Philip W. Anderson

A compassionate Hollywood screenwriter attempts to talk a troubled actress out of taking her own life.

Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.

Richard Harris estrela esta épica e maravilhosa história, que retrata realisticamente a vida dos índios Sioux americanos no início do século XIX. Quando um senhor inglês é capturado por uma tribo indígena Sioux, e é dado de presente à mãe do chefe (Dame Judith Anderson) para ser seu criado. Gradualmente, ele abraça o modo de vida da tribo e apaixona-se pela irmã do Chefe. Mas antes, ele deverá ser aceito com honra e coragem como um guerreiro da tribo. Então, deverá suportar o 'Voto do Sol' - um ritual selvagem com um sacrifício muito além do que qualquer um possa sonhar no mundo civilizado. Um faroeste ímpar, com uma interpretação irretocável de Harris e um figurino perfeito criado pela melhor equipe de pesquisa de arte de Hollywood.

Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money.

Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle on some land left him by a relative. He faces opposition both from a neighbor who wants that land for his own sons, and from a grizzly bear nicknamed "Satan" who keeps killing Cole's livestock.

When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.

Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.

Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.

Hayley Mills interpreta gêmeas que, desconhecendo que seus pais se divorciaram, se encontram em um acampamento de verão. Como ambas moram com pai/mãe "solteiros", elas trocam de lugar (surpresa!) de modo a satisfazer a curiosidade de conhecer o pai/mãe que nunca conheceu. Claro que depois resolvem providenciar a re-união dos pais.

Em Las Vegas, onze homens tomam parte de um fantástico plano de assaltar cinco cassinos ao mesmo tempo, durante a virada do ano. Tudo parece perfeito, mas algo acaba saindo errado.

A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.

Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. When Cash comes across Austen Plastics, a small manufacturing corporation on its last legs, he realizes it might be a gamble to buy the company. But when Cash finds out that the company's owner is the father of his old flame, Lory, he buys the business just to get a second chance at romance.

O veterano agente do FBI, John Michael "Chip" Hardesty, narra a história da organização, iniciando com o caso de Jack Graham, psicopata que explodiu o avião que viajava a mãe dele, em um voo de Denver para Portland para ficar com o prêmio do seguro de vida dela. A solução do caso após minuciosa investigação é mostrada como um exemplo da evolução técnica daquele órgão policial norte-americano.

As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.

O major da Força Aérea Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) é transferido para uma base aérea japonesa e é confrontado com o preconceito racial americano contra o povo japonês. A questão é agravada porque vários soldados se envolvem romanticamente com mulheres japonesas, desafiando a política militar dos EUA. Normalmente um oficial seguidor das regras, Gruver deve tomar uma posição quando um amigo, o soldado Joe Kelly (Red Buttons), se apaixona pela japonesa Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) e se casa com ela. Gruver então arrisca sua posição sendo o padrinho na cerimônia de casamento.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.

Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B. Birdbrain bumbles his way through building a backyard badminton court. (This film is played in its entirety in MGM's short feature "The Great Morgan")

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.

This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.

This Pete Smith Specialty is a semihumorous look at basic first aid techniques for mishaps that often occur around the house. It was produced in cooperation with the Beverly Hills First Aid Unit of the American Red Cross Disaster Service. —David Glagovsky

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

A humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

Marie Crawford faz de tudo para manter seus maridos.

In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.

This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and teamwork of sports and how these qualities are translated into the weapons training of American soldiers. We watch target practice by Army personnel with shoulder weapons, mortars, and various artillery pieces.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, clips from several unidentified silent films are woven into a story, with humorous commentary by Smith.

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.

A 3-D short subject in which the narrator goes to a creepy old house in search of his missing aunt. There he encounters the Frankenstein monster, a witch, a wooden Indian who comes to life, and assorted other monsters and frightening characters, all of whom manage to throw something toward the camera.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her scowling family, and Abner has no idea how to proceed. The film's narrator has us cut away to the kitchen of chef M.O. Cullen who demonstrates the proper way to carve the bird, spoon out the stuffing, and lay out the platter. Back to Abner, who's missed Cullen's lesson, so he makes a fine mess. Can this marriage survive?

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson, who teaches them in the fine art of playing billiards.

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy he and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man's affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.