Drama
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…