Classic Hollywood

Classic Hollywood

65 Episodes

They don’t make ’em like they used to! Enjoy these classics from the golden age of Hollywood and beyond.

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Classic Hollywood
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Episode 1

    Directed by John S. Robertson • 1920 • United States
    Starring John Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Martha Mansfield

    Considered by many to be the first great American horror film, John S. Robertson’s DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE allowed stage legend John Barrymore to deliver one of his most virtuosic screen...

  • Our Hospitality

    Episode 2

    Directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone • 1923 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge

    OUR HOSPITALITY broadened the boundaries of slapstick and proved that Buster Keaton was not just a comedian, he was an artist. Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay...

  • The Blacksmith

    Episode 3

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair • 1922 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    A bumbling blacksmith’s assistant tries his hand at fixing a car.

  • The Butcher Boy

    Episode 4

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

    Buster Keaton makes his film debut as one of a number of troublesome customers at a general store.

  • Day Dreams

    Episode 5

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1922 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Renée Adorée, Joe Roberts

    A luckless young man tries to impress his sweetheart’s father by getting a job—but winds up all wet.

  • Good Night Nurse

    Episode 6

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Alice Lake

    It’s shenanigans at a sanitarium—with Buster Keaton as a cleaver-wielding surgeon.

  • The High Sign

    Episode 7

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety

    A day at the amusement park goes awry when Buster becomes an accidental hit man.

  • The Goat

    Episode 8

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    Buster is wanted—dead or alive!

  • The Hayseed

    Episode 9

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1919 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone

    Fatty Arbuckle plays a hilarious game of hide and seek.

  • Hard Luck

    Episode 10

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    A despondent young man finds that suicide isn’t as easy as it seems.

  • The Rough House

    Episode 11

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Buster Keaton • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton

    The hapless proprietor of a seaside resort starts a fire and gets creative in the kitchen.

  • The Scarecrow

    Episode 12

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely

    Farmhand Buster looks for love and ends up playing the dummy in a cornfield.

  • Steamboat Bill, Jr.

    Episode 13

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner • 1928 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire

    STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the sensitive son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence...

  • Oh Doctor!

    Episode 14

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

    A doctor bets it all at the horse races and winds up in quite a fix.

  • Neighbors

    Episode 15

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton

    A slapstick “Romeo and Juliet” plays out in a tenement house.

  • One Week

    Episode 16

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely

    Buster Keaton’s first short as an independent producer displays his daredevil innovation as a pair of newlyweds struggle to assemble their prefab house.

  • Back Stage

    Episode 17

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1919 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Jack Coogan Sr.

    The stagehands get in on the act during a vaudeville performance gone wrong.

  • The Haunted House

    Episode 18

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    An unlucky bank clerk tangles with robbers hiding out in a haunted house.

  • The Frozen North

    Episode 19

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1922 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely

    Buster gets snowbound in a Klondike melodrama spoof.

  • The Balloonatic

    Episode 20

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1923 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Babe London, Phyllis Haver

    Buster takes a wild hot-air-balloon ride and finds misadventure in the great outdoors.

  • Coney Island

    Episode 21

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton

    A man attempts to give his wife the slip at Coney Island.

  • Three Ages

    Episode 22

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1923 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery

    A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Buster Keaton’s THREE AGES is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. Keaton’s first feature is a clever ...

  • The Love Nest

    Episode 23

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1923 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox

    Spurned by his fiancée, Buster Keaton sets sail for the high seas, where he squares off against a tyrannical whaling-vessel captain.

  • The Boat

    Episode 24

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Sybil Seely

    A sea voyage on a homemade ship turns into a disaster.