Joan of Arc

Victor Fleming

Ingrid Bergman is spellbinding as the 15th century French peasant girl who rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. Fiercely believing that she’s directed by God, Joan triumphantly leads an army into battle against the British, who are driven from France. Yet as Joan's influence grows, the king becomes increasingly wary of her power and ultimately betrays her to her death and martyrdom. This lavish award-winning epic film, directed by the brilliant Victor Fleming (GONE WITH THE WIND), is a powerful story of one of history's most fascinating heroines.


Tortilla Flat

Victor Fleming

Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy stars with John Garfield, Frank Morgan and Hedy Lamarr in John Steinbeck's classic story of a hot-headed fisherman who inherits a pair of houses and his freeloader friends who decide to move in--Tortilla Flat. In a small California fishing town, Danny (Garfield) is dragged kicking and screaming into becoming responsible when he inherits the houses. Meanwhile his friend Pilon (Tracy) schemes to first separate The Pirate (Morgan) from his life savings and to separate Danny from sexy cannery worker "Sweets" Ramirez (Lamarr)--then to get Danny and Sweets back together.


Bombshell (1933)

Victor Fleming

Jean Harlow stars at her sexy and comic best as bigger-than-life movie diva Lola Burns, who loves, fights, loses--and wins--her man while presiding over Hollywood's Golden Age as a legendary blonde Bombshell. Lola has all the fame and fortune she ever dreamed of, but along with success comes a studio that works her until she drops, a family only interested in her money and a scheming publicist, Space Hanlon (Lee Tracy), who runs her life. In an attempt to escape this life, Lola marries a titled nobleman, but Hanlon has the man deported. Then she falls in love with Gifford Middleton (Franchot Tone)--until she discovers that Hanlon hired Middleton and his entire family. Now, when all seems hopeless, Lola finally realizes that Hanlon is the only man who truly loves her in this wild, romantic romp.


Reckless (1935)

Victor Fleming

Jean Harlow stars as an ambitious showgirl loved by two very different men in the dramatic musical Reckless. Theatrical promoter Bob Harrison (Franchot Tone) loves Mona (Harlow), but he cannot compete with wealthy socialite Ned Riley (William Powell) when Riley buys every seat in the theater to be able to watch Mona's performance alone. Ned and Mona wed, but Ned's family rejects Mona as a shameless gold digger. Torn between his family's rejection and his love for Mona, Ned commits suicide--leaving Mona to put her life and career back together. Featuring songs by Jerome Kern, Jack King and Burton Lane.


Adventure

Victor Fleming

"Gable's back and Garson's got him!" So went one of film's most famous ad lines, welcoming home the movie icon and World War II veteran to share an Adventure with glorious Greer Garson. As a rough-hewn merchant marine, Gable reprises his most popular film persona, the wisecracking man's man who loves 'em and leaves 'em – until the right dame comes along. Garson is the dame, or, in this case, lady – a librarian who finds nothing in the Dewey Decimal System about how to domesticate 6'1" of brawn and bravado. Victor Fleming directs, Joan Blondell plays a been-there blonde who catches Gable's eye and Thomas Mitchell adds pathos as a sailor who makes and breaks a deal with God.


A Guy Named Joe

Victor Fleming

Daredevil flying aces who give their lives defending their country never truly die--they ascend to a celestial flight school where they train and protect pilots still on earth. Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy stars as Major Pete Sandridge. When Sandridge's plane goes down during World War II, he awakens to join the buddies who have gone before him, meets The General (Academy Award winner Lionel Barrymore) and receives his new assignment: guiding young pilot Ted Randall (Van Johnson). But Sandridge's assistance goes beyond flying when Randall falls in love with the angelic pilot's girlfriend, Dorinda Durston (Irene Dunn), who still grieves his passing.


Red Dust

Victor Fleming

Academy Award winner Clark Gable stars with Gene Harlow in a sensuous drama as steamy as the isolated southeast Asian jungle plantation site of a torrid, illicit romance in the pre-Hayes Code classic Red Dirt. When the prostitute Vantine (Harlow) becomes stranded on the Indochinese plantation owned by Dennis Carson (Gable), the two are quickly in each other's arms. But Vantine leaves just as engineer Gary Willis (Gene Raymond) and his seemingly proper--but sexually frustrated--wife, Barbara (Mary Astor), arrive. Mrs. Willis soon tries to seduce Carson, who is not above taking advantage of her. Then Vantine returns to the plantation. Now as passions ignite, lust turns to violence, and naked emotions strip a thin veneer of sanity from one of the two women.


The Farmer Takes a Wife

Victor Fleming

Henry Fonda stars in this romantic comedy set in 1850s New York. When he realizes that he needs to supplement his farming income, Dan Harrow (Fonda) takes a job on a canal boat. There, he meets and falls head over heels for beautiful Molly Larkins (Janet Gaynor), the daughter of the ship’s cook, much to her father’s dismay. It will take love, strength and courage for Dan to win Molly’s hand!


Treasure Island (1934)

Victor Fleming

In this adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel, young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) finds a treasure map and sets sail for a tropical island to find the riches--aboard a ship captained by pirate Long John Silver (Wallace Beery), who is eager to doublecross the boy and steal the buried treasure.


Captains Courageous

Victor Fleming

Spencer Tracy stars in an Academy Award winning performance as a humble fisherman who teaches a spoiled rich kid about life and love in this classic adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous. Spoiled, rich, pantywaist brat Harvey (Freddie Bartholomew) has never wanted for anything in his life--except friends and family. But when the boy gets seasick on an ocean liner bound for Europe and falls overboard, he faces death alone in the mid Atlantic until a Portuguese fishing vessel rescues him. The ship will not return to port until its hold is full of fish, and while at sea, the ungrateful Harvey will have to something he has never done before--work for his keep. Over several months, Harvey receives from the fisherman Manuel (Tracy) the love he never felt from his father, comes to understand the value of hard work--and learns more than he would learn at a lifetime of prep schools and comfortable jobs.


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Victor Fleming

Oscar-winner Spencer Tracy ("Mutiny on the Bounty," "Adam's Rib," "Boom Town") stars in this Robert Louis Stevenson classic about a 19th century medical doctor whose experiments into the nature of good and evil transform him into the violent Mr. Hyde. Starring Oscar-winner Ingrid Bergman ("Casablanca," "Gaslight," "Anastasia") as a prostitute who becomes Hyde's ill-fated mistress. With Oscar-nominee Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") and Academy Award-winner Donald Crisp ("How Green Was My Valley"). Directed by Oscar-winner Victor Fleming ("Gone With the Wind," "The Wizard of Oz").


Gone With the Wind

Victor Fleming

Producer David O. Selznick’s acclaimed screen adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s best-selling novel tells of the romance between the tempestuous Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) and the dashing Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), against the tragic backdrop of the Civil War. This legendary classic earned 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress, (Leigh) Best Director (Victor Fleming), and Best Supporting Actress to Hattie McDaniel, the first Oscar ever awarded to an African American performer.  One of the highest-grossing films of all time (when adjusted for inflation), it is also very much a product of its time, and unfortunately reflects depictions of characters and themes which are offensive and problematic when viewed by contemporary audiences. The film is presented here as originally released in 1939, because to do otherwise would be the equivalent of stating the prejudices and attitudes never existed.


The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming

"There's no place like home..." Entirely remastered, the colorful characters and unforgettable songs of Oz come alive as never before. This magical cinematic event finds Kansas farm girl Judy Garland ("A Star is Born," "Meet Me in St. Louis") caught in a tornado and magically transported to the Land of Oz. Needing help to return home, she is told to follow the Yellow Brick Road and find the powerful Wizard (Frank Morgan). On her perilous journey, she is befriended by the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), the Tin Man (Jack Haley), and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who help her battle the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) and her flying monkeys. Based on the classic book by Frank L. Baum, "The Wizard of Oz" is a dazzling motion picture achievement, featuring unforgettable songs (including Oscar-winner "Over the Rainbow"), scenery, and costumes. The film had 5 Academy Award nominations, and Garland was awarded a special Oscar for her outstanding performance.