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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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: William Wellman: Wings (1927); Public Enemy (1931); Nothing Sacred (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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: John Huston: The Maltese Falcon (1941); The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1947); Key Largo (1948); The Asphalt 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: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure)
  
  Director: George Lucas: American Graffiti (1973); Star Wars (1977) The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  
  
• 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark. (115 minutes PG) Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Wolf Kahler, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey. Summary: Indiana Jones, archaeologist and adventurer, seeks the Lost Ark with a stop off in Nepal and then on to Egypt. (Fantasy/Action/Drama)
  
  Director: Steven Spielberg: Amblin' (1969); Duel (1971); Sugarland Express (1973); Jaws (1975); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Adventure Genre: THE WESTERN

• 1903 - The Great Train Robbery. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1916 - Truthful Tulliver. (50 minutes) Director: William S. Hart. Cast: William S. Hart, Alma Rubens, Nina Byron. Summary: Truthful Tulliver, a Westerner and a journeying newspaperman, followed by Silver Lode Thompson, printer and compositor, arrives in Glory Hole to start a newspaper. (Western, Drama)
  
  
• 1924 - The Iron Horse. (119 minutes B&W) [silent film] Director: John Ford. Cast: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Cyril Chadwick, Fred Kohler, Gladys Hulette, James Marcus. Summary: Story of the construction of America's first transcontinental railroad eastward from Sacramento, California and westward from Omaha, Nebraska, following the life of Davy Brandon who had seen his father murdered by a man with three fingers on one hand only to meet that man later in life when a shortcut route for the railroad would pass through the site Davy's father envisioned years previously. A corrupt railroad surveyor and the local property owner who would benefit from a profitable route set up a showdown. Of course, Davy finds his girlfriend from his youth along the route too. [CALIFORNIA, ILLINOIS, NEBRASKA, UTAH] (Drama, Western)
  
  
• 1925 - Riders of the Purple Saga. (56 minutes - silent film) Directors: Lynn Reynolds and Wilfred Lucas. Cast: Tom Mix, Beatrice Turnham, Warner Oland. Summary: A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister. (Based on 1912/320 paged Zane Grey novel.)(Drama, Western)
  
  
• 1925 - Tumbleweeds. (82 minutes) Directors: William S. Hart, King Baggot Cast: William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield. Summary: In 1890s Kansas, a cowboy drifter by nature, meets and falls in love with a women whom he accidentally lassoed. Deciding to change his ways, the cowboy intends to join the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893, stake his land and settle down with his new love. However, before the start of the homesteading race, Carver is arrested, and his hopes of beginning anew are jeopardized. (Indie film/Silent film/WESTERN)
  
  
• 1929 - The Virginian. (91 minutes) Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian. Summary: A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling. (Based on the 1902/352 paged "The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains" by Owen Wister.)(Drama, Western) (1929 is the third version of the film)
  
  
• 1930 - The Big Trail. (110 minutes) Director: Raoul Ralsh. Cast: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power. Summary: A scout leads a wagon train across the wilderness. (Genre: WESTERN)
  
  
• 1930 - Billy the Kid. (98 minutes). Director: King Vidor. Writers: Walter Noble Burns (book). Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson. (Drama/Western)
  
  Director: King Vidor - Billy the Kid (1930), Stella Dallas (1937), The Citadel (1938), Duel in the Sun (1946), The Fountainhead (1949), Ruby Gentry (1952), Man Without a Star (1955), War and Peace (1956), Solomon and Sheba (1959) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1931 - Cimarron. (125 minutes) Director: Wesley Ruggles. Cast: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne. Summary: A pioneer family building their empire in the primitive Oklahoma wilderness. [Based on the 1929/400 paged Edna Ferber novel] (Genre: WESTERN)(See the 1960 version)
  
  
• 1934 - Viva Villa!. (115 minutes B&W) Directors: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman, John Waters. Cast: Wallace Beery, Donald Cook. Summary: After an overseer beats his peon father to death, a young Pancho Villa kills the man. Retreating to the hills, Villa, as a vicious bandit, brutally attacks the wealthy, which earns him the respect of the poor. When revolutionary Don Felipe de Castillo realizes he can utilize Villa's bloodlust, he brings the bandit to the revolutionary leader Francisco Madero.(Drama/WESTERN)
  
  
• 1935 - Annie Oakley. (minutes) Director: George Stevens. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas. (WESTERN)
  
  
• 1936 - Last of the Mohicans. (91 minutes B&W) Director: George B. Seitz. Cast: Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot. Summary: After being abducted by Magua, the Native American scout sent to escort them to Fort William Henry, 2 sisters are rescued by two Mohicans -- Uncas and his father, Chingachgook -- and their companion, Hawkeye. Cora falls for Uncas, and Alice for Hawkeye, and the two men struggle to protect their newfound lady loves in the midst of escalating violence during the French and Indian War. (Based on the 1826/410 paged James Fenimore Cooper novel. Preceded by The Deerslayer, followed by The Pathfinder) (Drama, WESTERN)
  
  
• 1936 - The Plainsman. (115 minutes b&w) Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Porter Hall. Summary: During post-Civil War times in the Midwest, conflict with the Native Americans, George Armstrong Custer, Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane and the Battle of Little Bighorn. [MONTANA] (Action/Adventure/Western)
  
  
• 1937 - Way Out West. (65 minutes) Director: James W. Horne. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Rosina Lawrence. Summary: Laurel and Hardy spoof. (Western, Comedy)
  
  
• 1939 - Destry Rides Again. Director: George Marshall. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart. Summary: Famed fighter Harry Destry comes back from jail a changed man. The town thinks he no longer has what it takes to defend himself, but Destry's innocent act covers a plot for vengeance against the men who set him up. (Based on a 1930/208 paged Max Brand novel.) - spoof farce - (Drama/WESTERN)
  
  
• 1939 - Dodge City. (104 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Music: Max Steiner, Adolph Deutsch. Cast: Bruce Cabot, Errol Flynn. Summary: In 1872, Dodge City, Kansas is the epicenter of cattle drives and lawlessness. (Drama, Western)
  
  
• 1939 - Drums Along the Mohawk. (104 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert. Summary: In 1776, a newly married couple's quiet life in the Mohawk Valley is interrupted by violent attacks from Native Americans and Tories. (Drama, WESTERN, History)
  
  
• 1939 - The Oklahoma Kid. (85 minutes B&W) Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane. Summary: A gunman takes revenge on the men who hanged his innocent father when Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip opens for settlers in 1893. (Drama, Western)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Western)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1939 - Union Pacific. (139 minutes) Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck. Summary: In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.(Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1939 - Young Mr. Lincoln. (100 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver. Summary: Fictionalized account of Lincoln's life as a young lawyer, meeting his first love, Ann Rutledge who dies tragically, pursuing the law, establishing a law practice in Springfield, and meeting a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder. Genre: WESTERN (Drama film, Biography)
  
  
• 1940 - Northwest Passage. (127 minutes) Director: King Vidor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey. [NEW YORK] Summary: Roger's Rangers in Upper State New York in the 1750s. (Drama)
  
  
• 1940 - Virginia City. (121 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart. Summary: Three groups competing for a shipment of gold during the Civil War. (Drama/WESTERN)
  
  
• 1940 - The Westerner. (97 minutes) United Artists - Director: William Wyler. Screenplay: Jo Swerling and Niven Busch. Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone. Summary: (From the story by Stuart N. Lake.) (Drama/WESTERN)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1941 - Western Union. (95 minutes) Directors: Fritz Lang, Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Joe Brown, Otto Brower. Cast: Randolph Scott, Robert Young, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore. Summary: When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. (Based on the 1939/320 paged Zane Grey novel.)(History, Western, Drama)
  
  
• 1943 - The Ox-Bow Incident. (75 minutes B&W) Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Harry Morgan. Summary: In 1885, two wanderers ride into a small Nevada town plagued by cattle thieves. Initially suspected of being the rustlers themselves, they eventually join a posse out to get the criminals, who also may be involved in a recent shooting. When the posse closes in on a group that could be the fugitives, they must decide on a course of action, with numerous lives hanging in the balance. (Based on the 1940/309 paged Walter Van Tilburg novel.) (Drama/WESTERN)
  
  
• 1943 - War of the Wildcats. (originally released as In Old Oklahoma) (102 minutes B&W) Directors: John Wayne, Albert S. Rogell, Grant Withers. Music: Walter Scarf. Cast: John Wayne, Martha Scott, James Stewart, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans. Summary: In 1906, on Oklahoma's Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men's hearts. (Romance, Drama, Western)
  
  
• 1946 - Duel in the Sun. (129 minutes) Director: King Vidor. Music: Dmitri Timken. Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish. Summary: Love and violence in old Texas involving two brothers.(Based on 1946/246 paged Niven Busch novel.) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1946 - My Darling Clementine. (97 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond. Summary: Focus on Wyatt Earp's days in Tombstone and the gunfight with the Clanton gang at the O. K. Corral. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1947 - Pursued. Noir western - (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1948 - The Paleface. (91 minutes) Director: Norman McLeod. Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell. Summary: A cowardly dentist marries Calamity Jane and becomes a celebrated gunslinger. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1948 - Red River. (134 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Noah Beery Jr., Paul Fix, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, Harry Carey, Jr. Summary: In the late 1800s, Tom Dunstan becomes a cattle baron needing to make a historic cattle drive from Texas to Missouri (or Kansas) to sell his beef and save his fortune. (Based on the 1948/164 paged Borden Chase "Red River: Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail.)[TEXAS] (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1948 - The Treasure of Sierra Madre. Director: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart. (Based on the 1927/213 paged B. Traven novel.) (Drama/Western)
  
  
  
  
• 1949 - Colorado Territory. (94 minutes) Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1949 - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. (103 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar. (Based on "War Party" by James Warner Bellah.) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1950 - Broken Arrow. Summary: Arizona after the Civil War. (Based on "Blood Brother" by Elliott Arnold.)(Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1950 - The Cariboo Trail. (81 minutes) Director: Edward L. Marin. Cast: Randolph Scott, George "Gabby" Hayes, Bill Williams, Victor Jory, Douglas Kennedy, Dale Robertson, Jim Davis. Summary: It's the prospectors vs. the cattlemen in Canada. [CANADA] (Western)
  
  
• 1950 - Winchester '73. (82 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Will Geer, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, John McIntire. Summary: A cowboy gets a new Winchester '73 from the East, loses it to a thief and tracks it down from owner to owner. [COLORADO] (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1952 - Bend of the River. (87 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Writers: Borden Chase. Cast: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy. (Based on the William Gulick novel "Bend of the Snake".) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1952 - High Noon. (84 minutes) United Artists - Director: Fred Zinneman. Screenplay: Carl Foreman. Cast: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly. (From the story "Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham.)(Drama/Western) (Best Actor to Gary Cooper.) Director: 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 - Devil's Canyon. (92 minutes) Director: Alfred Werker. Cast: Dale Robertson, Virginia Mayo, Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt, Jay C. Flippen. Summary: A lawman, after killing two men in self-defense, is framed and sent to the Arizona State Penitentiary in the early 1900s. (Western)
  
  
• 1953 - Hondo. (84 minutes) Director: John Farrow. Cast: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, James Arness, Lee Aaker, Michael Pate, Leo Gordon. Summary: An army scout adopts a frontier woman and her son as the Apache Nation (present Arizona/New Mexico) goes to war. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1953 - The Naked Spur. (91 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Writers: Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom. Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1953 - Shane. (118 minutes) Director: George Stevens. Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde. Summary: A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act. (Based on the Jack Shaefer 1949/135 paged novel.) Theme: Redemption (Drama, Romance, Western)
  
  
• 1954 - The Far Country. (97 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Walter Brennan. Summary: In 1896, a man brings cattle from the Seattle, Washington to Dawson, Alaska to make a profit from the meat-starved Klondikers, but loses them. [ALASKA; WASHINGTON] (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1954 - Johnny Guitar. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1955 - Bad Day at Black Rock. (81 minutes) Director: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Ernest Bornine, Anne Francis. Summary: What is the secret in this small town related to Japanese Americans? (Based on Howard Breslin novel "Bad Time at Hondo") (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1956 - Jubal. (101 minutes) Director: Delmer Daves Cast: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Valerie French, Rod Steiger) Summary: Searching for work, cowboy Jubal Troop arrives in a small town, where he badly injures his hand. Fortunately, a local rancher, Shep Horgan, is willing to employ Troop despite the injury. Horgan and Troop work together amicably, but Horgan's two-timing wife threatens to create discord when she becomes interested in Troop, although he really loves another woman. A jealous cowhand complicates matters by spreading lies. (Based on 1939/583 paged Jubal Troop by Paul I. Wellman.) (Action/Adventure/Western)
  
  
• 1956 - The Searchers. (119 minutes PG) Warner Home Video - Director: John Ford. Screenplay: Frank S. Nugent. Music: Max Steiner. Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Harry Carey, Jr. (Based on the 1954/352 paged novel by Alan LeMay.) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1957 - 3:10 to Yuma. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1958 - The Big Country. Epic Western - (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1958 - Man of the West. (100 minutes) Director: Anthony Mann. Writers: Reginald Rose (screenplay). Cast: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb. (Based on "The Border Jumpers" a 1955/244 paged Will C. Brown novel.) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1958 - The Missouri Traveler. (103 minutes) Director: Jerry Hopper. Cast: Brandon DeWilde, Gary Merrill, Paul Ford, Mary Hosford, Lee Marvin. Summary: A gruff neighbor and a newspaper editor help a teenage farmer grow up in circa-1910 Missouri. (Based on a John Burress 1955/281 paged novel.) (Drama, Western)
  
  
• 1959 - Rio Bravo. (140 minutes) Warner Brothers/Armada - Producer/Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett. Music: Dmitri Tiomken. (From a short story by B. H. McCampbell.) Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson. (Drama/Western)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1960 - Magnificent Seven. (128 minutes) Director: John Sturges. Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, Horst Buchholz. Summary: A group of American gunfighters come to the aid of the farmers of a Mexican village beings bothered by bandits. (Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 "The Seven Samurai".)(Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1960 - North to Alaska. (120 minutes) Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: John Wayne, Steward Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Capucine. Theme: Two partners strike it rich in the 1890s goldfields of Nome, Alaska, and one of them returns to Seattle for supplies and to pick up his partner's fiancee. When she is married, he finds a prostitute in a brothel and makes her an offer for her to marry his partner. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1961 - The Misfits. (Based on the 1961/134 paged Arthur Miller work originally published in Esquire.)(Drama/Western)
  
  
• 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 Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Walter Brennan. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1962 - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. (123 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Ken Murray. Summary: The film is a flashback with Senator Stoddard and his wife, Hallie, arriving to attend a funeral. They tell of how "frontier justice" ruled their wild, wild Western town of Shinbone, Arizona, until this idealistic Eastern lawyer, Ransom Stoddard, arrived, got beaten by Liberty Valence, and decided to civilize Shinbone. With the help of a cowboy named Tom Doniphon and a local woman, Hallie, who works in the restaurant, Stoddard faces Valence. Did this man who became known as "the man who shot Liberty Valence" become an important political figure claim so truthfully?[ARIZONA]
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1963 - Hud. (112 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde. Summary: The son of a Texas rancher drunkenly pursues the housekeeper. [Based on a Larry McGurty novel] (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1963 - McLintock!. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1964 - Cheyenne Autumn. (158 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo, James Stewart. Summary: Reverse Trail of Tears theme where the natives, not being able to adapt to the reservation with the broken promises of the U. S. government, attempt to travel from Oklahoma Indian Territory back to Wyoming though this meant breaking a treaty. [OKLAHOMA] (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1964 - A Fistful of Dollars. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1965 - Cat Ballou. (Based on a Roy Chanslor work.) (Drama/Western, Comedy)
  
  
• 1966 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. (161 minutes) Director: Sergio Leone. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffre. Summary: During the American Civil War, three greedy men seek hidden loot without regard for anything or anybody. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1966 - The Professionals. (Based on a Frank O'Rourke novel.) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1967 - El Dorado. (Based on "The Stars in Their Courses" a Harry Joe Brown work.) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1968 - Once Upon a Time in the West. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1968 - Will Penny. (108 minutes) Director: Tom Gries. Cast: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe, Clifton James, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens. Summary: Follows the life of an illiterate cowboy working in the west in Texas, with friends visiting Kansas City, and a woman and her son attempting to reach her husband in California. [TEXAS; OREGON; KANSAS; MISSOURI; OHIO] (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. (112 minutes PG) Director: George Roy Hill. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross. Summary: Criminal adventures of Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh in the United States and South America finally being tracked down in 1909 in Bolivia and killed. [UTAH; WYOMING; CHILE; BOLIVIA; PERU] (Crime film/Biography) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1969 - Support Your Local Sheriff. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1969 - True Grit. (Based on the 1968/215 paged Charles Portis novel.)(Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1969 - Two Mules for Sister Sara. (116 minutes) Director: Don Siegel. Writers: Budd Boetticher (story), Albert Maltz (screenplay) Cast: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1969 - A Walk with Love and Death. (Based on a Hans Koningsberger novel.)(Drama/Western)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Western)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1970 - Big Jake. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1970 - Little Big Man. (150 minutes) National General/Cinema Center-Seven Arts - Director: Arthur Penn. Screenplay: Calder Willingham. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Chief Dan George. (Based on a Thomas Berger novel.)(Drama/Western)
  
  Director: Arthur Penn: The Miracle Worker (1962); The Chase (1966); Bonnie and Clyde
  (1967); Alice's Restaurant (1969); Little Big Man (1970)]
  
  
• 1970 - A Man Called Horse. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1970 - Rio Lobo. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1971 - Hannie Caulder. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1971 - The Last Picture Show. (Based on a Larry McMurtry novel.) (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 1972 The Cowboys. (135 minutes) Director: Mark Rydell. Cast: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst. Summary: A 60-year old rancher in Montana hires a group of young school boys to get his herd to market when a gold rush rumor surfaces near Ruby River. (Based on a William Dale Jennings work.) [MONTANA] (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1973 - High Plains Drifter. (105 minutes) Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging. Summary: A mysterious stranger, the Man with No Name, emerges out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the guilt-ridden town of Lago in the American Southwest, where he gets into a gunfight with three gunmen. This causes the townspeople to beg him to protect them against a gang of escaped convicts who are on their way to destroy Lagos. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1972 - Justin Morgan Had a Horse. (91 minutes) Director: Hollingsworth Morse. Cast: Don Murray, Lana Wood, Gary Crosby. Summary: Following the Revolutionary War, a Vermont schoolteacher trained and bred the first Morgan horse, noted for its speed, strength, and stamina. (Based on the 1945/176 paged Marguerite Henry children's Newbery winner novel.) (Family, Drama, Western)
  
  
• 1973 - Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. (122 minutes) Director: Sam Peckinpah. Writer: Rudy Wurlitzer. Cast: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1974 - Blazing Saddles. Directory: Mel Brooks. comedy western - (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1976 - The Outlaw Josey Wales. (135 minutes) Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, John Mitchum, John Russell. Summary: When a farmer's family is murdered by Red Legs, a group of cutthroats allied with the Union Army, he joins the Confederacy to seek revenge. [MISSOURI] (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1976 - The Shootist. (99 minutes). Director: Don Siegel. Cast: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, James Stewart, Ron Howard, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian, John Carradine, Harry Morgan, Scatman Crothers. Summary: In Nevada, a famous gunfighter dying of cancer, seeks a place to die in peace, but cannot outlive his reputation. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1979 - The Electric Horseman. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1979 - The Sacketts. (200 minutes) Director: Robert Totten. Cast: Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Glenn Ford, Ben Johnson, Ruth Roman, Gilbert Roland, Slim Pickens, Jack Elam, Gene Evans. (Western) (Based on the work of Louis L'Amour.)
  
  
• 1985 - Pale Rider. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1985 - Silverado. (133 minutes) Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Screenplay: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1985 - Sweet Dreams. (115 minutes) Director: Karel Reisz. Cast: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth. Summary: Story of Patsy Cline, country and western singer.
  
  
• 1985 - Tampopo. (95 minutes) Director: Juzo Itami. Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto. Cast: A Japanese noodle western spoofs food with a passion as a female diner owner learns to create the perfect noodle soup with the aid of her truckdriver mentor. [JAPAN] (Comedy/Western)
  
  
• 1988 - Young Guns. (102 minutes) Director: Christopher Cain. Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips. Summary: 1878 "Wild Bunch" (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1989 - Lonesome Dove. tv miniseries - (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1990 - Back to the Future, Part III. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1990 - Dances With Wolves. (181 minutes) Director: Kevin Costner. Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene. Summary: A disillusioned Union Civil War soldier interacts with the Lakota Sioux when he asks to be posted on the western frontier and ends up in a sparsely settled South Dakota territory with a wolf as his friend. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1991 - City Slickers. (109 minutes PG-13) Director: Ron Underwood. Cast: Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater, Jack Palance, Tracey Walter, Josh Mostel. Summary: Every year, three friends take a vacation away from their wives. This year, henpecked Phil, newly married Ed, and Mitch -- terrified of his midlife crisis -- decide to reignite their masculinity by taking a supervised cattle drive across the Southwest. Under the supervision of gruff cowboy Curly, the men set out on a journey that turns unexpectedly dangerous. The three men bond along the way to conquering their fear of aging. (Drama/Western/Comedy-drama)
  
  
• 1991 - Conagher. (117 minutes) Director: Reynaldo Villalobos. Cast: Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Barry Corbin. Summary: A cowhand helps out a homesteader's wife save her spread. (Based on the Louis L'Amour novel.) [WYOMING] (Drama, Western)
  
  
• 1992 - Unforgiven. (127 minutes) Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Frances Fisher. Summary: A former outlaw appears in Big Whiskey, a town or violence and corruption which needs cleaning up. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1993 - Tombstone. (130 minutes) Director: George Pan Cosmatos. Cast: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Kana Delany, Sam Elliott. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1994 - Bad Girls.(Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1995 - Buffalo Girls. (180 min. Tv miniseries)(Based on the 1983/352 ps. book by Larry McMurtry). Director: Rod Hardy Cast: Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Peter Coyote. Summary: Wild. Untamed. Legendary. Buffalo Girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' rugged cowgirl, is searching not only for her long-lost daughter, but the Wild West she once knew. Jane traverses plains, mountains and continents until she finally discovers the answer to her problems: Dora, the vivacious, gold-hearted madam who's been her one true friend all along. (Western/Drama)
  
  
• 1995 - The Quick and the Dead. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 1999 - Wild Wild West. (105 minutes) Director:Barry Sonnenfeld. Cast: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, Kenneth Branagh, Ted Levine. Summary: In 1869, an enemy of the United States threatens Pres. Ulysses S. Grant to give over the government to him, but Grant has two Federal workers begin to work on the problem in Louisiana which is successfully resolved at the connection of the two railroad lines at Promontory Point, Utah. [LOUISIANA, UTAH] (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 2000 - All the Pretty Horses. (117 minutes PG-13) Director: Billy Bob Thornton. Cast: Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Penelope Cruz, Ruben Blades, Bruce Dern, Sam Shepard. Summary: In post World War II Texas, two buddies head for Mexico seeking work as cowboys. [based on the Cormac McCarthy novel] [MEXICO] (Based on the Cormac McCarthy novel "All the Pretty Horses 1992/302 ps.) [WESTERN] (Coming of Age/Drama)
  
  
• 2000 - Shanghai Noon. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 2003 - Open Range. (139 minutes R) Director: Kevin Costner. Cast: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter, James Russo. Summary: Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses his past as a killer during the Civil War and strikes up a tentative romance with Sue, the sister of the town doctor. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 2004 - Hidalgo. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 2005 - Brokeback Mountain. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 2007 - No Country for Old Men. (Based on a Cormac McCarthy novel.)(Drama/Western)
  
  
• 2008 - Appaloosa. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 2010 - True Grit. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 2012 - Django Unchained. (Drama/Western)
  
  
• 2014 - The Homesman. (122 minutes R) Director: Tommy Lee Jones. Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, John Lithgow. Summary: A frontier farm woman saves the life of a claim-jumper and persuades him to help her escort three insane women to a safe haven in Iowa. (Based on Glendon Swarthout's 1988/256 paged novel). (Drama film/Western)
  
  
• 2015 - The Revenant. (Drama/Western)

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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film)
  
  Director: 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 novel. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Henry Travers, Arthur Kennedy, Alan Curtis, Barton MacLane, Henry Hull, Willie Best. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film)
  
  Director: 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 Coppola; 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. [NEW YORK] (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film)
  
  Director: 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.

• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1931 - Public Enemy. Director: William Wellman. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: William Wellman - Public Enemy (1931), Smart Money (1931), Quick Millions (1931), The Finger Points (1931)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1940 - Northwest Passage. (127 minutes) Director: King Vidor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey. [NEW YORK] Summary: Roger's Rangers in Upper State New York in the 1750s. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1940 - They Dove By Night. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1941 - Citizen Kane. Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1941 - High Sierra. (100 minutes) Warner Brothers - Director: Raoul Walsh. Screenplay: John Huston and W. R. Burnett, from Burnett's novel. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Henry Travers, Arthur Kennedy, Alan Curtis, Barton MacLane, Henry Hull, Willie Best. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1941 - The Maltese Falcon. (100 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet. Summary: In San Francisco, a woman hires two private detectives to follow a man who has allegedly run off with her younger sister and one of the detectives turns up dead. After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into looking for a valuable black falcon statuette. (Based on novel of Dashiell Hammett.)[CALIFORNIA] (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1941 - This Gun For Hire. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake. Based on Graham Greene novel A Gun For Sale. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1942 - The Glass Key. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake. Based on Dashiell Hammett novel. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1943 - Shadow of a Doubt. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotton, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Wallace Ford, Hume Cronyn, Patricia Collinge. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 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. Summary: A California insurance man and a suburban wife conspire to trick her husband into signing a policy that pays double for accidental death and then push him from a train. It's an almost perfect crime. [CALIFORNIA] (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1944 - Laura. Director: Otto Preminger. Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1945 - Detour. (68 minutes) Producers Releasing Corporation. Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. Screenplay: Martin Goldsmith. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Pat Gleason. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: Edgar G. Ulmer: The Black Cat (1934); Bluebeard (1944); Detour (1946)
  
  
• 1945 - Mildred Pierce. (111 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett, Ann Blythe, Veda Ann Borg, Butterfly McQueen. Based on the James M. Cain novel 1941/298 pages (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1945 - Scarlet Street. (102 minutes) Universal. Director: Fritz Lang. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1946 - The Blue Dahlia. (96 minutes) Director: George Marshall. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1946 - Gilda. (110 minutes) Director: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray. Summary: An American gambler in Buenos Aires is hired by the owner of a gambling casino. The owner goes on a business trip and returns with a bride who was formerly involved romantically with the American gambler. [ARGENTINA] (Drama film/Thriller/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1946 - The Postman Always Rings Twice. (113 minutes) Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames. Summary: Based on the James Cain novel, this follows the life of a hitchhiker who stops at a roadside cafe in a small California coastal town, falls in love with the beautiful and married restaurant's elderly owner, works there, and falls in love with her, and plans her husband's death. [CALIFORNIA] (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1946 - The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. Director: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott, Darryl Hickman, Judith Anderson. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1946 - The Stranger. (95 minutes) Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Orson Welles, Konstantin Shayne, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Philip Merivale, Byran Keith, Billy House. Summary: After World War II, a Nazi war criminal settles in the college town of Harper, Connecticut, assumes a new identity, and when the film begins, marries. Another war criminal tracks him down and suffers at his hand. Covering up his deeds becomes necessary when a government agent tracks him down. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1947 - Body and Soul. Director: Robert Rossen. Cast: John Garfield, Lili Palmer, William Conrad. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: Jules Dassin: Brute Force (1947); Naked City (1948); Thieves' Highway (1949); Riffi (1954); Never on Sunday (1960); Topkapi (1964)
  
  
• 1947 - Dark Passage. (106 minutes) Director: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead. Summary: Vincent Parry, an escaped San Quentin convict falsely accused of having murdered his wife, hides at the apartment of an artist while recovering from facial plastic surgery, falls in love with her, and following a circuitous escape route from California, meets her in Peru to continue their lives. [CALIFORNIA] (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1947 - Kiss of Death. Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Colleen Gray, Brian Donlevy. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1947 - Out of the Past. (97 minutes) Director: Jacques Tourneur. Screenplay: Geoffrey Homes, from his novel, "Build My Gallows High." Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb. Summary: A private eye allows himself to be duped by the two-faced mistress of a big-time gangster. [CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, NEVADA, MEXICO] (Crime film/Thriller/Film Noir/Adventure/Drama)
  
  
• 1947 - They Won't Believe Me. Director: Irving Pichel. Cast: Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1948 - Blood on the Moon. Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, Barbara BelGeddes, Phyllis Thaxter, Walter Brennan, Tom Tully. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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) (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1948 - Call Northside 777. (111 minutes) Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Helen Walker, Betty Grable. Summary: A Chicago reporter investigates the 11-year old murder of a policeman and the possible incorrect life sentence verdict for an innocent man. [ILLINOIS] (Drama/Mystery/Suspense/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1948 - Key Largo. (101 minutes) Director: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, Lionel Barrymore. Summary: Hoodlums running from the law hold hostages with a variety of experiences in a run-down hotel in the Florida Keys. (Based on the Maxwell Anderson novel 1939/125 pages)(Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1948 - Road House. Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Richard Widmark, Cornel Wilde, Ida Lupino, Celeste Holm. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1949 - The Big Steal. Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Ramon Navarro. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: Rudolph Mate: D.O.A. (1950); Union Station (1950); Branded (1950); The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
  
  
• 1949 - Gun Crazy. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: John Dall, Peggy Cummins. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1949 - The Hidden Room. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1949 - House of Strangers. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Edward G. Robinson, Richard Conte, Susan Hayward, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Debra Paget. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1949 - Knock on Any Door. Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: John Derek, Humphrey Bogart, George Macready, Allene Roberts, Susan Perry, Mickey Knox, Dooley Wilson. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1949 - The Set-Up. Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Sal Mineo, Eileen Heckart.
  
  
• 1949 - Thieves' Highway. Director: Jules Dassin. Cast: Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Valentina Cortesa, Jack Oakie. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Gangster Film/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1950 - The Asphalt Jungle. Director: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe. (Based on the W.R. Burnett novel.)(Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1950 - Born to Be Bad. Director: Nicholas Bay. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Joan Leslie, Zachary Scott, Robert Ryan, Mel Ferrer. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1950 - Cape Fear. Director: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Martin Balsam. Based on the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald (1957/224 pages) - (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1950 - Charley Varrick. Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Sheree North. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1950 - The Damned Don't Cry. Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Richard Egan. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: Vincent Sherman: All Through the Night (1941); Mr. Skeffington (1945); Ice Palace (1960)
  
  
• 1950 - In a Lonely Place. Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Art Smith. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1950 - Sunset Boulevard. (110 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark. Summary: Told in flashback, a down-and-out scriptwriter meets a reclusive silent screen queen in Hollywood when he hides his car in her garage away from repossession agents. The egomaniacal, Norma Desmond, delusional about making a movie comeback, puts him up as her house guest and then pays him back as her lover. Her valet, a former director and her first husband, cares for her until the scriptwriter turns up floating in the pool. [CALIFORNIA] (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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 - Where Danger Lives. Director: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1951 - Ace in the Hole. (The Big Carnival) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1951 - Cry Danger. Director: Robert Parrish. Cast: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, William Conrad. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: Robert Parrish: Cry Danger (1951); The San Francisco Story (1952); Lucy Gallant (1955); Saddle the Wind (1958)
  
  
• 1951 - Strangers on a Train. (122 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Marion Lorne, Patricia Hitchcock. Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith (1950/299 ps.) (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1952 - Kansas City Confidential. Director: Phil Karlson. Cast: Preston Foster, John Payne, Colleen Gray,Donna Drake, Jack Elam, Neville Brand. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1952 - On Dangerous Ground. Director: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond, Ed Begley, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross, Sumner Williams. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1952 - Turning Point. (85 minutes) Director: William Dieterle. Cast: William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith, Ed Begley. Inspired by Kefauver hearings. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1953 - The Big Heat. (89 minutes) Columbia. Director: Fritz Lang. Screenplay: Sydney Boehm. Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1953 - Pickup on South Street. Director: Samuel Fuller. Cast: Jean Peters, Richard Widmark, Richard Kiley, Thelma Ritter. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1954 - On the Waterfront. (108 minutes, B&W) Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger,Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Leif Erickson. Based on the 1955 screenplay of Budd Schubert made into a novel. (Theme: Integrity) (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1954 - Vera Cruz. (94 minutes) Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, Charles Buchinsky (Bronson). Summary: Two Americans escort a carriage holding a countess and a three million dollar gold treasure from Maximilian's palace in Mexico City to Vera Cruz. [MEXICO] (Drama/Action/Adventure/War/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1954 - The Wild One. Director: Laslo Benedek. Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Lee Marvin. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1955 - The Big Combo. Director: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Earl Holliman. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1956 - Autumn Leaves. Director: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1956 - The Killing. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Vince Edwards, Colleen Gray, Marie Windsor. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1957 - Edge of the City. (85 minutes) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Robert F. Simon, Jack Warden, Ruth White, John Cassavetes, Ruby Dee. Summary: A Union Mob boss, a drifter let out of the army but on the run for the murder of his brother, and a black dock worker in New York City. [NEW YORK] (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1958 - I Want to Live!. (121 minutes) Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Susan Hayward, Virginia Vincent, Simon Oakland, Theodore Bikel. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir) (Drama)
  
  
• 1958 - King Creole. (116 minutes). Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Elvis Presley, Walter Matthau, Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart, Vic Morrow. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir/Romance)
  
  
• 1958 - Some Came Running. (137 minutes) Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Shirely MacLaine, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1959 - The 400 Blows. (99 minutes) Director: Francois Truffaut. Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffray, Claire Maurier. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir) (Drama/Biography)
  
  Director: 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)
  
  
• 1960 - Key Witness. (82 minutes) Director: Phil Karlson. Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Pat Crowley, Johnny Nash, Corey Allen. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir) (Drama/Mystery)
  
  
• 1967 - In Cold Blood. (133 minutes) Director: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, Paul Stewart, John Forsyth, Jeff Corey. Based on the 1967/343 ps. novel of Truman Capote. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1971 - Get Carter. (102 minutes R) Director: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir) (Thriller/Crime)
  
  Director: 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. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: Sam Peckinpah: Ride the High Country (1962); Major Dundee (1965); The Wild Bunch (1969); Straw Dogs (1971); The Getaway (1972); Convoy (1978)
  
  
• 1973 - Badlands. (95 minutes) Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint. Summary: Based on the true killing rampages of lost souls - Charles Starkweather, a young misfit garbageman, and Carol Fugate, a 15-year old lovesick girl, from South Dakota, Montana, through Nebraska and neighboring states. [NEBRASKA; SOUTH DAKOTA; MONTANA] (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir/Action)
  
  
• 1973 - Friends of Eddie Coyle. (102 minutes) Director: Peter Yates. Writers: George V. Higgins (novel), Paul Monash (screenplay) Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 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. Summary: A private investigator starts out investigating spousal infidelity, then mistaken identity and investment schemes, and murder.(Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: Roman Polanski: Knife in the Water (1961); Repulsion (1965); Rosemary's Baby (1968); Chinatown (1974)
  
  
• 1975 - Night Moves. Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Melanie Griffith. Summary: A Los Angeles private detective must solve a tough mystery.(Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  Director: Arthur Penn: The Miracle Worker (1962); The Chase (1966); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Alice's Restaurant (1969); Little Big Man (1970)
  
  
• 1980 - Raging Bull. (128 minutes) Director: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana. Summary: Story of prizefighter Jake La Motta from his twenties through to middle age. [NEW YORK] (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir/Sport/Biography)
  
  
• 1980 - Tom Horn. (98 minutes) Director: William Wiard. Cast: Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir) (Drama/Crime)
  
  
• 1981 - Body Heat. (113 minutes) Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, Mickey Rourke. Summary: A Florida attorney is maneuvered by the wife of a wealthy and dishonest businessman with whom he is having an affair to kill her husband. [FLORIDA](Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1988 - House of Games. (102 minutes) Director: David Mamet. Cast: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir) (Drama/Thriller)
  
  
• 1990 - After Dark, My Sweet. (104 minutes) Director: James Foley: Cast: Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir) (Drama/Thriller)
  
  
• 1990 - Goodfellas. (148 minutes) Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci. Based on Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi (1985/320 ps.) (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir) (Crime/Drama)(Biography)
  
  
• 1990 - The Grifters. (110 minutes) Director: Stephen Frears. Music: Elmer Bernstein. Cast: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening. Based on the Grifters by Jim Thompson (1963/188 ps.) (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)
  
  
• 1992 - Basic Instinct. (128 minutes) Director: Paul Verhoeven. Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt. Summary: A San Francisco police officer is seduced by a bisexual heiress suspected of having committed a brutal ice-pick murder. [CALIFORNIA] (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir/Mystery/Drama)
  
  
• 1992 - Dead Again. Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson. (Drama/Adventure/Film Noir)

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. (Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat)
  
  
• 1942 - Wake Island. (87 minutes) Paramount. Director: Joe Farrow. Screenplay: Frank Butler, W. R. Burnett. Cast: William Bendix, Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston. (Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat)
  
  
• 1943 - Air Force. (124 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols. Cast: John Ridgely, James Brown, John Garfield, Harry Carey, George Tobias. (Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat)
  
  Director: 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. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 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. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 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. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 1943 - Guadalcanal Diary. (93 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Lewis Seiler. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti. Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Richard Jaeckel, William Bendix. (Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat)
  
  
• 1943 - A Guy Named Joe. (120 minutes) MGM. Director: Victor Fleming. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, James Gleason. (Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat)
  
  
• 1943 - Sahara. (97 minutes) Columbia. Director: Rudolph Mate. Screenplay: Zoltan Korda and John Howard Lawson. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rex Ingram. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 1943 - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. (138 minutes) MGM. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 1944 - Marine Raiders. (91 minutes) RKO. Director: Harold Schuster. Screenplay: Warren Duff. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 1945 - Back to Bataan. (95 minutes) RKO. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Screenplay: Ben Barzman and Richard H. Landau. Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 1945 - Objective, Burma! (142 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Raoul Walsh. Screenplay: Ronald MacDougall and Lester Cole. Cast: Erroll Flynn, James Brown. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 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. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 1945 - They Were Expendable. (135 minutes) MGM. Director: John Ford. Screenplay: Frank Wead. Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Ward Bond. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 1945 - A Walk in the Sun. (117 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Lewis Milestone. Screenplay: Robert Rossen. Cast: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte. ((Drama/Adventure/WWII Combat))
  
  
• 1964 - Father Goose. (116 minutes) Director: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard. Summary: A sky observer for the Australian navy finds himself on an island in charge of six refugee schoolchildren and their headmistress during World War II. [AUSTRALIA] (Adventure Genre: WORLD WAR II COMBAT FILMS)(Drama/Romance/Adventure)

Adventure Genre: MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER

• 1931 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . (98 minutes). Director: Rouben Mammalian. Writers: Samuel Hoffenstein. Cast: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart. (Based on the story by Mary Shelley.) Adventure Genre: MYSTERY, CRIME, THRILLER
• 1938 - The Lady Vanishes. (96 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas. (Based on the story "The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White.) (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
• 1940 - Rebecca . (130 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders. (Based on the 1938/393 paged novel by Daphne DuMaurier.)(Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
• 1941 - Suspicion . (99 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Writers: Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke. (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
• 1942 - The Saboteur. (108 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Writers: Peter Viertel (original screenplay), Joan Harrison (original screen play). Cast: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger. Summary: Political views of wealthy U. S. citizens during World War II on the homefront transfer to the sabotage of an aircraft factory, the Hoover Dam, and a new ship being christened at Brooklyn, New York navy yard. You have the plot for an aircraft worker in California who becomes a fugitive when he is gathered up in the whirlwind of emotional terror and charged with the sabotage of the factory where he worked and the death of his best friend during a fire. Finding the real saboteur and clearing himself bring him from California to New York City. [CALIFORNIA; NEW YORK] (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
  
• 1943 - Shadow of a Doubt . (108 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Writers: Thornton Wilder (screenplay), Sally Benson (screenplay). Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey. (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
• 1944 - Murder, My Sweet. (95 minutes) Director: Edward Dmytryk. Screenplay: John Paxton. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley. (Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.)(Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
  
• 1946 - The Blue Dahlia. (96 minutes) Director: George Marshall. Writer: Raymond Chandler. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix. (Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.)(Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
  Director: 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 - Lady in the Lake. (103 minutes) Director: Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler (1943/266 pages) (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
  
• 1948 - The Rope. (81 minutes - PG) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger. Based on the 1929/89 paged play by Patrick Hamilton. (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
  
• 1955 - The Trouble with Harry. (100 minutes PG) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn. (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
  Based on the novel by Jack Trevor Story.
  
• 1956 - The Man Who Knew Too Much . (120 minutes) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Writers: John Michael Hayes (screenplay), Charles Bennett (based on a story by). Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie. (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
• 1959 - The Scapegoat. (91 minutes) Director: Robert Hamer. Cast: Alec Guinness, Bete Davis, Nicole Mauer. Based on the novel by Daphne Du Maurier (1957/383 pages) (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
• 1967 - Wait Until Dark. (108 minutes) Director: Terence Young. Writers: Frederick Knott (play), Robert Carrington (screenplay). Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
  
• 1985 - Witness. (112 minutes) Director: Peter Weir. Writers: William Kelley, Pamela Wallace. Cast: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Alexander Godunov. Summary: A Philadelphia detective protects an 8-year old Amish boy who witnessed a drug-related murder. (cop thriller, romance, clash of cultures). (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
• 1994 - Pulp Fiction . (Drama/Crime/Thriller/Mystery)
• 1996 - Fargo. (98 minutes) Director: Joel Coen. Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy. Summary: Film noir story of a car salesman who plans to have his wife kidnapped to get the ransom money provided by her wealthy father. Nothing goes as planned! Best Actress, Frances McDormand. [MINNESOTA] (Drama/Crime/Thriller/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.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1934 - The Thin Man. (91 minutes) Director: W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell. Summary: Based on the Dashiell Hammett crime/comedy thriller featuring Nick Charles, private eye, and his wife Nora. The plot unfolds at Christmas in New York City when an eccentric inventor disappears after threatening his mistress with a lawsuit for embezzlement. [NEW YORK](Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 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.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  Director: 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](Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1936 - Mr. Deeds Goes To Town. (120 minutes) Director: Frank Capra. Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Douglass Dumbrille, Lionel Stander, George Bancroft. Summary: A New Englanders straightforward values are questioned in the light of New York City corruption and snobbery. [NEW YORK](Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1936 - The Moon's Our Home. Cast: Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 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.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 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.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1937 - Nothing Sacred. (75 minutes) Director: William Wellman. Cast: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly, Charles Winninger. Summary: A New York reporter follows the story of a girl dying of radium poisoning in Warsaw, Vermont.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1937 - Topper. (98 minutes) 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. Summary: A young, wealthy, and playful New York couple become ghosts after driving recklessly through the countryside when their car smashes into a tree and kills the two of them. Their rising spirits realize that they must accomplish one good deed on Earth before they can enter heaven. They target a rich banker friend, a stuffy, henpecked conformist, and haunt his life. [NEW YORK](Comedy Genres: SCREWBALL COMEDY)
  
  
• 1937 - True Confession. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Carole Lombard.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1938 - Bringing Up Baby. (102 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, Hager Wilde, from a Wilde story. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charlie Ruggles, May Robson. Summary: An absent-minded museum professor, about to be married, hopes to received one million dollars from a philanthropist. While he awaits the arrival of a missing dinosaur bone from an archaeological dig, he meets a rich girl with a leopard who gets both of them into comical situations. [NEW YORK/CONNECTICUT] (Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  Director: 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 - Holiday. Director: George Cukor. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1938 - The Mad Miss Manton. (80 minutes) Director: Leigh Jason. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda. Summary: A Park Avenue socialite, Melsa Manton, and her carefree socialite friends attempt to solve a murder and missing body stumbled upon in this comedy-mystery where a newspaper editor, Peter Ames, sued for libel falls in love with Melsa. [NEW YORK CITY](Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1939 - Made for Each Other. Cast: James Stewart, Carol Lombard.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1939 - Midnight. Cast: John Barrymore, Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor. (Comedy Genres: SCREWBALL COMEDY
  
  
• 1939 - Ninotchka. Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas. Comedy Genres: SCREWBALL COMEDY)
  
  
• 1940 - The Front Page: His Girl Friday. (91 minutes) Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell. Play by MacArthur/Hecht.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1940 - His Girl Friday. Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 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.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1940 - The Philadelphia Story. (112 minutes) Director: George Cukor. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart. Summary: Film version of "The Taming of the Shrew"(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1940 - The Shop Around the Corner. Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullivan.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1941 - Appointment for Love. Cast: Charles Boyer, Eugene Pallette.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 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.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1941 - The Lady Eve. (97 minutes) Paramount. Director: Preston Sturges. Screenplay: Preston Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, William Demarest.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1942 - The Palm Beach Story. (88 minutes) Paramount. Director: Preston Sturges. Screenplay: Preston Sturges. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1942 - The Talk of the Town. Director: George Stevens. Cast: Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Jean Arthur.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1942 - Woman of the Year. (112 minutes) Director: George Stevens. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, William Bendix. Summary: Will the marriage of a sophisticated international affairs columnist and a rugged sportwriter both working for a New York newspaper work? [NEW YORK](Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1947 - The Farmer's Daughter. Cast: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  
• 1949 - Adam's Rib. (101 minutes) Director: George Cukor. Screenplay: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn. Summary: What happens when a husband and wife lawyer team are on opposite sides of a case dealing with the rights of a married female? [NEW YORK](Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  Director: George Cukor - A Bill of Divorcement (1932), David Copperfield (1935), Camille (1936), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Keeper of the Flame (1942). Gaslight (1944), Winged Victory (1944), Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), A Star Is Born (1954), My Fair Lady (1964). Travels with My Aunt (1972).
  
  
• 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.(Comedy/Screwball Comedy)
  
  Director: 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

• 1944 - Arsenic and Old Lace. (118 minutes) Director: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair. Summary: A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.(Based on the 1939/104 paged Joseph Kesselring novel.)(Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS) (Crime film, Thriller, Comedy)
  
  
• 1955 - Seven Year Itch. Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1958 - Houseboat. (110 minutes) Director: Melville Shavelson. Cast: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino. Summary: A house-keeper-maid falls in love an executive while living on his houseboat and caring for his children. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1959 - Some Like It Hot. Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1963 - Sunday in New York. (105 minutes). Seven Arts. Director: Peter Tewksbury. Cast: Cliff Robertson, Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor, Robert Culp, Jim Backus. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1964 - Send Me No Flowers. Cast: Doris Day, Rock Hudson. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1967 - Barefoot in the Park. (105 minutes) Director: Gene Saks. Cast: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick, Herb Edelman. Summary: Newly weds adjust their married life to living in a small apartment in a walk-up building in New York City with an unconventional neighbor. [NEW YORK] (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1967 - The Graduate. Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1972 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask). Cast: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1972 - What's Up, Doc?. (94 minutes) Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Screenplay: Buck Henry, Robert Benton, David Newman, from a Bogdanovich story. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal. Summary: Three plaid travelling bags of three different people get mixed up in San Francisco. [CALIFORNIA](Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1981 - Arthur. (97 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Steve Gordon. Screenplay: Steve Gordon. Cast: Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli, Stephen Elliott, John Gielgud. Summary: A rich alcoholic will lose all his family money if he does not marry the woman chosen for him by his parents. He doesn't love her .. but does love a shoplifter. [NEW YORK] (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1982 - Tootsie. (119 minutes) Director: Sydney Pollack. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, Charles Durning. Summary: An out-of-work actor disguises himself as a woman to get a job and becomes a big soap opera star. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1982 - Victor/Victoria. (133 minutes) Director: Blake Edwards. Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS) (Romance/Musical)
  
  
• 1987 - Broadcast News. (132 minutes) Director: James L. Brooks. Cast: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Jack Nicholson, Robert Prosky. Summary: a Washington, D. C. new producer mentors a rising star local newscaster as he works his way to the top of the network while her capable on-air news reporter friend awaits his chance. [WASHINGTON, D. C.] (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS) (Comedy-drama/Drama)
  
  
• 1987 - Overboard. (112 minutes R) MGM. Director: Garry Marshall. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1988 - A Fish Called Wanda. (119 minutes) Directors: John Cleese, Charles Crichton. Cast: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS) (Farce/Caper Story)
  
  
• 1989 - Sleepless in Seattle. Cast: Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1989 - War of the Roses. Director: Danny DeVito. Cast: Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1989 - When Harry Met Sally. (95 minutes) Director: Rob Reiner. Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby. Summary: Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That's what Harry and Sally debate as recent University of Chicago graduates traveling to New York City during their first meeting and for the next eleven years. [NEW YORK; ILLINOIS] (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1991 - Soapdish. Cast: Sally Field. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1992 - Housesitter. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1992 - Honeymoon in Vegas. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1993 - Mrs. Doubtfire. Cast: Robin Williams, Sally Field. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  
• 1995 - The American President. (120 minutes) Director: Rob Reiner. Cast: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox. Summary: A widowed President of the United States with a young daughter broadens his personal life when he romances a lobbyist. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
  
  

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. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 1950 - Born Yesterday. (103 minutes) Columbia. Director: George Cukor. Screenplay: Albert Mannheimer, from the Garson Kanin play. Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 1979 - The Electric Horseman. (120 minutes) Columbia. Director: Sydney Pollack. Screenplay: Robert Garland. Cast: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Willie Nelson, John Saxon. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 1980 - Hero At Large. (98 minutes) MGM. Director: Martin Davidson. Screenplay: A. J. Carothers. Cast: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)
  
  
• 1984 - Protocol. (96 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Herbert Ross. Screenplay: Buck Henry. Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Gail Strickland. (Comedy Genres: POPULIST COMEDY)

Comedy Genres: PARODY

• Silent Era
  • 1916 - Mack Sennett's Teddy at the Throttle. (1916) Cast: Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery. Comedy Genres: PARODY
  • 1922 - Buster Keaton's The Frozen North (1922) (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  • 1927 - Mack Sennett's Pride of Pikeville (1927) Cast: Ben Turpin. Comedy Genres: PARODY
• 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. Comedy Genres: PARODY
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 1948 - The Paleface. (91 minutes) Paramount. Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Screenplay: Edmund Hartman, Frank Tashlin. Cast: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 1969 - Take the Money and Run. (85 minutes) Palomar. Director: Woody Allen. Screenplay: Woody Allen, Mickey Rose. Cast: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Jackson Beck. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 1975 - Love and Death. (85 minutes) Jack Rollins, Charles H. Joffe Productions. Director: Woody Allen. Screenplay: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 1976 - Murder By Death. (94 minutes) Columbia. Director: Robert Moore. Screenplay: Neil Simon. Cast: Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 1980 - Airplane!. (88 minutes) Paramount. Screenplay/Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)
  
  
• 2001 - Scary Movie 2. (83 minutes) Cast: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Chris Masterson, Tim Curry, Tori Spelling, Chris Elliott. (Comedy Genres: PARODY)

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. (Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR)
  
  
• 1970 - M*A*S*H* . (116 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Robert Altman. Screenplay: Ring Lardner, Jr., based on Richard Hooker's 1968/211 paged novel. Cast: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo An Pflug. (Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR)
  
  
• 1971 - Harold and Maude. (91 minutes PG) Cast: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort. Summary: Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. (Black humor) (Comedy, Drama, Romance)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR)
  
  
• 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. (Comedy Genre: BLACK HUMOR)
  
  
• 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: BLACK HUMOR)

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. Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY
  
  
• 1925 - The Gold Rush. (82 minutes) United Artists. Director: Charlie Chaplin. Screenplay: Charlie Chaplin. Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Goergia Hale, Mack Swain. Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY
  
  
• 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. Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY
  
  
• 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. Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY
  
  
• 1933 - Duck Soup. (70 minutes) Paramount. Director: Leo McCarey. Screenplay: Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby. Cast: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Margaret Dumont. Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY
  
  
• 1934 - It's A Gift. (73 minutes) Paramount. Director: Norman McLeod. Cast: W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Baby LeRoy. Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY
  
  
• 1945 - Road to Utopia. (90 minutes) Paramount. Director: Hal Walker. Screenplay: Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Benchley. Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY
  
  
• 1948 - A Southern Yankee. (90 minutes) MGM. Director: Hal Walker. Screenplay: James Allardice, Martin Rackin. Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis. Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY
  
  
• 1973 - Sleeper. (88 minutes) United Artists. Director: Woody Allen. Screenplay: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck. Comedy Genre: CLOWN COMEDY

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. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 1931 - Frankenstein. (71 minutes) Universal. Director: James Whale. Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Frederick Kerr, Edward Van Sloan, John Boles, Dwight Frye. Based on the 1818/280 paged Mary Shelley novel. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 1942 - Cat People. (75 minutes) RKO. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Screenplay: DeWitt Bodeen. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Tom Conway, Alan Napier. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 1960 - Psycho. (109 minutes) Paramount/Shamley. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay: Joseph Stefano, from 1959/175 paged book by Robert Bloch. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Frank Albertson, Simon Oakland, Patricia Hitchcock. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 1963 - The Birds. (120 minutes) Universal. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay: Evan Hunter. Based on the 1952/242 paged story by Daphne du Maurier. Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/Horror)
  
  
• 1981 - Ms. 45. (84 minutes) Rochelle/Navaron. Director: Abel Ferrara. Screenplay: Nicholas St. John. Cast: Zoe Tamerlis, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto. (Drama/Horror)

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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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.) (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION) (Science Fiction Film/Drama)
  
  
• 1982 - Blade Runner. (124 minutes R) Ladd/Warner Bros. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION) (Fantasy/Science Fiction Film)
  
  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 PG) 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION) (Fantasy/Science Fiction Film)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION) (Fantasy/Drama)
  
  
• 1984 - Repro Man. (92 minutes) Universal. Director and Screenplay: Alex Cox. Cast: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Olivia Barash, Tracy Walter. (Fantasy/fantasy)
  
  
• 1984 - The Terminator. (108 minutes R) Orion. Director: James Cameron. Screenplay: James Cameron and Gale Ann Hurd. Cast: Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION) (Science fiction/Fantasy)
  
  
• 1985 - Back to the Future. (116 minutes PG) Amblin/Universal. Director: Robert Zemeckis. Screenplay: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover. (The Fantastic: SCIENCE FICTION) (Fantasy/Science Fiction Film)
  
  
• 2009 - Time Traveler's Wife. (99 minutes PG-13) Director: Robert Schwentke. Cast: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams. Summary: Chicago librarian Henry De Tamble suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes him to drift uncontrollably back and forth through time. On one of his sojourns, he meets the love of his life, Claire, and they marry. But the problems and complexities of any relationship are multiplied by Henry's inability to remain in one time and place, so that he and his beloved are continually out of sync. Based on the 2003/592 paged novel by Audrey Niffenegger. (Fantasy/Drama)

The Fantastic: FANTASY

• 1902 - A Trip to the Moon. (one reel) Star Films. Director: Georges Melies. Screenplay: George Melies. Cast: uncredited. (The Fantastic: FANTASY)
  
  
• 1924 - Thief of Bagdad. (135 minutes) 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy/History)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy)
  
  
• 1934 - Death Takes A Holiday. (78 minutes) Paramount. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson, Gladys Lehman, and Walter Ferris. Play by Alberto Casella. Cast: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Sir Guy Standing, Katherine Alexander, Gail Patrick. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy)
  
  
• 1937 - Lost Horizon. (118 minutes) Columbia. Director: Frank Capra. Screenplay: Robert Riskin. 1939/272 paged novel by James. Cast: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy/drama film)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy/Adventure)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy)
  
  
• 1946 - It's a Wonderful Life. (129 minutes PG) 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy/Drama)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy/Comedy)
  
  
• 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY)
  
  
• 1948 - Portrait of Jennie. (101 minutes) Selznick International. Director: William Dieterle. Screenplay: Paul Osborn and Peter Berneis. Based on the 1940/125 paged novella by Robert Nathan. Music: Dimitri Timken, Claude Debussy. Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Mystery/Drama/Fantasy)
  
  
• 1964 - Mary Poppins. (140 minutes) Walt Disney Studio. Director: Robert Stevenson. Screenplay: Bill Walsh. From a book by P. L. Travers. Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Elsa Lanchester, Ed Wynn. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy/Musical)
  
  
• 1977 - Star Wars. (119 minutes PG) 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Science fiction/Fantasy)
  
  
• 1978 - Superman. (142 minutes PG) 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Action/Adventure)
  
  
• 1981 - Excalibur. (140 minutes R) 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy/Drama)
  
  
• 1982 - E. T., the Extra-Terrestrial. (120 minutes PG) Universal. Director: Steven Spielberg. Screenplay: Melissa Mathison. Cast: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert McNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy/Science Fiction)
  
  
• 1983 - Splash. (111 minutes PG) 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. (The Fantastic: FANTASY) (Fantasy/Romance)

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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Comedy music)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Romance/Comedy music)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Comedy Music)
  
  
• 1935 - Roberta. (106 minutes) Director: William A. Seiter. Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Robers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Calire Dodd, Victor Varconi. Summary: An American bandleader of the Wabash Indianians arrives in Paris to find that the nightclub owner mistook them for American Indians and does not want them. The bandleader's friend approaches his aunt, the owner of a fashionable dress salon for help. The plot takes us through a gig, the inheritance of the dress shop, and the romance that pursues. (Music: Max Steiner) [PARIS, FRANCE] (Musical)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Comedy music)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Romance)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Drama/Family Drama)
  
  
• 1948 - Romance on the High Seas. (99 minutes) Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day, Don DeFore, Oscar Levant. Summary: Musical showing love and impersonation on a South American cruise. (Comedy music/Romance)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Comedy music/Musical)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Comedy music/Romance)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Comedy music/Romance)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MUSICALS) (Fantasy/Drama)
  
  
• 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: MUSICALS) (Drama/Romance)
• 1982 - Victor/Victoria. (133 minutes) Director: Blake Edwards. Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS)
• 1982 - Victor/Victoria. (133 minutes) Director: Blake Edwards. Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston. (Comedy Genres: FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS) (Romance/Musical)
  
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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. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Melodrama)
  
  
• 1932 - Emma. (72 minutes) Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell. (Comedy-drama)
  
  
• 1933 - A Man's Castle. (75 minutes) Columbia. Director: Frank Borzage. Screenplay: Jo Swerling. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Walter Connelly. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1939 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (116 minutes) Director: William Dieterle. Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwick. Setting: 15th century France. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama)
  
  
• 1939 - Of Mice and Men. (106 minutes) Director: Lewis Milestone. Music: Aaron Copland. Cast: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr., Betty Field. Based on the John Steinbeck novel 1937/187 pages. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS)
  
  
• 1942 - Now, Voyager. (118 minutes) Director: Irving Rapper. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville, Ilka Chase. Music: Max Steiner Summary: Based on an Olive Higgins Prouty novel, Charlotte Vale, a Boston-bred spinster's life is physically and spiritually transformed after a breakdown and treatment by a psychiatrist who supports her overcoming her domineering mother to discover love, heartbreak, and contentment in her own life. [MASSACHUSETTS]
  
  
• 1945 - Bells of St. Mary. (126 minutes) Director: Leo McCarey. Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Melodrama)
  
  
• 1945 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. (128 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Eliz Kazan. Screenplay: Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis. Music: Alfred Newman, Jerry Goldsmith. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Peggy Ann Garner, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, James Dunn. Based on the 1943/528 paged novel by Betty Smith. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama)
  
  
• 1946 - The Best Years of Our Life. (172 minutes) Goldwyn. Director: William Wyler. Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood. Cast: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Cathy O'Donnell. Music: Hugo Friedhofer, Emil Newman. Based on the 1945 M. Cantor novel, Glory For Me.(Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama)
  
  
• 1946 - Brief Encounter. (103 minutes) Cineguild. Director: David Lean. Screenplay: Noel Coward, David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan. Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1947 - Black Narcissus. (102 minutes) Directors: Michael Powell, Emetic Pressburger. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Kathleen Byron. Summary: A group of Anglican nuns are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate and the odd old "harem" palace in which they establish a school and hospital, changes their behavior. Based on the 1939 Rumor Godden novel. (Drama/Melodrama)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama)
  
  
• 1948 - Johnny Belinda. (103 minutes) Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Agnes Morehead. Summary: Story of a deaf mute farm girl on Cape Breton Island. [CAPE BRETON ISLAND] (Based on Elmer Harris 1967/81 ps. Johnny Belinda: A Play in Three Acts) (Drama)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1954 - Magnificent Obsession. (108 minutes) Director: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1955 - All That Heaven Allows . (89 minutes) Director: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead.(Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Melodrama)
  
  
• 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. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1970 - Love Story. (99 minutes PG) Director: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Ali McGraw, Ray Milland. Based on the 1970/131 paged novel by Erich Segal. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1971 - Brian's Song. (73 minutes G) Director: Buzz Kulik. Cast: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Sport)
  
  
• 1981 - On Golden Pond. (109 minutes PG) Director: Mark Rydell. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1986 - Manon of the Spring. (113 minutes PG) Director: Claude Berri Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Daniel Auteuil, Yves Montand. (Songs and Soaps: MELODRAMAS) (Drama)

Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS

• 1927 - The Jazz Singer. (89 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Alan Crosland. Cast: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer. [UNITED STATES] (Jewish Experience) (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama)
  
  
• 1932 - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. (93 minutes) Warner Brothers. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Screenplay: Howard J. Green and Brown Homes, from the story by Robert E. Burns, "I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang." Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Allen Jenkins, Berton Churchill. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Noir)
  
  
• 1940 - Grapes of Wrath. (128 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: John Ford. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson, from the 1939/464 paged novel by John Steinbeck. Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Russell Simpson, Doris Bowdon, John Qualen. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama)
  
  
• 1945 - Lost Weekend. (101 minutes) Paramount. Director: Billy Wilder. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Noir)
  
  
• 1947 - Gentleman's Agreement. (118 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Elia Kazan. Screenplay: Moss Hart, from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, Sam Jaffe. [CONNECTICUT](Jewish Experience) (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama)
  
  
• 1948 - Johnny Belinda. (103 minutes) Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Agnes Morehead. Summary: Story of a deaf mute farm girl on Cape Breton Island. [CAPE BRETON ISLAND] (Based on Elmer Harris 1967/81 ps. Johnny Belinda: A Play in Three Acts) (Drama)
  
  
• 1954 - On the Waterfront. (108 minutes) Columbia. Director: Elia Kazan. Screenplay: Budd Schulberg, based on newspaper series by Malcolm Johnson. Cast: Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Pat Henning.
• 1956 - Storm Center. (85 minutes) Columbia. Director: Daniel Taradash. Screenplay: Daniel Taradash and Elick Moll. Cast: Bette Davis, Brian Keigh, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly, Kevin Coughlin, Joe Mantell, Sally Brophy. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama)
  
  
• 1959 - The Ten Commandments. (220 minutes) Paramount Pictures. Director: Cecil B. Demille. Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, John Derek. (Jewish Experience) (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Action)
  
  
• 1959 - Ben-Hur. (212 minutes) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Director: William Wyler. Cast: Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet. (Jewish Experience) (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Action)
  
  
• 1960 - Exodus. (213 minutes) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Action)
  
  Director: Otto Preminger. Cast: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, David Opatoshu, Lee J. Cobb. (Jewish Experience)
  
  
• 1967 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. (112 minutes) Columbia. Director: Stanley Kramer. Screenplay: William Rose. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Isabell Sanford. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Comedy-drama)
  
  
• 1968 - Funny Girl. (155 minutes) Columbia. Director: William Wyler. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Oma Sharif, Kay Medford, Walter Pidgeon, Mae Questel [NEW YORK] (Jewish Experience). (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Comedy music)
  
  
• 1970 - The Molly Maguires. (124 minutes) Paramount. Director: Martin Writt. Music: Henry Mancini. Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Docudrama/Drama)
  
  Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar. [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)]
  
  
• 1971 - Fiddler on the Roof. (184 minutes G) United Artists. Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Molly Picon, Michael Glaser, Louis Zarich, Neva Small. [RUSSIA] (Jewish Experience) (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Comedy-drama)
  
  
• 1977 - Annie Hall. (94 minutes) United Artists. Director: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon. [UNITED STATES] (Jewish Experience) (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1978 - Coming Home. (120 minutes R) United Artists. Director: Hal Ashby. Screenplay: Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones, based on a story by Nancy Dowd. Music: Paul McCartney Cast: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1979 - The China Syndrome. (122 minutes) Columbia. Director: James Bridges. Screenplay: James Bridges, Mike Gray, T. S. Cook. Cast: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, Wilford Brimley, Daniel Valdez, Richard Herd. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Disaster film/thriller)
  
  
• 1981 - The Chosen. (108 minutes PG) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Jeremy Paul Kagan. Cast: Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Maximilian Schell. [UNITED STATES] (Jewish Experience) (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Historical period drama)
  
  
• 1985 - Alamo Bay. (105 minutes) Tri-Star Pictures. Director: Louis Malle. Screenplay: Alice Arlen, based on Ross Milloy's article, "Vietnam Fallout in a Texas Town." Cast: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen, Donald Moffat, Truyan V. Tran, Rudy Young, William Frankfather. (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama)
  
  
• 1985. Shoah. (503 minutes) New Yorker Films. Director: Claude Lanzmann. (Jewish Experience) (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/War)
  
  
• 1993 - Schindler's List. (195 minutes R) Universal Pictures. Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes. [POLAND] (Jewish Experience) (Non-Traditional Genres: SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS) (Drama/History)

Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS

• 1929 - Disraeli. (90 minutes B&W) Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: George Arliss, Joan Bennett. Summary: Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal. (Adapted from Louis N. Parker 1911 play, Disraeli.) (Drama, Indie film)
  
  
• 1931 - The Dreyfus Case. (90 minutes) Directors: F. W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer. Cast: Cedric Hardwick, Charles Carson, George Merritt. (Biography/Drama)
  
  
• 1932 - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. (93 minutes) Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson. (Based on the 1932/280 paged Robert Elliott Burns book, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang) (Drama/Noir)
  
  
• 1933 - The Private Life of Henry VIII. (98 minutes) Director: Alexander Korda Cast: Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie, Elsa Lanchester. Summary: Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses. (Best actor - Charles Laughton.) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1933 - Queen Christina. (97 minutes NR) Director: Rouben Mammalian. Cast: Greta Garbo, Reginald Owen, John Gilbert. Summary: Queen Christina of Sweden, wise and peace-loving has ruled Sweden since the age of 6, when her heroic father died in battle. Pressured to marry her cousin Karl Gustav and produce an heir, the queen slips away incognito and ends up at a country inn, where she meets and falls in love with a Spanish envoy on his way to the palace. However, Count Magnus, himself in love with the queen, does not approve of her foreign lover. (Drama, Romance) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1936 - The Prisoner of Shark Island. (96 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Warner Baxter, Frank McGlynn Sr., Francis McDonald. Summary: Dr. Samuel Mudd is arrested for being an accomplice to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln when he unknowingly aids an injured John Wilkes Booth following the shooting at Ford's Theater. He's sentenced to life in prison and sent to a treacherous penal colony on a remote island in the Dry Tortugas. But when yellow fever breaks out on the island and strikes the prison's doctor, Mudd's medical training becomes invaluable.(Drama film, Docudrama)
  
  
• 1936 - Rembrandt. (84 minutes) Director: Alexander Korda. Music: Geoffrey Toye. Cast: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester. Summary: Seventeenth-century painter Rembrandt van Rijn suffers the loss of his wife. After an affair with the housekeeper, he finds lasting companionship with his housemaid, causing widespread scandal. Rembrandt's unwillingness to shill his paintings for commercial gain leads to financial difficulty. He navigates between the world of kings and queens and that of lowly beggars, finding his place as an artist. The death of his second wife devastates the painter. (Drama, Biography)
  
  
• 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. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1937 - In Old Chicago. (96 minutes B&W) Director: Henry King. Cast: Don Ameche, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Alice Brady. Summary: In 1871 Chicago, an honest lawyer and his reckless saloon owner brother are two very different men attracted to the same beautiful singer. Personally and professionally at odds, their relationship is tested as one becomes mayor of Chicago, while his brother becomes a leader in disreputable entertainments. Their conflict culminates in the Great Chicago Fire, started by a cow belonging to their mother, Mrs. O'Leary. (Based on Niven Busch's "We the O'Learys".)[Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role to Alice Brady.](Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1937 - The Life of Emile Zola. (116 minutes B&W) Director: William Dieterle. Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut. Summary: After struggling to establish himself, author Emile Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.[Academy Award for Best Picture] (Drama)
  
  
• 1939 - Juarez. (125 minutes) Director: William Dieterle. Warner Bros. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Cast: Paul Muni, John Garfield, Brian Ahern, Claude Rains, Bette Davis, Donald Crisp. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (History)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1939 - Nurse Edith Cavell. (98 minutes) Director: Herbert Wilcox. Cast: Anna Neagle, George Sanders, May Robson, Edna May Oliver. Summary: Real-life English nurse gets British out of Belgium in World War I. [BELGIUM] (Drama,Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1939 - Young Mr. Lincoln. (100 minutes) Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver. Summary: Fictionalized account of Lincoln's life as a young lawyer, meeting his first love, Ann Rutledge who dies tragically, pursuing the law, establishing a law practice in Springfield, and meeting a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder. (Drama film, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1940 - Edison, the Man. (117 minutes B&W) Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson. Summary: Thomas Edison is an enterprising young inventor hungry for achievement. After he sells a version of the stock market ticker that he has perfected, Edison uses the money to open an "invention factory," where he works on projects like the phonograph. When one of his friends boasts that Edison has invented an electric light before any such object exists, Edison must use all of his skill to complete the task, relying on innovation and trial and error. (Biography, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1940 - The Young Tom Edison. (86 minutes B&W) Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Fay Bainter, Virginia Weidler. Summary: During the 1860s, Tom Edison is a precocious boy with a penchant for mischief. After setting off a smoke bomb, he is expelled from his school to the dismay of his father. However, Tom's mother, knows that he is incredibly gifted. After Tom rescues a young boy from an oncoming train, the boy's father, offers him a job in a telegraph office, where's he's finally given a chance to prove himself. (Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 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. Meet: Lou Gehrig. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 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. Summary: Brought to the White House to receive a Congressional Gold Medal from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Broadway legend George M. Cohan reflects on his life through flashbacks. (Biography, Drama, Musical)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1943 - Madame Curie (124 minutes) Director: Melvyn LeRoy. Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon. Summary: Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure. (1944 Best Actress award to Greer Garson) (Based on 1938 novel "Madame Curie" by Eve Curie.) (Drama, Docudrama, Biography)
  
  
• 1944 - The Story of Dr. Wassell. (137 minutes) Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Cast: Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Richard Loo, Dennis O'Keefe. Summary: Based on a true story, a physician from Arkansas risks his life to evacuate wounded American sailors from Java. [JAVA] (Drama, Docudrama)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1947 - Boomerang. (88 minutes) Summary: The true story of a prosecutor's 1924 fight to prove the innocence of a man, Homer Cummings of Bridgeport, CT accused of a notorious murder. (Based upon an article published in The Reader's Digest in 1945) (Drama, Thriller, Crime) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1948 - I Remember Mama. (148 minutes) (Based on the 1943/160 paged Kathryn Forbes memoir, "Mama's Bank Account.") (Drama, Comedy) (Memoir, Biopic)
  
  
• 1950 - Cyrano de Bergerac (112 minutes PG) (Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand. (Drama, Comedy-drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1951 - The Lady With the Lamp (110 minutes) Summary: Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman. (Drama)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1952 - Above and Beyond (122 minutes NR) Summary: Lt. Col. Paul Tibbetts piloted the plane, the Enola Gay, that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War 2. (Action, Biography, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1952 - The Greatest Show on Earth (152 minutes) Summary: The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle at the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. (Drama, Family, Romance) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1952 - Viva Zapata!. (113 minutes) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Elia Kazan. Screenplay: John Steinbeck. Cast: Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn, Harold Gordon, Jean Peters. (Biography, Drama, History) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1954 - Desiree. (110 minutes) Summary: The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France. (Biography, Drama, History) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1955 - Interrupted Melody. (106 minutes) Summary: The film chronicles Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's success, her battle with polio, and her eventual career comeback. (Biography, Drama, Music) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1955 - To Hell and Back. (106 minutes) Director: Jesse Hibbs. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Gregg Palmer, Jack Kelly, Paul Picerni, Susan Kohner. Summary: The heroic Army exploits and feats of heroism of Texas-born, Audie Murphy, during World War II. (Based on the biography of Audie Murphy.) [EUROPE] (Drama, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1956 - Lust For Life. (122 minutes) MGM. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Screenplay: Norman Corwin. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald. Summary: Life of Vincent Van Gogh. (Based on the 1934/431 paged Irving Stone novel.)(Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Drama, Biography) (Biopic) (Anthony Quinn, 1956 Best Supporting Actor Award)
  
  
• 1956 - Somebody Up There Likes Me. (113 minutes) Director: Robert Wise. Writers: Ernest Lehman (screenplay), Rocky Graziano (autobiography). Cast: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane. (Sport, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1956 - The Wrong Man. (105 minutes) Director: The Hitchcocks. Script: Maxwell Anderson. Cast: Henry Fonda. Summary: Manny Balestrero, Stork Club bassist accused wrongly. (Adapted from "The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, A Case of Identity" by Maxwell Anderson.) (Drama, Film noir) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1957 - The Colditz Story. (97 minutes) Director: Guy Hamilton. Cast: John Mills, Eric Portman, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael, Theodore Bikel. Summary: True story of World War II POW plans to escape from a Colditz Castle, Germany's fortress prison. (Based on P.R. Reid 1952/224 paged novel.) [GERMANY] (Drama, War)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1957 - The Helen Morgan Story. (118 minutes) Summary: Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices. (Biography, Drama, Music) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1957 - Spirit of St. Louis. (138 minutes) Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: James Stewart, Patricia Smith. Summary: Story of the 1927 flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris. Lindbergh talks to a fly in the cockpit. [MISSOURI] (Drama, Action) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1958 - Auntie Mame. (143 minutes) Summary: Patrick Dennis, an orphan, goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.(Based on the 1954/280 paged Patrick Dennis novel called "Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade.") (See the 1974 version) (Comedy, Drama, Romance) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1958 - I Want to Live. (120 minutes) Summary: Barbara Graham, a prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence. Meet: Barbara Graham. (Crime, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1958 - Inn of the Sixth Happiness. (158 minutes PG) Director: Mark Robson. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, Robert Donat. Summary: The life of China missionary Gladys Aylward and her cross-country adventurous walk leading a group of orphans away from the war zone. [CHINA] (Drama, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1960 - Inherit the Wind. (127 minutes) Meet: Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates accused of teaching evolution instead of creationsm. (Drama, Historical period drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1960 - Sunrise at Campobello. (143 minutes) Director: Vincent J. Donehue. Cast: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Alan Bunce, Hume Cronyn. Summary: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal fight against polio and his public political activites. [NEW BRUNSWICK] (Based on the 1958/109 pages Sunrise at Campobello by Dore Schary.) (Drama, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1961 - Fly Away Home. (107 minutes) Summary: A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air. (Drama, Coming of Age) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1962 - Birdman of Alcatraz. (149 minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer. Meet: Robert Stroud. (Drama, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1962 - The Miracle Worker. (107 minutes B&W) Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory. Meet: Annie Sullivan. (Drama, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1963 - Miracle of the White Stallions. (93 minutes) Meet: The Spanish Riding School of Vienna's director protects its Lipinzzaner stallions during World War II. (Drama, Family Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1964 - The Unsinkable Molly Brown. (135 minutes) Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell. Summary: A poor, uneducated mountain girl (Margaret Brown) leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life. (Based on a 1960 Broadway musical by Richard Morris.) (Romance, Biography, Music) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1965 - The Sound of Music. (172 minutes G) Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker. Summary: Maria does not fit in at the convent and becomes the governess of the large Baron Von Trapp family, later marrying the baron. They leave Austria during the Nazi invasion. [AUSTRIA] (Drama film, Romance, Biography, Family) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1966 - Born Free. (95 minutes) Meet: Elsa - Meet: Joy Adamson (Adventure, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1966 - A Man for All Seasons. (120 minutes G) Meet: Sir Thomas More. (Drama, History) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1967 - Bonnie and Clyde. (111 minutes R) Warner Brothers. Director: Arthur Penn. Screenplay: David Newman and Robert Benton. Cast: Warren Beatty;, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Drama, True Crime) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1968 - Funny Girl. (155 minutes) Meet: Fanny Brice. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1969 - Che. (95 minutes) Meet: Ernesto "Che" Guevara. (Biopic)
  
  
• 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. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Drama, History)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1971 - BrianŐs Song. (74 minutes G) Brian Piccolo and Gayle Sayers. (Biopic)
  
  
• 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. Meet: Billie Holiday. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Drama, Music)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1972 - Living Free. (90 minutes) Sequel to "Born Free" - Elsa and Joy Adamson. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1973 - Papillon. (150 minutes PG) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon. Summary: Based on Henri Charriere's escape from Devil's Island off the coast of French Guiana. Meet: Henri Charriere. [FRENCH GUIANA] (Drama, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1973 - The Wind and the Lion. (119 minutes PG) Director: John Milious. Cast: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith. Summary: In early 20th century Morocco, a sheikh kidnaps an American women and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.(Action, History) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1977 - MacArthur. (150 minutes PG) Director: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders. Summary: The final military years of Douglas MacArthur as he assumes command of the Philippines in World War II. [PACIFIC FLEET] (Drama, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1979 - Norma Rae. (114 minutes PG) Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman. Summary: A young single mother and textile worker, Norma Rae, agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved. (Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1980 - The Coal Miner's Daughter. (125 minutes PG) Meet: Loretta Lynn. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1980 - Elephant Man. (124 minutes PG) Meet: Joseph Merrick. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1980 - Gideon's Trumpet. (104 minutes NR TV movie) Director: Robert Collins. Cast: Henry Fonda, Jose Ferrer, John Houseman. Summary: The story of Clarence Earl Gideon and his fight for the right to have publicly funded legal counsel for the needy. (Based on the 1964/288 paged "Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court - and Changed the Law of the United States" by Anthony Lewis.)(Biography, Drama, History) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1980 - Raging Bull. (128 minutes R) United Artists. Director: Martin Scorsese. Screenplay: Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin. Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty. (Based on the book by Jake LaMotta.)(Sport, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1981 - Chariots of Fire. (125 minutes PG) Summary: 1924 Olympics (Biopic)
  
  
• 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. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Drama, Romance)(Biopic) Best director Academy Award
  
  
• 1982 - Frances. (131 minutes R) Universal. Director: Graeme Clifford. Screenplay: Eric Bergen, Christopher Devere, and Nicholas Kazan. Cast: Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard. Life of Frances Farmer. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Indie film, Drama)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1982 - Gandhi. (188 minutes PG) Director: Richard Attenborough. Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Martin Sheen, John Mills, Trevor Howard. Summary: Life of the Indian leader. [INDIA] (Drama film, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1982 - A Woman Called Golda. (240 minutes TV movie) Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty. Summary: The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (Drama, History) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1983 - Phar Lap. (107 minutes PG) Meet: The legendary New Zealand-bred racing horse.(Biopic)
  
  
• 1983 - Silkwood. (128 minutes R) 20th Century-Fox. Director: Mike Nichols. Screenplay: Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen. Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Diana Scarwid. Based on the life of Karen Gay Silkwood. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Thriller, Drama)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1984 - Amadeus. (158 minutes) Orion. Director: Milos Forman. Screenplay: Peter Schaffer. Cast: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Jeffrey Jones. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Drama, Comedy-drama)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1984 - The Killing Fields. (142 minutes R) Director: Roland Joffe. Cast: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson. Summary: The experiences of New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg during the war in Cambodia and his friendship with Dith Pran, a Cambodian guide and self-proclaimed journalist. [CAMBODIA] (Drama film, History)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1985 - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. (122 minutes R) Warner Brothers. Director: Paul Schrader. Screenplay: Schrader and Leonard Schrader. Cast: Ken Ogata, Mashayuki Shionoya, Junkichi Orimoto. (Non-traditional Genres: BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS) (Drama, Erotic)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1985 - Out of Africa. (160 min.) Meet: Karen Blixen. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1986 - Barnum. (TV 113min.) Musical about P.T. Barnum. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1986 - Castaway. (117 minutes PG-13) Meet: Gerald Kingsland. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1987 - The Last Emperor of China. (165 minutes) Meet: Puyi. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1988 - Eight Men Out. (119 minutes) Black Sox scandal of 1919. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1988 - Gorillas in the Mist. (129 minutes PG-13) Director: Michael Apted. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris. Summary: Diane Fossey's dedication to the mountain gorillas of central Africa and her mysterious murder. [AFRICA] (Drama, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1988 - Tucker: The Man and His Dream. (130 minutes PG) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Frederic Forrest, Joan Allen, Dean Stockwell, Martin Landau, Mako, Lloyd Bridges, Christian Slater. Summary: Based on the life of Preston Tucker, an entrepreneur and the designer of a 1940s automobile built to compete with the big three automakers. [MICHIGAN] (Drama, Indie film) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1989 - Fat Man and Little Boy. (127 minutes PG-13) Manhattan Project - Robert Oppenheimer. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1989 - My Left Foot. (119 minutes ) Summary: Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. (BAsed on Christy Brown's 1954 autobiography.)(Biography, Drama)
  
  
• 1990 - The Rookie. (121 minutes R) Meet: Jim Morris. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1991 - The Josephine Baker Story. (134 minutes) Meet: Josephine Baker. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1991 - Not Without My Daughter. (115 minutes PG-13) Summary: An American woman, Betty Mahmoody, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well. (Docudrama, Thriller) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1991 - Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. (88 minutes G) Summary: Life of the first female horse diver, Sonora Carver. (Based on "A Girl and Five Brave Horses" by Sonora Webster Carver.) (Drama, Family Drama, Romance)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1992 - The Babe. (115 minutes PG) Meet: Babe Ruth. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1992 - Chaplin. (143 minutes) Meet: Charlie Chaplin.(Biopic)
  
  
• 1992 - A League of Their Own. (118 minutes) Meet: Females in the first professional baseball league.(Biopic)
  
  
• 1992 - Lorenzo's Oil. (135 minutes) Meet: Augusto and Michaela Odone. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1992 - Malcolm X. (222 minutes PG-13) Meet: Malcolm X. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1993 - In the Name of the Father. (133 minutes R) Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis. Summary: A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them. (Based on "Proved Innocent" an autobiographical book.) (Biography, Drama)
  
  
• 1993 - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. (170 minutes) Meet: Lucy Marsden. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1993 - Schindler's List. (185 minutes) Meet: Oskar Schindler. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1994 - Andre the Seal (95 minutes PG) (Harry Goodridge "A Seal Called Andre" 1975/181 ps.)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1994 - Bopha. (120 minutes PG-13)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1994 - The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story. (123 minutes) Director: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Kamala Dawson, Luis Guzman, Nigel Havers, Tomas Milian, Edward James Olmos. Summary: Efforts of rainforest nonviolent activist, Chico Mendes, who stood against slash-and-burn deforestation tactics helping to alert the world to the plight of the Amazon. (Drama, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1995 - Braveheart. (177 minutes R) Meet: William Wallace. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1995 - Jefferson in Paris. (139 minutes) Meet: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1995 - Nixon. (192 minutes) Meet: Richard Nixon. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1996 - Entertaining Angels:The Dorothy Day Story . (112 minutes PG-13) Director: Michael Ray Rhodes. Cast: Moira Kelly, Martin, Sheen. Catholic Worker creator (Biography, Drama, Romance, Indie film)
  
  
• 1996 - Evita. (134 minutes PG) Director: Alan Parker. Cast: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail. Summary: Story of the first lady of Argentina, Evita Duarte Peron. (Based on the pop opera of Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.) (Drama, History)(Biopic)
  
  
• 1996 - Michael Collins. (135 minutes R) Meet: Michael Collins. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1997 - The Education of Little Tree. (115 minutes PG) Cast: James Crowell, Tantoo Cardinal, Joseph Ashton. Summary: 1930s Tennessee's Smoky mountains 8-year-old Cherokee boy coming of age. (Based on the 1976/216 paged novel by Forrest Carter.) (Coming of age, Drama, Memoir)
  
  
• 1997 - In Cold Blood. (134 minutes) Meet: Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1997 - Rosewood. (140 minutes R) Meet: The residents of Rosewood, Florida until New Year's Day 1923. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1998 - Patch Adams. (115 minutes) Meet: 1970s medical student. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1998 - Mrs. Brown. (103 minutes PG) Meet: Widowed Queen Victoria and her husband's servant, John Brown. (Biopic)
  
  
• 1999 - Amistad. (152 minutes) Director: Steven Spielberg. Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Stellan Skarsgard, Matthew McConaughey, Anna Paquin, David Paymer. Summary: In 1839, Cinque and other recent African Bozal Mende captives aboard the Amistad, traveling from one side of Cuba to the other, mutiny, kill the captain, and attempt to sail back to Africa, but end up washing ashore in Connecticut and later being on trial represented by John Quincy Adams. Were they slaves or not? Are they murderers or merely defending themselves? (Drama, History) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1999 - Shergar. (95 minutes PG-13) Meet: Shergar, the Irish-bred, British-trained racehorse kidnapped by the IRA from a stud farm in 1983.. (Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1999 - The Straight Story. (112 minutes) Director: David Lynch. Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek. Summary: 73-year old Alvin Straight, with poor vision and double-caned, drives his 1996 John Deere riding mower, pulling a trailer across Kansas to visit his recently ailing but estranged brother in Wisconsin. (Drama, Action) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1999 - Tuesdays with Morrie. (89 minutes) Summary: A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, Morrie Schwartz at Brandeis University, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society. (Based on the 1997/192 paged novel by Mitch Albom.) (Drama, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 1999 - To Walk with Lions. (110 minutes PG-13) Summary: George Adamson runs a program on the Kora Reserve in Kenya that helps to transition zoo-bred lions into their natural habitat. (Drama, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2000 - Erin Brockovich. (130 minutes R) Director: Steven Soderbergh. Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney. Summary: In 1993, an unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply as the Pacific Gas & Electric class action case. (Biography, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2000 - The Little Horse That Coul: The Connemara Stallion Erin Go Bragh. ( minutes) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2000 - Pollock. (122 minutes) Meet: Jackson Pollock artist. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2000 - Remember the Titans. (113 minutes PG) Meet: The Virginia High School football team. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2001 - Ali. (157 min. R) Muhammed Ali. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2001 - A Beautiful Mind. (136 minutes PG-13) Best picture Oscar - Meet: John Nash by Sylvia Nasar 1998/ (Biopic)
  
  
• 2001 - Iris. (95 minutes R) Director: Richard Eyre. Cast: Judi Dench, Kate Winslet. Summary: True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. (Drama, Romance, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2002 - Frida. (123 minutes R) Meet: Frida Kahlo. Director: Julie Taymor. Cast: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush. Summary: A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage with Diego Rivera into her work. (Based on a Hayden Herrera book.) (Biography, Drama, Romance) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2002 - The Magdalene Sister. (114 minutes R) Director: Peter Mullan. Cast: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone. Summary: Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum. (Drama)
  
  
• 2002 - Operation Dumbo Drop. (108 minutes) Meet: The American use of an elephant in Vietnam. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2002 - The Pianist. (150 minutes R) Meet: Wladyslaw Szpilman. (Based on "The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945.) (Drama, History) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2002 - The Rabbit-Proof Fence. (94 minutes PG) Meet: Molly Craig. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2002 - The Rosa Parks Story. (97 minutes) Meet: Rosa Parks. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2003 - Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust. (100 minutes) Meet: Edith Hahn. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2003 - Seabiscuit. (140 minutes PG-13) Meet: During the Great Depression, a temperamental racehorse succeeds. (Drama, Sport) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2004 - The Aviator. (170 minutes PG-13) Meet: Howard Hughes. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2004 - Finding Neverland. (101 minutes PG) Meet: James Barrie. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2004 - Hidalgo. (136 minutes PG-13) Meet: Hidalgo. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2004 - Hotel Rwanda. (122 minutes PG-13) Summary: Paul Rusesabagina, a Hulu married to a Tutsi wife, was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.(Biography, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2005 - Capote. (114 minutes R) Meet: Truman Capote. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2005 - Duma. (100 minutes R) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2005 - Mrs. Harris. (94 minutes TV movie) Director: Phyllis Nagy. Cast: Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley, Cloris Leachman. Summary: Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris. (Based on a Shana Alexander book.) (Drama, Biography)
  
  
• 2005 - The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. (99 minutes PG-13) Summary: In order to support her ten children, Evelyn Ryan enters a commercial jingle-writing contest. (Based on the 2001/496 paged "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less" by Terry Ryan. (Indie film, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2005 - Walk the Line. (153 minutes PG-13) Summary: Johnny Cash's life from Arkansas cotton farm worker to recording celebrity. (Drama, Romance, Biography, Music) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2005 - The World's Fastest Indian. (127 minutes PG-13) Summary: The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. (Drama, Sport) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2006 - Eight Below. (119 minutes PG) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2006 - Infamous. (110 minutes R) Meet: Truman Capote and Harper Lee. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2006 - The Last King of Scotland. (123 minutes) Meet: Idi Amin. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2006 - Miss Potter. (93 minutes PG) Meet: Beatrix Potter. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2006 - Mrs. Harris. (95 minutes NR) Meet: Jean Harris and Herman Tarnower. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2006 - Pursuit of Happyness. (145 minutes PG-13) Meet: Chris Gardner. (Based on the 2006/320 paged "The Pursuit of Happyness" by Chris Gardner.)(Drama, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2006 - The Queen. (103 minutes) Meet: Queen Elizabeth II. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2007 - Finding Rin Tin Tin. (90 minutes PG) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2007 - Freedom Writers. (123 minutes PG-13) Director: Richard LaGravenese. Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, April Lee Hernandez. Summary: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school. (Drama, Biography, Crime)
  
  
• 2007 - Great Debaters. (123 minutes PG-13) Meet: Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College, Texas. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2007 - Into the Wild. (148 minutes R) (Based on the 1996/207 paged Jon Krakauer book.) (Adventure, Biography, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2007 - A Mighty Heart. (98 minutes R) Meet: Mariane Pearl, the wife of journalist Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal and the Pakistani terrorists who captured her husband. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2008 - Defiance. (137 minutes R) Meet: The Russian resistance fighters. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2008 - Lemon Tree. (Etz Limon) (128 minutes) Cast: Hiam Abbass. Summary: Salma Zidane who must protect haer lemog grove when Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz moves next door. (Drama)(Biopic)
  
  
• 2008 - Marley and Me. (121 minutes) Meet: John and Jenny Grogan. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2008 - Milk. (128 minutes) Meet: Harvey Milk. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2008 - My Boy Jack. (112 minutes) Meet: John Kipling, son of Rudyard and Carrie Kipling, WWI. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2008 - Seraphine. (125 minutes) Director: Martin Provost Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur. True story of Seraphine Louis (aka Seraphine de Senlis), a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases from the scantest materials at hand. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady. [FRANCE] (Drama film, Biography)(Biopic)
  
  
• 2008 - The Stoning of Soraya M. (116 minutes R) Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh. Summary: A distressed Iranian woman, desperately asks for a meeting with a journalist, to disclose the cruel and inhumane punishment of her niece. (Based on the 1990/160 paged "The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Story" by Freidoune Sahebjam book.) (Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - Amelia. (111 min. PG) Meet: Amelia Earhart. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - The Blind Side (129 minutes PG-13) Director: John Lee Hancock. Cast: Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw. Summary: The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. (Based on the 2006/352 paged "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game" by Michael Lewis.) (Biography, Drama, Sport) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - Coco Before Chanel (105 minutes PG-13) Meet: Coco. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (95 minutes PG-13) TV righteous Christian, Irena Sendler. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - Georgia O'Keefe (89 minutes NR) Meet Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Steiglitz. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (90 minutes PG) Meet Dr. Ben Carson. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - Hachi: A Dog's Tale (93 minutes G) Summary: A college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home continues after death.(Based on a true story of Hachi, the loyal dog.) (Drama, Family) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - Invictus (134 minutes G) Meet: Nelson Mandela and the 1995 Rugby World Cup. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - Julie and Julia (123 minutes) Meet: Julie Powell and Julia Child. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - The Last Station (113 minutes) Meet: Leo Tolstoy. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - Mao's Last Dancer. (117 minutes PG) Summary: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. (Drama, Romance) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - Princess Ka'lulani (130 minutes) Meet: Hawaiian Princess Ka'lulani. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2009 - The Soloist (116 minutes) Meet: Nathaniel Ayers. (Based on the 2008/273 paged "The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music" by Steve Lopez.) (Drama, Music) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2010 - The King's Speech (120 minutes R) Cast: Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush. Summary: England's Prince Albert is ascending the throne as King George VI after his brother abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson but he has a speech impediment. (Drama, History) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2010 - Leonie (132 minutes) Meet: Leonie Gilmour. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2010 - Made in Dagenham (103 minutes R) Meet: 1968 Ford Dagenham car plant. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2010 - My Dog Tulip (82 minutes) Meet: J.R. Ackerley memoir. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2010 - Oranges and Sunshine (106 minutes) Meet: Margaret Humphreys. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2010 - Secretariat (123 minutes PG) Meet: the 1973 Triple Crown winning racehorse. (Based on the novel "Secretariat: The Making of a Champion" by Willaim Nack.) (Drama, Docudrama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2010 - Temple Grandin. (120 minutes PG) Director: Mick Jackson. Cast: Claire Danes, Catherine O'Hara. Summary: Before enrolling in college, famed animal husbandry expert Temple Grandin visits a cattle ranch owned by her aunt Ann and demonstrates a brilliance for all things mechanical. She becomes an innovator in the field of animal care, and a lifelong advocate for humane slaughtering practices. (Drama film, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2011 - Buck. (90 minutes) Meet: Nassar Ali Khan. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2011 - Chicken With Plums. (94 minutes PG-13) Meet: Buck Brannaman (the Horse Whisperer). (Biopic)
  
  
• 2011 - The Conspirator. (122 minutes PG-13) Meet: Mary Surratt, and Samuel Mudd, accused of Abraham Lincoln assassination. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2011 - The Intoucables. (102 minutes R) Summary: After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. (Biography, Comedy, Drama) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2011 - Iron Lady. (105 minutes PG-13) Meet: Margaret Thatcher. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2011 - Lady. (132 minutes) Meet: Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2011 - My Week with Marilyn. (101 minutes R) Meet: Colin Clark, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2011 - We Bought A Zoo. (131 minutes PG) Director: Cameron Crowe. Summary: Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo. (Based on the Benjamin Mee 2008/261 paged novel.) (Drama, Comedy) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2012 - Hemingway and Gellhorn. (155 minutes R) Meet: Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2012 - Hitchcock. (98 minutes PG-13) Meet: Alfred Hitchcock. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2012 - Lincoln. (150 minutes) Meet: Abraham Lincoln. (Biopic)
  
  
• 2013 - The Butler. (132 minutes PG-13) Meet: Cecil Gaines.(Biopic)
  
  
• 2013 - Chaplin. (96 minutes) Meet: Charlie Chaplin.(Biopic)
  
  
• 2013 - 42: The Jackie Robinson Story. (128 minutes PG-13) Meet: Jackie Robinson.(Biopic)
  
  
• 2013 - The Jewish Cardinal. (96 minutes) Meet: Jean-Marie Lustiger.(Biopic)
  
  
• 2013 - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. (152 minutes PG-13) Meet: Nelson Mandela.(Biopic)
  
  
• 2013 - Philomena. (98 minutes PG-13) Summary: In 1952, Irish teenager Philomena became pregnant out of wedlock and was sent to a Magdalene Sisters convent. When her son Anthony was born, he was taken from her and put up for adoption. Meet: Philomena Lee. (Based on "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee" by journalist Martin Sixsmith. (Drama, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2014 - Magician: The Astonishing Life & Works of Orson Welles. (96 minutes) Meet: Orson Welles.(Biopic)
  
  
• 2014 - The Theory of Everything. (123 minutes PG-13) Director: James Marsh. Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones. Summary: The life of physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane. (Based on the Jane Hawking book.) (Biography, Drama, Romance)
  
  
• 2015 - Max. (111 minutes) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2015 - A Walk in the Woods. (104 minutes) Summary: After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends. (Based on the 1997/397 paged "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering American on the Appalachian Trail" by Bill Bryson.) (Drama, Biography, Adventury, Comedy) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2015 - Woman in Gold. (114 minutes) Director: Simon Curtis. Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl. Summary: Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. (Drama, History, Biography) (Biopic)
  
  
• 2017 - The Zookeeper's Wife. (127 minutes PG-13) Summary: Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion. (Based on the 2007/288 paged "Zookeeper's Wife" by Diane Ackerman.) (Biography, Drama, History) (Biopic)
  
  

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. (Drama/The Art Film) (Fantasy/Drama)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/The Art Film) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/The Art Film) (Crime/Drama)
  
  
• 1962 - 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. (Drama/The Art Film) (Drama/Romance)
  
  
• 1963 - 8-1/2. (138 minutes) Corinth Films. Director: Federico Fellini. Screenplay: Federico Fellini. Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Claudia Cardinale. (Drama/The Art Film) (Fantasy/Comedy-drama)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/The Art Film) (Drama)
  
  
• 1975 - Night Moves. (110 minutes R) Warner Brothers. Director: Arthur Penn. Screenplay: Alan Sharp. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark. (Drama/The Art Film) (Thriller/Detective fiction)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/The Art Film) (Drama)
  
  
• 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. (Drama/The Art Film) (Drama/Political drama)
  
  
• 1977 - Annie Hall. (93 minutes PG) United Artists. Director: Woody Allen. Screenplay: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon. (Drama/The Art Film) (Drama/Romance)

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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