Fear in the Night (1947) RT Audience 36%
DVD release: Aug 2014
Bank teller Vince Grayson wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream...but Vince finds that he has ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Maxwell Shane
CAST: Paul Kelly • DeForest Kelley • Ann Doran • Kay Scott
For the Love of Rusty (1947)
Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood (nothing new for this kid in this series) by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and leaves home, camping out near the ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: John Sturges
CAST: Ted Donaldson • Tom Powers • Ann Doran • Aubrey Mather
His Girl Friday (1940) RT 97% / Audience 90%
DVD release: Dec 2004
Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Howard Hawks
CAST: Cary Grant • Rosalind Russell • Ralph Bellamy • Gene Lockhart
Island in the Sky (1953) RT Audience 61%
DVD release: Aug 2005
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Drama
DIRECTION: William A. Wellman
CAST: John Wayne • Lloyd Nolan • Walter Abel • James Arness
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) RT 69% / Audience 45%
DVD release: Sep 1991
In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned; by the time a rescue mission arrives, there is only one survivor: the leader, Col. Edward Carruthers, who appears to ... (more)
GENRES: Horror • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Edward L. Cahn
CAST: Marshall Thompson • Shirley Patterson • Kim Spalding • Ann Doran
Meet John Doe (1941) RT 89% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Aug 2005
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Frank Capra
CAST: Barbara Stanwyck • Gary Cooper • Edward Arnold • Walter Brennan
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) RT 89% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Feb 2000
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Frank Capra
CAST: Gary Cooper • Jean Arthur • George Bancroft • Lionel Stander
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) RT 94% / Audience 94%
DVD release: Feb 2000
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Frank Capra
CAST: Jean Arthur • James Stewart • Claude Rains • Edward Arnold
My Favorite Brunette (1947) RT 71% / Audience 72%
DVD release: Oct 2001
Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Mystery • Romance • Thriller
DIRECTION: Elliott Nugent
CAST: Bob Hope • Dorothy Lamour • Peter Lorre • Lon Chaney, Jr.
Penny Serenade (1941) RT 93% / Audience 75%
DVD release: Jul 1998
A light-hearted romantic drama starring Cary Grant & Irene Dunne as a couple who meet, fall in love, quarrel and reunite. While listening to a recording of "Penny Serenade", ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: George Stevens
CAST: Irene Dunne • Cary Grant • Beulah Bondi • Edgar Buchanan
Pitfall (1948) RT Audience 71%
DVD release: Nov 2012
Based on Jay Dratler's novel The Pitfall, André de Toth's gripping film is a classic L.A. noir in the tradition of Detour, and shows the spiraling, epic consequences resulting ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: André De Toth
CAST: Dick Powell • Lizabeth Scott • Jane Wyatt • Raymond Burr
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) RT 96% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Jan 2002
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Nicholas Ray
CAST: James Dean • Natalie Wood • Sal Mineo • Ann Doran
Street of Chance (1942) RT Audience 20%
In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he returns to his old life ... (more)
GENRES: Mystery
DIRECTION: Jack Hively
CAST: Burgess Meredith • Claire Trevor • Louise Platt • Sheldon Leonard
Sun Valley Serenade (1941) RT Audience 84%
DVD release: Sep 1991
Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian refugee adopted by band pianist John Payne, who ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Music • Romance
DIRECTION: H. Bruce Humberstone
CAST: Sonja Henie • John Payne • Glenn Miller • Milton Berle
The High and the Mighty (1954) RT 25% / Audience 58%
DVD release: Aug 2005
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: William A. Wellman
CAST: John Wayne • Claire Trevor • Laraine Day • Robert Stack
The Hired Hand (1971) RT 91% / Audience 78%
DVD release: Oct 2003
Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all ... (more)
GENRES: Western
DIRECTION: Peter Fonda
CAST: Peter Fonda • Warren Oates • Verna Bloom • Ann Doran
The More the Merrier (1943) RT 94% / Audience 82%
DVD release: Nov 2004
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Romance
DIRECTION: George Stevens
CAST: Jean Arthur • Joel McCrea • Charles Coburn • Richard Gaines
The Snake Pit (1948) RT 100% / Audience 82%
DVD release: Jun 2004
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Anatole Litvak
CAST: Olivia de Havilland • Mark Stevens • Leo Genn • Celeste Holm
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) RT 100% / Audience 72%
DVD release: Apr 1998
Young Martha inadvertently causes the death of her cruel, authoritarian aunt. Martha lies to the cops, and Walter, who saw the crime, corroborates the girl's story. Eventually ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Lewis Milestone
CAST: Barbara Stanwyck • Van Heflin • Lizabeth Scott • Kirk Douglas
Them! (1954) RT 100% / Audience 76%
DVD release: Aug 2002
Nuclear tests in the desert result in the growth of gigantic mutant ants who menace cities in the American south-west as a team of investigators and the army search for a way ... (more)