Long Day’s Journey Into Night
In 1912, the Tyrone family grapple with addiction, illness and delusion as day turns to night in Monte Cristo Cottage, Connecticut. The most classic screen adaptation of one of the…
Murder on the Orient Express
In 1935, famous detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) boards the Orient Express, but ends up stranded in Yugoslavia with a fresh murder case and a train full of suspects. Agatha…
12 Angry Men: Choosing Life or Death
Photo: United Artists The most famous episode of the CBS anthology series Studio One (1947-1958) is from 1954 and features a teleplay by Reginald Rose. Depicting a process where one…
The Wiz
Dorothy (Diana Ross), a 24-year-old Harlem teacher who's never been south of 125th Street, ends up in a fierce winter storm that takes her to a magical land – where…
Fail-Safe: Be Very Afraid
Dan O'Herlihy and Walter Matthau. Photo: Columbia 1964 was indeed the year of the Bomb. Stanley Kubrick's absurd Cold War comedy Dr. Strangelove, which was based on a novel by…