A lawyer (James Cagney) joins the FBI and goes after henchmen of the gangster who put him through law school.

A hotel bellhop (James Cagney) and his girlfriend (Joan Blondell) work con games, then are conned by a con man (Louis Calhern) themselves.

Actor Lionel Barrymore and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive Dore Schary present clips from the studio's 1951 releases, including.

A GI's (Ronald Reagan) fiancee (Patricia Neal) resents his marriage of convenience to a buddy's (Jack Carson) English girlfriend.

A patient (Ronald Reagan) and a nurse (Patricia Neal) comfort a dying Scottish soldier (Richard Todd) in World War II Burma.

Backed by a rich madam (Lauren Bacall), a Southerner (Gary Cooper) ruins a tobacco tycoon with a cigarette-making machine.

A charter-boat captain winds up in the middle of a syndicate shootout after transporting illegal immigrants.

Homesteaders help a husband (Dennis Morgan) fight his wife (Patricia Neal) and her gunman (Steve Cochran) for their New Mexico ranch.

An industrialist's (Curt Jurgens) wife (Patricia Neal) tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind.

A blind Englishwoman's (Pamela Brown) spinster daughter (Patricia Neal) hides a killer handyman (Nicholas Clay) at their gothic mansion.

A U.S. submarine commander (John Wayne) alienates his crew and ex-wife (Patricia Neal), then takes on the Japanese fleet.

A housekeeper (Patricia Neal) sees a Texas cattle rancher (Melvyn Douglas) clash with his son (Paul Newman), a selfish, womanizing louse.

A TV woman (Patricia Neal) turns Arkansas bum Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) into a homespun media hero rotten with power.

A World War II veteran (Martin Sheen) comes home to his bickering parents (Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson).

A newswoman (Patricia Neal) targets a politician (Van Johnson) for scandal but finds romance instead.

A maid (Michele Morgan) and a butler (Jack Haley) join their broke boss' scheme to pose the maid as his daughter in a money marriage.

A Boston milquetoast (Frank Sinatra) goes West and takes his father's place as leader of an outlaw gang.

Two dancing baseball players (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra) run into trouble with their team's new female owner (Esther Williams) and a gambler who doesn't want them to win the pennant.

Con men (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin) and their girlfriends fight, then unite, over a floating casino in 1870 Galveston.

Veterans of the 82nd Airborne Division devise an elaborate plot to simultaneously rob five casinos on New Year's Eve.

A socialite's (Grace Kelly) ex-husband (Bing Crosby) and a magazine writer (Frank Sinatra) show up for her wedding and cause havoc.

An actress (Debbie Reynolds) flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor (Frank Sinatra) who thinks he has it made.

A Broadway gambler (Frank Sinatra) bets that a Runyonesque high roller (Marlon Brando) cannot take a sidewalk soul-saver (Jean Simmons) on a date to Havana.

A dried-out heroin addict (Frank Sinatra) returns to his wife (Eleanor Parker) and card dealing in Chicago.

Robbo (Frank Sinatra), Little John (Dean Martin), Will (Sammy Davis Jr.) and company are charitable gangsters fighting for turf in 1928 Chicago.

Two sailors (Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly) on leave in Hollywood help an actress (Kathryn Grayson) get her big break.

A married Frenchman (Alec Guinness) has a farcical rendezvous with his next-door neighbor's (Robert Morley) wife (Gina Lollobrigida).

A construction tycoon's (Ernest Borgnine) son (Anthony Franciosa) falls in love with a high-priced call girl (Gina Lollobrigida) his father knows well.

A U.S. captain (Frank Sinatra) loves an arms merchant's mistress (Gina Lollobrigida) and leads troops from Burma into China.

International swindlers are diverted from their sinister dealings when an explosion wrecks the ship they are aboard.

Biblical King Solomon (Yul Brynner) clashes with his brother (George Sanders) and charms the queen of Sheba (Gina Lollobrigida).

Two aerialists (Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis) and a tumbler (Gina Lollobrigida) form a triple-somersault circus triangle.

Three veterans are reunited in Italy with a mutual lover (Gina Lollobrigida) they've been supporting for 20 years.

An American (Rock Hudson) visits his Italian villa in the off season and catches his caretaker running it as a hotel.

A PR man (Gig Young) works on the image of a rising oil executive (Rock Hudson) rockily married to an Italian beauty (Gina Lollobrigida).

An old English tycoon (Ralph Richardson) is found dead after his nephew (Sean Connery) hires a gorgeous nurse (Gina Lollobrigida) to lure him into marriage.

A married Frenchman (Alec Guinness) has a farcical rendezvous with his next-door neighbor's (Robert Morley) wife (Gina Lollobrigida).

An 18th-century French swashbuckler joins the king's army to evade a forced marriage.

A Midwestern professor (Henry Fonda) fights for his wife (Olivia de Havilland) and academic freedom on the eve of a big football game.

Runyonesque busboy Little Pinks (Henry Fonda) hitchhikes to Florida with a gangster's (Barton MacLane) ex-moll (Lucille Ball) in a wheelchair.

A New Orleans belle (Bette Davis) uses another man (George Brent) to make her fiance (Henry Fonda) jealous.

Father-daughter cardsharps (Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn) fleece a rich man's son (Henry Fonda) on a cruise ship.

Married homesteaders (Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward) stop at a Texas hotel, where he loses big at poker and she takes his place.

The Wyoming Spencers (Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara) have nine children, too small a house and a son (James MacArthur) who wants to go to college.

A New York nightclub musician (Henry Fonda) and his wife (Vera Miles) endure an ordeal of mistaken identity.

The president (Henry Fonda) cannot stop a Strategic Air Command plane accidentally cued to bomb Moscow.

Presidential contenders (Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson) vie for their party's nod and a dying ex-president's blessing.

Ensign Pulver (Jack Lemmon) plots cargo officer Mr. Roberts' (Henry Fonda) escape from their nit-picking captain (James Cagney).

A frontier farmer/sheriff (James Stewart) fights an outlaw (Henry Fonda) and his gang who are taking their time passing through town.

Two cowboys (Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda) get drunk, cavort with women and take bets on a bucking stallion that likes corn mash.

Women (Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens) and his mother help an English constable (James Booth) rise to ruler of a banana republic.

A Navy commander (Gig Young) answers an SOS flashing from a window in a San Diego widow's (Shirley Jones) house.

Two cowboys (James Stewart, Henry Fonda) ride from Texas to Wyoming to claim an inheritance which turns out to be a brothel.

An affluent Denver woman (Jean Simmons) gets drunk, pops pills and walks out on her lawyer husband (John Forsythe) after 16 years.

A young boy uses a peculiar and humorous standard to determine the perfect wife for his widowed father.

A city boy (Pat Boone) moves to his uncle's Kentucky horse farm, where he courts a neighbor (Shirley Jones) and races a sulky.

Cowboy Curly (Gordon MacRae) loves Laurey (Shirley Jones) despite hired hand Jud Fry (Rod Steiger). Rodgers and Hammerstein songs include Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'.

A carnival barker (Gordon MacRae) finds a wife (Shirley Jones), dies in a robbery, and gets to return to Earth for one day to guide his teenage daughter.

A librarian hears a sour note when a charming rogue convinces Iowa townspeople to start a boys marching band.

An Oscar-winning adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel about religious fervor in small-town America.

Salvagers (Michael Caine, Sally Field) seeking cash and a madman (Telly Savalas) seeking plutonium are trapped with survivors in an upside-down ocean liner.

A British commando (George Peppard) and his team drop into Germany and pose as scientists to pinpoint a Nazi rocket base.

A Soviet agent faces a crisis of conscience when he is assigned to eliminate a Russian who killed three British spies.

Rival spies converge on a lazy Londoner (Tom Courtenay) who unwittingly has something they want.

A Nazi major investigating the slaying of a Warsaw prostitute suspects one of his superior officers was responsible.

An American POW in Singapore tries to improve his conditions through shady dealings with the camp's guards.

The Russian Revolution forms the backdrop for this tale of a sensitive Russian physician (Omar Sharif) who is torn between his loyal, long-suffering wife (Geraldine Chaplin) and the great love (Julie Christie) of his life.

A British undertaker's clerk (Tom Courtenay) lies to his girlfriends and dreams of a land where he is king.

An angry young man (Tom Courtenay) runs cross country on his own terms at the British reform school Borstal.

Rattled by World War II, an English actor (Albert Finney) could not go on without his fussy valet (Tom Courtenay).

A British captain (Dirk Bogarde) defends a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) in a court-martial in the trenches.

Court-martialed for screaming on patrol, a British private (Tom Courtenay) insists it was because he saw God.

When passengers of a boat are forced ashore by a cholera scare, missionaries Alfred Davidson (Walter Huston) and his wife (Beulah Bondi) try to reform fellow passenger and spirited prostitute Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford).

A maid (Joan Crawford) has romances with a two-timer (Gene Raymond), a boozing millionaire and the master (Franchot Tone) of the house.

A socialite (Joan Crawford) annoys her husband (Fredric March) and friends with the new religion she brings home from England.

On trial for murder, a woman remembers the life she had before plastic surgery removed a terrible facial scar.

Honeymooners (Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray) spy for the British in 1939 Germany to learn more about the Nazis' new magnetic mine.

An oil-field worker's wife (Joan Crawford) climbs the social ladder as a public enemy's (David Brian) mink-draped mistress.

A newsman (Frank Lovejoy) confuses a congresswoman's (Joan Crawford) reunion with her old college boyfriend (Robert Young) at their alma mater.

A hardened Broadway comedy star (Joan Crawford) becomes attracted to a blind pianist (Michael Wilding).

An American socialite's (Joan Crawford) husband (Rossano Brazzi) exploits her charity for an Irish girl (Heather Sears) who cannot see, hear or speak.

A businessman's (Wendell Corey) wife (Joan Crawford) is obsessed with running their household and his life, her way.

A married socialite (Joan Crawford) falls tragically in love with a classical violinist (John Garfield).

An oilman's (Raymond Massey) bride (Joan Crawford) sees her ex-boyfriend (Van Heflin) romance her stepdaughter, and it drives her mad.

Fred Astaire, Liza Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, James Stewart, Bing Crosby and Peter Lawford show clips from 1928-58 MGM musicals.

A dreamer (Bing Crosby) with a racehorse brings his mother and musical brothers (Fred MacMurray, Donald O'Connor) to Los Angeles for a long shot.

A Russian maestro (Alan Hale) plots to kill a composer (Eddie Albert) for flirting with a ballerina (Zorina) in New York.

A British gentleman (Gary Cooper) joins the French Foreign Legion, followed by his brothers (Ray Milland, Robert Preston).

Nightclub performers (The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis) do Army shows with Harry James and His Music Makers.

The heir to a dairy fortune rebels and goes to work for a rival firm, where he falls in love with his boss's daughter.

A Colonial shopkeeper's apprentice (Donald O'Connor) becomes a pirate and sets out to rescue the governor's ward (Helena Carter).

A magazine photographer's helper (Donald O'Connor) rashly promises to put a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) on the cover.

A silent-film star (Gene Kelly) loves a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) who dubs his squeaky-voiced co-star in a 1927 Hollywood talkie.

An officer (Donald O'Connor) in Burma becomes a World War II hero with strategic tips from a talking mule.

The story of a vaudeville couple (Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey) and their children spans the world wars.

A New York publisher (Bobby Darin) humors an actress/maid (Sandra Dee) who tries to pass off his apartment as her own.

A Navy photographer (Glenn Ford) and his three-man team occupy a Tokyo geisha house mistaken for an orphanage.

A steelworker (Craig Stevens) and his big-brother boss (Lloyd Nolan) fight over a girl (Alexis Smith) while building a bridge.

Lucky is hired to become engaged to Elinor, a wealthy widow. He learns she is nicknamed.

A bored housewife (Alexis Smith) gets jealous when her shopkeeper husband (Zachary Scott) wants to hire an ex-girlfriend.

A sleeping trumpet player dreams that he is a heaven-sent angel whose mystical horn will signal Armageddon.

A Russian sniper named Natalia helps three women (Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jane Wyman) get married in wartime Washington.

A ghostly woman warns a Victorian heiress (Eleanor Parker) about a count (Sydney Greenstreet) and his cohort who are after her fortune.

A veterinarian (Ronald Reagan) and a novelist (Zachary Scott) court a horse breeder (Alexis Smith) during an anthrax scare in Southern California.

An artist (Dane Clark) follows a woman (Alexis Smith) from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband (Zachary Scott).

At odds with his wife (Alexis Smith) and son, a casino owner (Clark Gable) bets all against a lucky oilman out to break the bank.

An architect (Humphrey Bogart) kills his wife to be with her sister (Alexis Smith), but a psychologist (Sydney Greenstreet) sees through his alibi.

Ivy League songwriter Cole Porter (Cary Grant) joins World War I, marries a rich British nurse (Alexis Smith) and returns to Broadway.

A Texas cattleman (Errol Flynn) flirts with a saloon singer (Alexis Smith) and shoots it out with rustlers at the Alamo.

Boxer James J. Corbett develops a new style of fighting as he prepares to meet champion John L. Sullivan.