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- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsVan JohnsonThomas MitchellJanet LeighIn post-Civil War Missouri, friends, relatives and neighbors find it difficult to live harmoniously together knowing that some of them fought on opposing sides during the war.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsWalter PidgeonDeborah KerrAngela LansburyLaurie Anderson reflects on her relationship with her beloved terrier Lolabelle.
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsEdmund GwennDonald CrispTom DrakeWilliam McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim. At the same time he has the bigger problem that he is getting older and must ensure the glen will have a new local doctor ready.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMickey RooneyTom DrakeJune AllysonMusical biography chronicling the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsVan HeflinRobert RyanJanet LeighAn embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.a very good film noir
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJune AllysonPeter LawfordMargaret O'BrienThe four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsWalter PidgeonEthel BarrymorePeter LawfordShortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet authorities to repatriate citizens of the Soviet Union, many of whom prefer not to return to their home country. Billeted in the convent run by Mother Auxilia (Ethel Barrymore), Nicobar, and his military aides Major John "Twingo" McPhimister (Peter Lawford) and Audrey Quail (Dame Angela Lansbury), become involved in the plight of young ballerina Olga Alexandrova (Janet Leigh), who is trying to avoid being returned to Moscow. Nicobar's sense of duty is tested as he sees first hand the plight of the people he is helping return to the Soviet Union; his lack of religious faith is also shaken by his contact with the Mother Superior.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsGlenn FordCharles CoburnGloria DeHavenDr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York. The death of a family member brings most of the family together. A couple of stronger plot incidents than usual for a 1940s film---unwed-pregnancy and botched abortion among them.
- DirectorCompton BennettStarsErrol FlynnGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonLove among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.
- DirectorDon HartmanStarsRobert MitchumJanet LeighWendell CoreyA young widow is torn between a boring attorney and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
- DirectorMelvin FrankNorman PanamaStarsEzio PinzaJanet LeighMillard MitchellAn Italian opera singer (Ezio Pinza) has a marriage of convenience with an innocent fan (Janet Leigh) from Mississippi
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsPaul DouglasJanet LeighKeenan WynnThe Pittsburgh Pirates' brash and abusive manager receives the help of an angel to win games and become a better person in the process.
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsTony MartinJanet LeighGloria DeHavenNancy Peterson and her friends want to get a spot on Bob Crosby's TV show, but their agent has linked them.
- DirectorClarence BrownDon HartmanJohn SturgesStarsEthel BarrymoreKeefe BrasselleGary CooperComprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsJanet LeighPeter LawfordLewis StoneMark MacLene owes the IRS, the banks, and others a lot of money. The problem is that his trust makes $1,000,000 a year, but he spends $150,000 every month. His trustee Sam uses the power of attorney and the spendthrift clause to hire frugal Lucille Duncan to manage Mark's finances. Presented with thousands of dollars for gifts and charges from the previous night, she immediately cancels his charge accounts and returns as many gifts as she can. Then she puts Mark on a allowance of $50 a week, which upsets him even more. To get rid of Lucy, Mark moves in with her and makes sure that her boyfriend Tom receives a huge raise, thinking that Tom will marry Lucy and free him from her tight control.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsStewart GrangerJanet LeighEleanor ParkerIn France during the late 18th Century, a man sets out to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of a master swordsman.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsJanet LeighCarleton CarpenterKeenan WynnA man brings his devoted pet with him when he is drafted into the army. The pet happens to be an adult lion, named Fearless Fagan. Based on a true story.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJanet LeighRobert RyanA bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.an excellent noir western
- DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsVan JohnsonJanet LeighLouis CalhernTexas cattleman Opie Bedloe (Louis Calhern) comes to Maine to visit his son Joe (Van Johnson), a college poetry instructor, and his wife Connie (Janet Leigh) in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch so Opie can retire. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women must have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg (Walter Slezak) to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsTony CurtisJanet LeighTorin ThatcherFrom his beginnings as a "wildman" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.a wonderful biography flick
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsDonald O'ConnorJanet LeighBuddy HackettWorld War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. The band fails to take off and he is forced to join a minstrel show headed by Colonel Wallace. He soon falls for Wallace's niece Chris Hall.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsJames MasonJanet LeighRobert WagnerA young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsDean MartinJerry LewisJanet LeighAn unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
- DirectorRudolph MatéStarsTony CurtisJanet LeighDavid FarrarPeasant Myles Falworth is trained for knighthood and is groomed by various nobles to defeat the evil Earl of Alban who's plotting to usurp King Henry IV's throne.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsRobert TaylorJanet LeighGeorge RaftAfter witnessing a murder, honest cop Eddie Kelvaney is silenced by gangster Dan Beaumonte, prompting Eddie's brother, Detective Chris Kelvaney, to search for the killer.a mediocre film noir