Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel • 1932 • United States

One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror, The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big-game hunter with a taste for the world's most exotic prey, his houseguests, played by Fay Wray a...

Directed by Harold Young • 1934 • United Kingdom

As his alter-ego the Scarlet Pimpernel, a seemingly ineffectual English aristocrat (Leslie Howard) saves innocents from the guillotine in France.

Directed by Zoltán Korda • 1939 • United Kingdom

This Technicolor spectacular, directed by Zoltán Korda, is considered the finest of the many adaptations of A. E. W. Mason's classic 1902 adventure novel about the British empire's exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Kord...

Directed by Charles Chaplin • 1942 • United States

Charlie Chaplin’s comedic masterwork—which charts a prospector’s search for fortune in the Klondike and his discovery of romance (with the beautiful Georgia Hale)—forever cemented the iconic status of Chaplin and his Little Tramp character. Sh...

Directed by Zoltán Korda • 1942 • United Kingdom

This Korda brothers film is the definitive version of Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of fables. Sabu stars as Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, who can communicate with all the beasts of the jungle, friend or foe, and who gradually reacclima...

Directed by Luis Buñuel • 1954 • United States, Mexico
Starring Dan O’Herlihy

Master director Luis Buñuel’s first color film (and first of only two he made in English) is a fascinating, unjustly neglected adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s classic survival novel. His take on the story—in which the epo...