Screenplay: Theodore Dreiser

Direction George Stevens

Cast Montgomery Clift · Elizabeth Taylor · Shelley Winters · Anne Revere

Plot George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), takes a job in his uncle's factory. Despite his family relationship to the owner, the rich...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Laurence Olivier · Jennifer Jones · Miriam Hopkins · Eddie Albert

Plot When Carrie steps onto the train that will take her to Chicago, she regards the trip as a grand adventure. But her glorious dreams of the big city quickly die,...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Frances Dee · Irving Pichel

Plot Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's...

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Tony Curtis · Piper Laurie · Marvin Miller · Everett Sloane

Plot In 13th-century Tangiers, regent Mustapha hires master thief Yussef to murder the baby Prince Hussein so Mustapha can take the throne in the infant's place. Yussef, too kind-hearted to kill...

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Rita Hayworth · Victor Mature · John Sutton · Carole Landis

Plot Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after...

Direction Marion Gering

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Donald Cook · Mary Astor · Edward Arnold