2024-09-27
A pair of divorced actors come together to star in a musical stage adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," and soon find their feelings resembling those of the characters.
Boy-meets-girl plot tied to events at a posh resort hotel, where a desk clerk falls in love with the daughter of a snobby rich woman. The romance is backdropped by sensational Busby Berkeley production numbers.
Disguised as a native girl, a star (Ginger Rogers) gets glamour tips from a lawyer (George Brent) she met at a woodland hideaway. Holmes: Alan Mowbray. Judge Parks: Grant Mitchell. Dr. Sylvester: Samuel S. Hinds. Pleasant; helped by some good numbers. Directed by William Seiter.
Adaptation of the Broadway smash about the evolution of celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, the younger daughter of a domineering, ambitious stage mother who was the brains (and ego) behind a dying vaudeville act that featured Rose and her older sister, June.
Irreverent Army-surgeon cut-ups and the staff at a Korean War field hospital try to keep their sanity by engaging in wild pranks and wacky high jinks. Ring Lardner Jr.'s screenplay won an Oscar.
Story of an upper-middle-class family struggling to grapple with the death of the oldest son in a boating accident. Based on the novel by Judith Guest.
Best Actress Jane Fonda stars as a call girl who aids a small-town detective on his search for a missing scientist in New York City. Realizing she is in danger after receiving threats from a john, the call girl reluctantly begins to fall for the sleuth despite her wish to remain unattached.
World War II heist actioner with Clint Eastwood sneaking a motley trio of fellow U.S. soldiers behind enemy lines to retrieve a fortune in Nazi gold bullion. Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland provide comic relief.
John Huston directed this documentary chronicling six months in the lives of a group of soldiers stationed in a remote Alaskan outpost during World War II.
Rory Calhoun as a soldier of fortune transporting a gold shipment. Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland, Joseph Calleia. George Sherman directed.
An undercover agent travels to Mexico looking for the source of heroin being smuggled into the U.S. by the mafia.
In the midst of an anti-Cleric and anti-Catholic regime in the Mexican state of Tabasco, the last remaining priest flees persecution and seeks freedom in America, finding help along the way.
A story of a Mexican peasant boy and the bull he saves and makes his pet, until the original owner of the animal returns to claim the beast and ship it off to the bullring, where it is pitted against the country's top matador. The film won a Best Story Oscar for Robert Rich, who was actually blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.