Based on the children’s novel by Wilson Rawls, this heartwarming and adventurous tale is about a boy and his dream of owning two red-bone coonhounds. It stars James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, and Stewart Peterson. FREE.
Directed by John Huston and adapted by Ray Bradbury and Huston from Herman Melville’s iconic novel, the film boasts an all-star cast that includes Gregory Peck as the obsessed Captain Ahab and Richard Basehart as Ishmael, around whom the story revolves, as well as Leo Genn, Harry Andrews, James Robertson Justice, and Noel Purcell. FREE.
A plushly upholstered Samuel Goldwyn production, this film was adapted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur from Emily Brontë’s classic novel and stars Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier as the doomed lovers Cathy and Heathcliff, David Niven, Flora Robson, and Leo G. Carroll, among others, round out the cast. FREE.
The third screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s enduring tale of the March family. (It was filmed again in 1949, 1994, and 2019.) This adaptation of Alcott’s novel was written by Sarah Y. Mason and her husband, Victor Heerman, and stars Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Spring Byington, Douglass Montgomery, Paul Lukas, and Edna May Oliver. FREE.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) stars James Stewart and Jean Arthur and features a magnificent supporting cast in one of director Frank Capra’s greatest accomplishments. FREE.
This post–World War II film stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who plays an industrial tycoon goaded into running for president, only to have his campaign thrown into turmoil by his idealistic wife. As good for the interplay between its two stars as for its story. FREE.
