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Michael Curtiz's fingering His Wife's "The Story of Will Rogers" (1952).
H.C. Potter pays homage to Irene Castle's "My Memories of Vernon Castle" (1938).
From the preview trailer for Ray Enright's propping up of Rex Beach's "The Spoilers" (1942).
From the trailer for Anatole Litvak's canned theatre adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry Wrong Number" …
From a certain animation studio located in Burbank that wants nothing more than to disassociate …
From the coming attraction for Vincente Minnelli's glorification of James Jones' "Some Came Running" (1959).
Pat McGroin's "Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence" (1953).
The greatest story ever told.
Title art from Henry Hathaway's sterling reenactment of Harold Bell Wright's "The Shepherd of the …
Irwin Allen drops rotonone in Rachel L. Carson's "The Sea Around Us" (1953).
Still the most faithful telling of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," the 1951 production of …
"The Scriptures Visualized," courtesy of the nice people at C. O. Baptista Films, Wheaton, ILL."
Sacha Guitry's "Royal Affairs in Versailles" (1954).
Ralph Nelson gives Rod Serling's "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (1962) just the right TV look …
Lee Daniels' "Precious," based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire.
Tay Garnett raising Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946).
From the trailer for Charles Walters' frolicsome transformation of Jean Kerr's "Please Don't Eat the …
From the trailer for Robert Siodmak's realization of Cornell Woolrich's "Phantom Lady" (1944).
Sacha 'L'Auteur' Guitry and Christian-Jaque's "The Pearls of the Crown" (1937).
Suggested by the 1955 book of the same name written by Jack Lait and Lee …
