Larger-than-life World War II general recreates all the excitement and drama of the European front, while exploring one career officerâs outsize ambition to expand his own role in this historic conflict.
The most inspired piece of Cold War satire ever and one of the screen's supreme black comedies, Kubrick's 1964 "Strangelove" confronted jittery audiences in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and not long after the advent of the H bomb.
During the Prohibition era, government agent Eliot Ness is sent to Chicago to foil megalomaniacal gangster Al Capone (De Niro), who's making a killing selling illegal hooch in collusion with corrupt local cops and politicos.
Loosely based on Howard Hawks's landmark gangster tale from 1932. de Palma and screenwriter Oliver Stone transfer the action to the burgeoning drug trade in Miami. Pacino gives a magnetic, electrifying lead performance.
Brian de Palma's pays worthy homage to Hitchcock, as a sexual frustrated Kate Miller (Dickinson), an older women, gets murdered. Liz Blake, the young call-girl who witnesses the brutal killing, is now being tracked by the killer.
Carrie (Spacek) has a wacked-out harridan for a mother, and her classmates tease her mercilessly. I guess they don't know what they're dealing with, since Carrie is equipped with telekinetic powers that kick in when she's angry. Watch out!
Philip Adams (Grant), on business in London, meets famous stage actress Anne Kalman (Bergman) and pretends to be married. Anne still can't help falling in love with him, but when she learns he's not married, she schemes to make him pay for his ruse.
Notorious still delivers outstanding suspense, with director Hitchcock at his most subtle. The story of a fallen woman-first redeemed by love, then put in peril- is riveting throughout, and stars Grant and Bergman emit powerful on-screen chemistry.
Blustery ranch owner T.C. Jeffords (Huston) intimidates everyone around him, except his fiercely independent daughter, Vance (Stanwyck), with whom he has an intensely close (and stormy) relationship.
A farcical twist on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Professor of English Bertram Potts (Cooper) is researching modern slang for an encyclopedia with seven elderly eggheads. Joined by dancer Sugarpuss OShea (Stanwyck) who is hiding from the D.A.
On the brink of the Allied Forces' long-awaited offensive to re-occupy Burma in the Second War, intrepid paratrooper Captain Nelson (Flynn) receives a critical mission to drop behind Japanese lines and detonate a radar station.
Corbett works his way up the fledgling boxing hierarchy and even tries to win over the high-born Victoria Ware (Smith). But Corbett faces his ultimate challenge when he takes on famed bruiser John L.
Captain Thorpe (Errol Flynn), a British privateer, seizes the bounty on Spanish ships to help thwart that country's hostile intentions towards Britain and fill England's coffers.
A scene-for-scene remake of Howard Hawks's 1930 film of the same name, "Patrol" is an anguished World War I flier drama starring the dashing, seemingly unflappable Flynn, who inhabits his role with heroic gusto.
Escaping Alcatraz: No one ever has- and no one ever will. Frank Morris (Eastwood), adept at breaking out of other federal prisons, immediately sets out to prove the smug warden (McGoohan) wrong.
Missouri farmer-turned-Confederate soldier Josey Wales (Eastwood) becomes an outlaw when he refuses to surrender to "red leg" Union soldier Terrill (Bill McKinney), the man responsible for murdering his wife and son.
A crack Allied team during World War II is assigned a near-suicide mission to penetrate a remote Nazi alpine fortress to free a captured General. There are factors unknown to the team that force some highly skilled improvisation.
Eastwood returns as "The Man With No Name" in this tale of three men's desperate hunt for a cache of confederate gold during the Civil War. Eastwood contends with slimy bandit Tuco, and more ominously, there's the killer Angel Eyes hot on the trail.
The Hoover familyâs got troubles. When the youngest, Olive (Breslin), needs to be driven hundreds of miles to live her dream of competing in the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, this group of misfits must unite and hit the road together.
Conrad Jarrett (Timothy Hutton) tries to adjust to life after a horrific boating accident that kills his older brother. His biggest obstacle lies with his own mother (Mary Tyler Moore), who seems to blame Conrad for the death of her favorite son.
After discovering that his wife Jessie (Fawcett) is having an affair, devout Pentecostal preacher Sonny Dewey (Duvall) sends him into a coma. Sonny flees Texas for Louisiana and tries to rebuild his following. Sonny struggles to escape his past.
Mac Sledge, once a successful country music star, hits rock bottom as a drunk. When there is nowhere deeper to sink, with the help of gentle widow and her young son, Mac gradually finds the strength to reclaim his life.
Director Francis Ford Coppolaâs re-edited âReduxâ version includes new scenes which help clarify some loose ends in the original cut of this acknowledged masterpiece. Key performances from Sheen and Robert Duvall achieve a rare intensity.
In the early 1900 a simple cotton farmer (Duvall) takes a job finds a troubled pregnant woman named Sarah (Bellin) wandering the property, Fentry takes her in, becoming her caretaker and eventually the adoptive father of her son.
Set at the height of the Cold War, John Frankenheimer's tingling psychological thriller has lost little of its impact. This story of a soldier brainwashed by Communists to strike at the heart of the U.S. government remains an unnerving ride.
Returning to his Midwest hometown after WWII, card-playing soldier and once-promising novelist Dave Hirsh (Sinatra) is a perturbing presence to his older brother, Frank, a well-to-do businessman who feels Dave is more trouble than heâs worth.
Frankie Machine (Sinatra) is a rehabilitated junkie who wants to start a new life as a jazz drummer. Yet his crippled, neurotic wife (Parker) and old pusher (Darren McGavin) undermine his dreams at every turn.
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love. All-star cast includes Frank Sinatra's Oscar-winning performance, that revived his sagging career.
Julia (Swinton) is an out-of-control alcoholic attends an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, she meets broken, obviously unhinged woman, who pleads with Julia to help kidnap her son from her wealthy father. Julia is desperate and stupid enough to do it.
When the body of her 17-year-old son's predatory former gay lover washes up on their lakefront property one morning, Margaret Hall (Swinton) does what any desperate mother might do: she gets rid of the corpse.
After reluctantly relocating from London to the harsh coastline of Devon with his family, isolated teenager Tom (Cunliffe) is forced to live in cramped quarters with his sister, pregnant mother (Swinton), and overbearing Dad.
William Powell made so many magnificent pictures it's difficult to choose three recommendations to watch after "After The Thin Man" this weekend, but John Farr makes the tough choices, all from one year: 1936.
Young Orlando (Swinton) is an English nobleman. After a visit from Queen Elizabeth (Crisp) leaves him unexpectedly immortal, his life stretches out endlessly before him, allowing for adventures far beyond the reach of imagination.
The Hospital recalls that long-ago time in Hollywood when screenwriters could be clever, funny literates like Paddy Chayefsky and actors gruff, imperfect specimens of complicated manhood like George C. Scott.
George C. Scott delivers a towering rendition of the profane, colorful World War II general, by turns making us admire, revile, and pity this man, who was driven by a profound sense of pre-destination.
Humphrey Bogart is private detective Sam Spade, playing opposite Mary Astor as the shifty and cunning femme fatale, Brigid OâShaughnessy. She needs help finding a jewel-encrusted statue. A host of other nefarious types are after the same thing.
Audrey Hepburn led a legendary life and career. This week, Reel 13 will air her classic, âThe Nunâs Story.â If itâs been a while since youâve seen Audrey at her best, John Farr has three of her finest to recommend.
The most inspired piece of Cold War satire ever and one of the screen's supreme black comedies, Kubrick's 1964 "Strangelove" confronted jittery audiences in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and not long after the advent of the H bomb.
During the Prohibition era, government agent Eliot Ness is sent to Chicago to foil megalomaniacal gangster Al Capone (De Niro), who's making a killing selling illegal hooch in collusion with corrupt local cops and politicos.
Loosely based on Howard Hawksâs landmark gangster tale from 1932. de Palma and screenwriter Oliver Stone transfer the action to the burgeoning drug trade in Miami. Pacino gives a magnetic, electrifying lead performance.