John Barrymore Movies

A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden...

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to...

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's...

A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.

Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed...

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

Helen Ross spends her time reading novels. She has made up her mind to marry only a young man whom she can save from something or other, or one who...

In 1939, Orson Welles staged a version of the play "The Green Goddess" in New York, which was preceded by a short film prelude. This was two years...

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

Spoony Sam is a veritable pest at Si Hawkins' farm, and the girls treat him as a huge joke. In a city cigarette factory there is a peach of a young...

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

A tribute to producer Irving Thalberg.

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film...

On the lam from the New York Police because of a false murder charge, playboy Brooke Travers escapes to a Central American banana republic.

The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is...