Love amid the treetops: the lyrical abandon of Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan’s Tarzan and Jane

Gleaming surfaces and twisted depths: Laura’s mirror-world of wayward desire

The primal pull of Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter

Cocktails, wisecracks, and murder: The Thin Man’s married couple for the ages

The Heiress: William Wyler unveils the psychological ferocity of Henry James’s Washington Square

Five chilling true-crime classics that capture primal American fears

Peter Ustinov’s Billy Budd: Elemental conflict in a vivid tapestry of life at sea

Classic Hollywood Little Women captures the story’s appeal for all time

The Innocents: a great ghost story and an inspired rendering of Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw”

On its 75th anniversary, John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon is still a marvel of tough, sardonic suspense

Haunting, powerful, passionate: Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence

Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans