Cinematography: Russell Metty

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Charlton Heston · Janet Leigh · Orson Welles · Marlene Dietrich

Plot An unseen man sets the timer on an explosive device. The clock starts ticking down as soon as he stashes it in the boot of a fancy-looking car. Immediately afterwards,...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov

Plot Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · May Robson

Plot David Huxley (Grant) is an absent-minded paleontologist who needs to finish the reconstruction of a dinosaur for an exhibit that can provide good money for the museum. At a meeting...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast John Gavin · Liselotte Pulver · Jock Mahoney · Keenan Wynn

Plot In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long awaited furlough comes through. Back...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Gregory Peck · Anthony Quinn · Ann Blyth · John McIntire

Plot Roistering sea captain Jonathan Clark, who poaches seal pelts from Russian Alaska, meets and woos Russian countess Marina in 1850 San Francisco. Events separate them, but after an exciting sea...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Lana Turner · John Gavin · Susan Kohner · Sandra Dee

Plot Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Fred MacMurray · Joan Bennett · William Reynolds

Plot Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife (Joan Bennett) and kids (Gigi Perreau, William Reynolds and Judy Nugent) take him for granted. Barbara Stanwyck is Fred's former girl...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Rock Hudson · Lauren Bacall · Robert Stack · Dorothy Malone

Plot On 24 October 1955, the hard-work geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New...

Direction John Huston

Cast Clark Gable · Marilyn Monroe · Montgomery Clift · Eli Wallach

Plot Roslyn Tabor (Marilyn Monroe) befriends three cowboys while in Reno to obtain a divorce, and is extremely upset when she realizes they plan to trap wild horses to sell them...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Loretta Young · Orson Welles · Philip Merivale

Plot Charles Rankin is a professor in a respectable Connecticut town about to marry the daughter of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. But his name is fake and his past is...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Jane Wyman · Rock Hudson · Agnes Moorehead · Conrad Nagel

Plot Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a well-to-do widow gradually re-entering a social life amongst her mostly dull country club peers. Her only apparent enjoyment in life comes from weekend visits...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Kirk Douglas · Jeanne Crain · Claire Trevor · Richard Boone

Plot Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East.

Direction Jack Haley Jr.

Cast Fred Astaire · Bing Crosby · Gene Kelly · Peter Lawford

Plot Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favourite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Jane Wyman · Rock Hudson · Barbara Rush · Agnes Moorehead

Plot When churlish, spoiled rich man Bob Merrick foolishly wrecks his speed boat, the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment that's therefore unavailable to aid a local hero, Dr. Wayne Phillips,...

Direction Bernard L. Kowalski

Cast Peter Falk · Robert Culp · Pat Crowley · Ray Milland

Plot Brimmer, a short-tempered private detective, is hired by Arthur Kennicut, a prominent Los Angeles publisher, to investigate the publisher's wife's activities under suspicion of an extra-marital affair. Although his investigation...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Joan Fontaine · Patric Knowles · Herbert Marshall · Richard Ney

Plot In 1909, the beautiful but amoral British belle Ivy Lexton meets older, rich Miles Rushworth; undeterred by the prior claims of her husband Jervis and lover Roger, she goes after...

Direction Albert Lewin

Cast George Sanders · Angela Lansbury · Ann Dvorak · John Carradine

Plot Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a...

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Burt Lancaster · Mady Christians · Louisa Horton

Plot All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: during World War II, rushing to meet an...

Direction John Newland · Axel Gruenberg · Jack B. Hively

Cast John Newland · Robert Douglas · Will J. White · Olan Soule

Plot Produced at the same time as the more well-known Twilight Zone, this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Charlton Heston · Richard Boone · Rosemary Forsyth · Guy Stockwell

Plot A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage in Normandia where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild...