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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 »
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 »
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 »
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917) George Irving, John Barrymore, Christine Mayo, H. Cooper Cliffe
Gentleman burglar Raffles tries to get his hand on a priceless pearl. Read More »
True Confession (1937) Wesley Ruggles, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore
Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Read More »
Night Flight (1933) Clarence Brown, John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable
Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there’s only one way to get the medicine Read More »
Beau Brummel (1924) Harry Beaumont, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Read More »