1 ACE IN THE HOLEParamount, 1951PRINCIPAL CAST Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert ArthurDIRECTORBilly WilderPRODUCERBilly WilderSCREENWRITERS Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels, Billy WilderDouglas is a reporter in need of a story. A man trapped in a New Mexico cave is theticket. Wilder’s cynical and amoral journalist prolongs the event and seizes theopportunity to resurrect his dying career. The sensational story becomes a mediacircus.2 ADAM’S RIBMGM, 1949PRINCIPAL CASTDIRECTORPRODUCERSCREENWRITERSSpencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy HollidayGeorge CukorLawrence WeingartenRuth Gordon, Garson KaninTracy and Hepburn star as married lawyers representing opposing sides of acontroversial case about “the double standard.” The battle of the sexes blazeshilariously during the trial, and a gun made of licorice is the answer to theirmarital woes.3 THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOODWarner Bros., 1938PRINCIPAL CAST Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil RathboneDIRECTORMichael Curtiz, William KeighleyPRODUCERSHal B. Wallis, Henry BlankeSCREENWRITERS Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. MillerThis Technicolor swashbuckler stars Flynn as the rogue of Sherwood Forest: “It’sinjustice I hate, not the Normans.” Wolfgang Korngold’s stirring score, a spectacularclash of swords between Flynn and Rathbone and a fairy-tale romance with deHavilland ushered in a new era of historical-costume adventure films.4 AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBERTwentieth Century-Fox, 1957PRINCIPAL CAST Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard DenningDIRECTORLeo McCareyPRODUCERJerry WaldSCREENWRITERS Delmer Daves, Leo McCareyA shipboard romance changes the lives of Grant and Kerr, embroiled in other affairs.They promise to meet in six months at the top of the Empire State Building, but fatetakes a hand and keeps the star-crossed lovers apart, until destiny steps in one moretime. “Oh, it’s nobody’s fault but my own! I was looking up... it was the nearest thingto heaven! You were there...”8 American Film Institute
5 THE AFRICAN QUEENUnited Artists, 1951PRINCIPAL CAST Humphrey Bogart, Katharine HepburnDIRECTORJohn HustonPRODUCERS.P. Eagle (Sam Spiegel)SCREENWRITERS James Agee, John HustonHepburn’s a spinster who’s spent her life saving souls for God and Bogart’s aGodless soul in need of saving. Stuck onboard The African Queen at the outbreakof World War I, they ride the rapids, outsmart the Germans and find true love onlocation in the middle of Africa.6 AIRPLANE!Paramount, 1980PRINCIPAL CASTDIRECTORSPRODUCERSCREENWRITERSRobert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves,Leslie NielsenJim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry ZuckerJon DavisonJim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry ZuckerShell-shocked ex-pilot is on a mission to get his girlfriend back, but the plot takes aback seat to the zany, wacky comedy spoof on films such as AIRPORT, FROMHERE TO ETERNITY and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. The movie gave birth toNeilson’s comedy career: “Surely you can’t be serious.” “I am serious, and don’t callme Shirley!”7 ALIENTwentieth Century-Fox, 1979PRINCIPAL CAST Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John HurtDIRECTORRidley ScottPRODUCERSGordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter HillSCREENWRITER Dan O’BannonUnbeknownst to its crew, spaceship Nostromo has taken on an alien stowaway thatincubates in some humans and hunts the rest. A science fiction film that broke newground by adding horror and gore and, more importantly, Weaver, as the action heroine.8 ALL ABOUT EVETwentieth Century-Fox, 1950PRINCIPAL CAST Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Gary MerrillDIRECTORJoseph L. MankiewiczPRODUCERDarryl F. ZanuckSCREENWRITER Joseph L. MankiewiczVanity almost gets the best of aging actress Davis when a ruthless young hopefulworms her way into all aspects of her life. Mankiewicz’s biting script of ambition andbetrayal in the New York theatre gave Davis her best role in years and some of hermost memorable lines: “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night!”American Film Institute9
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