Some Well-Connected Movies
Boom Town

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
1940
John Lee Mahin
writer
Show Boat

The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour.
1951
John Lee Mahin
writer
The Wizard of Oz

Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home in Kansas and help her friends as well.
1939
Mervyn LeRoy
director
Quo Vadis
A fierce Roman commander becomes infatuated with a beautiful Christian hostage and begins questioning the tyrannical leadership of the despot Emperor Nero.
1951
Anthony Mann
director
Deborah Kerr
actor
John Lee Mahin
writer
Leo Genn
actor
Mervyn LeRoy
director
The Fall of the Roman Empire

The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.
1964
Anthony Mann
director
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
Deborah Kerr
actor
Moby Dick

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
1956
Leo Genn
actor