Directed by Fritz Lang • 1937 • United States
Starring Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane
Fritz Lang brings his bitterly ironic fatalism to this prototypical couple-on-the-run crime drama and key forerunner of film noir. Ex-con Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) is a career criminal struggling to start a new, honest life with his sympathetic wife, Joan (Sylvia Sidney). An armored-car robbery gone wrong—with Eddie fingered as the prime suspect—is the beginning of a string of disastrous breaks for the couple as they go on the lam in a desperate attempt to outrun their destinies.
Directed by Terrence Malick • 1973 • United States
Starring Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
BADLANDS announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as...
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 Otto Preminger • 1955 • United States
Starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak
Otto Preminger’s groundbreaking depiction of drug addiction brought an explosively controversial topic to the screen with empathy and unflinching frankness. Frank Sinatra gives a harrowing perform...
