The Sand Pebbles (
1966) | IMDb:
7.5
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Starring:
Steve McQueen
,
Richard Attenborough
,
Richard Crenna
,
Candice Bergen
,
Mako
,
Larry Gates
The Sound of Music (
1965) | IMDb:
8.1
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Starring:
Julie Andrews
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Eleanor Parker
,
Richard Haydn
,
Peggy Wood
,
Charmian Carr
Mutiny on the Bounty (
1962) | IMDb:
7.2
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
Starring:
Marlon Brando
,
Trevor Howard
,
Richard Harris
,
Hugh Griffith
,
Richard Haydn
,
Percy Herbert
Raintree County (
1957) | IMDb:
6.3
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Montgomery Clift
,
Eva Marie Saint
,
Nigel Patrick
,
Lee Marvin
,
Rod Taylor
Gone with the Wind (
1939) | IMDb:
8.2
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Starring:
Vivien Leigh
,
Clark Gable
,
Olivia de Havilland
,
Leslie Howard
,
Hattie McDaniel
,
Thomas Mitchell