2024-07-03
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.
Three footloose sailors revel in a 24-hour liberty in New York City, where each becomes involved in romantic entanglements with some native New Yorkers, including a cabbie, an anthropologist and an aspiring dancer. Features an Oscar-winning score.
Third version of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical about Mississippi riverboat life chronicles the problematic romance between the beautiful daughter of the ship's captain and a prodigious gambler.
Doris Day saddles up as wild wild-West heroine Calamity Jane, a tomboyish gunslinger who leaves Arizona to go to Chicago to bring back a stage star to perform in a frontier saloon, while pining for an attractive soldier and swooning over rough-riding Wild Bill Hickok. Featuring the Oscar-winning song "Secret Love.".
Best Picture-nominated hoedown is set in 1850s Oregon, where a group of brothers kidnap a passel of comely lasses with the intention of marriage, but when the men's farm gets snowed in and they're all trapped together, the ladies' hearts begin to melt. An Oscar winner for Best Musical Score.
A scientist experiments with a serum to have superior vision. Emphasis on philosophical aspects, not sensationalism.
A waiter, who is jealous of the beatnik crowd hanging out at his café, becomes an art sensation after he inadvertently kills his landlady's cat and covers the corpse with clay.
A rejuvenating beauty treatment made from insect enzymes has unexpected side effects for an aging and vain cosmetics executive, who demanded to be the test subject for the new product.