Lionel Barrymore Movies

List of the best Lionel Barrymore movies: On Borrowed Time(1939), Broken Lullaby(1932), The Devil Doll(1936), The Voice of Bugle Ann(1936), Public Hero No. 1(1935), A Family Affair(1937), Ten Cents a Dance(1931), The Return of Peter Grimm(1935), Mark of the Vampire(1935), The Mysterious Island(1929), Madame X(1929), The Unholy Night(1929) ... ...

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On Borrowed Time

A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs, including from an agent of Death with the help of a magical apple tree.

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Broken Lullaby

French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.

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The Devil Doll

An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.

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The Voice of Bugle Ann

The countrymen in the hills of Missouri take the hounds on night fox hunts. This goes on until Jacob Terry comes into the county and decides to raise sheep and install a woven wire fence. ... See full summary »

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Public Hero No. 1

A G-man goes undercover to infiltrate a gang, helping the group's leader escape from prison to gain his trust.

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A Family Affair

Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and ... See full summary »

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Ten Cents a Dance

Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman.

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The Return of Peter Grimm

The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.

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Mark of the Vampire

When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires; but not all is what it seems.

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The Mysterious Island

On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his ... See full summary »

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Madame X

A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.

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The Unholy Night

On a dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When... See full summary »

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The Rogue Song

In tsarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.

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Calling Dr. Gillespie

Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) lets his Dutch colleague (Philip Dorn) handle the case of a homicidal maniac.

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One Man's Journey

A selfless doctor (Lionel Barrymore) dedicates his life to his patients and watches his son (Joel McCrea) follow in his footsteps.

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Alias Jimmy Valentine

Jimmy is an expert safe cracker that intends to knock over a small town's leading bank, but he stays there and gets a job instead. As a cashier, he falls in love with the president's ... See full summary »

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You Can't Take It With You

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

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Down to the Sea in Ships

Whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling trip to teach him core life values while First Mate Dan Lunceford is tasked with tutoring Jed.

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West of Zanzibar

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.

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Sadie Thompson

A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.

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The Little Colonel

After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years ... See full summary »

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Arsene Lupin

A detective is tasked to capture an elusive thief called Arsene Lupin.

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Young Dr. Kildare

Dr. James Kildare decides to take a position at a large New York hospital instead of joining his father's country practice but he finds himself in serious trouble when he saves a suicidal woman.

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A Free Soul

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.

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A Yank at Oxford

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

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The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Dr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of... See full summary »

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Calling Dr. Kildare

Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him ... See full summary »

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The Bad Man

Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan. Saying ... See full summary »

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The People vs. Dr. Kildare

An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.

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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

Kildare (Lew Ayres) tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore), and faces a rival for nurse Lamont (Laraine Day).

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Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) corrects Kildare's (Lew Ayres) diagnosis of nurse Lamont's brother's (Robert Young) head problem.

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The Girl From Missouri

An innkeeper's daughter (Jean Harlow) runs away from home and meets a Palm Beach millionaire (Lionel Barrymore) and his son (Franchot Tone).

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Dr. Kildare's Victory

Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) supports Kildare's (Lew Ayres) crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital.

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It's a Wonderful Life

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

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Captains Courageous

A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship gets picked up by a fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.

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Camille

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

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The Road to Glory

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche.

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Mata Hari

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

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Rasputin and the Empress

A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.

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Saratoga

After winning a stud farm in lieu of gambling debts, bookie Duke Bradley turns an eye to the daughter of the now deceased gambler and her millionaire fiancée.

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The Penalty

The son of a murderer is entangled in his father's crimes and is sentenced to a rehabilitive farm, where he learns a new way of life.

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The Gorgeous Hussy

President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.

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Key Largo

A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.

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David Copperfield

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

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Test Pilot

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

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Duel in the Sun

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

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Navy Blue and Gold

Three young men, with a common fondness for football, become roommates the at United States Naval Academy where they experience its rules and traditions.

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Lady Be Good

A composer and his songwriter wife clash as they succeed in working together, writing hit Broadway shows, but fail in their marriage to the point of getting divorced twice.

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Let Freedom Ring

Railroad owner Jim Knox uses everything to get the land he needs for his new railroad cheaply. Everybody hopes, that Steve Logan ends his regime, but he allies with Jim Knox. Nobody knows, ... See full summary »

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Night Flight

Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.

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