "Buck" Jones, who was far better off in...

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    She Couldn't Take It

    When he's shipped off to prison on a tax-evasion charge, millionaire Van Dyke (Walter Connolly)...

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    Single Sin

    In this comedy, a lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary...

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    Sinner's Holiday (1930)

    A penny-arcade owner tries to frame her daughter's (Evalyn Knapp) boyfriend (Grant Withers) for a...

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    A Slight Case of Murder (1938)

    A reformed Prohibition-era beer runner finds a corpse hidden in his country home. Based on a Damon...

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    The Squealer

    In this crime melodrama, a bootlegger orders the death of his rival. Meanwhile the bootlegger's wife...

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    Sting of the Lash

    This drama has Pauline Frederick portraying a surprisingly independent woman for 1921. Dorothy Keith...