Soundtrack: Dimitri Tiomkin

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Grace Kelly · Ray Milland · Robert Cummings · John Williams

Synopsis British tennis pro (Ray Milland) suspects that his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly) is fooling around with a handsome American (Robert Cummings). He blackmails a disgraced former army comrade (Anthony Dawson) into murdering his wife and making it look like the...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Donna Reed · Lionel Barrymore · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis A good but slightly ineffectual man tries to off himself after an error that really wasnt his fault. In Christmas carol fashion, his crusty-but-lovable guardian angel shows up to give him a tour of the world without his presence, and...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

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

Synopsis A killer that Sheriff Will Kane (Gary Cooper) put away has been let out of the prison and now he and his gang of bad guys are coming to the town of Hadleyville to exact their revenge. While Kane is...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Lionel Barrymore · Edward Arnold

Synopsis The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly in the trade of weapons, and...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Wayne · Dean Martin · Ricky Nelson · Angie Dickinson

Synopsis John Wayne stars as the sheriff of a small western town who arrests a murderer and then must contend with the aggressive efforts of the killer's brother to free him before the state marshall arrives. Surrounding the town, the villains...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Farley Granger · Ruth Roman · Robert Walker · Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis En route from Washington D.C., champion tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy playboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). What begins as a chance encounter turns into a series of morbid confrontations, as Bruno manipulates his way into Guys life....

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Claude Rains · Edward Arnold

Synopsis Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however,...

Direction Howard Hawks · Arthur Rosson

Cast John Wayne · Montgomery Clift · Walter Brennan · Joanne Dru

Synopsis Tom Dunson (John Wayne) builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift). Together they begin a massive cattle drive north from Texas to the Missouri railhead. But on the way, new information and Dunson's tyrannical ways...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jean Simmons · Mona Freeman · Herbert Marshall

Synopsis Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne, who remarried a wealthy woman, Diane Treymayne's angelic countenance masks an unbridled psychotic who'll let nothing stand...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Cary Grant · Jean Arthur · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis While waiting for her boat, Bonnie Lee stops at a small airport in South America. The pilots there deliver mail over a dangerous and usually foggy mountain pass. Geoff Carter, the lead flyer, seems distant and cold as Bonnie tries...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Jennifer Jones · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Lillian Gish

Synopsis Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a young girl named Jennie...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Montgomery Clift · Anne Baxter · Karl Malden · Brian Aherne

Synopsis Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he heads...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired of how people have forgotten each other. Barbara Stanwyck stars...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Teresa Wright · Joseph Cotten · Macdonald Carey · Henry Travers

Synopsis Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting wold happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated and much traveled uncle Charlie...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Jennifer Jones · Gregory Peck · Joseph Cotten · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis Orphaned half-breed Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) comes to Spanish Bit, a Ponderosa-like cattle ranch run by despotic McCandless (Lionel Barrymore). There she finds kindness in the heart of ex-Dixie Belle Lillian Gish. But her romantic presence splits the empire. Bookish...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Ronald Colman · Jane Wyatt · John Howard · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis On 1935, the pacifist British diplomat and future Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a group of ninety Westerns white people to escape from the Chinese city of Baskul after the beginning of a revolution. He leaves the airport in the...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Burt Lancaster · Kirk Douglas · Rhonda Fleming · Jo Van Fleet

Synopsis Of all the film versions of the famed 1881 gunfight, this one, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, probably has the highest testosterone quotient. Focusing on the friendship between the forthright, responsible sheriff and...

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 John Sturges

Cast Kirk Douglas · Anthony Quinn · Carolyn Jones · Earl Holliman

Synopsis The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered. The killers leave behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill. Belden is sympathetic,...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Rock Hudson · James Dean · Carroll Baker

Synopsis Texan rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie Benedict (Elizabeth Taylor), they are married immediately and return to his ranch....