Barefoot Boy (1938) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Children’s Adventure Classic
Before he ever sat in a director's chair, Karl Brown spent his teenage years as Billy Bitzer's camera assistant on D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) — hauling equipment, loading film, and operating a second…
Horror Hotel (1960) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Christopher Lee Witchcraft Classic
Two years before Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg officially founded Amicus Productions — the studio that would go on to define British horror anthologies for the next decade — the two American producers were already working out of Shepperton Studios,…
Paradise Isle (1937) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free South Seas Adventure Classic
Dorothy Davenport produced Paradise Isle under the screen credit "Dorothy Reid" — a name that carried real weight in 1937, and real tragedy behind it. She'd been married to Wallace Reid, one of the biggest stars of the silent era,…
Charlie Chaplin The Fireman (1916) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Silent Comedy Classic
By 1916, Charlie Chaplin was, basically, the highest paid entertainer around, after he signed a contract with Mutual Film Corporation for $670,000 a year— which was almost not believable for the era, and it also handed him nearly total creative…
Tombstone Canyon (1932) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Western Mystery Classic
The cinematographer on Tombstone Canyon was a young man named Ted McCord, shooting a Poverty Row horse opera on location at Red Rock Canyon for a studio that wouldn't survive the decade. Two and a half decades later, McCord would…
The Ape (1940) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Boris Karloff Horror Classic
Curt Siodmak wrote The Ape a full year before he'd write The Wolf Man (1941) — the screenplay that would make his name synonymous with classic horror for the rest of film history. The Ape is what he was doing…
The Dawn Rider (1935) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free John Wayne B-Western Classic
Four years before Stagecoach would make him a star, John Wayne was churning through Poverty Row westerns for producer Paul Malvern's Lone Star Productions at a pace that's hard to fathom today — sometimes a new picture every few weeks,…
Strange Illusion (1945) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Classic
Edgar G. Ulmer had already made Detour the year before — the film that would eventually get him remembered as the "King of the Bs" — and by 1945 he was back at Producers Releasing Corporation, the cheapest of Hollywood's…
The Long Shot (1939) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Horse Racing Drama Classic
In 1939, Marsha Hunt was a 21-year-old actress freshly cut loose by Paramount, freelancing at Poverty Row studios and hoping for one more shot at a real career. She'd remember it decades later without much sentiment: no rehearsals, no second…
The Hoodlum (1951) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Crime Classic
By 1951, Lawrence Tierney had already played the role that would define — and arguably derail — his entire career: the title character in Dillinger (1945), the film that made him a star and typecast him permanently as Hollywood's go-to…