The Badlanders 1958  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Alan Ladd, Katy Jurado, Ernest Borgnine, Claire Kelly, Kent Smith, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Emhardt, Anthony Caruso, Adam Williams, Ford Rainey
A Geologist (Alan Ladd) and a rancher (Ernest Borgnine) team up to reclaim a gold mine; however, each tries to beat the other out of his share at every turn.
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The Big Heat 1953  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Lee Marvin, Carolyn Jones, Jeanette Nolan, Alexander Scourby, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, Harry Lauter, Robert Burton, Adam Williams, Howard Wendell, Chris Alcaide, Dorothy Green
Following his colleague's suicide, homicide detective Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) investigates possible mob influence from within the city's police force. When a car bomb, meant for him, kills Bannion's wife Katie (Jocelyn Brando), he is taken off the case. Now, with help from Debbie (Gloria Grahame) who is the ex-mistress of gang leader Vince Stone (Lee Marvin), Bannion seeks revenge.
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Fear Strikes Out 1957 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson, Edd Byrnes, Bart Burns, Bing Russell, Peter J. Votrian, Don Brodie, Richard Bull, June Jocelyn, George Pembroke, Jeffrey Sayre, Gary Vinson
Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins) suffered from mental illness that led to a nervous breakdown. This is the story of how his desire to please his pugnacious father, John (Karl Malden), brought on the breakdown and how Jimmy fights to overcome adversity and return to baseball.
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Flying Leathernecks 1951 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter, Jay C. Flippen, William Harrigan, Carleton Young, Harry Lauter, Adam Williams, Barry Kelley
This story about United States Marine Corps pilots stationed in the Pacific during World War II focuses on the interplay between the commanding officer (John Wayne) and his executive officer (Robert Ryan) who often do not see eye-to-eye.
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Garment Jungle 1957
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia, Joseph Wiseman, Harold J. Stone, Adam Williams, Wesley Addy, Willis Bouchey, Robert Ellenstein, Celia Lovsky, Sid Melton, Jud Taylor
Alan Mitchell (Kerwin Mathews) returns home from the Korean War and joins his father Walter's (Lee J. Cobb) clothing firm only to discover that Walter is involved in a union-busting syndicate. Alan tries unsuccessfully to talk Walter into changing his mind about unions, and then talks to union leader Tulio Renata (Robert Loggia). Alan's visit results in a series of murder victims–including Walter and Renata. Finally, Alan uses his father's accounting books to give the police evidence of the extortion that led to the murders.
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The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit 1968 G, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner, Fred Clark, Ellen Janov, Morey Amsterdam, Kurt Russell, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Hewitt, Adam Williams
An ad agency executive, Fred Bolton (Dean Jones), tries to win a sales promotion for his boss and his daughter Helen's (Ellen Janov) love via a horse. Disney.
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The Last Sunset 1961 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley, Neville Brand, Regis Toomey, Jack Elam, Adam Williams, Jose Torvay
Dana Stribling (Rock Hudson) chases his old enemy, Brendan O'Malley (Kirk Douglas), into Mexico where Belle (Dorothy Malone) and Missy (Carol Lynley) Breckenridge enter their lives–BIG time.
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 North by Northwest 1959  N/R, 136 min.
Genre: Adventure / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis, Philip Ober, Josephine Hutchinson, Edward Platt, Les Tremayne, Adam Williams, Robert Ellenstein, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Ken Lynch
A Madison Avenue businessman (Cary Grant) is pursued by foreign agents who mistakenly think he is a spy. He has a torrid affair with a stranger (Eva Marie Saint) during a train ride while eluding the agents. The chase takes place from New York City, through Midwest corn fields, and culminates at the top of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills. One of Hitchcock's and filmdom's greats. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Film Editing, and Writing.
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The Proud and Profane 1956 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Seaton
Cast: William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter, Dewey Martin, William Redfield, Ross Bagdasarian, Marion Ross, Adam Williams, Ann Morriss, Richard Shannon
Red Cross worker Lee Ashley (Deborah Kerr), while serving in the Pacific theater during World War II, has a love affair with Lieutenant Colonel Colin Black (William Holden), and THEN learns he is already married.
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Vice Squad 1953 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens, Porter Hall, Ed Binns, Lee Van Cleef, Adam Williams, Joan Vohs, Dan Riss, Barry Kelley
Captain Barnaby (Edward G. Robinson) tracks down the killer of a fellow police officer as a day in the detective department is followed.
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Without Warning 1952  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: The Story Without a Name
Director: Arnold Laven
Cast: Adam Williams, Meg Randall, Ed Binns, Harlan Warde, John Maxwell, Angela Stevens, Byron Kane, Charles Tannen, Marilee Phelps, Robert Foulk, Robert Shayne, Connie Vera
After his wife leaves him, Carl Martin (Adam Williams) turns into a raging maniac as he picks up look-alikes for his wife and kills them with a pair of garden shears.
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| 1. The Badlanders (1958)
2. The Big Heat (1953)
3. Fear Strikes Out (1957)
4. Flying Leathernecks (1951)
5. Garment Jungle (1957)
6. The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)
7. The Last Sunset (1961)
8. North by Northwest (1959)
9. The Proud and Profane (1956)
10. Vice Squad (1953)
11. Without Warning (1952)
aka: The Story Without a Name
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