Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era ...
Starring: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White (II)Directed By: Robert Mulligan
Director John Waters broke new boundaries of bad taste with this hilariously trashy tale of suburban misadventure. His favorite leading lady, transvestite Divine, plays Francine Fishpaw, a dissatisfied suburban housefrau who longs for a little romance in her life because her husband and children drive her crazy. Salvation arrives in the form of Tod Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), a drive-in owner who ...
Starring: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, David Samson (II), Mary GarlingtonDirected By: John Waters
The Reivers, based on a William Faulkner novel, is a spirited comedy-drama starring Steve McQueen in a rare character part as Boon Hoggenbeck, a ne'er-do-well, turn-of-the-century Mississippi farm hand and cousin of 11-year-old naif Lucius McCaslin (Mitch Vogel). The arrival of a handsome new automobile purchased by Lucius' grandfather, Boss McCaslin (a golden performance by Will Geer), ...
Starring: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White (II), Michael Constantine, Clifton JamesDirected By: Mark Rydell
Fred Zinnemann's epic drama is a splendid showcase for Audrey Hepburn, who stars as the young nun Sister Luke, who is deeply spiritual yet conflicted about whether or not she can conform to convent life. Though the film is a mesmerizing--and quite leisurely--two and a half hours, its plot is fairly simple--young Gabrielle (Hepburn) enters the convent pledging her life to God, learns the ...
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean JaggerDirected By: Fred Zinnemann
After starring in the now-legendary trilogy of spaghetti Westerns for Italian director Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood became a box-office star and imported the style of those classic shoot-'em-ups for this 1967 Western directed by Ted Post, with whom Eastwood had worked during their days on the television series Rawhide. Eastwood plays an innocent rancher who is mistaken for a cattle rustler ...
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Ben JohnsonDirected By: Ted Post
The first, and only, X-rated film to win a best picture Academy Award, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy seems a lot less daring today (and has been reclassified as an R), but remains a fascinating time capsule of late-1960s sexual decadence in mainstream American cinema. In a career-making performance, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a naive Texas dishwasher who goes to the big city (New York) ...
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda VaccaroDirected By: John Schlesinger
Cast a Giant Shadow is based on Ted Berkman's biography of Colonel Mickey Marcus, the American soldier who served as an adviser in the fight to establish the state of Israel in 1948. Marcus (played by Kirk Douglas) must decide whether to settle into peacetime America or follow his more natural, combative instincts abroad--a dilemma symbolized by a love triangle involving wife Angie ...
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson, James Donald, Stathis GiallelisDirected By: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Nicholas Selby, David Garfield (II), John Blythe, Tilly Tremayne, Eric DodsonDirected By: Roger Jenkins, Christopher Barry (III), Kenneth Ives
