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• Director
• Frank Woodruff
• Writers
• Jerome Cady(screen play)
• James Gow(story)
• Arnaud d'Usseau(story)
• Stars
• Kent Taylor
• Wendy Barrie
• George Barbier

In this romance, a wealthy young heiress marries an avaricious foreigner to please her father and then dreams of finding herself an all-American boy who falls in love her and not her fortune. Not surprisingly, her marriage falls apart and soon afterward, she falls in love with and marries a fellow who works in the necktie department of her daddy's store. She does not tell her husband that she is going to someday going to someday inherit the store. Meanwhile, her husband gets a series of promotions and is happy until the truth slips out. Enraged, he immediately goes to work for the company's biggest rival. Fortunately for the marriage, that is not the end of the story.

• Stars
• Jonathan Winters
• Eddie Safranski
• Dorothy Collins

Comedy and variety.

• Director
• Victor Schertzinger
• Writers
• Don Hartman(screen play)
• Frank Butler(screen play)
• Harry Hervey(based on a story by)
• Stars
• Bing Crosby
• Bob Hope
• Dorothy Lamour

The story goes that such stars as Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie and Burns & Allen had turned down The Road to Singapore before the leading roles went to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. More conventionally structured than future "Road" efforts, the film casts Crosby as Josh Mallon, the irresponsible son of shipping magnate Joshua Mallon IV (Charles Coburn). Though the elder Mallon wants his son to enter the family business and marry longtime fiancee Gloria Wycott (Judith Barrett), Josh would rather pal around with his carefree sailor buddy Ace Lannigan (Bob Hope). On the eve of his wedding, Josh escapes with Ace to Singapore, where the two of them cook up a get-rich-quick scheme involving a highly unreliable spot remover. The boys' friendship is strained when they both fall in love with cabaret dancer Mima (Dorothy Lamour), who is on the lam from her jealous partner Caesar (Anthony Quinn). Hiding out from the authorities, the three protagonists wind up in the midst of a native ceremony, where Ace and Mima rescue Josh from a hasty marriage to a local temptress. When Gloria shows up to drag Josh back to the altar, Mima nobly gives him up, pretending to be in love with Ace. Eventually, however, big-hearted Ace realizes that Mima belongs with Josh, and thus concocts another scheme to lure his pal back to the Far East. Though many of the earmarks of the "Road" series are evident in Road to Singapore (the "patty-cake" bit, the presence of such guest stars as Hope's radio stooge Jerry Colonna, etc.), the film lacks the spontaneous quality of the later Hope-Crosby-Lamour starrers. Even so, it's an awful lot of fun, especially when Bob and Bing team up on the novelty number "Captain Custard" and Dorothy croons her requisite "moon and stars" romantic ballads.

Reallized by Daniele Nannuzzi

Music by Francesco Cara



A tribute from Vittorio Storaro, Luciano Tovoli, Gabriele Lucci, Daniele Nannuzzi and Bob Fisher to the Art of Cinematography.

• Director
• George Schaefer
• Writers
• Arthur Miller
• Alexander Jacobs(screenplay by)
• Henrik Ibsen(stage play written by)
• Stars
• Steve McQueen
• Bibi Andersson
• Charles Durning

Steve McQueen served as both star and executive producer for this film version of the drama by Henrik Ibsen, which was adapted by Arthur Miller. When Dr. Thomas Stockmann (McQueen) discovers that a tannery has dangerously polluted a hot spring in his community, he feels that it is his duty to share this information with the people. However, a number of prominent citizens (including Stockmann) intended to use the hot springs as the centerpiece of a health spa, and Tom's brother Peter (Charles Durning), the town's mayor, contends that a clean-up of the spring would be impractical, expensive, and would scare off potential customers. Stockmann is still eager to share his story with the community, but the town council is determined to silence him, and in time they turn public opinion against him. The outcry against Stockmann's activism eventually ruins his medical practice and drives a wedge between Stockmann and his wife Catherine (Bibi Andersson). While An Enemy of the People became a pet project for McQueen, it received indifferent reviews and poor distribution, opening in only a few scattered American cities several years after it was completed.

• Director
• A. Edward Sutherland
• Writers
• John Twist(story)
• Barry Trivers(screenplay)
• Emmet Lavery(screenplay)
• Stars
• James Ellison
• Jane Wyatt
• Kent Taylor

RKO Radio's Army Surgeon is something of a rarity: A WW2 drama set mostly in WW1. On board a transport ship bound for Europe, middle-aged Army nurse Jane Wyatt flashes back to her experience in the first world conflict. Foremost in her recollections is the romantic triangle involving Wyatt, military doctor James Ellison, and devil-may-care aviator Kent Taylor. Back in the present-1942, that is-Wyatt and one of her two former sweethearts are joyously reunited. Posting a loss of $46,000 (surprising, for a war picture) Army Surgeon was RKO's final 1942 release, ending the year on a sour note.

• Director
• Ray Enright
• Writers
• Fred Niblo Jr.(screen play)
• Bertram Millhauser(screen play)
• George S. Kaufman(based on a play by)
• Stars
• Eddie Albert
• Rosemary Lane
• Wayne Morris

An Angel from Texas was the fourth of five film versions of the venerable George S. Kaufman stage farce The Butter and Egg Man. The plot remains basically the same, with a wealthy but incredibly naïve young sprout coming to the rescue of a near-bankrupt Broadway musical. This time around, Eddie Albert stars as bumptuous Texan Mr. Colman, who uses his mother's life savings to finance the New York stage debut of his hometown sweetheart Lydia (Rosemary Lane). Fast-talking producers McClure (Wayne Morris) and Allen (Ronald Reagan) persuade Colman to invest his money in their upcoming production, a turgid drama that has all the earmarks of a quick failure. But through a series of wacky complications, many of them engineered by Allen's level-headed wife Marge (played by Reagan's real-life spouse Jane Wyman) the show is transformed into a Hellzapoppin-style surprise hit. Amusingly, reviewers in 1940 referred to Ronald Reagan's comedy style as "conservative"!

• Director
• Bertrand Mandico
• Writer
• Bertrand Mandico
• Stars
• Pauline Jacquard
• Elina Löwensohn
• Anne Lise Maulin

An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an actress, the other a director, Apocalypse and Joy, are on the verge of concluding their love affair.

• Director
• Sam Wood
• Writers
• Robert Pirosh(screen play)
• George Seaton(screen play)
• George Oppenheimer(screen play)
• Stars
• Groucho Marx
• Chico Marx
• Harpo Marx

A Day at the Races was the Marx Brothers' follow-up to their incomparable A Night at the Opera. Groucho Marx is cast as Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a veterinarian who passes himself off as a human doctor when summoned by wealthy hypochondriac Emily Upjohn (Margaret Dumont) to take over the financially strapped Standish Sanitarium. Chico Marx plays the sanitarium's general factotum, who works without pay because he has a soft spot for its owner, lovely Judy Standish (Maureen O'Sullivan). Harpo Marx portrays a jockey at the local racetrack, constantly bullied by the evil Morgan (Douglass Dumbrille), who will take over the sanitarium if Judy can't pay its debts. After several side-splitting routines--Chico selling Groucho tips on the races, Chico and Harpo rescuing Groucho from the clutches of femme fatale Esther Muir, all three Marxes conducting a lunatic "examination" of Margaret Dumont--the fate of the sanitarium rests on a Big Race involving Hi-Hat, a horse belonging to the film's nominal hero, Allan Jones. Virtually everything that worked in "Opera" is trotted out again for "Races", including a hectic slapstick finale wherein the Marxes lay waste to a public event. What is missing here is inspiration; perhaps this is due to the fact that MGM producer Irving Thalberg, whose input was so essential to the success of "Opera", died during the filming of "Races". Even so, Day at the Races made more money than any other previous Marx Brothers film--the result being that MGM, in the spirit of "they loved it once", would continue recycling Races' best bits for the studio's next three Marx vehicles.

• Director
• Bobby Connolly
• Writer
• Crane Wilbur(original screenplay)
• Stars
• Sybil Jason
• Marcia Ralston
• Matthew 'Stymie' Beard(uncredited)

Warner Bros. short about a little girl and a racehorse, featuring cameos by such stars as Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson, Olivia de Havilland and Al Jolson.

• Director
• Lesley Selander
• Writers
• John K. Butler(screenplay)
• Earle Snell(screenplay)
• Stars
• Gene Autry
• Champion Jr.
• Lynne Roberts

A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan song for Republic Pictures, lovingly restored by UCLA and Gene Autry Entertainment in 2001. Swindled out of their savings, Gene and the Cass County Boys mistakenly get mixed up in a bank robbery. The local police chief (James Flavin) let them go, however, hoping the hicks will lead him to the stolen 100,000 dollars. And so they do, right to a dude ranch in the none-too-quiet town of Serenity. With Sterling Holloway supplying the comic relief as a vacationing hypochondriac, Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys perform Autry's own "The Merry-Go-Roundup" and "Good Old-Fashioned Hoedown"; "Goin' Back to Texas" by Carson J. Robison; and "You're the Moment of a Lifetime" by Sergio de Karlo and Kay Charles (in both Spanish and English).

• Director
• Buster Keaton
• Writers
• Paul Gerard Smith(adapted by: from the 1923 stage success of the same name)
• Al Boasberg(adapted by: from the 1923 stage success of the same name)
• Charles Henry Smith(adapted by: from the 1923 stage success of the same name)
• Stars
• Buster Keaton
• Snitz Edwards
• Sally O'Neil

Battling Butler has to be the strangest of Buster Keaton's silent features. Based on the musical comedy of the same name, the film casts Keaton as wimpy millionaire Alfred Butler, who goes on a vacation in the mountains in the company of his faithful valet (Snitz Edwards). While communing with nature, Alfred falls in love with a beautiful young girl (Sally O'Neil), who barely acknowledges his existence. Without his master's knowledge, the valet tries to smooth the path of romance by telling the girl that Alfred is, in reality, boxing champion Battling Butler (Francis McDonald). The real champ, a mean-spirited sort, gets wind of this deception and decides to allow Alfred to continue the charade, fully intending to mop the floor with the puny millionaire in the boxing ring. But on the night of the big fight, Alfred suddenly gets tired of being pushed around and turns into a savage opponent, leaving the bullying Butler positively groggy. At this point our hero discovers that the girl would have loved him whether he was Battling Butler or not, and all ends well. Played as traditional Keaton comedy for most of its running time, Battling Butler goes dramatic with a vengeance in the climactic fight scene, with Keaton really giving his ring opponent a going over. The final scene is all the more powerful because it is so completely unexpected; if it surprises today's audiences, one can only imagine the effect it had on Buster Keaton's fans way back in 1926.

• Director
• Ray Nazarro
• Writers
• Charles R. Marion(screenplay)
• George W. George(screenplay)
• Frank L. Moss(adaptation)
• Stars
• Rory Calhoun
• Barbara Bates
• John Dehner

A wandering cowboy endeavors to save a wagon train from an Apache attack in this western that is based upon a Louis L'Amour novel. The settlers are frightened and flee. They all end up dead, but for one little girl, whom the cowboy saves.

• Director
• Richard Thorpe
• Writers
• Dorothy Cooper(screenplay)
• Dorothy Kingsley(screenplay)
• Aleen Leslie(characters)
• Stars
• Wallace Beery
• Jane Powell
• Elizabeth Taylor

In this lightweight musical comedy, Judy Foster (Jane Powell) and Carol Pringle (Elizabeth Taylor) are teenagers and best friends who find their loyalties tested when they both fall for the same good-looking older man, Stephen Andrews (Robert Stack). This situation is particularly troublesome for Judy, who already has a boyfriend, "Oogie" Pringle (Scotty Beckett), Carol's brother. Meanwhile, the girls join forces for a little sleuthing when Judy discovers that her father, Melvin Foster (Wallace Beery), has been spending time with Brazilian bombshell Rosita Conchellas (Carmen Miranda). Judy and Carol suspect hanky-panky, but actually Melvin is taking dancing lessons from Rosita as a surprise for his wife. A Date With Judy certainly offers your only opportunity to see Wallace Berry dance the mambo, and it also features a guest appearance by Xavier Cugat and his band.

• Director
• Lars von Trier
• Writer
• Lars von Trier
• Stars
• Willem Dafoe
• Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm

This enormously controversial psychodrama-cum-horror film from Danish enfant terrible Lars von Trier charts the degeneration of a marriage into apocalyptic violence, chaos, and insanity following an unthinkable domestic tragedy. The film opens with a prologue. While they make love in their apartment on a snowy winter afternoon, a husband and wife known only as "He" and "She" (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) fail to keep an eye on their young toddler. In a horrific turn of events, the child wanders over to an open window, entranced by the snow cascading down, and falls two stories to his death. Von Trier then divides the remainder of the film into four chapters, beginning with "Grief." In that segment, the woman finishes a month's hospitalization, and accuses her husband of apathy over the child's death, but proceeds to take responsibility for it herself; he calmly and rationally guides her through this process. In the second segment, "Pain," she confesses to him that she's most terrified of their property in the forest, because she spent time with her son there over the preceding summer; as a form of therapy, he takes her to that locale on a wilderness retreat. She appears to grow more calm and rational over their first days in that milieu. Yet the recovery, it seems, was only illusory, and the subsequent two chapters, "Despair (Gynocide)" and "The Three Beggars," depict the woman's shocking and abrupt regression into unbridled insanity, culminating with grotesque sexual violence against herself, gruesome acts of destruction against her husband, and an apocalyptic climax.

• Director
• Roy Mack
• Writers
• Cyrus Wood(story)
• A. Dorian Otvos(story)
• Cliff Hess(songs)
• Stars
• Jerry Bergen
• The Rollickers
• Novia

Comedy short in which four convicts escape from a chain gang. Shortly thereafter, changes are made at the prison, because a blue ribbon commission will be investigating conditions there. The changes include steak every day for dinner and stage shows for entertainment. After reading about this, the four escapees plead with the warden to take them back in. Or was this all a dream?

• Director
• Larry Clark
• Writers
• Eddie Little(based on the book by)
• Christopher Landon
• Stephen Chin
• Stars
• James Woods
• Melanie Griffith
• Vincent Kartheiser

Following the acclaim for his 1995 Kids debut, Larry Clark directed this drug-crime drama, set in the Midwest of the '70s. Teen junkie Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) shares an apartment with his girlfriend Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and pal Danny (Branden Williams). Bobbie is injured during an encounter with a security guard but regains his health under the supervision of his dynamic drug-dealer uncle Mel (James Woods). After a successful robbery of speed from an out-of-town doctor's clinic, Bobby, Rosie, Mel, and Mel's melancholy gal Sid (Melanie Griffith) encounter gunplay in a drug deal gone sour. With Mel and Bobby both wounded, they retreat to the headquarters of a gun merchant known as the Reverend (James Otis). When Rosie loses her baby, she slips into a depression and more drug use. Mel recovers and begins planning another heist, but the group is beginning to unravel. Shown at 1998 film fests (Venice, Toronto).

• Director
• J. Lee Thompson
• Writers
• William Roberts
• J. Lee Thompson(story)
• Stars
• Charles Bronson
• Lisa Eilbacher
• Andrew Stevens

Charles Bronson at 63 or so, continues his vigilante persona in this crime drama about a Richard Speck-style killer who knifes young nurses to death. There is no doubt that the film exploits both the heinous 1966 Speck murder of eight nurses in Chicago and an audience's willingness to go along with the Bronson character, Leo Kessler, when he uses illegal means to entrap criminals. The captured killer, Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) manages to go free because of red tape and the need to wait for the outcome of his insanity plea. When he returns to his murderous predilection, Kessler takes action to permanently stop him.

• Director
• Edward H. Griffith
• Writers
• Grace Sartwell Mason(original story)
• Katharine Brush(original story)
• Virginia Van Upp(screenplay)
• Stars
• Fred MacMurray
• Madeleine Carroll
• Allan Jones

My Love for Yours is the alternate title for Paramount's Honeymoon in Bali. Madeline Carroll pulls a "Rosalind Russell" as a hard-shelled businesswoman with no time for romance. Fred MacMurray is determined to melt down her resistance, hoping to do so during a vacation to Nassau. Carroll almost capitulates, but backs off when she mistakenly believes that MacMurray loves someone else. Contrary to the film's "other" title, the situation is resolved not in Bali but in cold old New York. Allan Jones, stuck with a standard-issue "other man" role, is at least given a few opportunities to sing. Scandanavian actress Osa Massen makes her American debut in the comparatively thankless role of the gal who doesn't land MacMurray.

• Directors
• Roy Ward Baker
• Alvin Rakoff(fired after ten days shooting)
• Writers
• Jimmy Sangster(screenplay)
• Bill MacIlwraith(from the stage play by)
• Stars
• Bette Davis
• Sheila Hancock
• Jack Hedley

Bette Davis plays a wealthy one-eyed widow (complete with designer eye patch) who gathers her sons together once a year to celebrate the death of the husband she detested. Mama Davis couldn't be more castrating if her last name was Bobbitt: Her grown sons (it's been 10 years since daddy died) are essentially weaklings who seem to secretly covet the emotional stranglehold she has over them. When she can't exert her authority of her sons by normal means, Davis blackmails them with her knowledge of the skeletons in their closets -- and in the case of her eldest son, the women's undies in his dresser drawers.

• Director
• W.S. Van Dyke
• Writers
• William Anthony McGuire(based on the play by)
• Guy Bolton(based on the play by)
• Frances Marion(uncredited)
• Stars
• Nelson Eddy
• Eleanor Powell
• Frank Morgan

More burdened with leaden production numbers than plot, Rosalie took Sigmund Romberg and George Gershwin's 1928 Broadway hit, threw out most of the songs, including "How Long Has This Been Going On?," but retained the spindly story of the incognito Princess Rosalie of Romanza (Eleanor Powell), who falls head-over-heels in love with All-American Dick Thorpe (Nelson Eddy), although she finds him conceited at first. But Dick gallantly flies to Romanza where the crooning Charles Lindbergh lands in the middle of yet another comic opera revolution. Rosalie, of course, is engaged to someone else, but after a series of misadventures and a colossal closing number, the star-crossed lovers decide to settle down together in democratic America. Cole Porter was hired to write a new score and Eleanor Powell, Nelson Eddy, and newcomer Ilona Massey perform "I've Got a Strange New Rhythm in My Heart," "Why Should I Care?," "Spring Love is in the Air," "It's all Over but the Shouting," "Who Knows?," "To Love and Not to Love," and, most memorably, "In the Still of the Night."

• Director
• Lars von Trier
• Writer
• Lars von Trier
• Stars
• Jens Albinus
• Peter Gantzler
• Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

Lars von Trier's black comedy The Boss of It All (Direktøren for Det Hele) concerns an IT company owner who -- in need of a figurehead to "hide behind" when confronted with employee problems -- invented the personage of a CEO during the startup period for his corporation. The scheme worked for a surprisingly long period, but when the time arrives to sell the business, massive problems arise -- for the prospective buyers insist on only negotiating with the CEO, in person. Thus, the owner further extends the ruse, by hiring a down-and-out actor to impersonate the chief officer. With Direktøren for Det Hele, von Trier uses a new means of filmmaking for this film: Automavision, whereby filming is done with an "automatic randomized camera" that selects the shots. It became a means for Von Trier to "clean up" his approach to directorial work and reconnect with his own love of filmmaking.

• Director
• Eva Husson
• Writer
• Eva Husson(screenplay)
• Stars
• Finnegan Oldfield
• Marilyn Lima
• Lorenzo Lefèbvre

Laetitia (Daisy Broom) and George (Marilyn Lima), two teen girls living in Biarritz, France, flirt with classmates Alex (Finnegan Oldfield) and Nikita (Fred Hotier). Desperate to hold Alex's attention after a fling, Laetitia stages group-sex parties at his unsupervised home. Directed by Eva Husson.

• Director
• Vincent Sherman
• Writers
• Leonard Spigelgass(screenplay)
• Edwin Gilbert(screenplay)
• Leo Rosten(story)
• Stars
• Humphrey Bogart
• Conrad Veidt
• Kaaren Verne

Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving when Gloves tries to find out what's holding up his favorite restaurant's daily shipment of cheesecake. Paying a call on the bakery, Gloves stumbles into a Nazi spy ring, masterminded by Conrad Veidt. Mixed up in all this is nightclub singer Kaaren Verne, whose loyalties are in question in her early scenes but who turns out to be as true-blue as the patriotic Gloves. Combining a quick wit with quicker fists, Gloves and his "mob" thwart the Nazis before they're able to skip the country. The cast is a movie buff's dream, ranging from Jane Darwell as Bogart's mom to Peter Lorre as a cynical Nazi flunkey to William Demarest, Frank McHugh, Phil Silvers and Jackie Gleason as Bogie's favorite cohorts. The film's best scene would have us believe that Bogart could confound a gang of erudite Nazis with a steady stream of Manhattan slang. One shudders to think how leaden All Through the Night would have been had George Raft accepted the role of Gloves Donahue.

• Director
• Anatole Litvak
• Writers
• Rachel Field(by)
• Casey Robinson(screen play)
• Stars
• Bette Davis
• Charles Boyer
• Jeffrey Lynn

An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a once-notorious European scandal. Star Bette Davis, playing Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, is first seen as a French schoolteacher in a 19th century American seminary. When her supervisor, Reverend Henry Mortyn Field (Jeffrey Lynn), has questions to ask about her tainted past, Henriette relates her story in flashback. She had been hired by French duke De Praslin (Charles Boyer) to be the governess for his children. De Praslin's wife (Barbara O'Neil) was insanely jealous, so much so she inadvertently threw De Praslin and Henriette together. Henriette was willing to leave rather than cause more discord, but the influential wife vengefully refused to write a letter of recommendation (a bravura scene). Later, the impoverished Henriette was arrested as an accomplice in the murder of De Praslin's wife. The latter's position in French society stirred up volatile political ramifications, with Henriette innocently in the center of the storm. De Praslin committed suicide, exonerating Henriette on his deathbed, but she had already been condemned in the court of public opinion. Disgraced, she left for America to start life anew, which brings the story back to the present. Unable to continue running away from herself, Henriette confesses her past indiscretions to her students -- who promptly forgive her. Casey Robinson had a hell of a job adapting Rachel Field's cumbersome novel, but, by golly, he pulled it off. The performances in All This and Heaven Too are enhanced immeasurably by the lush Max Steiner musical score.

• Director
• Gavin Wiesen
• Writer
• Seth W. Owen
• Stars
• Lio Tipton
• Emile Hirsch
• J.K. Simmons

A cutthroat businessman (J.K. Simmons) grows worried when he can't get in touch with his daughter (Analeigh Tipton), and asks her slacker ex-boyfriend (Emile Hirsch) to help him search for her. Over the course of a wild day and night, the pair bond as they scour Los Angeles and follow a series of clues regarding the young woman's whereabouts.

• Director
• Doug Tenaglia
• Writer
• Susan Cinoman
• Stars 
• Keir Dullea, Mia Dillon, Sachi Parker

Two girls party wildly on the night of their high school graduation while the marriages of their parents unravel in suburban kitchens.

• Director
• Charlton Heston
• Writers
• Federico De Urrutia(uncredited)
• Charlton Heston(adapted for the screen by)
• William Shakespeare(play)
• Stars
• Charlton Heston
• Hildegard Neil
• Eric Porter

Charleton Heston directed, wrote, and starred in this adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.

• Director
• Max Ophüls
• Writers
• Louise de Vilmorin(novel)
• Marcel Achard(screenplay)
• Max Ophüls(screenplay)
• Stars
• Charles Boyer
• Danielle Darrieux
• Vittorio De Sica

Max Ophüls' masterpiece stars Danielle Darrieux as the titular Madame Louise de..., who in the film's opening scenes is forced to discreetly sell a pair of earrings, a gift from her military officer husband Andre (Charles Boyer), in order to make good on her debts. After she claims the earrings to be lost, the story of their possible theft hits the newspapers, prompting the jeweler who bought them (Jean Debucourt) to secretly sell them back to Andre, who then gives him to his mistress Lola (Lia Di Leo) as she prepares to leave for a holiday in Constantinople. There, the earrings again change hands as Lola pawns them to cover her gambling losses. They are then purchased by Donati, an Italian diplomat (Vittorio de Sica) on his way to France to meet with Andre. Of course, the earrings soon find their way back to Louise.

• Director
• Mervyn LeRoy
• Writers
• Liam O'Brien(screenplay)
• Max Catto(novel)
• Stars
• Spencer Tracy
• Frank Sinatra
• Kerwin Mathews

Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel Gregoire Aslan and Charlie Bernie Hamilton) -- lands on the island; Father Doonan (Tracy) manages to enlist their (reluctant) aid in working at a children's hospital. When the island falls victim to a series of earthquakes, Father Doonan and the convicts work together to evacuate the hospital staff and the children. Harry, the least cooperative of the prisoners, becomes a hero during a volcanic eruption by going back to rescue the priest, who with convict Charlie has been holding a bridge in order to allow the others to escape. Father Doonan and the two convicts are killed, but all the children are rescued. Blighted by bad special effects and ponderous direction, Devil at Four O'Clock is less interesting than the behind-the-scenes rumors concerning the friction between Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra.

• Director
• William Wyler
• Writers
• John Fowles(novel)
• John Kohn(screenplay)
• Stanley Mann(screenplay)
• Stars
• Terence Stamp
• Samantha Eggar
• Mona Washbourne

John Fowles's novel The Collector was written in the form of a dual diary, one kept by a kidnapper, the other by his victim. The film is told almost exclusively from the point of view of the former, a nerdish British bank clerk named Freddy Clegg (Terence Stamp). A neurotic recluse whose only pleasure is butterfly collecting, Clegg wins $200,000 in the British Football Pool. He purchases a huge country estate, fixes up its cellar with all the comforts of home, then kidnaps Miranda (Samantha Eggar), an art student whom he has worshipped from afar. The demented Clegg doesn't want ransom, nor does he want to rape the girl: he simply wants to "collect" her. She isn't keen on this, and tries several times to escape. After several weeks, Clegg and Miranda grow increasingly fond of one another, and Clegg promises to let her go. When time comes for the actual release, however, Clegg decides that Miranda hasn't completely come around to his way of thinking and changes his mind, leading to a further series of unfortunate events.

• Director
• Ray Cozine
• Writer
• George Burns(story)
• Stars
• George Burns
• Gracie Allen
• Chester Clute(uncredited)

Comedy short in which George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.

• Director
• John Guillermin
• Writers
• Richard Yates(screenplay)
• William Roberts(screenplay)
• Roger O. Hirson(story)
• Stars
• George Segal
• Robert Vaughn
• Ben Gazzara

This bleak World War II action drama, directed by John Guillermin, concerns the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen -- the last remaining span across the Rhine into Germany during the final days of the war in 1945. German General von Brock (Peter Van Eyck) is ordered to blow up the bridge rather than let it fall into American hands. Von Brock is reluctant to carry out the orders, however, because that would mean abandoning 50,000 soldiers to the on-coming Americans. Putting Major Paul Kreuger (Robert Vaughn) in charge, he tells him to try to hold the bridge as long as possible. Meanwhile, U.S. Brigadier General Skinner (E.G. Marshall) is trying to trap the retreating Germans by making a push to the Rhine. Leading the offensive is Major Barnes (Bradford Dillman), an officer held in contempt by most of the men. Platoon leader Lieutenant Phil Hartman (George Segal) takes a particular dislike to him. Hartman is also at odds with Sergeant Angela (Ben Gazzara), a scavenger who likes to steal from the corpses of dead German soldiers. As the Americans push onward to Remagen, the Germans step up their resistance. When the Americans reach Remagen, Krueger unsuccessfully attempts to blow up the bridge and throws all his soldiers into a full-assault on the Americans. Skinner orders that the American soldiers must push forward and take the bridge intact. In the face of heavy German opposition, Hartman and Angelo find that they must put aside their differences and fight for a common cause -- to take the bridge at all costs.

• Director
• Aubrey Scotto
• Writer
• Harry W. Conn(story)
• Stars
• Tom Howard
• George Shelton

Comedy short in which Vaudeville comic Tom Howard meets a man about to shoot himself and takes him into his store to try and talk him out of it. But Tom may prove to be crazier than the guy he's trying to help.

• Director
• Michael Delmer
• Stars
• Franklin Pangborn
• Tom Kennedy
• Dorothy Granger

Comedy short in which two marines stationed in the Chinese port of Hang Chow decide to swear off women and join the lighthouse patrol.

• Director
• Albert Ray
• Writer
• Rube Welch
• Stars
• Karl Dane
• George K. Arthur
• Marjorie Beebe

Comedy short in which, once again finding themselves out of work, Karl and George get a job assembling pre-fab houses -- with disastrous results.

• Director
• Norman Taurog
• Star
• Willie West and McGinty

Comedy short in which slapstick comics Willie West and McGinty cause havoc at a construction site as they attempt to "work."

• Director
• Guy Green
• Writers
• Richard Gregson(original treatment for the screen)
• Michael Craig(original treatment for the screen)
• Bryan Forbes
• Stars
• Richard Attenborough
• Pier Angeli
• Michael Craig

Richard Attenborough stars in this British drama as Tom Curtis, an ordinary man with a job in a factory. A new employee, Travers (Alfred Burke), begins complaining about conditions at the plant and stirs up disharmony among his fellow workers. Tom thinks that there's something fishy about Travers and his methods, and when Travers decides to call a wildcat strike, Tom refuses to participate and makes a point of standing his ground. However, Travers and his ideas have attracted a groundswell of support in the factory, and Tom soon finds himself on the outs with his fellow employees as Travers drifts off to make trouble at another factory. Tom, however, still has to deal with the angry reprisals of the men, and his wife Anna (Pier Angeli) doesn't understand why he continues to hold so unpopular an opinion at the expense of his safety and well-being.

• Director
• Monte Brice
• Star
• O'Donnell & Blair

A bizarre comedy short in which knockabout comics Charles O'Donnell and Jack Blair show up to repair a woman's house, but spend more time wrecking things and doing pratfalls. There's even a pantomime horse that causes trouble!

• Director
• George Marshall
• Writers
• Horace McCoy(screenplay)
• Lewis Meltzer(screenplay)
• Michael Blankfort(screenplay)
• Stars
• William Holden
• Glenn Ford
• Claire Trevor

Texas was Columbia Pictures' lighthearted (and frankly more enjoyable) follow-up to its 1940 big-budget western Arizona. William Holden and Glenn Ford, looking collectively 28 years old, play a couple of ex-Confederate soldiers who get into all sorts of trouble in a wide-open Texas town. The two split up, whereupon Ford takes a job on Joseph Crehan's ranch; by and by, he falls in love with Crehan's daughter Clare Trevor. Meanwhile, Holden has joined a gang of rustlers headed by town dentist Edgar Buchanan (in real life, Buchanan had been a practicing dentist, retaining his license well into the sixties just in case things slowed down in Hollywood). Ex-friends Ford and Holden confront each other again when Holden tries to steal the cattle that Ford is driving across the state to Abilene. Complicating matters is the fact that Holden, too, carries a torch for Trevor. Though packed with action and suspense, Texas never loses its subliminal sense of humor, a fact that can be attributed to its director, slapstick comedy veteran George Marshall.

• Director
• Harry Edwards
• Writers
• Frederick Palmer(story)
• George Cleethorpe(story)
• Stars
• Chester Conklin
• Mack Swain
• Estelle Bradley(uncredited)

Comedy short in which two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as policemen. Their first assignment? Capture the #1 criminal on the "Ten Most Wanted" list.

• Director
• Richard Quine
• Writers
• Ian Bernard(screenplay)
• Charles Dederich Sr.(idea)
• Barry Oringer(story)
• Stars
• Chuck Connors
• Stella Stevens
• Alex Cord

The difficulties faced by drug addicts attempting to kick their habits provide the basis of this gritty, realistic drama that was filmed at a real rehab house in Santa Monica, California. The story centers on Zankie (Alex Cord), an ex-con who is having trouble following the strict rules of the house. Soon he finds himself involved in an affair with another inmate, an ex-hooker (Stella Stevens). She is only supposed to monitor and assist with his recovery, not get emotionally involved. When Zankie gets into a fight with another patient (Chuck Connors) both he and the girl leave the center. Soon after leaving, he begins looking for more drugs and dies of an overdose in a cheap hotel. The ex-hooker then returns to the rehab house to resume her own treatment. Synanon, the model for the rehab-house of this 1965 feature, was a large ex-addict-run (and ex-con-run) enterprise which expanded its operations steadily over the next decade. It was famous for its harsh "tough-love" policies and its high success rate and would have continued its high-profile role in the rehab industry except that it became embroiled in several scandals in the late 1970s, effectively closing its doors well before the Reagan era.