War

Cast: Kirk Douglas, George Macready, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, Wayne Morris, Joe Turkel, Richard Anderson, Timothy Carey, Peter Capell, Christiane Kubrick, Bert Freed, Emile Meyer Director: Stanley Kubrick Synopsis: Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) is the commander of the battle-decimated 701st Infantry Regiment of the French Army, dug in along the Western Front in a stalemated WWI. It is 1916 and the Allies have been struggling to overcome an equally determined German war machine for two years. Dax, who was a criminal lawyer during peacetime, hopes that his regiment will be relieved from front-line duty. The high command has other plans. The generals General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), corps commander and suave representative of the high command arrive at the placid, beautiful chateau that serves as headquarters for General Mireau (George Macready), the divisional general in charge. Broulard tells Mireau that his division has been dormant and must now make an all-out attack against an impregnable German position nicknamed the Ant Hill and that this position must be captured within 48 hours.

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, Mary Anderson, Walter Slezak, Henry Hull, Canada Lee, Heather Angel Director: Alfred Hitchcock Synopsis: In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.

Cast: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Vaughan Glazer, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd, Alma Kruger, Ian Wolfe, Frances Carson, Will Lee, Murray Alper, Dorothy Peterson, Kathryn Adams, Leo White, Hardie Albright Director: Alfred Hitchcock Synopsis: World War II (1939-1945). A worker at an aircraft factory in Los Angeles witnesses an act of sabotage at the plant where he works. His best friend dies in the explosion, but worse still, he is accused of the crime and pursued by the police. To clear his name, he travels across the country to New York, relentlessly searching for those responsible.

Cast: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Percy Marmont, Florence Kahn, Lilli Palmer, Charles Carson, Michael Rennie Director: Alfred Hitchcock Synopsis: After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.

Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, Tracy Reed, Jack Creley, Glenn Beck, Shane Rimmer, Paul Tamarin, Gordon Tanner, Robert O'Neil, Roy Stephens Director: Stanley Kubrick Synopsis: Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence", the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of darkly hilarious vignettes involving gung-ho soldiers, wacky generals, spying Russians, drunken premiers, battles with soda machines, fights in the War Room, and the Russians' top-secret Doomsday Machine. The film has three main centers of action: one of the B-52 bombers, on which a group of loyal men know they are about to start World War III; Burpelson Air Force Base, where Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) is trying to convince everyone that Ripper has gone mad and the bombing must be stopped; and the War Room, where President Merkin Muffley (Sellers again) is trying to make peace with the Russians.