FR #610 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Mexico | Spanish, Spanish; Castilian
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Alcoriza, Max Aub, Luis Bunuel
Cast
Alfonso Mejia, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda
Plot
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, James Macdonald, James Macdonald, James Macdonald
Plot
When Cinderella's cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq and from her Fairy Godmother.
FR #1160 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Henry Koster
Writer
Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney, Myles Connolly
Cast
James Stewart, Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn, Cecil Kellaway
Plot
A whimsical man is thought to be insane due to his insistence that he is best friends with an invisible, humanoid rabbit, but he may be wiser than anyone knows.
FR #2664 | Movie | Film-Noir, Crime | UK | English
Director
Jules Dassin
Writer
Jo Eisinger, Gerald Kersh, Austin Dempster
Cast
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Herbert Lom
Plot
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
FR #2917 | Movie | Drama | Italy, USA | English, Italian
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei, Gian Paolo Callegari
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana
Plot
Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
While in Washington to lobby for favorable legislation, a garbage tycoon hires a reporter to teach his ex-showgirl mistress proper etiquette to better fit in with high society, but she ends up learning more than he bargained for.
The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
FR #4415 | Movie | Western | USA, Japan | English, Japanese
Director
Henry King
Writer
William Bowers, William Sellers, Andre De Toth
Cast
Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Karl Malden, Richard Jaeckel
Plot
Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, J. Carrol Naish
Plot
A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.
Neighbor Blanche Morton frequently joined Gracie in escapades which annoy hubby Harry and provides George with an opportunity to offer a humorous soliloquy.
A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?
FR #7642 | Movie | Drama | France, Switzerland | French, English
Director
Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer
Jean Cocteau, Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast
Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermithe, Renee Cosima
Plot
The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games.
FR #8405 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Writer
Helen Deutsch, H. Rider Haggard
Cast
Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson
Plot
Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.
Lamar Trotti, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Cast
Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Edgar Buchanan
Plot
Myrna Loy plays the wife of the persnickety father of her 12 children (Clifton Webb), who has uniquely humorous methods for dealing with the ordeals such an unwieldy family undoubtedly encounters.
FR #9423 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Ranald Macdougall, Ernest Hemingway
Cast
John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Wallace Ford
Plot
An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.
FR #9717 | Movie | Family, Fantasy | Germany | German
Director
Paul Verhoeven
Writer
Wilhelm Hauff, Marieluise Steinhauer, Paul Verhoeven
Cast
Lutz Moik, Hanna Rucker, Paul Bildt
Plot
Peter Munk, a poor charcoal burner, lives with his mother in The Black Forest. Poverty prevents him from marrying Lisbeth, the girl he loves. When he comes across the Little Glass Man, the good spirit of the forest, the young man ...
FR #10420 | Movie | Western, Drama | USA | English, Navajo
Director
John Ford
Writer
Frank S. Nugent, Patrick Ford, John Ford
Cast
Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Alan Mowbray
Plot
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
FR #10673 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English
Director
Mitchell Leisen
Writer
Sally Benson, Catherine Turney, Cornell Woolrich
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Henry O'Neill
Plot
A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.
This movie is based on the life of a famous Bengali philosopher, academic educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, reformer, and philanthropist named Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.
FR #11921 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
Irving Pichel
Writer
Alford Van Ronkel, Robert A. Heinlein, James O'Hanlon
Cast
John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Mel Blanc
Plot
"Destination Moon", tells the tale of when Doctor Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer approach Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon.
A wealthy businessman, Changayya, and Ramayya are neighbors in a village and Changayya wants to marry off his son to Ramayya's daughter. But due to unprecedented circumstances, the Two families are estranged and get into frequent ...
Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha witnesses the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey bring the criminals to justice.
FR #12983 | Movie | Comedy | Germany, Brazil | German, Portuguese
Director
Josef Von Baky
Writer
Erich Kastner
Cast
Antje Weisgerber, Peter Mosbacher, Jutta Gunther
Plot
Based on Erich Kästner's famous book about two identical-looking girls who meet at summer camp, realize that they're twin sisters, and plan to switch homes for a while.
FR #13386 | Movie | Drama | Japan | Japanese, German
Director
Yasujiro Ozu
Writer
Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, Jiro Osaragi
Cast
Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara
Plot
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit. She's always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries t...
Harriet Craig enjoys married life but constantly tries to control those around her. She does not even trust her husband Walter and always checks up on him.
FR #13415 | Movie | Western | USA, India | Spanish, Hindi
Director
Anthony Mann
Writer
Charles Schnee, Niven Busch
Cast
Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Beulah Bondi, Wallace Ford
Plot
A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.
FR #13418 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Felix E. Feist
Writer
Seton I. Miller, Philip Macdonald
Cast
Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall
Plot
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his newly-minted detective brother assigned to the case alongside him.
Asha lives a poor lifestyle in a village in India along with her mom and blind dad. When her mom passes away, her dad re-marries another woman, Rukmini, who is cruel and abusive toward Asha as well as makes her do all the work - i...
Indira (Suraiya) is an orphan brought up the strict and uprighteous Rani (Veena). Indira grows up to be a beauty and is sought by three suitors Raj (Raj Kapoor), Kundan (Al Nasir), and Ramesh (Suresh). Rani does not like Indira to...
FR #14410 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher
Writer
Anthony Thorne, Hugh Mills
Cast
Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson
Plot
Vicky Barton visits Paris with her brother Johnny, only to discover the following morning he has gone missing and the hotel staff have no recollection of his presence.
FR #14470 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Shaheed Latif
Writer
Ismat Chughtai, Asghar Jafri
Cast
Kamini Kaushal, Dilip Kumar, Shashikala Jawalkar
Plot
Badal, a clown villager and Kammo are childhood neighbors and grown up playing with each other. They never knew when they fell in love while growing up. They want to marry but Kammo's father is against this marriage as Badal is do...
FR #14914 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Cast
William Hanna
Plot
Tom is in a pool hall after hours; as he soon discovers, Jerry is sleeping in the corner pocket. Tom chases Jerry around the table and the rest of the pool hall.
The Cisco Kid rides through the American frontier with his sidekick, Pancho, fighting corruption with a blend of pride and humor that created a legend in the hearts of generations of television viewers.
A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, causing unexpected problems for both of them.
FR #15157 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Otto Preminger
Writer
Ben Hecht, Andrew Solt, Guy Endore
Cast
Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer
Plot
A woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
FR #15408 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
Jacques Tourneur
Writer
Waldo Salt
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas
Plot
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
FR #15657 | Movie | Biography, Crime | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Samuel Fuller
Writer
Samuel Fuller, Homer Croy
Cast
Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi, Robert Barrat
Plot
Master swindler James Reavis painstakingly spends years forging documents and land grants that will make his wife and him undisputed owners of the entire territory of Arizona.
Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Edgar Buchanan, Spring Byington
Plot
After the Civil War, a highly decorated Shoshone Indian veteran plans to raise cattle in Wyoming but white farmers plan to grab fertile tribal lands by pitting the whites against the Indians.
FR #16164 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Rudolph Mate
Writer
Sydney Boehm, Thomas Walsh
Cast
William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald
Plot
A sharp-eyed woman spots a man with a gun on a train and her alert to the railroad police helps them in their search for a ruthless gang who have kidnapped a blind heiress.
FR #16654 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Robert Cannon, John Hubley
Writer
Dr. Seuss, Bill Scott, Phil Eastman
Cast
Marvin Miller
Plot
The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.
FR #16909 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Robert Mckimson
Writer
Tedd Pierce
Cast
Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg, John T. Smith
Plot
While vacationing in the Ozark Mountains, Bugs Bunny encounters Curt and Pumpkinhead Martin, two dimwitted hillbillies who are duped by Bugs into a violent square dance.
