First National Pictures Popular Movie

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials...

genus: Comedy

cast: Danny Kaye

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

genus: Adventure

cast: Bessie Love

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love...

genus: Drama

cast: Bette Davis

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

genus: Comedy

cast: Charlie Chaplin

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

genus: Adventure

cast: Errol Flynn

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

genus: Drama

cast: Edward G. Robinson

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery...

genus: Crime

cast: Joan Blondell

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace...

genus: Adventure

cast: Errol Flynn

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

genus: Horror

cast: Lionel Atwill

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer:...

genus: Thriller

cast: Robert Alda

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

genus: Crime

cast: Bette Davis

A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.

genus: Drama

cast: Ruth Chatterton

An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.

genus: Comedy

cast: Charlie Chaplin

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various...

genus: Comedy

cast: Buster Keaton

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld....

genus: Crime

cast: James Cagney

This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as...

genus: Comedy

cast: Buster Keaton

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large...

genus: Comedy

cast: Buster Keaton

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her...

genus: Comedy

cast: Dick Powell

A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.

genus: Comedy

cast: Charlie Chaplin

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

genus: Crime

cast: Spencer Tracy