Romance
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…
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 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…
Earthworm Tractors (1936) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Joe E. Brown Comedy
Warner Bros. shut down the Caterpillar Tractor Company's plant in Peoria, Illinois for several weeks in 1936 and let a film crew use it as a set. The town in the film is called Earthworm, Illinois — a thinly fictionalized…
Honeymoon in Bali (1939) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Romantic Comedy Classic
The film was nearly made with Merle Oberon. Paramount announced it in 1936, shelved it, rebuilt it, and released it in September 1939 with a British blonde who had already survived a kidnapping conviction in a Hitchcock picture and would…
Dixiana (1930) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Musical Classic
Bill Robinson was fifty-two years old when he made his film debut in Dixiana. He plays a specialty dancer — the role is small, the screen time is brief, and the New York Times reviewer singled him out anyway, noting…
Of Human Bondage (1934) Full Movie Review, Plot, Cast & Free Classic Drama
In the summer of 1934, Bette Davis was a Warner Bros. contract player who had spent three years making mediocre pictures for a studio that didn't know what to do with her. She had to beg Jack L. Warner to…