The Fast and the Furious (1955) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Public Domain Crime Thriller
The film franchise that generated over $7 billion worldwide borrowed its title from a forgotten 1955 B-movie that Roger Corman wrote for $12,000. Universal Pictures purchased the name rights in 2001 and built an empire on them — but the…
The Lady Says No (1952) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free David Niven Romantic Comedy
The New York Times critic reviewing The Lady Says No (1952) quoted David Niven's own line from within the film — "This went out with silent pictures!" — and deployed it as a review. Which is both a devastating critical…
One Body Too Many (1944) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Bela Lugosi Mystery
Bela Lugosi gets top billing in One Body Too Many (1944) and appears on screen for approximately ten minutes of its 75-minute runtime. This is not unusual for the Hollywood of 1944 — star billing and actual screen presence had…
Father’s Little Dividend (1951) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Spencer Tracy Comedy
Spencer Tracy was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for Father of the Bride (1950), which grossed over $4 million on a budget of $1.5 million and became one of MGM's biggest hits of the year. Within twelve months,…
College (1927) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Buster Keaton Silent Comedy
Buster Keaton was a genuine athlete who spent nearly every working day performing physical feats that could and frequently did put him in the hospital. He broke his neck during the filming of Sherlock Jr. and didn't know it for…
His Double Life (1933) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Comedy-Drama Classic
Lillian Gish had not appeared in a Hollywood film in three years. The actress who had defined screen acting for D.W. Griffith in Birth of a Nation (1915) and Broken Blossoms (1919), who had been one of the two or…
The Limping Man (1953) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Thriller
The director's credit on The Limping Man reads "Charles de Lautour." There is a real Charles de Lautour — a British director whom producer Donald Ginsberg hired specifically to appear in public and take the credit that the film's actual…
Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Wheeler & Woolsey Comedy Classic
Max Steiner was born in Vienna in 1888, studied music under Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss, conducted operettas in London's West End and on Broadway by his early twenties, and arrived in Hollywood in 1929 with a formal musical education…
Million Dollar Weekend (1948) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Crime Classic
The leading actress in Million Dollar Weekend is credited as Stephanie Paull. She is not Stephanie Paull. She is Danish actress Osa Massen — a performer who had appeared in A Woman's Face (1941) and Flying Tigers (1942) and who…
The Paleface (1922) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Buster Keaton Silent Comedy
A technician made the test jump first. He fell from the rope suspension bridge in the Santa Susana Mountains into the net below — and broke his shoulder and leg. That's when Buster Keaton, standing at the bridge's edge looking…