Movies: John Barrymore

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....

Home movie travelogue of John Barrymore and Walter Mayo aboard the schooner 'The Mariner' setting sail out of Los Angeles to Guadalupe Island, 150 miles off the West coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula....

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

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 Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953....

Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach...

After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him....

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

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

Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding....

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three men pose as spies, disrupting the opening, but things don't go quite as planned...there are actual sp...

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

A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich....

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 tries to return home, he enters the wrong house and is nearly arrested When Helen comes back he tells he...

When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler....

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 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 mistaken for a laborer....

Mrs. Casey, a pretty young widow is sought by O'Brien and Sullivan, who are rivals....

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

A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love of the game and the thrill of the chase, outwitting police and detectives....

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