The Search (MOD)

The Search (MOD)In post World War II Germany, a small boy who survived Auschwitz wanders alone feral, mute and terrified. He finds a makeshift home with a big hearted GI, while the mother he does not remember searches desperately for him. Starring a then unknown Montgomery Clift in his movie debut, directed in a near documentary style by Fred Zinnemann and filmed in the ragged, rubble strewn skeleton of Nuremberg, The Search vividly captures the horrifying human cost

a blood-splattered present and a psychiatrist who really bugs him

Directed by Richard Brooks

Texas 1935

From the era when Hollywood often found adventure and romance in The Painted Veil

whose flower-power performance here is in the same league as Dr Strangelove

17-year-old Doris Mae (Linda Blair) accepts a ride from Leonard Hatch (Martin Sheen)

Peters' dangerous scheme to use him to blackmail a murderer

simply lovely

Slapstick comedy reigns in A Slight Case of Larceny

A notorious Limehouse criminal

whose masterly visual compressions also grace David Copperfield

But too many years have passed and they're no longer able to heed the call