Screenplay: Carl Foreman

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gary Cooper · Grace Kelly · Thomas Mitchell · Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis High Noon (1952) follows Marshal Will Kane, who prepares to retire and leave Hadleyville with his new bride. However, on his wedding day, he learns that a dangerous outlaw he once brought to justice is returning on the noon train,...

Direction David Lean

Cast William Holden · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · James Donald

Synopsis The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) follows British prisoners of war in a Japanese camp during World War II. Forced to build a railway bridge, Colonel Nicholson, a principled officer, becomes obsessed with constructing a symbol of British resilience....

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · David Niven · Richard Harris · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis During WWII, British Intelligence in the Middle East sends six men to the Aegean island of Navarone to destroy guns manned by the Germans. Consistently interesting war epic based on the Alistair MacLean novel, with a vivid cast.

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Kirk Douglas · Marilyn Maxwell · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Synopsis An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Actor--Kirk Douglas, Best Screenplay. Academy...

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast José Ferrer · Mala Powers · William Prince · Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Lauren Bacall · Doris Day · Mary Beth Hughes

Synopsis As a boy, orphan and dropout Rick Martin finds his only outlet in music. Through chance-met black jazzman Art Hazzard, he develops into a great trumpeter...too great for jazz-hating Jack Chandler, leader of the dance band he joins. But before...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Marlon Brando · Teresa Wright · Everett Sloane · Jack Webb

Synopsis Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He plays Lt. Bud Wilozek, one of a group of veterans recovering in the paraplegic ward of a hospital in...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Alexis Smith · Alexander Knox · Hugh Griffith

Synopsis A thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist, who captures him. In exchange for his freedom, the thief agrees to become a guinea pig for the doctor's rehabilitation theories with ultimately tragic results.

Direction Carl Foreman

Cast Vince Edwards · Albert Finney · George Hamilton · Melina Mercouri

Synopsis Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · Omar Sharif · Telly Savalas · Camilla Sparv

Synopsis The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast William Holden · Sophia Loren · Trevor Howard · Oskar Homolka

Synopsis In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Bill Williams · Barbara Hale · Richard Quine · Richard Loo

Synopsis Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear...

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Robert Shaw · Harrison Ford · Barbara Bach · Edward Fox

Synopsis During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Simon Ward · Robert Shaw · Anne Bancroft · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Direction Leonard Horn · Paul Krasny · Russ Mayberry

Cast Gary Collins · Diana Muldaur · Dawn Lyn · Hal Frederick

Synopsis This drama chronicles the adventures of George and Joy Adamson, a married couple who serve as game wardens in Kenya. Not only did they care for and keep track of the wildlife, but they sometimes had to deal with poachers...

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast John Wayne · Vera Ralston · Walter Brennan · Ward Bond

Synopsis Dakota is a 1945 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Wayne and Walter Brennan. The supporting cast features Ward Bond and Mike Mazurki.

Direction James Goldstone

Cast Paul Newman · Jacqueline Bisset · William Holden · Edward Albert

Synopsis Tourists are surprised by a volcanic eruption in a lonesome hotel in the Caribic. The hotel owner ignores all warnings and advises his guests to wait for a rescue team. Only a small group follows expert Hank Anderson (Paul Newman)...

Direction Howard Bretherton · Dave Gould

Cast Nils T. Granlund · Gale Storm · Robert Lowery · Margaret Dumont

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Jeff Corey · James Edwards · Lloyd Bridges · Douglas Dick

Synopsis A sensitive, educated black man's World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily of his war-time adventures with four white soldiers on a...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Henry Morgan · Rudy Vallee · Bill Goodwin · Hugh Herbert