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Mark Twain's boy hero rafts the Mississippi with slave Jim and meets a bogus king and duke. Directed by Michael Curtiz. …More

The Sherwood Forest outlaw and his men save King Richard and Maid Marian from Prince John and Sir Guy. …More

Wild West sharpshooter Jane falls for Wild Bill Hickok and tries to act more ladylike. …More

Portuguese fishermen pick up a rich man's son who has fallen overboard. Directed by Victor Fleming. From the Kipling novel. Best actor Oscar for Tracy. …More

A charming true story based on the Gilbreth family, a large, loving family at the turn-of-the-century who must travel from Provicence, Rhode Island, to their new home in Montclair, New Jersey. …More

Whale ushered in a new era of horror films, and Karloff was never quite able to shake his image as the frightening, yet often sympathetic monster of Dr. Frankentein. …More

A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions--a protective wolf and a hardened drifter.

A St. Louis lawyer's family stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. …More

Bob Hope stars in this wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane. Hope is meek frontier dentist "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians. …More

Based on the novel by William Goldman, Buttercup is a beautiful princess who--after being separated by her true love Westley--is captured by and forced to marry a conspiring prince. As the wedding day approaches her true love, a vengeful Spaniard and a kind giant come to her rescue. …More

A Philadelphia milquetoast goes west and meets a tall bandit who tricks him into marriage. …More

Alan Ladd portrays Shane, a drifter and gunfighter who helps a homesteading family fight off a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun, as he witnesses the end of his own way of life. …More

A silent-film star loves a chorus girl who dubs his squeaky-voiced co-star in a 1927 Hollywood talkie. …More

A sharecropper's wife keeps the family together after he goes to prison in 1930s Louisiana. Directed by Martin Ritt. …More

A stranger tames an Old West boomtown and woos the mayor's daughter on his way to Australia. Directed by Burt Kennedy. …More

A boy thief and a genie in a bottle help a blinded prince recover his kingdom from a grand vizier. …More

A widowed lawyer with two children defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama. Directed by Robert Mulligan. Best actor Oscar for Peck. …More

The film is based on an American novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, against a backdrop of tenement life in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, at the turn of the 20th century.

A 1930s runaway joins a carnival man's horse high-diving act, headed for tragedy in Atlantic City. …More

Amid the hardships of pioneer life, a young boy finds friendship in the form of an orphaned fawn. …More