Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Spencer Tracy · Walter Abel · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis This is the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who escapes a lynch mob and then orchestrates his apparent murder at their hands to get revenge.

Direction George Cukor

Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · James Stewart · Ruth Hussey

Synopsis The Philadelphia Story (1940) follows Tracy Lord, a wealthy socialite preparing for her second marriage. As her wedding approaches, her ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven, unexpectedly returns, complicating matters. Meanwhile, a tabloid journalist and photographer arrive to cover the event, adding...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Charles Boyer · Ingrid Bergman · Joseph Cotten · Dame May Whitty

Synopsis In Gaslight (1944), a young woman named Paula moves into her late aunt's London home with her charming new husband, Gregory. As time passes, Paula begins to experience strange occurrences: missing items, mysterious footsteps, and flickering gaslights. Gregory insists she's...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Paul Newman · Pier Angeli · Everett Sloane · Eileen Heckart

Synopsis Robert Wise, who directed the classic boxing noir The Set-Up in 1948, also made this 1956 biopic about the life of Rocky Graziano, a one-time juvenile delinquent from New York's back streets who became World Middleweight Champion. Paul Newman, though...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis A Day at the Races (1937) follows the hilarious antics of a group of characters at a sanitarium facing financial ruin. A wealthy hypochondriac, Mrs. Upjohn, is persuaded to invest, but her shady doctor, Hugo Hackenbush, is actually a horse...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Marlon Brando · Louis Calhern · Deborah Kerr · James Mason

Synopsis The grandeur of the Roman world and powerful jealousy thunder together in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous JULIUS CAESAR. Scheming Cassius (John Gielgud), envious of the honors and love conferred upon Caesar by the Roman people, convinces...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Ronald Colman · Greer Garson · Philip Dorn · Susan Peters

Synopsis As the First World War ends a soldier wanders out of a Midlands asylum. Smithy was found in the trenches having lost his memory and all contact with the past. Amidst the noise of the armistice celebrations he meets a...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Vivien Leigh · Lucile Watson · Virginia Field

Synopsis On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front....

Direction William Wyler

Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Christopher Severn · Richard Ney

Synopsis A moving drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes. The family, headed by the lovely and gracious matriarch, endures the departure of the father for the beaches at Dunkirk,...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Robert Taylor · Margaret Sullavan · Franchot Tone · Robert Young

Synopsis A love story centered around the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Stewart Granger · James Mason · Deborah Kerr · Jane Greer

Synopsis Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart Granger) is a British tourist visiting the nation of Ruritania in the Balkans. A number of people comment upon Rassendyll's remarkable resemblance to Prince Rudolph, who in a matter of days is to be crowned the nation's...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Cyd Charisse · Van Johnson · Elaine Stewart

Synopsis Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an enchanted place....

Direction George Cukor

Cast Norma Shearer · Joan Crawford · Rosalind Russell · Mary Boland

Synopsis Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Fay Bainter · Reginald Owen

Synopsis Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. But, Tess is a very active woman and one of the...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Ingrid Bergman · Lana Turner · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil Hyde can be: he kills Ivy who earlier expressed interest in Jekyll and Sir Charles, Jekyll's faincee's father.

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Farley Granger · Cathy O'Donnell · James Craig · Paul Kelly

Synopsis Joe Norson (Farley Granger), a poor letter carrier with a sweet, pregnant wife, Ellen (Cathy O'Donnell), yields to momentary temptation and steals $30,000 belonging to a pair of ruthless blackmailers who won't stop at murder. After a few days of...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Ethel Barrymore · Maurice Evans · Angela Lansbury · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even thought she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Leslie Caron · Maurice Chevalier · Louis Jourdan · Hermione Gingold

Synopsis In Gigi (1958), a spirited young Parisian girl, Gigi, is groomed by her grandmother and aunt to become a courtesan in early 20th-century high society. Despite their efforts, she captures the heart of the wealthy and carefree Gaston, who initially...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Hal Skelly · Zita Johann · Charlotte Wynters · Evelyn Baldwin

Synopsis A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Henry Travers · Albert Basserman

Synopsis Young Polish physics student Marie marries Doctor Pierre Curie, in whose lab she had worked for a while. On their honeymoon they decide to find out what caused the strange effect Prof. Becquerel has noticed with the uranium/thorium stones for...