Released Date:
1945-01-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
123 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (4707 Reviews)
Director:
Clarence BrownEnid Bagnold (novel)
Theodore Reeves (screen play)
Helen Deutsch (screen play)
Mi Taylor was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel. One of the roads, and a notation in his father's journal, leads him to the quiet English country-side home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse for the Grand National - England's greatest racing event.
Released Date:
1947-11-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (2970 Reviews)
Director:
Robert RossenAbraham Polonsky (original screenplay)
Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he wins fight after fight, but soon an unethical promoter named Roberts begins to show an interest in Charley, and Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Released Date:
1951-10-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
122 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (13991 Reviews)
Director:
George StevensTheodore Dreiser (novel)
Patrick Kearney (play)
Michael Wilson (screenplay)
Harry Brown (screenplay)
The young and poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) leaves his religious mother and Chicago and arrives in California expecting to find a better job in the business of his wealthy uncle Charles Eastman. His cousin Earl Eastman advises him that there are many women in the factory and the basic rule is that he must not hang around with any of them. George meets the worker of the assembly line, Alice Tripp, in the movie theater and they date. Meanwhile, the outcast George is promoted and he meets the gorgeous Angela Vickers at a party thrown at his uncle's house. Angela introduces him to the local high society and they fall in love with each other. However, Alice is pregnant and she wants to get married with George. During a dinner party at Angela's lake house with parents, relatives, and friends, Alice calls George from the bus station and gives him thirty minutes to meet her; otherwise she will crash the party and tell what has happened. George is pressed by the situation which ends in a tragedy.
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