John Barrymore Movies

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a tramp and dressed in the tramp's clothes he's...

When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his...

The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving...

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she assumed she turns a cold shoulder to him and he...

A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three...

Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.

A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love...

The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a...

Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children and holding them for ransom. He conceives the idea...

On the lam from the New York Police because of a false murder charge, playboy Brooke Travers escapes to a Central American banana republic.

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.

An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star...

A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.