The Best Picture of 1957 is....."The Bridge on the River Kwai." This epic World War II film tells the story of British POWs, held in Thailand, ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance. However, the British are happy to delay and sabotage the [..]

"Hellcats of the Navy" is a World War II movie about a submarine commander who makes a tough decision to abandon a combat diver. His second-in-command questions his difficult choice, as it comes to light that the two men had romantic interests in the same woman, a [..]

Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn began their legendary collaboration (both professional and private) in 1942 in "Woman of the Year." It tells the story of two journalists married to each other and the stresses and strains upon their marriage by differing political and social views. [..]

"Saboteur" is yet another Alfred Hitchcock motion picture classic. This exciting and absorbing spy thriller tells the story of a factory worker in Burbank, California, falsely accused of starting a fire at the aircraft plant where he is employed. He then goes on a cross country trek to [..]

Ronald Reagan delivered one of his most critically acclaimed performances in "King's Row." The story of a young man who has his legs amputated is actually one of several subplots in this complex, and somewhat dark, motion picture. It was unusual for the World War II [..]

Orson Welles' second film after 1941's classic "Citizen Kane" was another gem based on a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington. "The Magnificent Ambersons" tells the story of the trials and tribulations of a wealthy Indianapolis family in the early 1900's, with the new "horseless carriage" prominent in the [..]

"Drunk Parents" is a comedy movie about a couple facing a series of financial challenges. His once successful business is on the verge of bankruptcy, their house is in foreclosure, and they have just sent their daughter to an Ivy League college. The couple escape their financial [..]

"The Man Who Came to Dinner" is a screwball comedy about a New York City radio star who slips and falls on the steps of a home of a family in Ohio. He insists on recuperating in their home during the Christmas holiday, with the family [..]

Carole Lombard's final motion picture was "To Be or Not to Be," a dark comedy about an acting troupe in Nazi-occupied Poland who use their performing talents in the resistance movement. Producer-director Ernest Lubitsch ("Ninotchka" 1939) put together this efficaciously entertaining film with screenwriter Edwin Justus [..]

"Larceny, Inc." is a gangster-comedy-holiday film starring Edward G. Robinson as a prison convict who decides to go straight, but is continually tempted to return to a life of crime. Just before he is released from Sing Sing prison, he is already approached by former "associates" to rob [..]