George Milton and Lennie Small are migrant workers in the 1930s Depression. Read More »
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The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) Henry Hathaway, John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die. Read More »
The Southerner (1945) Jean Renoir, Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. Read More »
Picnic (1955) Joshua Logan, William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) Read More »
Tomorrow, the World! (1944) Leslie Fenton, Fredric March, Betty Field, Agnes Moorehead, Drama, War
When war breaks out in Germany, the parents of young Emil Buckner (Skip Homeier) send their son to live in the United States with his American uncle (Fredric March). Read More »
The Great Gatsby (1949) Elliott Nugent, Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Drama
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. Read More »
The Great Moment (1944) Preston Sturges, Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Biography, Comedy, Drama
In the winter of 1868, Eben Frost goes to a Boston pawnshop and redeems a silver medal, inscribed to “Dr. W.T.G. Morton, the Benefactor of Mankind, with the Gratitude of Humanity.” Read More »
Blues in the Night (1941) Anatole Litvak, Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Crime, Drama, Music
“Jigger’ Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger ‘Character’ Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powelll, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit and to play ‘blues’ music. The dedication isn’t paying off in money and, while riding the rails in a boxcar, they meet and befriend a gangster named Del Davis. He offers them a job at a New Jersey roadhouse, where Powell falls in love with Kay Grant, a former ‘real-good friend’ of Davis. But when Powell learns that ‘Character’ is about to have a baby, he returns to her. “Jigger” tries to make Kay the band’s singer and, when this fails, runs off with her. She leaves him with nothing to show for him except a nervous breakdown.Back at the roadhouse, after his recovery, Kay shows up, has a quarrel with Davis, shoots and kills him and plans to take back up with “Jigger”, who knows better but just can’t help himself. While she is waiting in a car for him, along comes cripple Brad Ames, who she put in …
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