Movie Recommendations

Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Victor McLaglen take on a Thuggee assassin cult to protect a British outpost and plunder some treasure. The original buddy adventure movie.

One comedy writer-director of the 1940s stands out from all the rest. With a unique take on almost everything conventional, Preston Sturges brilliantly and almost singlehandedly continued the screwball comedy tradition of the 1930s, producing some of the funniest films ever made in a nearly unparalleled burst of creative energy—then just as quickly faded away….

The terrific Lerner & Loewe melodies more than make up for loss of Pygmalion‘s social commentary.

Leslie Howard as the English noble who risks his life to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine.

Great sendup of the classic Westerns, with James Garner as a drifter reluctantly recruited to be sheriff in a lawless gold town.

See it on the big screen if at all possible. Then go beyond the obvious plot of a computer-controlled mutiny in space to explore the questions of human origin and our destiny in the cosmos.

Alec Guinness plays a POW officer whose severe sense of duty goads him into building an engineering marvel that will benefit his captors; William Holden is the American soldier sent to destroy the bridge.

A young mail courier with a crush on an opera diva becomes a pawn in the police’s war against an international drug and prostitution ring.

Harold (Bud Cort) is a death-obsessed teen; Maude (Ruth Gordon) is a 79-year-old free spirit. Offbeat classic with Cat Stevens soundtrack.

Dana Andrews begins to fall in love with the woman whose death he’s investigating. Clifton Webb is a terrifically snobbish critic, and Vincent Price adds to the noir.