Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962)

[7] Richard Beymer (West Side Story) stars as Ernest Hemingway's alter-ego, a young man who comes of age by traveling the country and serving in the military during the early 1900s. With beautiful scenery of rural Michigan and Franz Waxman's…
A Place in the Sun (1951)

A Place in the Sun (1951)

[9] Montgomery Clift (Red River, The Heiress) stars as a poor young man who takes a job at his rich uncle's garment factory where he falls in love with a coworker played by Shelley Winters. Things become complicated when Clift…
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

[10] In this darkly comic noir masterpiece from Billy Wilder, a struggling Hollywood screenwriter (William Holden) moves in with a delusional silent film star named Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) who wants him to write the script for her big comeback.…
To Have and Have Not (1944)

To Have and Have Not (1944)

[9] Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made their first pairing in this adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel about an American boatman (Bogart) who reluctantly sticks his neck out for the French Resistance in World War II Martinique. Along the way…
Rebecca (1940)

Rebecca (1940)

[10] Alfred Hitchcock's first American film and only one to win a Best Picture Oscar is Rebecca, starring Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, and Judith Anderson. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the film follows a nervous woman (Fontaine)…