Dixiana (1930) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Musical Classic
Bill Robinson was fifty-two years old when he made his film debut in Dixiana. He plays a specialty dancer — the role is small, the screen time is brief, and the New York Times reviewer singled him out anyway, noting…
Cops (1922) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Buster Keaton Silent Comedy
The film ends on, a tombstone . Keaton’s pork pie hat is set, sort of propped on top of it, and then the words “The End” are carved into the stone. It’s about eighteen minutes long, it was made in…
‘Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free East Side Kids Comedy Classic
Marc Lawrence plays McGaffey in this one, and if you’ve spent any time with those 1940s crime pictures you know what that means before the first scene is over. Lawrence had a face that the studios used like a signature…
Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Sword and Sandal Classic
Peter Lupus was twenty-eight, credited under the name Rock Stevens, and had not yet been cast in Mission: Impossible — that was still three years away. In 1964 he was a bodybuilder with a film career being built one Italian…
Marihuana (1936) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Exploitation Drama Classic
Dwain Esper made Marihuana in 1936 for one reason: to put something on screen that would sell tickets through shock alone. The title card promises you "the truth about the smoke from Hell," and Esper delivers exactly the kind of…
A Busy Day (1914) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Charlie Chaplin Silent Comedy
In the spring of 1914, Charlie Chaplin was twenty-five, about four months deep into his film career, and already turning out pictures faster than most folks could really watch them. Keystone Studios, under Mack Sennett, ran a production schedule that…
Of Human Bondage (1934) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Classic Drama
In the summer of 1934, Bette Davis was a Warner Bros. contract player who had spent three years making mediocre pictures for a studio that didn't know what to do with her. She had to beg Jack L. Warner to…
Tormented (1960) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Horror Classic
The actor who played Lloyd the bartender in The Shining (1980), and later Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner (1982) shows up in Tormented (1960) as this ferry driving beatnik character, he comes along to collect five dollars because a dead…
The Yesterday Machine (1963) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Sci-Fi Classic
Deep in rural Texas, in an underground bunker furnished with two shelves of electronic junk and a chair on a platform with blinking lights, a former Nazi scientist named Professor Ernst Von Hauser is building a time machine to bring…
Aerial Gunner (1943) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free WWII War Drama Classic
In the autumn of 1942, with the United States less than a year into World War II, a production unit at Paramount called Pine-Thomas started filming a recruitment and morale picture about aerial gunners. They shot it in three and…