Drama
Go for Broke! (1951) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Nisei War Drama Classic
Robert Pirosh wanted to write a love story. The hero would be a young Japanese American college student, and the war would stay in the background. He dug into the past, and the love story faded for him. What showed…
Becky Sharp (1935) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Technicolor Drama Classic
Lowell Sherman refused to abandon Becky Sharp even after his illness turned serious. The film's original director had made it twenty-five days into production, shuttling between the punishing heat of early three-strip Technicolor lighting rigs and the cold December air…
Young Bill Hickok (1940) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Roy Rogers Western Classic
Roy Rogers had not yet reached his title as “The King of the Cowboys” when he appeared in Young Bill Hickok. This was a lean B western made in the time when Republic Pictures was still shaping him. At that…
Won in the Clouds (1928) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Silent Aviation Adventure Classic
Al Wilson didn't need a stunt double, because he'd been flying for real since before Hollywood ever gave him a script. Wilson was born in Kentucky, then moved to Southern California while he was still young. He began working as…
Cause for Alarm! (1951) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Film Noir Suspense Classic
Producer Tom Lewis wanted Judy Garland for the lead role in Cause for Alarm! His wife, Loretta Young, wanted it too — and, as the producer's wife, she got it. It's an unusually direct piece of Hollywood casting politics for…
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…