Discovering a vocation and a style: The shakedown (1929), The love trap (1929), Hell's heroes (1930), A house divided (1931)
Coming into his own: Counsellor-at-law (1933)
First-class pictures: These three (1936)
The Wyler touch: Dodsworth (1936)
A concoction: Come and get it (1936)
The street where they live: Dead end (1937)
Gone with the plague: Jezebel (1938)
Home on the moors and the range: Wuthering Heights (1939), The westerner (1940), The letter (1940)
Bette Davis and the South redux: The little foxes (1941)
War films: Mrs. Miniver (1942), Memphis Belle (1944), Thunderbolt (1945)
The way home: The best years of our lives (1946)
The American scene I: The heiress (1949)
The American scene II: Carrie (1952)
The House Un-American Activities Committee: Detective story (1951), Roman holiday (1953), The desperate hours (1955), The children's hour (1961)
The pacifist dilemma: Friendly persuasion (1956), The big country (1958), Ben-Hur (1959)
Final projects: The collector (1965), How to steal a million (1966), Funny girl (1968), The liberation of L.B. Jones (1970).
