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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier Synopsis of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner In Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as white liberal… Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

This Land Is Mine

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This Land is Mine (1943) starring Charles Laughton, George Sanders, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak

This Land is Mine is the story of a Nazi-occupied town in France, where a meek schoolteacher is accused of murdering a resistance fighter. He’s in love with the dead man’s sister, and is later tried for killing a Nazi collaborator.

This Land Is Mine

Edison the Man

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Edison the Man (1940) starring Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson

Edison the Man – A biography of Thomas Alva Edison, starring Spencer Tracy. It’s the story of Edison, starting as a young man, beginning his career, through the fight to bring electric lighting to New York City.

Edison the Man

Going My Way

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Going My Way (1944) starring Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, directed by Leo McCarey

Going My Way was the 1944 Best picture Academy Award winner. When old fading St. Dominic’s Church gets a new young priest, things are bound to change. The air is filled with music from the classic “Ave Maria” sung by Metropolitan Opera star Rise Stevens to the Academy Award winning “Swinging on a Star

Going My Way

Suspicion

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Suspicion (1941), starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce

Synopsis of Suspicion

Handsome, charming, well-liked Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) is a worthless cheat. Then he marries Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine), the naïve daughter of a wealthy retired general (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). And everyone except Lina believes Johnnie is only after her inheritance. But when Lina discovers that Johnnie has stolen money, his business partner dies mysteriously …. And she finds a letter explaining her life insurance policy …. Love changes to Suspicion!

Suspicion

The Third Man

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The Third Man (1949), starring Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles

Synopsis of The Third Man

Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton, Citizen Kane ), a naïve writer of pulp westerns, arrives in Vienna to meet his old friend Harry Lime (the incomparable Orson Welles). But he finds that Lime has apparently been killed in a suspicious accident. Martins, too curious for his own good, hears contradictory stories about the circumstances of Limes’ death. As witnesses disappear, he finds himself chased by unknown assailants. Complicating matters are the sardonic Major Calloway (Trevor Howard, Brief Encounter), head of the British forces, and Lime’s stage actress mistress, Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli). Will Martin’s curiosity lead him to discover things about his old friend that he’d rather not know?

The Third Man

A Patch of Blue

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A Patch of Blue (1965) starring Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman, Shelley Winters, Ivan Dixon

Synopsis of A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue – A black man’s burgeoning love affair with a blind white girl is complicated by her racist, controlling mother.

A Patch of Blue

Rebecca

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Rebecca (1940), starring Sir Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis of Rebecca

Rebecca – A British gentleman’s innocent bride grapples with intrusive reminders of his deceased wife.

Rebecca

A Face in the Crowd

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A Face in the Crowd (1957) starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, directed by Elia Kazan

Synopsis of A Face in the Crowd

In A Face in the Crowd, an Arkansas drifter is discovered by the producer of a small radio station. He’s a philosophical country/western singer Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes. He’s “discovered” in the local jail by television talent coordinator Marcia Jeffries. His folksy style make him an overnight media sensation. He ultimately rises to great fame and influence on national television. But after becoming consumed by his power …. Will he ever be exposed as the fraud he’s become?

A Face in the Crowd
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