A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life. Read More »
Tag Archives: William Wyler
The Westerner (1940) William Wyler, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
Cole Harden just doesn’t look like a horse thief, Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Read More »
Dead End (1937) William Wyler, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
The Dead End Kids are introduced in their intricate East Side slum, overlooked by the apartments of the rich. Read More »
Ben-Hur (1959) William Wyler, Charlton Heston
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Read More »
The Children’s Hour (1961) William Wyler, Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
Longtime friends Martha (Shirley MacLaine) and Karen (Audrey Hepburn) run a boarding school for girls. Read More »
Counsellor-at-Law (1933) William Wyler, John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon
Crackerjack lawyer George Simon is a workaholic, and a successful one, at that. Read More »
These Three (1936) William Wyler, Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
This first film version of “The Children’s Hour” uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play’s lesbian theme. Read More »
Detective Story (1951) William Wyler, Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix
Jim McLeod is a hard-nosed and cynical detective. He believes in a strict interpretation Read More »
A House Divided (1931) William Wyler, Walter Huston, Douglass Montgomery, Helen Chandler
In a small Pacific village, a widowed fisherman marries Read More »
Mrs. Miniver (1942) William Wyler, Greer Garson
The Minivers, an English “middle-class” family experience life in the first months of World War II. Read More »