Cast: Ann Doran

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired of how people have forgotten each other. Barbara Stanwyck stars...

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Van Heflin · Lizabeth Scott · Kirk Douglas

Synopsis In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind Iverstown and married to "good boy" Walter O'Neil, now district...

Direction André De Toth

Cast Dick Powell · Lizabeth Scott · Jane Wyatt · Raymond Burr

Synopsis John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast James Dean · Natalie Wood · Sal Mineo · Jim Backus

Synopsis Jim Stark's family has just moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles. He meets Plato, and Judy, whom he likes. He somehow gets mixed up with some tough guys who talk him into participating in their "Chickie run", which involves...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Cary Grant · Irene Dunne · Edgar Buchanan · Ann Doran

Synopsis While listening to a recording of "Penny Serenade," Julie Gardiner Adams (Irene Dunne) begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her near-impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams (Cary Grant), which begins on a deliriously happy note but turns out...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Pat O'Brien · Diana Lynn · John Hodiak

Synopsis James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy) has retired from law but he returns to defend John O'Hara (James Arness) on a murder charge. Curtayne's drinking and rustiness result in O'Hara's being found guilty, but Curtayne makes further efforts to prove him innocent.

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Margaret Sullavan · Wendell Corey · Viveca Lindfors · Natalie Wood

Synopsis Mary Scott (Margaret Sullivan) learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad (Wendell Corey) and daughter, Polly (Natalie Wood.) She tries to make every...

Direction Alfred L. Werker · Anthony Mann

Cast Richard Basehart · Scott Brady · Roy Roberts · Whit Bissell

Synopsis This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Laraine Day · Signe Hasso · Dennis O'Keefe

Synopsis As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or...

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Boris Karloff · Lorna Gray · Robert Wilcox · Roger Pryo

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast John Garfield · Eleanor Parker · Dane Clark · John Ridgely

Synopsis Married couple Jim & Ella Merchant set up their single friend Al Schmid on a blind date with Ruth Hartley. The two hit it off and begin dating. A welder, one day at the workplace, Al learns of a friend's...

Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry

Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson

Synopsis Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he combats crime for the San Francisco police from his mobile...

Direction Maxwell Shane

Cast Paul Kelly · DeForest Kelley · Ann Doran · Kay Scott

Synopsis One man wakes up in his room after a terrible nightmare in which he kills a woman. He immediatly realizes that he possibly has committed such a horrible crime.

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Susan Hayward · Bette Davis · Mike Connors · Joey Heatherton

Synopsis After his teenage daughter Danny (Joey Heatherton) is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's current lover, Luke Miller (Michael Connors) recalls his marriage to Valerie Hayden (Susan Hayward) and the subsequent events which led to the tragedy. The lurid...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Stewart · Jane Wyman · Kent Smith · Ned Sparks

Synopsis Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be...

Direction Don McDougall · James H. Brown · David Lowell Rich · Paul Krasny

Cast James Franciscus · Marlyn Mason · Peter Mark Richman · Ann Doran

Synopsis Mike Longstreet was an insurance investigator who was blinded in an explosion. His wife was killed by the same blast. With the aid of braille teacher Nikki and guide dog Pax, Longstreet tracked down the jewel thieves who murdered his...

Direction Laslo Benedek

Cast Scott Brady · Richard Rober · K.T. Stevens · Yul Brynner

Synopsis Agents Mickey Waters and John Flannery re-team to investigate the theft of medicinal narcotics from the S.S. Florentine. The vicious gang responsible is headed by the ruthless, but debonair Paul Vicola, who doesn't hesitate to murder anyone who stands in...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Laraine Day · Robert Stack

Synopsis John Wayne personally produced many of his '50s films, which is why some of them have languished in corporate limbo following his death. The High and the Mighty was one of his most popular vehicles (no pun intended). This long,...

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Dana Andrews · Louis Jourdan · Lilli Palmer · Jane Wyatt

Synopsis Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter...

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Victor Mature · Terry Moore · William Bendix · Zachary Charles

Synopsis Small time racketeer Marc Fury agrees to plead self-defense for a murder committed by gang boss Joe Farrow in exchange for Farrow's I.O.U. for $50,000. He is acquitted but is ordered deported by immigration authorities unless he can convince the...