Take a plot with high-stakes illegal gambling and hints of a past, potentially explosive, romance between a man and his bosses' new wife, combine it with some of the finest photography of its time (still noteworthy today). Add Rita Hayworth's …
Stage Door
Wealthy society girl Terry Randall yearns to make it on Broadway, and she's willing to live humbly if that's the road to getting her name in lights. She lands a plum role, but her success means failure for last year's …
His Girl Friday
Ace reporter Hildy Johnson returns to the newsroom to inform her ex-husband she's quitting. But sparks fly when the two engage in verbal showdowns.
Now and Forever
Now and Forever, 1934, Paramount Pictures. Starring Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple. Directed by Henry Hathaway. B&W, 83 minutes. A feckless con man in constant need of cash, Jerry Day’s (Gary Cooper) latest get-rich-quick scheme involves the daughter he …
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man, 1933, Universal Pictures. Starring Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart. Directed by James Whale. B&W, 71 minutes. On a snowy winter evening, an oddly clad man, his face wrapped in cloth and his eyes covered by dark goggles, stops …
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 1946, Paramount Pictures. Starring Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas. Co-starring Lizabeth Scott. Directed by Lewis Milestone. B&W, 116 minutes. Three childhood friends are linked forever by the truth and lies behind a crime …
My Sister Eileen (1942)
My Sister Eileen, 1942, Columbia Pictures. Starring Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair. Directed by Alexander Hall. B&W, 96 minutes. Ruth Sherwood (Rosalind Russell), a reporter for a Columbus daily newspaper, has written one of her finest reviews. In it …
The More the Merrier
An improbable housing situation combines with instant attraction in this tale of an exacting young woman whose future is securely in place—until she does her patriotic duty.
The Third Man
The Third Man, 1949, British Lion Films. Starring Joseph Cotten. Orson Welles, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard. Directed by Carol Reed. B&W, 105 minutes. Novelist Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) has arrived in post-war Vienna to take advantage of a job offer …
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, 1963, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Starring Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Ronny Howard. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Color, 118 minutes. Recently widowed Tom Corbett (Glenn Ford) and his precocious son, Eddie (Ronny Howard) are making their way through life …
Classic for a Reason 