Cinematography: Stanley Cortez

Direction Charles Laughton

Cast Robert Mitchum · Billy Chapin · Sally Ann Bruce · Shelley Winters

Synopsis The Night of the Hunter (1955) follows a mysterious preacher, Harry Powell, who arrives in a small town seeking the hidden fortune of a recently executed convict. The convict's young children, John and Pearl, are entrusted with the secret of...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Tim Holt · Joseph Cotten · Dolores Costello · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene...

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Peter Breck · Constance Towers · Gene Evans · James Best

Synopsis Peter Breck plays journalist Johnny Barrett, who thinks the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. So, he pretends to go insane and is locked up in the institution....

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Constance Towers · Anthony Eisley · Michael Dante · Virginia Grey

Synopsis Kelly, is a feminist who takes on the causes of abused women and disabled children. Originally a prostitute, she flees from the city to a small town where she reforms after she looks in the mirror and sees "nothing but...

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Dan Duryea · Herbert Marshall · Gale Storm · Howard Da Silva

Synopsis Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under suspicion of ties with racketeer Carl Durham. So, with a shrug, he makes the suspicion come true,...

Direction John Huston

Synopsis The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma and depression. A series of scenes chronicle their entry into a...

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Peter Graves · Jean Parker · Milburn Stone

Synopsis Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning - a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Joan Bennett · Michael Redgrave · Anne Revere · Barbara O'Neil

Synopsis In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. However, there she finds her dream man --...

Direction Nunnally Johnson

Cast Joanne Woodward · David Wayne · Lee J. Cobb · Nancy Kulp

Synopsis Eve White is a quiet, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and occasional black outs. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and, while under hypnosis, a whole new personality emerges: the racy, wild,...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Claudette Colbert · Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Shirley Temple

Synopsis While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the...

Direction John Guillermin

Cast George Segal · Robert Vaughn · Ben Gazzara · Bradford Dillman

Synopsis As the Allied armies close in, the Nazis decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side. But will it happen?

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Charles Boyer · Barbara Stanwyck · Betty Field

Synopsis Three speculative stories dealing with the supernatural. In the first, an ugly woman wears a beautiful mask for a night to win a man who never noticed her before. In the next, a wealthy and content man is told by...

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Susan Hayward · Lee Bowman · Marsha Hunt · Eddie Albert

Synopsis Angie Evans, fast-rising nightclub singer, interrupts her career to marry struggling songwriter Ken Conway. When Ken lucks into a career as chart-topping radio crooner, Angie is forced into idle luxury which proves her downfall. Her potential alcoholism burgeons and Ken...

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Basil Rathbone · Hugh Herbert · Broderick Crawford · Bela Lugosi

Synopsis Greedy heirs gather to wait for the death of Henrietta Winslow. Murder, thunder claps, howling cats, gun shots, screams in the night, hidden passages -- all the proper ingredients.

Direction Harry Horner

Cast Anthony Quinn · Katy Jurado · Peter Whitney · Douglas Fowley

Synopsis Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element,...

Direction David Miller

Cast Susan Hayward · John Gavin · Vera Miles · Charles Drake

Synopsis Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and...

Direction Don Fedderson · Edmund L. Hartmann · James Sheldon · Charles Barton

Cast Brian Keith · Kathy Garver · Anissa Jones · Johnny Whitaker

Synopsis Bill Davis is a single bachelor living in Manhattan with his butler Giles French. He is enjoying his life of freedom until his late brother's three children show up (twins Buffy and Jody, age 6, and Cissy, age 15). Soon...

Direction Burgess Meredith

Cast Charles Laughton · Franchot Tone · Burgess Meredith · Robert Hutton

Synopsis In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder (Burgess Meredith) is suspected, but Radek keeps taunting the police until they realize...

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Susan Hayward · Kirk Douglas · Paul Stewart · Jim Backus

Synopsis The head of a large publishing empire is dismayed when a top army general is about to be appointed to an atomic energy committee. She's determined to discredit him prior to the appointment and invites him to spend the weekend...

Direction John Rawlins

Cast Dane Clark · Ben Johnson · Peter Graves · Tracey Roberts

Synopsis It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill. Shelby was the only survivor of a battle due to the cowardice of Tallon. Thinking Tallon dead, another man who lost...