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Jack and the Beanstalk is a 1952 American family comedy film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It is a comic revision of the classic Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale. Plot: Mr. Dinkle and Jack (Abbott and Costello) look for work at the Cosman Employment Agency. Jack makes advances to Cosman employee Polly (Dorothy Ford), but he... Read more → The post Jack and the Beanstalk, 1952 film with Abbott and Costello appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

War of the Robots (Italian title: La guerra dei robot) is a 1978 Italian film directed by Alfonso Brescia. The film was later released on DVD as both Reactor and War of the Robots. The 4 films in Alfonso Brescia’s 1978 sci-fi series are Cosmos: War of the Planets (1978, a.k.a. Year Zero War in Space), Battle of the Stars... Read more → The post War of the Robots, 1978 film appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

It’s a Joke, Son! is a 1947 American film directed by Benjamin Stoloff featuring radio comedian Kenny Delmar as Senator Beauregard Claghorn; the inspiration for the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. The film was the first American production of Eagle-Lion Films and although the film was produced on a very small budget compared to other Hollywood films at the time, it... Read more → The post It’s a Joke, Son!, 1947 appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

Doomsday Machine, also known as Escape from Planet Earth (video title), is an American science fiction film filmed in 1967 but completed without the original cast or sets in 1972. Plot: A spy (Essie Lin Chia (fr)) discovers that the Chinese government has created a doomsday device (the “key” to which, “only Chairman Mao has”) capable of destroying the Earth... Read more → The post Doomsday Machine, 1972 film appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

The City of the Dead (U.S. title: Horror Hotel) is a 1960 horror film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Christopher Lee, Venetia Stevenson, Betta St. John, Patricia Jessel and Valentine Dyall. Produced in England but set in America, the British actors were required to speak with American accents throughout. Plot: In 1692, in the fictional Massachusetts town of... Read more → The post The City of the Dead, 1960 film starring Christopher Lee appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

The Big Parade is a 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Tom O’Brien, and Karl Dane. Written by World War I veteran, Laurence Stallings, the film is about an idle rich boy who joins the US Army’s Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War... Read more → The post The Big Parade, 1925 appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

At War with the Army is a 1950 American musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis and introducing Polly Bergen. It was filmed from July through August 1949, and released on December 30, 1950 by Paramount. It was re-released in 1958 by OMAT Pictures. Although filmed before My Friend Irma Goes... Read more → The post At War with the Army, 1950 with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

Nothing Sacred is an American Technicolor screwball comedy film directed in 1937 by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March. with a supporting cast featuring Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. Ben Hecht was credited with the screenplay based on a story by James H. Street, and an array of additional writers, including... Read more → The post Nothing Sacred, 1937 film appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

Diary of a Sergeant is a 1945 American short propaganda film produced by the US government. It starred Harold Russell and focused on the loss of his arms in an accident. The film was seen by William Wyler who cast Russell in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). By Joseph M. Newman (Youtube) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Info. The post Diary of a Sergeant, 1945 appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

The Lost City is an independently made science fiction film serial created and produced in 1935 by Sherman S. Krellberg and directed by Harry Revier. Plot: Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after realizing that a series of electrically induced natural disasters had been detected in the area. There he finds Zolok, last of the Lemurians,... Read more → The post The Lost City, 1935 (serial) All episodes appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

All the Kind Strangers is a 1974 American film directed by Burt Kennedy. Plot: Children of a bootlegger in an extremely remote area of the U.S. have been orphaned when their mother died giving birth to the 7th of them at home and the distraught father fell off the roof of the house in a drunken stupor (information disseminated in... Read more → The post All the Kind Strangers, 1974 appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

Killers from Space (a.k.a. The Man Who Saved the Earth) is a 1954 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder (brother of Billy Wilder), that stars Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, Frank Gerstle, James Seay, and Steve Pendleton. The film originated from an original, commissioned screenplay by his son Myles Wilder and their regular... Read more → The post Killers from Space, 1954 appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O’Brien. Based on a Broadway play of the same name, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer, and distributed by United Artists. The supporting cast includes Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Matt Moore,... Read more → The post The Front Page, 1931 by Howard Hughes appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

Glenn Duffie Shriver (born November 23, 1981) is an American convicted of conspiracy to spy for China. Shriver’s experience was dramatized in the short film Game of Pawns, produced by the Counter-Intelligence Unit of the FBI and released online in April 2014. One of the film’s goals was to warn students of dangers in China. It featured the actor Joshua... Read more → The post Game of Pawns, 2014 appeared first on Public Domain Movies.

The Ghost Train is a 1941 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde based on the 1923 play of the same name written by Arnold Ridley. Plot: Tommy Gander (Arthur Askey), a vaudeville comedian, pulls the communication cord on a GWR express train, bringing it to a stop so he can retrieve his hat. Returning to the train, he... Read more → The post The Ghost Train, 1941 appeared first on Public Domain Movies.