Some Well-Connected Movies
Arsenic and Old Lace

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
1944
Frank Capra
director
The Philadelphia Story

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
1940
James Stewart
actor
Duel in the Sun

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
1946
Lionel Barrymore
actor
Gone with the Wind

A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
1939
Thomas Mitchell
actor
It's a Wonderful Life
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
1946
Donna Reed
actor
Frank Capra
director
James Stewart
actor
Lionel Barrymore
actor
Thomas Mitchell
actor
From Here to Eternity

In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.
1953
Donna Reed
actor
Pocketful of Miracles

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
1961
Frank Capra
director
Rear Window

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
1954
James Stewart
actor
High Noon

Marshal Will Kane, personally compelled to face his returning deadly enemy Frank Miller, finds that his fellow townspeople refuse to help him.
1952
Thomas Mitchell
actor