Movie Recommendations

Trouble right here in River City as con man Robert Preston tries to pull off a boys’ band scheme under the watchful eyes of Marian the Librarian (Shirley Jones).

Audrey Hepburn as the chauffeur’s daughter with a crush on playboy William Holden. Humphrey Bogart is the corporate exec who wants his brother’s marriage to form a business alliance.

Arguably the best film about the corruption of Hollywood and the need to be a star.

Searing examination of the real meaning of innocent until proven guilty. Henry Fonda battles 11 other jurors in a search for truth and justice.

Right-on-target story of bike racer Dennis Christopher and his friends dealing with approaching adulthood.

Spencer Tracy is a computer technician out to modernize company librarian Katharine Hepburn’s office.

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.