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Film Genres - Dewey 791.4

Adventure Genre: ADVENTURE FILMS

1924 - The Thief of Bagdad. (138 minutes) United Artists - Director: Raoul Walsh. Screenplay: Lotta Woods. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong.

Raoul Walsh: What Price Glory? (1926); Sadie Thompson (1928); The Big Trail (1930); The Bowery (1933); High Sierra (1941); Objective Burma (1945); White Heat (1949)

1927 - Wings. (130 minutes) Paramount - Director: William A. Wellman. Screenplay: Hope Loring, Harry D. Lighton; from John M. Saunders's story. Cast: Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper.

William Wellman: Wings (1927); Public Enemy (1931); Nothing Sacret (1937); A Star Is Born (1937); The Ox Bow Incident (1942); Roxie Hart (1942); The Story of G. I. Joe (1945); The High and the Mighty (1954); Track of the Cat (1954)

1932 - Tarzan the Ape Man. (100 minutes) MGM - Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Screenplay: Cyril Hume adapted the "Tarzan" series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan.

W. S. Van Dyke: White Shadows in the South Seas (1928); Trader Horn (1930); Tarzan the Ape Man (1932); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); The Thin Man (1934); San Francisco (1936); Sweethearts (1938)

1935 - Captain Blood. (98 minutes) Warners - Director: Michael Curtiz. Screenplay: Casey Robinson adapted the Rafael Sabatini novel. Cast: Errol Flyn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone.

1938 - The Adventures of Robin Hood. Warners - Director: Michael Curtiz. Screenplay: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone.

Michael Curtiz: Noah's Ark (1928); Mammy (1930); Doctor X (1932); The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933); British Agent (1934); Front Page Woman (1935); Captain Blood (1935); The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936); The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938); Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); The Sea Hawk (1940); The Sea Wolf (1941); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); Casablanca (1942); Jim Thorpe, All American (1951); The Jazz Singer (1953); White Christmas (1954); Young at Heart (1955); King Creole (1958)

1939 - Only Angels Have Wings. (120 minutes) Columbia - Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, from a story by Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell.

Howard Hawks: The Dawn Patrol (1930); Scarface (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); Barbary Coast (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); His Girl Friday (1940); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Red River (1948); Monkey Business (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rio Bravo (1958); Hatari (1962); Man's Favourite Sport (1964); El Dorado (1966)

1943 - Air Force. (124 minutes) Warners - Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols. Cast: John Garfield, Gig Young, Harry Carey.

Howard Hawks: The Dawn Patrol (1930); Scarface (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); Barbary Coast (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); His Girl Friday (1940); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Red River (1948); Monkey Business (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rio Bravo (1958); Hatari (1962); Man's Favourite Sport (1964); El Dorado (1966)

1949 - Sands of Iwo Jima. (109 minutes) Republic - Director: Alan Dwan. Screenplay: Harry Brown, James Edward Grant, from a Harry Brown story. Cast: John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker.

Alan Dwan: Robin Hood (1922); The Iron Mask (1929); Heidi (1937); Sands of Iwo Jima (1949); The Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)

1950 - King Solomon's Mines. (102 minutes) MGM. Director: Compton Bennett/Andrew Marton. Screenplay: Helen Deutsch, based on the H. Rider Haggard novel. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson.

Compton Bennett: The Seventh Veil (1945); That Forsyte Woman (1949); King Solomon's Mines (1950)

1951 - The African Queen. United Artists. Director: John Huston. Screenplay: James Agee and John Huston adapted the C. S. Forester novel. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn.

John Huston: The Maltese Falcon (1941); The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1947); Key Largo (1948); The Asphplt Jungle (1950); The Red Badge of Courage (1951); The African Queen (1952); Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (1957); The Babarian and the Geisha (1958); The Misfits (1960); Freud (1962); The Night of the Iguana (1964); Fat City (1972); Judge Roy Bean (1972)

1952 - Scaramouche. (115 minutes) MGM - Director: George Sidney. Screenplay: Ronald Miller, George Froeschel, based on a Rafael Sabatini novel. Cast: Steward Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer.

1970 - Airport. (137 minutes) Universal - Director: George Seaton. Screenplay: Seaton from a novel by Arthur Hailey. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, George Kennedy.

George Seaton: The Song of Bernadette (1943); Miracle on 34th Street (1947); The Country Girl (1954); Airport (1969)

1972 - The Poseidon Adventure. (117 minutes) 20th Century Fox - Director: Ronald Neame. Screenplay: Stirling Silliphant, Wendell Mayes, based on the Paul Gallico novel. Cast: Gene Hackman, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters.

Ronald Neame: The Card (1952); Tunes of Glory (1960); Gambit (1966); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1968); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Odessa File (1975)

1977 - Star Wars. (121 minutes) 20th Century Fox - Director: George Lucas. Screenplay: George Lucas. Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness.

George Lucas: American Graffiti (1973); Star Wars (1977) The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark. (115 minutes) Paramount - Director: Steven Spielberg. Screenplay: Lawrence Kasdan, from a Leorge Lucas and Philip Kaufman story. Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott.

Steven Spielberg: Amblin' (1969); Duel (1971); Sugarland Express (1973); Jaws (1975); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Adventure Genre: THE WESTERN

1930 - Billy the Kid. Director: King Vidor.

1939 - Stagecoach. (97 minutes) Wanger/United Artists - Producer/Director: John Ford. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, from the story Stage to Lordsburg by Ernest Haycox. Cast: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Donald Meek, Louise Platt, George Bancroft, Berton Churchill.

John Ford: The Iron Horse (1924 silent film); Men Without Women (1930); Arrowsmith (1931); The Lost Patrol (1934); Judge Priest (1934); The Whole Town's Talking (1935); The Informer (1935); Steamboat Round the Bend (1935); The Hurricane (1937); Stagecoach (1939); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); Tobacco Road (1941); How Green Was My Valley (1941); My Darling Clementine (1946); She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949); The Quiet Man (1952); The Sun Shines Bright (1954); Mister Roberts (1955); The Searchers (1956); The Last Hurrah (1958); Gideon's Day (1959); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); Donovan's Reef (1963)

1940 - The Westerner. (97 minutes) United Artists - Director: William Wyler. Screenplay: Jo Swerling and Niven Busch, from the story by Stuart N. Lake. Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone.

William Wyler: The Good Fairy (1935); Dodsworth (1936); Dead End (1937); Jezebel (1938); Wuthering Heights (1939); The Letter (1940); The Little Foxes (1941); Mrs. Miniver (1942); The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); The Heiress (1949); Detective Story (1951); Carrie (1951); Roman Holiday (1953); The Friendly Persuasion (1956); The Big Country (1958); Ben Hur (1959); The Children's Hour (1962); Funny Girl (1968)

1946 - Duel in the Sun. Director: King Vidor.
1946 - My Darling Clementine.

1948 - The Paleface. Cast: Bob Hope.

1948 - Red River. (134 minutes) United Artists - Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Borden Chase, Charles Schnee. Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, Sr., John Ireland, Noah Beery, Jr., Harry Carey, Jr., Chief Yowlachie, Shelley Winters.

1949 - Colorado Territory.

1949 - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Bend of the River.

1952 - High Noon. (84 minutes) United Artists - Director: Fred Zinneman. Screenplay: Carl Foreman, from the story "Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham. Cast: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly.

Fred Zinneman: The Seventh Cross (1944); Act of Violence (1949); The Men (1950); High Noon (1952); From Here to Eternity (1953); Oklahoma (1955); The Nun's Story (1958); The Sundowners (1960); A Man For All Seasons (1966) The Day of the Jackal (1973); Julia (1977)

1953 - The Naked Spur.

1953 - Shane. (117 minutes) Paramount - Director: George Stevens. Screenplay: A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon de Wilde, Walter Jack Palance, Ben Johnson, Elisha Cook, Jr., Ellen Corby.

1955 - The Far Country. Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: James Stewart, Walter Brennan.

1956 - The Searchers. (119 minutes) Warner Home Video - Director: John Ford. Screenplay: Frank S. Nugent, based on the novel by Alan LeMay. Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Harry Carey, Jr.

1957 - Gunfight at the O. K. Corral. (122 minutes) Paramount - Director: John Sturges. Screenplay: Leon Uris. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland, Earl Holliman, Frank Faylen, Dennis Hopper.

1958 - Man of the West.

1959 - Rio Bravo. (140 minutes) Warner Brothers/Armada - Producer/Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, from a short story by B. H. McCampbell. Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson.

Howard Hawks: The Dawn Patrol (1930); Scarface (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); Barbary Coast (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); His Girl Friday (1940); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Red River (1948); Monkey Business (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rio Bravo (1958); Hatari (1962); Man's Favourite Sport (1964); El Dorado (1966)

1960 - The Alamo. (202 minutes) United Artists - Director: John Wayne. Screenplay: James Edward Grant. Cast: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Richard Boone, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Joan O'Brien, Denver Pyle.

1969 - The Magnificent Seven. (129 minutes) United Artists - Director: John Sturges. Screenplay: William Roberts. Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, Vladimir Sokoloff.

1969 - The Wild Bunch. (145 minutes) Warner Brothers-Seven Arts - Director: Sam Peckinpah. Screenplay: Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah, from a story by Green and Roy N. Sickner. Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, Ben Johnson.

Howard Hawks: The Dawn Patrol (1930); Scarface (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); Barbary Coast (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); His Girl Friday (1940); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Red River (1948); Monkey Business (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rio Bravo (1958); Hatari (1962); Man's Favourite Sport (1964); El Dorado (1966)

1962 - Ride the High Country. (94 minutes) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Director: Sam Peckinpah. Screenplay: N. B. Stone, Jr. Cast: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Star, Warren Oates.

1962 - How the West Was Won. (165 minutes) MGM - Director: John Ford ("The Civil War"); George Marshall ("The Railroad"); Henry Hathaway ("The Rivers" "The Plains" "The Outlaws"). Screenplay: James R. Webb. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reymolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Walter Brennan.

1969 - Two Mules for Sister Sara. Cast: Shirley MacLaine.

1969 - The Wild Bunch. (145 minutes) Warner Brothers - Director: Sam Peckinpah. Screenplay: Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah. Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, Ben Johnson.

1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. (110 minutes) 20th Century-Fox - Director: George Roy Hill. Screenplay: William Goldman. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Cloris Leachman.

1970 - Little Big Man. (150 minutes) National General/Cinema Center-Seven Arts - Director: Arthur Penn. Screenplay: Calder Willingham, based on Thomas Berger's novel. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Chief Dan George.

Arthur Penn: The Miracle Worker (1962); The Chase (1966); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Alice's Restaurant (1969); Little Big Man (1970)]
1971 - McCabe and Mrs. Miller. (121 minutes) 20th Century-Fox - Director: Robert Altman. Screenplay: Robert Altman and Brian McKay, based on the novel "McCabe" by Edmund Naughton. Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, Hugh Millais, Shelley Duvall. [Robert Altman: M*A*S*H (1970); McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971); Nashville (1975); Wedding (1978)

1973 - High Plains Drifter.
1973 - Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
1985 - Silverado. Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Screenplay: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast:

1988 - Young Guns.

1990 - Dances With Wolves. (181 minutes) Orion - Director: Kevin Costner. Screenplay: Michael Blake. Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Robert Pastorelli.

1996 - Unforgiven. (131 minutes) Warner Brothers - Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenplay: David Webb Peoples. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimez Woolvett, Frances Fisher.

Adventure Genre: THE GANGSTER FILM

1930 - Little Caesar. (77 minutes) First National - Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay: Francis Edwards Faragoh; adaptation by Robert W. Lee; from a novel by W. R. Burnett. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glenda Farrell, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas Jackson.
1931 - The Public Enemy. (83 minutes) Warner Brothers - Director: William Wellman. Story: Kubec Glasman and John Bright; adaptation by Harry Thew. Cast: James Cagney, Edward Woods, Donald Cook, Joan Blondell, Jean Harlow, Mae Clark.

William Wellman: Wings (1927); Public Enemy (1931); Nothing Sacret (1937); A Star Is Born (1937); The Ox Bow Incident (1942); Roxie Hart (1942); The Story of G. I. Joe (1945); The High and the Mighty (1954); Track of the Cat (1954)

1932 - Scarface: The Shame of a Nation. (99 minutes) United Artist - Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W. R. Burnett, and Ben Hecht; from a novel by Armitage Trail. Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, Boris Karloff, George Raft.

Howard Hawks: The Dawn Patrol (1930); Scarface (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); Barbary Coast (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); His Girl Friday (1940); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Red River (1948); Monkey Business (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rio Bravo (1958); Hatari (1962); Man's Favourite Sport (1964); El Dorado (1966)

1939 - The Roaring Twenties. (106 minutes) Warner Brothers - Director: Hal Wallis. Screenplay: Jerry Wald, Richard Macauley, and Robert Rossen; from a story by Mark Hellinger. Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn.

Hal Wallis: Little Caesar (1930); The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936); Jezebel (1938); King's Row (1942); Casablanca (1942); The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946); Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957); Sons of Katie Elder (1965); True Grit (1969); Rooster Cogburn (1975)

1941 - High Sierra. (100 minutes) Warner Brothers - Director: Raoul Walsh. Screenplay: John Huston and W. R. Burnett, from Burnett's nove. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Henry Travers, Arthur Kennedy, Alan Curtis, Barton MacLane, Henry Hull, Willie Best.

Raoul Walsh: What Price Glory? (1926); Sadie Thompson (1928); The Big Trail (1930); The Bowery (1933); High Sierra (1941); Objective Burma (1945); White Heat (1949)

1949 - White Heat. (114 minutes) Warner Brothers - Director: Raol Walsh. Screenplay: Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts; from a story by Virginia Kellogg. Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Wycherly, Virginia Mayo, Steve Cochran, Edmund O'Brien, John Archer.

Raoul Walsh: What Price Glory? (1926); Sadie Thompson (1928); The Big Trail (1930); The Bowery (1933); High Sierra (1941); Objective Burma (1945); White Heat (1949)

1967 - Bonnie and Clyde. (111 minutes) Warner Brothers - Director: Arthur Penn. Screenplay: David Newman and Robert Benton. Cast: Warren Beatty, Fate Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Dub Taylor, Denver Pyle, Evans Evans, Gene Wilder.

Arthur Penn: The Miracle Worker (1962); The Chase (1966); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Alice's Restaurant (1969); Little Big Man (1970)

1972 - The Godfather. (175 minutes) Paramount - Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Screenplay: Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppols; from a novel by Mario Puzo. Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, Diane Keaton.

Francis Ford Coppola: You're A Big Boy Now (1967); Finian's Rainbow (1968); Patton (1971); The Godfather (1972); American Graffiti (1973); The Godfather Part Two (1975); Apocalypse Now (1979)

1975 - The Godfather: Part II. (200 minutes) Paramount - Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo; from a novel by Puzo. Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Lee Strasberg, Michael V. Cazzo.

Francis Ford Coppola: You're A Big Boy Now (1967); Finian's Rainbow (1968); Patton (1971); The Godfather (1972); American Graffiti (1973); The Godfather Part Two (1975); Apocalypse Now (1979)

Adventure Genre: FILM NOIR
Film noir - - "Term used to describe those Hollywood films of the 40s and 50s which portrayed the dark and gloomy underworld of crime and corruption, films whose heroes as well as villains are cynical, disillusioned, and often insecure loners, inextricably bound to the past and unsure of apathetic about the future. In style and technique, there are night scenes and lighting that emphasizes deep shadows emphasizing fatalism. Dark tones, tense nervousness, doom-laden compositions and camera angles." Film Encyclopedia, Third Edition - page 456.

1951 - Ace in the Hole. � (The Big Carnival) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur.

Billy Wilder: The Major and the Minor (1942); Five Graves to Cairo (1943); Double Indemnity (1944); The Lost Weekend (1945); A Foreign Affair (1948); Sunset Boulevard (1950; Ace in the Hole (1951); Stalag 17 (1953); Sabrina (1954); The Seven Year Itch (1955); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); Witness for the Prosecution (1958); Some Like It Hot (1959); The Apartment (1960); One Two Three (1961); Irma La Douce (1963); Kiss Me Stupid (1964); The Fortune Cookie (1966); The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970); The Front Page (1974)

1950 - The Asphalt Jungle. Director: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe.

1956 - Autumn Leaves. Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles.

Robert Aldrich: Apache (1954); Vera Cruz (1954); Kiss Me Deadly (1955); Autumn Leaves (1956); Attack (1957); Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964); The Dirty Dozen (1966); The Longest Yard (1975)

Badlands. � 1973 Terrence Malick � Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates.
1955 - The Big Combo. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Earl Holliman.

Joseph H. Lewis: My Name Is Julia Ross (1945); So Dark the Night (1946); The Jolson Story (1946); The Undercover Man (1949); The Big Combo (1955); Terror in a Texas Town (1958)

1953 - The Big Heat. (89 minutes) Columbia. Director: Fritz Lang. Screenplay: Sydney Boehm. Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan.

Fritz Lang: Destiny (1921); Metropolis (1926); The Spy (1927); Fury (1936); You Only Live Once (1937); The Woman in the Window (1944); The Blue Gardenia (1952); The Big Heat (1953)

1949 - The Big Steal. Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Ramon Navarro.

Don Siegel: Hitler Lives (1945); The Big Steal (1949); Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954); Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Baby Face Nelson (1957); Madigan (1967); Coogan's Bluff (1968); Two Mules for Sister Sara (1969); Dirty Harry (1972); Charley Varrick (1973); The Shootist (1976); Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

1948 - Blood on the Moon. Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, Barbara BelGeddes, Phyllis Thaxter, Walter Brennan, Tom Tully.

Robert Wise: The Body Snatcher (1945); Blood on the Moon (1948); The Set-Up (1949); The House on Telegraph Hill (1951); The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); Desert Rats (1952); Executive Suite (1954); Run Silent Run Deep (1958); West Side Story (1961); Two for the Seesaw (1962); The Haunting (1963); The Sound of Music (1965); The Sand Pebbles (1966); The Andromeda Strain (1970); Audrey Rose (1977); Star Trek (1979)

1946 - The Blue Dahlia. Director: George Marshall. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix.

George Marshall: Destry Rides Again (1939); The Ghost Breakers (1940); Murder He Says (1944); The Blue Dahlia (1946); The Perils of Pauline (1947); Fancy Pants (1950); Scared Stiff (1953); Red Garters (1954); The Gazebo (1959); How the West Was Won (1962)

1947 - Body and Soul. Director: Robert Rossen. Cast: John Garfield, Lili Palmer, William Conrad.

Robert Rossen: The Roaring Twenties (1939); A Walk in the Sun (1945); Body and Soul (1947); All the King's Men (1949); The Hustler (1961)

1981 - Body Heat. (113 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Screenplay: Lawrence Kasden. Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, Mickey Rourke, Kim Zimmer.

1950 - Born to Be Bad. Director: Nicholas Bay. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Joan Leslie, Zachary Scott, Robert Ryan, Mel Ferrer.

1947 - Brute Force. (98 minutes) Universal-International. Director: Jules Dassin. Screenplay: Richard Brooks, from a story by Robert Patterson. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, Howard Duff, Art Smith.

Jules Dassin: Brute Force (1947); Naked City (1948); Thieves' Highway (1949); Riffi (1954); Never on Sunday (1960); Topkapi (1964)

1948 - Call Northside 777. Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: James Steward, Richard Conte, Lee. J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall.

Henry Hathaway: Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935); The House on 92nd Street (1945); 13 Rue Madeleine (1946); Rawhide (1951); Rommel, Desert Fox (1951); Niagara (1952); North to Alaska (1960); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); Nevada Smith (1966); True Grit (1969); Shootout (1972)

Cape Fear. � 1950 � J. Lee Thompson � Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Martin Balsam.

1950 - Charley Varrick. Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Sheree North.

Don Siegel: Hitler Lives (1945); The Big Steal (1949); Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954); Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Baby Face Nelson (1957); Madigan (1967); Coogan's Bluff (1968); Two Mules for Sister Sara (1969); Dirty Harry (1972); Charley Varrick (1973); The Shootist (1976); Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

1974 - Chinatown. (131 minutes) Paramount-Penthouse-The Long Road Productions. Director: Roman Polanski. Screenplay: Robert Towne. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Diane Ladd, John Hillerman.

Roman Polanski: Knife in the Water (1961); Repulsion (1965); Rosemary's Baby (1968); Chinatown (1974)

1951 - Cry Danger. Director: Robert Parrish. Cast: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, William Conrad.

Robert Parrish: Cry Danger (1951); The San Francisco Story (1952); Lucy Gallant (1955); Saddle the Wind (1958)

1950 - The Damned Don't Cry. Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Richard Egan.

Vincent Sherman: All Through the Night (1941); Mr. Skeffington (1945); Ice Palace (1960)

1947 - Dark Passage. Director: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead.

Delmer Daves: Destination Tokyo (1943); Dark Passage (1947); Broken Arrow (1950); The Hanging Tree (1959); Spencer's Mountain (1962); Youngblood Hawke (1964)

1947 - Dead Reckoning. Director: John Cromwell. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Wallace Ford.

John Cromwell: Of Human Bondage (1934); Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); Algiers (1938); Since You Went Away (1944); Anna and the King of Siam (1946); Dead Reckoning (1947); Caged (1950)

1945 - Detour. (68 minutes) Producers Releasing Corporation. Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. Screenplay: Martin Goldsmith. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Pat Gleason.

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Black Cat (1934); Bluebeard (1944); Detour (1946)

1949 - D. O. A.. (83 minutes) United Artists. Director: Rudolph Mate. Screenplay: Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Neville Brand.

Rudolph Mate: D.O.A. (1950); Union Station (1950); Branded (1950); The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)

1944 - Double Indemnity. (106 minutes) Paramount. Director: Billy Wilder. Screenplay: Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novel by James M. Cain. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Heather.

Billy Wilder: The Major and the Minor (1942); Five Graves to Cairo (1943); Double Indemnity (1944); The Lost Weekend (1945); A Foreign Affair (1948); Sunset Boulevard (1950; Ace in the Hole (1951); Stalag 17 (1953); Sabrina (1954); The Seven Year Itch (1955); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); Witness for the Prosecution (1958); Some Like It Hot (1959); The Apartment (1960); One Two Three (1961); Irma La Douce (1963); Kiss Me Stupid (1964); The Fortune Cookie (1966); The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970); The Front Page (1974)

1957 - Edge of the City. Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Ruby Dee.

Martin Ritt: Edge of the City (1956); No Down Payment (1957); The Long Hot Summer (1958); Hud (1963); The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965); Norma Rae (1979)

1959 - The 400 Blows. Director: Francois Truffaut. Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffray, Claire Maurier.

Francois Truffaut: Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959); Shoow the Pianist (1960); Jules and Jim (1961); Silken Skin (1964); Fahrenheit 451 (1966); La Nuit Americaine (1973); The Man Who Loved Women (1977)

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1971 - Get Carter. Director: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne.

Mike Hodges: Get Carter (1971); Terminal Man (1973)

1972 - The Getaway. Director: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Slim Pickens.

Sam Peckinpah: Ride the High Country (1962); Major Dundee (1965); The Wild Bunch (1969); Straw Dogs (1971); The Getaway (1972); Convoy (1978)

1946 - Gilda. Director: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready.

Charles Vidor: Blind Alley (1939); The Desperadoes (1943); Cover Girl (1944); Gilda (1946); Hans Christian Andersen (1952); The Joker is Wild (1957); A Farewell to Arms (1958)

1949 - Gun Crazy. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: John Dall, Peggy Cummins.

1949 - The Hidden Room. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown.

Edward Dmytryk: Golden Gloves (1940); Murder My Sweet (1944); Crossfire (1947); The Caine Mutiny (1954); Raintree County (1957); The Young Lions (1958); The Carpetbaggers (1963); Mirage (1965); Anzio (1968)

1941 - High Sierra. Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Cornel Wilde.

1988 - House of Games. Director: David Mamet. Cast: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna.

1949 - House of Strangers. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz � Edward G. Robinson, Richard Conte, Susan Hayward, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Debra Paget.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz: The Late George Aplye (1947); The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947); A Letter for Three Wives (1949); All About Eve (1950); The Barefoot Contessa (1954); Guys and Dolls (1955); The Quiet American (1957); Suddenly Last Summer (1959); Cleopatra (1963); The Honey Pot (1967); Sleuth (1972)

1958 - I Want to Live!. Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Susan Hayward, Virginia Vincent, Simon Oakland, Theodore Bikel.

1950 - In a Lonely Place. Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Art Smith.

1967 - In Cold Blood. Director: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, Paul Stewart, John Forsyth, Jeff Corey.

1952 - Kansas City Confidential. Director: Phil Karlson. Cast: Preston Foster, John Payne, Colleen Gray,Donna Drake, Jack Elam, Neville Brand.

1948 - Key Largo. Director: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Lionel Barrymore, Jay Silverheels.

1960 - Key Witness. Director: Phil Karlson. Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Pat Crowley, Johnny Nash, Corey Allen.

1946 - The Killers. (105 minutes) Universal. Director: Robert Siodmak. Screenplay: Anthony Veiller from a story by Ernest Hemingway. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Edmond O'Brien, William Conrad.

1956 - The Killing. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Vince Edwards, Colleen Gray, Marie Windsor.

1958 - King Creole. Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Elvis Presley, Walter Matthau, Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart, Vic Morrow.

1955 - Kiss Me Deadly. (105 minutes) United Artists. Director: Robert Aldrich. Screenplay: A. I. Bezzerides from the novel by Mickey Spillane. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Cloris Leachman.

1947 - Kiss of Death. Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Colleen Gray, Brian Donlevy.

1949 - Knock on Any Door. Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: John Derek, Humphrey Bogart, George Macready, Allene Roberts, Susan Perry, Mickey Knox, Dooley Wilson.

1944 - Laura. Director: Otto Preminger. Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams.

1941 - The Maltese Falcon. (100 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: John Huston. Screenplay: John Huston from the novel by Dashiell Hammett. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond.

1945 - Mildred Pierce. Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett, Ann Blythe, Veda Ann Borg, Butterfly McQueen.

1950 - Night and the City. (95 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Jules Dassin. Screenplay; Jo Eisinger. Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe.

1975 - Night Moves. Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Melanie Griffith

Arthur Penn: The Miracle Worker (1962); The Chase (1966); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Alice's Restaurant (1969); Little Big Man (1970)

1940 - Northwest Passage. Director: King Vidor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ruth Hussey, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Nat Pendleton.

1952 - On Dangerous Ground. Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond, Ed Begley, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross, Sumner Williams.

1954 - On the Waterfront. Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger,Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Leif Erickson.

1947 - Out of the Past. (94 minutes) RKO. Director: Jacques Toruneur. Screenplay: Geoggrey Homes, from his novel, "Build My Gallows High." Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb.

1953 - Pickup on South Street. Director: Samuel Fuller. Cast: Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Richard Kiley, Thelma Ritter.

1983 - Raging Bull. Director: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Robert DeNiro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci.

1955 - Rebel Without a Cause. Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo,Jim Backus, Corey Allen, Dennis Hopper, Ann Doran, Nick Adams, William Hopper.

1948 - Road House. Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Richard Widmark, Cornel Wilde, Ida Lupino, Celeste Holm.

1945 - Scarlet Street. (102 minutes) Universal. Director: Fritz Lang. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan.

1949 - The Set-Up. Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Sal Mineo, Eileen Heckart.

1943 - Shadow of a Doubt. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotton, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Wallace Ford, Hume Cronyn, Patricia Collinge.

Somebody Up There Likes Me.

1958 - Some Came Running. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Shirely MacLaine, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy.

1946 - The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck,Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott, Darryl Hickman, Judith Anderson.

1946 - The Stranger. Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Edward G. Robinson.

1951 - Strangers on a Train. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Marion Lorne, Patricia Hitchcock.

1954 - U>Suddenly. Director: Lewis Allen. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates.

1950 - Sunset Boulevard. Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Jack Webb.

Billy Wilder: The Major and the Minor (1942); Five Graves to Cairo (1943); Double Indemnity (1944); The Lost Weekend (1945); A Foreign Affair (1948); Sunset Boulevard (1950; Ace in the Hole (1951); Stalag 17 (1953); Sabrina (1954); The Seven Year Itch (1955); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); Witness for the Prosecution (1958); Some Like It Hot (1959); The Apartment (1960); One Two Three (1961); Irma La Douce (1963); Kiss Me Stupid (1964); The Fortune Cookie (1966); The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970); The Front Page (1974)

1947 - They Won't Believe Me. Director: Irving Pichel. Cast: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers.

1949 - Thieves' Highway. Director: Jules Dassin. Cast: Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Valentina Cortesa, Jack Oakie.

1980 - Tom Horn. Director: William Wiard. Cast: Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens.

1958 - Touch of Evil. (95 minutes) Universal-International. Director: Orson Welles. Screenplay: Orson Welles from the novel "Badge of Evil" by Whit Masterson. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Weaver, Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joanna Moore.

1952 - Turning Point. Director: William Dieterle. Cast: William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith, Ed Begley.

1954 - Vera Cruz. Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Jack Elam, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Buchinsky (Bronson).

1950 - Where Danger Lives. Director: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan.

1949 - White Heat. (114 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Raoul Walsh. Screenplay: Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran, Margaret Wycherly.

1954 - The Wild One. Director: Laslo Benedek. Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Lee Marvin.
1990 - After Dark, My Sweet.
1990 - Goodfellas.
1990 - The Grifters.
1992 - Basic Instinct. Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone.

1992 - Dead Again. Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson.

Adventure Genre: WORLD WAR II COMBAT FILMS

1942 - Stand By for Action. (109 minutes) MGM. Director: Roy Z. Leonard. Screenplay: George Bruce, Jean L. Balderston and Herman J. Mankiewicz. Cast: Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Charles Laughton, Walter Brennan.
1942 - Wake Island. (87 minutes) Paramount. Director: Joe Farrow. Screenplay: Frank Butler, W. R. Burnett. Cast: William Bendix, Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston.
1943 - Air Force. (124 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols. Cast: John Ridgely, James Brown, John Garfield, Harry Carey, George Tobias. [Howard Hawks: The Dawn Patrol (1930); Scarface (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); Barbary Coast (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); His Girl Friday (1940); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Red River (1948); Monkey Business (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rio Bravo (1958); Hatari (1962); Man's Favourite Sport (1964); El Dorado (1966)]
1943 - Bataan. (114 minutes) MGM. Director: Tay Garnett. Screenplay: Robert D. Andrews. Cast: Robert Taylor, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Robert Walker.
1943 - Destination Tokyo. (135 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Delmer Daves. Screenplay: Delmer Daves and Albert Malz. Cast: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Dane Clark, Alan Hale.
1943 - God Is My Pilot. (90 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Robert Florey. Screenplay: Peter Milne and Abem Finkle. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Alan Hale, Raymond Massey.
1943 - Guadalcanal Diary. (93 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Lewis Seiler. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti. Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Richard Jaeckel, William Bendix.
1943 - A Guy Named Joe. (120 minutes) MGM. Director: Victor Fleming. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, James Gleason.
1943 - Sahara. (97 minutes) Columbia. Director: Rudolph Mate. Screenplay: Zoltan Korda and John Howard Lawson. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rex Ingram.
1943 - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. (138 minutes) MGM. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson.
1944 - Marine Raiders. (91 minutes) RKO. Director: Harold Schuster. Screenplay: Warren Duff. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey.
1945 - Back to Bataan. (95 minutes) RKO. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Screenplay: Ben Barzman and Richard H. Landau. Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn.
1945 - Objective, Burma! (142 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Raoul Walsh. Screenplay: Ronald MacDougall and Lester Cole. Cast: Erroll Flynn, James Brown.
1945 - The Story of G. I. Joe. (109 minutes) United Artists. Director: William Wellman. Screenplay: Guy Endore, Leopold Atland, and Philip Stevenson. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Burgess Meredith.
1945 - They Were Expendable. (135 minutes) MGM. Director: John Ford. Screenplay: Frank Wead. Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Ward Bond.
1945 - A Walk in the Sun. (117 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Lewis Milestone. Screenplay: Robert Rossen. Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte.

1964 - Father Goose. Director: Ralph Nelson. Screenplay: Frank Tarloff, Peter Stone. Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard.

Adventure Genre: MYSTERY

Comedy Genres: SCREWBALL COMEDY

1934 - It Happened One Night. (105 minutes) Columbia. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, from the Samuel Hopkins story, "Night Bus." Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, James Thomas, Ward Bond.
1934 - The Thin Man. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy.
1934 - Twentieth Century. (91 minutes) Columbia. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, from their play, based on the play "Napoleon on Broadway." Cast: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns. [Howard Hawks: The Dawn Patrol (1930); Scarface (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); Barbary Coast (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); His Girl Friday (1940); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Red River (1948); Monkey Business (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rio Bravo (1958); Hatari (1962); Man's Favourite Sport (1964); El Dorado (1966)]
1936 - Libeled Lady. (98 minutes) Director: Jack Conway. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow. Summary: A New York newspaperman is faced with a $ 5 million libel suit from a wealthy heiress and attempts to countermaneuver with "an arranged marriage" that sets her up as a homewrecker. [SCREWBALL COMEDY] [NEW YORK CITY; LONDON, ENGLAND]
1936 - My Man Godfrey. (93 minutes) Universal. Director: Gregory LaCava. Screenplay: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch, from the Hatch novel. Cast: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Eugene Pallette, Allan Mowbray.
1936 - The Moon's Our Home. Cast: Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan.
1937 - Topper. (89 minutes) MGM. Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Screenplay: Jack Jerne, Eric Hatch, Eddie Moran, from the Thorne Smith novel "The Jovial Ghosts." Cast: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Arthur Lake.
1937 - The Awful Truth. (89 minutes) Columbia. Director: Leo McCarey. Screenplay: Vina Delmar, adaptation by Dwight Taylor of the Arthur Richman play. Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy.
True Confession. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Carole Lombard.
1938 - Bringing Up Baby. (102 minutes) RKO. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, Hager Wilde, from a Wilde story. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robinson, Fritz Feld. [Howard Hawks: The Dawn Patrol (1930); Scarface (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); Barbary Coast (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); His Girl Friday (1940); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Red River (1948); Monkey Business (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rio Bravo (1958); Hatari (1962); Man's Favourite Sport (1964); El Dorado (1966)]
1938 - The Mad Miss Manton. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck.
1939 - Midnight. Cast: John Barrymore, Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor.
1940 - The Front Page: His Girl Friday. Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell.
1940 - My Favorite Wife. (88 minutes) RKO. Director: Garson Kanin. Screenplay: Bela Spewack and Samuel Spewack, from a Bella and Samuel Spewack, Leo McCarey story. Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott.
1941 - Appointment for Love. Cast: Charles Boyer, Eugene Pallette.
1941 - Ball of Fire. (112 minutes). MGM. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Henry Travers.
1941 - The Lady Eve. (97 minutes) Paramount. Director: Preston Sturges. Screenplay: Preston Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, William Demarest.
1942 - The Palm Beach Story. (88 minutes) Paramount. Director: Preston Sturges. Screenplay: Preston Sturges. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee.
1942 - Woman of the Year. Director: George Stevens. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn.
1949 - Adam's Rib. Director: George Cukor. Screenplay: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

1952 - Monkey Business. (97 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Ben Hecht, I. A. Diamond, Charles Lederer, from a Harry Segall story. Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Howard Hawks. [Howard Hawks: The Dawn Patrol (1930); Scarface (1932); Twentieth Century (1934); Barbary Coast (1935); Bringing Up Baby (1938); His Girl Friday (1940); To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Red River (1948); Monkey Business (1952); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rio Bravo (1958); Hatari (1962); Man's Favourite Sport (1964); El Dorado (1966)]

Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS

1955 - Seven Year Itch. Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell.
1958 - Houseboat. (110 minutes) Director: Melville Shavelson. Cast: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer.
1959 - Some Like It Hot. Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe.
1964 - Send Me No Flowers. Cast: Doris Day, Rock Hudson.
1967 - Barefoot in the Park. Cast: Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Charles Boyer.
1967 - The Graduate. Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman.
1972 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask). Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser.
1972 - What's Up Doc. (94 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Screenplay: Buck Henry, Robert Benton, David Newman, from a Bogdanovich story. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton, Sorrell Book.
1981 - Arthur. (96 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Steve Gordon. Screenplay: Steve Gordon. Cast: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jill Eikenberry, Stephen Elliott.
1982 - Tootsie.
1982 - Victor/Victoria. Director: Blake Edwards. Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston.
1987 - Overboard. (112 minutes) MGM. Director: Garry Marshall. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell.
Ball of Fire.
1944 - Arsenic and Old Lace. Director: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair.
1963 - Sunday in New York. (105 minutes). Seven Arts. Director: Peter Tewksbury. Cast: Cliff Robertson, Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor, Robert Culp, Jim Backus.
1987 - Broadcast News. Director: James Brooks. Cast: Holly Hunt, William Hurt.
1988 - A Fish Called Wanda. Cast: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline.
1989 - War of the Roses. Director: Danny DeVito. Cast: Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas.
1989 - When Harry Met Sally. Cast: Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal.
1993 - Mrs. Doubtfire. Cast: Robin Williams, Sally Field.
1989 - Sleepless in Seattle. Cast: Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks.
1991 - Soapdish. Cast: Sally Field.
1992 - Housesitter.
1992 - Honeymoon in Vegas.

1995 - The American President. Director: Rob Reiner. Cast: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox.

Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY

1930 - So This Is London. (109 minutes) Fox Movietone. Director: John Blystone. Screenplay: Sonya Levien. Cast: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lumsden Hare.
1936 - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. (115 minutes) Columbia. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, from the Clarence Budington Kelland story, "Opera Hat." Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Douglas Dumbrille.
1939 - Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington. (125 minutes) Columbia. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Sidney Buchman, from the Lewis R. Foster story, "The Gentleman from Montana." Cast: Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey.
1941 - Meet John Doe. (135 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, from a Richard Connell and Robert Presnell story. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, James Gleason.
1942 - The Talk of the Town. (118 minutes) Columbia. Director: George Stevens. Screenplay: Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Coleman, Edgar Buchanan.
1946 - It's a Wonderful Life. (129 minutes) Liberty Films. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra, from the Philip Van Doren Stern story, "The Greatest Gift." Cast: Jimmy Steward, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers.
1947 - The Farmer's Daughter. (97 minutes) RKO. Director: H. C. Potter. Screenplay: Allen Rivkin, Laura Kerr, from a Juhni Tervataa play. Cast: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotton, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Harry Shannon.
1950 - Born Yesterday. (103 minutes) Columbia. Director: George Cukor. Screenplay: Albert Mannheimer, from the Garson Kanin play. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
1979 - The Electric Horseman. (120 minutes) Columbia. Director: Sydney Pollack. Screenplay: Robert Garland. Cast: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Willie Nelson, John Saxon.
1980 - Hero At Large. (98 minutes) MGM. Director: Martin Davidson. Screenplay: A. J. Carothers. Cast: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy.

1984 - Protocol. (96 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Herbert Ross. Screenplay: Buck Henry. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Gail Strickland.

Comedy Genres: PARODY

Silent Era

Mack Sennett's Teddy at the Throttle. (1916) Cast: Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery.
Buster Keaton's The Frozen North (1922)
Mack Sennett's Pride of Pikeville (1927) Cast: Ben Turpin.

1937 - Way Out West. (65 minutes) MGM. Director: James W. Horne. Screenplay: Charles Rogers, Felix Adler, James Parrott. Cast: Stan Laurel and Hardy, James Finlayson, Sharon Lynne, Rosina Lawrence.
1940 - My Little Chickadee. (83 minutes) Universal. Director: Edward Cline. Screenplay: Mae West, W. C. Fields. Cast: W. C. Fields, Mae West, Joseph Calleia, Margaret Hamilton, Fuzzy Knight.
1947 - My Favorite Brunette. (87 minutes) Paramount. Director: Elliott Nugent. Screenplay: Edmund Beloin, Jack Rose. Cast: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney, Jr. Cameos by Alan Ladd and Bing Crosby.
1948 - The Paleface. (91 minutes) Paramount. Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Screenplay: Edmund Hartman, Frank Tashlin. Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian.
1969 - Take the Money and Run. (85 minutes) Palomar. Director: Woody Allen. Screenplay: Woody Allen, Mickey Rose. Cast: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Jackson Beck.
1974 - Blazing Saddles. (93 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Mel Brooks. Screenplay: Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger. Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks.
1974 - Young Frankenstein. (108 minutes) Crossbow. Director: Mel Brooks. Screenplay: Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks. Cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyls, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Terri Garr.
1975 - Love and Death. (85 minutes) Jack Rollins, Charles H. Joffe Productions. Director: Woody Allen. Screenplay: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton.
1976 - Murder By Death. (94 minutes) Columbia. Director: Robert Moore. Screenplay: Neil Simon. Cast: Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith.
1980 - Airplane!. (88 minutes) Paramount. Screenplay/Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves.
1983 - The Man with Two Brains. (93 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Carl Reiner. Screenplay: Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, George Gipe. Cast: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict.

2001 - Scary Movie 2. (83 minutes) Cast: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Chris Masterson, Tim Curry, Tori Spelling, Chris Elliott.

Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR

1947 - Monsieur Verdoux. (122 minutes) United Artists. Director: Charles Chaplin. Screenplay: Charles Chaplin (from an idea by Orson Welles) Cast: Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, Isobel Elsom, Marilyn Nash.
1964 - Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. (93 minutes) Columbia. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George, based on Peter George's novel "Red Alert". Cast: Peter Sellers, Goerge C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, Tracy Reed.
1970 - M*A*S*H* . (116 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Robert Altman. Screenplay: Ring Lardner, Jr., based on Richard Hooker's novel. Cast: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo An Pflug.
1970 - Little Big Man. (150 minutes) National General/Cinema Center. Director: Arthur Penn. Screenplay: Calder Willingham, based on Thomas Berger's novel. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Chief Dan George.
1970 - Catch-22. (121 minutes) Paramount and Filmways. Director: Mike Nichols. Screenplay: Buck Henry, based on Joseph Heller's novel. Cast: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Arthur Garfunkel, Buck Henry, Jon Voight, Orson Welles.
1971 - Harold and Maude. (90 minutes) Paramount. Director: Hal Ashby. Screenplay: Colin Higgins. Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Charles Tyner.
1972 - Slaughterhouse-Five. (104 minutes) Universal. Director: George Roy Hill. Screenplay: Stephen Geller, based on Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s novel. Cast: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Valerie Perrine, Eugene Roche.
1976 - Network. (121 minutes) United Artists release of an MGM film. Director: Sidney Lumet. Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky. Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall.
1982 - Eating Raoul. (83 minutes) Independently made. Director: Paul Bartel. Screenplay: Richard Blackburn, Paul Bartel. Cast: Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltram, Buck Henry, John Parragon.

1985 - Brazil. (131 minutes) Universal. Director: Terry Gilliam. Screenplay: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown. Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Michael Palin.

Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY

1923 - Safety Last. (81 minutes) Hal Roach Studios. Director: Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. Screenplay: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis.
1925 - The Gold Rush. (82 minutes) United Artists. Director: Charlie Chaplin. Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin. Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Goergia Hale, Mack Swain.
1926 - The Strong Man. (75 minutes) First National Picture. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Arthur Ripley, Frank Capra, Hal Conklin, Robert Eddy. Cast: Harry Langdon, Mary Brown, Gertrude Astor, Arthur Thalasso.
1927 - The General. (74 minutes) United Artists. Director: Buster Keaton, Clyde Brickman. Screenplay: Al Boasberg, Charles Smith, from a Keaton/Brickman story. Cast: Buster Keaton, Marian Mack.
1933 - Duck Soup. (70 minutes) Paramount. Director: Leo McCarey. Screenplay: Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby. Cast: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Margaret Dumont.
1934 - It's A Gift. (73 minutes) Paramount. Director: Norman McLeod. Cast: W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Baby LeRoy.
1945 - Road to Utopia. (90 minutes) Paramount. Director: Hal Walker. Screenplay: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Benchley.
1948 - A Southern Yankee. (90 minutes) MGM. Director: Hal Walker. Screenplay: James Allardice, Martin Rackin. Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis.

1973 - Sleeper. (88 minutes) United Artists. Director: Woody Allen. Screenplay: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck.

The Fantastic: HORROR FILMS

1931 - Dracula. (75 minutes) Universal. Director: Tod Browning. Screenplay: Garrett Fort, from play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston and novel by Bram Stoker. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye.
1931 - Frankenstein. (71 minutes) Universal. Director: James Whale. Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Frederick Kerr, Edward Van Sloan, John Boles, Dwight Frye.
1932 - Freaks. MGM. Director: Tod Browning. Screenplay: Leon Gordon and Willis Goldbeck, from a story by Tod Robbins. Cast: Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles, Henry Victor, Leila Hyams, Roscoe Ates, Wallace Ford.
1933 - King Kong. (100 minutes) RKO. Director: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Screenplay: Ruth Rose and James Creelman, from story by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper. Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy.
1935 - Bride of Frankenstein. (80 minutes) Universal. Director: James Whale. Screenplay: William Hurlburt and John Balderston. Cast: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, O. P. Heggie, Dwight Frye, Valerie Hobson.
1942 - Cat People. (75 minutes) RKO. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Screenplay: DeWitt Bodeen. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Tom Conway, Alan Napier.
1951 - The Thing. (87 minutes) RKO/Winchester. Directors: Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby. Screenplay: Charles Lederer, from story by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cast: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Young.
1956 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (80 minutes) Allied Artists. Director: Don Siegel. Screenplay: Daniel Mainwaring, from "The Body Snatchers" by Jack Finney. Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Larry Gates, Sam Peckinpah, Richard Deacon.
1960 - Psycho. (109 minutes) Paramount/Shamley. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay: Joseph Stefano, from book by Robert Bloch. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Frank Albertson, Simon Oakland, Patricia Hitchcock.
1963 - The Birds. (120 minutes) Universal. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay: Evan Hunter, from story by Daphne du Maurier. Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette.
1968 - Night of the Living Dead. (90 minutes) Continental/Image 10. Director: George Romero. Screenplay: John A. Russo and George Romero. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Judith O'Dea, Russell Streiner, Karl Hardman, Duane Jones, Keth Wayne, Judith Ridley, Kyra Schon, Marilyn Eastman.
1973 - It's Alive. (91 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Larry Cohen. Screenplay: Larry Cohen. Cast: John, Sharon Farrell, James Dixon, Michael Ansara, Andrew Duggan, Guy Stockwell, William Wellman, Jr.
1974 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. (81 minutes) New Line/Bryanston/Vortex. Director: Tobe Hooper. Screenplay: Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel. Cast: Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Gunnar Hansen, Allen Danziger, Teri McMinn.

1981 - Ms. 45. (84 minutes) Rochelle/Navaron. Director: Abel Ferrara. Screenplay: Nicholas St. John. Cast: Zoe Tamerlis, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto.

The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION

1950 - Destination Moon. (91 minutes) Eagle-Lion. Director: Irving Pichel. Screenplay: Rip Van Ronkel, Robert A. Heinlein, and James O'Hanlon, loosely based on the novel "Rocketship Galileo" by Robert A. Heinlein. Cast: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers.
1951 - The Thing (From Another World). (87 minutes) Winchester/RKO. Director: Christian Nyby, with Howard Hawks (uncredited). Screenplay: Charles Lederer from the novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cast: Kennedy Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, Dewey Martin, James Arness.
1951 - The Day the Earth Stood Still. (92 minutes) Fox. Director: Robert Wise. Screenplay: Edmund H. North from the story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates. Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe, Hugh Marlow, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin.
1954 - Them!. (93 minutes) Warner Bros. Director: Gordon Douglas. Screenplay: Ted Sherdeman from a story by George Worthington Yates, adapted by Russell Hughes. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, James Whitmore, James Arness, Joan Weldon.
1956 - Forbidden Planet. (98 minutes) MGM. Director: Fred McLeod Wilcox. Screenplay: Cyril Hume from a story by Irving Block and Allen Adler and suggested by Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Earl Holliman.
1956 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (80 minutes) Allied Artists. Director: Don Siegel. Screenplay: Daniel Mainwaring with rewrites by Sam Peckinpah, based on Jack Finney's "The Bodysnatchers". Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Larry Gates, Virginia Christine.
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey. (138 minutes) MGM. Director: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Screenplay: Garrett Fort, from play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston and novel by Bram Stoker. Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, Douglas Rain, William Sylvester, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack.
1977 - Star Wars. (121 minutes) Fox. Director and Screenplay: George Lucas. Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushine, Alec Guiness, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, voice of James Earl Jones. (Followed by: 1980 - The Empire Strikes Back; 1983 - The Return of the Jedi).
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (135 minutes) Columbia. Director and Screenplay: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Terri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey, Bob Balaban.
1979 - Alien. (124 minutes) Fox. Director: Ridley Scott. Screenplay: Dan O'Bannion. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto. (Sequel: 1986 - Aliens.)
1979 - Star Trek - Motion Picture. (132 minutes) Paramount. Director: Robert Wise. Screenplay: Harold Livingston. Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Stephen Collins, Persis Khambatta. (Sequels: 1982 - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; 1984 - Star Trek III. The Search for Spock; 1986 - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
1982 - Blade Runner. (124 minutes) Ladd/Warner Bros. Director: Ridley Scott. Screenplay: Hampton Fancher and David Peoples from Philip Dick's novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, William Sanderson, Daryl Hannah, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, Brion James.
1982 - E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. (115 minutes) Universal. Director: Steven Spielberg. Screenplay: Garrett Fort, from play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston and novel by Bram Stoker. Cast: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert McNaughton, Drew Barrymore.
1984 - Starman. (115 minutes) Columbia. Director: John Carpenter. Screenplay: Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaekel.
1984 - Repro Man. (92 minutes) Universal. Director and Screenplay: Alex Cox. Cast: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Olivia Barash, Tracy Walter.
1984 - The Terminator. (108 minutes) Orion. Director: James Cameron. Screenplay: James Cameron and Gale Ann Hurd. Cast: Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1985 - Back to the Future. (116 minutes) Amblin/Universal. Director: Robert Zemeckis. Screenplay: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover.

The Fantastic: FANTASY

1902 - A Trip to the Moon. (one reel) Star Films. Director: Georges Melies. Screenplay: George Melies. Cast: uncredited.
1924 - Thief of Bagdad. (11,230 feet) United Artists. Director: Raoul Walsh. Screenplay: Lotta Woods, from a story by Elton Thomas. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Anna May Wong.
1933 - Berkeley Square. (87 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Frank Lloyd. Screenplay: Sonya Levien, from a play by John L. Balderston. Cast: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor, Irene Browne.
1934 - Death Takes A Holiday. (78 minutes) Paramount. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson, Gladys Lehman, and Walter Ferris, from a play by Alberto Casella of the same name. Cast: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Sir Guy Standing, Katherine Alexander, Gail Patrick.
1937 - Lost Horizon. (118 minutes) Columbia. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, from a novel by James Hilton of the same name. Cast: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell.
1937 - Lost Horizon. (118 minutes) Columbia. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, from a novel by James Hilton of the same name. Cast: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo.
1939 - The Wizard of Oz. (101 minutes) MGM. Director: Victor Fleming. Screenplay: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Wolfe, from the novel by L. Frank Baum of the same name. Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton.
1941 - Here Comes Mr. Jordan. (93 minutes) Columbia. Director: Alexander Hall. Screenplay: Seton I. Miller, Sidney Buchman from a play by Harry Segall of the same name. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason.
1943 - A Guy Named Joe. (118 minutes) MGM. Director: Victor Fleming. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo, based on an original story by Charles Sprague, David Boehm, and Frederick H. Brennan. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore.
1946 - It's a Wonderful Life. (129 minutes) RKO. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Frank Capra, based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern. Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Horace Travers, Beulah Bondi.
1947 - The Miracle on 34th Street. (96 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: George Seaton. Screenplay: George Seaton. Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gween, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood.
1948 - Beauty and the Beast. (93 minutes) Discina. Director: Jean Cocteau. Screenplay: Jean Cocteau, based on a story by Madame Leprince de Beaumont. Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre, Nane Germon, Mila Parely.
1948 - Portrait of Jennie. (101 minutes) Selznick International. Director: William Dieterle. Screenplay: Paul Osborn and Peter Berneis, based on the novel of the same name by Robert Nathan. Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish.
1964 - Mary Poppins. (140 minutes) Walt Disney Studio. Director: Robert Stevenson. Screenplay: Bill Walsh, from a book of the same name by P. L. Travers. Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Elsa Lanchester, Ed Wynn.
1977 - Star Wars. (119 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: George Lucas. Screenplay: George Lucas. Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, voice of James Earl Jones.
1978 - Superman. (142 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Richard Donner. Screenplay: Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, and Robert Benton, from a story by Mario Puzo. Cast: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Red Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Margot Kidder.
1981 - Excalibur. (140 minutes) Orion. Director: John Boorman. Screenplay: John Boorman and Rospo Pallenberg, based on "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory. Cast: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey, Nicol Williamson, Robert Addie.
1982 - E. T., the Extra-Terrestrial. (120 minutes) Universal. Director: Steven Spielberg. Screenplay: Melissa Mathison. Cast: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert McNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote.

1983 - Splash. (111 minutes) Buena Vista. Director: Ron Howard. Screenplay: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, and Bruce Jay Friedman from a story of the same name by Brian Grazer. Cast: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Dody Goodman, Shecky Greene.

Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS

1929 - Love Parade. (93 minutes) Paramount. Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Screenplay: Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton. Music: Victor Schertzinger. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeannette MacDonald.
1933 - Forty-Second Street. (98 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Lloyd Bacon. Screenplay: Rian James, James Seymour, based on the novel by Bradford Ropes. Music: Al Dubin, Harry Warren. Choreography: Busby Berkeley. Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler.
1933 - Gold Diggers of 1933. (96 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay: Avery Hopwood, Ben Markson, David Boehm, Erwin Gelsey, James Seymour, based on the play "The Gold Diggers" by Avery Hopwood. Music: Al Dubin, Harry Warren. Choreography: Busby Berkeley. Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell.
1935 - Top Hat. (101 minutes) RKO Radio. Director: Mark Sandrich. Screenplay: Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott, derived from the musical "The Gay Divorcee" by Dwight Taylor and a play by Alexander Farago, Aladar Laszlo. Music: Irving Berlin. Choreography: Fred Astaire, Hermis Pan. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick.
1937 - Maytime. (133 minutes) MGM. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Screenplay: Noel Langley based on a play by Rida Johnson Young. Music: Sigmund Romberg. Cast: Jeannette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore.
1944 - Meet Me in St. Louis. (113 minutes) MGM. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Screenplay: Irving Brecher, Fred F. Fomkllehoffe, based on stories by Sally Benson. Music: Hugh Martin, Ralph Brant. Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames.
1952 - Singin' in the Rain. (102 minutes) MGM. Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. Screenplay: Adolph Green, Betty Comden. Music: Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed. Cast: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Donald O'Connor.
1953 - The Band Wagon. (112 minutes) MGM. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Screenplay: Adolph Green, Betty Comden. Music: Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwatz. Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan.
1954 - A Star Is Born. (154 minutes) Warner Bros. Director: George Cukor. Screenplay: Moss Hart. Music: Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin. Choreography: Fred Astaire, Hermis Pan. Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford, Jack Carson.
1957 - Silk Stockings. (117 minutes) MGM. Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Screenplay: Leonard Bershe, Leonard Spigelgass, based on the musical play suggested by "Ninotchka" (Lubitsch, 1939). Music: Cole Porter. Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jules Munshin, Peter Lorre.
1958 - Gigi. (116 minutes) MGM. Director: Vicente Minnelli. Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner, based on the novel by Collette. Music: Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe. Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jordan, Hermione Gingold.
1979 - All That Jazz. (123 minutes) Columbia. Director: Bob Fosse. Screenplay: Bob Fosse, Robert Alan Arthur. Music: Stanley Lebowsky. Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Anne Reinking, Ben Vereen.

1981 - Pennies from Heaven. (107 minutes) MGM. Director: Herbert Ross. Screenplay: Dennis Potter. Music: Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnson. Cast: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken.

Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS

1921 - Orphans of the Storm. (125 minutes) United Artists. Director: D. W. Griffith. Screenplay: D. W. Griffith based on the play "The Orphans" by Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery and Eugene Cormon. Cast: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Shildkraut, Lucille LaVerne.
1933 - A Man's Castle. (75 minutes) Columbia. Director: Frank Borzage. Screenplay: Jo Swerling. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Walter Connelly.
1934 - Imitation of Life. (105 minutes) Universal. Director: John Dahl. Screenplay: William Hurlbut (from novel by Fannie Hurst). Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren Williams, Ned Sparks, Louise Beavers.
1937 - Make Way for Tomorrow. (92 minutes) Columbia. Director: Leo McCarey. Screenplay: Vina Delmar (from the novel "The Years Are So Long" by J. Lawrence). Cast: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell.
1945 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. (128 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Eliz Kazan. Screenplay: Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Peggy Ann Garner, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, James Dunn.
1946 - The Best Years of Our Life. (172 minutes) Goldwyn. Director: William Wyler. Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood (from verse novel by M. Kantor). Cast: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Cathy O'Donnell.
1946 - Brief Encounter. (103 minutes) Cineguild. Director: David Lean. Screenplay: Noel Coward, David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan. Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway.
1948 - I Remember Mama. (134 minutes) Paramount. Director: George Stevens. Screenplay: DeWitt Bodeen (based on a play by John Van Druten, based on "Mama's Bank Account," a novel by Kathryn Forbes). Cast: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, Philip Dorn.
1951 - A Place in the Sun. (122 minutes) Paramount. Director: George Stevens. Screenplay: Michael Wilson, Harry Brown, from the novel "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor.

1959 - Imitation of Life. (124 minutes) Universal. Director: Douglas Sirk. Screenplay: Eleanor Griffin and Allen Smith (from novel by Fannie Hurst). Cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Juanita Moore, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner.

Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS

1993 - Schindler's List. (195 minutes) Universal Pictures. Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes. [POLAND] (Jewish Experience)

Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS

1936 - The Story of Louis Pasteur. (85 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: William Dieterle. Screenplay: Sheridan Gibney and Pierre Collings. Cast: Paul Muni, Anita Louise, Josephine Hutchinson, Donald Woods.
1937 - The Life of Emile Zola.
1939 - Juarez.
1939 - Young Mr. Lincoln. (101 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: John Ford. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti. Cast: Henry Fonda, Pauline Moore, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek, Ward Bond.
1942 - Pride of the Yankees. (128 minutes) RKO. Director: Sam Wood. Jo Swirling and Herman J. Mankiewica. Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan.
1942 - Yankee Doodle Dandy. (126 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Michael Curtiz. Screenplay: Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Rosemary DeCamp.
1952 - Viva Zapata!. (113 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Elia Kazan. Screenplay: John Steinbeck. Cast: Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn, Harold Gordon, Jean Peters.
1956 - Lust For Life. (122 minutes) MGM. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Screenplay: Norman Corwin. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald.
1967 - Bonnie and Clyde. (111 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Arthur Penn. Screenplay: David Newman and Robert Benton. Cast: Warren Beatty;, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman.
1970 - Patton. (170 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North. Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Strong, Karl Michael Vogler.
1972 - Lady Sings the Blues. (144 minutes) Paramount. Director: Sidney J. Furie. Screenplay: Terrence McCloy, Chris Clark, and Suzanne de Passe. Cast: Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams.
1980 - Raging Bull. (128 minutes) United Artists. Director: Martin Scorsese. Screenplay: Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin. Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty.
1981 - Reds. (190 minutes) Paramount. Director: William Beatty. Screenplay: Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths. Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Nicholson, Edward Herman, Jerzy Kosinski.
1983 - Frances. (131 minutes) Universal. Director: Graeme Clifford. Screenplay: Eric Bergen, Christopher Devere, and Nicholas Kazan. Cast: Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard.
1983 - Silkwood. (128 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Mike Nichols. Screenplay: Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen. Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Diana Scarwid.
1984 - Amadeus. (158 minutes) Orion. Director: Milos Forman. Screenplay: Peter Schaffer. Cast: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Jeffrey Jones.

1985 - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. (122 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Paul Schrader. Screenplay: Schrader and Leonard Schrader. Cast: Ken Ogata, Mashayuki Shionoya, Junkichi Orimoto.

Non-traditional Genres: THE ART FILM

1956 - The Seventh Seal. (95 minutes) Svensk Filmindustri/Janus Films. Director: Ingmar Bergman. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Max von Sydow, Bunnar Bjornstrand, Bengt Ederot, Bibi Andersson.
1959 - Hiroshima, Mon Amour. (91 minutes) Argos Films. Director: Alain Resnais. Screenplay: Marguerite Duras. Cast: Emmanuele Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud.
1959 - Breathless. (90 minutes) New Yorker Films. Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard, based on an idea by Francois Truffaut. Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger.
1961 - Jules and Jim. (105 minutes) Janus Films. Director: Francois Truffaut. Screenplay: Francois Truffaut and Jean Gruault, from the novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oscar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois.
1962 - 8-1/2. (138 minutes) Corinth Films. Director: Federico Fellini. Screenplay: Federico Fellini. Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Claudia Cardinale.
1967 - Weekend. (95 minutes) New Yorker Films. Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Calfon, Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud.
1975 - Night Moves. (110 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Arthur Penn. Screenplay: Alan Sharp. Cast: Gene Hackman, Hennifer Warren, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark.
1976 - Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000. (110 minutes) New Yorker Films. Director: Alain Tanner. Screenplay: John Berger and Alain Tanner. Cast: Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis, Dominique Labourier, Miou-Miou, Rufus.
1977 - Man of Marble. (160 minutes) New Yorker Films. Director: Andrzej Wajda. Screenplay: Aleksander Scibor-Rylski. Cast: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwitowicz, Taduesz Lomnicki and Jacek Lomnicki, Krystyna Zachwatowicz.

1977 - Annie Hall. (93 minutes) United Artists. Director: Woody Allen. Screenplay: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon.

Resources:
Handbook of American Film Genres edited by Wes D. Gehring, printed by Greenwood Press, 1988.
American Film Genres: Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film by Stuart M. Kaminsky, Pflaum Publishing, 1974.
Genre and Hollywood by Steve Neale, Routledge, 2000.
Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, & the Studio System edited by Thomas Schatz, Temple University Press, 1981.

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