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Directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Ross Hunter, All I Desire stars Barbara Stanwyck as a stage actress who returns to the small town and family she abandoned. Ten years ago, a turn-of-the-century scandal forced Naomi Murdoch (Stanwyck) to desert her husband (Richard Carlson) and their children for a stage career. Now, returning to their small Wisconsin town to see her daughter in a play, she has hopes of reconciliation. Her appearance is a shock and the town is curious but unforgiving....

An American Tragedy is a powerful pre-code classic that focuses on one man's brazen attempts to climb the social ladder by any means possible. Handsome and ambitious, factory employee Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) has worked his way up to a management role and into the arms of the charming Roberta Alden (Sylvia Sidney). When he meets attractive and wealthy Sondra Finchley (Frances Dee), Clyde must come up with a way to get rid of his desperate former flame before her needs prevent his...

Screen legend Gary Cooper stars as Peter Ibbetson in this unique romantic drama based on the George du Maurier novel. Peter, a successful bachelor, feels no interest in a charming woman named Agnes (Ida Lupino), but longs for his childhood neighbor, Mary (Ann Harding). When he is commissioned by British royalty to rebuild some stables, he is delighted to find that the spirited Duchess is actually his long-lost beloved. Her quick-tempered husband becomes violent when he discovers their past,...

Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, Internes Can't Take Money launched a series of movies and TV programs featuring the famous Dr. Kildare character. Young Dr. Jimmie Kildare (McCrea), interning at a clinic, falls for his patient Janet Haley (Stanwyck). The feeling is mutual but Janet has a secret she will not divulge: She is the widow of a bank robber who hid their daughter before he died and she is desperately trying to find the little girl. She will use anyone - including Dr. Kildare...

Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck stars alongside Robert Cummings and a young Natalie Wood in the outrageous comedy The Bride Wore Boots. Southern heiress Sally Warren (Stanwyck) loves everything to do with horseracing. Her bookish husband, Jeff (Cummings), cannot stand the creatures and would rather spend his time writing. When their incompatibilities land them in divorce court, it will take a little imagination and a lot of luck to restore the love in their hilariously mismatched relationship.

Barbara Stanwyck stars as a once respectable and vibrant wife who has become a desperately out-of-control high roller in The Lady Gambles. A chance visit into a Las Vegas casino introduces Joan Booth (Stanwyck) to the seductive allure of poker and the craps table. All too soon, she ignores her devoted husband (Robert Preston) and older sister (Edith Barrett) as she compulsively chases after hard-hearted Lady Luck.

Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck stars as a 109-year-old woman who recounts the story of her eventful life in The Great Man's Lady. After Hoyt City dedicates a statue to its founder Ethan Hoyt (Joel McCrea), the woman who inspired his achievement, Hanna Sampler (Stanwyck), tells their story to a young biographer. She begins with their elopement in 1848 when she was a headstrong girl of 16 and Ethan was an idealist yearning to build a city in the West. Their future was fraught with difficulties,...

The Private War of Major Benson stars Charlton Heston in a rare comedic role as a tough Army major who discovers his soft spot when engages in battle with a group of young boys at a military academy. Major Benson (Heston) is a seasoned, battle-scarred officer whose inappropriate comments in a magazine article get him transferred to the Sheridan Military Academy. Upon his arrival, he is horrified to learn that the recruits he has been put in charge of are young boys aged six to sixteen. His...

Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland and Patric Knowles star in the rags-to-riches period film Kitty about a young woman from the slums who charts a path to outrageous fortune. After famed artist Thomas Gainsborough paints her portrait, sassy Kitty (Goddard) sees her prospects rise as members of the nobility take note of her unknown beauty. However, when penniless Sir Hugh Marcy (Milland) takes her under his wing and tries to pass her off as a real lady in a lucrative marriage deal, Kitty decides...

Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone star in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, an exciting adventure of the heroic men who guard the British Empire's perilous Khyber Pass in India. Surly Captain McGregor (Cooper) and wry, blue-blooded Lieutenant Forsythe (Tone) are officers in charge of newcomer Stone (Richard Cromwell), the commanding officer's inexperienced son. Motivated by a grudge toward his father (Sir Guy Standing), Lt. Stone allows himself to be captured by the enemy. Foiled in a daring rescue...

Sinister surprises lurk in the dark for Rock Hudson in the riveting thriller, Blindfold. Dr. Bartholomew Snow (Hudson) is a respected New York psychologist recruited to meet with scientist Arthur Vincenti (Alejandro Rey) who suffered from a mental breakdown, while the scientist completes a top-secret military project. Due to the level of the classified work, Snow must be blindfolded when taken to Vincenti's location. When a group of enemy agents gets to the troubled scientist, Snow is the only...

Love has a surprising way of reuniting people in the heart-wrenching and bittersweet drama, Never Say Goodbye, starring Rock Hudson. When Dr. Michael Parker (Hudson) unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife (Cornell Borchers) whom he met during WWII and believed to be dead, he is desperate to resume their relationship and re-introduce her to their daughter. However, after a startling accident puts that proposition on shaky ground, the family must come to terms with the possibility that too...