Soundtrack: George Antheil

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Victor Moore · Beulah Bondi · Fay Bainter · Thomas Mitchell

Plot An elderly couple has lived together for 50 years but they have just lost their home to a bank. Their five children are sorry to hear that, but they don't...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gloria Grahame · Frank Lovejoy · Carl Benton Reid

Plot Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Humphrey Bogart · John Derek · George Macready · Allene Roberts

Plot Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. After he...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Louis Hayward · Lee Bowman · Jane Wyatt · Dorothy Patrick

Plot The unsuccessful writer Stephen Byrne tries to force his servant Emily Gaunt sexually while his wife Marjorie Byrne is visiting a friend and accidentally strangles her. His crippled brother John...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Arthur Franz · Gerald Mohr · Marie Windsor

Plot Apparently rejected by women all his life, a loner with a high-power rifle starts on a trail of murder. The police are baffled by the apparently random killings until their...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Robert Mitchum · Gloria Grahame · Frank Sinatra

Plot Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · James Ellison · Charles Bickford

Plot With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using...

Direction Fernand Léger · Dudley Murphy

Cast Fernand Léger · Dudley Murphy · Katherine Murphy · Kiki of Montparnasse

Plot A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines,...

Direction Alfred L. Werker

Cast Louis Hayward · Joan Leslie · Virginia Field · Tom Conway

Plot Sheila kills her husband at the start of the film with a smoking gun. We don't know how or why. All we know is men are banging on her door...

Direction John Parker

Cast Adrienne Barrett · Bruno VeSota · Ben Roseman · Richard Barron

Plot As the narrator invites us to explore the horrors of an insane mind, a young woman wakes from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room. We follow her through the...

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Märta Torén · Lee J. Cobb · Everett Sloane

Plot A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation.

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Fredric March · Franciska Gaal · Akim Tamiroff · Margot Grahame

Plot During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60...

Direction John Huston

Cast Jennifer Jones · John Garfield · Pedro Armendáriz · Gilbert Roland

Plot China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner....

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Kirk Douglas · Milly Vitale · Paul Stewart · Joseph Walsh

Direction Ben Hecht · Lee Garmes

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · John Qualen

Plot Charles Engle has been caught embezzling. He writes a suicide note, and goes out wandering on the town. Small-time hustler Bill O'Brian sees him give a couple of big tips,...

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Alexander Knox · Florence Marly · Sessue Hayakawa

Plot An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.

Direction George Waggner

Cast John Wayne · Vera Ralston · Philip Dorn · Oliver Hardy

Plot Following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat and the exile of his officers and their families from France, the U.S.Congress, in 1817, granted four townships in the Alabama territory to the exiles. Led...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Cary Grant · Frank Sinatra · Sophia Loren · Theodore Bikel

Plot During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat...

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast William Boyd · Andy Clyde · George Reeves · Dustine Farnum

Plot Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.

Direction Lee Garmes · Ben Hecht

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Eddie Albert · Marsha Hunt · Alan Reed

Plot Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary agent whose newest...