Movies: Ring Lardner, Jr.

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating....

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war....

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game....

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal....

A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved....

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle....

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams....

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis....

An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a humorous and frustrating ordeal....

A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father....

An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris....

French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp....

Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title....

A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island....

The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital....

A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire....

A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out....

The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper....

Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s. The story is told through interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dustin Hoffman, Rob...

A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee and their controversial and self-incriminatory questions during the red scare. With ...