Screenplay: James Hilton

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Charles Boyer · Jennifer Jones · Peter Lawford · Helen Walker

Synopsis Czech author Adam Belinski has escaped from the Nazis, taking refuge at the country home of the rich, snobbish English Carmel family. The maid is Cluny Brown, who is also a bit of a plumber. Adam and Cluny become friends....

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Ronald Colman · Jane Wyatt · John Howard · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis On 1935, the pacifist British diplomat and future Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a group of ninety Westerns white people to escape from the Chinese city of Baskul after the beginning of a revolution. He leaves the airport in the...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Greta Garbo · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Elizabeth Allan

Synopsis Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and...

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 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 Sam Wood

Cast Robert Donat · Greer Garson · John Mills · Terry Kilburn

Synopsis An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Joel McCrea · Laraine Day · Herbert Marshall · George Sanders

Synopsis Johnny Jones, an insubordinate city desk reporter, is sent to London as a foreign correspondent. There he interviews Van Meer, leader of a peace movement endorsed by Universal Peace Party head Stephen Fisher. Johnny finds fisher's pretty young daughter, Carol,...

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Peter O'Toole · Petula Clark · Michael Redgrave · Alison Leggatt

Synopsis In this updated musical version of the James Hilton novel, Peter O'Toole plays Chips, the shy professor who falls in love with a musical-comedy actress (played by Petula Clark), complete with flamboyant friends and a racy past. Directorial debut of...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Laraine Day · Signe Hasso · Dennis O'Keefe

Synopsis As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or...

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Charles Laughton · Jon Hall · Peggy Drake · Victor Francen

Synopsis After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Robert Montgomery · Ingrid Bergman · George Sanders · Lucile Watson

Synopsis Old friends Ward and Phillip both become smitten with Phillip's mother's attractive young secretary Stella. But Stella marries Phillip and stands by him as his behavior becomes more and more erratic and his jealousy of Ward increases.

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast John Mills · Martha Scott · Patricia Roc · Trevor Howard

Synopsis On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living...

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Paul Muni · Jane Bryan · Flora Robson · Raymond Severn

Synopsis Dr. David Newcome (Paul Muni) lives with his wife Jessica (Flora Robson) and son Gerald (Raymond Severn)in the small English town of Calderbury. Jessica, conventional and somewhat stupid, is unable to understand the sinsitive little boy and her stern, unsympathetic...

Direction Jacques Feyder

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Robert Donat · Irene Vanbrugh · Herbert Lomas

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast Peter Finch · Liv Ullmann · Sally Kellerman · George Kennedy

Synopsis This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton's Utopian lost world plays out uneasily amid musical production numbers and Bacharach pop music. While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and...

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Joel McCrea · Brenda Marshall · Jeffrey Lynn · George Bancroft

Synopsis When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

Direction Edmund Goulding · Cedric Hardwicke · Frank Lloyd · Victor Saville

Cast Kent Smith · June Lockhart · Ray Milland · Claude Rains

Synopsis In this episodic, World War II film, an American (Kent Smith) travels to London to sell the stately old house that belongs to his family. While he's visiting the home, bombs fall all around as the current resident recounts the...

Direction Marc Daniels

Cast Maureen O'Hara · Leo Genn · Cathleen Nesbitt · Paul Roebling

Direction Stuart Orme

Cast Martin Clunes · Victoria Hamilton · Conleth Hill · John Wood

Synopsis In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it...