84% (2) The Racket 84 min, PASSED, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Lewis Milestone] [01 Nov 1928]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: G. Pat Collins, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, Thomas Meighan
Writer: Bartlett Cormack (from the stage success of), Bartlett Cormack (adaptation), Del Andrews (scenario), Tom Miranda (titles)
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Plot: An honest police captain named McQuigg becomes a tough rival to a powerful bootlegger named Scarsi, even though McQuigg's pinches never stick because Scarsi and his organization control the corrupt politicians and judges. When Scarsi can't scare McQuigg off, he gets him transferred to a quiet police precinct in the suburbs, but McQuigg continues their war of words via a pair of wisecracking newspaper reporters. Then McQuigg catches a huge break when Scarsi's younger brother gets picked up for a hit and run accident in his precinct, putting in motion a complex plan to bring down the mobster using the reporters, a nightclub singing gold digger, the upcoming elections and Scari's own organization.
Rotten Tomatoes: Based on a controversial autobiographical play by Chicago newspaper reporter Bartlett Cormack, Racket is among the best gangster films and tells an exciting tale filled with bootleggers, government corruption and plenty of violence.
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79% (1) Male and Female 116 min, Not Rated, [Adventure, Drama] [Cecil B. DeMille] [23 Nov 1919]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, External Reviews
Actors: Raymond Hatton, Robert Cain, Theodore Roberts, Thomas Meighan
Writer: Jeanie Macpherson, J.M. Barrie (by: "The Admirable Crichton")
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Plot: Lord Brockelhurst, his unwilling betrothed Lady Mary, his butler Crichton and scullery maid Tweeny are on Lord Loam's yacht which is wrecked leaving them all to cope on a desert island. Class distinctions fall apart for the time being.
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79% (1) Why Change Your Wife? 90 min, Approved, [Comedy, Drama] [Cecil B. DeMille] [19 Sep 1921]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, External Reviews
Actors: Bebe Daniels, Gloria Swanson, Theodore Kosloff, Thomas Meighan
Writer: Olga Printzlau (scenario), William C. de Mille (story), Sada Cowan (scenario)
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Plot: Robert and Beth Gordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
Rotten Tomatoes: When her philandering, party-boy husband divorces her to marry a more stylish jazz girl, a plain, bespectacled young divorcee turns herself into a babe with some real sex appeal, ultimately luring hubby back to her side. Sexual mores are satirized in this very entertaining Cecil B. DeMille comedy of manners.
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74% (1) Manslaughter 100 min, [Drama] [Cecil B. DeMille] [24 Sep 1922]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, External Reviews
Actors: John Miltern, Leatrice Joy, Lois Wilson, Thomas Meighan
Writer: Jeanie Macpherson (adaptation), Alice Duer Miller (novel)
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Plot: Lydia Thorne, a wealthy girl who loves speed and thrills, is unsympathetic when Evans, her maid, is jailed for stealing her jewels. District Attorney Daniel O'Bannon visits Lydia to make her see the error of her own ways, but instead views a scene of Lydia and her friends that reminds him of a Roman orgy. O'Bannon feels it is his duty, therefore, to send Lydia to jail for her own good when her automobile driving causes the death of a motorcycle policeman. Lydia is resentful, and her rebuff of O'Bannon, who has come to love her, causes him such remorse that he turns to drink and dissipation. Meanwhile, Lydia reforms, realizes she loves O'Bannon, and resolves to do charitable work. She and Evans open a soup kitchen after their release, and a chance meeting with O'Bannon starts him on the road to recovery. With Lydia's encouragement he becomes himself again, runs for governor, but withdraws his candidacy to marry Lydia when he sees that her record would be a liability to him in politics.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, Lydia Thorne is a wayward woman with a penchant for fast cars. She bribes a policeman with a diamond bracelet, but the lawman's livid wife demands her husband return the valuable bauble. When the cop dies trying to catch the speeding Lydia, she is charged with manslaughter.
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68% (1) Peck's Bad Boy 70 min, [Drama] [Edward F. Cline] [19 Oct 1934]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: Dorothy Peterson, Jackie Cooper, Jackie Searl, Thomas Meighan
Writer: George W. Peck (story "Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa"), Marguerite Roberts, Bernard Schubert
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Plot: Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.
Rotten Tomatoes: This film stars Jackie Cooper in the title role. Cooper's discomfort upon discovering that he was adopted by his dad Thomas Meighan is doubled when his obnoxious aunt Dorothy Peterson and repulsive cousin Jackie Searl move in with him.
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65% (1) M'Liss 73 min, [Drama] [Marshall Neilan] [05 May 1918]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Mary Pickford, Theodore Roberts, Thomas Meighan, Tully Marshall
Writer: Bret Harte (story in collection "Stories of the Sierras"), Frances Marion
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Plot: M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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