The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the
needs of British security, it is boarded by customs and naval officials in search of contraband cargo. Her skipper, Captain Anderson (Conrad Veidt), is compelled ...
In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a
good-hearted, middle-aged man who runs an auto manufacturing firm. His wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton) is obsessed with the notion that she's growing old, and she ...
In David O. Selznick's florid, overheated melodrama Duel in the Sun Jennifer Jones stars as
half-Native American Pearl Chavez, who everyone has tagged as a bad girl foredoomed to an unhappy end. Her father is Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall), an ...
A barely disguised rip-off of 20th Century-Fox's all-female Tail Spin (39), Warner Bros.' Flight Angels
is an inexpensive tribute to airline stewardesses. Among the angels of the title are haughty Virginia Bruce and hoydenish Jane Wyman, who in one scene ...
A pair of romantic comedy films starring Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey are featured in this
collection. Fool's Gold (2008) stars McConaughey as a treasure hunter who reunites with his divorced wife (Kate Hudson) as they look to escape a dangerous ...
In this adventure, Pat Morrison (Burt Reynolds) leads a group of World War II veterans
back to the Philippines in search of gold hidden prior to the Japanese invasion. A professional tennis player (Anne Francis) hires Morrison because her aging ...
The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee
Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's ...
This four-hour cable miniseries adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel King Solomon's Mines
dispenses with much of the original story in favor of a standard Indiana Jones-esque melodrama, complete with claim-jumping villains, snarling Russian soldiers, an ancient and ...