John Barrymore Movies

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...

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

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."

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...

A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a tramp and dressed in the tramp's clothes he's...

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

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...

Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

A young American broker at large in London.

An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star...

Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children and holding them for ransom. He conceives the idea...

A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.

A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.

Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub. Unfortunately, when he...

In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its...