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    For Better, for Worse (1919)

    Director Cecil B. DeMille tones down his usual elegance and instead focuses on the drama of America...

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    The Freshman (1925)

    Although he is the butt of jokes, a young man (Harold Lloyd) wins Tate College's big football game....

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    Go Straight

    Gladys Hulette stars in this romance about a girl crook determined to -- as the title implies -- go...

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    The Great Love

    This war-time D.W. Griffith film was literally filler -- some of the footage was left over from...

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    Great Moment

    Author Elinor Glyn knew how to generate publicity, and she created quite a bit when Paramount...

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    The Haunted House (1921)

    While this isn't one of Buster Keaton's best two-reelers, it has some undeniably classic moments....

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    Head over Heels

    The Goldwyn studios had apparently been hanging onto this Mabel Normand comedy for quite a while --...

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    Hell Roarin' Reform

    Every now and then, cowboy star Tom Mix would pull a clinker out of his ten-gallon hat, and this...

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    Her Gilded Cage

    This picture was one of several that Sam Wood directed for Gloria Swanson, and its lavishness shows...

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    Her Winning Way

    The Edgar Jepson novel, Ann Annington, was first made into a play, Ann, and then developed as a...

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    Honest Hutch

    Even though he's a lazy, worthless bum, Hutch (Will Rogers) is a truly likable guy -- maybe that's...

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    Jazzmania

    This fluffy Mae Murray vehicle was dressed up with a Graustarkian veneer, but in reality it was...

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    The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin

    During World War I, Erich von Stroheim wasn't the only "man you loved to hate." Rupert Julian also...

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    Ladies of the Mob

    The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow...

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    Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

    A circus clown (Lon Chaney) adopts an orphan (Loretta Young), then falls in love with her when she...

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    The Law Forbids

    Baby Peggy, a popular child star of the 1920s who grew up to become film historian Peggy Carey, who...

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    The Letter

    The Letter was the first film version of the Somerset Maugham play of the same name. Broadway star...

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    Lilac Time (1928)

    George Fitzmaurice directed this romantic World War I drama, which was First National Pictures'...

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    Little Miss Rebellion

    Lively comedian Dorothy Gish plays an unlikely grand duchess in this Paramount picture. Marie Louise...

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    Love's Prisoner

    When her pickpocket father is sent up the river, Nancy (Olive Thomas) has to provide for her younger...

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    Love's Wilderness

    Linda Lou Heath (Corinne Griffith) is raised in a small Louisiana town by her two maiden aunts...

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    Madame Peacock

    By the latter half of 1920 Alla Nazimova's popularity was beginning to wane, and this weak picture...

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    Man, Woman and Sin

    John Gilbert was fond of a narrative poem called The Widow in the Bye Street by John Masefield and...

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    Married Flapper

    This lighthearted comedy-drama, which has an unexpected twist at the end, was considered quite...

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    Mr. Wu (1927)

    A Chinese aristocrat (Lon Chaney) ruthlessly defends his daughter's (Renee Adoree) honor after a...

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    O'Malley of the Mounted (1921)

    The great silent western hero William S. Hart was no longer in his prime when he produced (for...

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    Peacock Alley

    During the early '20s, the star/director team of Mae Murray and her husband Robert Z. Leonard was...

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    Peck's Bad Girl

    It seems like Goldwyn advertised every picture starring Mabel Normand by crowing that she had...

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    Quality Street

    A bit more sedate and reserved than the usual Marion Davies vehicle, this 1927 adaptation of James...

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    The Patent Leather Kid

    Such was Richard Barthelmess' popularity in 1927 that audiences were willing to sit through all 12...