Romance
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…
Lonely Wives (1931) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Pre-Code Comedy Classic
Generations later, Edward Everett Horton would become best known to millions of children as the droll, unmistakable narrator of "Fractured Fairy Tales" on Rocky and Bullwinkle — a soft-spoken character-actor legacy built almost entirely on supporting roles across a decades-long…
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…
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,…
The Long Shot (1939) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Horse Racing Drama Classic
In 1939, Marsha Hunt was a 21-year-old actress freshly cut loose by Paramount, freelancing at Poverty Row studios and hoping for one more shot at a real career. She'd remember it decades later without much sentiment: no rehearsals, no second…