Find (Legal) Downloadable Old Movies Online

by Andre Soares

 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) directed by John S. Robertson, starring John Barrymore, Nita Naldi, Martha Mansfield, Brandon HurstVia CNET: "Finding old movies — legally, systematically and at no cost — isn’t always easy. They’ve begun to pop up on sites like Entertainment Magazine and Public Domain Torrents. Veoh’s founders started their site last year mainly for people to post home movies. But they soon realised people had a desire to track down old Hollywood flicks and classic videos.

"The cult classics posted on the site have all fallen out of copyright, either because of their age or because of owners who failed to protect them. Anyone can upload films to the site; both posting and viewing is free. Veoh plans to make money through advertising and commissions on pay-to-download selections. So far, about 90 movies are available on Veoh’s cult classics page."

 

 

by Andre Soares | March 10, 2006 | Filed Under Classics 

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5 Responses to “Find (Legal) Downloadable Old Movies Online”

  1. dale on February 11th, 2007 5:06 pm

    I am looking for a movie about some people looking in the desert for somebody . They come upon some ruins and find a skelton with a knife in the rib cage. Does this sound like anything you have seen.
    It would have been made in the 50’s

  2. Andre Soares on February 11th, 2007 5:37 pm

    Sorry, I can’t think of a title.

    In a way that sounds strangely familiar, though.
    I’ll ask around. Will let you know if I find the answer.

  3. larches on September 22nd, 2008 10:42 pm

    The film might be Legend of the Lost

  4. Mister C on September 29th, 2008 10:13 pm

    I remember a move in which this nice old gentlemen counterfeited one dollar bills. The government men tried for years to catch him without success until he makes a little slip and passes one of his bills at a shop that has been checking their money and they catch him. I remember one scene where the kind old gent is going to give a dollar to some young friend and has to search through all his pockets finding bills before he finds a legit bill to give .

  5. Andre Soares on September 30th, 2008 8:51 am

    That film about the counterfeiter sounds like “Mister 880″ (1950), in which Edmund Gwenn plays the elderly, kindly crook.

    Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire co-star. Edmund Goulding directed.

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