Cinematography: Archie Stout

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Barry Fitzgerald · Ward Bond

Synopsis John Wayne stars as Sean Thornton, a retired American boxing champion trying to put tragedy behind him by returning to Innisfree, the bucolic Irish village of his birth. He purchases his birthplace from its current owner, enraging the wealthy and...

Direction John Ford

Cast Henry Fonda · John Wayne · Shirley Temple · Pedro Armendáriz

Synopsis In Fort Apache (1948), a rigid and ambitious Colonel takes command of a remote U.S. Cavalry outpost, clashing with his seasoned Captain over tactics and respect for the local Native American tribe. As tensions rise, the Colonel's stubbornness leads to...

Direction John Ford

Cast Charles Winninger · Arleen Whelan · John Russell · Stepin Fetchit

Synopsis John Ford's remake of his 1934 Will Rogers vehicle, JUDGE PRIEST, combines three Irvin S. Cobb stories about the kindly Kentucky magistrate William Priest, played by Charles Winninger. Set in 1905 Kentucky, it focuses on the judge's battle for reelection...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Theodore Roberts · Charles de Rochefort · Estelle Taylor · Julia Faye

Synopsis The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern...

Direction René Clair

Cast Dick Powell · Linda Darnell · Jack Oakie · Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis An ambitious newspaper reporter, eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man grants the reporter that power, even as he cautions against using it. Now able to predict the news...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Linda Darnell · Edward Everett Horton · Anna Lee

Synopsis In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.

Direction Ida Lupino

Cast Sally Forrest · Keefe Brasselle · Hugh O´Brian · Eve Miller

Synopsis A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.

Direction Ida Lupino

Cast Mala Powers · Tod Andrews · Robert Clarke · Raymond Bond

Synopsis A young girl is raped while coming home from work. The trauma of the attack turns her away from her parents and her fiancée, and, unable to face society, she runs away and, using an assumed name, takes a job...

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Charles Laughton · Randolph Scott · Barbara Britton · John Carradine

Synopsis In this unhistorical account, Capt. William Kidd is already a clever, ruthless pirate when, in 1699, he tricks the king into commissioning him as escort for a treasure ship from India. He enlists a crew of pardoned cutthroats...and Orange Povey,...

Direction John Farrow

Cast John Wayne · Geraldine Page · Ward Bond · Michael Pate

Synopsis Hondo Lane, a despatch rider for the cavalry, encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always...

Direction Ida Lupino

Cast Claire Trevor · Sally Forrest · Carleton G. Young · Robert Clarke

Synopsis Boy (Gordon) meets girl (Florence), sharing an interest in tennis. But Florence has a supremely ambitious mother who intends to push her ahead regardless (she barely knows her own husband exists). Florence's tennis career rapidly advances, thanks to mother's manipulation...

Direction André De Toth

Cast Merle Oberon · Franchot Tone · Thomas Mitchell · Fay Bainter

Synopsis Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.

Direction S. Sylvan Simon · George Marshall

Cast Ida Lupino · Glenn Ford · Gig Young · William Prince

Synopsis The tale of how immigrant Jacob Walz, the "Dutchman" (German) of Arizona's notorious Lost Dutchman gold mine, found treasure and love and lost them again.

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast John Wayne · Lloyd Nolan · Walter Abel · James Arness

Synopsis A transport plane crash-lands in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Dooley (Wayne), must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Randolph Scott · Sally Blane · J. Farrell MacDonald · David Landau

Synopsis Nabb controls the pass and lets all the ranchers through except Holderness and his stolen cattle. When Nabb refuses to sell, Holderness works an his son Snap who has run up gambling debts. There is more trouble when Snap becomes...

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Gary Cooper · Sigrid Gurie · Basil Rathbone · George Barbier

Synopsis Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor's daughter. The Emperor Kublai Khan is a kindly fellow, but his evil aide Ahmed wants to get rid of...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Laraine Day · Robert Stack

Synopsis John Wayne personally produced many of his '50s films, which is why some of them have languished in corporate limbo following his death. The High and the Mighty was one of his most popular vehicles (no pun intended). This long,...

Direction James Edward Grant

Cast John Wayne · Gail Russell · Harry Carey · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis Quirt Evans (John Wayne) an all round bad guy is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth ((Gail Russell) a quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose from his world or the world from which...

Direction Kurt Neumann

Cast Johnny Weissmuller · Brenda Joyce · Johnny Sheffield · Patricia Morison

Synopsis A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Wayne · Donna Reed · Charles Coburn · Tom Tully

Synopsis Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.