drama – Old Movies – Free & Full

Scrooge (1970)

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:16:04 +0000

1h 53min. // A musical film adaptation of the Charles Dickens’ classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, guided by several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Directed by: Ronald Neame

Writing Credits: Charles Dickens (story), Leslie Bricusse (screenplay)

Starring: Albert Finney (as Ebenezer Scrooge), Edith Evans (as Ghost of Christmas Past), Kenneth More (as Ghost of Christmas Present) and Alec Guinness (as Jacob Marley’s Ghost)

Awards:

WON. Golden Globes, USA 1971. Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical. Albert Finney.

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1971. Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1971. Best Screenplay – Motion Picture. Leslie Bricusse.

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1971. Best Original Score – Motion Picture. Leslie Bricusse, Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer.

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1971. Best Original Song – Motion Picture. Leslie Bricusse for the song: “Thank You Very Much”.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1971. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration. Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright and Pamela Cornell.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1971. Best Costume Design. Margaret Furse.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1971. Best Music, Original Song. Leslie Bricusse for the song: “Thank You Very Much”.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1971. Best Music, Original Song Score. Leslie Bricusse, Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1971. Best Art Direction. Terence Marsh.

NOMINATED. Laurel Awards 1971. Best Comedy Performance, Male. Albert Finney.

Photo Gallery:

Enjoy The Movie!

The Drums Of Jeopardy (1931)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:16:02 +0000

1h. 05min. // A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter’s death.

Directed by: George B. Seitz

Writing Credits: Harold McGrath (story)

Starring: Warner Oland (as Dr. Boris Karlov), June Collyer (as Kitty Conover) and Lloyd Hughes (as Prince Nicholas Petroff).

Awards:

NOMINATED. Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards 2002. Restoration of the Year.

Photo Gallery:

Enjoy The Movie!

Unconquered (1947)

Charlotte Movies — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

2h. 26min. // Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Writing Credits: Charles Bennett (screenplay), Fredric M. Frank (screenplay), Jesse Lasky Jr. (screenplay), Neil H. Swanson (novel)

Starring: Gary Cooper (as Captain Christopher Holden), Paulette Goddard (as Abby) and Howard Da Silva (as Garth).

Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1948. Best Effects, Special Effects. Farciot Edouart (visual), Devereaux Jennings (visual), Gordon Jennings (visual), W. Wallace Kelley (visual), Paul K. Lerpae (visual), George Dutton (audible).

Photo Gallery:

Enjoy The Movie!

Reach for the sky (1956)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

2h 15min. // Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2.

Directed by: Lewis Gilbert

Writing Credits: Paul Brickhill (book), Lewis Gilbert (screenplay)

Starring: Kenneth More (as Douglas Bader), Muriel Pavlow (as Thelma Bader), Lyndon Brook (as Johnny Sanderson), Lee Patterson (as Turner) and Alexander Knox (as Mr. Joyce)

Awards:

WON. BAFTA Awards 1957. Best British Film.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1957. Best British Actor. Kenneth More.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1957. Best British Actress. Dorothy Alison.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1957. Best British Screenplay. Lewis Gilbert.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1957. Best Film from any Source.

Photo Gallery:

Enjoy The Movie!

The Jolson Story (1946)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

2h. 8min. // This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a non-Jewish dancer, and marries her.

Directed by: Alfred E. Green

Writing Credits: Stephen Longstreet (screenplay)

Starring: Larry Parks (as Al Jolson), Evelyn Keyes (as Julie Benson) and William Demarest (as Steve Martin)

Enjoy The Movie!

*********************

Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Sound, Recording. John P. Livadary.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Morris Stoloff.

WON. Photoplay Awards 1948. Gold Medal.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Larry Parks.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. William Demarest.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Cinematography, Color. Joseph Walker.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Film Editing. William A. Lyon.

NOMINATED. Cannes Film Festival 1947. Feature films. Alfred E. Green.

Photo Gallery:

Enjoy The Movie!

To The Shores Of Tripoli (1942)

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h. 22min. // Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone

Writing Credits: Lamar Trotti (screenplay), Steve Fisher (story)

Starring: John Payne (as Chris Winters), Maureen O’Hara (as Lt. Mary Carter) and Randolph Scott (as Sgt. Dixie Smith)

Enjoy The Movie!

*********************

Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1943. Best Cinematography, Color. Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall.

Photo Gallery:

Enjoy The Movie!

The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (1952)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h. 54min. // Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.

Directed by: Henry King

Writing Credits: Casey Robinson (screenplay), Ernest Hemingway (short story)

Starring: Gregory Peck (as Harry Street), Susan Hayward (as Helen) and Ava Gardner (as Cynthia Green).

Enjoy The Movie!

*********************

Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1952. Top Ten Films.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1953. Best Cinematography, Color. Leon Shamroy.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1953. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color. Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox.

NOMINATED. Directors Guild of America, USA 1953. Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Henry King.

Photo Gallery:

Enjoy The Movie!

Rebecca (1940)

George — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h 23min. // A shy ladies’ companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Writing Credits: Daphne Du Maurier (novel), Robert E. Sherwood (screenplay) and Joan Harrison (screenplay)

Starring: Laurence Olivier (as “Maxim” de Winter), Joan Fontaine (as Mrs. de Winter), George Sanders (as Jack Favell) and Judith Anderson (as Mrs. Danvers)

Enjoy The Movie!

*********************

Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1940. Top Ten Films.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1940. Best Acting. Joan Fontaine.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1940. Best Acting. George Sanders.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Picture.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Cinematography, Black and White. George Barnes.

WON. Online Film & Television Association 2009. Motion Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Laurence Olivier.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Joan Fontaine.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Judith Anderson.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Director. Alfred Hitchcock.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Writing, Screenplay. Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Art Direction, Black and White. Lyle R. Wheeler.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Film Editing. Hal C. Kern.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Effects, Special Effects. Jack Cosgrove (photographic)
Arthur Johns (sound).

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Music, Original Score. Franz Waxman.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1940. Best Actress. Joan Fontaine.

Photo Gallery:

Enjoy The Movie!

The Woman In The Window (1944)

Charlotte Movies — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h. 47min. // When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of blackmail and murder.

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Writing Credits: Nunnally Johnson (screenplay), J.H. Wallis (novel)

Starring: Edward G. Robinson (as Prof. Richard Wanley), Joan Bennett (as Alice Reed), Raymond Massey (as District Attorney Frank Lalor), Edmund Breon (as Dr. Michael Barkstane) and Dan Duryea (as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman)

Enjoy The Movie!

*********************

Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1946. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Hugo Friedhofer, Arthur Lange.

Photo Gallery:

Enjoy The Movie!

Rio Conchos (1964)

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h 47min. // A former Confederate officer and a Mexican try to prevent a former Confederate colonel from selling stolen rifles to renegade Apaches in Mexico.

Directed by: Gordon Douglas

Writing Credits: Joseph Landon (screenplay) and Clair Huffaker (screenplay and novel)

Starring: Richard Boone (as Lassiter), Stuart Whitman (as Capt. Haven), Anthony Franciosa (as Rodriguez), Wende Wagner (as Sally), Warner Anderson (as Col.Wagner) and Jim Brown (as Franklyn)

Enjoy The Movie!

*********************

Awards:

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1965. Best Actor – Drama. Anthony Franciosa.

NOMINATED. Laurel Awards 1965. Action Drama. 5th Place.

NOMINATED. Laurel Awards 1965. Action Performance. Richard Boone.