Cast: Mike Mazurki

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jack Lemmon · Tony Curtis · George Raft

Synopsis Some Like It Hot (1959) follows two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry, who witness a mob hit in 1920s Chicago. To escape the gangsters, they disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band heading to Florida. As "Josephine" and...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Widmark · Gene Tierney · Googie Withers · Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at a London wrestling arena run by his son Kristo, he...

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 Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Synopsis Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is a part of New York society...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Tyrone Power · Joan Blondell · Coleen Gray · Helen Walker

Synopsis This relatively little-known film is widely hailed by fans of the macabre. Truly ahead of its time, NIGHTMARE ALLEY is set in the gritty, surrealistic world of traveling carnivals, where eccentric people of all possible varieties interact on a daily...

Direction John Ford

Cast Anne Bancroft · Margaret Leighton · Sue Lyon · Flora Robson

Synopsis China, 1935. Seven women staffing an isolated Christian mission fight to survive a bandit attack. John Ford's last movie.

Direction John Ford

Cast Richard Widmark · Carroll Baker · Karl Malden · Sal Mineo

Synopsis Cheyenne Indians flee their squalid Oklahoma reservation and return to their traditional homeland along the Yellowstone River in Wyoming. A U.S. cavalry officer gets the call to return the tribe to the reservations but begins to question his mission after...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Paulette Goddard · Howard Da Silva · Boris Karloff

Synopsis It's 1763 and two men taking the same ship back to Virginia from London bid for the contract of a woman who was given a choice between execution in England or 14 years of indentured servitude in the colonies. The...

Direction Russell Rouse

Cast Broderick Crawford · Richard Conte · Anne Bancroft · Marilyn Maxwell

Synopsis Nick Magellan works for the corrupt businessman Charlie Lupo, who presides over an influential crime syndicate in Manhattan, New York. New York senators belong to the realm of this syndicate. Charlie has a recalcitrant daughter, Kathy Lupo. She is in...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dick Powell · Claire Trevor · Anne Shirley · Otto Kruger

Synopsis Detective Philip Marlowe''s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Lee Marvin · Elizabeth Allen · Jack Warden

Synopsis A war veteran in the South Seas tries to salvage a buddy''s reputation when the man''s daughter comes calling.

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Walter Huston · Ann Harding · Oskar Homolka · George Tobias

Synopsis Mission to Moscow was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the...

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Burt Lancaster · Lizabeth Scott · Kirk Douglas · Wendell Corey

Synopsis Frankie Madison returns to New York after 14 years in prison. Noll Turner, Frankie's former partner in bootlegging, is now a wealthy nightclub manager, and Frankie is expecting him to honor a verbal '50:50' agreement they made when he was...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Victor Mature · Ona Munson

Synopsis Bored good girl Gene Tierney goes looking for thrills in Shanghai – and winds up in Mother Gin Sling’s gambling palace, a bizarre, alternate reality that could only exist in the mind of director Josef von Sternberg. Look for Victor...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters

Synopsis In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), a dying criminal reveals the location of hidden treasure to a group of strangers. This sparks a frenzied, cross-country race as greed takes over, with each participant resorting to outrageous schemes...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Burt Lancaster · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Two years ago, hunting guide Mike Davis was with a client who trespassed on diamond company land and found a rich lode; Paul Vogel, sadistic commandant of company police, beat Mike nearly to death but failed to learn the location....

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Linda Darnell · Edward Everett Horton · Anna Lee

Synopsis In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast David Niven · Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Charles Boyer · Robert Newton

Synopsis Around the World in 80 Days (1956) follows the adventurous English gentleman Phileas Fogg, who wagers his fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days. Accompanied by his loyal valet Passepartout, Fogg embarks on a thrilling journey...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Jean Simmons · Victor Mature · Edmund Purdom · Gene Tierney

Synopsis In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Victor Mature · Hedy Lamarr · George Sanders · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis In Palestine, 1000 B.C., the Jews are ruled by the Philistines Samson, budding Jewish revolutionary, wants to marry Semadar, a Philistine, though it's her young sister, Delilah, who really wants Samson. The wedding becomes a fight in which Semadar is...