McLintock! is a 1963 comedy Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring John Wayne, with co-stars including Maureen O’Hara, Yvonne De Carlo, and Wayne’s son Patrick Wayne. The film, produced by Wayne’s company Batjac Productions, was loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLintock! Download: https://archive.org/details/Mclintock.avi
The Cheat is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, and Jack Dean (1874-1950), Ward’s real-life husband. This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. Info… Read more →
Captain Kidd (1945) is a 1945 adventure film starring Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, and John Carradine, directed by Rowland V. Lee, produced by Benedict Bogeaus and James Nasser, music conducted by Werner Janssen, and released by United Artists. The film has entered the public domain since the producers neglected to renew the copyright in 1972. The film was… Read more →
Blood and Sand (1922) is an American silent drama film produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Fred Niblo and starring Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, and Nita Naldi. The film was based on the Spanish novel Blood and Sand (Sangre y arena) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1909) and the play version of the book by Thomas Cushing. Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_Sand_%281922_film%29 This media… Read more →
The Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay (with Frank E. Woods), and co-produced the film (with Harry Aitken). It was released… Read more →
Title: Betty and the Buccaneers Genre: romance, adventure Sound: silent Colour: black and white Format and aspect ratio: 35 mm, 1.33 : 1 Running time: 01:05:10 (5 reels) Director: Rollin S. Sturgeon Writer: J. Edward Hungerford Cast: Juliette Day: Betty Charles Marriott: The Professor Joe King: Dick Winthrop Tote Du Crow: Captain Robias Crook William Kyle: The Mulatto J. Gordon… Read more →
Behind Green Lights is a 1946 American film noir directed by Otto Brower. This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_Green_Lights Download: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Behind_Green_Lights_%281946%29.ogv
Beau Ideal is a 1931 American Pre-Code adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was based on the adventure novel, Beau Ideal by P. C. Wren, the third novel in a series of five novels based around the same characters. Brenon had directed the first in the series, Beau Geste, which was a… Read more →
Algiers is a 1938 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. Written by John Howard Lawson, the film is about a notorious French jewel thief hiding in the labyrinthine native quarter of Algiers known as the Casbah. Feeling imprisoned by his self-imposed exile, he is drawn out of hiding by a… Read more →
The Musketeers of Pig Alley is a 1912 American short drama film credited as the first gangster film in history. It is directed by D. W. Griffith and written by Griffith and Anita Loos. It is also credited for its early use of follow focus, a fundamental tool in cinematography. The film was released on October 31, 1912 and re-released… Read more →
