His New Job (1915) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Charlie Chaplin Silent Comedy
The girl in the background of the opening scene of His New Job is not quite sixteen years old. She is sitting at a desk, playing a stenographer, uncredited. She had auditioned for the actual female lead, been turned down…
Borderline (1950) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Crime Classi
Claire Trevor had just won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Key Largo (1948). Her husband, former MGM executive Milton Bren, wanted to prove she could do something more than the archetypal tough dame. So he bankrolled a…
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Buster Keaton Comedy Classic
The house you're watching for the first half of this film is real. It's Buster Keaton's actual home — a 10,000-square-foot Italian Mediterranean villa in Beverly Hills that he designed and planned down to the last architectural detail, the kind…
A Bride for Henry (1937) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Romantic Comedy Classic
Fourteen years before producing this featherweight screwball comedy, Dorothy Davenport stood on a national speaking tour billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid," promoting a film she had written, co-directed, and starred in about the drug addiction that killed her husband. Wallace…
The Blacksmith (1922) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Buster Keaton Silent Comedy
In the mid-1950s, actor James Mason bought a mansion in Beverly Hills once owned by Buster Keaton. While exploring the property, he discovered a private vault containing several of Keaton's original 35mm nitrate prints — film elements nobody knew had…
Reign of Terror (1949) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free French Revolution Classic
Producer Walter Wanger wanted a respectable historical epic about the French Revolution. What he got from director Anthony Mann and cinematographer John Alton, was kinda a film noir vibe with knee breeches, and a powdered wig too. Reign of Terror…
Mesa of Lost Women (1953) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Sci-Fi Horror Cult Classic
Hoyt Curtin would go on to write the theme songs for The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo and roughly 250 other animated series that basically defined Saturday morning television for three decades. But before any of that, fresh out of a…
The Stork Club (1945) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Romantic Musical Comedy
When Barry Fitzgerald walked onto the set of The Stork Club in the spring of 1945, he was carrying the single strangest distinction in Academy Awards history. A couple weeks earlier , at the 17th Oscars he ’d been nominated…
Aces and Eights (1936) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Western Classic
Eleven years after this film wrapped, Tim McCoy married a woman who had interviewed Adolf Hitler three times, attended Hermann Göring's wedding as a personal guest, sat in Hitler's private box at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and carried on a…
Horrors of Spider Island (1962) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Cult Horror Classic
The leading man here once told an interviewer that he didn't believe in great acting — that Laurence Olivier and Burt Lancaster were real actors, but Cary Grant and Clark Gable were "personality actors," full stop, no judgment implied. He…