Released Date:
1940-08-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1122 Reviews)
Tess Slesinger (screen play)
Frank Davis (screen play)
Vicki Baum (story)
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Released Date:
1942-04-09
Languages:
English, Welsh
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (14582 Reviews)
Director:
John FordPhilip Dunne (screen play)
Richard Llewellyn (based on the novel by)
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Seen through the eyes of the family's youngest, Huw, we learn of the family's trials and tribulations. Family patriarch Gwilym and his older sons work in the mines, dangerous and unhealthy as it is. Gwilym has greater hopes for younger son how to honor his hard working parents. Huw who has his own ideas on how to honor his father. Daughter Angharad is the most beautiful girl in the valley and is very much in love with Mr. Gruffydd who isn't sure he can provide her the life she deserves. Times are hard and good men find themselves out of work and exploited by unseen mine owners.
Released Date:
1942-12-04
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
87 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(2779 Reviews)
Director:
Henry KingBen Hecht (screenplay)
Seton I. Miller (screenplay)
Seton I. Miller (adaptation)
Rafael Sabatini (novel)
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Carribean of Buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
Released Date:
1947-05-02
Languages:
English, Dutch
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (27599 Reviews)
Director:
George SeatonGeorge Seaton (written for the screen by)
Valentine Davies (story)
At the Macy's Department Store Thanksgiving Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades the old man to take his place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy's outlet. While he is successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa Claus. Despite reassurances by Kringle's doctor that he is harmless, Doris still has misgivings, especially when she has cynically trained herself, and especially her daughter, Susan, to reject all notions of belief and fantasy. And yet, people, especially Susan, begin to notice there is something special about Kris and his determination to advance the true spirit of Christmas amidst the rampant commercialism around him and succeeding in improbable ways. When a raucous conflict with the store's cruelly incompetent psychologist erupts, Kris finds himself held at Bellevue where, in despair, he deliberates fails a mental examination to ensure his commitment. All seems lost until Doris' friend, Fred Gaily, reassure Kris of his worth and agrees to represent him in the fight to secure his release. To achieve that, Fred arranges a formal hearing in which he argues that Kris is sane because he is in fact Santa Claus. What ensues is a bizarre hearing in which people's beliefs are reexamined and put to the test, but even so, it's going to take a miracle for Kris to win.
Released Date:
1948-04-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
83 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (1367 Reviews)
Director:
Walter LangGenres:
ComedyF. Hugh Herbert (screen play)
Gwen Davenport (novel)
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him. Mr. Belvedere works miracles with the children and the house but the Kings have no idea just what he's doing with his evenings off. And when Harry has to go out of town on a business trip, a nosy parker starts a few ugly rumors. But everything comes out all right in the end thanks to Mr. Belvedere.
Released Date:
1950-11-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (9491 Reviews)
Director:
John FordJames Kevin McGuinness (screenplay)
James Warner Bellah (Saturday Evening Post story)
Rio Grande takes place after the Civil War when the Union turned their attention towards the Apaches. Union officer Kirby Yorke is in charge of an outpost on the Rio Grande in which he is in charge of training of new recruits one of which is his son whom he hasn't seen in 15 years. He whips him into shape to take on the Apaches but not before his mother shows up to take him out of there.The decision to leave is left up to Trooper Yorke who decides to stay and fight. Through it all Kirby and Kathleen though separated for years fall back into love and decide that it's time to give it another try. But Yorke faces his toughest battle when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to possible court- martial. Locked in a bloody Indian war, he must fight to redeem his honor and save the love and lives of his broken family
Released Date:
1952-09-14
Languages:
English, Irish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
129 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (24705 Reviews)
Director:
John FordFrank S. Nugent (screenplay)
Maurice Walsh (from the story by)
Sean Thornton has returned from America to reclaim his homestead and escape his past. Sean's eye is caught by Mary Kate Danaher, a beautiful but poor maiden, and younger sister of ill-tempered "Red" Will Danaher. The riotous relationship that forms between Sean and Mary Kate, punctuated by Will's pugnacious attempts to keep them apart, form the main plot, with Sean's past as the dark undercurrent.
Released Date:
1955-02-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
138 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1709 Reviews)
Director:
John FordEdward Hope (screenplay)
Marty Maher (based upon "Bringing Up the Brass" by)
Nardi Reeder Campion (based upon "Bringing Up the Brass" by)
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
Released Date:
1960-02-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3178 Reviews)
Director:
Carol ReedJim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.
Released Date:
1961-06-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
129 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (12768 Reviews)
Director:
David SwiftErich Kèstner (based on the book: "Das doppelte Lottchen")
David Swift (written for the screen by)
Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them.
Released Date:
1962-06-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (3460 Reviews)
Director:
Henry KosterNunnally Johnson (screenplay)
Edward Streeter (novel)
St. Louis based banker Roger Hobbs is writing a letter to his wife, Peggy Hobbs, about his true feelings concerning their just returned from month long vacation, the letter to be opened only after his death, whenever that may be. Mr. Hobbs wanted the vacation to be a romantic getaway for two, but Peggy insisted that it be a family vacation to a central California beach-side house, given to them for the month by friends. The vacation included all their offspring, and their offspring's respective families where applicable. Hobbs hated the idea as he felt he didn't know his offspring - and their spouses even less - and that they, in turn, no longer needed him. They include: daughter Susan Carver, who, with her husband, Stan Carver, have a permissive parenting style as per the latest child psychology books; daughter Janie Grant, whose husband, college professor, Byron Grant, has an academic view of everything in life; fourteen year old daughter, Katey Hobbs, who is self conscious around boys if only because of her new braces, that self consciousness which boys see as standoffishness; and preteen son Danny Hobbs, whose sole focus in life is watching television. The house ended up being a rat trap which exasperated their cook Brenda the most. But beyond that issue, Mr. Hobbs ended up learning the true nature of his relationship to his offspring and to Peggy. In the process, he had to endure the extended visit by an odd couple named the Turners, and learned that some problems can be solved purely by yelling "hey Joe" into an unknown group of boys.
Released Date:
1963-11-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
127 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (8473 Reviews)
Director:
Andrew V. McLaglenJames Edward Grant (original screenplay)
George Washington McLintock, "GW" to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. He anxiously awaits the return of his daughter Becky who has been away at school for the last two years. He's also surprised to see that his wife Katherine has also returned. She had left him some years before without really explaining what he done but she does make the point of saying that she's returned to take their daughter back to the State Capitol with her. GW is highly respected by everyone around him including the farmers who are pouring into the territories with free grants of land and the Indians who are under threat of being relocated to another reservation. Between his wife, his headstrong daughter, the crooked land agent and the thieving government Indian agent, GW tries to keep the peace and do what is best for everyone.
Released Date:
1963-05-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(1694 Reviews)
Director:
Delmer DavesEarl Hamner Jr. (novel)
Delmer Daves
Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he and Clay get into a bit of trouble. If he has one dream in life it's to build his wife Olivia a beautiful house on a piece of land he inherited on Spender's mountain. When his eldest son, Clayboy, graduates at the top of his high school class and has the opportunity to go to college, Clay has only one option left to him.
Released Date:
1995-12-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (707 Reviews)
Director:
Marcus ColeRichard Paul Evans (book)
Greg Taylor (teleplay)
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.
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