Cinematography: Sidney Hickox

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · John Ridgely · Martha Vickers

Synopsis In The Big Sleep (1946), private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy general to resolve the blackmailing of his wild younger daughter. The case quickly spirals into a complex web of murder, deceit, and corruption. Marlowe navigates through...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Virginia Mayo · Edmond O'Brien · Margaret Wycherly

Synopsis White Heat (1949) follows Cody Jarrett, a ruthless and mentally unstable gang leader, as he navigates a life of crime while grappling with intense personal demons. After a botched train robbery, Cody is imprisoned, but his criminal empire continues under...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Brennan · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Moran

Synopsis To Have and Have Not (1944) is set in Martinique during World War II. It follows Harry Morgan, a cynical fishing boat captain who avoids getting involved in the war. However, when a resistance fighter seeks his help to transport...

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 Raoul Walsh

Cast Joel McCrea · Virginia Mayo · Dorothy Malone · Henry Hull

Synopsis Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home...

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · Bruce Bennett · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. The entire...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Kirk Douglas · Virginia Mayo · John Agar · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Kirk Douglas stars as a taciturn marshall who must bring a highly lynchable cattle rustler (and accused murderer) to trial, fending off the mob that dogs their trail through the desert, as tensions mount on all sides.

Direction Joe May

Cast Kay Francis · Ian Hunter · Basil Rathbone · Jane Bryan

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Richard Barthelmess · David Manners · Johnny Mack Brown · Helen Chandler

Synopsis Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. Cary and Shep's plane is shot down, and they barely survive; they're released from the hospital on Armistice Day...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Jeffrey Lynn · Philip Dorn · Kaaren Verne · Mona Maris

Synopsis A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ruth Chatterton · Louis Calhern · Helen Jerome Eddy · Donald Cook

Synopsis Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses....

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast James Cagney · Joan Blondell · Louis Calhern · Noel Francis

Synopsis At a midwestern hotel, conniving bellhop Bert Harris has a finger in every pie. He promotes a job for glamorous Ann Roberts, but she does not immediately succumb to his charms. However, Bert soon enlists Ann as partner in his...

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Errol Flynn · Ann Sheridan · Walter Huston · Nancy Coleman

Synopsis It's two years after the Nazi's invasion of Norway and in a small fishing village that is headquarters to 150 German soldiers, the 800 locals are stewing, waiting for a supply of arms so they can revolt. Leaders include Karen...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gary Cooper · Mari Aldon · Richard Webb · Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety.

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast James Whitmore · Edmund Gwenn · Joan Weldon · James Arness

Synopsis That ol' cinematic devil the A-bomb has spawned a colony of giant murderous ants bent on destroying humanity in this, the seminal big bug movie (an obvious and oft-credited influence for Alien among countless others). The special effects may be...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Ann Sheridan · Thomas Mitchell · Bruce Bennett

Synopsis Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Paul Lukas · Lucile Watson · Faye Emerson

Synopsis During WWII, in France, Jean Picard is a criminal who is about to be executed via the guillotine, but an air raid interrupts it and allows him to escape. Inspector Bonet tracks him down and brings him back. But along...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Ida Lupino · Robert Alda · Bruce Bennett · Andrea King

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Ruth Roman · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis Jeff Dawson (Gary Cooper) is a hapless oil speculator in South America whose misadventures reunite him with an old friend, Ward 'Paco' Conway (Anthony Quinn). Unfortunately for Jeff, Paco's wife is bad-news, man-eating Marina (Barbara Stanwyck), the lover Jeff ran...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Mary Astor · Helen Vinson · Russell Hopton

Synopsis Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who...