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    Girl from Rocky Point

    Trade paper Moving Picture World saw the title to this states-rights melodrama as a definite...

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    Half a Bride

    The fertile creative mind of director Gregory LaCava is well in evidence throughout Half a Bride....

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    Harbor of Missing Men

    Republic's Harbor of Missing Men stars Richard Denning as a two-fisted smuggler named Brooklyn....

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    Haunted Ship

    The Haunted Ship was adapted from the Jack London story White and Yellow. Villainous schooner...

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    Hell-Ship Morgan

    Hell-Ship Morgan (George Bancroft) is the brawny skipper of a small fishing schooner. Supplying fish...

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    The Maggie

    An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish...

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    His Glorious Night

    Based on Olympia, a 1928 Ferenc Molnar stage soufflé, His Glorious Night has gone down in history as...

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    His Woman

    In this drama, a remake of Sal of Singapore(1929), the captain of a freighter becomes an instant...

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    The Homicide Squad

    In this crime drama, dedicated to the police forces of America, a gangster searches for his...

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    Hurricane Smith

    Surprisingly, the Paramount Technicolor actioner Hurricane Smith was not produced by the studio's...

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    Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)

    A prison guard at one of California's most notoriously brutal correctional facilities during the...

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    The Irish in Us (1935)

    A boxer (James Cagney) and his policeman brother (Pat O'Brien) feud over a police captain's daughter...

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    Is Love Everything?

    Virginia Carter (Alma Rubens) has two suitors -- the carefree Robert Whitney (Frank Mayo) and the...

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    The Isle of Hope

    Silent-screen stunt performer Richard Talmadge (born Metzetti) produced and starred in this...

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    It's Tough to Be Famous

    Undoubtedly inspired by Charles Lindbergh's unprecedented sudden fame (but not the ensuing tragedy),...

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    Johnny Ring and the Captain's Sword

    This tale of religious conversion during the Civil War was based on a true story. Infantry captain...

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    Journey's End (1930)

    R.C. Sherriff's forceful drama about men at war, a long running hit in London as well as New York,...

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    Last of the Buccaneers

    French pirate Jean Lafitte (Paul Henreid) raids Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico after the War of...

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    Lavender and Old Lace

    This simple tearjerker, based on the novel by Myrtle Reed, was very much of its era. Mary Ainslie...

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    Law of the Sea

    Silent-movie favorites Priscilla Dean and William Farnum appear in the company of up-and-coming...

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    Leopardess

    What was Paramount thinking when it cast ladylike Alice Brady as a white girl raised amongst South...

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    Lost and Found on a South Sea Island

    Starring veteran leading man House Peters, this Raoul Walsh-directed silent melodrama was filmed on...

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    The Lost People

    The Lost People is a pedantic British drama set in a large, abandoned German theatre just after the...

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    The Love Trader

    "East is East, West is West, Never the Twain Shall Meet." That's the lesson to be learned in the...

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    Loyalties

    In this British drama, based on a popular play, a wealthy young Jew goes to a weekend house party...

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    Madame Spy

    One of several variations of the "Mata Hari" and "Fraulein Doktor" legends, Universal's Madame Spy...

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    The Man from Monterey (1933)

    A cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers.

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    The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

    Leatrice Joy was just starting her association with Paramount and was not yet a star when she played...

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    Mare Nostrum

    A Spanish soldier falls in love with a German spy during World War I. Silent.

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