Elia Kazan

The Arrangement -- Screen legends Kirk Douglas ('Spartacus,' 'Is Paris Burning?') and Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ('Network,' 'Chinatown') headline in this high-pitched story of a successful executive who is forced to confront the realities of his complicated life.

Baby Doll -- This steamy Southern drama stars Oscar-winner Karl Malden, as a cotton gin owner married to a sultry teenaged bride, who steadfastly refuses to sleep with her husband until she turns 20.

Ex-Golden Gloves fighter Danny Kenny has it all worked out. He'll turn pro to bankroll his brother's dream of writing a symphonic paean to the teeming city where they both live: New York. But life pulls the sidewalk out from under Danny when he's blinded during a brutal 15-round welterweight title bout. James Cagney plays Danny in this heart-tugging melodrama co-starring Ann Sheridan, Anthony Quinn, film-debuting Arthur Kennedy and in a rare acting turn before becoming a director, Elia Kazan. Among familiar studio players, there's an unbilled one: a vivid backlot and rear-screen Manhattan. "Sometimes we wonder," The New York Times' Bosley Crowther wrote, "whether it wasn't really the Warner brothers who got New York from the Indians, so diligent and devoted have they been in feeling the great city's pulse."

Screen legends Kirk Douglas ("Spartacus," "Is Paris Burning?") and Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ("Network," "Chinatown") headline in this high-pitched story of a successful executive who is forced to confront the realities of his complicated life. Academy Award-winning director Elia Kazan ("A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront") brings his own best-selling novel to life.

A 1930s Tennessee Valley Authority agent, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift), is sent to oversee the completion of the Tennessee River dam, with the assignment of convincing the locals to move from their homes for this project. Opposition from the locals includes one farmer who is upset that he must hire black laborers, and an elderly holdout (Jo Van Fleet) who is convinced that if she is forced to move from her land she will die.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly adapted to the big screen by Elia Kazan and scriptwriter Harold Pinter. Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past. Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson contribute stirring supporting performances to this richly detailed '30s-era gem.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly adapted to the big screen by Elia Kazan and scriptwriter Harold Pinter.

When they're released from prison for the rape and murder of a civilian back in Vietnam, two angry veterans (Steve Railsback and Chico Martínez) track down Bill Schmidt (James Woods), their old platoon mate, whose courtroom testimony got them convicted and sent up the river. Long troubled by his failure to prevent the heinous crime years ago, Schmidt must now defend his own family against the killers.

Screen legends Kirk Douglas ("Spartacus," "Is Paris Burning?") and Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ("Network," "Chinatown") headline in this high-pitched story of a successful executive who is forced to confront the realities of his complicated life.

Screen legends Kirk Douglas ("Spartacus," "Is Paris Burning?") and Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ("Network," "Chinatown") headline in this high-pitched story of a successful executive who is forced to confront the realities of his complicated life.

Screen legends Kirk Douglas and Faye Dunaway headline in this high-pitched story of a successful executive who is forced to confront the realities of his complicated life. Director Elia Kazan brings his own best-selling novel to life.

Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning writer and director Elia Kazan ("On the Waterfront," "A Streetcar Named Desire") tells the true story of the early life of his uncle, Greek-immigrant Stavros Topouzoglow, whose optimistic dreams of a turn-of-the-century America quickly collide with cold, hard reality. Despite the casual cruelties, betrayals, and career setbacks he experiences in his new homeland, he forms strong and lasting friendships that help him weather the worst. Nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture; Best Director; and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, this feature won an Academy Award for the painstakingly accurate art direction of Gene Callahan.