Public Domain Movies - Drama & Romance

Manhattan Tower

Romance, drama

A post depression love story that takes place between to people who work in the Empire State building.

Last Alarm

crime, Drama

Captain Hadley (J. Farrell MacDonald, who also appeared as the City Editor in "Danger Ahead") reaches the age limit for firefighter and is retired. While he is bored out of his mind at home, an arsonist (George Pembroke), who evidently is called Wendell, despite the fact that noone ever calls him by name, starts to burn the city down, building by building. After his friend Burt (Joel Friedkin) dies fighting a fire, Hadley unofficially joins up with the arson squad to track down the arsonist; but as Hadley zeroes in on Wendell, Wendell zeroes in on Hadley...

Midnight Phantom

crime, Drama, mystery

A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.

Made for Each Other

Comedy, romance

Jimmy Stewart plays a young lawyer John Mason. Who marries Jane Mason (Carole Lombard) after knowing her for just one day.

The Mysterious Rider AKA Mark of the Avenger

Western, romance

Taken from IMDB: Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder

Three Ages

silent, Buster Keaton, Love, romance, comedy

This gut busting comedy, starring Buster Keaton, charmingly explores love in the three ages of life - the prehistoric age, the roman age, and the modern age. Throughout the years, where love is concerned, does anything really change? You can read more about this film on its IMDb page. Enjoy!

The Animal Kingdom

comedy, Drama, Leslie Howard

This was the first film shown at the RKO Roxy Theater. An awkward love triangle is created when a publisher (Howard) encounters a moral speed bump and engages in an affair with an open-minded artist (Harding) while married to a stodgy suburbanite (Loy). Complicating matters is the tendency of the mistress to play the role of unassuming wife while inelegant and deceptive wife acts as the mistress.

Home Town Story

drama, Romance

Taken from IMDB: Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.

Hoosier Schoolboy

Drama

A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.

Call of the Yukon

Action, Adventure, Romance

Taken from IMDB: A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.

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