Movie Recommendations

The rare movie musical not based on a play. Features catchy tunes, exuberant dancing, and (of course) an ensemble cast of 14.

Jean Arthur is caught between Ronald Colman as a respected law professor renting her house and Cary Grant as the escaped convict hiding in her attic.

Bogart and Hepburn as unlikely lovers who travel up the Congo in wild hopes of torpedoing a German gunner during WW I.

A rollercoaster screwball with Cary Grant as the meek paleontologist in search of a missing bone and Katharine Hepburn as the dizzy heiress looking after Baby—a pet leopard.

Terrific parody of Fail Safe features a lunatic assortment of paranoid generals, cowboy fighter pilots, ex-Nazi scientists, and a triple performance from Peter Sellers. You can’t fight in here—this is the War Room!

Gary Cooper stands alone when the townspeople he has protected refuse to help him face down a killer bent on revenge.

Sidney Poitier stars in this film about the strength of human vision and faith. Poitier’s Best Actor win was the first top Oscar for an African-American.

Another Marx Bros. classic. That’s just the sanity clause—that’s in every contract. You can’t fool me—there ain’t no Santy Clause. The stateroom sequence has a woman asking for her Aunt Minnie, possibly a reference to the boys’ mother, Minnie Schoenberg Marx. Would rate an A except for some dull romance interludes.

Be prepared to immerse yourself totally in this 3½-hour epic of seven Japanese warriors who risk their lives without pay to protect a village from bandits—some for honor, some for glory, some for duty. (subtitled)

Nick and Nora Charles are a little tipsy, a lot in love, and hot on the trail of murder.