Cyril J. Mockridge

"Director [John] Ford brings us to the lawless frontier village of Shinbone, a town plagued by a larger-than-life nemesis, Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). [James] Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid Shinbone of Valance, and he finds that he has an unlikely ally -- in the form of a rugged local rancher (John Wayne). The two men also share the same love interest (Vera Miles). But when the final showdown becomes inevitable,...

An angry mob kills a man after a popular rancher is murdered.

Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.

A straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.

Laura Partridge, a small-time stockholder creates havoc at a a board meeting, falls in love with the former chief executive officer, and wrests control of the corporation from its selfish, corrupt board of directors.

Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small New England town and set up operations in a local stable with a plan to build a children's hospital.

In this Oscar-winning classic, a Macy's Department Store Santa who insists his name is Kris Kringle teaches everyone a lesson in love, faith and the value of imagination.

"Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival. Stanton Carlisle [is] a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him down a path of moral degradation and self-destruction. Although its strange, sordid atmosphere shocked contemporary audiences, this long-difficult-to-see reflection of postwar angst has now taken its place as one of the defining noirs...

"Will Rogers plays Judge William 'Billy' Priest in a very patriotic town. Priest is a laid-back widowed judge who upholds the law in his toughest court case yet. In the interim, he plays matchmaker for his young nephew"--P. [4] of cover.

"Marriage broker Mae Swasey, who somewhat cynically arranges her loser clients' affairs, meets model Kitty Bennett and can't resist meddling in her life by disentangling her from a married man and fixing her up with a nice radiologist. Of course things go wrong"--IMDb website.