All My Sons (1948): Irving Reis Version of Arthur Miller Play, with Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster

Based on Arthur Miller’s famous play, All My Sons is dramatic transfer to the big screen is too obviously preachy.

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948): Anatole Litvak’s Film Noir, Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster

In a tour-de-force, Oscar Nominated performance, Stanwyck plays Leona Stevenson, a whining, paranoid, hypochondriac New York heiress, who has developed a psychosomatic illness that has made her a bed-ridden invalid.

Field of Dreams (1989): Phil Alden Robinson’s Rural Fantasy Fable, Starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster

Phil Alden Robinson’s Rural Fantasy Fable, Starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster