The Wild Heart (1952)
The Wild Heart (1952) A re-editing of Gone to Earth (1950) after a disagreement and court case between director Michael Powell and producer David O. Selznick. Selznick's changes are mainly:- (1) Adding a prologue. (2) Adding scenes explaining things, often by putting labels or inscriptions on them.
Duel in the Sun (1946)
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969)
Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969) The overweight debutante daughter of the world's wealthiest couple falls in with a gang of tripped out, skydiving pseudo-reactionary pop stars, who take their beliefs of the American ideal to profoundly impossible heights.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) Tom Rath lives in Connecticut and commutes to work every day in Manhattan. He's happily married and has a loving wife and three children. Money is a bit tight and when the opportunity arises, he applies for a public relations job with a major television networ
Beat the Devil (1953)
Beat the Devil (1953) A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded wi
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
A Farewell to Arms 1957 Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls in love with his attending nurse, the British Catherine Barkley In the midst of war and some intrigue, the pair struggles to stay together
Carrie (1952)
Carrie (1952) Carrie boards the train to Chicago with big ambitions. She gets a job stitching shoes and her sister's husband takes almost all of her pay for room and board. Then she injures a finger and is fired. This is the 1890s. Charles Drouet, a salesman she met on the train, comes to her rescue
Tender Is the Night (1962)
Tender Is the Night (1962) A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover.
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Portrait of Jennie (1948) Eben Adams is a talented but struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a pretty but odd young girl named Jennie Appleton appears and strikes up
Gone to Earth (1950)
Gone to Earth (1950) Hazel Woodus is a beautiful but innocent country girl who loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. She is given a rough time by her father but can escape to run barefoot through the woods when her harsh life gets too much for her. It is there that she is f
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
The Song of Bernadette (1943) In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she
Since You Went Away (1944)
Since You Went Away (1944) While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the
Cluny Brown (1946)
Cluny Brown (1946) Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate. While there, she becomes friendly with Adam Belinski, a charming Czech refugee. She also becomes interested in a dull shopkeeper named Mr. Wilson. Belinski soon falls in love
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) A married American woman has gotten involved with another man while visiting relatives in Rome. She decides that the time has come to break off the relationship, and she makes plans to return home to her husband. But she soon realizes that she is not at all su
Love Letters (1945)
Love Letters 1945 When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didnt write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back The writer of the letters fell in lov
Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
Good Morning, Miss Dove 1955 Miss Dove is a strict disciplinary, plus a well respected teacher, who has inspired her students to individual greatness One day during class, Miss Dove experiences great pain in her back, but continues with the class After class she asks one of her students who is stayi
Madame Bovary (1949)
Madame Bovary 1949 French author Gustave Flaubert is on trial for writing the indecent novel Madame Bovary To prove that he wrote a moral tale, Flaubert narrates the story of beautiful Emma Bovary, an adulteress who destroyed the lives of everyone she came in contact with
Ruby Gentry (1952)
Ruby Gentry 1952 Despite their different social class Ruby and Boake grew up together in the 1950s North Carolina Ruby Corey lived with her poor family in the swamps while Boake Tackman lived in a mansion with servants As long as their friendship stayed within the socially acceptable limits no one o