September 26th, 2009
Norma Rae (1979)
Summary: Norma Rae Webster struggles to help unionize an oppressive textile mill in her hometown during the summer of 1979.
Screenplay: Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank, Jr.
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle
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September 11th, 2009
“On the Beach (1959)”
Summary: The survivors of a nuclear war struggle to accept that the fallout will soon claim them as well.
Screenplay: Nevil Schute (novel); John Paxton
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins, Fred Astaire, Donna Anderson
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September 4th, 2009
“Oliver Twist (1948)”
Summary: Oliver Twist is an orphan who runs away to 19th-century London and falls in with a gang of pickpockets led by the murderous thief Fagin.
Screenplay: Charles Dickens (novel); David Lean, Stanley Haynes; Eric Ambler (uncredited), Kay Walsh (uncredited)
Director: David Lean
Cast: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, Henry Stephenson, John Howard Davies
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