“The Sunshine Boys” was an ode to vaudeville, and made George Burns a star at age 80.

Before Tim Burton tackled “Alice in Wonderland,” there had been numerous film versions, including in 1933 with Cary Grant, Gary Cooper and W.C. Fields.

This English production may not have aged well, but it set the bar for a generation of adventure films.

Stewart Granger became a star from “King Solomon’s Mines,” but it’s an adventure flick whose potential remains unplundered.

More than a decade later, “Fight Club” is seen as a revolutionary movie about revolutionary men in complacent times.

One of the first prison break movies of the WWII era, “The Seventh Cross” stars Spencer Tracy as a Nazi dissident on the run.

Shot at the real 1970 race, “Le Mans” is less a narrative film than a document of European style racing.

“The Strange One” kicked off a lot of careers, including Ben Gazzara, George Peppard and screenwriter Calder Willingham.

In 1987, Steve Martin and Fred Schepisi delightfully updated the story of Cyrano de Bergerac as a romantic comedy.

The 1939 Greta Garbo classic co-written by Billy Wilder created the mold for the modern romantic comedy.