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1. The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
directed by Alfred E. Green
featuring Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Adrienne Dore, Bette Davis, John Miljan
A talented cast does its best with a nonsensical script in The Rich are Always With Us. Ruth Chatterton stars as a witty socialite saddled with ... More
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2. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1931)
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan, Alan Hale
It was once theorized by critic Andrew Sarris that this 1931 Greta Garbo vehicle was subtitled "Her Fall & Rise" rather than the expected "Rise & ... More
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3. Young Bill Hickok (1940)
directed by Joseph Kane
featuring Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, John Miljan, Sally Payne
This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature anti-fascist", singing frontiersman ... More
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4. Paid (1930)
directed by Sam Wood, Tod Browning
featuring Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Kent Douglass, John Miljan
Paid was the third film version of the Bayard Veiller stage play Within the Law. Joan Crawford is cast as a shopgirl falsely arrested for stealing ... More
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5. Untamed (1929)
directed by Jack Conway
featuring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, John Miljan
Untamed was touted by MGM as Joan Crawford's talking-picture debut, even though she'd already been heard as well as seen in Hollywood Revue of 1929. ... More
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6. Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet, Ford Sterling, John Miljan
This wonderful Warner Bros. epic was one of the earliest talkie musicals with a Hollywood background -- and the last of its kind until 1933's Sitting ... More
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7. The Unholy Three (1930)
directed by Jack Conway
featuring Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles, John Miljan
A remake of the 1925 Lon Chaney melodrama of the same name, 1930's The Unholy Three makes several concessions to the newly strengthened Hollywood ... More
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8. Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
directed by Frank Strayer
featuring John Miljan, Irene Ware, Noel Madison, Barry Norton, Iris Adrian
The "Crime Club" detective-novel series spawned a film counterpart in 1935, which for the next four years bounced around such studios as Warner Bros. ... More
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9. Voice of the City (1929)
directed by Willard Mack
featuring Robert Ames, Willard Mack, Sylvia Field, James Farley, John Miljan
Writer/director/actor Willard Mack took one look at the blockbuster stage play Broadway and said to himself "I can do that, and at half the price." ... More
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10. Flesh (1932)
directed by John Ford
featuring Wallace Beery, Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan
Flesh was one of the few big-studio films to deal with the subject of professional wrestling--at least until Hulk Hogan came along in the 1980s. ... More
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11. The Yankee Clipper (1927)
directed by Rupert Julian
featuring William "Hopalong" Boyd, Elinor Fair, John Miljan, Walter Long
One of the most readily available features of the silent era, The Yankee Clipper is happily also one of the best. A pre-Hopalong Cassidy William Boyd ... More
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12. Remote Control (1930)
directed by Clyde Grinde, Malcolm St. Clair, Nick Grinde
featuring William Haines, Mary Doran, John Miljan, Polly Moran
In this comedy, a radio announcer works at the same station as a bogus psychic who while ostensibly answering fan letters on the air, is actually ... More
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13. Double Cross (1941)
directed by Albert Kelley
featuring Kane Richmond, Pauline Moore, Wynne Gibson, John Miljan, Richard Beach
In this action film, an officer is thrown off the force by his father the chief of police. The bitter ex-cop then joins a racketeering operation. The ... More
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14. Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
directed by Lewis Seiler
featuring Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, Erik Rhodes, John Miljan
The otherwise standard series entry Charlie Chan in Paris is distinguished by the presence of actor Keye Luke, making his first appearance as Charlie ... More
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15. Twin Husbands (1934)
directed by Frank Strayer
featuring John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton, Robert Elliott
The basic difference between the Chesterfield and Invincible productions of the 1930s is that most of the Chesterfields were directed by Richard ... More
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16. What! No Beer? (1933)
directed by Edward Sedgwick
featuring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Roscoe Ates, Phyllis Barry, John Miljan
In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer brewery with the hope ... More
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17. Emma (1932)
directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy, John Miljan
Emma is a turn-of-the-century domestic drama completely dominated by star Marie Dressler. She plays the maid of an upper middle class family, keeping ... More
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18. Speedway (1929)
directed by Harry Beaumont
featuring William Haines, Anita Page, Karl Dane, Ernest Torrence, John Miljan
This cookie-cutter William Haines vehicle was filmed in part at the Indianapolis Speedway. As usual, Haines plays a fresh young braggart, in this ... More
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19. Boss of Big Town (1943)
directed by Arthur Dreifuss
featuring John Litel, Florence Rice, H.B. Warner, Jean Brooks, John Miljan
Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired ... More
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20. Old San Francisco (1927)
directed by Alan Crosland
featuring Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, John Miljan
It's hard to believe that Darryl F. Zanuck, producer of such anti-prejudice films of the 1940s as Gentleman's Agreement and Pinky, wrote the ... More
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21. Belle of the Nineties (1934)
directed by Leo McCarey
featuring Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, Katherine de Mille, John Miljan
Originally titled It Ain't No Sin until the censors prevailed, then St. Louis Woman and Belle of New Orleans, until complaints were registered from ... More
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22. I Accuse My Parents (1945)
directed by Sam Newfield
featuring Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, George Meeker
I Accuse My Parents was one of PRC's entries in the "wartime juvenile delinquent drama" sweepstakes, as exemplified by such earlier films as RKO's ... More
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23. Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
directed by Philip Goldstone
featuring Zita Johann, Alan Dinehart, Paul Cavanagh, John Miljan, Claire Du Brey
Having confessed to murder, Nora Moran (Zita Johann) sits sadly on death row, waiting her date with the electric chair. In flashback, the audience is ... More
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24. Mrs. Mike (1949)
directed by Louis King
featuring Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, J.M. Kerrigan, Angela Clarke, John Miljan
Dick Powell stars as Canadian Mountie Sgt. Mike Flannagan. When Boston-bred Kathy O'Fallon (Evelyn Keyes) marries Mike, she is immediately nicknamed ... More
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