The 19 short comedies created by Keaton between 1920 and 1923 provided a workshop for the developing filmmaker and, at their best, are among the greatest cinematic achievements of the silent era.
William Wellman directs this snappy pre-code drama set in a sleazy backwater where the dregs of civilization hide out and the local law is even more corrupt than the crooks.
Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh star in Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic.
Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into “soap opera” in this exquisitely baroque melodrama with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.
This offbeat drama about an eccentric sentenced to a chain gang in a sweltering Southern prison may not be the greatest prison film ever made, but it surely must be the coolest.
Director Michael Curtiz brings noir sensibility to the James Cain melodrama and directs Crawford to her only Academy Award in this superb Hollywood classic.
The Little Tramp goes to Alaska in one of the funniest movies of the silent era, an underdog comedy set against an epic backdrop of snow-covered mountains.
