An innocent man is sent to a prison farm, where he endures the dehumanizing effects of a cruel criminal justice system.

An insurance man (Dick Powell) and a chorus girl (Joan Blondell) baby a heavily insured Broadway producer (Victor Moore).

A boozing stage performer (Al Jolson) opens a nightclub with a dancer (Ruby Keeler) and gets mixed up with mobsters.

A scheming Chicago street cleaner (Warren William) corners the match market, swindling a movie star (Lili Damita) on the way.

Cuban crooks and police chase a casino card dealer (Errol Flynn) for counterfeit pesos and plates.

An Arizona cavalry captain sees his stubborn colonel lead troops into a massacre.

Genghis Khan (John Wayne) and his 12th-century Mongol horde abduct the daughter (Susan Hayward) of a wicked Tartar.

A Mexican-raised gunman (Robert Mitchum) romances an Army major's (Gary Merrill) wife (Julie London) while trying to run guns on the Texas border.

Asked by Francis I (Pedro Armendáriz) to tutor his son (Roger Moore), Diane de Poitiers (Lana Turner) becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.

Sindbad (Guy Williams) fights monsters, pitfalls and a giant hand to spare his princess (Heidi Brühl) from an elephant's foot.

A peasant finds human exploitation and brutality when he goes to work at a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungle.

An idealistic physician loves a woman from a rural community but their romance is jeopardized by the prejudice of others.

In the desert, three Old West outlaws (John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr.) adopt the baby of a dying woman.

Comical dubbed dialogue skews this Greek mythology about a bad king (Giuliano Gemma) and a boyish he-man (Jacqueline Sassard).

An outlawed priest (Henry Fonda) posing as a peasant is betrayed south of the border.

A cattle rancher's daughter (Susan Hayward) turns Oklahoma wildcatter with a geologist (Robert Preston) and an Indian (Pedro Armendáriz) as partners.

A British lord (Rex Harrison), an Italian mobster's moll (Shirley MacLaine) and a U.S. widow (Ingrid Bergman) own the car during the 1920s, '30s and '40s.

An American spinster (Shirley MacLaine) teaches Maoris in New Zealand and loves two men (Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins), one after the other.

A cattleman (Leslie Nielsen) and a sheepman (Glenn Ford) fight over land and a girl (Shirley MacLaine), leading to a showdown.

The president (Jack Warden) and a power broker heed the utterings of a simple gardener (Peter Sellers) who likes to watch TV.

A fired French policeman (Jack Lemmon) falls for a Paris streetwalker (Shirley MacLaine) and becomes her protector.

A British thief (Michael Caine) recruits a Eurasian performer (Shirley MacLaine) for a caper involving an Arab's (Herbert Lom) Chinese statuette.

Rural Vermonters (Edmund Gwenn, Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe) try to bury a corpse, more than once.

A strong-willed woman (Shirley MacLaine) and her equally independent daughter (Debra Winger) keep the lines of communication open as each deals with the curveballs life throws at them.

A hostess (Shirley MacLaine) in a seedy dance hall hopes for real love and romance, meeting Oscar (John McMartin) and Vittorio (Ricardo Montalban) along the way.

A Nebraska lawyer becomes romantically involved with an eccentric dancer while beginning a new life in New York City.

An ex-GI writer (Frank Sinatra) hangs out with a gambler (Dean Martin) and a floozy (Shirley MacLaine) in his hometown.

Broke and picked up for drunken driving, an Oscar winner (Bette Davis) starts over with a boatbuilder (Sterling Hayden) who loves her.

Southern sympathizers block an Army engineer (Sterling Hayden) building a railway to the West in 1860.

A cavalry deserter (Sterling Hayden) poses as a major and leads a wagon train with a hidden cargo of repeating rifles.

A hit man (Frank Sinatra) and company plan to shoot the president when he gets off his train in Suddenly, Calif.

A 17th-century French pirate (Sterling Hayden) sides with an English noblewoman (Rhonda Fleming) who's posing as a pirate.

Versions differ as a Civil War hero (Sterling Hayden) stands trial out West for shooting his wife (Anita Ekberg) and her family.

An outbreak of food poisoning forces an ex-World War II pilot (Dana Andrews) to land a Canadian passenger plane.

Recently released from prison, Dix Handley gathers a team of small-time crooks to steal a fortune in jewels. The heist is a success until a stray bullet kills one of the men, and the rest of the gang let greed get the best of them.

The organizers of a brilliantly conceived racetrack heist find their perfect crime beginning to unravel.

Former jailmates make it difficult for a paroled man (Gene Nelson), hounded by a suspicious detective (Sterling Hayden), to go straight.

Soviet spies follow a stranded motorist (Sterling Hayden) and the code-carrying woman (Ruth Roman) who gives him a ride.

President Muffley (Peter Sellers) and his advisers (George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn) man the Pentagon war room, as planes with bombs head toward Moscow.

The brother (Jeff Bridges) of an assassinated U.S. president reopens the case on a rumor of conspiracy.

Three ghosts visit a bitter man (Sterling Hayden) who has never recovered from losing his son during World War II.

A war widow (Janet Leigh) has a 6-year-old son, and two men (Robert Mitchum, Wendell Corey) who want to marry her for Christmas.

Based on the story by Louisa May Alcott. The four March sisters forge unbreakable emotional ties during the Civil War.

The Pittsburgh Pirates' manager (Paul Douglas) sees hope after a newswoman (Janet Leigh) reports a girl saw angels on their side.

An unknown singer (Tony Martin) gets his girlfriend's (Janet Leigh) quartet on bandleader Bob Crosby's live television show.

A judge (Lewis Stone) sends a woman lawyer (Janet Leigh) to put a spendthrift playboy (Peter Lawford) on a budget.

A bounty hunter (James Stewart) has competition for an outlaw's daughter (Janet Leigh) and a cornered killer (Robert Ryan).

A songwriter (Dick Van Dyke) sees his big chance when rock 'n' roll idol Conrad Birdie visits Sweet Apple, Ohio, to give one last kiss to his biggest fan (Ann-Margret) before joining the Army.

A woman (Janet Leigh) on the run stops at a 12-cabin motel with showers, run by mother-fixated Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).

A U.S. sheriff (Orson Welles) frames a man for a border-town murder and kidnaps a Mexican's (Charlton Heston) wife (Janet Leigh).

A crippled World War II veteran (Robert Ryan) stalks a contractor (Van Heflin) whose prison-camp betrayal caused a massacre.

A bootlegger (Edmond O'Brien) strong-arms a jazz cornetist (Jack Webb) and his combo at a 1920s Kansas City speakeasy.

A Maine professor (Van Johnson) and his bride (Janet Leigh) live cheap until his rich Texas father (Louis Calhern) comes to visit.

A rancher (Stuart Whitman) tries to stop king-size, hopped-up carnivorous rabbits as they roar through Arizona.

A cowboy is hired to ride shotgun on a stagecoach, but his personal mission is to find a brutal killer and deliver justice. After the cowboy is lured from his post by a clue that might lead to the killer, he leaves the stagecoach unprotected.

A U.S. lieutenant (Richard Conte) holds a ridge in Korea with his men, a U.N. woman (Peggie Castle) and three Britons in a tank.

A postwar Confederate passes a challenging Dakota ritual, takes a bride and then joins attacks on the cavalry.

Bullied mountain villagers learn how to fight back from an outlaw (Anthony Quinn) posing as a monk in 18th-century Mexico.

A man in black (Yul Brynner) recruits six hired guns to lead Mexican villagers against the gang of an outlaw (Eli Wallach).

A group of Allied soldiers are intent on breaking out, not only to escape, but also to draw Nazi forces away from battle to search for fugitives. Among the prisoners are American Captain Virgil Hilts and British Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett.

An outlaw (Charles Bronson) and a samurai (Toshirô Mifune) team up to recover loot and a stolen ceremonial sword in the Old West.

A gambler (James Coburn) backs a bare-knuckle brawler (Charles Bronson) in Depression-era New Orleans.

An Apache (Charles Bronson) kills a sheriff and then, one by one, members of a posse led by an ex-Rebel officer (Jack Palance).

A New York architect (Charles Bronson) turns vigilante hit man after thugs attack his wife (Hope Lange) and daughter.

A U.S. Army major selects and trains 12 hard-core criminals for a daring raid on an impregnable Nazi chateau.

A wagon master is confronted by a man he wounded years before in episodes from.

Victorian poet Robert Browning (Bill Travers) courts invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett (Jennifer Jones) despite her stern father (John Gielgud).

A woman's unquenchable thirst for romance ultimately proves to be her undoing. Based on Gustave Flaubert's novel.

A Cuban (Jennifer Jones) lets a rebel (John Garfield) use her home as a base for digging a tunnel to blow up a dictatorship.

A New York artist (Joseph Cotten) paints a picture of a strange beauty (Jennifer Jones) from another era.

A farm girl (Jennifer Jones) goes to Chicago, meets men (Laurence Olivier, Eddie Albert) and becomes a stage star.

An ailing spinster schoolteacher's (Jennifer Jones) fate lies with the New England townsfolk she molded as students.

A Eurasian doctor (Jennifer Jones) falls in love with a married U.S. war correspondent (William Holden) in Hong Kong.

A debonair Czech refugee (Charles Boyer) falls for a maid (Jennifer Jones) who does plumbing in pre-World War II London.

Based on the true story of a 19th-century peasant woman who claimed to see the Virgin Mary near her home in Lourdes.

A British officer (Joseph Cotten) meets the amnesiac widow (Jennifer Jones) of a buddy he wrote love letters for during the war.

A U.S. ambulance driver (Rock Hudson) falls in love with an English nurse (Jennifer Jones) during World War I.

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) assists a detective (James Gleason) with an aquarium corpse.

Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers uses a musical notation on a blackboard to solve the murder of a young colleague.

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (ZaSu Pitts) and her detective boyfriend (James Gleason) find art behind murder.

A police detective (Preston Foster) and his newswoman girlfriend (Jane Wyatt) try to catch an escaped gangster.

Clues point back to a doctor (William Powell) as he sleuths out murders with his mystery-writer ex-wife (Jean Arthur).

Amateur sleuth Falcon (George Sanders) keeps his fiancée (Wendy Barrie) waiting while he solves a case involving synthetic diamonds.

An Army draftee (William Tracy) with a good memory makes sergeant and saves the day.

Hotshot navy pilot Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery) tries to pass off a young stranger as his son to his military buddies.

A World War I veteran (William Powell) milks a New York charity scam until the Wall Street crash of 1929.

A Brooklyn gunsmith (Eddie Albert) meets a woman (Gale Storm), Indians and outlaws on his way to Arsenic City.

Heavenly executive Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains) seeks another body for the soul of a boxer (Robert Montgomery), dead 50 years too soon.

The Rev. Harry Powell, a religious fanatic and serial killer, meets condemned murderer Ben Harper in prison, who tells him about hiding $10,000 in stolen loot. After he's released, Powell tracks down Harper's widow, Willa, and her two children.

A theater critic (Cary Grant) learns his two elderly aunts serve poisoned elderberry wine to lonely gentlemen callers.

Schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (Edna May Oliver) solves Catalina murders without her detective boyfriend (James Gleason).

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers (ZaSu Pitts) solves backstage murders for her detective boyfriend (James Gleason).

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.

An American playboy (Robert Taylor) falls in love with a Saigon beauty (Hedy Lamarr) who needs a passport.

Texas wildcatters (Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy) hit oil together, then fight after one marries the other's sweetheart (Claudette Colbert).

A Moscow hotel porter blackmails a U.S. newsman (Clark Gable) into smuggling his reluctant daughter (Hedy Lamarr) out of the country.

A doctor (Spencer Tracy) marries a model (Hedy Lamarr) and quits his clinic to make enough money to please her.

An astronomer's (William Powell) neglected wife (Hedy Lamarr) thinks an air-raid warden (James Craig) is the mystery man her astrologer predicted.

A Dutch underground leader (Paul Henreid) meets a German official's wife (Hedy Lamarr) in Lisbon working against the Nazis.

Using men for their money is what a scheming woman (Hedy Lamarr) does in the lumber boom of 1840s Bangor, Maine.

The mighty Samson (Victor Mature) finds his strength and power tested by the manipulative charms of lovely but devious Delilah (Hedy Lamarr).

A Paris thief who is hiding in the Casbah meets a woman who reminds him of home.

A Hollywood star's (Hedy Lamarr) adopted daughter (Jane Powell) falls in love with the star's live-in boyfriend (George Nader).

A New York hotel bellboy (Robert Walker) forgets his girlfriend (June Allyson) after meeting a European princess (Hedy Lamarr).

A Boston aristocrat (Robert Young) recalls falling in love with a copywriter (Hedy Lamarr) in 1920s New York.

A Manhattan bootlegger (Lew Ayres) courts a woman (Dorothy Mathews) who has been flirting with his right-hand man (James Cagney).

An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.

A framed safecracker (James Cagney) flees from killers with a San Francisco fisherman's (Victor Jory) girlfriend (Joan Blondell).

An ex-convict dentist (James Cagney) recalls his wife (Olivia de Havilland) and another man's wife (Rita Hayworth), in circa-1900 New York.

A Texas oil tycoon pays a pilot (James Cagney) by the pound to fly his daughter (Bette Davis) out of a marriage.

Two brash bush pilots (James Cagney, Dennis Morgan) join the Royal Canadian Air Force and see action during World War II.

A Southern salesman (James Cagney) marries a schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and runs for governor as a champion of sharecroppers.

An Easterner (Don Dubbins) goes to work for a Colorado rancher (James Cagney) who keeps law and order with a rope.

A 1920s Chicago mobster (James Cagney) bullies singer Ruth Etting (Doris Day) to Broadway and Hollywood.

A reform-school nurse (Madge Evans) inspires a gangster (James Cagney) to replace the school's cruel superintendent.

A New York truck driver (James Cagney) goes from boxing contender to newsstand peddler after being blinded in the ring.

A lawyer (James Cagney) joins the FBI and goes after henchmen of the gangster who put him through law school.

A hotel bellhop (James Cagney) and his girlfriend (Joan Blondell) work con games, then are conned by a con man (Louis Calhern) themselves.

A retrospective on the actor features clips and interviews with Jack Lemmon, Mae Clarke and Virginia Mayo; host Michael J. Fox.