Spite Marriage (1929)

 Spite Marriage, released in 1929 by MGM Pictures; directed by Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgewick. Starring Buster Keaton (in his last silent film), Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, and Leila Hyams. A humble worker in a dry cleaning establishment idolized a stage actress who is carrying a torch for a fellow actor. After he spurns her for a younger woman, the actress impulsively asks the other man to marry her, only to regret it almost immediately.

Son of Dracula (1943)

Son of Dracula, released in 1943 by Universal Studios; directed by Jack Arnold. Starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Louise Albritton, Evelyn Ankers, and Robert Paige. A young woman holds a reception at her family Louisiana plantation for Count Alucard whom she met in Budapest. In a fight between the count and the young lady's former lover, who has discovered that Alucard is actually Count Dracula, she is shot and killed. Dracula brings her back to life as a vampire.                                                           

Monster on the Campus (1958)

 Monster on the Campus, released in 1958 by Universal Pictures; directed by Jack Arnold. Starring Troy Donahue, Joanne Moore, Whit Bissell, Arthur Franz, Ross Elliott, and Hank Patterson. Terror sweeps a college campus after the discovery of a prehistoric fish that turns animals and humans that come in contact with it into bloodthirsty monsters.

Meet John Doe (1941)

 Meet John Doe, released in 1941 by Warner Brothers Pictures; directed by Frank Capra. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason, Spring Byington, Gene Lockhart, Regis Toomey, and Irving Bacon. Fired as part of a downsizing move, a reporter ends her last column with an imaginary letter written by "John Doe".  Angered at the ill treatment of America's little people, the fabricated John Doe announces that he is going to jump off City Hall on Christmas Eve.

Love Me Tender (1956)

Love Me Tender, released in 1956 by 20th Century Fox Pictures, directed by Robert D. Webb. Starring Elvis Presley, Debra Paget, Richard Egan, James Drury, Dick Sargent, Mildred Dunnock, Neville Brand, L.Q. Jones, Robert Middleton, Russ Conway, and Barry Coe. When Vance Reno returns home from the Civil War, he finds that his old girlfriend has married his younger brother Clint.

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

A Hard Day's Night, released in 1964 by United Artists Pictures, directed by Richard Lester. Starring the Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr). Bound for a show in Liverpool, the Beatles escape a horde of fans. Once aboard the train and trying to relax, various interruptions begin to test their patience.

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

 Alias Nick Beal, released in 1949by Paramount Pictures, directed by John Farrow, starring Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas, Mitchell, George Macready, Fred Clark, and Darryl Hickman. A righteous district attorney's main goal is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him achieve his end.

On the Waterfront (1954)

On the Waterfront from Columbia Pictures, directed by Elia Kazan. Best Picture of the Year for 1954. Starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint (in her movie debut), Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Rod Steiger; featuring Fred Gwynne, Martin Balsam, Pat Hingle, Leif Erickson, Nehemiah Persoff, and James Westerfield. A mob-connected union boss rules the waterfront with an iron fist. The police know that he's been responsible for a number of murders but witnesses play deaf and dumb until a washed-up boxer is persuaded to cooperate with authorities and testify against the union boss.

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