1North by Northwest
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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1Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
2A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
3A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
4Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.
5Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
6A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
7Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
8The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
9A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
10A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.