John Barrymore Movies

A history of horror movies.

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

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who...

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

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.

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...

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

A tribute to producer Irving Thalberg.

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

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 collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children and holding them for ransom. He conceives the idea...

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

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

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...

Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to...

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

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 successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.