Released Date:
1953-10-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (5396 Reviews)
Director:
John FordJohn Lee Mahin (screenplay)
Wilson Collison (play)
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.
Released Date:
1954-12-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (3945 Reviews)
Director:
Mark RobsonValentine Davies (screenplay)
James A. Michener (novel)
Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.
Released Date:
1955-05-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3743 Reviews)
Director:
George SeatonClifford Odets (play)
George Seaton (written for the screen by)
Washed up singer/actor Frank Elgin has a chance to make a come-back when director Bernie Dodd offers him the leading role in his new musical. Frank however is very insecure, turns to alcohol and shuns even the smallest of responsibilities, leaving everything up to his wife Georgie who finds it harder and harder to cope with her husband's lack of spirit. Bernie tries to help Frank regain his self-confidence, believing that it is Georgie who's the cause of his insecurity.
Released Date:
1954-05-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (93546 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockFrederick Knott (screen play)
Frederick Knott (adapted from his play)
In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned.
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
8.6 (283273 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockJohn Michael Hayes (screenplay)
Cornell Woolrich (based on the short story by)
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.
Released Date:
1955-09-01
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (42159 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockJohn Michael Hayes (screenplay)
David Dodge (based on the novel by)
American expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copy cat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. High on the list of prime victims is Jessie Stevens, in Europe to help daughter Frances find a suitable husband. The Lloyds of London insurance agent is using a thief to catch a thief. Take an especially close look at scene where Robie gets Jessie's attention, dropping an expensive casino chip down the dècolletage of a French roulette player.
Released Date:
1956-07-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(9500 Reviews)
Director:
Charles WaltersJohn Patrick (screenplay)
Philip Barry (play)
C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate. She is on the verge of marrying a man blander and safer than Dex, who tries to win Tracy's heart again. Mike Connor, an undercover tabloid reporter, also falls for Tracy while covering the nuptials for Spy magazine. Tracy must choose between the three men as she discovers that "safe" can mean "deadly dull" when it comes to husbands and life.
Released Date:
1972-09-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
80 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (234 Reviews)
Genres:
DocumentaryFilmmaker Roman Polanski spends a weekend with world champion driver Jackie Stewart as he attempts to win the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix, offering an extraordinarily rare glimpse into the life of a gifted athlete at the height of his powers.
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