Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Salinas Valley. With his incompatible parents -- the city-loving Fred and country-happy Alice -- constantly bickering, Tom looks to cowboy Billy Buck for companionship and paternal love.

The Purple Heart

1944

English

6.4

♡ 6

40%

Lewis Milestone Director

Anne Baxter as Anne

Richard Conte as Lt. Angelo Canelli

Martin Garralaga as Manuel Siva

Philip Ahn as Saburo Goto

This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

1946

English

7.4

♡ 7

100%

husband wife relationship

noir

Romance

Lewis Milestone Director

Ann Doran as Bobbi St. John

Walter Baldwin as Dempsey

Amzie Strickland as Nightclub Patron

Darryl Hickman as Sam - As a Child

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

The Front Page

1931

English

6.7

♡ 11

88%

Lewis Milestone Director

Herman J. Mankiewicz as Bit

George E. Stone as Earl Williams

Pat O'Brien as Hildy Johnson

Mary Brian as Peggy Grant

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.

Arch of Triumph

1948

English

6.3

♡ 6

54%

Lewis Milestone Director

Leonardo Scavino as Capt. Gonzales

Gene Roth as Gestapo Agent

Ingrid Bergman as Joan Madou

Curt Bois as Tattooed Waiter

In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgment, they become involved in a doomed affair.

The General Died at Dawn

1936

English

6.5

♡ 1

100%

Lewis Milestone Director

William Frawley as Brighton

J.M. Kerrigan as Leach

Gary Cooper as O'Hara

Philip Ahn as Oxford

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.

A Walk in the Sun

1945

English

6.9

♡ 6

86%

Lewis Milestone Director

John Ireland as Pfc. Windy Craven

Steve Brodie as Pvt. Judson

Richard Conte as Pvt. Rivera

Herbert Rudley as Sgt. Eddie Porter

In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.

Anything Goes

1936

English

6.2

♡ 2

83%

Lewis Milestone Director

Richard Carle as Bishop Dobson

Ida Lupino as Hope Harcourt

Philip Ahn as Ling

Charles Ruggles as Moonface Martin - Rev. Dr. Moon

A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.

They Who Dare

1954

English

5.5

♡ 9

13%

Lewis Milestone Director

Sam Kydd as Marine Boyd

Alec Mango as Patroklis

Denholm Elliott as Sergeant Corcoran

David Peel as Sergeant Evans

In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.

Rain

1932

English

6.9

♡ 6

90%

68%

Action

based on play or musical

Lewis Milestone Director

Walter Huston as Alfred Davidson

Ben Hendricks Jr. as Griggs

Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Davidson

Walter Catlett as Quartermaster Bates

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.

The Garden of Eden

1928

English

6.7

44%

Lewis Milestone Director

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Busboy

Hank Mann as Railroad Conductor

Charles Ray as Richard Dupont

William H. O'Brien as Waiter at Palais de Paris

Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.

Halls of Montezuma

1951

English

6.6

♡ 8

88%

Lewis Milestone Director

Karl Malden as Doc

Edward Binns as First Soldier in Final Tracking Shot

Joe Turkel as Marine

Robert Wagner as Private Coffman

Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.

Pork Chop Hill

1959

English

7.0

♡ 4

88%

72%

based on novel or book

Lewis Milestone Director

Chuck Hayward as Chalmers

Lew Gallo as Lieutenant - Division Public Relations

Bert Remsen as Lt. Cummings

Robert Blake as Pvt. Velie

Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.

Edge of Darkness

1943

English

7.2

♡ 4

78%

Lewis Milestone Director

Errol Flynn as Gunnar Brogge

Monte Blue as Petersen

John Roy as Soldier

Carl Sklover as Soldier

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

The Young in Heart

1938

English

7.3

♡ 1

76%

Lewis Milestone Director

Richard Carlson as Duncan Macrae

Janet Gaynor as George-Anne Carleton

Walter Kingsford as Inspector

Paulette Goddard as Leslie Saunders

A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.

The North Star

1943

English

5.9

♡ 2

31%

Lewis Milestone Director

Henry Hall as Farmer

George Lynn as German Pilot

Eric Roberts as Grisha Kurin

Anne Baxter as Marina Pavlov

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

Of Mice and Men

1939

English

7.8

♡ 9

100%

85%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Lewis Milestone Director

Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie Small

Betty Field as Mae Jackson

Baldwin Cooke as Ranch Hand

Barbara Pepper as Second Girl

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

The Kid Brother

1927

English

7.6

♡ 7

92%

Lewis Milestone Director

Harold Lloyd as Harold Hickory

Walter James as Jim Hickory

Olin Francis as Olin Hickory

Gus Leonard as Townsman

The timid youngest son of the most important family in town must use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and the love of a beautiful new woman in town.

Ocean's Eleven

1960

English

6.5

♡ 31

47%

Lewis Milestone Director

Sammy Davis Jr. as Josh Howard

Ilka Chase as Mrs. Restes

Joey Bishop as 'Mushy' O'Connors

John Indrisano as Texan

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

English

8.1

♡ 57

98%

89%

Action

army

based on novel or book

Lewis Milestone Director

William Bakewell as Albert

Harold Goodwin as Detering

Fred Zinnemann as German soldier / French ambulance driver

Edmund Breese as Herr Meyer

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

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The Red Pony

The Purple Heart

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

The Front Page

Arch of Triumph

The General Died at Dawn

A Walk in the Sun

Anything Goes

They Who Dare

Rain

The Garden of Eden

Halls of Montezuma

Pork Chop Hill

Edge of Darkness

The Young in Heart

The North Star

Of Mice and Men

The Kid Brother

Ocean's Eleven

All Quiet on the Western Front