Released Date:
1941-08-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (6995 Reviews)
Director:
William WylerLillian Hellman (stage play)
Lillian Hellman (screen play)
Arthur Kober (additional scenes and dialogue)
Dorothy Parker (additional scenes and dialogue)
Alan Campbell (additional scenes and dialogue)
The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons nèe Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?
Released Date:
1942-12-01
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
134 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (10507 Reviews)
Director:
William WylerArthur Wimperis (screenplay)
George Froeschel (screenplay)
James Hilton (screenplay)
Claudine West (screenplay)
Jan Struther (based on the book by)
The Minivers, an English "middle-class" family experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs, the Minivers' son courts Lady Beldon's granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and entered in the competition against Lady Beldon's rose.
Released Date:
1943-03-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (7346 Reviews)
Director:
Sam WoodJo Swerling (screenplay)
Herman J. Mankiewicz (screenplay)
Paul Gallico (original story)
Damon Runyon (prologue)
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.
Released Date:
1943-01-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(42418 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockGenres:
ThrillerThornton Wilder (screenplay)
Sally Benson (screenplay)
Alma Reville (screenplay)
Gordon McDonell (from an original story by)
Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting would happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated and much traveled uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Imagine her delight when, out of the blue, they receive a telegram from uncle Charlie announcing that he is coming to visit them for awhile. Charlie Oakley creates quite a stir and charms the ladies club as well as the bank president where his brother-in-law works. Young Charlie begins to notice some odd behavior on his part, such as cutting out a story in the local paper about a man who marries and then murders rich widows. When two strangers appear asking questions about him, she begins to imagine the worse about her dearly beloved uncle Charlie.
Released Date:
1947-06-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
172 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (36573 Reviews)
Director:
William WylerRobert E. Sherwood (screen play)
MacKinlay Kantor (from a novel by)
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancèe's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home.
Released Date:
1947-06-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
172 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (36399 Reviews)
Director:
William WylerRobert E. Sherwood (screen play)
MacKinlay Kantor (from a novel by)
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancèe's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home.
Released Date:
1950-09-01
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (3082 Reviews)
Director:
Fred ZinnemannGenres:
DramaCarl Foreman (story)
Carl Foreman (screenplay)
Ex-GI Ken who as a result of a war wound is paralyzed below the waist. In the hospital back home, he passes through an initial period of depression with the help of a sympathetic Dr. Brock and his faithful fiancèe Ellen. Ken's bitter isolation is also overcome with the help of his fellow patients, especially the intelligent young cynic Norm, the witty Leo and serious young Angel. Soon Ken throws himself into the work rehabilitation and after a long period of physical therapy even suspects he may regain the use of his limbs. With the approval and help of the doctor, he and Ellen marry, but on their wedding night both have misgivings about the marriage: the full realization of Ellen's new responsibilities frighten her and makes her more uncertain than ever, and Ken reverts to self-pity. There is a violent argument, and he goes back to the hospital. But his blazing anger finds no sympathy from his buddies, and after a surprising conversation with Dr. Brock, Ken realizes that he must return to his wife, with whom he must try to build his new life, in spite of all the attendant difficulties.
Released Date:
1953-09-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (766 Reviews)
Director:
George CukorRuth Gordon (screen play)
Ruth Gordon (from: her stage play "Years Ago")
Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seaman's spyglass to sell as she heads for New York City.
Released Date:
1980-10-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (19745 Reviews)
Director:
Jeannot SzwarcRichard Matheson (screenplay)
Richard Matheson (novel)
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s, Elise McKenna. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages, by self hypnosis, to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their "time" difference? And can Richard remain in a time that is not his?
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