Movies Unlimited - The Movie Collector's Website

It Happened One Night (1934)

A spoiled heiress (Claudette Colbert) fleeing her dad’s tough-love efforts to have her impulsive marriage annulled. An intemperate reporter (Clark Gable) looking for a career-salvaging scoop. A misadventurous road trip that takes them up the East Coast and into each other’s arms propels Frank Capra’s seminal screwball charmer that became a sleeper hit and netted the five major Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Alan Hale also star. 105 min. BW/Rtg: NR

From Here To Eternity (1953)

Based on the novel by James Jones, director Fred Zinnemann’s classic drama of the lives, loves, and conflicts of the men and women at a Pearl Harbor Army base shortly before the 1941 Japanese attack won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor and Actress. Montgomery Clift a rebellious career soldier, Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr the surf-swept lovers, and Frank Sinatra is the violent wisecracker Maggio; with Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine. 118 min. BW/Rtg: NR

To Sir, With Love (1967)

Sentimental heart-tugger stars Sidney Poitier as a first-year teacher at a rundown East End London secondary school who bucks the traditional educational system, allowing his unruly students to learn through experience and acquire a sense of responsibility. Surprise box-office hit version of E. R. Braithwaite’s 1959 autobiographical novel co-stars Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, and Lulu (who sings the title tune); written, produced, and directed by James Clavell. 105 min. C/Rtg: NR

The Last Picture Show (1971)

A critical and commercial success, this adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s novel from director Peter Bogdanovich is a masterful rumination on coming of age. Set in a dying Texas town in the 1950s, a group of teens attempt to figure out their futures while grappling with issues of love and loss that will shape their destinies. Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, and Oscar-winner Ben Johnson star. 126 min. BW/Rtg: R

Annie (1982)

The hit 1977 Broadway musical about feisty Depression-era comic strip heroine Little Orphan Annie becomes a fun-filled family treat. Follow Annie (Aileen Quinn) and her dog Sandy as they leave their New York City orphanage for the opulent mansion of Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney), meet President Roosevelt, and avoid the clutches of a couple of con artists (Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters). With Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Edward Herrmann. Songs include "Tomorrow," "Maybe," and "It’s a Hard-Knock Life." 127 min. C/Rtg: PG

As Good As It Gets (1997)

Best Actor and Actress Academy Awards went to Jack Nicholson, who portrays curmudgeonly, psychologically obsessed New York author Melvin Udall, and Helen Hunt, who co-stars as Carol Connelly, the caring waitress and single mother who helps draw him out of his successful but isolated existence. Writer/director James L. Brooks’ acclaimed seriocomedy also stars Greg Kinnear, Shirley Knight, Skeet Ulrich, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. 139 min. C/Rtg: PG-13