Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack
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1. Constantine and the Cross (1961)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Biopic of Constantine the Great, set between 293-312 AD, from his days as Tribune to his accession as Roman Emperor of Gaul under the tetrarchy system and ending with his battle against the usurper Roman Emperor Maxentius in Rome.
Directors: Lionello De Felice, Irving Rapper | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato, Christine Kaufmann
Votes: 567
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
2.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
A Bolt of Lightning
(1951)
60 min | Drama
The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during the American Revolutionary War.
Director: Paul Nickell | Stars: Charlton Heston, Romney Brent, Rita Grapel, Celia Johnson
Votes: 64
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
3. David Copperfield (1970 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Drama
The legendary novel by Charles Dickens comes to life in this colorful interpretation directed by Delbert Mann.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin
Votes: 599
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
4. A Connecticut Yankee (1955 TV Movie)
77 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A live television presentation of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 stage musical.
Directors: Bill Hobin, Max Liebman | Stars: Eddie Albert, Janet Blair, Boris Karloff, Gale Sherwood
Votes: 52
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
5. Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Passed | 96 min | Biography, Drama, War
An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 1,711
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
6. Yellowneck (1955)
Passed | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, War
5 Confederate soldiers desert, make their way through the Everglades and try to make it to Cuba.
Director: R. John Hugh | Stars: Lin McCarthy, Stephen Courtleigh, Berry Kroeger, Harold Gordon
Votes: 258
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
7. Saul e David (1964)
TV-G | 105 min | Adventure, Drama
David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.
Director: Marcello Baldi | Stars: Norman Wooland, Gianni Garko, Luz Márquez, Virgilio Teixeira
Votes: 113
Saul & David Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
8. Captain Scarlett (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Scarlett returns from gallivanting around the country-side after the Napoleonic wars and finds life in southern France very different. He saves a beautiful princess from an arranged... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Richard Greene, Leonora Amar, Nedrick Young, Manolo Fábregas
Votes: 381
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
9. Jungle Book (1942)
Approved | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia
Votes: 4,701 | Gross: $2.83M
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
10. Oliver Twist (1933)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Family, Mystery
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Dickie Moore, Irving Pichel, William 'Stage' Boyd, Doris Lloyd
Votes: 403
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
11. The Old Testament (1963)
88 min | Action, Adventure
The Jews of Jerusalem are driven out by their Syrian rulers. They gather their forces, and return to drive out their oppressors.
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Brad Harris, Ivano Staccioli, Franca Parisi, Mara Lane
Votes: 87
The Old Testament (however, it is NOT about all the Old Testament - just about the Maccabees) Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
12. Little Men (1940)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Drama
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Jimmy Lydon
Votes: 413
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
13. Eagle in a Cage (1972)
GP | 98 min | Drama
In 1815, a soldier becomes the Governor of St. Helena, and jailer of Napoleon.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Billie Whitelaw, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Kenneth Haigh
Votes: 189
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
14. The Legend of Sea Wolf (1975)
PG | 92 min | Adventure
A tale of the brutal sea captain of the Ghost who is ruthless with his crew. It becomes more than they can tolerate.
Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Chuck Connors, Giuseppe Pambieri, Barbara Bach, Rik Battaglia
Votes: 161
The Legend of the Sea Wolf Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
15. Herod the Great (1959)
93 min | Biography, Drama, History
Herod, King of Judea, is made a prisoner by the Romans. Convinced the King is dead, his faithful lieutenant, Aaron, is nevertheless unable to keep his promise to kill the Queen if something untoward happened to the King. He leads the young woman out into the desert. Herod's pleas to Augustus are successful and he returns to his palace. His son, Antipater, informs Herod that Aaron has betrayed him.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Edmund Purdom, Sylvia Lopez, Massimo Girotti, Sandra Milo
Votes: 246
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
16. Hearts in Bondage (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, History, Romance
Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them.
Director: Lew Ayres | Stars: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry
Votes: 235
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
17. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Not Rated | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 4,580
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
18. Scrooge (1935)
PG | 78 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas itself.
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne
Votes: 2,641
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
19. Esther and the King (1960)
Approved | 109 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two decades before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty (1981), Dame Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story. The setting... See full summary »
Directors: Raoul Walsh, Mario Bava | Stars: Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea, Sergio Fantoni
Votes: 915
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
20. Vanity Fair (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance
This cinematic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel stars Myrna Loy in her first starring role.
Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle, Barbara Kent, Walter Byron
Votes: 368
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
21. Martin Luther (1953)
Approved | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre, Guy Verney
Votes: 668
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
22. Becky Sharp (1935)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama, Romance, War
Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,292
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
23. The Pilgrimage Play (1949)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
The Story of Jesus
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Nelson Leigh, Stephen Chase, Leonard Penn, Richard Hale
Votes: 71
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
24. King Solomon's Treasure (1979)
88 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: David McCallum, John Colicos, Patrick Macnee, Britt Ekland
Votes: 328
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
25. David and Goliath (1960)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Drama, Family
King Saul of the Israelites is visited in Jerusalem by the Prophet Samuel who foretells him that a war with The Philistines is inevitable and the shepherd David will become king.
Directors: Ferdinando Baldi, Richard Pottier, Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Ivica Pajer, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Massimo Serato
Votes: 839
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
26. Fighting Caravans (1931)
Passed | 92 min | Western
A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.
Directors: Otto Brower, David Burton | Stars: Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall
Votes: 722
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
27. Svengali (1931)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 2,501
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
28. Kansas Pacific (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Western
With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon
Votes: 805
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
29. Daniel Boone (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Biography, Drama, Family
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Heather Angel, John Carradine, Ralph Forbes
Votes: 325
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
30. Our Daily Bread (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards
Votes: 2,196
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
31. Tumbleweeds (1925)
Approved | 78 min | Western
The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will iniciate the run for the best fields and claims.
Directors: King Baggot, William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield, J. Gordon Russell
Votes: 673
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
32. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
Approved | 120 min | Comedy
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Ronald Colman
Votes: 1,362
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
33. Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)
PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama
On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher
Votes: 988
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
34. Man of the Forest (1933)
Approved | 62 min | Western
Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Verna Hillie, Harry Carey, Noah Beery
Votes: 259
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
35. Betsy Ross (1917)
60 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.
Directors: George Cowl, Travers Vale | Stars: Alice Brady, John Bowers, Lillian Cook, Victor Kennard
Votes: 80
Silent Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
36. The Three Musketeers (1921)
119 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Cardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Nigel De Brulier, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 1,143 | Gross: $3.27M
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
37. The Conquest of Everest (1953)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Adventure
Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.
Director: George Lowe | Stars: Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, George Band, Tom Bourdillon
Votes: 881
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
38. The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Approved | 77 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues. Restored in original Black and White.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson, Louise Beavers
Votes: 1,443
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
39. I grandi condottieri (1965)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, History, War
The stories of Gideon and Samson from chapters 6-8 and 13-16 of The Book of Judges.
Directors: Marcello Baldi, Francisco Pérez-Dolz | Stars: Anton Geesink, Ivo Garrani, Rosalba Neri, Fernando Rey
Votes: 99
Gideon and Samson Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
40. Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators (1964)
99 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
Spartacus And The 10 Gladiators
Director: Nick Nostro | Stars: Dan Vadis, Helga Liné, Giovanni Di Benedetto, Giovanni Vari
Votes: 266
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
41. The Lady and the Highwayman (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Swashbuckling tale of romance, betrayal, jealousy, banditry, murder, and court intrigue set in the 1660s, during the Restoration to the English throne of King Charles II.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Emma Samms, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom, Christopher Cazenove
Votes: 1,225
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
42. The Green Promise (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Drama
After the Matthews family buys a farm, the father suffers a severe injury, which puts his four children in charge. Daughter Deborah and her kid sister Susan take the lead--with help from the handsome local agricultural agent.
Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Marguerite Chapman, Walter Brennan, Robert Paige, Natalie Wood
Votes: 692
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
43. Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
PG | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender
Votes: 2,438
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
44. The Emperor Jones (1933)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Music
Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Directors: Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille | Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington
Votes: 1,262
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
45. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Live TV performance
Director: Herbert B. Swope Jr. | Stars: Thomas Mitchell, Elizabeth Patterson, John Carradine, Walter Catlett
Votes: 71
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
46.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
(1952)
60 min | Drama
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Robert Shaw Chorale, Betty Furness, Lloyd Bochner, John Cannon
Votes: 40
The Nativity Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
47.
The Plymouth Playhouse (1953– )
Episode:
A Tale of Two Cities: Part 1
(1953)
30 min | Drama
During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
Director: Dick Darley | Stars: Wendell Corey, Wanda Hendrix, Murray Matheson, Carleton G. Young
Votes: 37
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
48.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
Pontius Pilate
(1952)
60 min | Drama
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Cyril Ritchard, Francis L. Sullivan, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 51
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
49.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
The Trial of John Peter Zenger
(1951)
60 min | Drama
In 1735 a German-born printer in New York named John Peter Zenger was thrown in prison and charged with libel and sedition after publishing a scathing pamphlet criticizing the corruption of... See full summary »
Director: Paul Nickell | Stars: Eddie Albert, John W. Austin, Marian Seldes, Murray Matheson
Votes: 13
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
50.
Studio One (1948–1958)
Episode:
The Night America Trembled
(1957)
60 min | Drama
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles' Mercury Players performed a radio play version of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Some people in the unsuspecting public took the broadcast as a real ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Donovan | Stars: Edward R. Murrow, Alexander Scourby, Robert Blackburn, Casey Allen
Votes: 146
Included in Historic Classics 50 Movie Pack (Mill Creek)
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