John Barrymore Movies

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

An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star...

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...

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

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

Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.

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

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

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

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

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

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

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and...

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

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...

A history of horror movies.

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...

The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a...

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...