
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. Read More »
Tag Archives: John Barrymore
Svengali (1931) Archie Mayo, John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp

Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. Read More »
Midnight (1939) Mitchell Leisen, Claudette Colbert

Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. Read More »
Marie Antoinette (1938) W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore

The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. Read More »
Topaze (1933) Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast

An honest and naive school teacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside Read More »
Long Lost Father (1934) Ernest B. Schoedsack, John Barrymore, Helen Chandler, Donald Cook

Carl Bellairs and Lindsey Lane, his daughter, meet many years after he deserted her and her mother. Read More »
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

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 »
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 »
Reunion in Vienna (1933) Sidney Franklin, John Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, Frank Morgan

An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow Read More »