SAVED IT! 1920's &up...
Titles in our media library that we've saved over the years on vhs trying to find time to transfer to dvd-r. Have so many movies and friends are always asking to borrow favorites or movies they heard of but have never seen, so hoping this list will help us organize our collection :)
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- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsMarlene DietrichFred MacMurrayAline MacMahonIn order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor.
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsJerry LewisHarold J. StoneSusan Bay NimoyOn a San Diego beach, Gerald Clamson fishes out of the water a look-alike frog man who gives him a map to a stash of stolen-diamonds coveted by several crime syndicates.
- DirectorFrank PerryStarsBarbara HersheyRichard ThomasBruce DavisonDuring summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsJean SimmonsJohn ForsytheShirley JonesA middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRobert YoungAnn SothernReginald OwenArtificial-silk manufacturer Hank Medhill has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave her groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common and they separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date whoever it is. That date results in a wild, frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan. Hank goes home to Eleanor to discover her with another man, Vance. Vance isn't just any man, though; he's Eleanor's husband.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsClaudette ColbertMelvyn DouglasMichael BartlettAn efficient secretary at a department store marries her boss, but discovers that taking care of him at home is a lot different to taking care of him at work.
- DirectorMel FerrerStarsClaudette ColbertRobert RyanJane CowlA woman preparing to marry her fiance is accused of bigamy by a stranger but she fights back by trying to prove she's the victim of a conspiracy designed to discredit her.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsMarilyn MaxwellPaulette GoddardEva GaborThe story of a dress and the effects it has on the women who wear it begs the question of where is O.Henry when he is needed. "Nude at Midnight", a new and daring Paris style creation is worn by Gogo Mantaine to try and ensnare the Rajah of Kim-Kepore but he is attracted to Lisa, the girl who modeled the dress. Marion Parmelee dons the gown to charm her husband's retiring (as in quitting) boss, Patrick James Sullivan, into letting her husband, Jack Parmelee take over the business, but the boss' wife Nora, who really runs the business, has other ideas. The same model dress is worn by Betty Barnes, in an effort to attract her boss, lawyer Edgar Blevins, who is married to a dowdy wife, Cora, but the wife turns up wearing the same dress. Marta Jensen uses the dress to inveigle her reluctant sweetheart, Charlie Johnson into a marriage proposal. Since she also attracts the Rajah, her options expand.
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsPaulette GoddardMichael WildingDiana WynyardA prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
- DirectorRobert B. SinclairStarsLuise RainerPaulette GoddardAlan MarshalAspiring actress Louise Mauban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her co-student Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsEdward G. RobinsonJean ArthurArthur HohlA meek milquetoast clerk is mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsLionel BarrymoreMaureen O'SullivanEric LindenThe countrymen in the hills of Missouri take the hounds on night fox hunts. This goes on until Jacob Terry comes into the county and decides to raise sheep and install a woven wire fence. This upsets the neighbors since the dogs would not harm the sheep and they would be hurt running into the fence at night. Jacob vows to shoot any dogs or people that he finds on his land. Benjy Davis is in love with Camden Terry; this alone causes problems, but when the hound Bugle Ann goes missing one night, both sides are out with guns to settle the score.
- DirectorEdward KillyStarsVan HeflinMarian MarshRichard LaneA college football star struggles to return integrity to the game.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsPreston FosterJean MuirVan HeflinA California mining camp is plagued by a series of murders. Four people come under suspicion for the killings and are swiftly run straight out of the camp. During a blizzard they take refuge in an isolated cabin, and conflicts break out among them.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsMacdonald CareyAlexis SmithEdgar BuchananReleased after serving 15 years in prison for train robbery Pete Carver being the only survivor of the gang goes looking for the loot in the caves where it was hidden.
- DirectorAntony DarnboroughTerence FisherStarsJean SimmonsDirk BogardeDavid TomlinsonVicky Barton visits Paris with her brother Johnny, only to discover the following morning he has gone missing and the hotel staff have no recollection of his presence.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsStewart GrangerJean SimmonsHelen CherryWhen a friend dies, a gambler adopts his daughter. Complications ensue.
- DirectorKen AnnakinHarold FrenchStarsJames HayterKathleen HarrisonFelix AylmerThree short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All", and "The Sanatorium" are introduced by the author.
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRoddy McDowallLaurette LuezRoland WintersA college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident in which his father and a crewman are badly injured, he tries to make up for it by rounding up another crew and going back out on the hunt. However, things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsBrigitte BardotMarcello MastroianniNicolas BatailleWhen Jill becomes a movie star she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won't leave her alone. Her mother's ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.
- DirectorJack SherStarsTommy SandsFabianToby MichaelsA college student and his best female friend and fellow student plan to spend the Easter holidays together. Then an Italian seaman shows up and creates a love triangle.
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsBing CrosbyFabianTuesday WeldWidower and hamburger restaurateur Harvey Howard decides to go to college at 51 years of age. Resisting the easy path, he insists on not receiving preferential treatment, and lives in a dorm like the other students despite the disapproval of his grown son and daughter. As the years pass, and he gets involved in study sessions, fraternity initiations, and sporting events, he begins falling in love with Professor Gautier, the French teacher, but doesn't consider re-marrying appropriate.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsKaren MorleyEdward ArnoldFrankie ThomasA boy is miserable when his parents get divorced and can't seem to fit him into their new lives.
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsEdward ArnoldFay BainterRichard NeyA Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsClaude RainsFay BainterJackie CooperA homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsStuart ErwinRochelle HudsonPert KeltonA well-meaning but bumbling clerk at the Marriage License Bureau winds up getting fired. He decides to open up his own "matchmaking" business and takes a personal interest in his clients, but things don't quite work out as smoothly as he had planned.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsBarbara StanwyckGeorge BrentDickie MooreAfter Selina's father dies, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsBarbara StanwyckGeorge BrentGeraldine FitzgeraldThree wealthy orphans attempt to defend their ownership of their family's property, but financial and romantic problems set in.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJackie CooperRobert CooganMitzi GreenSkippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsBonita GranvilleDolores CostelloDonald CrispDrama about a problem child and her problem parents.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsEddie CantorJudith AndersonRalph MorganAn out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsBonita GranvilleKent SmithJean BrooksThe teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRobert WalkerKeenan WynnJean PorterThe further adventures of Hargrove as he and his scheming pals take France by storm during World War 2.
- DirectorCharles MartinStarsVan JohnsonKeenan WynnPat KirkwoodThe men are coming home from war and Slinky decides his hero buddy Michael should first appear on a radio program. The good-natured and talented sergeant meets radio singer Susan where he finds love in-between songs.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsHoward KeelPolly BergenMarjorie MainThe temperamental Carol Maldon leaves New York behind to take control of her father's stable, she inherited. Rick Grayton is a horse racing trainer who lucked into training a champ, the horse 'Gay Fleet'. Only nobody knows 'Gay Fleet' is any good yet. Rick has been intentionally losing so that he can buy the horse with a low-ball offer to the owner Carol. However Mercedes Bellway, a rival barn and in love with Rick, figures out his plan and tells Carol.
- DirectorWilhelm ThieleStarsFrank MorganFlorence RiceJohn BealA con man must pass himself off as the owner of a château on the French Riviera when he is expected to host his estranged daughter's wedding.
- DirectorWilhelm ThieleStarsFrank MorganBillie BurkeAnn RutherfordA missing man returns and learns his wife collected on his life insurance.
- DirectorAlex SegalStarsRichard ChamberlainYvette MimieuxArthur KennedyIn 1927, Carl Brown marries Annie McGairy and goes to college, but taking his young wife with him creates difficult challenges for both of them, for their parents back home, and for the campus faculty.
- DirectorJack HivelyStarsAdolphe MenjouGloria SwansonJohn HowardFrederick Osborne Junior is slightly agitated because his father, Senior, is acting more like a college student than the president of a huge mercantile fleet. Senior reveals that he is going to marry Leslie Collier, the famous stage star, and Junior and his wife Enid are horrified and expect the worst from the hot-tempered father and the volatile actress. They have been married only five minutes before they have a quarrel, and have to be carried out of the house to begin a sea-voyage honeymoon. Carlos, a penniless stowaway with a high opinion of his singing ability, is invited to stay with Senior and his bride when they return to New York, with the idea that sponsoring Carlos' career will give Leslie the limelight she promised to forego when she married Senior. The routine of arranging Carlos' debut disrupts the Osborne home and Senior goes home to the children. To save Senior's marriage, Junior and Enid invite Carlos to stay in their home. Junior too soon stalks out. Senior and Junior's solution to save their marriages is to finance Carlos' career in the farthest-away place they can find, and still effect a reconciliation with the wives.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsJimmie RodgersLuana PattenChill WillsAn orphan fights for the north in the Civil War, then returns to his girlfriend in Kentucky.
- DirectorGeorge ShermanStarsGuy MadisonValerie FrenchLorne GreeneA lawman becomes a Deputy in a town where he suspects the friend he had to kill in self defense, was framed for murder.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMarjorie WhiteMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsAnne BancroftSue LyonMargaret LeightonIn 1935 China, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.
- DirectorRobert D. WebbStarsPatricia OwensDenise DarcelCesar RomeroSeven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
- DirectorCharles LedererStarsJoan EvansMelvyn DouglasLynn BariShunned by her self-absorbed parents, a teenage girl's need for love and attention drives her to delinquency and a suicide attempt - an act that finally brings her parents to their senses.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJeanne CrainDale RobertsonMitzi GaynorA young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
- DirectorRichard SaleStarsJane RussellJeanne CrainAlan YoungTwo Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsGene TierneyJohn LundMiriam HopkinsEllen McNulty loses her hamburger joint and goes to see her son, who marries a socialite at the same time. Due to her modest background and a case of mistaken identity, Ellen poses as the newlyweds' cook.
- DirectorJean RenoirIrving PichelStarsWalter BrennanWalter HustonAnne BaxterAttempting to find his lost dog in a vast Georgia swamp, Ben Ragan stumbles upon wanted murderer Tom Keefer who convinces Ben he was framed for the murder by the real killer.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsEddie AlbertJoan LeslieJane DarwellEddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsEddie AlbertJoan LeslieAlan HalePerpetual optimist "Dreamy" Smith aspires to quit his job as newspaper publicity drudge and sail the world. But life--and his editor--conspire against him: Not only does the car he intends using as the boat's down-payment roll into the bay, but also his boss starts to claim "Dreamy's" better publicity ideas as his own.
- DirectorDorrell McGowanStuart E. McGowanStarsBill ElliottWalter BrennanMarie WindsorShadrach Jones is convinced that his brother was robbed and killed by a Circle K Ranch cowhand and therefore he joins the outfit in order to find the murderer.
- DirectorLeslie NormanStarsErnest BorgnineAnne BaxterJohn MillsTwo Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsJames CraigDonna ReedMarjorie MainIn 1901, an undercover US Marshal is sent to Oklahoma Territory to investigate a string of train robberies and arrest the culprits.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsJackie 'Butch' JenkinsJames CraigSkip HomeierBaseball player Dan Walker being benched doesn't bother him as it allows him to make the easy decision to be a full time Texas rancher - his goal to own his own ranch - and be at home with his wife and daughter, Susan and Mary. The one thing Dan will miss about not being a ball player is the casual friendship he has with a bunch of disadvantaged boys at his team's ballpark. Without knowing their full stories, Dan could always manage to get a few of them into the ballpark to watch games for free. When Dan learns that two of them, Skippy and Hank, will be sent to reform school, with the probable outcome being they growing up to be adult criminals due to that experience, Dan feels he has no choice but to take the two with him to Texas to try to get them jobs on ranches. Dan learns both that city boys being thrown into the deep end in ranching duties doesn't sit well with the locals, and that there are just as many disadvantaged boys in the country as there are in the city, they who just want three square meals they can call their own. Dan is able to convince his initially reluctant fellow ranchers to donate property and seed funds for a pilot project for a boys' ranch where they can raise their own food, have a roof over their heads, have some proper, caring adult guidance, and get a decent education in the process, the ranchers who only agree on the condition that Dan manage the ranch. With the ranch up, running and thriving, Susan worries most about a younger boy named Butch Taylor who doesn't seem to have ever learned how to be a real boy, while Dan has to worry about Skippy, who doesn't respond to authority, who just wants to live on his own rules, and who only understands what money can do in whatever manner he can get it. As such, Skippy may threaten the pilot moving into a permanent situation, one where all the other boys are responding in this supportive environment.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMarsha HuntRichard CarlsonMarjorie MainMembers of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsRory CalhounSusan CummingsAngela StevensGunslinger Utah Blaine rescues rancher Joe Neal from lynching by vigilante land-grabbers and runs afoul of their leader Russ Nevers' interests.
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsGeorge MontgomeryKarin BoothWilliam FawcettCavalry lieutenant ordered to capture Seminole chief Black Cat, who kidnaps colonel's daughter. Lieutenant pursues tribe, leading to violent clash where his force kills hundreds of Seminoles. Black Cat surrenders after bloody battle.
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsGeorge MontgomeryNeville BrandBuster CrabbeShowdown in Abilene between lawmen Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Butch Cassidy's gang over a large shipment of money arriving by train.
- DirectorSidney Franklin Jr.Carl K. HittlemanStarsSterling HaydenPamela DuncanTed de CorsiaA double-crossed partner left for dead seeks revenge against the wishes of a woman who nursed him back to health and fell in love with him.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJack HoltFay WrayRalph GravesJack Bradon is tasked to reach the South Pole with a dirigible.
- DirectorKen AnnakinMichael C. ChorltonStarsPhyllis CalvertMargot GrahameJames DonaldA plane crashes on a Swiss glacier. With the radio broken and food limited, the survivors debate whether to stay put and await uncertain rescue or embark into harsh conditions toward civilization.
- DirectorRichard BartlettStarsJock MahoneyJulie AdamsTim HoveyHughie Mack, a not so nice western singer, is discovered by Clover Doyle as the next movie cowboy hero. His name is changed to Slim Carter and a promotional buildup begins. Leo Gallaher, an orphan boy wins the contest to spend a month with Slim. Leo is a good influence on his cowboy hero. Clover sees the good and more in Slim. Montana Burriss is Slim's double.
- DirectorBernard B. RayStarsErnest TubbLori TalbottThe Texas TroubadoursBased on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no members of the 1947 cast of the program are in the film, but the better-known (on a national scale) Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadors, Jack Guthrie and Jimmy and Leon Short more than make up for that. The slight plot, around 18 songs, begins with Tubb and his band searching for $2000 needed to rebuild their town chuch after it burned down while they were rehearsing in it. Hollywood, here they come.
- DirectorS. Sylvan SimonStarsFlorence RiceUna MerkelAnn RutherfordFour student nurses cope with life and career problems while interning at a major hospital.
- DirectorHal RoachStarsAdolphe MenjouCarole LandisJohn HubbardBickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsRory CalhounPeggie CastleNoah Beery Jr.When the army insists on building a fort on Indian land, in defiance of a treaty, the warnings of a scout go unheeded.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsKirk DouglasDany RobinBarbara LaageA former soldier on holiday in the French Riviera recalls his time in France during WWII, and his love for a French peasant woman.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsSybil JasonGlenda FarrellRobert ArmstrongA young girl endears herself to her caretakers after her father is murdered by mobsters.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsJanette ScottRonald LewisRonald HowardIn league with the Saxon invaders, Edmund of Cornwall plans to slay King Arthur, marry his daughter and usurp the throne of England but wizard Merlin and outlaw Robert Marshall stand in the way.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsJohn DehnerGregg PalmerFrances HelmAt the start of the Civil War, the soldiers manning Fort Laramie are split between Yanks and Confederates but the real threat is the warpath Sioux surrounding them all.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsJim BannonNina FochGeorge MacreadyIn San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsRosalind RussellBrian AherneWillard ParkerA literary agent is pursued by the charming writer of a popular magazine while she attempts to sway one of her clients, a handsome but innocent college professor, to star in an upcoming movie based on his best-selling novel The Whirlwind.
- DirectorTom GriesPeter StephensStarsJack BuetelMadalyn TraheyStephen KeyesIn the hills and forest surrounding a horse-breeding ranch an unbroken wild mustang (played by a male horse named Autumn Moon, who is not a human actress) who has been a constant challenge to the ranch owner (Milt Swift) and his hired hand Lou (Steve Keyes) who have attempted, and failed, to kill the horse several times as a bad influence on the tame horses of the ranch. One of the cowhands, Gabe (Jack Beutel)and the owner's sister, Nancy (Madalyn Trahey), believe that the mustang can be captured and tamed and be made a valuable asset to the ranch. Despite opposition by Lou, they set out to do so.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsScott BradyMala PowersBill WilliamsSmaller ranchers hire a gunman (Scott Brady) to lead them against the big ranchers.
- DirectorElmo WilliamsStarsKeith LarsenJim DavisRodolfo AcostaThis is the story of the Apache Kid; how he aided in the capture of Geronimo and his band, and later became a hunted renegade himself.
- DirectorAlbert C. GannawayStarsJim DavisArleen WhelanCarl SmithA pseudo-marshal, a local doctor and the town sheriff must join forces to battle a greedy cattle-baron whose herd, locally sold, is contaminated with a contagious disease.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsRandolph ScottGene TierneyDana AndrewsAt the end of the Civil War, an embittered Southern belle joins forces with a Confederate guerrilla leader to raid Union towns.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsDana AndrewsDorothy McGuireFarley GrangerIn 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsEdward ArnoldLionel BarrymoreMarsha HuntThe son of a murderer is entangled in his father's crimes and is sentenced to a rehabilitive farm, where he learns a new way of life.
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsLana TurnerJohn SheltonGene LockhartTwo young office workers working at the same large firm secretly marry and defy their employer's policy against coworker fraternization. When the marriage is discovered, Margy (Turner) is fired. This causes the newlyweds to face serious financial struggles and Bill (Shelton) pursues desperate, perhaps even illegal, measures to make ends meet when the couple learn they are expecting their first baby!
- DirectorRichard CarlsonHerbert L. StrockStarsWilliam LundiganHerbert MarshallRichard CarlsonThree men are assigned by the Office of Scientific Investigation to man rocket ships to outer space and attempt to capture a meteor.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsPaul DouglasEva BartokLeslie PhillipsAn American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsNoreen CorcoranMartin WestLinda MarshallThe girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, bragging that they know the Beatles, the girls plan a concert with the Fab Four as the main attraction.
- DirectorLennie WeinribStarsEdd ByrnesChris NoelRobert LoganEdd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group, the Wigglers. College-finance-committee members Chris Noel, Gail Gilmore, Mikki Jameson and Brenda Benet uncover the scam and tear up the check, but the Wigglers play a Long Beach, California custom-car show in drag and win first prize. The Supremes do "Come to the Beach Ball with Me" and "Surfer Boy;" the Four Seasons sing their 1964 hit "Dawn;" the Hondells sing Brian Wilson's "My Buddy Seat;" the Righteous Brothers do "Baby What You Want Me to Do;" and the Walker Brothers cut loose with "Doin' the Jerk." Gary Kurtz of "Star Wars" fame was the assistant director.
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsDavid JanssenRosemary ForsythRobert DrivasA "Sixties Generation" comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son is a college student with a different set of moral and ethical standards. When they meet in Vegas, they immediately clash in their efforts to understand one another.
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsAnthony QuinnGeorge MaharisMichael ParksYoung drifters kidnap rich businessman Roc Delmonico for kicks and demand $200K for his release. But none of Roc's relatives or Mafia associates want to part with the money. So Roc switches allegiances and plots revenge.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsLawrence TibbettLupe VelezErnest TorrenceA guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find his illegitimate child.
- DirectorWillard MackJules WhiteStarsAlice BradyFrank MorganJackie CooperA vaudeville couple quit to raise a son, then come back with their grandson in the act.
- DirectorAlex MarchStarsRobert HortonDiane BakerSal MineoA dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the new deputy must elude a pair of bounty hunters who want to deliver the prisoners themselves to collect the reward and would think nothing of killing the deputy to get them.
- DirectorAlan MacmillanStarsPatrick BerginLeigh BiagiRichard ClaxtonZelda, a young woman whose husband is lost at sea, and her 12-year-old daughter, Perdita, live off the coast of Scotland on the small island of Skua. The islanders believe Zelda is a witch, but her sister, Annie, says Zelda is just "different." Certain that her husband will never return, Zelda drowns herself. When lobsters, the islanders' main source of trade, suddenly disappear, the people decide that Zelda has put a curse on the sea for taking her husband's life. As a result, the orphaned Perdita is banned from school, taunted by other children, and branded by the community as "the witch's daughter."
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsLily PonsJack OakieGene RaymondNikki Martin (Lily Pons), a Parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love, leaving her arranged husband to be at the altar. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome American musician, Windy McLean (Gene Raymond) and his band, the 'McLean Wildcats.' Windy immediately spites her, but Nikki falls in love with him and follows him to New York by stowing away on the ship his on. The ship's purser (Edgar Dearing) finds her hiding in Windy and the Wildcats room. She is locked up by authorities, and Windy and the band are fired. When the ship reaches New York, Nikki escapes off the ship and finds out the Wildcats apartment. They demand her to leave, fearing being implicated but she refuses. Claire (Lucille Ball), Windy's girlfriend shows up with Hammacher (Herman Bing), and offers the band a low-paying job at a roadhouse in another city. Anxious to depart, they accept. Nikki becomes the band's singer. Claire becomes jealous and reports her to the authorities, causing the band to flee again.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsGuy KibbeeUna MerkelLynne OvermanA seasoned con artist and his associates discover that their scheme to get rich by selling stock in a worthless gold mine is fraught with obstacles.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsDiana WynyardColin CliveFrank LawtonA young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man aboard a ship.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsShirley MacLaineLaurence HarveyJack HawkinsAmerican Anna Vorontosov teaches in a rural school on New Zealand's North Island. Her class of younger students is comprised largely of Maoris. She feels that western methods are not the most appropriate in teaching her students, for who concepts such as "see Jane run" have no cultural context. She wants her students to "feel", from love to pain to joy, and as such her classes are outwardly disorganized and chaotic. Her livelihood is potentially threatened with the arrival of a new senior inspector of primary schools, a Brit name William Abercrombie. To make her classes seem more organized to Abercrombie, Anna enlists the help of one of the older students, fifteen year old Maori, Whareparita. Anna's students, including Whareparita, see her as their guardian angel. Anna's burgeoning friendship with Whareparita may show her that although she has her students' best interests at heart, she may also not fully understand the culture within which she now lives. Teaching is her life, which leaves no time for men, sex about which she has repressive views. These views affect her relationship with two very different men who fall in love with her. The first is fellow teacher, Paul Lathrope, a brash Brit. He is a lost soul with self-destructive tendencies. The second is married Abercrombie himself, whose marriage is albeit unsatisfying and long-distance.
- DirectorPaul NewmanStarsJoanne WoodwardNell PottsRoberta WallachA middle-aged misfit struggles to raise her daughters, one popular and the other a promising science student.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsConrad NagelKay JohnsonCharles BickfordWealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know--and doesn't want to know.
- DirectorGeorge PollockStarsEric SykesScilla GabelJohn Le MesurierTraveling salesman Herbert Harris arrives in an isolated Italian village. The local women avidly pursue him, the sole remaining bachelor since most men have moved away for work.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsSal MineoJames WhitmoreJ. Carrol NaishA Georgia orphanage teenage boy gets involved with a chain-gang convict who is planning his escape from the nearby prison-camp.
- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsJack CarsonJane WymanIrene ManningWalter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. The only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée, Susan, to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies. It soon becomes apparent that Susan cannot cook and Jerry could not find a spy if he tripped over him.