Tom Ricketts Movies

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical....

Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the...

A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that...

A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his...

A silent film from the end of the silent era.

An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.

A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called...

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the...

When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.

A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving...

Major Baring, a retired soldier haunted by the past, lives alone in a small town. His son, Will, whom he sent away with an assumed identity, is now...

A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of...

After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe...

Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her...

Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did...

Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.