An early talkie and one of the earliest Philo Vance films, in this film he is played by Basil Rathbone . After a young man is found dead wit...

An early Philo Vance talkie. The Greene family are that staple of interwar American families on screen: rich and hate each other! They live ...

An enjoyable early talkie though chock full of dodgy stereotypes. War between two rival gangs in Chinatown begins, one of the gangs being le...

It is 1929, sound films have quickly revolutionised the cinema industry and there is a hunger by audiences to hear as well as see the stars...

A dramatic early talkie as a man who has committed a terrible crime fights to hide his true identity. After shooting another man, the killer...

A good early talkie with some tasty gangster nonsense. Notorious gangster Thunderbolt ( George Bancroft ) is wanted by the police, they put ...

An early talkie, and an early dark house mystery.  After an attempt on the life of Lord Montague ( Roland Young ), he discovers that some of...

An early talkie. Truthfully, its not that great but one of the few sound films the queen of the silent movie, Clara Bow , so is of course we...

An uneven early talkie. Convicted cop killer Bobby Doyle ( Robert Ames ) escapes prison and goes on the run. He protests that he was framed ...

An epic tale which links the Biblical story with the harrowing incidents of the First World War. A mixed group of people are travelling on t...

Hard bitten old sea dog yarn, that handles the nautical scenes pretty well. The captain ( Hobart Bosworth ) is a bitter old sea dog, who has...

An early example of Buster Keaton 's work, a taste of the greatness to come. Buster and Sybil Seely have just got married. One of their...

A classic late 1920s silent movie. This film follows the story of Ivan Markov ( John Barrymore ), a soldier in the final days of Tsarist Rus...

Before the highly successful Chester Morris series of Boston Blackie films in the 1940s there were a number of other adaptations of the cha...

The Alice series were early Walt Disney live action / animation hybrids.  Alice ( Anne Shirley ) and Julius the cat are the owners of an eg...

Buster Keaton is working in a blacksmithing shop with plenty of mayhem of course. Buster ends up in a fight with the actual blacksmith ( Jo...

Snub Pollard is a dandy who is hanging around a park chasing butterflies in a net. After some flirting (with girls not butterflies) he ends...

A curious comedy short. We are in the year 1950 (though looks remarkably like 1920 still!) and men and women have switched roles. Unfortunat...

A surreal and highly strange (and amusing) comedy that has to be seen to be believed! Andy ( Andy Clyde ) is announcing the engagement of hi...

The film that turned Clara Bow into a superstar and created the concept of the "It girl", but is it any good? What is "It...