Public Domain Movies - Feature Films

Cosmos: War of the Planets

sci-fi, robots, technology, dubbed

A spaceship intercepts a mysterious message and then crashes on the planet the message is being sent from. There they uncover a force that threatens to take over the Earth. There is an AVI of the film here. You can find out more about this movie on its IMDB page.

The Most Dangerous Game

Adventure, Thriller, horror, mystery, Fay Wray

Ship wrecked Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea) crawls ashore on a mysterious island and finds his way to a creepy castle inhabited by a Russian Count named Zaroff (Leslie Banks). There he meets the lovely Eve (Fay Wray) and her drunken brother Martin (Robert Armstrong), who were also ship wrecked. It turns out that the "Game" of the title is the mad Count hunting down and killing human prey.

Sing A Song of Six Pants

comedy, short, three stooges

The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Shemp) are tailors and are heavily in debt. Could a big reward for the capture of a fugitive bank robber answer their financial prayers? You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

Things To Come


Sci-Fi Information about this movie may be found on it's IMDB page.

Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan, silent, Elmo Lincoln, jungle

Original (PD) version of this classic, NOT the VHS version "copyrighted" in 1982. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009682/ At this early point in American film history, Tarzan of the Apes was an instant success. Elmo Lincoln was perhaps the best actor at the time for the role. It's a fairly straight forward telling of the novel, tho Edgar Rice Burroughs was frequently on the set in an advisory role and his input was seldom utilized. In the books, Tarzan was quite the self-made scholar and this was barely touched upon in the film.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Adventure, Drama, romance, Ernest Hemingway, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward, Gregory Peck

The story centers on the memories of a writer (Gregory Peck) who is taking a safari in Africa. He develops a dangerous wound from a thorn prick, and lies awaiting his slow death. The loss of physical capability causes him to look inside himself - at his memories of the past years, and how little he has actually accomplished in his writing.

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef


You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. This film contributed courtesy of SabuCat Productions.

Oliver Twist

Drama

You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.

The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

Africa Screams

comedy, Abbott, Costello, Abbott and Costello

from IMDB.com: "Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals." Also stars Clyde Beatty and Shemp Howard. You can load the mpeg2 file into DVDAuthorGUI (a free program) and create a DVD to watch on your television.

Charlie Chaplin's "The Immigrant"

Charlie Chaplin, Silents

Charlie Chaplin's 61st Film Released June 17 1917. The Immigrant (also called Broke) starring the Charlie Chaplin Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and befriends a young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell. The movie was written and directed by Chaplin.

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