In this silent drama based on the play by Eugene O'Neill, Blanche Sweet plays Anna
Christie, a young woman whose father Chris (George F. Marion) is a sailor and knows enough of the life of seafaring men to be certain ...
This enchanting yet dark romantic comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills as a pair
of mismatched lovers helplessly drawn into a series of seemingly hopeless but humorous situations as in Lemmon's The Out-of -Towners two years earlier. Lemmon is ...
Based on a novel by Iris Rainer Dart, Beaches traces the 30-year oil-and-water friendship between
free-spirited Bronx Jew CC Bloom (Bette Midler) and uptight San Francisco WASP Hillary Essex (Barbara Hershey). The two meet as children in Atlantic City (played ...
John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel. Thanks
to his sartorial splendor and quick wit, Brummel is a favorite of the Prince of Wales (Willard Louis)--and with several ladies, though his heart belongs ...
Desert Nights was the last silent film made by MGM's resident heartthrob John Gilbert --
and the last of his truly successful efforts. The melodramatic plot revolves around the robbery of a diamond mine, masterminded by Steve (Ernest Torrence). The ...
In 1920, filmgoers were treated to no fewer than two different film versions of Robert
Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In this one, John Barrymore plays the humanitarian Dr. Henry Jekyll, who becomes obsessed with the notion of ...
This cult horror film from director Lucio Fulci lurches along with a certain amount of
disjunction due to cutting, perhaps, if not to an innate Fulci disposition. When the Boyle family temporarily moves into a mansion near Boston so the ...
An army of merciless Vikings invade unsuspecting towns, leaving murder and mayhem in their wake.
It is up to local residents to band together in an attempt to fight off the mauraders.