John Barrymore Movies

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from ear...

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

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

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy,...

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 young American broker at large in London.

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 trie...