Dorothy Revier
Also Known As: Doris Valerga
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 18, 1904
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 19, 1993
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The Sword of Valor
Overview: American romantic comedy which had the well known Australian actor Snowy Baker as a cast member. The daughter of a Spanish don falls in love with an American captain the moment she sees him. Her father takes the girl to the Riveria, where she is promised to a wealthy cad, but the captain arrives in time to rescue her from him as well as a crazed gypsy who has abducted her.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-06
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The Squealer
Overview: A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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The Tigress
Overview: In Spain, a band of gypsies poach the deer in a neighboring estate. The gypsy chief, Tser (Harold Truesdale), is murdered in cold blood, and the estate owner Winston Graham (Jack Holt) is blamed. The chief's daughter Mona (Dorothy Revier) is an expert knife-thrower and sets out to avenge her father.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-21
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Father and Son
Overview: A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child who receives it as a birthday present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-13
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The Quitter
Overview: Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and saving the life of cafe-owner Duffy Thompson (Fred Kohler).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-01
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The Black Camel
Overview: Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-21
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When a Man Sees Red
Overview: Our hero tries to dissuade a pretty ranch owner from taking up with an unsavory character to no avail. Eventually, the lout proves himself to be a thief and a liar, out to wrest the ranch owner's property away from her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-24
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The Cowboy and the Kid
Overview: Penniless drifter Steve Davis finds young Jimmy Thomas just after his father is killed. The two become friends and Steve looks for work. This brings him to town where teacher June Caldwell has lent money from the school fund to the dishonest Jess Watson, She now desperately needs it back and Steve soon finds himself in the middle of the conflict.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-01
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Green Eyes
Overview: The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-15
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The Iron Mask
Overview: King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-21
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The Reckless Age
Overview: Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-16
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The King Murder
Overview: A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-15
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The Donovan Affair
Overview: Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-11
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Graft
Overview: Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-21
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The Thrill Hunter
Overview: A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-30
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to be really dead
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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Tanned Legs
Overview: Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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The Drop Kick
Overview: College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Submarine
Overview: Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-28
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The Arm of the Law
Overview: A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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Night World
Overview: "Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other incidents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-04
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Vengeance
Overview: John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The company sends a stiff upper-lipper, Charles Summers, accompanied by his wife, Margaret. An antagonism develops between the two men from the moment Summers arrives.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-22
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Beauty Parlor
Overview: Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-15
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A Scarlet Week-End
Overview: A woman's cheating husband is murdered at their country estate, and suspicion immediately falls on her.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-30
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The Secrets of Wu Sin
Overview: A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
Genres: Crime Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-15
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The Lady in Scarlet
Overview: When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-20
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Above the Clouds
Overview: Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages to get his photographer pal Dick (Richard Cromwell) fired as well, but he promises to restore Dick's reputation, some way or another. He gets his chance while covering a dirigible wreck (some three years before the Hindenburg), saving the day for both Dick and himself.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-13
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Sin's Pay Day
Overview: A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-02
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Light Fingers
Overview: "Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-29
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By Candlelight
Overview: A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
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When the Wife's Away
Overview: Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a fashionable apartment for a few days in order to impress rich uncle Hiram (Tom Ricketts.) Complications and misunderstanding arise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-10-20
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The Avenger
Overview: Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-06
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The Curtain Falls
Overview: In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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Call of the West
Overview: Nightclub entertainer Violet La Tour collapses during a performance in Sagebrush, Texas, and is taken to the ranch of Lon Dixon. They fall in love and are married. Feeling deserted when Lon joins a posse in search of rustlers, she returns to New York. There, she is wooed by her agent, Maurice Kane, but confirms her love for Lon when he comes to claim her.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-10
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The Dance of Life
Overview: A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-16
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Anybody's Blonde
Overview: When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Sally of the Subway
Overview: Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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The Fighting Ranger
Overview: The Buck Jones western The Fighting Ranger utilizes its familiar plotline with excellent results. When Jones' kid brother is killed by the villains, our hero quits the Texas Rangers and sets off to seek vengeance on his own. He ends up just below the Mexican border, where bandit leader Cougar (Bradley Page) lives high off the hog, knowing he can't be extradited.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-17
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The Eagle's Brood
Overview: When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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The Bad Man
Overview: Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-11
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The Clown
Overview: Silent crime drama Directed by William James Craft.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-12
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The Way of All Men
Overview: A variety of broad-painted and unlikely characters are trapped in an underground café when a Mississippi River levee breaks and causes flood havoc above and below.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-03
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Circus Shadows
Overview: A phoney "psychic" ring tricks a pretty young circus performer into working for them.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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The Mighty
Overview: In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in town as the new police commissioner.
Genres: Action Drama Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-16
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The Red Dance
Overview: Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-02
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Do It Now
Overview: At the urging of his sweetheart, Rosemary Smith, a man (William Fairbanks) leaves his soft job in the east and goes west to settle a dispute over oil lands owned by Rosemary's father. This man evicts the wrong party and later must return west in order to set things right, protecting the honor of a girl from the advances of the crooked foreman.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-01
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Unknown Blonde
Overview: An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-23
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The Danger Signal
Overview: A recently widowed and destitute young mother (Jane Novak) appeals to her wealthy and heartless father-in-law (Robert Edeson) for financial aid. Instead, he convinces her to hand over her new baby to his care so that the child will be brought up with "everything money can buy." Unbeknownst to the grandfather, we learn that there are twin sons and our heroine keeps one baby to raise herself. The narrative jumps ahead to the boy's twenty-first birthday and we see what's become of them. Not surprisingly, the wealthy son has grown up spoiled and greedy while the poor one works hard and loves his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-26
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Hold Everything
Overview: A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-20
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Left Over Ladies
Overview: Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-30
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The Virgin
Overview: The Virgin (1924)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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Beware of Blondes
Overview: Jeffrey (Matt More), a jewelry store clerk prevents a robbery and, as a reward, given a vacation in Honolulu, provided that he transports a valuable emerald to the Hawaiian Islands. On the boat he meets a blonde named Mary (Dorothy Revier) whom he mistakes for a jewel thief called Blonde Mary (Hazel Howell).
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-01
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Sinners' Parade
Overview: In order to support her sister and her sister's small child, Mary Tracy leads a double life: by day, she works as a schoolteacher; nights, she dances in a cabaret show. Mary becomes interested in Bill Adams, whose mother is prominent in an anti-vice crusade, and therefore attempts to quit her job in the cabaret. Al Morton, the club's owner, holds her to her contract, however, and Mary is caught up in a police raid on the cabaret. The club is shut down, and Mary is fired from her teaching post. Morton threatens to expose Bill (who is running a crime syndicate with money embezzled from his father's bank), and Bill sets out to take Morton for a ride. Finally realizing that she has fallen in love with Morton, Mary calls the cops and saves him from certain death. Bill is arrested, and Mary and Morton decide to get married.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-14
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Dangerous Pleasure
Overview: This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-11
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The Rose of Paris
Overview: A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-09
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The Cowboy and the Flapper
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Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-25
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Poker Faces
Overview: In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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The Warning
Overview: This story of the British Silent Service operating on the coast of China finds Tom Fellows, captain of an opium-smuggling ship, going into a notorious Chinese joint called "The House of a Thousand Delights," where he finds a beautiful girl, Mary Blake, bound and captive. He starts a brawl, rescues Mary in the mêlée that follows, and then loses her when she flees to a hotel. He follows her and finds she is mixed up in some mysterious activity. However, he knows more about her than she does him (because he isn't what he is supposed to be - and she isn't, either), he stays close by, even to the point of using a machine-gun to dispel a mob at a Chinese temple.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-26
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Cleopatra
Overview: An early retelling of Cleopatra’s story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-07
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The Italian Warship Libia
Overview: A documentary recording the visit of the Italian navy warship Libia to San Francisco.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1921-12-03
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Murder on the Roof
Overview: This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts of his daughter, Molly Sommers (Dorothy Revier), a nightclub singer and two newspapers reporters, Ted Palmer (David Newell) and the inaptly-named Drinkwater (Raymond Hatton), posing as a drunk, to clear him.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-29
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Stolen Pleasures
Overview: Two married couples, Doris (Helen Chadwick) and John Manning (Gayne Whitman) and Clara (Dorothy Revier) and Herbert Bradley (Ray Ripley), each separate as a result of domestic arguments. After certain misunderstandings and false accusations, peace is returned on the home front.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-05
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The Siren
Overview: A high-society woman, Glenna Marsh (Dorothy Revier), is arrested for the murder of gigolo-gambler Cole Norwood (Norman Trevor), but his honest casino partner Peter Dane (Tom Moore) proves her innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-20
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