John Barrymore Movies

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...

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

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

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 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.

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

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster...

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

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...

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

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...

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.

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

Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she assumed she turns a cold shoulder to him and he...

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

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

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

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...

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