The Absent-Minded Professor (
1961) | IMDb:
6.7
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
Vertigo (
1958) | IMDb:
8.3
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Starring:
James Stewart
,
Kim Novak
,
Barbara Bel Geddes
,
Tom Helmore
,
Henry Jones
,
Raymond Bailey
Picnic (
1955) | IMDb:
7
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.
Starring:
William Holden
,
Kim Novak
,
Rosalind Russell
,
Betty Field
,
Susan Strasberg
,
Cliff Robertson
Produced by:
Fred Kohlmar
Sabrina (
1954) | IMDb:
7.6
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.
Starring:
Audrey Hepburn
,
William Holden
,
Humphrey Bogart
,
Walter Hampden
,
John Williams
,
Martha Hyer
Produced by:
Billy Wilder