Cinematography: Harold Rosson

Direction John Huston

Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen

Synopsis Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He puts together a group of men consisting of Dix Handley,...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Freddie Bartholomew · Lionel Barrymore · Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is a wealthy, spoiled 12-year-old who falls overboard on his way to Europe. When he regains consciousness on a Gloucester fishing boat, the ship’s captain (Lionel Barrymore) puts him to work next to his own son...

Direction Stanley Donen · Gene Kelly

Cast Gene Kelly · Donald O´Connor · Debbie Reynolds · Jean Hagen

Synopsis Singin' in the Rain (1952) is a vibrant musical set in the late 1920s during Hollywood's transition from silent films to "talkies." The story follows Don Lockwood, a dashing silent film star, and his cheerful best friend, Cosmo Brown, as...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Robert Mitchum · James Caan · Charlene Holt

Synopsis In El Dorado (1966), a drunken sheriff and a skilled but wounded gunslinger team up to defend a rancher and his family from a ruthless land baron. Set in the Old West, the story follows their struggle to uphold justice...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Jennifer Jones · Gregory Peck · Joseph Cotten · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis Duel in the Sun (1946) is a sweeping romantic Western that follows the tumultuous life of Pearl Chavez, a young woman of mixed heritage, who becomes entangled in a passionate love triangle with two brothers, Jesse and Lewt McCanles. Raised...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Judy Garland · Frank Morgan · Ray Bolger · Bert Lahr

Synopsis In The Wizard of Oz (1939), young Dorothy Gale is swept away from her Kansas farm by a tornado to the magical Land of Oz. Desperate to return home, she follows the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, where...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George Bancroft · Betty Compson · Olga Baclanova · Clyde Cook

Synopsis The ship on which Bill Roberts is a stoker has just put into port, giving the crew one night ashore. The ship's bad-tempered third engineer orders the stokers to clean up, while the engineer heads for a dockside bar, where...

Direction Stanley Donen · Gene Kelly

Cast Gene Kelly · Frank Sinatra · Betty Garrett · Ann Miller

Synopsis Three sailors -Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie- are very excited about getting a 24-hour leave and spending it in New York, New York - a wonderful town! They are especially concerned with the female inhabitants of the city, and each finds...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jackie Cooper · Wallace Beery · Lewis Stone · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis When young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) finds a treasure map inside a pirate�s chest, he�s headed off on a high adventure. Hawkins and family friend Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) set off to find the buried treasure, without knowing that half...

Direction Dick Powell

Cast Robert Mitchum · Curd Jürgens · David Hedison · Theodore Bikel

Synopsis Set during the Battle of Atlantic during the Second World War, "The Enemy Below" tells the story of the cat and mouse Destroyer escort/U-Boat hunt. For the Americans, a former Merchant Mariner who saw his wife killed when his freighter...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Lana Turner · Edward Arnold · Van Heflin

Synopsis Ruthless hood Johnny Eager is pretending to his parole officer that he has chucked the rackets and is now a full-time taxi driver. In fact he's as deep in as he ever was, and desperately needs official permission to open...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Gene Raymond · Mary Astor

Synopsis Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indo-china rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. But Carson, initially...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke · Frank Borzage · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Spencer Tracy · Hedy Lamarr · Verree Teasdale · Kent Taylor

Synopsis Georgi has attempted suicide in reaction to an earlier love affair. Now that Dr. Decker has married her he sets out to get her to love him. To make enough to give her what she wants he becomes physician to...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Brian Donlevy · Ann Richards · John Qualen · Walter Abel

Synopsis Stefan Dangos (Brian Donlevy) immigrates to America from the Czech Republic and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Spencer Tracy · Rita Johnson · Lynne Overman · Charles Coburn

Synopsis In 1940, MGM produced two pictures spanning the life of legendary inventor and thinker Thomas Alva Edison. This sequel to YOUNG TOM EDISON (starring Mickey Rooney) is a thought-provoking portrait of the man behind some of the most important inventions...

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Kirk Douglas · Silvana Mangano · Anthony Quinn · Rossana Podestà

Synopsis A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Direction John Huston

Cast Audie Murphy · Bill Mauldin · Andy Devine · Robert Easton

Synopsis Plot centers around how a young recruit (Audie Murphy) faces the horrors of war. Character vascilates between wanting to fight and doubting his own courage. In midst of first bloody encounter, Youth runs away. After seeing dead and wounded, sense...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Maureen O'Sullivan · Neil Hamilton · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932) follows Jane Parker, who ventures into the African jungle with her father and his team in search of a legendary elephant graveyard. During their expedition, they encounter Tarzan, a man raised by apes, who lives...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Clark Gable · Lana Turner · Anne Baxter · John Hodiak

Synopsis Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a...

Direction Harold Young

Cast Leslie Howard · Joan Gardner · Merle Oberon · Raymond Massey

Synopsis From the famous novel by Baroness Orczy, this is the fictionalized story of Sir Percy Blakeney, the saviour of the French aristocracy during the bloody revolution of the 18th century. Known as a dandy British aristocrat to his friends by...