Free Public Domain Movies HD: August 2008

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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Murder on the Campus (1933)

A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.

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Labels: Mystery

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Sherlock Holmes - Dressed to Kill (1946)

A set of cheap musicboxes that people are willing to kill for puts Sherlock Holmes on the case.

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Labels: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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John Wayne - The Star Packer (1934)

A gang of outlaws are terrorizing the town. John Travers (John Wayne) decides to take on the job of sheriff and do something about it.

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Labels: Western

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The Gene Autry Show - s01e08 - Doublecross Valley (1950)

Gene investigates why a gang is trying so hard to gain control of an unprofitable ranch. During his investigation, he discovers a cache of gold.

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Labels: Western

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Popeye For President (1956)

Popeye and Bluto are running for president; it's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive is the only remaining voter.

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Labels: Animation, Comedy, Short

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

The Green Promise (1949)

A stubborn old farmer (Walter Brennan) won't listen to any of his neighbors about how to improve the efficiency of his farm with modern methods, as he thinks "the old ways" were just fine. His three daughters live on the farm with him, and the oldest one (Natalie Wood) has fallen in love with a local boy. However, she knows that she is expected to help her father work the farm and is torn between her love for the local boy and her father's expectations for her to continue working the farm.

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Labels: Drama

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The Beany and Cecil Show (1965)

A 1965 episode of "Beany and Cecil" with 3 cartoons: "The 7th Voyage of Singood", "Cecil Meats Cecilia" and "Thunderbolt the Wondercolt"

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Labels: Animation, Comedy, Family

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Friday, August 29, 2008

The Evil Mind (1934)

A fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true. Staring Claude Rains and Fay Wray.
aka The Clairvoyant

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Labels: Drama, Thriller

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Andy Griffith Show - s04e13 - Barney and the Cave Rescue (1964)

After Andy and Helen go exploring in a cave, it collapses behind them. They find another way out, but hear on the radio that Barney has mobilized the town to rescue them.

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Labels: Andy Griffith, Comedy, Family

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The Beverly Hillbillies - s01e01 - The Clampetts Strike Oil (1962)

Jed Clampett is told by a representative of an oil company that the swamp behind his shack is full of oil...

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Labels: Comedy, Family

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Buster Keaton - The Goat (1921)

Dumb luck sets some policemen on his trail -- after a series of innovative escapes, he gets mistaken for a murderer with a price on his head, which means the people that aren't chasing him are fleeing from him.

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Labels: Comedy, Short

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Cisco Kid - s01e24 - Uncle Disinherits Niece (1951)

A rancher threatens to disinherit his niece unless she stops seeing her boyfriend. When the rancher is found murdered, suspicion falls on her lover. Cisco and Pancho must find the real killer and clear the young man's name.
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Labels: Western

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Stan Laurel - Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (1925)

Dr. Pyckle, a respected British scientist, searches for the correct combination of chemicals for a powerful potion. Once he finds it, he tries it on himself. But instead of the wonderful effect the doctor had hoped for, the potion turns him into the diabolical Mr. Pride.

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Labels: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Short

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Superman (1941)

The Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon.

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Labels: Action, Adventure, Animation, Family, Sci-Fi, Short

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

John Wayne - Hell Town (1937)

John Wayne plays the role of Dare Rudd, a drifter who gambles his money away and just can't seem to settle down until he goes back to his relative, Tom Fillmore (Johnny Mack Brown) who owns a great deal of cattle and runs the bank in town.
Tom knows that Dare has a bad reputation but he gives him a chance and offers him a job to cook for his cattlemen.
Tom has a girlfriend named Judy Rustoe, (Marsha Hunt) and Dare soon becomes very interested in her and they both start falling for each other.
AKA Born to the West

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Labels: Romance, Western

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Gene Autry - The Big Show (1936)

At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double.

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Labels: Romance, Western

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents - s01e13 - The Cheney Vase (1955)

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

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Labels: Mystery, Thriller

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Matty's Funday Funnies with Beany and Cecil (1962)

A 1962 episode of "Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil" with 3 cartoons: "Beany and Cecil Meet Billy the Squid", "The Illegal Eagle Egg" and "Cecil Gets Carless"

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Labels: Animation, Comedy, Family

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Monday, August 25, 2008

The Son of Monte Cristo (1936)

In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from Napoleon III of France... A must see for swashbuckler devotees

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Labels: Action, Adventure

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Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Sundowners (1950)

A story of a range-war in the Texas Panhandle in which the 'bad' brother villain fights for what is right...and commits murder in its name, and the 'good' brother hero sanctions wholesale cattle rusting and, reluctantly in the end, comes to the realization that maybe he isn't doing the right thing.

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Labels: Action, Adventure, History, Romance, Western

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The Burns and Allen Show - s03e10 - Gracie Writes "My Life With George Burns" (1952)

Gracie writes an article for LOOK MAGAZINE. The article is about her life with George. To make the article a wee bit more interesting, she fabricates a story about George beating up a hardened criminal named Silky Thompson.

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Labels: Comedy

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The Burns and Allen Show - s07e20 - The Fortune Teller (1957)

A fortune teller predicts a windfall for George, so Gracie goes on a premature shopping spree.

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Labels: Comedy

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The Lucy Show - s05e01 - Lucy with George Burns (1966)

When visiting the bank as a customer, George Burns finds out that Lucy is instinctive funny and asks her to become a partner in his show...

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Labels: Comedy

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The Burns and Allen Show - s01e26 - Gracie Gives a Wedding (1951)

Gracie organizes a wedding for a woman in the Burns's living room.

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Labels: Comedy

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Gene Autry - Oh, Susanna! (1936)

Fleeing the law, Wolf Benson hops on a train, throws Autry off, and assumes Autry's identity. Still posing as Autry he robs and kills Autry's friend Lee. When Autry is jailed, his friends Frog and the Professor break him out and the three head out to clear him of the murder charge.

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Labels: Romance, Western

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Popeye - Floor Flusher (1954)

Olive has a leaky faucet and Popeye does what he can to fix it while Bluto wreaks havoc on the basement pipes.

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Labels: Animation, Comedy, Family, Short

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Popeye - Gopher Spinach (1954)

Popeye tries to rid his garden of a gopher, in the end the gopher saves Popeye from a bull.

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Labels: Animation, Comedy, Family, Short

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Cisco Kid - s01e06 - Oil Land (1950)

Cisco and Poncho are suspected of murdering a rancher who has just discovered oil on his property.

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Labels: Western

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Cisco Kid - s01e26 - Water Rights (1951)

Cisco and Pancho get blamed for holding up and killing a coachman for his money which was going to be used for a water project.

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Labels: Western

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Cat People (1942)

When naval construction designer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) sees Serbian born beauty Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) at a zoo, he flirts with her, and soon they fall in love and marry. Complications arise because Irena believes she is the victim of an ancient Serbian curse that causes her to turn into a panther if a man tries to make love to her. . .

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Labels: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller

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You Bet Your Life - Secret Word Head (1950)

You Bet Your Life is an American radio and television quiz show. The first and most famous version was hosted by Groucho Marx, of Marx Brothers fame, with the unflappable announcer and assistant George Fenneman.

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Labels: Comedy, Family, Game-Show

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You Bet Your Life - s09e01 - Secret Word Hand (1958)

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The Burns and Allen Show - s02e16 (1952)

George gets upset after Jack Benny steals his jokes.

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Labels: Comedy

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The Burns and Allen Show - s03e16 (1953)

Gracie gets it in her head that she's not legally married to George after seeing the movie "We're Not Married". Guest star: Jack Benny

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Labels: Comedy

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The Monster Maker (1944)

Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

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Labels: Horror

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The Gene Autry Show - s01e07 - Blackwater Valley Feud (1950)

A crook tries to grab two adjacent ranches owned by feuding families by murdering one man and framing another.

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Labels: Western

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The Gene Autry Show - s01e05 - The Star Toter (1950)

Gene tries to reform the young son of an outlaw. When the bad man escapes, the boy must choose between his murderous father and the honest life Gene would like him to lead.

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Labels: Western

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Bing Crosby and Bob Hope - Road to Bali (1952)

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour "Road" picture set in the South Seas.
Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers.

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Labels: Comedy, Musical

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Last of the Warrens (1936)

Ted Warren returns to his cattle ranch from WW1 to find that everyone thinks he was dead. The culprit is Kent who intercepted his mail...

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Labels: Western

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Man in the Attic (1953)

With Jack the Ripper killing women in the Whitechapel district of London, people are on edge. Enter the mysterious Mr. Slade who arrives at the home of Helen and William Harley looking to rent rooms. Slade is a strange man. He is a respected pathologist and researcher at a major hospital but very much keeps to himself. He also happens to be out of the house every time the Ripper strikes. Mrs. Harley becomes convinced that Slade is the Ripper but with tensions mounting across the city, the evidence is anything but clear.

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Labels: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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The Milky Way (1936)

Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Harold Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.

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Labels: Comedy

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"The Honeymooners" (1951)

Jackie Gleason on the popular 50's TV series "Cavalcade of Stars", doing a sketch called "The Honeymooners", which was later turned into a sitcom. "Cavalcade of Stars" started in 1949 and quickly became one of the most popular shows on The DuMont Television Network. "The Honeymooners" started as a series of sketches, and later became a award-winning CBS sitcom still shown in syndication today.

While the "The Honeymooners" sitcom is still copyrighted, "Cavalcade of Stars" has long been public domain, since it's production company collapsed in 1956, and the Kinescope Recordings were dumped into Upper New York Bay.

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Labels: Comedy, Family, Short

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Gene Autry Show - s01e04 - The Doodle Bug (1950)

Gene investigates a series of gold-shipment robberies. Gene Autry sings a song in this one, and also gets whipped. Though not at the same time.

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Labels: Western

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The Gene Autry Show - s01e03 - The Silver Arrow (1950)

When ranchers are slain with silver arrows, Gene suspects that someone is trying to throw suspicion on the local Indians to cover an even bigger crime.

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Labels: Western

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Fiesta (1941)

Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart Jose. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she is engaged.

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Labels: Comedy, Musical, Romance

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Whistle Stop (1946)

When beautiful Mary returns home to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.

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Labels: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

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Sex Madness (1938)

This sex exploitation film includes wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. After going to a "casting couch", a chorus girl contracts syphilis. The film then focuses on the effects this lifestyle and disease have on her marriage.

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Labels: Drama

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