Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

Overview

Works:	3,226 works in 7,747 publications in 6 languages and 249,971 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Film adaptations Film noir Detective and mystery films Thrillers (Motion pictures) Musical films Historical films Gangster films History War films
Roles:	Producer, prn, Distributor, isb
Classifications:	PN1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

Celluloid soldiers : the Warner Bros. campaign against Nazism by Michael E Birdwell( )
The Warner Bros. story by Clive Hirschhorn( Book )
You must remember this : the Warner Bros. story by Richard Schickel( Book )
Warner Bros : the making of an American movie studio by David Thomson( Book )
Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951)( Book )

Hollywood be thy name : the Warner Brothers story by Cass Warner Sperling( Book )
Warner Brothers presents: the most exciting years--from the Jazz singer to White heat by Ted Sennett( Book )
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood : movies and politics by Stephen Vaughn( Book )
The Warner Brothers by Michael Freedland( Book )
HollywoodTV : the studio system in the fifties by Christopher Anderson( Book )
Warner Bros. : Hollywood's ultimate backlot by Steven Bingen( Book )
Here's looking at you, kid : 50 years of fighting, working, and dreaming at Warner Bros. by James R Silke( Book )
A new deal in entertainment : Warner Brothers in the 1930s by Nick Roddick( Book )
Warner Brothers by Charles Higham( Book )
Warner Brothers directors : the hard-boiled, the comic, and the weepers by William R Meyer( Book )
Tabloid, Inc. : crimes, newspapers, narratives by V. Penelope Pelizzon( Book )
The brothers Warner by Cass Warner( Visual )
Show trial : Hollywood, HUAC, and the birth of the blacklist by Thomas Patrick Doherty( Book )
From the headlines to Hollywood : the birth and boom of Warner Bros. by Chris Yogerst( Book )
The film finds its tongue by Fitzhugh Green( Book )

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Most widely held works by Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

My fair lady by George Cukor( Visual )

60 editions published between 1964 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 5,348 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady

The Maltese falcon by John Huston( Visual )

70 editions published between 1941 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 4,519 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette

The searchers by John Ford( Visual )

64 editions published between 1956 and 2015 in English and French and held by 4,235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family

A streetcar named Desire by Elia Kazan( Visual )

50 editions published between 1951 and 2014 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 4,180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley

Casablanca by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

78 editions published between 1942 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 4,107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis

Rebel without a cause by Nicholas Ray( Visual )

54 editions published between 1955 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 3,680 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums

Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn( Visual )

38 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 3,582 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era

The treasure of the Sierra Madre by John Huston( Visual )

38 editions published between 1947 and 2015 in English and Spanish and held by 2,830 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Mike Nichols( Visual )

33 editions published between 1966 and 2013 in English and held by 2,691 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Martha and George are a bitter aging couple who, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other

Strangers on a Train by Alfred Hitchcock( Visual )

47 editions published between 1951 and 2016 in English and French and held by 2,625 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train

The big sleep by Howard Hawks( Visual )

50 editions published between 1945 and 2016 in English and held by 2,560 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by the wealthy General Sternwood to expose a blackmailer who is holding compromising photos of Sternwood's daughter. The film evokes the chaotic underworld of Chandler's novel through setting and visualisation rather than plot. The complexities of the narrative are still present, but they no longer constitute the main ground against which the noir figure of Marlowe is defined. By stressing characteristics and visual style rather than events, it ultimately reduces a story line that is irretrievably tangled, to minor significance. The definitive Bogart-Becall vehicle, the film plays heavily on the sexual tension between the two actors, expressed primarily through their double entendre-loaded banter and their non-verbal expressions of sympathy that quickly undermine the initial antagonism of the characters

Frank Capra's Arsenic and old lace by Frank Capra( Visual )

26 editions published between 1944 and 2010 in English and held by 2,484 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mirthful murder Cary-ed off in slapstick, slap-happy style! Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic farce based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 Broadway hit and breezily directed by Frank Capra. Frazzled drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has two aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) who ply lonely geezers with poisoned libations, on sociopathic brother (Raymond Massey) who looks like Boris Karloff, one bonkers brother (John Alexander) who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, one impatient new bride (Priscilla Lane) -- and only one night to make it turn out all right. In this circus' center ring is Grant, twisting his face into a clown's gallery of flabbergasted reactions and transforming his natural athletic grace into a rubber-legged comic ballet. You'll die laughing. - Container

The music man by Meredith Willson( Visual )

20 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,431 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall

Giant by George Stevens( Visual )

28 editions published between 1956 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 2,281 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons

The adventures of Robin Hood by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

37 editions published between 1938 and 2017 in English and Italian and held by 2,250 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rebel outlaw Robin Hood outwits the Sheriff of Nottingham and Guy of Gisbourne, and saves the throne for the absent King Richard I

John Steinbeck's East of Eden by Elia Kazan( Visual )

38 editions published between 1954 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 2,167 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California

Yankee Doodle Dandy by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

33 editions published between 1942 and 2014 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 2,142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

James Cagney sings and dances his way through this musical. The video is a biography of George M. Cohan, famed playwright, entertainer and composer of patriotic songs

Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock( Visual )

22 editions published between 1954 and 2012 in English and held by 2,015 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A woman overhears a murder being planned when her telephone lines get crossed, but she doesn't realize how close to home the plan is -- her husband wants her murdered

To have and have not by Howard Hawks( Visual )

27 editions published between 1944 and 2016 in English and held by 1,972 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1940, an American charter boat captain in Martinique gets involved with a young female drifter and some French freedom fighters who are trying to elude local Nazi collaborators

Key Largo by John Huston( Visual )

36 editions published between 1948 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 1,927 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint

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