Swiss Family Robinson (
1960) | IMDb:
7.1
After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates.
Starring:
John Mills
,
Dorothy McGuire
,
James MacArthur
,
Janet Munro
,
Sessue Hayakawa
,
Tommy Kirk
Directed by:
Ken Annakin
Green Mansions (
1959) | IMDb:
5.4
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.
Starring:
Audrey Hepburn
,
Anthony Perkins
,
Lee J. Cobb
,
Sessue Hayakawa
,
Henry Silva
,
Nehemiah Persoff
Produced by:
Edmund Grainger
The Bridge on the River Kwai (
1957) | IMDb:
8.1
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Starring:
William Holden
,
Alec Guinness
,
Jack Hawkins
,
Sessue Hayakawa
,
James Donald
,
Geoffrey Horne
Produced by:
Sam Spiegel