Simon Oakland

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.

Dir. Peter Yates · With Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset

In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.

Dir. Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise · With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn

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.

Dir. Robert Wise · With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna

Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.

Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.

Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey · With Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

Dir. Robert Wise · With Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

Dir. Michael Winner · With Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore