Year: 1940
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Daphne Du Maurier, Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Plot: A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat’s wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife’s spectral presence.
Year: 1957
Actors: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Writers: Reginald Rose
Plot: The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
Year: 1981
Actors: Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith
Directors: Frank De Felitta
Writers: J.D. Feigelson (teleplay), J.D. Feigelson (story), Butler Handcock (story)
Plot: In a small Southern town, a wrongfully-killed man exacts revenge from beyond the grave on those who murdered him.
Year: 1960
Actors: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Margit Saad
Directors: Joseph Losey
Writers: Alun Owen (screenplay)
Plot: In the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer’s field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money.
Year: 1967
Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio
Directors: Stuart Rosenberg
Writers: Donn Pearce (screenplay), Frank Pierson (screenplay), Donn Pearce (novel)
Plot: A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Year: 1986
Actors: Andy Griffith, Nancy Stafford, Julie Sommars, Clarence Gilyard Jr.
Directors: N/A
Writers: Dean Hargrove
Plot: Ben Matlock is a very expensive criminal defense attorney, who charges one hundred thousand dollars to take a case. Fortunately, he’s worth every penny, as he and his associates defend his clients by finding the real killer.
