Soundtrack: Roy Webb

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jane Greer · Kirk Douglas · Rhonda Fleming

Synopsis In Out of the Past (1947), a small-town gas station owner with a mysterious past is drawn back into a web of danger when a powerful gangster tracks him down. Hired to find the gangster's missing girlfriend, the man becomes...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Ingrid Bergman · Claude Rains · Louis Calhern

Synopsis In Notorious (1946), a gripping tale of espionage and romance unfolds as a woman with a tarnished past is recruited by a government agent to infiltrate a group of Nazis in post-World War II Brazil. Tasked with seducing a key...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · May Robson

Synopsis Bringing Up Baby (1938) follows the chaotic misadventures of a straight-laced paleontologist, David Huxley, whose life is turned upside down when he meets the free-spirited Susan Vance. After a chance encounter, Susan becomes infatuated with David and embroils him in...

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds

Synopsis Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. She goes to live in a theatrical boarding house and finds her life caught up with those of...

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Betsy Blair · Esther Minciotti · Joe Mantell

Synopsis Marty (Ernest Borgnine) is a 34-year-old butcher whose Italian family is constantly after him to get married. He meets plain-looking schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair). They are both lonely, unglamorous people who have resigned themselves to their unloved lives. But they...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Maria Ouspenskaya · Maurice Moscovitch

Synopsis While in a cruise from Europe to New York to get married with his fiancée and heir of a great fortune in USA, the bachelor sportsman Michel Marnet (Charles Boyer) meets the gorgeous former night-club singer Terry McKay (Irene Dunne),...

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Simone Simon · Kent Smith · Tom Conway · Jane Randolph

Synopsis Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irena believes that she suffers from an ancient curse- whenever emotionally...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Robert Mitchum · Susan Hayward · Arthur Kennedy · Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis When he sustains a rodeo injury, star rider Jeff McCloud returns to his hometown after many years of absence. He signs on as a hired hand with a local ranch, where he befriends fellow ranch hand Wes and his wife...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Paul Douglas · Robert Ryan · Marilyn Monroe

Synopsis Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to the safe haven of her hometown, a small fishing community in Monterey, California. Upon her arrival, she is befriended by young woman (Marilyn Monroe) working in the canneries. Mae also finds a friend in...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Dorothy McGuire · George Brent · Kent Smith · Ethel Barrymore

Synopsis Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion. Mrs. Warren becomes concerned for Helen's safety when a rash...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Room Service (1938) follows a struggling Broadway producer, Miller, who checks into a hotel with his unpaid cast and crew, hoping to secure funding for his play. As the hotel manager demands payment, Miller devises a series of frantic schemes...

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast James Ellison · Frances Dee · Tom Conway · Edith Barrett

Synopsis Nurse Betsy Conwell takes up a position on the West Indies island of St Sebastian tending Jessica, the wife of plantation owner Paul Holland, whose mind has been burnt out by a tropical disease. But Betsy comes to fall in...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Spencer Tracy · Signe Hasso · Hume Cronyn · Jessica Tandy

Synopsis In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Robert Mitchum · Robert Young · Robert Ryan · Gloria Grahame

Synopsis This unusual and worthwhile black-and-white film noir was one of the first movies to deal with issues of anti-Semitism. A weary Washington detective (Robert Young) must get to the bottom of a seemingly motive-lacking murder, with the prime suspect a...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · Henry Daniell · Edith Atwater

Synopsis In Edinburgh in 1831, renowned surgeon and now teacher of anatomy Dr. MacFarlane, has been paying John Gray, a cabman, to clandestinely bring him exhumed bodies of the recently deceased for classroom demonstration purposes. With cemeteries being increasingly guarded, Gray...

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Irene Dunne · Cary Grant · Randolph Scott · Gail Patrick

Synopsis Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca. The overjoyed Nick awkwardly tries to break the news gently to Bianca. But before he can do...

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Barbara Hale · Bobby Driscoll · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Synopsis Young Tommy Woodry gets used to telling fantastic but harmless lies to his family and friends because he's bored. They get used to it. That's unfortunate for Tommy, because almost no one will believe him when he says his neighbours...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Jean Arthur · Robert Cummings · Charles Coburn · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis Tycoon John P. Merrick is startled to see an effigy of himself hanging on the front page of the New York Times, courtesy of union organizers at Neeley's Department Store, which Merrick didn't even know he owned. On a sudden...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Dick Powell · Claire Trevor · Anne Shirley · Otto Kruger

Synopsis Detective Philip Marlowe''s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.

Direction John Brahm

Cast Laraine Day · Brian Aherne · Robert Mitchum · Gene Raymond

Synopsis Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.