Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American madcap, but dark, comedy film directed by Frank Capra,  starring Cary Grant, and based on Joseph Kesselring's play Arsenic and Old Lace.   Set in the Brooklyn family home of the Brewsters, the plot concerns a drama critic, Mortimer Brewster, whose two beloved maiden aunts are caring for […]

"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote.   First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. This 1997 film version stars Patty Duke, Piper Laurie and Eric Lloyd.  As directed by Glenn Jordan, and adapted by Duane Poole, the gentle and lyrical […]

This 1977 Oscar-winning drama, based on the memoirs of playwright Lillian Hellman, depicts the relationship between two friends with unexpected consequences. Lillian, on her way to a writers’ meeting in 1930's Russia, plans to reunite with her life-long friend Julia, who in turn asks Lillian to smuggle funds into Germany to aid the anti-Nazi movement. Waiting in the wings is Lillian's lover and mentor, Dashiell Hammett, who is unaware of her dangerous assignment.

Filmed previously in 1929 and in 1936,  this third adaptation of Jerome Kern’s Show Boat was shot in Technicolor in the typical MGM lavish style in 1951, with a production spread out from the MGM back lot to the Mississippi itself.  Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney, the film stars Kathryn Grayson, […]

Jeff Daniels stars as George Washington in this historical drama about the Battle of Trenton and the crossing of the Delaware. Winner of the 2000 Peabody Award for Excellence.

Starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, the musical biopic showcases the swing music of famed clarinetist Benny Goodman, who recorded the clarinet solos used in the film.

This 1980 remake of the 1927 film stars Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, and Lucie Arnaz, and feature’s Diamond’s award-winning soundtrack.

Set in Budapest, this 1940 classic holiday film stars James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan, in a sparkling, heart-warming production by Ernst Ljubitsch.

Benjamin Britten's grand opera masterpiece, with huge orchestra and chorus, and starring Jon Vickers as the eccentric fisherman persecuted by his village in London's Royal Opera, Covent Garden production.