Carl Bellairs and Lindsey Lane, his daughter, meet many years after he deserted her and her mother. Read More »
Tag Archives: John Barrymore
Counsellor-at-Law (1933) William Wyler, John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon
Crackerjack lawyer George Simon is a workaholic, and a successful one, at that. Read More »
State’s Attorney (1932) George Archainbaud, John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond
Attorney Tom Cardigan is the discontented “mouthpiece” for Vanny Powers’ mob. Read More »
The Mad Genius (1931) Michael Curtiz, John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Charles Butterworth
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Read More »
Moby Dick (1930) Lloyd Bacon, John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Hughes
In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville’s classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter Read More »
Grand Hotel (1932) Edmund Goulding, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Berlin’s plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words Read More »
Arsène Lupin (1932) Jack Conway, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris Read More »
Topaze (1933) Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Reginald Mason
An honest and naive school teacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside Read More »
Maytime (1937) Robert Z. Leonard, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore
An elderly Miss Morrison recounts her life as the once young Read More »
The Invisible Woman (1940) A. Edward Sutherland, Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard
Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine Read More »