This exciting biopic of the noted and notorious Mexican bandit Pancho Villa begins with his childhood and goes through his adulthood, during which he is played by Wallace Beery.

After making a series of acclaimed and controversial films in his native France, director Louis Malle made his American debut with this disturbing but visually beautiful story about Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a prostitute working in New Orleans’ Storyville district at the turn of the century. When Hattie becomes pregnant, she gives birth to a daughter […]

Universal This middlebrow ensemble comedy presents a chronicle of four suburban siblings and their respective families over the course of a single summer. Screenwriters Babaloo Mandel, Lowell Ganz, and director Ron Howard (who contributed some story ideas) treat the material with the necessary light comedic touch, but the whole thing is too much of a […]

The young director James Bridges made a sleeper out of John Jay Osborn Jr.’s novel Paper Chase. Timothy Bottoms (who made an impression in The Last Picture Show in 1971) stars as the Minnesotan Hart, a brilliant but naive freshman at Harvard Law School. Like most of his fellow aspiring attorneys, Hart is in fearful […]

In this romantic comedy, produced by Herman Mankiewicz (who co-wrote Welles’ Citizen Kane)  and directed by co-writer Harry dÁbbadie dÁrrast (see below), Nancy Carroll plays a showgirl who marries Frank Morgan for his money. Things get complicated when her old lover (Fredric March) comes back into her life. Oscar Nominations: 1 Original Story: Harry dÁbbadie […]