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Rebecca is an ageless, timeless adult movie about a woman who marries a widower but fears she lives in the shadow of her predecessor. This was Hitchcock's first American feature, and it garnered the Best Picture statue at the 1941 Academy Awards. In today's films, most twists and surprises are ridiculous or just gratuitous, so it's sobering to look back on this film where every revelation ...

Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
Starring: Judith Anderson, Florence Bates, Nigel Bruce, Leonard Carey, Leo G. Carroll
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

One of the top five screwball comedies of the '30s, this helped to cement a genre that waxed golden until the end of WWII. Director Leo McCarey won an Oscar for Best Director for this 1937 romantic comedy--one of the most successful films of his career. Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are a squabbling couple who separate because of supposed infidelities on both sides. They part but cannot really keep ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham
Directed By: Leo McCarey

Disney's Great Locomotive Chase relates a true Civil War story about the Andrews Raiders, a team of 22 Union spies. In 1862 they snatched a train out from under the normally watchful eyes of Confederate troops based near Atlanta in a daredevil attempt to wreck the track and bridges of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. It was a high-stakes operation with a huge payoff. If they succeeded, they ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton, Eddie Firestone
Directed By: Francis D. Lyon

Halftime is party time in this high-energy comedy about a gifted street drummer (Nick Cannon) who snares the top spot in a university marching band - but quickly discovers it takes more than talent to succeed. Featuring a hip-hop soundtrack and dazzling dance moves, Drumline "shakes, rattles and rolls the house!" (Washington Post)

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones, Leonard Roberts, GQ
Directed By: Charles Stone III

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Shirley Temple, Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Directed By: John S. Robertson

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, William Powell, Frank Morgan, Jessie Ralph
Directed By: Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice, Richard Boleslawski

Josef von Sternberg gets really exotic here with Marlene Dietrich and the story of her adventures on a train en route to Shanghai, where she is reunited with a lover who jilted her (Clive Brook). When the train is overtaken by Chinese rebels, Brook is held hostage and the rebel leader (Warner Oland of Charlie Chan fame) takes a liking to Dietrich. The notorious adventurer fiendishly strikes ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette
Directed By: Josef von Sternberg

The whirlwind comedy Bombshell deserves a place in the pantheon next to such screwball cinema classics as Bringing Up Baby and My Man Godfrey. The incomparable "laughing vamp" Jean Harlow, for whom the term bombshell might well have been coined, scintillates in this ferocious exposé of the Hollywood studio system. Harlow essentially plays herself: a platinum blond sex ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien
Directed By: Victor Fleming

Starring: John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Bottoms, Irene Miracle, Michele Carey, Leonard Trolley
Directed By: Raju Patel

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Shirley Temple, Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Directed By: John S. Robertson