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M-G-M, 1949
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday | |
| DIRECTOR | George Cukor | |
| PRODUCER | Lawrence Weingarten | |
| SCREENWRITERS | Ruth Gordon, Gason Kanin | |
| Tracy and Hepburn star as married lawyers representing opposing sides of a controversial case about "the double standard." The battle of the sexes blazes hilariously during the trial, and a gun made of licorice helps to solve the couple's marital woes. | ||
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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Warner Bros., 1938
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone | |
| DIRECTORS | Michael Curtiz, William Keighley | |
| PRODUCERS | Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke | |
| SCREENWRITERS | Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller | |
| This Technicolor swashbuckler, starring Flynn as the rogue of Sherwood Forest, features Wolfgang Korngold's stirring score and a spectacular clash of swords between Flynn and Rathbone. | ||
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AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning | |
| DIRECTOR | Leo McCarey | |
| PRODUCER | Jerry Wald | |
| SCREENWRITERS | Delmer Daves, Leo McCarey | |
| Romance is kindled between Grant and Kerr on a trans-Atlantic cruise, and the pair promise to meet six months later at the top of the Empire State Building. Hankies are required for the second half of the film when Kerr is seriously injured in a traffic accident and cannot meet Grant. | ||
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THE AFRICAN QUEEN
United Artists, 1951
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn | |
| DIRECTOR | John Huston | |
| PRODUCER | S.P. Eagle (Sam Spiegel) | |
| SCREENWRITERS | James Agee, John Huston | |
| Spinster Hepburn and drunkard boat captain Bogart battle each other and an uncharted river in this unlikely love story set in Africa at the outbreak of World War I. | ||
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ALIEN
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt | |
| DIRECTOR | Ridley Scott | |
| PRODUCERS | Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill | |
| SCREENWRITER | Dan O'Bannon | |
| Unbeknownst to the crew of a space ship, it has taken on an alien stowaway that incubates in some humans and hunts the rest. In space, no one can hear you scream. | ||
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ALL ABOUT EVE
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Gary Merrill | |
| DIRECTOR | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | |
| PRODUCER | Darryl F. Zanuck | |
| SCREENWRITER | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | |
| Fasten your seat belts for a bumpy ride in this story of an aging actress who is undone by a young, ambitious fan. Sophisticated performances by Davis, Sanders and Baxter shine in this scathing look at the world of the theater. | ||
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Universal, 1930
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray | |
| DIRECTOR | Lewis Milestone | |
| PRODUCER | Carl Laemmle, Jr. | |
| SCREENWRITERS | George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson, Del Andrews | |
| This anti-war drama, based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel, follows the lives of a group of fresh-faced German boys who join the Army during World War I. | ||
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ALL THAT JAZZ
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange | |
| DIRECTOR | Bob Fosse | |
| PRODUCER | Robert Alan Aurthur | |
| SCREENWRITERS | Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse | |
| Fosse's semi-autobiographical film has Scheider as a famed choreographer whose high-life of drugs and relentless work bring him face to face with death, beautifully embodied by Lange. "It's showtime!" | ||
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ALL THE KING'S MEN
Columbia, 1949
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge | |
| DIRECTOR | Robert Rossen | |
| SCREENWRITER | Robert Rossen | |
| The life of Senator Huey Long inspired this political drama featuring a compelling performance by Crawford as Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren's story about a once-honest politician corrupted by power. | ||
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ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Warner Bros., 1976
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards | |
| DIRECTOR | Alan J. Pakula | |
| PRODUCER | Walter Coblenz | |
| SCREENWRITER | William Goldman | |
| Redford and Hoffman are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post journalists who uncovered the Watergate break-in cover-up and exposed a political scandal that would deeply scar America's trust in the political system. | ||
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AMADEUS
Orion, 1984
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham | |
| DIRECTOR | Milos Forman | |
| PRODUCER | Saul Zaentz | |
| SCREENWRITER | Peter Shaffer | |
| Abraham's Salieri declares war against the heavens for speaking through the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, played by Hulce. Flashbacks illuminate the mad, energetic brilliance of Mozart, and Salieri's struggle with his own mediocrity. | ||
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AMERICAN GRAFFITI
Universal, 1973
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Harrison Ford | |
| DIRECTOR | George Lucas | |
| PRODUCER | Francis Ford Coppola, Gary Kurtz | |
| SCREENWRITERS | Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, George Lucas | |
| A group of high school graduates decide their next steps in this comical coming-of-age story set in an innocent California town in the early 1960s. The film featured a grown-up Howard and made stars of Ford and Dreyfuss. | ||
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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
M-G-M, 1951
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant | |
| DIRECTOR | Vincente Minnelli | |
| PRODUCER | Arthur Freed | |
| SCREENWRITER | Alan Jay Lerner | |
| A Gershwin score and the dancing of Kelly and Caron are at the center of this fluid, visually beautiful love story set in post-war Paris. The ballet sequence, filmed in the style of Impressionist paintings, is legendary. | ||
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THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY
M-G-M, 1964
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| PRINCIPAL CAST | James Garner, Julie Andrews | |
| DIRECTOR | Arthur Hiller | |
| PRODUCER | Martin Ransohoff | |
| SCREENWRITER | Paddy Chayefsky | |
| Garner is a cynical American admiral's aide who refuses to idealize war and go into battle, but is forced to take part in the D-Day landing in this satirical anti-war film. Andrews is his stalwart English girlfriend who admires heroes and refuses to succumb to the temptation of American Hershey bars. | ||