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The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 American romantic drama film with horror elements starring Lon Chaney, directed by Wallace Worsley, and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg. The supporting cast includes Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Nigel de Brulier, and Brandon Hurst. The film was Universal’s “Super Jewel” of 1923 and was their most successful silent film,... Read more → The post The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

Inside the Lines is a 1930 American Pre-Code spy drama film starring Betty Compson, Ralph Forbes, and Mischa Auer. Directed by Roy Pomeroy (who also was the associate producer) from a screenplay by John Farrow and Ewart Adamson, which in turn was based on the 1915 Broadway play of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers. This version is a... Read more → The post Inside the Lines, 1930 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

The Devil Bat is a 1940 black-and-white American horror film produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and directed by Jean Yarborough. The film stars Bela Lugosi[4] along with Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher, Yolande Mallott and the comic team of Dave O’Brien and Donald Kerr as the protagonists. It was the first horror film from PRC.[5] Although described as a sequel,... Read more → The post The Devil Bat, starring Bela Lugosi in a pre-vampire movie! appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

Disorder in the Court is the 15th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1936 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. By Columbia Pictures (http://www.archive.org/details/3stooges) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Info. The post Three Stooges: Disorder In The Court appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American drama romantic thriller war film directed by Frank Lloyd starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945. A... Read more → The post Blood on the Sun, starring James Cagney appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

Dementia 13 (UK title: The Haunted and the Hunted) is a 1963 horror-thriller released by American International Pictures, starring William Campbell, Patrick Magee, and Luana Anders. The film was written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Roger Corman. Although Coppola had been involved in at least two nudie films previously, Dementia 13 served as his first mainstream... Read more → The post Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

Why Worry? is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor and starring Harold Lloyd. Plot: Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) is a young, wealthy American businessman who obsesses constantly about his health, believing he is deathly sick while in reality he is perfectly fine. Determined to improve his physical condition with an extended rest... Read more → The post Why Worry?, 1923 starring Harold Lloyd appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

The Marriage Circle is a 1924 silent film produced by Ernst Lubitsch and Warner Brothers with direction by Lubitsch and distribution by the Warners. Based on the play Only a Dream by Lothar Schmidt, the screenplay was written by Paul Bern. The “circle” of the title refers to the ring of infidelities (suspected and otherwise) central to the plot. The... Read more → The post The Marriage Circle, 1924 directed by Ernst Lubitsch appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

The Sea Hawk is a 1924 American silent adventure film about an English noble sold into slavery who escapes and turns himself into a pirate king. Directed by Frank Lloyd, the screen adaptation was written by J. G. Hawks based upon the 1915 Rafael Sabatini novel of the same name. It premiered on June 2, 1924, in New York City,... Read more → The post The Sea Hawk, 1924 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

Aelita , also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov made at the Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio and released in 1924. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy’s novel of the same name. Nikolai Tseretelli and Valentina Kuindzhi were cast in leading roles. Though the main focus of the story is the daily... Read more → The post Aelita: Queen of Mars, 1924 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

Peter Pan is a 1924 American silent adventure film released by Paramount Pictures, the first film adaptation of the play by J. M. Barrie. It was directed by Herbert Brenon and starred Betty Bronson as Peter Pan, Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook, Mary Brian as Wendy, and Virginia Browne Faire as Tinker Bell. Anna May Wong, a groundbreaking Chinese-American actress,... Read more → The post Peter Pan, 1924 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joseph A. Mitchell. It features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton and Ward Crane. In 1991, Sherlock Jr. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or... Read more → The post Sherlock Jr., 1924 comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, 2020 PD! appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

Topper Returns is a 1941 film directed by Roy Del Ruth. It is the third and final entry in the initial series of supernatural comedy films inspired by the novels of Thorne Smith. It followed Topper (1937) and Topper Takes a Trip (1938). As in the prior films, Roland Young plays Cosmo Topper, a mousy banker who gets into trouble... Read more → The post Topper Returns, 1941 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

The Perils of Pauline is a 1947 American Technicolor film directed by George Marshall and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a fictionalized Hollywood account of silent film star Pearl White’s rise to fame, starring Betty Hutton as White. A broad satire of silent-film production, the film is a musical-comedy vehicle for Hutton. The original songs by Frank Loesser... Read more → The post The Perils of Pauline, 1947 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App

The Old Swimmin’ Hole is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Joe De Grasse based on the poem The Old Swimmin’ Hole by James Whitcomb Riley. A reviewer for Exhibitors Herald summarized, “The theme of the picture is a light one—just the pleasant little love story of a country schoolboy and girl in the era of the youth... Read more → The post The Old Swimmin’ Hole, 1921 appeared first on Public Domain Movies. Sponsors: Free G Suite Sponsors: Free Movies Android App