Screenplay: W.R. Burnett

Direction John Sturges

Cast Steve McQueen · James Garner · Charles Bronson · Richard Attenborough

Synopsis The Great Escape (1963) follows a group of Allied prisoners of war during World War II who are transferred to a high-security German camp designed to hold escape-prone captives. Determined to break free, the prisoners devise an elaborate plan to...

Direction John Huston

Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen

Synopsis Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He puts together a group of men consisting of Dix Handley,...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ida Lupino · Alan Curtis · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. When the robbery goes wrong and a man is shot and killed Earle is forced to go on...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Joel McCrea · Virginia Mayo · Dorothy Malone · Henry Hull

Synopsis Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gregory Peck · Anne Baxter · Richard Widmark · Robert Arthur

Synopsis In 1867, a gang led by James “Stretch” Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Glenda Farrell · Stanley Fields

Synopsis The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Sooner he becomes the leader of the gangsters and known as Little Caesar, and gets...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · Robert Preston · Laird Cregar

Synopsis Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by...

Direction John Ford

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · Arthur Byron

Synopsis Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal...

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Nina Foch · Hugh Marlowe · Jayne Mansfield

Synopsis After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drink, and acquires a criminal clientele. Remake of "The Man Who Talked Too Much".

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast John Garfield · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Walter Brennan · Faye Emerson

Synopsis Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich young widow, but finds himself falling for her for real, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Robert Mitchum · Lizabeth Scott · Robert Ryan · William Talman

Synopsis The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. There are only two problems: First, Nick is the violent type, preferring to do things the old-fashioned way instead of using the syndicate's...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Vera Miles · Ward Bond · James Gleason

Synopsis A small town sports writer attending the World Series recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a game.

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Walter Pidgeon · Roy Rogers

Synopsis Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. When Seton wins both, Cantrell forsakes his respected position as schoolteacher and leads a band of renegades through Kansas, looting and destroying, all...

Direction Charles Brabin

Cast Walter Huston · Jean Harlow · Wallace Ford · Jean Hersholt

Synopsis Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. He asks his brother Ed to keep an eye on Daisy who was connected with Belmonte.

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast George Raft · Brenda Marshall · Sydney Greenstreet · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Ankara in neutral Turkey: World War Two. A town of intrigue and of provocateurs. The Germans are planning to leak maps apparently proving that the Russians are about to invade the country. American Joe Barton is in the know and...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Rock Hudson · Barbara Rush · Jeff Morrow · Kathleen Ryan

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Jack Palance · Shelley Winters · Lori Nelson · Lee Marvin

Synopsis An ex-con organizes a gang and sets up a diamond heist, but along the way gets involved with one of the female gang members. The burglary is bungled and the cops chase him into the Sierras for a showdown.

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Alan Ladd · Ernest Borgnine · Katy Jurado · Anthony Caruso

Synopsis Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain,...

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Kay Francis · James Stephenson · John Eldredge

Synopsis Niles and Carol Nelson are married doctors who save one of ganglord Gurney's men. Gurney exploits them, then kills Niles leaving Carol to take the fall. He next kidnaps writer Bill Forrest to write his biography. Knowing Bill will be...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Brian Donlevy · Macdonald Carey · Robert Preston · William Bendix

Synopsis In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything. Soon the island is attacked and the Marines pull...