Directed by Vittorio De Sica • 1970 • Italy, Soviet Union
Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Ludmila Savelyeva
Sophia Loren delivers a stunning performance in this grandly emotional romantic epic. In one of her great collaborations with director Vittorio De Sica, she plays Giovanna, a steel-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing in World War II on the battlefields of Russia. Making the grueling overland journey years after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and finds him a changed man. This heart-wrenching reunion will forever alter the course of their lives.
Directed by Guy Green • 1975 • United States
Starring Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen
Based on the bestseller by “Valley of the Dolls” author Jacqueline Susann, this torrid big-screen soap opera centers on the fraught relationship between Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas), a has-been Hollywood...
Directed by Arthur Hiller • 1976 • United States
Starring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor
In this wild (and wildly popular) buddy-comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the midd...
Directed by Walter Bernstein • 1980 • United States
Starring Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis
Damon Runyon’s classic short story—originally filmed in 1934 as a Shirley Temple vehicle—gets a sparkling screen update courtesy of an all-star cast. Walter Matthau stars as Sorrowful Jones, t...
