Lakeshore Classic Movies

Acclaimed actor Charles Laughton won his only Best Acting Oscar for his performance as the English king who was married six times without producing the male heir he desired most.

Orphan Mary (Maureen O'Hara, in her first lead role) moves in with her aunt and uncle who run the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall. Mary soon discovers a secret band of smugglers, but can she trust the town’s mysterious magistrate (Charles Laughton) to help her escape?

Cyrano (Jose Ferrer in an Oscar-winning performance) is admired by his men for his courage, swordsmanship and mighty wit but he is hopelessly lost in love and unable to profess his feelings to the beautiful Roxane out of fear he will be rejected because of his appearance.

A fearless lawman (Randolph Scott) stands between unruly cattlemen and a group of determined homesteaders as the two factions vie for control of the government land bordering the town.

Based on true events, special agent from Chicago (Randolph Scott) is sent to infiltrate the notorious Reno Brothers gang as they terrorize Indiana in 1866. Complications develop in the form of conflicted feelings that the agent has with the Reno sister.

Jane Russell stirs up trouble as the center of attention of Sheriff Pat Garrett, his gunslinger friend Doc Holliday and outlaw Billy the Kid in this Western directed by Howard Hughes.

In the days before the Civil War, the U.S. Army sends an engineer (Sterling Hayden) to finish the railroad before the fighting starts. Confederate sympathizers, led by William Quantrill, try to stop the railway from being completed.

Businessman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. A nearby Quaker colony is very protective of the giant sequoias, and the greedy timber man soon realizes that this won’t be an easy task.

When a prized horse is shot, Roy Rogers looks to be the likely suspect. He must prove his innocence to rightfully claim “The Smartest Horse in the Movies” as his own.

Loosely based on Shakespeare’s 'The Taming of the Shrew', John Wayne stars as a cattle baron whose daughter is due home from college. Unfortunately, his equally stubborn estranged wife (Maureeen O’Hara) returns as well.

Directed by Michael Curtiz, the film tells the story of Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn), his romance with Kit Carson Holliday (Olivia de Havilland), and friendship with George Armstrong Custer (future U.S. President Ronald Reagan) in the days leading up to the start of the Civil War.

A cattle baron takes in an orphan boy, against the wishes of the baron’s own son. Now men, the resentment turns into hatred as the two battle for the cattle baron’s empire. Burt Lancaster stars as the adopted son.