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Director: Fred Surin    More Info
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Micheline Presle, Louis Jourdan, Jean-Francois Calve, Marcel Amont, Marcelle Arnold, Roger Dumas, Nicole Gueden, Madeleine Lambert, Colette Regis

 A young country girl (Brigitte Bardot), becomes cover girl Chouchou under the tutelage of two magazine editors, Judith (Micheline Presle) and Michel (Louis Jourdan) and becomes a top model.

Director: Anthony Quinn    More Info
Starring: Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer, Inger Stevens, E.G. Marshall, Lorne Greene, Henry Hull, Ted de Corsia, Douglass Dumbrille

 President Andrew Jackson (Charlton Heston) wrangles a deal with pirate Jean Lafitte (Yul Brynner) to help the United States' cause in the War of 1812. Pretty good remake of the 1938 film, with DeMille, who directed the earlier version, as the Executive Producer.

Director: Richard E. Cunha    More Info
Starring: John Ashley, Sandra Knight, Donald Murphy, Harold Lloyd Jr., Sally Todd, Felix Locher, John Zaremba, Robert Dix, Harry Wilson, Voltaire Perkins

 Set in modern times, Frankenstein's grandson, Oliver Frankenstein (Donald Murphy), is living in Los Angeles where he creates a new monster by killing teenager Trudy (Sandra Knight) who then sets off on a killing spree. John Ashley appears as Trudy's boyfriend, Johnny Bruder, who tries to stop Oliver from completing his evil deed.

Director: Vincente Minnelli    More Info
Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans, John Abbott, Monique Van Vooren, Dorothy Neumann

 This excellent film won nine Academy Awards. Gaston (Louis Jourdan) has his eye on Gigi (Leslie Caron) who, after a series of misadventures, becomes his wife. Narrated by Maurice Chevalier, this musical features such great songs as "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and the title song (an Academy Award winner). Other Academy Awards included Best Picture and Director.

Director: Melville Shavelson    More Info
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Eduardo Ciannelli, Murray Hamilton, Mimi Gibson, John Litel, Mary Forbes, Madge Kennedy

 After Tom Winston's (Cary Grant) estranged wife is killed in an accident, Tom reunites with his children–Elizabeth (Mimi Gibson), David (Paul Petersen), and Robert (Charles Herbert). But, the children are not happy to be living with Tom in his small Washington, D.C. apartment. Tom prepares to move to a large house, but plans fall through, and they move onto a rundown houseboat on the Potomac River. Cinzia (Sophia Loren) signs on as the children's governess, and she helps Tom understand the meaning of love when romance blooms between Tom and Cinzia, and the children will now enjoy a happy family life.

Director: Stanley Donen    More Info
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff, Megs Jenkins, Oliver Johnston, Richard Vernon, Martin Boddey, John Welsh

 A successful actress (Ingrid Bergman) wants love and marriage, while a successful businessman (Cary Grant) wants love but no marriage. The two meet in London, and humor and intrigue are the result.

Director: Carol Reed    More Info
Starring: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka, Kieron Moore, Bernard Lee, Noel Purcell, Bryan Forbes, Irene Handl, John Crawford

 In this, Sophia Loren's first British film, she plays Stella, a kept woman, whose apartment key is being passed from one tug boat captain to the next one who arrives in Plymouth, England during World War II. Tug boat captain David Ross (William Holden) arrives in port and meets his friend, British tug boat captain Chris Ford (Trevor Howard), who takes him to Stella's apartment. Chris gives David her key, and, when Chris is killed in combat, David moves in with Stella. They fall in love, but, when David believes that he will be killed, he passes the key on to tug boat captain Kane (Kieron Moore). David survives and rushes to the apartment where Kane tells him that Stella has left for London, and David races off to find her.

Director: Delmer Daves    More Info
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana, Karl Swenson, Ann Codee, Eddie Ryder, Jacques Berthe, Cyril Delevanti, Mark Tapscott

 Sam Loggins (Frank Sinatra) and Britt Harris (Tony Curtis) are American soldiers serving on the French Riviera during World War II. They meet and are attracted to Monique Blair (Natalie Wood) and, when she tells them that her father is Black, they deal with her mixed-race genetics in different ways: Sam overcomes his bigotry, while Britt does not. They return to the war zone, and Britt is killed. Following the war, Sam finds Monique and learns that she is operating a school for war orphans.

Director: Joseph Anthony    More Info
Starring: Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, Robert Morse, Wallace Ford, Perry Wilson, Russell Collins, Rex Evans, Gavin Gordon

 This forerunner of the musical "Hello, Dolly" stars Shirley Booth as matchmaker Dolly Levi who falls in love with Horace Vandergelder (Paul Ford). Anthony Perkins and Shirley MacLaine play the young couple, Cornelius Hackl and Irene Malloy, who Dolly has matched.

Director: Gerd Oswald    More Info
Starring: Bob Hope, Fernandel, Anita Ekberg, Martha Hyer, Preston Sturges, Andre Morell, Maurice Teynac, Alan Gifford, Yves Brainville, Jean Murat

 Robert Hunter (Bob Hope) travels by luxury liner to France with Fernnydel (Fernandel) hoping to purchase the script for a new French play. What he doesn't know is that the script contains details about a counterfeiting ring. A member of the ring, Zara (Anita Ekberg), is aboard the ship and mistakenly believes that Robert has the script. Diplomat Ann McCall (Martha Hyer) is also on board and strikes up a friendship with Fernydel. When the counterfeiters close in, Ann arranges for Robert to be sent to an insane asylum to provide safety from them, and, later, Fernydel works to have him released. Funny chases take place–including the one when Robert is rescued from the asylum by a helicopter–in this combination of a French and American comedy.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz    More Info
Starring: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll, Bruce Cabot, Richard Loo, Yoko Tani, Sonia Moser, Fred Sadoff, Kerima

 Told in flashbacks, this film, based on Graham Greene's novel, stars Audie Murphy as the innocent young American who goes to Vietnam with idealistic plans to help the Vietnamese fight the Communists and the French. He meets embittered British reporter Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) who is living with a beautiful woman, Phuong (Giorgia Moll), and the American falls in love with her. Fowler retaliates, and the American ends up as a pawn whose fate is sealed when Fowler tells the Communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

Director: Vincente Minnelli    More Info
Starring: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Angela Lansbury, Peter Myers, Diane Clare, Charles Cullum, Charles Herbert, Ambrosine Phillpotts

 Jane (Sandra Dee) is already scheduled by her father and step-mother, Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent (Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall), for her coming-out party when she becomes involved with American jazz drummer David Parkson (John Saxon).

Director: Delbert Mann    More Info
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper, Cathleen Nesbitt, Felix Aylmer, Rod Taylor, Audrey Dalton

 Guests at a British seaside resort are presented through vignettes in this film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play. David Niven won the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Major Pollock who helps Sybil (Deborah Kerr) break away from her cruel mother. Wendy Hiller won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the inn's owner. Five other nominations included Best Picture and Actress (Kerr).

Director: Norman Foster    More Info
Starring: Guy Williams, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, Britt Lomond, George J. Lewis, Lisa Gaye, Romney Brent, Tony Russel, Jan Arvan, John Dehner

 This Disney film uses archive footage in a reworking of several episodes of the popular "Zorro" TV show about Don Diego (Guy Williams) donning the mask of Zorro and, with help from Bernardo (Gene Sheldon), fighting the cruel dictator Capitan Monastario (Britt Lomond).

Director: Vincente Minnelli    More Info
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates, Leora Dana, Larry Gates, Betty Lou Keim, Connie Gilchrist

 This film is based on James Jones' novel about writer Dave Hirsh's (Frank Sinatra) conflicts when he returns to his hometown of Parktown, Indiana, following World War II and must decide between respectable and decadent lifestyles. His businessman brother Frank (Arthur Kennedy) introduces Dave to schoolteacher Gwen French (Martha Hyer), but, when Dave won't break his ties to local gambler Bama Dillert (Dean Martin) and floozy Ginny Moorehead (Shirley MacLaine), tragedy lies ahead. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Actress (MacLaine), Supporting Actor (Kennedy), and Supporting Actress (Hyer).

Director: Joshua Logan    More Info
Starring: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Juanita Hall, Ray Walston, France Nuyen, Russ Brown, Tom Laughlin, Jack Mullaney, Ken Clark

 Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical features "Some Enchanted Evening," "Happy Talk," and "Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair" as it tells two love stories that are set amidst the perils of World War II. Navy nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) and planter Emile de Becque (Rossano Brazzi) succeed in love while Lt. Joe Cable's (John Kerr) love for Liat (France Nuyen) ends tragically.

Director: Sidney Lumet    More Info
Starring: Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood, Herbert Marshall, Christopher Plummer, Pat Harrington Jr., Frank Campanella, John Fiedler, Jack Weston, Daniel Ocko

 This remake of 1933's "Morning Glory" is good fare. It follows an aspiring actress, Eva Lovelace (Susan Strasberg), who finds it difficult, but she works herself up from being a theater employee and finds success on Broadway.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock    More Info
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Jones, Tom Helmore, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick, Fred Graham

 A retired San Francisco detective "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart), who suffers from vertigo (fear of heights), is hired by shipbuilder Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) to trail his wife Madeleine (Kim Novak). During the pursuit, Scottie ends up in a mental hospital. After he is released, he continues his pursuit, which leads to the top of a bell tower. The audience is treated to a tour of San Francisco as Scottie follows Madeleine's trail and falls in love with her in the process.

Director: Grigori Chukhrai    More Info
Starring: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolai Kruchkov, Yevgeni Urbansky, Elza Lezhdey, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Yevgeni Teterin, V. Markova, Marina Kremnyova

 After performing heroic acts against the Germans in World War II, a Russian soldier, Private Alyosha Skvortsov (Vladimir Ivashov) is rewarded with leave to see his family. On his way home, he meets several people, all of whom have been affected by the war and who need his help–thus using up most of his leave. A simple, but excellent, film.

Director: Henry King    More Info
Starring: Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert, Philip Ober, Herbert Rudley, John Sutton, Karin Booth, Ken Scott, Lita Leon, Maurie Manson

 Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham wrote a "tell-all" book about her torrid romance with writer F. Scott Fitzgerald who is struggling to support his wife Zelda who is in an asylum. This is the film adaptation of that book; it features Deborah Kerr as Graham and Gregory Peck playing Fitzgerald.

Director: William Wyler    More Info
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Sam Jaffe, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring

 Remember the famous Chariot Race where one of the extras forgot to take off his watch? That seems to be the only flaw in this epic film that won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. Charlton Heston also won for Best Actor as the Jewish Prince Judah Ben-Hur whose life story is told in tandem with the life of Jesus. Other Oscars included Best Director and Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith).

Director: Jean Negulesco    More Info
Starring: Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Diane Baker, Brian Aherne, Robert Evans, Louis Jourdan, Joan Crawford, Brett Halsey

 Amanda Farrow (Joan Crawford) is an editor in a paperback publishing house where she takes out her frustrations on secretaries Caroline Bender (Hope Lang), April Morrison (Diane Baker), and Gregg Adams (Suzy Parker). The three women seek success in the Big Apple but have encountered problems. Caroline has been jilted by her boyfriend Eddie (Brett Halsey), April is facing an abortion following her pregnancy by Dexter (Robert Evans), and aspiring actress Gregg is involved with unfaithful Broadway director David Wilder Savage (Louis Jourdan). This story is adapted from Rona Jaffe's novel.

Director: Marcel Camus    More Info
Starring: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes DeOliveira, Lea Garcia, Adhemar da Silva, Alexandro Constantino, Waldemar De Souza, Jorge Dos Santos, Aurino Cassiano, Modesto De Souza

 Set in Rio de Janeiro during Carnival, this is an updated version of the Greek myth in which the musician Orpheus (Breno Mello) is engaged to marry Mira (Lourdes DeOliveire) when he falls in love with Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn). Eurydice has arrived in Rio after jilting her lover who now disguises himself as the Angel of Death, appears on the scene, and kills Eurydice. Orpheus saves Eurydice from her disastrous fate when he enters the Underworld and uses supernatural powers to bring her back to life. The film won an Academy Award as the Best Foreign Film.

Director: Walter Lang    More Info
Starring: Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Barry Coe, Lee J. Cobb, Thomas Gomez, Charles(2) Lane, Charles Tannen, Wendell Holmes, Tom Duggan

 In this remake of "Accent on Youth," theatrical producer Russ Ward (Clark Gable) has been in the business for 30 years and is retiring. When he tells his young secretary Ellie (Carroll Baker) the news, she sends him a note telling him that she loves him. Russ uses the situation to produce a play about a May-December romance and casts Ellie in the starring role. Meanwhile, Russ is entranced by Ellie but struggles over his feelings about their age difference and is torn between Ellie and his love for his wife, Kathryn (Lilli Palmer).

Director: Sidney Lumet    More Info
Starring: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory, R.G. Armstrong, Emory Richardson, Lucille Benson, Madame Spivy, Virgilia Chew

 This screen adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play stars Marlon Brando as Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a drifter from New Orleans, who wanders into the town of Two Rivers, Mississippi. Val begins love affairs with alcoholic Carole Cutrere (Joanne Woodward) and also with Lady Torrance (Anna Magnani). Lady Torrance's husband (Victor Jory) is Val's boss, and many problems ensue when Val gets Lady Torrance pregnant.