When you want to watch a movie but you don't want to pay for streaming services or cable, you can turn to the internet and pull up a full-length feature film that's perfectly legal to watch at WikiFlix, a depository of public domain films.
As of January first, all movies released in 1930 went into the public domain, meaning their copyright has expired. All movies made before that are also in the public domain. That includes films like Hell's Angels, All Quiet on the Western Front, Animal Crackers, and Anna Christie. All movies made before that are public domain, too, including many talkies. Films made later can be in the public domain for various reasons, like McLintock!, Night of the Living Dead, Charade, A Star Is Born, and The Day the Earth Stood Still. The newest one I found is a short from 2018. At WikiFlix, they are grouped by subject matter, and also include films from China, Japan, and the Soviet Union. See ya back in here in a couple of hours! -via kottke
Alas, while Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel is in the public domain, the 1941 film is not.