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Director: Hal Walker    More Info
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet, Marion Marshall, Robert Strauss, Betty Hutton, James Dean, Leif Erickson, Don Wilson, Vince Edwards

 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are hilarious in this remake of "The Fleet's In" about submarine sailors on shore leave. Melvin Jones (Lewis) and his buddy Al Crowthers (Martin) experience many hilarious–including Melvin entering a boxing match with the Navy champion and Al romancing a sexy French chanteuse (Corinne Calvet). Betty Hutton (who made her debut in "The Fleet's In") makes a cameo appearance, and James Dean can be seen briefly in the boxing scene. Slapstick, songs, and pretty girls abound in this Martin and Lewis film.

Director: Irving Pichel    More Info
Starring: Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter M. Thompson, John Archer, Warner Anderson, Roy Roberts, Billy House, Olin Howland, Allene Roberts

 Britt Canfield (Randolph Scott) fought as a Confederate in the war, but now he finds a job working with ex-Union forces building the Santa Fe Railroad. He tries to keep his brothers–Terry, Tom, and Clint (Jerome Courtland, Peter M. Thompson, and John Archer)–out of trouble, but after they try to rob the railroad, Britt is forced to help bring them to justice.

Director: Melvin Frank    More Info
Starring: Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell, Gale Robbins, Maria Palmer, Esther Minciotti, Arthur Franz, Hugh Sanders, Silvio Minciotti, Sandro Giglio

 Based on Preston Sturges' play, this film is a remake of the 1931 film about opera star Count Augustino "Gus" Caraffa (Ezio Pinza) whose actions lead to a public slander campaign that does not help in his courting of the lovely Isabelle Perry (Janet Leigh).

Director: Steve Sekely    More Info
Starring: Veronica Lake, Zachary Scott, Arturo de Cordova, Rita Macedo, Alfonso Bedoya, Yadin Jiminez, Fanny Schiller, Carlos Muzquiz, Gustavo Rojo, Irene Ajay

 After Mary Stevens (Veronica Lake) leaves her Southern plantation and travels to the family's Mexican silver mine, she finds herself in the middle of the Mexican Revolution when she is kidnapped by bandit leader Don Pedro Alvarez (Arturo de Cordova) who wants money from the silver mine to finance his efforts in the war.

Director: Ingmar Bergman    More Info
Starring: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Georg Funkquist, Alf Kjellin, Stig Olin, Gunnar Olsson, Annalisa Ericson, Mimi Pollak, Renee Bjorling, Emmy Albiin

 Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson) has problems getting over the tragic death of her former lover, but her present lover, David (Alf Kjellin), helps her move past her obsession.

Director: Michael Powell    More Info
Starring: Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Robert Helpmann, Pamela Brown, Leonide Massine, Frederick Ashton, Richard Golding, Philip Leaver, Ludmilla Tcherina, Meinhart Maur

 In Jacques Offenbach's beautifully staged opera, university student Hoffmann (Robert Rounseville) experiences doomed love affairs. For example, Hoffmann romances Olympia (Moira Shearer), but she turns out to be a life-sized mechanical doll. His other romances with Giulietta (Ludmilla Tcherina) and Antonia (Anne Ayars) also result in failure, but, in the process, Hoffmann learns to turn those bad experiences into art.

Director: Terry O. Morse    More Info
Starring: Victor Kilian, Bruce Kellogg, Otto Waldis, Jim Bannon, Marilyn Nash, Tom Handley, Dick Cogan, George Baxter, Harold Miller

 With bomb shelters being "the thing" in the 1950s, this film comes up with a sure winner for a shelter: the center of the Earth. A team led by scientist Jeremiah Morley (Victor Kilian) builds a giant drilling machine to do just that. And the expedition begins, with hazards sure to lie ahead.

Director: Henry Cass    More Info
Starring: Joan Greenwood, Audrey Hepburn, Nigel Patrick, Derek Farr, Guy Middleton, Athene Seyler, Helen Cherry, Irene Handl, Jack McNaughton, Fabia Drake

 Two couples–Sabina and Rodney Pennant (Joan Greenwood and Nigel Patrick) and Mary and Bruce Banning (Helen Cherry and Derek Farr)–share a London home following World War II, and the ensuing problems are amusing.

Director: Charles Lamont    More Info
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Hillary Brooke, Leif Erickson, Fran Warren, Bill Shirley, Lester Dorr, Joe Kirk, Rex Lease

 Tortuga Island waiters Rocky Stonebridge (Bud Abbott) and "Puddin'head" Feathergill (Lou Costello) accidentally mix up Lady Jane (Fran Warren) and Bruce's (Bill Shirley) love letter with a treasure map coveted by Captain Kidd (Charles Laughton). Kidd and his rival pirate Captain Bonney (Hillary Brooke) kidnap Rocky, "Puddin'head," Lady Jane, and Bruce and take them to Skull Island as their means of finding the treasure.

Director: Roy Del Ruth    More Info
Starring: Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Dick Wesson, Phyllis Kirk, Joel Grey, Virginia Gibson, Larry Keating, John Baer, Aileen Stanley Jr., Cliff Ferre

 Set to music, this is a remake of 1938's "Brother Rat" about three cadets at Virginia Military Institute who try to conceal a forbidden marriage that would mean dismissal from the cadet corps for one of them if it was discovered.

Director: Vincente Minnelli    More Info
Starring: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, Elaine Stewart, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll, Vanessa Brown

 This story is told from the perspectives of actress Gloria Lorrison (Lana Turner), writer James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell), and director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan) who go to a movie studio to listen to a pitch from producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) whose studio is troubled financially. Shields wants them to work on a new project, but all three have had bad experiences in the past with Shields that will make them think twice about signing with him. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress (Gloria Grahame for her role as Rosemary Bartlow), and Kirk Douglas received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Director: Felix E. Feist    More Info
Starring: Lex Barker, Lon Chaney Jr., Berry Kroeger, Roy Roberts, Helen Westcott, Ramsay Hill, Guy Teague, Larry Chance, Katherine Warren, James Fairfax

 Believing they can awaken the King of France to their cause and fearing encroachment of the British, Chief Pontiac (Lon Chaney Jr.) and his Indians wage a war in the 1760s against the Lake Erie fortresses. Lt. Kent McIntyre (Lex Barker) represents the British in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Chief Pontiac, but the attempt is unsuccessful. McIntyre's commanding officer is replaced by Col. von Webber (Berry Kroeger) who tries to exterminate the Indians with small pox infested blankets. But, finally, peace is restored–at least for the time being.

Director: Charles Walters    More Info
Starring: Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Alice Pearce, Clinton Sundberg, Gale Robbins, Tom Dugan, Henry Slate, Dick Wessel

 Playboy Charlie Hill (Fred Astaire) promises to reform and change his ways after he meets and falls in love with mission worker Angela Bonfils (Vera-Ellen).

Director: David Lean    More Info
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin, Denholm Elliott, Dinah Sheridan, Joseph Tomelty, Ralph Michael, Leslie Phillips, Jack Allen

 This distinguished British offering is filmed in documentary style and relates the story of the early British jet planes, their courageous pilots, and attaining the dream of breaking the sound barrier. Ace RAF fighter pilot Tony Garthwaite (Nigel Patrick) is married to Sue (Ann Todd) whose father, J.R. Ridgefield (Ralph Richardson), designs airplanes and is determined to build a jet that will break the sound barrier. Tony volunteers to pilot the jet, but Sue's concerns for his safety lead to many problems in the family.

Director: William Wyler    More Info
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert, Mary Murphy, Basil Ruysdael, Ray Teal, Barry Kelley, Don Beddoe, Royal Dano

 Based on Theodore Dreiser's novel, "Sister Carrie," this is the story of Carrie Meeber's (Jennifer Jones) rise in social status with the help of cultured George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier) who throws caution to the wind as he gives his money away to promote the welfare of Carrie.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille    More Info
Starring: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame, James Stewart, Henry Wilcoxon, Lyle Bettger, John Ridgely, Edmond O'Brien, Dorothy Lamour

 This film walked away with the Academy Award for Best Picture. It contains all the glitter of the Big Top presented through a number of stories interwoven into the circus world. In one of them, James Stewart plays a man who finds safety while on the lam by disguising himself in clown make-up. Other tales involve Charlton Heston and Betty Hutton, whose egos must be overcome to attain love. Look for Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as spectators in the grandstand. The film was also won an Academy Award for Best Writing and was nominated for three others, including Best Director.

Director: Rudolph Mate    More Info
Starring: Glenn Ford, Cedric Hardwicke, Geraldine Brooks, George Macready, Gaby Andre, Jany Holt, Paul Bonifas, Frederick O'Brady, Roger Treville, Georges Tabet

 Former paratrooper Michael Blake (Glenn Ford) strives to return a pilfered religious artifact–the jeweled gauntlet of St. Elizire, the Green Glove–to the French church from which it was stolen. Jewel thief Count Paul Rona (George Macready) had stolen the relic during World War II but lost it. Along the way, Blake meets tour guide Chris Kenneth (Geraldine Brooks), and they fall in love while tracking down the relic with Rona in pursuit.

Director: Richard Thorpe    More Info
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer, Sebastian Cabot, Francis De Wolff

 Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor) is a knight whose quest is to save King Richard the Lionhearted (Norman Wooland) who has been captured during his return home from the Crusades. King Richard is imprisoned in Austria, and Ivanhoe plans to enter a tournament to raise ransom money to rescue him when Ivanhoe's evil brother Prince John (Guy Rolfe) refuses to pay for Richard's release. The lovely Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) pays Ivanhoe's entry fee for the tournament because Ivanhoe had rescued her Jewish father Isaac (Felix Aylmer) from the anti-Semites. But, Prince John's cohort De Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) wants Rebecca for himself and kidnaps her. Action and chivalry abound, and, by story's end, good overtakes evil.

Director: William Spier    More Info
Starring: James Mason, June Havoc, Stephen Dunne, Fay Compton, Pamela Mason, Odette Myrtil, Steven Geray, Diana Graves, Eileen Myrtil, John Monaghan

 Pianist Jimmy Del Palma (James Mason) is upset with the treatment his hospitalized wife is receiving, and another patient, Jean Wilson (June Havoc), overhears him berating the staff. The wife dies, and Jean, who suffers a miscarriage, is later released and recuperates in the former home of Del Palma and his late wife. June is suffering from delusions and believes she has been reincarnated in the living form of Del Palma's dead wife.

Director: Lewis Milestone    More Info
Starring: Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester, James Robertson Justice, Joseph Wiseman, Rhys Williams

 The often-filmed Victor Hugo classic story is adequately presented in this adaptation. Michael Rennie is cast as Jean Valjean, and Richard Newton plays his pursuer Javert. Three episodes are told: Valjean's arrest for stealing a loaf of bread and his imprisonment, Valjean's hounding by Javert after becoming mayor and adopting Cosette (Debra Paget), and Javert's cessation of the pursuit of Valjean.

Director: Orson Welles    More Info
Starring: Orson Welles, Suzanne Cloutier, Michael MacLiammoir, Robert Coote, Michael Laurence, Fay Compton, Joseph Cotten, Joan Fontaine, Hilton Edwards, Nicholas Bruce

 This is the classic tale by Shakespeare in which the Moor Othello (Orson Welles) marries Desdemona (Suzanne Cloutier), but happiness turns to tragedy when Othello heeds a jealous Iago's (Michael Macliammoir) warning that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio (Michael Laurence). Restored, with new sound recording, and re-released in 1992.

Director: Richard Thorpe    More Info
Starring: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Louis Calhern, Jane Greer, Lewis Stone, Robert Douglas, Robert Coote, James Mason, Peter Brocco, Francis Pierlot

 In this remake of the 1937 film, Stewart Granger stars in the Ronald Colman role of an Englishman, Rudolf Rassendyll, who vacations in Romania where it is discovered that he has a surprising resemblance to Romania's Prince Rudolph (also played by Granger). The Prince's brother Michael, Duke of Strelsau (Robert Douglas) plans to usurp the throne and drugs the Prince the night before his coronation. Because he looks so much like the Prince, Rudolf is asked to impersonate the Prince during the coronation and foil the plot of his evil brother. Once he catches on to the subterfuge, the brother imprisons the real Prince, and now Rudolf, while carrying out the ruse, begins to fall in love with the Prince's fiancee Princess Flavia (Deborah Kerr).

Director: John Ford    More Info
Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, Francis Ford, Arthur Shields, Mae Marsh, Eileen Crowe

 American ex-boxer Sean Thornton (John Wayne) returns to his mother's village in Ireland. Once there, he falls in love with Mary Kate (Maureen O'Hara) and must win her over from her family. John Ford won his fourth Best Director Academy Award for this film. An Oscar was also received for Best Cinematography along with five other nominations, including Best Picture and Supporting Actor (Victor McLaglen).

Director: Joseph M. Newman    More Info
Starring: Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone, Warren Stevens, James Griffith, Joe Sawyer, Richard Crenna, Ralph Reed, Charles Bronson

 During a large forest fire in the mountains of Montana, forest firefighters lose their lives in the line of duty, and their leader, Cliff Mason (Richard Widmark), tries to remember if he must take the blame for the tragedy.

Director: George Marshall    More Info
Starring: Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hanson, Joan Taylor, Ted de Corsia, Milburn Stone, Richard Rober, Don Porter, Ian MacDonald, Angela Clarke

 Warbonnet (Charlton Heston) was a White child taken captive by Indians in his youth. He was the sole survivor of a Crow Indian raid and was rescued by the Sioux Indians and raised by them. Now, as the White men head through Indian territory, Warbonnet is a grown man and must decide whether to support the White man's war or remain in his Indian world. He finally leaves but does warn the Indians not to fight a losing battle with the White men.