"Gigi" (1958)

"Gigi" (1958)

Gigi (1958)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); as An Arthur Freed Production

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.

Classic (Released Prior to yr 2000)

"Around the World in 80 Days" (1956)

"Around the World in 80 Days" (1956)

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Michael Anderson Company

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He makes a £20,000 wager with four sceptical fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can arrive back eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening."

Classic (Released Prior to yr 2000)

"Marty" (1955)

"Marty" (1955)

"Marty" (1955)

A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.

"Marty" is a 1955 American romantic drama film directed by Delbert Mann. The screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky, expanding upon his 1953 teleplay of the same name. The film stars Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. In addition to gaining an Academy Award for Best Picture, the film enjoyed international success, becoming the fourth American film to win the Cannes Film Festival, and to be awarded the Palme d'Or. Marty and The Lost Weekend (1945) are the only two films to win both organizations' grand prizes."

Classic (Released Prior to yr 2000)

"On the Waterfront" (1954)

"On the Waterfront" (1954)

"On the Waterfront" (1954)

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. - On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and, in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film was suggested by "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November–December 1948 in the New York Sun which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story. The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey."

Classic (Released Prior to yr 2000)

"From Here to Eternity" (1953)

"From Here to Eternity" (1953)

"From Here to Eternity" (1953)

In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love. - From "Here to Eternity" is a drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the novel by James Jones. The picture deals with the tribulations of three U.S. Army soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra, stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed portray the women in their lives, and the supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden, Mickey Shaughnessy, Claude Akins, and George Reeves."

Classic (Released Prior to yr 2000)