This excellent biographical documentary looks at the life and work of director William Wyler. The film is dominated by clips...
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1986
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Justice runs red in the deep South in this powerful drama. Steve Mundine (Lee Majors) is a young lawyer who, shortly after...
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1970
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"Hello, gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first comment to the Oscar statuette which she won for her performance in this...
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Director, Producer
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1968
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In this elegant "caper" film, Audrey Hepburn stars as the daughter of a wealthy Parisian (Hugh Griffith), whose hobby is...
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1966
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John Fowles's novel The Collector was written in the form of a dual diary, one kept by a kidnapper, the other by his victim....
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1965
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Director, Producer
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1961
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This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to...
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1959
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Director, Producer
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1958
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Director, Producer
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1956
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Director, Producer
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1955
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Audrey Hepburn became a star with this film, in which she played Princess Anne, weary of protocol and anxious to have some...
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Director, Producer
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1953
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Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat...
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Director, Producer
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1952
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Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police...
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Director, Producer
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1951
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Henry James based his 1881 novella Washington Square on a real-life incident, wherein a young actor of his acquaintance...
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Director, Producer
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1949
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The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult...
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1946
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Filmed in Technicolor, Thunderbolt was the last of Major William Wyler's wartime directorial efforts on behalf of the US Army...
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1945
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Filmed in color, The Memphis Belle has long been held up as a "model" wartime documentary. In a terse, exciting 41 minutes,...
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1944
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One of three morale-boosting government documentaries directed by Lieutenant Colonel William Wyler (the others were...
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1944
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The semi-feature-length wartime documentary Report From the Aleutians was written and directed by Captain John Huston. It was...
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1943
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941...
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1941
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The town of Vinegaroon, TX, is the home to Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), who calls himself "The Only Law West of the...
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1940
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1940
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1939
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In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' "compensation" to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play...
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1938
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Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's...
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1937
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Set in the woodlands of Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as a logger-turned-lumber tycoon. In his rise to the...
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1936
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1936
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In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
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1936
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Margaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire...
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1935
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Francis Lederer stars as the prince of a mythical European kingdom. To mingle with the "common folk" while on a visit to New...
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1935
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Another of director William Wyler's "apprenticeship" films, Glamour is based on a story by Edna Ferber. The original story...
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1934
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Adapted from the play by Elmer Rice, Counsellor-at-Law is the story of a successful Jewish lawyer George Simon...
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1933
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One wonders if William Wyler ever gave Her First Mate a second thought when he was busy directing such subsequent films as...
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1933
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William Wyler directed this melodramatic story about a boy who, after growing up in the shadow of his father, learns the old...
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1932
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand" declared Abraham Lincoln; proof that a house divided can be repaired is...
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1931
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Previously filmed in 1916 and 1922, Langdon McCormick's theatrical chestnut Men Without Skirts was pulled out of mothballs...
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1930
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William Wyler was still primarily a western specialist when he was assigned to direct Hell's Heroes. Based on...
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1930
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Director William Wyler made the move up to talking pictures with this blend of action and comedy. Dave Roberts (James Murray...
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1929
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A woman finds herself a victim of love in this drama. Her trouble begins when her husband falsely accuses her of having an...
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1929
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Directed by William Wyler, The Love Trap centers around a chorus girl whose sudden job termination (on the day of her...
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1929
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1929
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Directed by a very young William Wyler, this fanciful Ted Wells Western from the assembly-lines at Universal reads like a...
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1928
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1928
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Hard-drinking silent screen hero Art Acord starred opposite his then-wife Louise Lorraine in this Universal oater directed by...
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1927
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German-born William Wyler began his long, eventful directorial career helming Fred Gilman Western 2-reelers at Universal....
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1927
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1927
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1927
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In this typical silent Universal "Blue Streak Western," a couple of crooked real estate speculators (Boris Bullock and...
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1927
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Straight Shootin' is a rubber stamp Universal western vehicle for second-string cowboy hero Ted Wells. The villains kidnap a...
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1927
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A very young William Wyler directed this two-reel "Northwestern" starring tight-lipped Edmund Cobb as Field, a Northwest...
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1927
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Young up-and-coming director William Wyler permitted himself to strut his stuff onscreen as well in this comedy two-reeler...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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1926
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The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version...
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1925
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1925
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