Directed by James Bridges • 1979 • United States
Starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas
Released less than two weeks before the reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island, this gripping, eerily prophetic thriller sketches a terrifying portrait of the risks of nuclear power. While researching a story on alternative energy, ambitious television reporter Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) witness an unnerving control-room accident at a Southern California power plant. As the plant’s officials move to cover up the truth about what happened, it’s left to a crusading Kimberly and veteran engineer Jack Godell (Jack Lemmon) to try to stop an impending disaster.
Directed by Charles Laughton • 1955 • United States
Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, i...
Directed by Howard Hawks • 1938 • United States
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
What do you get when you combine Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, a missing dinosaur bone, and a leopard named Baby? One of the all-time great American comedies! Grant is the stuffy paleontologi...
Directed by Howard Hawks • 1952 • United States
Starring Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt
Howard Hawks’s epic western adventure stars Kirk Douglas as pioneer Jim Deakins, the leader of the first expedition to navigate up the Missouri River. In a daring journey to expand the fur trad...
