King Vidor Movies

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of...

A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.

Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.

Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them -...

Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.

PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical...

A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.

A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.

During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a...

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life...

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to...

Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.

The Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the talents of several top New York stage actors. A...

The adventures of a young shopgirl who learns that having money is not the key to happiness.

Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho.

This WWI home-front comedy is the earliest surviving film of King Vidor, who would later go on to make such classics as The Big Parade and The Crowd....

Dorothy Perkins, the eldest daughter of a simple, wholesome country family, leaves for the big city to study architecture. After winning a...

A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.