Cast: Arthur Shields

Direction John Ford

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Maureen O'Hara · Roddy McDowall · Donald Crisp

Synopsis This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided to leave the valley forever. Huw is the youngest in...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Barry Fitzgerald · Ward Bond

Synopsis John Wayne stars as Sean Thornton, a retired American boxing champion trying to put tragedy behind him by returning to Innisfree, the bucolic Irish village of his birth. He purchases his birthplace from its current owner, enraging the wealthy and...

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Patricia Walters · Adrienne Corri · Nora Swinburne · Esmond Knight

Synopsis Harriet (Patricia Walters) is a pensive, awkward, and fanciful adolescent growing up in Bengal near the banks of the river. The eldest child of a jute factory manager (Esmond Knight), she spends most of her days writing poetry in her...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Alexis Smith · Jack Carson · Alan Hale

Synopsis Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880's San Francisco, wealthy and influential members of the prestigious Olympic Club vow to make the sport a "gentlemanly" one. They sponsor a brash, extroverted young bank clerk named...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Joanne Dru · John Agar · Ben Johnson

Synopsis Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre · Joan Lorring · George Coulouris

Synopsis Mr. Grodman was a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard until a mistake in an investigation caused the execution of an innocent man...

Direction John Ford

Cast Claudette Colbert · Henry Fonda · Edna May Oliver · John Carradine

Synopsis In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they are happy living in their one room cabin. With the...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Thomas Mitchell · Ian Hunter · Ward Bond

Synopsis Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy on each other, comfort each other as death approaches, and...

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 Irving Rapper

Cast Bette Davis · Nigel Bruce · Rhys Williams · Rosalind Ivan

Synopsis Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent...

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Dana Andrews · Carla Balenda · Claude Rains · Philip Dorn

Synopsis During the war off Nova Scotia a fishing boat comes across a badly damaged Danish schooner with only the captain aboard after it has apparently been shelled by a German U-boat. Not realising the sinister real purpose of the larger...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Sydney Greenstreet · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Peter Lorre · Joan Lorring

Synopsis Three strangers, each with a serious problem in their lives, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Stephen McNally · Coleen Gray · Willard Parker · Arthur Shields

Synopsis A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Direction John Ford

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Preston Foster · Barry Fitzgerald · Denis O'Dea

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Mickey Rooney · Donald Crisp · Elizabeth Taylor · Anne Revere

Synopsis This classic family film made a star of 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor in the title role as spunky Velvet Brown, a girl who's determined to enter her horse, Pie, in the Grand National Steeplechase. Critic Pauline Kael called it "One of...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast George Raft · Virginia Mayo · Gene Lockhart · Raymond Burr

Synopsis Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess...who,...

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Tommy Dorsey · Jimmy Dorsey · Janet Blair · Paul Whiteman

Synopsis The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From being raised by their father who insists on...

Direction George Marshall

Cast Van Heflin · Susan Hayward · Boris Karloff · Julie London

Synopsis Morna Dabney is engaged to soldier Clay MacIvor in the days before the War Between the States. Morna's grandfather Big Sam Dabney founded their Mississippi plantation near Levington, which thrives in the Deep South, but he remains loyal to the...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Agnes Moorehead · Donna Corcoran

Synopsis After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband...

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Burt Lancaster · Virginia Mayo · Chuck Connors · Arthur Shields

Synopsis Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl...