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1. The Widow Casey's Return (1912)
Short, Comedy
Mrs. Casey, a pretty young widow is sought by O'Brien and Sullivan, who are rivals. Mrs. Casey shows a preference to O'Brien, who is the younger and better looking than Sullivan. Sullivan ... See full summary »
Stars: Jerold T. Hevener, Eleanor Caines, John Barrymore, William Chamberlain
Votes: 19
2. The Dream of a Moving Picture Director (1912)
Short, Comedy
A photoplay is wanted quick. The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is compelled to call... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Middleton | Stars: Jerold T. Hevener, Eleanor Caines, John Barrymore, Will Hartzell
Votes: 14
3. The Red Widow (1916)
40 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star and political intrigue.
Director: James Durkin | Stars: John Barrymore, Flora Zabelle, John Hendricks, Eugene Redding
Votes: 16
4. For Auld Lang Syne (1938)
7 min | Documentary, Short, Music
James Cagney introduced himself and proceeded to identify the attending guests as they arrived at this benefit function, most of whom stepped up to a microphone to be interviewed on the ... See full summary »
Stars: John Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney
Votes: 187
5. A Prize Package (1912)
Short, Comedy
Spoony Sam is a veritable pest at Si Hawkins' farm, and the girls treat him as a huge joke. In a city cigarette factory there is a peach of a young girl, Fannie Fatima. She writes a note on... See full summary »
Stars: Jerold T. Hevener, Eleanor Caines, Marie Rainford, John Barrymore
Votes: 14
6. On the Quiet (1918)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
A young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family, the couple goes into hiding.
Director: Chester Withey | Stars: John Barrymore, Lois Meredith, Frank Losee, Jack W. Johnston
Votes: 35
7. One on Romance (1913)
Comedy, Romance, Short
Helen Ross spends her time reading novels. She has made up her mind to marry only a young man whom she can save from something or other, or one who can rescue her in some romantic way. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Middleton | Stars: John Barrymore, Eleanor Caines, Frank DeVernon, Charles Bartlett
Votes: 18
8. Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V (1933)
6 min | Short, Drama
A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.
Directors: Margaret Carrington, Robert Edmond Jones | Stars: John Barrymore, Donald Crisp, Reginald Denny, Irving Pichel
Votes: 48
9. Just Pretending (1912)
Comedy, Short
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 of playing the game on his little ... See full summary »
Stars: Jerold T. Hevener, Eleanor Caines, Albert Hackett, Henrietta O'Beck
Votes: 14
10. The New Bike (2009)
Short, Drama
Director: David Gantz | Stars: Matt Zemlin, John Riley Billings
Votes: 60
11. The Man from Mexico (1914)
Comedy
A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.
Director: Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: John Barrymore, Wellington A. Playter, Harold Lockwood, Pauline Neff
Votes: 42
12. The Green Goddess (1939)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Susan Fox, John Barrymore, William Alland
Votes: 24
13. Nearly a King (1916)
50 min | Romance, Comedy
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.
Director: Frederick A. Thomson | Stars: John Barrymore, Katherine Corri Harris, Russell Bassett, Beatrice Prentice
Votes: 44
14. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.
Directors: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson
Votes: 7,982 | Gross: $12.45M
15. Midnight (1939)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer
Votes: 5,612
16. The Lost Bridegroom (1916)
50 min | Comedy
Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.
Director: James Kirkwood | Stars: John Barrymore, Katherine Corri Harris, Ida Darling, June Dale
Votes: 25
17. The Dictator (1915)
Adventure, Romance
Brooke Travers, a young society man of a roving disposition and much leisure, gets into a cab with his valet and his trunks, to go to his yacht for a cruise. Arriving at the pier, the ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Eagle | Stars: John Barrymore, Charlotte Ives, Ruby Hoffman, Ivan F. Simpson
Votes: 49
18. Romance in the Dark (1938)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
"Romance in the Dark" is a 1938 film directed by H. C. Potter and starring Gladys Swarthout, John Boles, John Barrymore, and Claire Dodd. It is one of five movies produced by Paramount in ... See full summary »
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Gladys Swarthout, John Boles, John Barrymore, Claire Dodd
Votes: 75
19. The Test of Honor (1919)
50 min | Drama
After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Barrymore, Constance Binney, Marcia Manon, Robert Schable
Votes: 38
20. Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
TV-G | 113 min | Documentary, History
For 50 years, radio dominated the airwaves as the first mass medium. Ken Burns examines the lives of three men who shared the responsibility for its invention and early success.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Jason Robards, Red Barber, Erik Barnouw, Ken Bilby
Votes: 594
21. General Crack (1929)
Passed | 97 min | Action, Drama, History
A nobleman marries a gypsy woman, but while at court he falls in love with a princess.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: John Barrymore, Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Armida
Votes: 75
22. Here Comes the Bride (1919)
50 min | Comedy
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Barrymore, Frank Losee, Faire Binney, Frances Kaye
Votes: 45
23. Dinner at Eight (1933)
Passed | 111 min | Drama
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow
Votes: 9,028 | Gross: $4.58M
24. Counsellor at Law (1933)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 1,509
25. Unusual Occupations (I) (1941)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
Features the inventor of a popular self-kicking machine; growing pumpkins in sculpted forms; artificial roses made from egg membranes; a miniature painter; John Barrymore's trophy collection.
Stars: Ken Carpenter, John Barrymore, Vincent Bongiorno, John Cz
Votes: 9
26. An American Citizen (1914)
40 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Berresford Cruger, junior partner of the New York brokerage firm of Barbury, Brown and Cruger, is left a fortune of 60,000 pounds, by an English uncle, Carew, on the condition that he ... See full summary »
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: John Barrymore, Evelyn Moore, Peter Lang, Hal Clarendon
Votes: 33
27. Grand Hotel (I) (1932)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery
Votes: 20,888 | Gross: $2.69M
28. Marie Antoinette (1938)
Passed | 149 min | Biography, Drama, History
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier | Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley
Votes: 3,286
29. Twentieth Century (1934)
91 min | Comedy, Romance
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 7,254
30. Maytime (1937)
Passed | 132 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore, Herman Bing
Votes: 1,181
31. Don Juan (1926)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Romance
In 16th-century Italy, devil-may-care playboy Don Juan runs afoul of the despotic Borgias.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor
Votes: 964 | Gross: $1.92M
32. The Beloved Rogue (1927)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, History
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt
Votes: 902
33. When a Man Loves (1927)
Passed | 111 min | History, Romance
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Sam De Grasse
Votes: 417 | Gross: $0.89M
34. The Lotus Eater (1921)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Disillusioned in marriage, Jacques Leroi attempts an airship flight across the Pacific Ocean, but crashes and washes ashore on an island populated by a peaceful tribe of completely happy ... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: John Barrymore, Colleen Moore, Anna Q. Nilsson, Ida Waterman
Votes: 50
35. Are You a Mason? (1915)
Comedy
Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub. Unfortunately, when he tries to return home, he enters the wrong ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: John Barrymore, Helen Freeman, Charles Dixon, Harold Lockwood
Votes: 41
36. National Red Cross Pageant (1917)
50 min | Drama
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Edith Wynne Matthison, Douglas Wood, Ethel Barrymore, Kitty Gordon
Votes: 35
37. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (I) (1920)
Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane
Votes: 6,050
38. Arsène Lupin (1932)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A detective is tasked to capture an elusive thief called Arsene Lupin.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, John Miljan
Votes: 1,278
39. Svengali (1931)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 2,503
40. The Man from Blankley's (1930)
67 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: John Barrymore, Loretta Young, William Austin, Albert Gran
Votes: 94
41. The Incorrigible Dukane (1915)
40 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
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 mistaken for a laborer.
Director: James Durkin | Stars: John Barrymore, William T. Carleton, Helen Weir, Stewart Baird
Votes: 28
42. Topaze (I) (1933)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Drama
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.
Director: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Reginald Mason, Jobyna Howland
Votes: 1,032
43. Spawn of the North (1938)
Approved | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Friends since childhood, two men are on opposite sides in a salmon fishing conflict.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 589
44. Tempest (1928)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.
Directors: Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone, Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Boris de Fast
Votes: 523
45. The Great Man Votes (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what ... See full summary »
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 647
46. Eternal Love (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 572
47. The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention (1937)
Approved | 17 min | Documentary, Short
This short chronicles, in a semihumorous way, events associated with MGM's 1937 convention for the studio's national sales and distribution staff. First the delegates arrive by train in San... See full summary »
Stars: Louis B. Mayer, Al Lichtman, William F. Rodgers, James E. Davis
Votes: 44
48. True Confession (1937)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
A lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel
Votes: 1,778
49. Beau Brummel (1924)
135 min | Drama, History, Romance
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Carmel Myers
Votes: 538 | Gross: $0.29M
50. State's Attorney (1932)
Passed | 79 min | Drama
Attorney Tom Cardigan is the discontented "mouthpiece" for Vanny Powers' mob. When Tom takes sweet June Perry as his mistress, she tries in vain to redeem him. But Powers decides Tom would ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond, William 'Stage' Boyd
Votes: 402