Musicals
Speak Easily (1932) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Pre-Code Comedy Classic
Buster Keaton made three comedies with Jimmy Durante in barely a year, and he only ever spoke well of one. That film is Speak Easily (1932), the middle entry of the trio, and it handed Keaton something MGM rarely allowed…
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…
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Musical Fantasy Classic
Color television sets were still a rare, expensive novelty in most American homes when NBC aired The Pied Piper of Hamelin on November 26, 1957 — and the network hadn't made the film primarily to tell Robert Browning's story. It…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…