John Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III. His success continued with motion pictures in various genres in both the silent and sound eras. Barrymore's personal life has been the subject of much writing before and since his passing in 1942. Today John Barrymore is mostly known for his roles in movies like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920), Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Twentieth Century (1934), and Don Juan (1926), the first ever movie to use a Vitaphone soundtrack.
A member of a multi-generation theatrical dynasty, he was the brother of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, and was the paternal grandfather of Drew Barrymore.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.089 |
| Birthday | 1882-02-15 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | John Sidney Blyth, Jack Barrymore, John Sidney Blythe Barrymore, |
1920
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.8/140
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1934
Twentieth Century
6.8/95
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
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Twentieth Century
1939
Midnight
7.4/79
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
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Midnight
1932
Grand Hotel
6.934/305
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Grand Hotel
1979
The Horror Show
6/2
A history of horror movies.
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The Horror Show
1940
The Invisible Woman
5.7/69
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invis...
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The Invisible Woman
1932
Rasputin and the Empress
5.2/10
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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Rasputin and the Empress
1913
One on Romance
0/0
Helen Ross spends her time reading novels. She has made up her mind to marry only a young man whom she can save from something or other, or one who ca...
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One on Romance
1912
The Dream of a Moving Picture Director
0/0
The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is compell...
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The Dream of a Moving Picture Director
1912
The Widow Casey's Return
0/0
Mrs. Casey, a pretty young widow is sought by O'Brien and Sullivan, who are rivals.
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The Widow Casey's Return
1912
Just Pretending
0/0
Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children and holding them for ransom. He conceives the idea...
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Just Pretending
1912
A Prize Package
0/0
Spoony Sam is a veritable pest at Si Hawkins' farm, and the girls treat him as a huge joke. In a city cigarette factory there is a peach of a young gi...
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A Prize Package
1915
The Dictator
0/0
On the lam from the New York Police because of a false murder charge, playboy Brooke Travers escapes to a Central American banana republic.
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The Dictator
1914
The Man from Mexico
0/0
A young man gets arrested after a drunken night. Sentenced to 30 days in jail, he tells his wife he has to go to Mexico for a month.
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The Man from Mexico
1915
The Incorrigible Dukane
0/0
A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a tramp and dressed in the tramp's clothes he's mist...
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The Incorrigible Dukane
1938
Marie Antoinette
6.288/26
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...
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Marie Antoinette
1916
The Red Widow
0/0
An American corset manufacturer by the name of Cicero Hannibal Butts travels to Russia, where he has comic adventures involving a famous opera star an...
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The Red Widow
1918
On the Quiet
0/0
Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.
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On the Quiet
1919
Here Comes the Bride
0/0
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
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Here Comes the Bride
1937
Maytime
6.222/9
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
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Maytime
1919
The Test of Honor
3.5/2
After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.
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The Test of Honor
1936
Romeo and Juliet
6.1/27
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
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Romeo and Juliet
1936
Movie Maniacs
5.5/16
The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at...
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Movie Maniacs
1974
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
7.7/3
In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earlie...
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1953
Yesterday and Today
0/0
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Ye...
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Yesterday and Today
1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
6.1/14
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to r...
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1931
Svengali
6.065/46
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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Svengali
1933
Dinner at Eight
6.7/99
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t...
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Dinner at Eight
1927
Life in Hollywood No. 4
0/0
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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Life in Hollywood No. 4
1932
A Bill of Divorcement
6.4/32
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.
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A Bill of Divorcement
1933
Counsellor at Law
6.6/25
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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Counsellor at Law
1922
Sherlock Holmes
5.5/18
Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective...
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Sherlock Holmes
1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
0/0
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1933
Night Flight
5.842/19
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Night Flight
1938
Spawn of the North
5.7/8
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
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Spawn of the North
1928
Tempest
6.462/13
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his l...
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Tempest
1926
Don Juan
6.6/12
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and d...
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Don Juan
1929
Eternal Love
5.5/10
In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
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Eternal Love
1927
The Beloved Rogue
7/12
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
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The Beloved Rogue
1937
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
5.8/12
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its pla...
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
1927
When a Man Loves
6.4/7
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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When a Man Loves
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
6/2
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1932
State's Attorney
6.7/6
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster...
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State's Attorney
1924
Beau Brummel
6.8/11
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she...
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Beau Brummel
1937
True Confession
5.8/20
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she...
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True Confession
1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
5.7/17
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the myste...
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1931
The Mad Genius
6.3/20
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer fa...
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The Mad Genius
1940
The Great Profile
6.3/3
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel...
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The Great Profile
1932
Arsène Lupin
6.9/20
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the...
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Arsène Lupin
1917
National Red Cross Pageant
0/0
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and p...
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National Red Cross Pageant
1933
Topaze
6.1/19
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's nam...
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Topaze
1926
Vagabonding On The Pacific
0/0
Home movie travelogue of John Barrymore and Walter Mayo aboard the schooner 'The Mariner' setting sail out of Los Angeles to Guadalupe Island, 150 mil...
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Vagabonding On The Pacific
1933
Reunion in Vienna
7/3
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).
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Reunion in Vienna
1917
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
5.8/6
A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love of...
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
1930
Moby Dick
5.3/9
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
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Moby Dick
1926
The Sea Beast
6.5/5
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
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The Sea Beast
1941
Playmates
5.2/5
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Ka...
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Playmates
1934
Long Lost Father
5.7/6
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
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Long Lost Father
1938
Hold That Co-ed
6.6/5
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
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Hold That Co-ed
1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
0/0
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1945
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
0/0
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
1929
General Crack
0/0
The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a respecta...
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General Crack
2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
7/2
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film bo...
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
1929
Show of Shows
5.5/2
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the firs...
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Show of Shows
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
10/1
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3/3
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1983
The Horror of It All
8/5
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
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The Horror of It All
1939
The Great Man Votes
6.1/6
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...
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The Great Man Votes
1928
The Circus: Premiere
5.4/5
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
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The Circus: Premiere
1939
Land of Liberty
0/0
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
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Land of Liberty
1950
The Golden Twenties
0/0
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
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The Golden Twenties
1937
Night Club Scandal
4/3
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
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Night Club Scandal
1941
World Premiere
5/1
A movie-making publicity man screwball comedy about a movie producer who wants to create publicity for his latest project. He decides to have three m...
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World Premiere
1930
The Man from Blankley's
6/1
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
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The Man from Blankley's
1921
The Lotus Eater
0/0
Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she assumed she turns a cold shoulder to him and he t...
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The Lotus Eater
1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
7/3
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which h...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
2003
Complicated Women
6.7/11
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...
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Complicated Women
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.8/34
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1938
Romance in the Dark
3/1
A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true.
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Romance in the Dark
1946
Okay for Sound
5/1
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 Augus...
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Okay for Sound
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
5.3/3
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from ear...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
1916
Nearly a King
0/0
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.
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Nearly a King
1916
The Lost Bridegroom
0/0
Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.
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The Lost Bridegroom
1976
It's Showtime
7/1
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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It's Showtime
1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.3/102
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy,...
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1933
Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
0/0
A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.
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Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
1914
An American Citizen
0/0
A young American broker at large in London.
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An American Citizen
1915
Are You a Mason?
3/1
Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub. Unfortunately, when he trie...
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