"Titanic" tells the story of passengers aboard the famous ill-fated ocean liner. The excellent script by Charles Brackett (also the producer), Richard L. Breen, and Walter Reisch won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The story centers on an estranged couple from Michigan, played by Barbara Stanwyck [..]

"Islands in the Sky" is an adventure film about the crash of a U. S. military plane in a remote region of Canada and the crew's struggle for survival in the dead of winter, hoping and waiting for rescue. Director William Wellman ("The Next Voice You Hear..." [..]

"The Naked Spur" is a western drama about a bounty hunter who tries to bring a murderer to justice with the help of two less than trustworthy strangers. The story is from an excellent script by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom, who were nominated for [..]

Ronald Reagan and Rhonda Fleming star in "Tropic Zone," where he plays a Central American banana plantation foreman helping to protect his boss lady against land grabbers. The somewhat predictable but wildly entertaining B-movie was well directed and written by Lewis R. Foster ("Hong Kong" 1952). [..]

"Kiss Me Kate" is a musical film adaptation of Bill Shakespeare's play "Taming of the Shrew." Director George Sidney ("Viva Las Vegas" 1964) and screenwriter Dorothy Kingsley put together this winsome movie featuring the songs of Cole Porter. The scoring by Andre Previn and [..]

Musical comedy reigns supreme in "By the Light of the Silvery Moon," where Doris Day and Gordon MacRae play a small-town Indiana couple resuming their relationship after his return from World War I. The title song was just one of many musical numbers written by Gus Edwards and [..]

"Beat the Devil" is a drama film telling the story of a group of adventurers waiting in an Italian port to travel to Africa to search for valuable uranium deposits. Director John Huston ("The African Queen" 1951) put together a tedious, confusing, and poorly paced movie which seems [..]

The destination is Paris where we find "Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation." This sixth film appearance with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as the Kettles finds the happy couple becoming entangled in international espionage, invited to Europe by their oldest son's in-laws, played by Ray [..]

"Go West" is a silent film comedy-drama about an out-of-work young man from New York City who travels west to find his fortune. He is hired at a cattle ranch, becomes attached to a cow named Brown Eyes, and is distraught when the owner sells the cattle to [..]

Great stars, an exciting storyline, and beautiful location shoots in Africa in Technicolor are all factors in MGM's "Mogambo." Director John Ford ("Stagecoach" 1939) superbly handled an all-star cast in this story about a group of people on an African safari with loads of romantic drama and intrigue [..]