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The Animal Kingdom (also known as The Woman in His House in the UK) is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith based upon a comedy of manners of the same name by Philip Barry. The film stars Leslie Howard, Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, Ilka Chase, and Neil Hamilton. Howard, Gargan, and Chase also... Read more → The post The Animal Kingdom appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

American silent film. Alfred E. Green [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Info. The post The Man Who Had Everything, 1920 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

Ashes of Vengeance is a 1923 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Norma Talmadge and Wallace Beery. It survives at the Library of Congress and at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Plot: At the ball celebrating the wedding of Henry of Navarre on August 23, 1572, the evil Queen Mother Catherine de’ Medici (Josephine Crowell) persuades... Read more → The post Ashes of Vengeance, 1923 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

The Pride of Palomar is a 1922 American drama silent film directed by Frank Borzage and written by Grant Carpenter, Peter B. Kyne and John Lynch. The film stars Forrest Stanley, Marjorie Daw, Tote Du Crow, James O. Barrows, Joseph J. Dowling and Alfred Allen. The film was released on November 26, 1922, by Paramount Pictures. A print of this... Read more → The post The Pride of Palomar, 1922 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

American educational propaganda film. Hill, R. David Bennett. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The post The road to health and happiness, 1937 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

St. Louis Blues is a 1929 American two-reel short film starring Bessie Smith. The early sound film features Smith in an African-American speakeasy of the prohibition era singing the W. C. Handy standard, “St. Louis Blues”. Directed by Dudley Murphy, it is the only known film of Bessie Smith, and the soundtrack is her only recording not controlled by Columbia... Read more → The post St. Louis Blues, 1929 musical appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

Neighbors is a 1920 two-reel silent comedy film co-written, co-directed by, and starring Buster Keaton. Plot: Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox play young lovers who live in tenements, the rear of which face each other, with backyards separated by a wooden fence and with their families constantly feuding over the lovers’ relationship. Each morning Buster and Virginia exchange love letters... Read more → The post Neighbors, 1920 starring Buster Keaton appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

Short film with Roy Atwell announcing popular radio stars Arthur Tracy, The Mills Brothers, Donald Novis, and Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra. U. M. & M. TV Corp. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Info. The post The Little Broadcast, 1933 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

The Playhouse is a 1921 American two-reel silent comedy film written, directed by, and starring Buster Keaton. The movie runs for 22 minutes, and is most famous for an opening sequence in which Keaton plays every role. Plot: The film is set up as a series of humorous tricks on the audience, with constant doubling, and in which things are... Read more → The post The Playhouse, 1921 starring Buster Keaton appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944) is an independently made short film musical, directed by Hanus Burger, starring Lena Horne, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Teddy Wilson and his orchestra. It is a significant film in the history of jazz for its early glimpse of Lena Horne (in her second film) and as the only film of boogie-woogie piano masters Albert Ammons and... Read more → The post Boogie-Woogie Dream, 1944 musical appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

The Electric House is a 1922 American short comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. Plot: Keaton plays a botany student who is accidentally awarded an electrical engineering degree. He then attempts to wire a home using many gadgets. The man to whom the degree should have been awarded then exacts revenge by rewiring those gadgets to cause mayhem.... Read more → The post The Electric House, 1922 starring Buster Keaton appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

Reet, Petite, and Gone is a 1947 American musical race film directed in his feature film debut by short subject director William Forest Crouch that was produced and released by Astor Pictures. The film stars Louis Jordan and in her credited feature film debut, June Richmond. Plot: Louis Jarvis Jr is called away from his band’s radio show to visit... Read more → The post Reet, Petite and Gone, 1947 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

The Boat is a 1921 American two-reel silent comedy film written and directed by and starring Buster Keaton. The International Buster Keaton Society takes its name, The Damfinos, from this film. Plot: Buster is married with two children (both of whom wear the porkpie hat made famous by Keaton). He has built a large boat he has christened Damfino inside... Read more → The post The Boat, 1921 starring Buster Keaton appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

My Wife’s Relations is a 1922 American short comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. Through a judicial error Buster finds himself married to a large domineering woman with an unfriendly father and four bullying brothers. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Info. The post My Wife’s Relations, 1922 starring Buster Keaton appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !

Shoulder Arms is Charlie Chaplin’s second film for First National Pictures. Released in 1918, it is a silent comedy set in France during World War I. The main part of the film actually occurs in a dream. It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin’s elder brother. It is Chaplin’s shortest feature film as well as the first feature film... Read more → The post Shoulder Arms, 1918 starring Charlie Chaplin appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Liked the movie? Buy us a coffee !