Date Created : 1976
Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/embryo
Creator: Sandy Howard
Description: 1970s retelling of the Frankenstein story with Rock Hudson as the scientist and Barbara Carrera as the 'creature' he grows from Embryo to Woman in four and a half weeks. Also stars Roddy McDowall, Diane Ladd and Dr Joyce Brothers. This movie was reissued in the 1980s a " Created to Kill" . Public domain due to the omission of a required copyright notice. Sourced from a 30 year
Embryo
is a 1976 science fiction / horror film which Ralph Nelson directed, and which starred Rock Hudson alongside Barbara Carrera./
Plot
Dr. Paul Holliston (Hudson) is a geneticist who has been living alone in his rambling clinic, which he operates out of his home, after the death of his wife in a car crash in which he was the driver. This leads to his feeling constant pangs of guilt from his sister-in-law Martha Douglas (Diane Ladd), who has become his assistant.
What finally motivates Holliston to resume his medical work is another automobile accident where he is the driver; his car accidentally strikes and kills a dog one dark and stormy night. In the process of attempting, vainly, to save the dog's life, he does manage to save one of her unborn puppies, utilizing a new serum which speeds up the growth and intelligence of the animal. But the dog develops a savage side to its personality.
When Holliston manages to see what his discovery can offer the world, he applies the same technique to an unborn human. This unborn human to whom he applies the technique develops into a beautiful young woman (Carrera) who emerges, fully grown, from the incubator in two weeks. Holliston names her Victoria because he considers her a victory.
Victoria Spencer, as Holliston introduces her, is highly intelligent, and she becomes Holliston's protégé--the lessons culminating one night in sex.
Unfortunately for Victoria, she displays a dark side. When the serum begins to have an adverse effect on her, she commences to age rapidly, and discovers that, owing to a flaw in Holliston's research that he had mistakenly believed he had corrected, she requires serum from unborn fetuses to stay alive.
The film ends with the dying Victoria announcing that she is going to have a baby, causing Holliston to scream Noooooooo in horror before he apparently has a nervous breakdown.
=Most recent known copyright information=
To the extent of knowledge available as of the middle of May of 2014,
Embryo
was in the public domain, as Cine Artists Pictures, owners of its copyright, had, to the extent of available knowledge, gone out of business before being able to renew it.
Cast
Information drawn from
the cast list provided in the film's entry] at the
AOL Video entry
Category:1970s science fiction films
Category:1976 horror films
Category:1976 films
Category:Films directed by Ralph Nelson
Category:1970s science fiction horror films
Date Created : 1937
Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/navy-blues
Creator: Burt Kelly
Description: You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Navy Blues
is a 1937 American film directed by Ralph Staub.
Plot summary
Cast
Dick Purcell as Russell J. 'Rusty' Gibbs
Mary Brian as Doris Kimbell
Warren Hymer as Gerald 'Biff' Jones
Joe Sawyer as Chips
Edward Woods as Julian Everett
Horace McMahon as Gateleg
Chester Clute as Uncle Andrew Wayne
Lucile Gleason as Aunt Beulah Wayne
Ruth Fallows as Goldie
Alonzo Price as Dr. Crowley
Mel Ruick as Lawson
Carleton Young as Spencer, of Naval Intelligence
Soundtrack
Category:1937 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:Black-and-white films
Category:1930s comedy films
Category:Military humor in film
Category:Republic Pictures films
Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/the-song-of-the-birds-1935
Creator: Fleischer Studios
Description: The 4th in Fleischer Studios' Color Classics series of cartoons. A boy gets trigger happy with his BB gun, but soon regrets it.
Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/summertime
Description: Summertime by UB Iwerks, 1935. This is one of a series of animated shorts that Iwerks did about the seasons. They are highly imaginative pictures of abstract ideas. I hope to upload other seasons soon.
Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/a-bosko-cartoon-collection
Creator: Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising
Description: Bosko is an animated cartoon character created by Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising in 1927 and the first recurring character in the Leon Schlesinger cartoon series Looney Tunes. " Although Harman and Ising based Bosko's looks on Felix the Cat, Bosko, like Mickey, got his personality from the blackface characters of the minstrel and vaudeville shows popular in the 1930s. Whereas
Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/flirting-with-danger
Creator: Monogram Pictures
Description: In 1934 mixing dynamite was a bit like making a stew, every cook did it a little different. Three wild and crazy guys have no fear as they mix dynamite and the girls in dangerous combinations.
Flirting with Danger is a 1934 American comedy adventure film directed by Vin Moore and starring Robert Armstrong, Edgar Kennedy and William Cagney (James Cagney's lookalike brother). The picture was released by Monogram Pictures and has a running time of 62 minutes.[1]
Cast
Robert Armstrong as Bob Owens
Edgar Kennedy as Jimmy Pierson
William Cagney as William Lucky Davis
Maria Alba as Rosita
Marion Burns as Marian Leslie
Ernest Hilliard as James Dawson
Wilhelm von Brincken as Von Kruger (credited as Wm. L. von Brincken)
Guy Usher as James E. Fenton
Gino Corrado as Captain Garcia
Edward Hearn as San Rico Plant Supervisor
Carol Tevis as Cecilia, Stuttering Blonde (uncredited)
Margaret La Marr (uncredited)
Date Created : 1914
Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/the-virginian
Creator: Cecil B Demille
Description: Cecil B Demille's silent feature film version of Owen Wister's novel " The Virginian" starring Dustin Farnum. A cowboy romances the local school teacher and helps apprehend a gang of cattle rustlers.
File:Thevirginian 1914 scene.jpg
The Virginian
is a 1914 motion picture based upon the novel
The Virginian (novel)
by Owen Wister. The film was adapted from the successful 1904 theatre play Wister had collaborated on with playwright Kirke La Shelle.
The Virginian
starred Dustin Farnum
Cast
Dustin Farnum as The Virginian
Horace B. Carpenter as Spanish Ed (uncredited)
Sydney Deane as Uncle Hughey (uncredited)
Cecilia de Mille as Little Girl (uncredited)
Tex Driscoll as Shorty (uncredited)
William Elmer as Trampas (uncredited)
James Griswold as Stage Driver (uncredited)
Jack W. Johnston as Steve (uncredited)
Anita King as Mrs. Ogden (uncredited)
Winifred Kingston as Molly Wood (uncredited)
Dick La Reno as Balaam (uncredited)
Mrs. Lewis McCord as Mrs. Balaam (uncredited)
Monroe Salisbury as Mr. Ogden (uncredited)
Russell Simpson (actor) as (uncredited)
Hosea Steelman as Lin McLean (uncredited)
The Virginian
(1914) at SilentEra
Category:1914 films
Category:1910s Western (genre) films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:Black-and-white films
Category:Films based on Western (genre) novels
Category:Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Category:Films set in Wyoming
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Date Created : 1977
Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/cosmos-war-of-the-planets-0
Creator: Louis Alex
Description: 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.
Cosmos: War of the Planets
-- (also released in Europe as
Year Zero: War In Space
) -- is a 1977 Italy film directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring John Richardson (actor). It is considered a remake of the 1965 film
Planet of the Vampires
. italiano/ It was also released as
War of the Planets
(not to be confused with the 1965 Antonio Margheriti film of that name), and also as
Cosmo 2000
, as well as
Cosmo: Planet Without a Name
. The movie has been made public domain and may be freely found and distributed. archive/
Plot
The film begins with the crew of a spaceship seeing explosions in space and asteroids flying by. They are afraid that they are going to be hit, but their ship's computer, named Wiz, tells them that they were seeing the raction of an event that took place millions of years ago. Overjoyed, the ship's crew hug and kiss each other.
Next follows a scene within the Orion space complex (whose introduction includes stock footage of the Japanese space launch center) of Captain Mike Hamilton's slapping a fellow officer. Soon he is called to report on this behavior to the base commander. He says that the other officer did not give him a command personally, but told him to follow the directions of a computer. Hamilton's attitude against such machines is one of the few themes of the story.
A scene derived from
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
next appears. Hamilton and his ship, the MK-31, are sent to repair an automated satellite. One of the crew floats over to the satellite and starts work. Viewing this on the screen, Hamilton is upset because it is required that spacewalkers work in teams of two, and predicts that the acid in the battery will eat through the astronaut's suit. The astronaut says that he's in control of the situation - but it does start to eat through his suit. Hamilton himself goes to rescue the continually screaming astronaut, whose life is saved.
Next comes a scene derived from
Barbarella (film)
. A couple of astronauts wish to be intimate so they recline on separate beds while a Laser lighting display machine plays between them. The blue orb that separates them has the same geometric shape as the Death Star in the Star Wars series. Normally this would appear to be an homage, but this film came out the same year as Star Wars (a.k.a. Episode IV). This scene is intercut with a scene of Hamilton telling a female crewmember that he doesn't like this mechanized intimacy and kisses her. The scene ends with her telling him that the old-fashioned way was better.
Even though the crew of the MK-31 are only one day's travel from their shore leave on Earth, they are apparently the nearest ship to investigate an unstable planet. Once there, two flying saucers are seen orbiting it. The sensors of the ship state that these alien machines have disintegrators and Hamilton commands that they be destroyed - but they strike first and the MK-31 starts to spin quickly. Eventually Hamilton gets the ship's engines to counteract the spin and the ship lands on the planet.
There's an architectural portal on this desert planet which teleports people who walk through it underground. The first man through it, and a woman who wanders away later, get attacked, but the main body of explorers meet a race of green people who have pointed ears. Their elder says that they are under the control of an evil computer. The astronauts pledge to help the inhabitants of the planet escape their enslavement and succeed in destroying the computer. Hamilton dislikes the computer always taunting the crew by ending his commands to them with the vocative, earthlings.
Unfortunately, the ensuing explosion takes out the planet as well. The spaceship crew and one surviving alien set off for Earth only to face further difficulties when a human member of the crew is possessed by the computer and goes on a killing spree. The alien eventually manages to subdue him, heroically sacrificing his own life. Although the crew are pleased at returning to Earth, the voice of the computer Wiz changes to that of the planet's computer, who ends the movie with the word earthlings.
Cast
John Richardson (actor) as Captain Mike Layton
Yanti Somer as Diane Greene
Walter Maestosi as Irk
Massimo De Cecco as Azar
Massimo Bonetti as Vassilov
Aldo Canti as Frank Bimble
Reception
In his
Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult
, Howard Hughes criticizes the movie in every respect, stating,
Cosmos
is the most consistent Italian sci-fi movie: script, special effects, costumes, music, and acting are all terrible./
Category:1977 films
Category:1970s science fiction films
Category:Films directed by Alfonso Brescia
Category:Italian films
Category:Italian-language films
Category:Space adventure films
Date Created : 1944
Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/dixie-jamboree
Description: You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Dixie Jamboree
is a 1944 American film directed by Christy Cabanne.
Cast
Frances Langford as Susan Jackson
Guy Kibbee as Capt. Jackson of the 'Ellabella'
Eddie Quillan as Jeff Calhoun
Charles Butterworth (actor) as Professor
Fifi D'Orsay as Yvette
Lyle Talbot as Anthony 'Tony' Sardell
Frank Jenks as Jack 'Curly' Berger
Almira Sessions as Mrs. Ellabella Jackson, Susan's Aunt
Joe Devlin (actor) as Police Sgt.
Louise Beavers as Opal
Ben Carter (actor) as Sam the Deckhand, Ben Carter Choir Leader
Gloria Jetter as Azella, Opal's Daughter
Ward Shattuck as Henry Doakes
Ethel Shattuck as Mrs. Henry Doakes
Anthony Warde as 'Double', Phony Indian
Angelo Cruz as 'Nothing', Phony Indian
Soundtrack
Chorus - You Ain't Right with the Lord (Written by Michael Breen and Sam Neuman (lyrics))
Frances Langford - The Dixie Showboat (Written by Michael Breen and Sam Neuman (lyrics))
Frances Langford - If It's a Dream (Written by Michael Breen and Sam Neuman (lyrics))
Fifi d'Orsay - No, No, No! (Written by Michael Breen and Sam Neuman (lyrics))
Frances Langford - Big Stuff (Written by Michael Breen and Sam Neuman (lyrics))
Frances Langford, with trumpet solo by Eddie Quillan If It's a Dream (Written by Michael Breen and Sam Neuman (lyrics))
Category:1944 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:Black-and-white films
Category:1940s musical films
Category:Films directed by Christy Cabanne
Category:Producers Releasing Corporation films