Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Action | Drama | War
Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal.
Starring: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Don Taylor, Janis Carter, Jay C. Flippen, William Harrigan
Director: Nicholas Ray
Knock on Any Door (1949)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts, Candy Toxton, Mickey Knox, Barry Kelley
Director: Nicholas Ray
Bitter Victory / Amère victoire (1957)
Drama | War
A commander receives a citation for an attack on Rommel's headquarters, which is actually undeserved as the commander is unfit for his job. On top of that, unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his officers.
Starring: Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman, Raymond Pellegrin, Anthony Bushell, Alfred Burke
Director: Nicholas Ray
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell
Director: Nicholas Ray
King of Kings (1961)
Biography | Drama | History
The life of Jesus Christ from the Nazarene’s humble birth to his nomadic ministry, from the teachings to murderous conspiracies, from death on a cross to resurrection.
Starring: Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Siobhan McKenna, Ron Randell, Harry Guardino, Viveca Lindfors
Director: Nicholas Ray
The American Friend / Der amerikanische Freund (1977)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. But another criminal business associate wants Tom to go in for an even riskier enterprise: murder. Tom suggests his associate ask a local picture framer instead. That man has a fatal disease, or so it's rumored. More, he has a wife and kid that surely he wouldn't want to leave penniless. Let this picture framer be a hit man, and no one will suspect. The terminally ill craftsman may agree to the misdeed, and several more, but he'll end up needing Tom Ripley in a pinch.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller
Director: Wim Wenders
The Lusty Men (1952)
Action | Drama | Western
When he sustains a rodeo injury, star rider Jeff McCloud returns to his hometown after many years of absence. He signs on as a hired hand with a local ranch, where he befriends fellow ranch hand Wes and his wife Louise. Wes has big dreams of owning his own little farm, and rodeo winnings could help finance it. Wes convinces Jeff to coach him in the rodeo ways, but Louise has her doubts. She doesn't want her man to end up a broken down rodeo bum like Jeff McCloud. Despite Louise's concern, the threesome hit the road in their Woody, chucking a secure present for an unknown future. Will they find success or sorrow? This picture features plenty of rodeo action and thrills.
Starring: Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, Arthur Hunnicutt, Frank Faylen, Walter Coy
Director: Nicholas Ray, Robert Parrish
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Action | Drama | History | War
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Harry Andrews, Leo Genn
Director: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Drama | Romance
Story of rebellious middle-class teens, disenfranchised with their parents, and given to a life of thuggery and deadly dangerous drag racing to win over women.
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Edward Platt, Dennis Hopper
Director: Nicholas Ray
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Western
Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone.
Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Scott Brady, Mercedes McCambridge, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine
Director: Nicholas Ray
Bigger Than Life (1956)
Drama
When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot.
Starring: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Director: Nicholas Ray
