Public Domain Movies - Feature Films

1914

Charlie Chaplin's "The Knockout"

Charlie Chaplin, Silents, Fatty Arbuckle

Charlie Chaplins 17th Film Released June 11 1914 The Knockout was Charlie Chaplin's seventeenth film for Keystone Studios. Chaplin only has a small role, and Fatty Arbuckle takes up the main role. It also stars Arbuckle's wife, Minta Durfee, Edgar Kennedy and Keystone owner, Mack Sennett in a minor role as a spectator. The film was directed by Charles Avery, and made in 1914 in America. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004194/
1950

Woman on the Run

noir, crime, suspense, Thriller, murder, witness

In San Francisco, a woman tries to track down her husband, who is hiding from a killer and from the police. The IMDB entry is here.
1948

Under California Stars

Western, Roy Rogers

Rancher Roy and his boys track down a gang who have stolen Trigger and are holding him for ransom.
1939

Abe Lincoln of the Ninth Avenue

crime, Drama

A drama about an idealistic law student from Hell's Kitchen who unites his neighborhood pals against a gang. Originally released as "Streets of New York". You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
1953

Phantom From Space

Sci-Fi

From IMDb: An alien being lands in Santa Monica. Killing two people who attacked him due to the menacing appearance of his spacesuit, the creature takes it off while being pursued by government authorities, revealing himself to be invisible
1953

The Hitch-Hiker

suspense, terror, hitch-hiker, murder, convict

Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy pick up a hitch-hiker (William Talman) who turns out to be an insane escaped convict.

1939

Jamaica Inn

Hitchcock, suspense, murder, Pirates

From IMDb: Set in Cornwall where the young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of the Jamaica Inn. Mary soon realizes that her uncle's inn is the base of a gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. The girl starts fearing for her life. Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara and Leslie Banks
1931

Svengali

John Barrymore, horror, hypnotism, mind control

http://imdb.com/title/tt0022454/ Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him, he uses his powers to cause her suicide and promptly forgets her. He meets a beautiful model, Trilby, and becomes infatuated with her, but she, in turn, falls for a young artist called Billee who also loves her.
1922

Nosferatu

nosferatu vampire vampires murnau
1946

The Chase

Film-Noir, Peter Lorre

Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends. The job proves nerve-wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help Eddie's lovely, fearful, prisoner-wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) to escape. The result leaves Chuck caught like a rat in a trap, vainly seeking a way out through dark streets. But the real chase begins when the strange plot virtually starts all over again...

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