The Vikings (1958)

The Vikings (1958)

[7] Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas co-star in this lavish, somewhat compromised adventure-drama set in medieval England and Norway. Douglas plays an aggressive Viking prince and Curtis plays his English slave, neither of them realizing they share the same Viking father (Ernest…
Touch of Evil (1958)

Touch of Evil (1958)

[8] Writer/director Orson Welles also co-stars in his adaptation of Whit Masterson's novel Badge of Evil, a sinister late-era film noir thriller set at the U.S.-Mexican border. Charlton Heston plays a Mexican narcotics officer who spars with Welles's corrupt American police captain…
Fearless Fagan (1952)

Fearless Fagan (1952)

[5] If I were a kid in the 1950s, I probably would have loved Fearless Fagan, the story of a circus performer (lanky Carleton Carpenter) drafted into the army with nowhere to leave his pet lion, Fagan. He sneaks Fagan onto army…
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

[7] Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey star as returning prisoners of war who have been unwittingly hypnotized to become sleeper agents for Communist China in the American political arena. Whenever either man sees the Queen of Hearts from a deck of playing…
Hitchcock (2012)

Hitchcock (2012)

[8] Anthony Hopkins plays filmdom's master of suspense in this movie that chronicles the director's relationship with his wife, Alma, played by none other than Helen Mirren, during the making of Psycho. It should come as no surprise that Hopkins and Mirren…