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    Alcatraz Island

    Gat Brady (John Litel) is a wealthy gangster, though he's never killed anyone, an he is devoted to...

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    Alias Jimmy Valentine

    After holding out for several months, MGM decided to take the talking-picture plunge with Alias...

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    Among the Missing

    In this drama, an old woman gets disgusted by her relatives and runs away from home. She then begins...

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    Anything Might Happen

    Anything Might Happen is a British quota quickie with a highfalutin pedigree. This minor gangster...

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    The Arcadians

    This silent British comedy features at least seven vaudeville acts and was adapted from a popular...

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    Back to Liberty

    His big-time stardom a thing of the past, George Walsh tried to substitute quantity for quality in...

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    Bad Boy

    A pool shark (James Dunn) unwittingly hustles the father of the girl (Dorothy Wilson) he wants to...

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    Bad Boy

    In 1947, Variety Clubs International, a showbiz charitable organization, was responsible for the...

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    The Bad Man of Brimstone

    Wallace Beery plays one of his patented good bad guys in this MGM Western. "Trigger" Bill (Beery) is...

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    Barbary Coast Gent

    A con artist heads for the gold fields of Nevada during the 1880s after he is tossed off of San...

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    The Battle of Life

    Battle of Life was Fox Studios' attempt to cash in on the "social statement" films being turned out...

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    Beating the Game

    Fancy Charlie (Tom Moore) breaks into an apartment, but finds a cabinet full of burglar tools. This...

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    Beautiful City

    The presence of Richard Barthelmess adds a poetic quality to this romantic melodrama. Tony Gillardi...

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    Below the Deadline

    Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), long on looks and ambition but short on ethics, takes immediate...

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    Berlin Alexanderplatz

    Most modern-day viewers are familiar with German author Alfred Doeblin's naturalistic novel Berlin...

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    The Big City

    The Big City was perhaps the most "normal" of the Lon Chaney-Tod Browning collaborations. Minus...

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    Birds of Prey

    The popularity of Priscilla Dean had eclipsed by 1927, but she still proved an attractive and...

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    Blackie's Redemption

    Bert Lytell makes a dapper Boston Blackie in this silent feature. Blackie's Redemption is based on...

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    Blackmail (1939)

    John Ingram, successful oil-field firefighter, is really a chain-gang escapee. Someone out of his...

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    Bond Boy

    Neither director Henry King nor star Richard Barthelmess could do much with the cliched situations...

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    Boys Will Be Girls

    In this comedy, a young man must give up smokin' and drinkin' if he is to get his large inheritance....

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    Bullets for O'Hara

    A good wife's innocence is shattered when she learns that her wealthy husband is actually an amoral...

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    Burma Convoy

    This action film is set in Asia during World War II and follows the exploits of a truck driver who...

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    Cagliostro

    Graf Cagliostro was the official title of this far-from-accurate biopic. According to the official...

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    Call a Messenger

    Call a Messenger is the second entry in Universal's "Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys" series. In...

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    Captain Swagger

    Basically a silent film, Pathe's Captain Swagger was released with a synchronized music and...

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    Cheaters

    The Cheaters are reformed crooks Helen Ferguson and George Hackathorne. Now gainfully employed in a...

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    Cheaters at Play

    This crime drama chronicles the relationship between a jewel thief who has gone straight and his...

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    Curlytop

    The story to this melodrama came from one of the "Limehouse" stories written by Thomas Burke, the...

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    The Daltons Ride Again

    In this action western, the notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina....