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Ben-Hur (1959)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Lew Wallace, Karl Tunberg, Gore Vidal
Cast Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
Plot A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
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Roman Holiday (1953)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton
Cast Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Plot A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Robert E. Sherwood, MacKinlay Kantor
Cast Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March
Plot Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
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The Heiress (1949)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz, Henry James
Cast Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
Plot A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man her emotionally abusive father suspects is only a fortune hunter.
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Mrs. Miniver (1942)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton
Cast Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Plot A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
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Wuthering Heights (1939)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht, Emily Bronte
Cast Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
Plot A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
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The Little Foxes (1941)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Lillian Hellman, Arthur Kober, Dorothy Parker
Cast Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
Plot The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.
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How to Steal a Million (1966)
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Director William Wyler
Writer George Bradshaw, Harry Kurnitz
Cast Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach
Plot The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father's forgeries and protect his secret.
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The Big Country (1958)
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Director William Wyler
Writer James R. Webb, Sy Bartlett, Robert Wilder
Cast Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker
Plot A New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.
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Funny Girl (1968)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Isobel Lennart
Cast Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Plot The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s: her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld Girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.
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Jezebel (1938)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, John Huston
Cast Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
Plot In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
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The Letter (1940)
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Director William Wyler
Writer W. Somerset Maugham, Howard Koch, Andree Levy
Cast Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
Plot The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.
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Dodsworth (1936)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Sinclair Lewis, Sidney Howard, Robert Wyler
Cast Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas
Plot A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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The Children's Hour (1961)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Lillian Hellman, John Michael Hayes
Cast Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
Plot A schoolgirl ruins her two headmistresses with a scandalous lie.
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The Collector (1965)
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Director William Wyler
Writer John Fowles, John Kohn, Stanley Mann
Cast Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne
Plot A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.
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The Westerner (1940)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Jo Swerling, Niven Busch, Stuart N. Lake
Cast Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
Plot Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.
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Dead End (1937)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Lillian Hellman, Sidney Kingsley
Cast Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
Plot The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
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The Desperate Hours (1955)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Joseph Hayes, Jay Dratler, Marcel Lebreton
Cast Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy
Plot Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
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Detective Story (1951)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler, Sidney Kingsley
Cast Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix
Plot On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.
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Friendly Persuasion (1956)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Jessamyn West, Michael Wilson
Cast Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins
Plot The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.
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These Three (1936)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Lillian Hellman
Cast Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
Plot Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.
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Carrie (1952)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Theodore Dreiser, Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz
Cast Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins
Plot A young girl from a provincial town learns the bitter reality of a big city and great love.
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The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Jerome Chodorov, Lester Koenig, William Wyler
Cast Stanley Wray, Robert Morgan, James A. Verinis
Plot A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
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Come and Get It (1936)
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Director Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson
Writer Edna Ferber, Jane Murfin, Jules Furthman
Cast Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer
Plot An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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The Good Fairy (1935)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Jane Hinton, Ferenc Molna¡r, Preston Sturges
Cast Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan
Plot A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.
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Counsellor at Law (1933)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Elmer Rice
Cast John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon
Plot A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.
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The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
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Director H.C. Potter, Stuart Heisler, William Wyler
Writer S.N. Behrman, Sonya Levien, Leo McCarey
Cast Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly
Plot A lonely socialite masquerades as a maid and meets an unpretentious, plain-spoken cowboy who is unaware of her true identity.
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Hell's Heroes (1929)
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Director William Wyler
Writer Peter B. Kyne, Tom Reed, C. Gardner Sullivan
Cast Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
Plot Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
