Cinematography: Lee Garmes

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Paul Muni · Ann Dvorak · Karen Morley · Osgood Perkins

Synopsis Scarface (1932) follows the rise and fall of Tony Camonte, a ruthless and ambitious gangster in Prohibition-era Chicago. Inspired by real-life figures, Tony claws his way to the top of the criminal underworld, eliminating rivals and expanding his empire with...

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 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 William Wyler

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eleanor Parker · Lee Grant · William Bendix

Synopsis On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem him; a pair of blustering, but dangerous, burglars; a charmingly...

Direction Nicholas Ray

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

Synopsis 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, where he befriends fellow ranch hand Wes and his wife...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Clive Brook · Warner Oland · Anna May Wong

Synopsis Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lily is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. The British Army...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Victor McLaglen · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Warner Oland

Synopsis Director Josef von Sternberg’s answer to MGM’s MATA HARI with Greta Garbo stars Marlene Dietrich as X27, a seductive agent sent by the Austrian secret service to spy on the Russians. In the process, she goes up against and falls...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Fredric March · Arthur Kennedy · Martha Scott

Synopsis After escaping from prison, Glenn Griffin, his brother Hal and a third inmate Sam Kobish randomly select a house in a well-to-do suburb of Indianapolis in which to hide out. The home belongs to the Hilliard family, Dan and Ellie...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast James Mason · Barbara Bel Geddes · Robert Ryan · Natalie Schafer

Synopsis Young model Leonora Eames (Bel Geddes) marries multimillionaire Smith Ohlrig (Ryan). Ohlrig though is deranged and did not marry for love. Eames insists several times that she married for love, but the film suggests that she is deluding herself. When...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Gary Cooper · Sylvia Sidney · Paul Lukas · Wynne Gibson

Synopsis Nan, a racketeer's stepdaughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Despite Nan's prodding, The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets and making enough money to support Nan in the lifestyle she's accustomed to. Her...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Gary Cooper · Adolphe Menjou · Ulrich Haupt

Synopsis In Morocco the nightclub singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich) meets two men, a soldier, Tom Brown (Gary Cooper) and a millionaire, La Bessiere(Adolphe Menjou). She falls in love with the soldier, though the millionaire wants to marry her. "You’d better go...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ann Richards · Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis During WWII, a British soldier has been writing love letters for a friend, but finds himself falling in love with the woman from afar. When his friend is killed, the letter writer tries to find out more about the woman,...

Direction André De Toth

Cast Marsha Hunt · Alexander Knox · Henry Travers · Erik Rolf

Synopsis The career of a Nazi officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Jack Hawkins · Joan Collins · Dewey Martin · Alex Minotis

Synopsis In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end he enlists the aid of Vashtar (James Robertson Justice), an architect whose...

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Lena Horne · Bill Robinson · Katherine Dunham · Fats Waller

Synopsis The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Henry Fonda · Joanne Woodward · Jason Robards · Charles Bickford

Synopsis A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antone.

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Gregory Peck · Ann Todd · Charles Laughton · Charles Coburn

Synopsis Keane (Gregory Peck) is a handsome, young lawyer who falls in love with a beautiful client named Paradine (Alida Valli), a woman accused of murdering her blind husband. Although he's convinced of her innocence, love may be clouding the barrister's...

Direction Walter Grauman

Cast Olivia de Havilland · James Caan · Jennifer Billingsley · Jeff Corey

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast John Drew Barrymore · Lita Milan · Robert Bray · Steve McQueen

Synopsis Frankie Kane is brought up in a Catholic orphanage and befriends Martin Cabell, a Jewish law student whose sister Julie becomes Frankie's sweetheart. At sixteen, Frankie learns that he is himself Jewish and therefore has to be moved to a...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Frances Dee · Irving Pichel

Synopsis Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's the passenger in a car that kills a little girl,...