A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.

This timeless story of corporate greed and political scandal could have easily been ripped from yesterday's headlines. A hard-boiled, street-wise newspaper reporter (played by Pat O'Brien) is determined to untangle the questionable activities of a big Wall Street investment firm, leading him into the path of mob bosses and an unsolved murder along the way. A prescient document of unscrupulous banking behavior in the days just before The Great Depression, this film is intriguing and perfectly...

William Holden and Nancy Kwan star in this soul-searching look at an East-meets-West romance. He's a struggling American artist who's down on his luck. She's a beautiful Chinese prostitute who captures his heart. The scenery is as spectacular as the colorful and exotic streets of Hong Kong in this wonderfully warm story about the strength of true love. Nancy Kwan was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Motion Picture Drama. George Duning was nominated for the Golden Globe...

Von Stroheim plays a financier who funds the work of scientist Dauphin who has an amazing invention a machine that can predict the date and time of your death. This turns the world on its ear, causing market crashes and other calamities with its dire predictions all of which come to pass. Dauphin is swept up by his success and turns into an ego-maniac, lusting for power, while Von Stroheim comes up with a nefarious plan of his own. Dauphin's gizmo is a huge machine with scads of connections,...

"Millions Flee from Cities! End of the World!" From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton (Harry Belafonte) surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then, a woman (Inger Stevens) appears and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor (Mel Ferrer) arrives. Unlike other postapocalyptic thrillers, from The Time Machine to I Am Legend, there are no external monsters to...

The Wrong Man is like and unlike any other Alfred Hitchcock movie. The story is packed with tension, the images are spellbinding, and the dilemma is genuinely frightening. But this time, the master of suspense dramatizes the harrowing true experiences of a man tried for crimes committed by a lookalike robber. Henry Fonda plays musician Manny Balestrero, a man full of visible but unspoken rage at his wrongful arrest. Vera Miles is his distraught wife, Rose, driven to madness by the ordeal. And...

Henry Fonda stars in director Alfred Hitchcock's real-life thriller of Academy Award winner Henry Fonda stars in director Alfred Hitchcock's real-life thriller of an innocent man trapped as the victim of a heartless criminal justice system--even though he's The Wrong Man.

The Wyoming Whirlwind (BW, 1932): A masked man called "The Wolf" steals a strongbox from Steve Cantrell's ranch. Judy Flagg, a pretty newcomer to town, is almost killed in the robbery, but is saved by the timely intervention of Keene Wallace. The mysterious stranger reveals his secret to the girl -- That he is "The Wolf!" He seeks proof that Cantrell killed his father and stole the family ranch years before. With Judy's help, Wallace swears to bring the crooked rancher to justice. But as long...

No one in their right mind would mess with the house of the 13 sisters. so when a corrupt local lord thinks he has made himself a harem overnight by kidnapping12 of the 13 sisters he and his partners in crime learn that 13 is truly an unlucky number for them when the last sister proves how unbreakable the bond of sisters truly is.

From a movie era that explored - in films like Rebel Without a Cause, Blackboard jungle and High School Confidential! - what the day's media called "juvenile deliquency" comes an uncommon cowboy composite of disaffected youth and Western action. Twenty-one-year-old Russ Tamblyn portrays Tully, trying to make good in Chalmers. Wyoming. but maligned by many because of his outlaw father. After a brawl forces Tully to leave, he falls in with young toughs in nearby Black Crater. There, Tully...

Academy Award winner Paul Newman stars as a young attorney who seems ruthlessly focused on money, career and social climbing, but who surprises everyone by risking everything to defend a friend accused of murder--and proving his friend's innocence.Robert Vaughn received one of three Academy Award nominations for the film.

A young woman is saddled with the task of evicting an entertainment company from a building her aunt owns. When she meets the rag-tag band of musicians, she decides to help them keep their lease.

An outlaw gang's hopes of a pardon are threatened when they're framed for crimes they didn't commit, in this action-packed Technicolor Western adventure, which stars Wayne Morris, Janis Paige and Robert Hutton. Promised their freedom if they keep out of trouble, paroled bank robbers Cole (Morris), Jim (Bruce Bennett) and Bob Younger (James Brown) join kid brother Johnny (Hutton) in Cedar Creek, Minnesota, unaware that their troubles have already begun. Set up by Daniel Ryckman (Fred Clark), an...

"Forty-five? And falls in love?" Lally Marlett laughs off the thought that her middle-aged father could still feel the flame of romance -- until he runs off with another woman. Shocked and embittered, Lally accompanies her mother on a vacation in an attempt to put the past behind them. But the past catches up when she falls for a polished charmer who, unknown to her, is the son of her father's paramour. Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery headline Their Own Desire, scripted by woman's-picture...

Man has split the atom and ushered in a new era. But how could he know he would also create Them? Them! is a landmark movie about giant radiation-mutated ants that gets better with age and boasts remarkable, Academy Award -nominated special effects. Starring James Whitmore, James Arness and Edmund Gwenn, Them! begins in New Mexico with a child wandering in shock, a ransacked general store -- and a battered corpse full of enough formic acid to kill 20 men. It ends with an epic struggle in the...

A Harley Roadster, a bedroll, a lonely stretch of highway: Jim Bronson (Michael Parks) is traveling where the road and the day take him, trying to make sense of things after the suicide of his close friend. He doesn't go far along a magnificent stretch of California's coastal Big Sur before he meets Temple Brooks (Bonnie Bedelia), a runway bride just as adrift as Jim is. Together, they'll ride that Harley all the way to New Orleans. Together, they might find what they're looking for. The pilot...

Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts -- especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him. Academy Award winner* Joseph L. Mankiewicz cleverly lassos a twisting, turning Wild West tale of brawls, chases, shootouts and wry wit, courtesy of a script by David Newman and Robert...

Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts -- especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas

Directed by Douglas Sirk, There's Always Tomorrow stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in an absorbing drama about family life, marriage and the temptation of past romances. Clifford Groves (MacMurray) wants to spend more time alone with his wife, Marion (Joan Bennett), but her domestic duties keep her busy. Alone on a getaway weekend he had planned with Marion, Clifford runs into Norma (Stanwyck), a stunning former employee - and old flame - who is now successful, divorced and seemingly...

Jane Thomas (Lana Turner) has everything: beauty, youth, brains. Everything except breeding or what passes for breeding among the snooty mean girls she meets at a college house party. Radiant 18-year-old Turner was on the cusp of fame when she made this smart, perceptive comedy-drama about a dime-a-dancer invited to a swank soiree by a drunken college boy (who regrets his socially humiliating impulse once he sobers up). Jane can turn tail for home or turn the tables on the arrogant upper...

An average cowboy aspires to bigger things in life, so he borrows money from his girlfriend to buy a ranch, and then promptly dumps her for a banker's daughter. His aspirations continue to rise and he runs for political office, which prompts him to join a posse led by a bully who is in search of the cowboy's best friend, who has become a rustler. Playing the political game, the cowboy watches in silence as his best friend is lynched. The cowboy finally regains his sense of right and wrong when...

College friends Karen Wright (Merle Oberon) and Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) run a thriving rural Massachusetts girls' school. Karen is in love with local doctor Joe Cardin (Joel McCrea), and they plan to marry soon. Then an incorrigible, vindictive student tells a shocking fib and the lives and futures of Karen, Martha and Joe come crashing down in one of Hollywood's most gripping depictions of what writer Lillian Hellman simply called "the power of a lie." Reshaping her daring 1934 play The...

James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck shine in their only screen pairing, a powerful story of loss and regret costarring Walter Pidgeon. After 20 years, middle-aged steel magnate Steve Bradford (Cagney) has decided to return to his hometown to take care of some unfinished business. Determined to find the son he fathered while still in high school, he tangles with orphanage director Ann Dempster (Stanwyck), who refuses to give him the young man's name. Turning to the courts in a brazen attempt to...

When a prostitute is murdered in San Francisco's ritzy Nob Hill district, an anonymoustip implicates minister and political crusader Reverend Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau). Lt. Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), who has known Sharpe for many years, asks to beassigned to the case in hopes of clearing his friend's name. So begins the detective's journey through a twisted maze of baffl ing evidence, frantic chases, deadly gunfi reand bad alibis. Before long, Tibbs finds himself bitterly torn between...