Soundtrack: Max Steiner

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ingrid Bergman · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains

Plot Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis....

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Lauren Bacall · John Ridgely · Martha Vickers

Plot It tells the story of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), hired by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to deal with a blackmailer. The General has two daughters. One, Vivian (Lauren...

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Walter Huston · Tim Holt · Bruce Bennett

Plot Two down-and-out friends, Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt) find themselves working a dead-end job in Tampico, Mexico. Wishing they could turn their luck around, the two meet...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Virginia Mayo · Edmond O'Brien · Margaret Wycherly

Plot Cody Jarrett is the sadistic leader of a ruthless gang of thieves. Afflicted by terrible headaches and fiercely devoted to his 'Ma', Cody is a volatile, violent, and eccentric leader....

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Cary Grant · Priscilla Lane · Peter Lorre · Raymond Massey

Plot Mortimer Brewster stops off in Brooklyn to visit his two favourite aunts Abby and Martha to tell them that he has just gotten married. However, he discovers the dotty old...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Natalie Wood · Jeffrey Hunter · Ward Bond

Plot Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), a case-hardened Civil War veteran, returns to his brother Aaron's (Walter Coy) Texas home in 1868. When Rev. Samuel Johnson Clayton (Ward Bond) arrives to raise...

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Edward G. Robinson · Lauren Bacall · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in...

Direction Victor Fleming · George Cukor · Sam Wood

Cast Vivien Leigh · Clark Gable · Olivia de Havilland · Leslie Howard

Plot When wealthy Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) learns that Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), whom she's secretly in love with, is engaged to Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), she decides...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · George Brent · Margaret Lindsay

Plot Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Joan Crawford · Jack Carson · Ann Blyth · Zachary Scott

Plot A ditched wife and mother (Joan Crawford) is forced to become a waitress. She constructs an empire of eateries, only to be disappointed by her rotten daughter (Ann Blyth) and...

Direction John Ford

Cast Victor McLaglen · Heather Angel · Preston Foster · Margot Grahame

Plot A brutish but well-meaning Irishman, Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen), informs on his best friend Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who is a member of the Irish Republican Army, in order to...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Herbert Marshall · James Stephenson · Frieda Inescort

Plot The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Her poise, graciousness and stoicism impress nearly everyone who meets her. Her husband...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Gary Cooper · Patricia Neal · Raymond Massey · Kent Smith

Plot Long treasured as a masterpiece of camp, THE FOUNTAINHEAD stars Gary Cooper as architect Howard Roark. A paragon of integrity, he refuses to create buildings that violate his sense of...

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Burt Lancaster · Virginia Mayo · Nick Cravat · Robert Douglas

Plot Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. Five years before our story, Ulrich stole away the...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Pat O'Brien · Humphrey Bogart · Ann Sheridan

Plot Gangster Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) returns from prison to make a name for himself in the crime world. He's soon discovered by the Dead End Kids, who idolize him, and...

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Bette Davis · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains · Gladys Cooper

Plot Charlotte Vale suffers under the domination of her Boston matron mother until Dr. Jaquith gets her to visit his sanitarium where she is transformed from frump to elegant, independent lady....

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · George Brent · Donald Crisp

Plot Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg...

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Gary Cooper · Maria Schell · Karl Malden · Ben Piazza

Plot Gary Cooper stars as a mysterious frontier doctor, Joe Frail, in THE HANGING TREE. When a blind and ailing Swiss girl, Elizabeth Mahler, is placed under his care, Frail treats...

Direction Merian C. Cooper · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Fay Wray · Robert Armstrong · Bruce Cabot · Noble Johnson

Plot While shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island, filmmaker Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Arthur Kennedy · Charley Grapewin

Plot The film follows the life of George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) from attending West Point, wooing of Elizabeth Bacon (Olivia de Havilland), the American Civil War, and the Battle of...