Cast: Frank Faylen

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Donna Reed · Lionel Barrymore · Thomas Mitchell

Plot A good but slightly ineffectual man tries to off himself after an error that really wasnt his fault. In Christmas carol fashion, his crusty-but-lovable guardian angel shows up to give...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Ray Milland · Jane Wyman · Phillip Terry · Howard Da Silva

Plot Don Birnam (Ray Milland), a would-be writer, is a long time alcoholic who is dissatisfied with his life. His brother Wick (Phillip Terry) and girlfriend Helen St. James (Jane Wyman)...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Burt Lancaster · Kirk Douglas · Rhonda Fleming · Jo Van Fleet

Plot Of all the film versions of the famed 1881 gunfight, this one, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, probably has the highest testosterone quotient....

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Mary Anderson · Roland Culver · Virginia Welles

Plot An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Robert Mitchum · Susan Hayward · Arthur Kennedy · Arthur Hunnicutt

Plot When he sustains a rodeo injury, star rider Jeff McCloud returns to his hometown after many years of absence. He signs on as a hired hand with a local ranch,...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Wayne Morris

Plot Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast John Payne · Evelyn Keyes · Brad Dexter · Frank Faylen

Plot Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Paul Douglas · Richard Basehart · Barbara Bel Geddes · Debra Paget

Plot A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Barbra Streisand · Omar Sharif · Kay Medford · Anne Francis

Plot In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Arthur Franz · Gerald Mohr · Marie Windsor

Plot Apparently rejected by women all his life, a loner with a high-power rifle starts on a trail of murder. The police are baffled by the apparently random killings until their...

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Neville Brand · Emile Meyer · Frank Faylen · Leo Gordon

Plot Producer Walter Wanger, who had just been released from a prison term after shooting a man he believed was having an affair with his wife, wanted to make a film...

Direction George Marshall

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · William Bendix · Howard Da Silva

Plot When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their...

Direction William Cameron Menzies

Cast Paul Lukas · Carl Esmond · Peter van Eyck · Mady Christians

Plot US art dealer returns to his native Germany for a visit and is attracted by Nazi propaganda.

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Glenn Ford · Broderick Crawford · Millard Mitchell · Dorothy Malone

Plot Joe Hufford gets involved in a nightclub brawl, kills a man in self defense, and is sent to prison for manslaughter, to the dismay of district attorney George Knowland who...

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast George Raft · William Bendix · Marilyn Maxwell · Frank Faylen

Plot Nice-guy bookie Dan Gannin plans to quit the racket; he's opening a new night club with his torch-singing sister as main attraction. But Dan's best friend Hal runs afoul of...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sothern · Donald Crisp

Plot Gangster Little John Sarto (Edward G. Robinson) is a man fed up with the racket who travels across Europe in the hopes of finding class. When he returns, he finds...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Robert Mitchum · Barbara Bel Geddes · Robert Preston · Walter Brennan

Plot When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. But as the new man comes to realise the unlawful...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Charles Laughton · Robert Young · Margaret O'Brien · William Gargan

Plot In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Irene Dunne · Van Johnson · Ward Bond

Plot A sentimental, patriotic (if not propagandistic) Hollywood fantasy about a dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge (Tracy) who becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. Ted Randall...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Alan Ladd · Brian Donlevy · William Bendix · Barry Fitzgerald

Plot The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his fathers ships when he is unwillingly pressganged...