Erskine Sanford

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Dir. Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

Dir. Max Ophüls · With Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

Dir. Orson Welles · With Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Dir. Orson Welles · With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth commits a treasonous act and takes the throne for himself.

Dir. Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond