Soundtrack: Dimitri Tiomkin

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · Doris Davenport · Fred Stone

Synopsis "Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief", Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Kirk Douglas · Marilyn Maxwell · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Synopsis An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Actor--Kirk Douglas, Best Screenplay. Academy...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Kirk Douglas · Dewey Martin · Steven Geray · Elizabeth Threatt

Synopsis Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Lew Ayres · Thomas Mitchell · Richard Long

Synopsis A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder, a psychiatrist is called in to assist a detective in solving the case. Through a...

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast José Ferrer · Mala Powers · William Prince · Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with...

Direction Gottfried Reinhardt

Cast Kirk Douglas · Barbara Rutting · Christine Kaufmann · E.G. Marshall

Synopsis Major Steve Garrett (Kirk Douglas) is given one of the biggest challenges of his career: defending four American GIs who gang raped a young German girl (Christine Kaufmann) while stationed in Neustadt during World War II. The only way he...

Direction Christian Nyby · Howard Hawks

Cast Margaret Sheridan · Kenneth Tobey · Robert Cornthwaite · Douglas Spencer

Synopsis Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out!

Direction Karl Freund

Cast Peter Lorre · Frances Drake · Colin Clive · Ted Healy

Synopsis An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist's hands with the hands of a knife murderer which still have the urge to throw knives.

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gary Cooper · Dorothy McGuire · Marjorie Main · Anthony Perkins

Synopsis The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religous sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops...

Direction John Huston

Cast Burt Lancaster · Audrey Hepburn · Audie Murphy · John Saxon

Synopsis The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Charlton Heston · Ava Gardner · David Niven · Robert Helpmann

Synopsis 55 Days at Peking (1963) is a historical epic set during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The film follows the harrowing siege of foreign legations in Peking (now Beijing) by the Boxers, a Chinese nationalist movement. As the international community,...

Direction George Seaton

Cast James Garner · Eva Marie Saint · Rod Taylor · Werner Peters

Synopsis In this psychological war-drama an Army Major -from the American intelligence- is captured by the Germans during World War II -on the eve of the D-Day-. The Nazis attempt to brainwash him into believing that it's six years later, that...

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Jack Hawkins · Joan Collins · Dewey Martin · Alex Minotis

Synopsis In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end he enlists the aid of Vashtar (James Robertson Justice), an architect whose...

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Pamela Britton · Luther Adler · Beverly Garland

Synopsis Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he's been given...

Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak

Synopsis Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Marlon Brando · Teresa Wright · Everett Sloane · Jack Webb

Synopsis Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He plays Lt. Bud Wilozek, one of a group of veterans recovering in the paraplegic ward of a hospital in...

Direction John Huston

Synopsis The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma and depression. A series of scenes chronicle their entry into a...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Anna Magnani · Anthony Quinn · Anthony Franciosa · Joseph Calleia

Synopsis A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause...

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast Joseph Cotten · Teresa Wright · Jonathan Hale · Walter Sande

Synopsis A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank, knowing it won't be missed until the bank opens on...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Deborah Kerr · Robert Mitchum · Peter Ustinov · Glynis Johns

Synopsis In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth...