Atlantic Flight (1937) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Aviation Adventure Classic
On May 14, 1937, Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie landed back in New York, having just completed the first commercial round-trip transatlantic flight in history — a mission bankrolled by William Randolph Hearst specifically to smuggle exclusive photographs of the…
Danger Lights (1930) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Railroad Drama Classic
Somewhere, a lost reel of film shows Jean Arthur, Robert Armstrong, and Louis Wolheim in a format nobody would see again on American screens for over two decades. Danger Lights was shot simultaneously in two versions: the standard 35mm cut…
Street Angel (馬路天使) (1937) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Chinese Leftist Cinema Classic
Director Yuan Muzhi borrowed his title from Hollywood — specifically from Frank Borzage's 1928 silent film Street Angel, starring Janet Gaynor, which had reached Shanghai audiences during a decade when American pictures circulated widely through the city's cosmopolitan theater scene.…
Lonely Wives (1931) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Pre-Code Comedy Classic
Generations later, Edward Everett Horton would become best known to millions of children as the droll, unmistakable narrator of "Fractured Fairy Tales" on Rocky and Bullwinkle — a soft-spoken character-actor legacy built almost entirely on supporting roles across a decades-long…
Blood on the Sun (1945) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free James Cagney Wartime Thriller Classic
James Cagney trained for months under Ken Kuniyuki, a fifth-degree judo master, insisting on performing his own stunts for a role that made Blood on the Sun — by more than one account — the first American film built around…
Charlie Chaplin’s “A Film Johnnie” (1914) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Silent Comedy Classic
By March 1914, Charlie Chaplin had been at Keystone Studios for barely two months, and he was already fighting with his director. A Film Johnnie — Chaplin's fifth film, released March 2, 1914 — is, by Chaplin's own later account,…
The Perils of Pauline (1947) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Betty Hutton Musical-Comedy Classic
The real Pearl White died in Paris in 1938, an alcoholic, her life savings gone to medical bills from a career of doing her own dangerous stunts, having spent her final years largely forgotten by the industry she'd once dominated…
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,…