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- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonH. Kyrle BellewPaul PanzerThe millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.
- StarsJeremy IronsDiana QuickRoger MilnerThe life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.
- DirectorJulian JarroldStarsMatthew GoodePatrick MalahideHayley AtwellA poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to World War II.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsCharlton HestonMichèle MercierRaimund HarmstorfA house dog is abducted and brought to the north as a sled dog.
- DirectorMichael Toshiyuki UnoStarsRicky SchroderGordon TootoosisDuncan FraserA young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
- CreatorDavid FallonStarsNick MancusoShane MeierRachel HaywardThe story is about the life of a dog which was stolen from his home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska.
- DirectorFred JackmanStarsJack MulhallWalter LongSidney D'AlbrookBuck, a young Saint Bernard, is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada where he is used on a dogsled. He is treated badly until John Thornton, a prospector, befriends him. Buck takes the opportunity to rescue Thornton when his life is endangered. Finally, he settles down to the pleasures of family life.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsClark GableLoretta YoungJack OakieDuring the Klondike Gold Rush, a traveler purchases a dog to lead the way toward the treasure, but reconsiders his journey when he finds a jilted married woman.
- DirectorPeter SvatekStarsRichard DreyfussRaymond DucasseEric HozielJack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken to the Yukon where he is mistreated until a prospector discovers him and relates to his situation. Although the two are bonded, Buck yearns to run free with the wild dogs in the wilderness.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsJohn BeckBernard FressonJohn McLiamA prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to the gold country.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsCharles InsleeHarry SolterFlorence LawrenceGeorge Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agent, the civilized brave meets Gladys, the lieutenant's daughter, and falls desperately in love with her. You may be sure he is indignantly repulsed by Gladys and ordered from the house for his presumption by her father. With pique he leaves, and we next find him in his own room, crushed and disappointed, for he realizes the truth: "Good enough as a hero, but not as a husband." What was the use of his struggle? As he reasons, his long suppressed nature asserts itself and he hears the call of the wild: "Out there is your sphere, on the boundless plains, careless and free, among your kind and kin, where all is truth." Here he sits; this nostalgic fever growing more intense every second, until in a fury he tears off the conventional clothes he wears, donning in their stead his suit of leather, with blanket and feathered headgear. Thus garbed, and with a bottle of whiskey, he makes his way back to his former associates in the wilds. He plans vengeance and the opportunity presents itself, when he surprises Gladys out horseback riding. He captures her after a spirited chase and intended holding her captive, but she appeals to him, calling to his mind the presence of the All Powerful Master above, who knows and sees all things, and who is even now calling to him to do right. He listens to the call of this Higher Voice, and helping her to her saddle, sadly watches her ride off homeward.
- DirectorColin NearsStarsHarry AndrewsAlan DobieRosemary LeachThe last days of famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy which are paralleled with one of his last stories - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - about a man who is happy with his life until he finds out he's sick and is about to die.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsBurt LancasterJean SimmonsArthur KennedyA fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.
- DirectorVictor QuinazStarsPhilip QuinazAlison FyhrieA.M. Lukas
- DirectorPhilip MoellerStarsIrene DunneJohn BolesLionel AtwillAn engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
- DirectorLothar MendesStarsMary BrianFredric MarchLilyan TashmanA husband and wife have several children from their previous marriages and now they want to get divorced. The kids don't want to be separated and the oldest daughter and her boyfriend try to keep them together.
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsLiam NeesonPatricia ArquetteGil RoodA new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolated, hardscrabble farm with his sickly wife Zeena.
- DirectorRobert Allan AckermanStarsSela WardTimothy DaltonAlicia WittSet in early 1900s France, a widow renews a former romantic interest, until it is discovered that he has had a past fling with one of her new employees, a nanny. This sets the two women into many well-mannered accusations and conversations, but no modern brawling, and puts him in the middle, or possibly on the outside.
- DirectorKirk BrowningStarsStephen CollinsJohn CullumJohn McMartinNoted American author Edith Wharton, in her later years, returns home and reminisces about her life. This was part of a PBS Great Performances trilogy, which also included dramatizations of her novels "Summer" (starring Diane Lane and John Cullum) and "The House of Mirth" (starring Geraldine Chaplin).
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsJane FondaMichel PiccoliPeter McEneryIn Paris, Maxime visits his wealthy industrialist father Alexandre and his beautiful young Canadian wife, Renée. Alexandre fathered him years ago in a prior marriage and he has come to stay with them after studying in England. Renée tells Maxime that she married Alexandre when she was pregnant following an unhappy love affair; the child was stillborn and the passion between the two has faded. They begin an affair and fall in love with each other. Renée, who came from a wealthy family, asks Alexandre for a divorce. He agrees, on the condition that she leaves the fortune she brought to their marriage invested in his business. Renée accepts this and goes to Switzerland for a divorce. But while she is away, Alexandre confronts his son with two alternatives: he can either run off with now penniless Renée or become engaged to Anne, the daughter of a wealthy banker whose support Alexandre needs for his business. Maxime agrees on the second course of action. Renée returns from Switzerland to find Alexandre holding a ball celebrating Maxime's engagement to Anne. Renée throws herself into the pool to kill herself - but then changes her mind and dripping wet enters the party. Alexandre escorts her to the gymnasium, where she sits and stares into an empty future.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsMadge BellamyMae GiraciJohn BowersIn 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
- StarsEmily RichardJohn SommervillePatrick TroughtonLorna Doone is a swashbuckling tale of love, rivalry and revenge. As a child, John Ridd watches as his father is killed by the feared clan, the Doones, and swears to avenge his death. Years later, when he meets the beautiful Lorna the attraction is instant, but when Lorna later reveals herself to be a Doone, John is horrified. As he realizes they cannot fight the love growing between them, he vows to rescue Lorna from her ruthless cousin Carver Doone.
- DirectorBasil DeanStarsVictoria HopperJohn LoderMargaret LockwoodHigh drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsBarbara HaleRichard GreeneCarl Benton ReidSet in 17th century England, a young woman falls in love with a humble villager whose community suffers under the rule of her despotic landowning family.
- StarsBill TraversJean AndersonAndrew FauldsTV adaptation, believed to be lost, of the 1869 romance novel "Lorna Doone" by R. D. Blackmore.
- DirectorTheodore MarstonStarsGladys HuletteFrank Hall CraneMarguerite SnowLorna Dugal, the little daughter of an English nobleman, is carried off by her father's enemies, the Doones, when she is five years old. Sire Ensor Doone had been banished from court, and he and his family had established themselves in a well-protected valley, becoming outlaws and highwaymen. To this den of robbers little Lorna is carried, partly for revenge, and partly in the hope that when she grew to womanhood, she could be forced into marriage with one of the Doones, who would thus secure her fortune. John Ridd, then a little boy, returning from school saw the helpless child being carried off by the Doones, and at once became interested in her. Lorna is told she is a Doone and believes it. While on a fishing trip, young John, soon after, accidentally finds a hitherto unknown entrance into Doone valley. Here he meets little Lorna, and the children become fast friends. They arrange to meet often, unknown to the Doones, and through many years their friendship continues. Finally, when Lorna has reached the age of sixteen, John wins her consent to become his wife. In a heroic fight he rescues his love from the hands of the outlaws and brings her to his mother's home. Here as their wedding is being celebrated they are attacked by the leader of the Doones, who fires at them through the window of their home, and wounds Lorna. The enraged bridegroom rushes from the altar in pursuit of the coward. They engage in mortal combat on the heath at the edge of a quagmire. Here providence intervenes. The Doone leader in the struggle steps from solid ground, and is swallowed up in the quicksand, leaving John to return to the arms of his bride, now sage from further persecution.
- DirectorWilfred NoyStarsDorothy BellewYeoman loves outlaw's daughter, who is stolen heiress.
- DirectorJ. Farrell MacDonaldStarsJack DrumierG. Raymond NyeWilliam J. ButlerThe enmity between John Ridd and Carver Doone began when John, as a lad, saw his father slain in defense of the Earl of Lorne's family, whom the marauding Doones killed with the exception of the little girl they spared, adopted and christened Lorna Doone. Grown to manhood, John was given cause to remember his oath of vengeance. The Doones, led by Carver harried his estates and drove off his cattle And Carver began a relentless persecution of Lorna who loathed him. John met her in the forest and loved her. She saved his life when he was near to drowning; again, she saved him from the sin of murder when, at sight of Carver the memory of his wrongs made him draw his pistol. John, in turn, rescued her from Carver after the death of old Sir Ensor Doone left her defenseless, and took her to his home. Carver in revenge, informed the king's chancellor that Lorna was the heiress of the Earl of Lorne. Ordered to court, Lorna seemed lost forever to simple John. But fate led him to detect a conspiracy of the Doones against the king, and he was knighted. On the wedding day Carver attempted to kill John at the altar by firing through a window of the church. The bullet struck Lorna. Believing his darling dead, John executed a terrible vengeance upon Carver. But Lorna did not die, and years of happiness lay ahead for them.
- DirectorHorace Lisle LucoqueStarsDennis WyndhamBertie GordonRoy RaymondA yeoman loves an outlaw's daughter who is really a stolen heiress.
- DirectorMike BarkerStarsNeil FinnighanJack BaverstockTrevor CooperAgainst a backdrop of political and religious upheaval, a farmer falls in love with the "queen" of the notorious Doone clan --a family that he has sworn vengeance on.
- DirectorRichard P. RogersStarsRon ToughRuth AndersonJim BeldingA docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The movie intercuts between reenactments of Ballard doing her Maine midwifery and related tasks, and Ulrich in her eight years of research on her book; in the end, clear comparisons are made between the work of the two women.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsSissy SpacekPeter CoyoteTerry KinneyA midwife in rural Vermont is wrongly accused of murder in the death of one of her patients by the woman's husband.
- DirectorVictor NunezStarsDana PreuDavid PeckJ. Smith-CameronGal Young 'Un centers on a spinster woman who lives alone in the woods of north Florida until she is swept off her feet by an opportunistic bootlegger. He marries her for her place and her daddy's money and her cooking and cleaning, which she freely shares. Inevitably, he shows his true colors in a variety of ways. One day he brings home a very young woman with clear intentions of keeping her as a mistress (a gal young 'un) in the older woman's house. Business takes him elsewhere and the two woman are left alone in the woods together to come to terms with their shared exploitedness.
- DirectorAlbert LewinStarsGeorge SandersHurd HatfieldDonna ReedA corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
- DirectorDave RosenbaumStarsJosh DuhamelBranden WaughRainer JuddA corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
- DirectorDuncan RoyStarsDavid GallagherNoah SeganChristian CamargoA contemporary adaptation of Oscar Wilde classic tale of vanity.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsGregory PeckJoan BennettRobert PrestonIn British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and coward husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsBarbara StanwyckGeorge BrentDickie MooreAfter Selina's father dies, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJane WymanSterling HaydenNancy OlsonIn the late 1890s, a young widow becomes a successful farmer and can send her son, nicknamed 'So Big', to college. After graduating, he finds a job as an architect, but forgoes his dream in favor of an immediate financial success.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJennifer JonesJason RobardsJoan FontaineA Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsMarie PrevostKenneth HarlanHarry MyersGloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging themselves. Tony's wealthy grandfather Adam Patch dies, but to their surprise he leaves Tony nothing. The couple try their hands at actually working for a living, but they don't like it and return to their spendthrift ways. Something has to give, and it soon does.
- DirectorWaris HusseinStarsDonald SutherlandTeri GarrTuesday WeldThis story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsStefanie PowersClaire BloomPeter BowlesThe singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer - is depicted. Raised by her father in colonial East Africa, Beryl hunted with the Maasai, bred thoroughbred horses, romanced Denys Finch-Hatton and defied constraining social rules. Based upon her own memoir 'West With the Night'.