2024-07-03
A naive country girl gets a roommate with life experience when she moves into a flat in Dublin. The women meet an older writer, who is charmed by the country girl's rural ways rather than the more worldly roommate.
The Beatles' first film, a delightful, Marx Brothers-like romp, depicts a "typical day" in the lives of the beloved foursome, with a fresh, freewheeling tone and many of the band's songs. Restored version.
In 18th-century England, an abandoned baby is taken in and raised by a squire, who kicks the boy out for frolicking with a local girl. The youth makes his way to London where he grows up to be a bawdy womanizer.
A rebellious and irresponsible young factory worker, trapped in the dead-end blue-collar world he was born into, juggles relationships between two women, one of whom is carrying his child but is married to another man.
Alfred Hitchcock's character study, set in a lifeboat carrying eight survivors of a Nazi torpedo attack and a German sailor from the U-boat that sank their London-bound steamer, reveals the effects of extreme conditions on different personalities. John Steinbeck was nominated for a Best Original Story Oscar.
When a boiler explosion on an aging ocean liner spells disaster, a man must race against time to save his wife and daughter from their wrecked room before the ship sinks.
Spencer Tracy won Best Actor as an earthy Portuguese fisherman who takes under wing a tycoon's spoiled young son who's fallen off a transatlantic luxury liner and been by a passing fishing boat. It's a coming-of-age adventure during which the lad learns lessons in respect, self-sufficiency and discipline. The Best Picture nominee is based on the Rudyard Kipling book.
A famous 1787 incident inspired this Best Picture winner about a clash of wills between tyrannical captain William Bligh and his mutinous mate Fletcher Christian aboard an 18th-century British merchantman in the South Seas. Clark Gable (Christian), Charles Laughton (Bligh) and Franchot Tone (Roger Byam) garnered Best Actor nominations.
A salvage-ship captain attempts to help prove that a skipper is not guilty of negligence in the mysterious scuttling and sinking of his vessel.
The Eugene O'Neill play "Ah Wilderness!" is set to music in this story of a middle-class lad coming of age in a small New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
Booth Tarkington characters come to life in this nostalgic charmer about a young man (Gordon MacRae) romancing a banker's daughter (Doris Day) in early 20th-century Indiana. The score features standards such as "Till We Meet Again," "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," "Cuddle Up a Little Closer" and the title song. Followed by the 1953 sequel "By the Light of the Silvery Moon.".
Judy Garland and Gene Kelly team in this tuneful tale about a theatrical company that stages a summer production on a financially burdened New England farm, and the down-on-her-luck owner ends up becoming the leading lady of the show.