Cinematography: John F. Seitz

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast William Holden · Gloria Swanson · Erich von Stroheim · Nancy Olson

Synopsis Sunset Boulevard (1950) follows struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis, who stumbles into the decaying mansion of faded silent film star Norma Desmond. Desperate for work, Joe agrees to help Norma revise her script for a comeback, becoming entangled in her delusions...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Fred MacMurray · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Tom Powers

Synopsis Double Indemnity (1944) follows Walter Neff, a smooth-talking insurance salesman, who becomes entangled in a dangerous scheme with Phyllis Dietrichson, the seductive wife of one of his clients. The two conspire to murder her husband and stage his death as...

Direction Billy Wilder

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

Synopsis 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) manage to keep him sober for 10 days, but he...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Joel McCrea · Veronica Lake · Robert Warwick · William Demarest

Synopsis Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much to the chagrin of his producers, he sets off in...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Franchot Tone · Erich von Stroheim · Anne Baxter · Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border--Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel...soon to be German HQ. To survive, Bramble assumes an identity which proves...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Eddie Bracken · Ella Raines · Raymond Walburn · William Demarest

Synopsis Discharged from the Marines for a hay fever condition, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) is too embarrassed to return home. Encouraged by some fellow soldiers to fabricate a story of being wounded in battle, Truesmith soon finds himself in...

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Eddie Bracken · Betty Hutton · Diana Lynn · William Demarest

Synopsis Preston Sturges directs THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, about Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) a party girl who wakes up one morning to find she's married and pregnant, but she cannot remember who, of six possible American soldiers, is the lucky...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Ray Milland · Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Sullivan · George Macready

Synopsis Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · Robert Preston · Laird Cregar

Synopsis Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by...

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Reginald Owen · Gene Lockhart · Kathleen Lockhart · Terry Kilburn

Synopsis On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to...

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Robert Taylor · Janet Leigh · George Raft · Steve Forrest

Synopsis Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Chris has contacts with the gangster Beaumonte, who is willing to pay $15,000 if Eddie withdraws...

Direction Rex Ingram

Cast Alice Terry · Paul Wegener · Ivan Petrovich · Firmin Gémier

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Bing Crosby · Barry Fitzgerald · Rise Stevens · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon. The new man, Father O'Malley, must ingratiate himself with both the old man and his congregation. There are various ups and downs in their...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Gail Russell · John Lund · Virginia Bruce

Synopsis When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Marion Davies · Orville Caldwell · Marie Dressler · Lawrence Gray

Direction Rex Ingram

Cast Pomeroy Cannon · Josef Swickard · Bridgetta Clark · Rudolph Valentino

Synopsis Madariaga is an Argentinian cattle baron with two daughters: one married a Frenchman, the other a German. Madariaga favors his French grandson, Julio, as his heir, but Julio is a wastrel and rake whose greatest achivement is tangoing well. When...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast William Powell · Myrna Loy · Virginia Grey · Otto Kruger

Synopsis Dum-Dum, Wacky, Creeps, Fingers: They're just a few of the hoodlums in the world of amateur sleuths and professional bon vivants Nick and Nora Charles. And now there's a new hood: parenthood. A birthday party - make that boithday -...

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Ida Lupino · Stephen McNally · Howard Duff · Peggy Dow

Synopsis Deborah Chandler's rejected suitor, Selden Clark, manages the factory of her father, who dies: did he fall or was he pushed? But charming Clark manages to win her over and marry her. On the honeymoon, Clark's former girl Patricia intervenes...

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · Douglas Dick · Wally Cassell

Synopsis After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job for profiteers Maris to finance a good time for his...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Alan Ladd · Shelley Winters · Jay Silverheels · Robert Douglas