The Secret 6

George Roy Hill

Wallace Beery gives a powerhouse performance in this hard-boiled Pre-Code crime saga costarring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in her M-G-M debut. Beery stars as Louis Scorpio, a stockyard worker who takes over a bootlegging gang run by small-town hoodlum Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy in his screen debut). Muscling into the big city rackets, Scorpio is targeted by the Secret Six, a masked tribunal that works with reporter Carl Luckner (Gable) to dig up the dirt that could convict the mobster and send him straight to the chair. Borrowed from Howard Hughes, Jean Harlow was cast as one of Scorpio's molls, sharing a few scenes with the up-and-coming Gable. Although his part was small at first, Gable's role was beefed up during production, eventually tripling in size. Within a year, the pair would become two of M-G-M's biggest stars, reteaming five more times before Harlow's untimely death in 1937.


Tell It to the Marines

George Roy Hill

"Lon Chaney is superb" (Leonard Maltin) as the hard-boiled sergeant with a heart of gold in this two-fisted tale of Marine Corps life, costarring William Haines and Eleanor Boardman. When Skeet Burns (Haines) joins the U.S. Marines, he winds up under Sergeant O'Hara (Chaney), the toughest leatherneck in the Corps., and both men fall for Navy nurse Norma Dale (Boardman). When they're stationed in the Philippines, Skeet's dalliance with a native girl (Carmel Myers) tips the scale in O'Hara's favor. Reassigned to China, the two must put their differences aside when they're ordered to Hangchow to rescue Norma and the nurses from a bandit leader (Warner Oland), whose gang has invaded the city. The first film made with the full cooperation of the Corps, Tell It to the Marines was Chaney's highest-grossing picture at MGM. His performance earned him the title of Honorary Marine, the first actor to receive it.


Clear All Wires!

George Roy Hill

Lee Tracy, the actor who makes a delightful specialty of playing motormouthed manipulators and flimflammers (including Hildy Johnson
in Broadway's original The Front Page and slick publicity man "Space" Hanlon in Jean Harlow's Bombshell), stars in the pre-code
comedy Clear All Wires! He portrays Buckley Joyce Thomas, brash foreign correspondent of the Chicago Globe. Bounced from a Moscow
assignment for "conduct unbecoming a gentleman," Buckley and his right-hand man Lefty (James Gleason) set in motion a plot to get
their jobs back by staging a high-level assassination attempt and scooping the world – a plan that spins wildly out of control.
Working from their Broadway play, Bella and Samuel Spewack provide the movie adaptation. They would rework the play for composer
Cole Porter's stage hit Leave It to Me! Perhaps most significantly, they would reunite with Porter for the timeless Kiss Me, Kate.


The Great Waldo Pepper

George Roy Hill

Robert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing adventure! Waldo Pepper (Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn glory during the war and dreams of being the first man to perform the risky outside loop. Desperate for cash, he resorts to “barnstorming” with his unique style of aerial showmanship, but soon lands in Hollywood as a stunt pilot. When ace fighter pilot Ernst Kessler (Bo Brundin) is cast to recreate his famous dogfight in a Hollywood blockbuster, Waldo sees an opportunity to redeem his war record in a dramatic and death-defying airborne fight that proves to be a little too real. Directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting) and co-starring Susan Sarandon, Margot Kidder, Bo Svenson and Edward Herrmann, it’s a thrilling, pulse-pounding story about the dreamers and risk-takers of early aviation.


The Big House

George Roy Hill

Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery lead in this suspenseful film that depicts the range, desperation and loyalty of 3,000 felons, inhabiting an institution built for only 1,800.


Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

George Roy Hill

Paul Newman and Robert Redford set the standard for the buddy film with this western classic. Sundance (Redford) is a mighty quick draw, and his partner Butch (Newman) is a gifted get-rich-quick schemer. With the law on their trail, the two pack their guns, and, along with Sundance's girlfriend (Katharine Ross), head for Bolivia, away from the men trying to bring them to justice – and death.


The Little Drummer Girl

George Roy Hill

Academy Award winner Diane Keaton stars in a stunning tale of espionage based on John Le Carré's best-selling novel about a young, politically naive actress who is recruited by Israeli Intelligence and sent to infiltrate a Palestinian terrorist organization.


Period of Adjustment

George Roy Hill

Isabel (Fonda) is a nurse in a military hospital. George (Hutton) is her patient. When he's cured, thanks to her good attentions, they get married. Now George suffers from performance anxiety ... Ralph (Franciosa) married Dorothea (Nettleton) for her money--and she knows it. After six years together, he's grown to love her--but she doesn't know it. Somehow George and Dorothea are hardly the couple to be giving advice to newlyweds George and Isabel on their honeymoon in this romantic comedy that takes a profound and tender look at four people struggling to trust someone enough to allow themselves to be vulnerable.


The World of Henry Orient

George Roy Hill

Peter Sellers plays self-centered concert pianist Henry Orient. While Henry's active libido sends him off on pursuit of married woman Paula Prentiss, a pair of preteen boarding-school chums worship Orient from afar. The girls' overworked imaginations, manifested in pursuing Orient about and recording their fantasies in their diaries, leads Walker's mom (Angela Lansbury) to conclude that Henry has "had his way" with her underaged daughter.


A Little Romance

George Roy Hill

Screen legend Sir Laurence Olivier is an enchanting old rogue who teams up with a pair of charming and irresistible young lovers in a love story/comedy for romantics young and old. From George Roy Hill ("The Sting," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") and featuring Oscar-nominee Diane Lane ("Lonesome Dove," "The Outsiders") in her feature film debut. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Score, and nominated for best adapted screenplay, from the novel by Patrick Cauvin.


The World According to Garp

George Roy Hill

Robin Williams plays John Irving's quirky everyman, a wistful writer wrestling with our screw-loose modern age. Award-winning performances by Glen Close and John Lithgow.


Funny Farm

George Roy Hill

Life in the country isn't what it's cracked up to be when city slicker Chevy Chase moves there.


The Sting

George Roy Hill

Winner of 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, The Sting stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford as two con men in 1930s Chicago. After a friend is killed by the mob, they try to get even by attempting to pull off the ultimate "sting." No one is to be trusted as the twists unfold, leading up to one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history. The con is on!


Hawaii

George Roy Hill

They came to bring God, but instead brought disease and destruction. The Rev. Abner Hale (Von Sydow) and his gentle wife Jerusha (Andrews) attempt to convert early 19th-century Hawaiian natives to Christianity but find themselves ill-equipped to endure the unexpected tribulations of paradise. Surging with the excitement of windstorms, firestorms, shark attacks and magnificent island scenery, Hawaii shines as passionately as the island paradise itself.