Directed by Otto Preminger • 1959 • United States
Starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara

A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he belie...

Directed by Tay Garnett • 1932 • United States
Starring William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon

One of the glories of pre-Code cinema, this exquisitely bittersweet romance endures as perhaps the finest of the six films that stars Kay Francis and William Powell made together between 1930 and ...

Directed by Rowland Brown • 1931 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers

The first film directed by screenwriter Rowland Brown, QUICK MILLIONS features a ruthless performance from a young Spencer Tracy as Danny Raymond, a truck driver “too lazy to work and too ...

Directed by Fritz Lang • 1953 • United States
Starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin

Fritz Lang’s hard-boiled cop vs. criminals yarn stars Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion, a police detective and family man driven by grief to conduct a relentless vendetta against a mobster (Alexander Scourby)...

Directed by Richard Thorpe • 1957 • United States
Starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy

Elvis Presley shakes up the screen in one of his most beloved musicals. As Vince Everett—a convict who learns guitar while in prison and, following his release, shoots to rock ’n’ roll stardo...

Directed by Michael Curtiz • 1958 • United States
Starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau

Considered by Elvis Presley to be the finest of his own films, this noirish musical gave him a chance to flex his raw dramatic talents. Veteran craftsman Michael Curtiz brings plenty of moody ...

Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1956 • United States
Starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards

Stanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp noveli...

Directed by Philip Dunne • 1961 • United States
Starring Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld

One of the overlooked highlights of Elvis Presley’s film career, this serious-minded drama (scripted by no less than Clifford Odets) casts him as Glenn Tyler, a troubled young man who, following a vi...

Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1955 • United States
Starring Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane

This early feature by Stanley Kubrick finds the precocious young director seizing the noir genre as an opportunity for visual experimentation and moody atmosphere, laying the groundwork for the fol...

Directed by Robert D. Webb • 1956 • United States
Starring Richard Egan, Debra Paget, Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley makes his screen debut in this entertaining western musical. Though he was not (for the first and only time in his movie career) the top-billed star, Elvis undeniably enlivened this ...

Directed by Norman Taurog • 1961 • United States
Starring Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury

In many ways the film that established the template for what would become the Elvis movie—picturesque scenery, breezy romance, and a near-nonstop parade of songs (here including the hit “Can’t...

Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1957 • United States
Starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolph Menjou

Stanley Kubrick’s PATHS OF GLORY is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. A fiery Kirk Douglas stars as a World War I French colonel who goes head-to-head with the army’s ruthless ...

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Bebe Daniels

It’s trouble on the water when a man tries to woo his sweetheart by pretending to be a lifeguard.

Directed by Hal Roach and Alfred J. Goulding • 1920 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace Howe

A hapless young man is roped into an arranged marriage to help a girl claim her inheritance: a haunted house!

Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1921 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young

Though originally intended as a two-reel short, A SAILOR-MADE MAN wound up becoming Harold Lloyd’s first feature—simply because there were too many good gags to cut! Here, our bespectacled hero play...

Directed by Hal Roach • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, ‘Snub’ Pollard

A bicycle messenger wreaks havoc in a girls’ seminary.

Directed by Harry Kerwin • 1963 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd

In 1966, Harold Lloyd created a theatrical program entitled HAROLD LLOYD’S FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. The program presented THE FRESHMAN together with a brief on-camera introduction by Lloyd and a clip reel from his body of work, bot...

Directed by Gilbert Pratt and Hal Mohr • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

An employee at a struggling antiques store gets creative in order to save the business.

Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard

A bumbling American soldier saves a Russian girl from a band of drunken Bolsheviks.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ’Snub’ Pollard, Bebe Daniels

Marital mayhem ensues when a poor boy attempts to woo the daughter of a wealthy man.

Directed by J. Farrell MacDonald and Harold Lloyd • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard

Harold Lloyd’s “Glasses Character” makes his debut in a tale of baseball hijinks.

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

A flirty photographer incurs the wrath of a jealous husband—and tries to pass the blame to an unsuspecting stooge.

Directed by Hal Roach • 1920 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Fred McPherson

A new automobile owner’s car troubles may doom his chance at romance.

Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1922 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend

This early feature-length silent comedy pushed the form forward by balancing slapstick hilarity with more serious character development. Using the extended running time to further develop his pop...