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I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Warner Bros., 1932

PRINCIPAL CAST Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell
DIRECTOR Mervyn LeRoy
PRODUCER Hal B. Wallis
SCREENWRITERS Howard J. Green, Brown Holmes
This scathing attack on the brutality of Southern chain gangs illustrates the social awareness films of the 1930s. It ends with Muni's matter-of-fact explanation of the way he lives on the run. "I steal."

IMITATION OF LIFE
Universal, 1959

PRINCIPAL CAST Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Juanita Moore
DIRECTOR Douglas Sirk
PRODUCER Ross Hunter
SCREENWRITERS Eleanore Griffin, Allan Scott
Turner is an ambitious actress and single mother who has little time for her daughter. Her life is the opposite of Moore, her African-American friend and housekeeper, whose devotion to her own daughter never falters, but whose heart is broken when the daughter passes for white.

IN COLD BLOOD
Columbia, 1967

PRINCIPAL CAST Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
DIRECTOR Richard Brooks
PRODUCER Richard Brooks
SCREENWRITER Richard Brooks
Truman Capote's "non-fiction" novel about two drifters who murder a Kansas farm family is brought to the screen in documentary style.

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
United Artists, 1967

PRINCIPAL CAST Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
DIRECTOR Norman Jewison
PRODUCER Walter Mirisch
SCREENWRITER Stirling Silliphant
Steiger's southern sheriff and Poitier's northern detective Virgil Tibbs join forces to solve a murder in this film about racial tension in America.

INTOLERANCE
Wark Producing Corp., 1916

PRINCIPAL CAST Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
DIRECTOR D.W. Griffith
PRODUCER D.W. Griffith
SCREENWRITER D.W. Griffith
Griffith's masterful intertwining of several stories, set in different historical times, showed the cinematic heights that motion pictures had attained within twenty years of their inception.

INTRUDER IN THE DUST
M-G-M, 1949

PRINCIPAL CAST David Brian, Claude Jarman, Jr., Juano Hernandez
DIRECTOR Clarence Brown
PRODUCER Clarence Brown
SCREENWRITER Ben Maddow
Hernandez plays a proud African-American man falsely accused of murder, whose young friend saves him from being lynched in a Mississippi town.

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Allied Artists, 1956

PRINCIPAL CAST Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter
DIRECTOR Don Siegel
PRODUCER Walter Wanger
SCREENWRITER Daniel Mainwaring
McCarthy is a small town doctor who discovers to his horror that everyone around him is being replaced by emotionless doubles hatched out of pods from outer space. Even at the film's climax, no one on the busy freeway heeds McCarthy's frenetic warning, "They're coming!"

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
Columbia, 1934

PRINCIPAL CAST Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
DIRECTOR Frank Capra
PRODUCER Harry Cohn
SCREENWRITER Robert Riskin
This battle of the sexes love story between a runaway heiress who shows her legs to hitch a ride and an unemployed newspaperman who separates their beds at night with a blanket known as the "walls of Jericho," was an unqualified success and still provides inspiration for many comedies.

IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
United Artists, 1963

PRINCIPAL CAST Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Durante
DIRECTOR Stanley Kramer
PRODUCER Stanley Kramer
SCREENWRITERS Tania Rose, William Rose
The chase is on to find the big "W" the spot where Durante has hidden $350,000 before literally kicking the bucket. Tracy plays the knowing cop who follows the wacky fortune hunters a who's who of American comedy legends.

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
RKO, 1946

PRINCIPAL CAST James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers
DIRECTOR Frank Capra
PRODUCER Frank Capra
SCREENWRITERS Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
This Christmas classic features a complex performance by Stewart as a suicidal man redeemed by friendship and the recognition that each person's life touches many others. Remember every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.


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