Your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see
A gritty crime thriller and a totally gonzo Tex Avery cartoon! Two great tastes that go great together! Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (& “Doggone Tired”)
Come enjoy Buster Keaton’s Battling Butler and Charlie Chaplin’s “The Adventurer”! Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Battling Butler (& “The Adventurer”)
The sequel to Father Of The Bride, plus a Betty Boop cartoon! Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Father’s Little Dividend (& “Betty Boop and Grampy”)
A new year brings new films to the public domain! Come celebrate some of the best of 1927! Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Wings (& “Koko in 1999”)
Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist and Superman as a costume crime fighter! (Sadly, they don’t face off against each other.) Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Phantom Creeps (& “The Bulleteers”)
Featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Porky Pig as … Porky Pig. Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Sherlock Holmes in ‘Dressed to Kill’ (& “Get Rich Quick Porky”)
Public Domain Theater brings you a spooky classic from the Silent Era of cinema! Continue reading Public Domain Theater (Halloween Special): The Golem
Presenting a gruesome 70’s horror flick, plus a ghost-themed comedy classic from Buster Keaton! Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Don’t Look in the Basement (& “The Haunted House”)
Presenting a kung-fu/blaxploitation picture that could only come from the 70’s, and a Looney Tunes cartoon in the classic model of cat-and-mouse (or cat-and-bird in this case). Continue reading Public Domain Theater: TNT Jackson (& “Puss n’ Booty”)
Two animated classics based on The Thousand and One Nights: a feature length masterpiece of silhouette animation from Lotte Reiniger, and a Fleischer produced Aladdin adaptation, featuring the one, the only, Popeye the Sailor. Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (& “Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp”)
Presenting the uproarious marriage-crisis comedy That Uncertain Feeling, plus the Bugs Bunny short The Wabbit Who Came To Supper Continue reading Public Domain Theater: That Uncertain Feeling (& “The Wabbit Who Came to Supper”)
Featuring the Roger Corman post-apocalyptic thriller Last Woman On Earth, as well as the “educational” short “You Can Beat The A-Bomb” Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Last Woman on Earth (& “You Can Beat the A-Bomb”)
Presenting Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925), and Buster Keaton’s The Frozen North (1922) Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Gold Rush (& “The Frozen North”)
Wise-cracking Americans take the fight to the Nazis in “Hitler – Dead or Alive” and the Looney Tunes short “Daffy – The Commando”. Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Hitler – Dead or Alive (& “Daffy – The Commando”)
Presenting the 1946 mystery/thriller The Inner Circle, starring Adele Mara and Warren Douglas, and the Walt Disney Studios animate short “Susie the Little Blue Coupe” Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Inner Circle (& “Susie the Little Blue Coupe”)
Presenting two giant monster (a.k.a. kaiju) films from the Gamera series: 1965’s Gamera, the Giant Monster (a.k.a. Gammera the Invincible) & 1969’s Gamera vs. Guiron (a.k.a. Attack of the Monsters). Continue reading Public Domain Theater (Double Feature): Gamera
New to the public domain: F.W. Murnau’s Faust, and Our Gang/The Little Rascal’s “Buried Treasure” Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Faust (& “Buried Treasure”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This time around, we have for you … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: The Fast and the Furious (& “Taxi Turvy”)
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! This time around, we have for you … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: A Farewell to Arms (& “Bosko the Doughboy”)
Greetings, boys and ghouls and non-binary children of the night! Welcome to a special, All Hallows’ Eve edition of Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into … Continue reading Public Domain Theater (Halloween Special): The Phantom of the Opera
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! Happy Halloween, everyone! Well, okay, we’ve still … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Horror Express (& “The Mummy Strikes”)
