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Ken Loach at the BBC (2011): Dir. Ken Loach; A six–disc box–set of the television plays that Ken Loach wrote and directed for the BBC between 1964 and 1977. A valuable collection of…
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009): Dir. Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea; More than just a film about the making of a film, this glorious reconstruction of Clouzot's unfinished 'masterpiece' rescues incredible footage from…
Jpod (TV Series) (2008): Feat. David Kopp, Steph Song, Benjamin Ayres…; Smart adaptation of cult author Douglas Coupland's novel chronicling the misadventures of the staff of an eccentric video game design studio.…
Legend of the Seeker, The (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Craig Horner, Bridget Regan, Bruce Spence…; Sword–and–Sorcery coming–of–age journey with The Seeker as he joins forces with a mysterious woman and a wise, powerful…
Silent Britain (2006): An intriguing journey into the 'Lost Atlantis' of the British silent film industry, which prior to 1929 generated thousands of films, as much through…
Parting Shots (1998): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Chris Rea, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley…; Once–fashionable photographer Chris Rea finds out he only has months to live, and decides to get his own back at those that have made his life…
Méliès the Magician (The Magic of Méliès, Méliès Magic Show) (1997): Dir. Georges Melies, Jacques Meny; George Méliès was a unique pioneer of cinema, who virtually invented the 'trick shot' and created an astonishing 1000 short films using special…
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995): Dir. Shusuke Kaneko
Feat. Shinobu Nakayama, Ayako Fujitani; Japanese Kaiju genre film (giant monsters!) which is the ninth inclusion to the Gamera film series, but enjoyable as stand–alone entertainment,…
That's Entertainment III (1994): Feat. June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Lena Horne…; Starlets of the golden age recall their heyday and bring fresh insight to this third showcase of infectious musical highlights.
Return of Spinal Tap, The (A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out) (1992): Dir. Jim Di Bergi
Feat. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer; Follow–up mockumentary to the beloved THIS IS SPINAL TAP, following the band on a sad final tour of the USA to promote their album Smell the…
Comfort of Strangers, The (1991): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Christopher Walken…; Genuinely unsettling, if not ultimately coherent, tale of an English couple (Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson) in Venice who become the…
Long Walk Home, The (1991): Dir. Richard Pearce
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg; Set in 1955 Alabama during the civil rights bus boycott, this portrays the impact of change on two families, with Sissy Spacek as an uppercrust…
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Tune in Tomorrow) (1990): Dir. Jon Amiel
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Barbara Hershey, Peter Falk; A sophisticated cocktail of fantasy and bent reality in which Keanu Reeves and Barbara Hershey meet an endearing yet shrewd scriptwriter (Peter Falk)…
Big Steal, The (1990): Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan; Romantic romp from the makers of MALCOLM, possesses the charm and wit that made that film memorable. Teenager Ben Mendelsohn wins a date with the…
Bonfire of the Vanities (1990): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith…; Hanks, Willis and Griffith stumble through Tom Wolfe's novel about a hot–shot stockbroker who is scandalised through misdemeanor. A famous…
Bullseye! (1990): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Roger Moore, Michael Caine, Sally Kirkland; Lamentable farce has Caine and Moore playing dual roles. Firstly, as nuclear physicists with secret formulas to sell, and secondly as two…
Cadillac Man (1990): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Robin Williams, Tim Robbins; Motor–mouthed car salesman Robin Williams has his dealership (and alas, the fun) beseiged by a jealous, machine–gun toting husband (Tim…
Come See the Paradise (1990): Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Dennis Quaid; An epic romance about a hot–headed unionist whose love affair with a Japanese American is torn apart when the state interns 100,000 Japanese…
Crossing, The (1990): Dir. George Ogilvie
Feat. Russell Crowe, Danielle Spencer; A fresh–faced Russell Crowe plays an art student in the sixites who up–and–leaves for the Big City, much to the dismay of his then…
Cry-Baby (Cry baby) (1990): Dir. John Waters
Feat. Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell…; Another stylish, camp classic from the infamous director who made Divine a cult sensation. Depp heads a super cast in a tribute to the juvenile…
Death in Brunswick (1990): Dir. John Ruane
Feat. Sam Neill, John Clarke; Sam Neill gets himself into deep water when he lands a job in a seedy nightclub, falls in love, but unwittingly gets caught up in ethnic…
Erik the Viking (1990): Dir. Terry Jones
Feat. Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt; A swashbuckling comic fantasy from the Monty Python stable about a Nordic warrior who develops a conscience, and so leads his unruly band of…
Flashback (1990): Dir. Franco Amurri
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane…; Dennis Hopper parodies himself in this enjoyable, wacky film as an achetypal hippie who leads yup–tight FBI agent Kiefer Sutherland down the…
Fresh Prince of Bel Air, The (TV Series) (1990-1996): Feat. Will Smith, Jeffrey A. Townes, Nia Long; The TV springboard to fame for rapper Will Smith, this series has the teenage 'fresh prince' move from the street–smart action of…
Freshman, The (1990): Dir. Andrew Bergman
Feat. Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Penelope Ann Miller…; Chucklesome comedy finds NYC film student Broderick forced to run errands for small time mobster Brando (who does a mirror–perfect parody of…
Green Card (1990): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell; English language debut for Gerard Depardieu as a French musician who enters into a marriage–of–convenience with a stranger (Andie…
Henry and June (1990): Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward, Uma Thurman; From the diaries of French author Anais Nin, her steamy and stormy adventures with American writer Henry Miller and his wife are lensed to perfection.
House Party (1990): Dir. Reginald Hudlin
Feat. Robin Harris, Martin Lawrence; A young, all–black cast star in this hip comedy about a group of home–boys who stage the ultimate party while the folks are away. A…
I Love You to Death (1990): Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright…; Kevin Kline heads a great cast in this endearing black comedy about an embittered housewife who creatively tries to bump off her chronically…
Joe Versus The Volcano (1990): Dir. John Patrick Shanley
Feat. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges…; Finding he has only six months to live, Tom Hanks is strangely offered megabucks to jump into a vat of hot lava for the sake of ancient gods.
Kindergarten Cop (1990): Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller; The Hollywood success formula fires on all cylinders, with many laughs, action, a likeable support cast and Arnie on form as an undercover agent…
Loose Cannons (1990): Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Gene Hackman, Dom DeLuise…; Clunky buddy cop comedy has Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd teaming up to fight crime, only one of them suffers from split personality disorder.
Lord of the Flies (1990): Dir. Harry Hook
Feat. Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, James Badge Dale; Updated film version of William Golding's novel about stranded military school cadets whose instinct for survival reverts to barbarism.
Mermaids (1990): Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Cher, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci…; Cher plays the sexpot mom of square daughter Winona Ryder who aspires to be a nun. Slight but affecting tale set in small town '60s America, with Bob…
Mister Johnson (1990): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward; Handsome drama set in '20s Africa about a native clerk who tries to ingratiate himself into the ruling white colonialist society.
Nuns On the Run (1990): Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Eric Idle; Bumbling crooks Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle dress in strange habits to avert the law when a million dollar heist goes awry.
Pretty Woman (1990): Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Julia Roberts, Richard Gere; Julia Roberts was catapulted to stardom in this fairy–tale romance about a call–girl who is swept up by Richard Gere, a millionaire…
Quick Change (1990): Dir. Bill Murray
Feat. Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid; Clever caper comedy features the most ingenious bank robbery ever staged. Rollicking fun with Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid.
Return Home (1990): Dir. Ray Argall
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Dennis Coard; Male–healing drama finds bitterly divorced Noel (Dennis Coard) returning home in search of direction, finding solace in his brother Steve and…
Reversal of Fortune (1990): Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver; In his best performance, Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for portraying Claus Von Bulow, a European émigré who was accused of trying to poison his wife…
Rosalie Goes Shopping (1990): Dir. Percy Adlon
Feat. Marianne Sagebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold…; Marianne Sagebrecht, the plump and lovable Bavarian from BAGDAD CAFE, is this time endowed with 37 credit cards and an insatiable appetite for…
Sheltering Sky, The (1990): Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott…; John Malkovich and Debra Winger play a troubled, upper–class American couple who discover 'themselves' while on trek through the North African…
Sibling Rivalry (1990): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Kirstie Alley, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher…; Hysterical screwball comedy with Kirstie Alley playing an aspiring writer and neglected wife, whose fling with a handsome stranger leads to mistaken…
Texasville (1990): Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Annie Potts…; The director reassembles the youthful cast from his THE LAST PICTURE SHOW to illustrate the effect that thirty years has had on a group of school…
Waiting for the Light (1990): Dir. Christopher Monger
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Teri Garr, Clancy Brown; Shirley MacLaine is a hoot in this silly family film about a former magician who moves her straight–laced niece and her mischievous children to…
When Harry Met Sally (1990): Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal; Thirtysomething favourite that amicably flirts with the subject of platonic relationships between men and women. Meg Ryan's priceless 'fake orgasm'…
A Dry White Season (1989): Dir. Euzhan Palcy
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando…; Enraged by the brutal, senseless murder of his black gardener’s son by a racist ‘special policeman’, a South African schoolteacher (Sutherland)…
Always (1989): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, John Goodman, Holly Hunter; Heartwarming fantasy about a deceased pilot whose spirit returns to help his best friend pursue the same career and lady.
Bangkok Hilton (Mini-Series) (1989): Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Denholm Elliott…; Gripping mini series with Kidman giving a dynamite performance as a young woman sent to the horrific "Bangkok Hilton" prison, after being tricked…
Baywatch (TV Series) (1989-2001): Feat. David Hasselhoff, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Anderson…; Sun–soaked 90's television series based around the dramatic happenings of a disturbingly attractive lifeguard unit keeping the beaches safe…
Behaving Badly (TV mini-series) (1989): Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Judi Dench, Frances Barber, Maurice Denham…; A bleak though blackly–comic mini–series with Judi Dench as a dowdy housewife who belatedly comes out of her shell after her husband of…
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989): Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin; Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter play a couple of crazed teenagers who are sent on a Excellent Adventure, collecting famous historical figures via a…
Birds of a Feather (TV Series) (1989): Feat. Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph; Charming and concise British sitcom following the fortunes of two sisters, each married to small–time crooks, who move in together after their…
Blackadder Goes Forth (TV Series) (1989): Dir. Richard Boden
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson; Final official series, set on the Western Front 1917. Six episodes contained on a single DVD or two tape volumes: 'Captain Cook', 'Corporal…
Blaze (1989): Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Richard Jenkins; Paul Newman plays flamboyant Southern governor Earl Long, who was scandalized over a love affair with an exotic dancer (Lolita Davidovich, in a…
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989): Dir. Howard Brookner
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Julie Hagerty…; An American Playhouse adaptation of four Damon Runyon tales which intersect on New Year's Eve 1928 in a milieu of jazz–age hedonism. A good…
Booker (TV Series) (1989-1990): Feat. Carmen Argenziano; Good value spin–off series from 21 JUMP STREET, with Richard Grieco from the original series taking on the role of a rebellious private…
Burbs, The (1989): Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher…; A worthwhile comic spin on that age–old comic scenario – what if those strange new neighbours were members of a cannibalistic cult?…
Chorus of Disapproval (1989): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales…; A light and slight drama set around widower Jeremy Iron’s move to a seaside town and involvement with a local theatre group. Superb cast livens the…
Cousins (1989): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young…; Superior remake of COUSIN COUSINE with Danson and Rossellini pretending to be lovers to avenge their unfaithful partners.
Dad (1989): Dir. Gary David Goldberg
Feat. Ted Danson, Jack Lemmon, Ethan Hawke…; Ted Danson returns home to find his father (Jack Lemmon) has physically and emotionally deteriorated.
Dead Poet's Society (1989): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke…; Robin Williams is perfect as an a maverick English teacher at a private high–school for boys, where his passion for poetry profoundly…
Delinquents, The (1989): Dir. Chris Thomson
Feat. Kylie Minogue, Charlie Schlatter, Bruno Lawrence…; Minogue graduated from her TV soap–opera days with this attempt at a serious period drama, with her and Schlatter playing lovestruck teen…
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1989): Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Steve Martin, Michael Caine; Small–time peddler Steve Martin and aristocratic con–man Michael Caine compete to swindle $50,000 from the next woman they meet. Wild and…
Dream Team, The (1989): Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle; Four mental patients are taken by their psychiatrist to see a baseball game and end up lost in New York after he is knocked unconscious while…
Driving Miss Daisy (1989): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd; Oscar–winning adaptation of Albert Uhry's stage play charting the 25–year relationship between a crotchety Southern woman and her black…
Eight Men Out (1989): Dir. John Sayles
Feat. John Cusack, Michael Rooker, Christopher Lloyd…; True story of the Chicago White Sox baseball team who conspired with gamblers to lose the World Series in 1919. Finely detailed topical drama with an…
Emerald City (1989): Dir. Michael Jenkins
Feat. John Hargreaves, Robyn Nevin; Screen adaptation of David Williamson's play about an 'arty' film writer who moves to Sydney and coaxed into making commercial schlock. Funny and…
Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989): Dir. Steve Cloves
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges…; The fabulous Bridges brothers play two sibling cocktail musicians who employ sexy vocalist Michelle Pfeiffer to spice up their routine act.
Get Smart Again (1989): Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Don Adams, Barbara Feldon; A latterday followup to the great Mel Brooks–produced TV Series, with Don Adams returning as the bumbling spy Maxwell Smart, here trying to…
Harlem Nights (1989): Dir. Eddie Murphy
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx…; An excellent comic cast can't save this mismatched black American riff on THE GODFATHER series, set amid the 1930s jazz–club underworld of…
Heathers (1989): Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty; 'Heathers' are an elite group of glamourous, stuck–up brat–girls who gradually meet their maker courtesy of a rebel Heather (Winona…
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989): Dir. Bruce Robinson
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward; Richard E. Grant encores for the director of WITHNAIL AND I to play a manic genius ad–man whose conscience rears its ugly head while he…
In Country (1989): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen; Drama about a High School graduate from Kentucky who throws herself into a rigorous investigation of the life of her father, who died in the Vietnam…
Jeweller's Shop, The (1989): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Olivia Hussey, Ben Cross; Charming, low–key adaptation of a play by Pope John Paul the Second. Burt Lancaster in his last film role plays a jeweller in 1930's Poland…
Lean On Me (1989): Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume; Principal Morgan Freeman whips the pupils of a troubled high–school into shape in this formulaic but likeable example of the genre.
My Name is Bill W. (1989): Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. James Woods, JoBeth Williams, James Garner; James Woods plays Bill Wilson, the famed co–founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in this tele–movie charting his descent from 1920's business…
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Christmas Vacation) (1989): Dir. Jeremiah Chechik
Feat. Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid; A John Hughes–penned comedy featuring Chevy Chase as the bedraggled father of the family Griswold, whose plans for a big family Christmas…
Parenthood (1989): Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest…; An effervescent and poignant comedy about the trials and tribulations of family life. An impressive ensemble cast headed by Steve Martin provide…
Romero (1989): Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Raul Julia, Richard Jordan; Provocative political drama details the story of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated in 1980 by representatives of an…
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder; Average teaming of Wilder and Pryor as a deaf man and a blind man on the lam. The high obscene–language level doesn't yield much comic results.
Shadow Makers (Fat Man and Little Boy) (1989): Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia…; An informative (if only really adequate) dramatisation of the Manhattan Project, which produced the A–Bomb in the New Mexico desert during WW2.…
She-Devil (1989): Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Meryl Streep, Roseanne, Ed Jr. Begley…; A stylised comic treatment of Fay Weldon's dark novel with Rosanne Barr exacting ultimate retribution on husband–stealing rich–bitch…
Sweetie (1989): Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos; An unsettling account of a young woman's uncomfortable relationship with her boyfriend and disturbed sister who makes an unexpected visit. Askewed…
Tall Guy, The (1989): Dir. Mel Smith
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson; Jeff Goldblum plays an American actor in England who faces successive crises with obnoxious employer Rowan Atkinson and love interest Emma Thompson.
True Believer (1989): Dir. Joseph Ruben
Feat. James Woods, Robert Downey, Kurtwood Smith; A jaded attorney and an idealistic young clerk defend a Korean man who is in jail for a murder he may not have committed. Woods as usual plays a…
Uncle Buck (1989): Dir. John Hughes
Feat. John Candy, Amy Madigan; John Candy plays a loathsome uncle with a heart of gold left in charge of his brother's kids for the weekend.
Vidiot from UHF, The (1989): Dir. Jay Levey
Feat. Al Yankovic, Michael Richards, Kevin McCarthy…; 'Weird' Al Yankovic showcases his brand of crazy satire as the manager of a loony TV station. Pretty stoopid, but kids will love it.
War of the Roses (1989): Dir. Danny De Vito
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Sean Astin…; Hollywood black humour is taken to the limit here as marital bliss turns to domestic warfare for Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Bold and…
We're No Angels (1989): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore…; Robert De Niro and Sean Penn team up as a couple of escaped convicts who cross the border in clergical attire.
Weekend at Bernies (1989): Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart; A tacky but highly inventive comedy about two young execs who must ensure their deceased boss at least appears that way in order to enjoy his luxury…
Welcome Home (1989): Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston…; Fairly tepid post–Vietnam War drama has Kris Kristofferson play a pilot shot down over Cambodia and was rescued by a Khmer Rouge woman, whom he…
Wilt (1989): Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Griff Rhys-Jones, Mel Smith; Tom Sharpe's outrageous farce with Griff Rhys Jones as the dowdy schoolteacher suspected of murdering his social–climbing wife. Bent in all the…
Young Einstein (1989): Dir. Yahoo Serious
Feat. Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard; Ozzie one–man film–making machine Yahoo Serious stars in his own zany slapstick epic about an intrepid young maverick who happens to be a…
1969 (1988): Dir. Ernest Thompson
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jnr.…; Keifer Sutherland and Winona Ryder lead a brat–pack of sensitive anti–war youths in the summer of '69.
Accidental Tourist, The (1988): Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis…; A travel author faces problems with the two eccentric women in his life. A dry leisure.
Accused, The (1988): Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis; Jodie Foster won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a rape victim who suffered the additional ordeal of prosecuting her attackers in the face of…
Another Woman (1988): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, Ian Holm…; Gena Rowlands heads a cast of Woody Allen regulars in this absorbing Bergman–esque portrait of a successful professor who is forced to reflect…
Bagdad Cafe (1988): Dir. Percy Adlon
Feat. Marianne Sagebrecht, Jack Palance, C.C.H. Pounder; Marianne Sagebrecht plays an aloof German tourist who meets a group of equally lovable eccentrics at a remote desert inn. A quirky, expressive and…
Beaches (1988): Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard…; Bette Midler's tour–de–force about the lifetimes of two childhood friends pulls the heart strings in all the right places.
Big Business (1988): Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward…; Midler and Tomlin play sets of identical twins in this mixed–identity farce.
Bird (1988): Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Keith David; Eastwood's biopic tribute to legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie 'Bird' Parker. His turbulent and extraordinary life is sympathetically characterised…
Boost, The (1988): Dir. Harold Becker
Feat. James Woods, Sean Young; An explicit cautionary tale about the effect of cocaine on the careers and private lives of an affluent L.A. couple. Superb, explosive drama.
Bull Durham (1988): Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins; Costner and Sarandon star in this much–admired romantic baseball comedy.
Celia (1988): Dir. Ann Turner
Feat. Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie; Fans of Jane Campion should enjoy this eerie antipodean tale of a 9–year–old girl who surrenders to her nightmarish fantasies when her…
Clean and Sober (1988): Dir. Glenn Gordon Caron
Feat. Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman…; Unflinching, powerful drama with Michael Keaton utterly convincing as a real estate broker who decides to lay low at a drug rehabilitation facility…
Cocktail (1988): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown; Tom Cruise receives behind–the–bar cocktail tips from Bryan Brown. Slick comedy was an early box–office for kiwi dir. Donaldson.
Comedy Company, The (TV Series) (1988-1990): Feat. Glenn Robbins; Although suffering a little with the passing of time, this classic Australian sketch show still holds many cherished memories with its collection of…
Coming to America (1988): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones; Wacky Eddie Murphy classic in which an African Prince (Murphy) accompanied by his side–kick (Arsenio Hall) pilgrimage to America in search of…
Couch Trip, The (1988): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon…; Aykroyd plays a mental patient on the loose in Los Angeles masquerading as a renowned psychiatrist. Agreeably sends up Hollywood's therapy obsessions…
Crocodile Dundee 2 (1988): Dir. John Cornell
Feat. Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon…; The true blue ocker with the big knife runs into more trouble in New York when his sheila gets kidnapped by some drug dealing yobbos. Law of…
Crossing Delancey (1988): Dir. Joan Micklin Silver
Feat. Amy Irving, Peter Riegert; Liberal New Yorker Amy Irving juggles her passion for literature around two (in)eligible bachelors – a handsome academic and a humble pickle…
Da (1988): Dir. Matt Clark
Feat. Martin Sheen; Martin Sheen returns to his native Ireland for his father's funeral and finds his ghost alive and well and willing to discuss the past.
Dangerous Liaisons (1988): Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer; Classic tale of an unscrupulous French countess who creates royal havoc by challenging her former lover to the sexual conquest of a virginal…
Dominick and Eugene (1988): Dir. Robert M Young
Feat. Ray Liotta, Tom Hulce, Jamie Lee Curtis; Ray Liotta cares for his autistic twin brother Tom Hulce in this affecting drama.
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988): Dir. Julien Temple
Feat. Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey…; Under–rated campy musical about a trio of goofy aliens (incl. Jim Carrey in an early role) who crash–land in Geena Davis's swimming pool.
Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, Sam Neill; Jack–of–all–accents, Meryl Streep, does wonders as Lindy Chamberlain, the woman accused of murdering her child in the Australian…
Fish Called Wanda, A (1988): Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis…; Rarely does a comedy achieve such a high laugh–count and provide substance beyond sheer entertainment value. A comic masterpiece written by and…
Four Minute Mile, The (1988): Dir. James Goddard
Feat. Richard Huw, Nique Needles, Michael York; Set in the post–WW2 era of middle–distance athletics when for a period of eight years it seemed that no one would break the…
Gorillas in the Mist (1988): Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris; Impressive biopic of American primatologist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver), who ventured to the volitile African jungle to study the…
Great Outdoors, The (1988): Dir. Howard Deutch
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Annette Bening…; Dan Akroyd and John Candy are brothers–in–law who ruin each other's family vacation in this John Hughes production which exemplifies…
Hairspray (1988): Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, John Waters; Divine stars in his/her final film, heading a suitably whacko cast in the first PG–rated feature from long–time mentor John Waters. A…
Heartbreak Hotel (1988): Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. David Keith, Tuesday Weld, Charlie Schlatter; Goofy comedy–adventure in which an aspiring rocker kidnaps Elvis Presley (David Keith) and hits the road in a pink Cadillac.
High Spirits (1988): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Donal McCann, Daryl Hannah…; All–star horror farce set around impoverished gentleman O'Toole's attempts to lure tourists to his Irish castle, with the promise of 'ghosts'…
Homeboy (1988): Dir. Michael Seresin
Feat. Mickey Rourke; Grim tale with Mickey Rourke as an alcoholic boxer who struggles both in and outside the ring. Directed by Alan Parker's NZ–born cameraman…
Johnny Be Good (1988): Dir. Bud Smith
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jnr., Uma Thurman…; Woeful comedy with a miscast Hall as a talented high school football player enjoying the perks and pitfalls of college celebrity.
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988): Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey…; Brave, earnest film controversial for its assumption that Christ suffered from mortal doubt when chosen to carry God's message. Willem Dafoe plays…
License to Drive (1988): Dir. Greg Beeman
Feat. Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane…; A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test.
Master Builder, The (1988): Feat. Leo McKern, Miranda Richardson, Jane Lapotaire; A BBC adaptation of the 1892 play By Henrik Ibsen, aired on BBC as part of the 'Theatre Night' series in 1988. Tells the story of a middle–aged…
Milagro Beanfield War (1988): Dir. Robert Redford
Feat. Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga…; A New Mexican farmer triggers a feud with corporate developers keen to exploit his land. A spirited, simple fable – Redford lovingly directs a…
Moderns, The (1988): Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone…; A witty and exquisite recreation of Paris in the 1920s, complete with the ‘lost generation’ of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F Scott…
Murphy Brown (TV Series) (1988-1998): Feat. Candice Bergen; A solid and likeable sttcom set around a gutsy woman journalist in Washington DC, who negotiates her personal indulgences and demons along with the…
Mystic Pizza (1988): Dir. Donald Petrie
Feat. Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Annabeth Gish; Julia Roberts' star quality shines in this, her debut film, contrasting the love–lives of three pizza waitresses in a town called Mystic.…
Naked Gun, The (1988): Dir. David Zucker
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson…; Leslie Neilsen perfects his deadpan for the Zucker Bros., who do for police work what their classic FLYING HIGH did for air travel. A…
Natural Causes (1988): Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. George Cole, Prunella Scales; A farcical comedy of infidelity and spousal skulduggery. George Cole plays a professional 'disposer' who is hired to fabricate the suicide of a…
Patty Hearst (1988): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames…; Intense depiction of Patty Hearst's kidnapping, confinement and brain–washing by 'urban guerillas' the SLA, from that specialist in American…
Punchline (1988): Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman; Ambitious comedy–drama focused on the career–efforts of two, very different aspiring standup comics – a personable Sally Field and…
Rain Man (1988): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino; Oscar–winning road drama featuring Dustin Hoffman's virtuoso performance as the idiot savant brother of Tom Cruise, who does equally well in a…
Running On Empty (1988): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Christine Lahti…; A married couple, on the run for activist crimes in the 1960s, come to terms with their childrens' right to be free. A moving story, handled with…
Satisfaction (Girls of Summer) (1988): Dir. Joan Freeman
Feat. Justine Bateman, Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson…; Flavour of the '80s, Justine Bateman (TV's FAMILY TIES), stole the limelight from her then fledgling co–star, Julia Roberts, in this hoary girl…
Scrooged (1988): Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard…; Bill Murray is hilariously mean–spirited as a yuppie incarnation of Charles Dicken’s ‘Scrooge’ who eventually gets a change of attitude…
Shame (1988): Dir. Steve Jodrell
Feat. Tony Barry, Deborra-Lee Furness; Stranded in an outback town, a female lawyer defends a young rape victim when her plight is met with nonchalance by the townsfolk.
She's Having a Baby (1988): Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin…; Another John Hughes hit in which young Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern embark on marriage and parenthood.
Some Girls (1988): Dir. Mike Hoffman
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley…; An odd and moving little film in which a college student travels to Quebec to visit his girlfriend – and her eccentric family, and is thrust…
Stand and Deliver (1988): Dir. Ramon Menendez
Feat. Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Andy Garcia; Rousing true story about a no–nonsense Math teacher in a tough L.A. school and his struggles to motivate his dispirited and troubled students.
Talk Radio (1988): Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene; Eric Bogosian adapts his biting stageplay for Oliver Stone's camera, and the result is devastating. He portrays a radio talkshow host with an opinion…
Twins (1988): Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny De Vito; A science experiment posits Big Arnie and pint–sized Danny DeVito as not–so–identical twins who meet as adults after being…
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988): Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Stellan Skarsgard; In war–torn Czechoslovakia 1968, a young doctor is caught between two lovers and the political struggle of his homeland. Daniel Day–Lewis…
Vampire's Kiss (1988): Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals; Nicolas Cage gives a wildly uninhibited performance as a psychotic yuppie who thinks he's been bitten by a vampire. From the pen that wrote the…
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988): Dir. Bob Ellis
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye; A Catholic schoolteacher moonlights as a prostitute to fund her disabled brother’s morphine dependence, later falling under the influence of a…
Without A Clue (1988): Dir. Thom Eberhardt
Feat. Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones…; A nicely contrived send–up of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Kingsley playing Doctor Watson, who in fact has invented the character of…
Barfly (1987): Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige; Mickey Rourke relishes his role as an alcoholic low–life with a gift for poetry. Loosely based on one Charles Bukowski, who wrote the script.
Blackadder 3 (TV Series) (1987): Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson; Classic third series set in England 1760–1815. Six episodes contained on one DVD or two tape volumes: 'Dish and Dishonesty', 'Ink and…
Broadcast News (1987): Dir. James L. Brooks
Feat. Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks…; Superb TV newsroom dramedy in which vacuous newsreader Hurt and neurotic reporter Brooks compete for the attentions of Holly Hunter.
Can't Buy Me Love (1987): Dir. Steve Rash
Feat. Patrick Dempsey; Likeable though period–bound comedy in which nerdy student Patrick Dempsey pays the gorgeous Amanda Peterson a thousand bucks to pose as his…
Dame Edna Experience, The (TV Series) (1987): Feat. Barry Humphries; Dame Edna Everage hosted this riotous mock chat–show in the late eighties (following a series of successful TV specials), where her guests…
Date With An Angel (1987): Dir. Tom McLoughlin
Feat. Michael E. Knight, Emmanuelle Beart, Phoebe Cates…; Frothy and feckless, this dim comedy has a man waking up after his bachelor party to find an angel in his pool. You can bet they're going to have…
Eat the Rich (1987): Dir. Peter Richardson
Feat. Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders…; Terrific second feature from the COMIC STRIP players makes a spectacular mockery of the British class structure and Thatcherist politics. It's a…
Five Corners (1987): Dir. Tony Bill
Feat. Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff…; Ambitious, although ultimately chaotic, drama set in the Bronx in 1964, where a young Jodie Foster is stalked by her former boyfriend (Turturro), who…
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker; Robin Williams tour–de–force performance as an irreverant, rebel radio–jock stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam War. The funny…
Harp in the South, The (TV Mini Series) (1987): Dir. George Whaley
Feat. Martyn Sanderson, Anne Phelan, Anna Hruby…; A TV mini–series about an Irish family who migrate to Australia in the post WW2 years to find their hopes of prosperity dashed on the streets…
High Tide (1987): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels; The director of MY BRILLIANT CAREER encores with Judy Davis for this bittersweet exploration of mother–daughter relations at a bleak coastal…
Housekeeping (1987): Dir. Bill Forsyth
Feat. Christine Lahti, Sara Walker; A sombre but wonderful tale of a free–spirited woman in 1950s Idaho who voluteers to take care of her two orphaned nieces despite her being an…
Less Than Zero (1987): Dir. Marek Kanievska
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Robert Downey Jnr., Jami Gertz…; A slick, rather thin adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ cult–novel set among the bored, coke–snorting youth of 1980s upper–crust…
Making Mr. Right (1987): Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly…; Android–romance comedy almost gets it right, with Malkovich as a scientist who invents a tinman in his own image, which Magnusun finds a worthy…
Mannequin (1987): Dir. Michael Gottlieb
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty…; Andrew McCarthy stars as a department store window–dresser who discovers that one of his mannequins (Kim Cattrall) is actually a woman from…
Married With Children (TV Series) (1987-1998): Feat. Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Katey Sagal…; Brilliantly rancid satire on US sitcoms like THE COSBY SHOW, depicting a white trash family of appalling bad taste, curdled dreams and sick…
Melba (TV Mini-series) (1987): Dir. Rodney Fisher
Feat. Linda Cropper, Tom Burlinson, Hugo Weaving; Biopic of famed Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, whose professional veneer hid a tumultuous private life, her struggles to provide as a…
Moonstruck (1987): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Cher, Danny Aiello; Superb comic drama rivals the best of Woody Allen through vignettes of family life in New York's Italian district, and the cast have never been…
Nuts (1987): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton…; Barbra Streisand must prove her sanity in order to stand trial for manslaughter. Richard Dreyfuss helps out with some heavy duty courtroom banter.
Outrageous Fortune (1987): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Bette Midler, Shelley Long, George Carlin…; Floozy Bette Midler and straight–gal Shelley Long search for their boyfriend in common.
Overboard (1987): Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Roddy McDowall; Cute and fluffy antics, with a snooty Goldie Hawn suffering amnesia and, being taken–in by ship–repairer Kurt Russell and his chaotic…
Pick-Up Artist, The (Pickup Artist) (1987): Dir. James Toback
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Molly Ringwald, Dennis Hopper…; Serial womanizer Downey gets more than he bargained for when he falls for mobster's daughter Ringwald. Teen sex comedy is more thorny than horny with…
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987): Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Steve Martin, John Candy; Well–matched comic coupling Steve Martin and John Candy go astray in the Midwest transport system. Reliably funny "mature" comedy is a pleasant…
Poor Little Rich Girl - The Barbara Hutton Story (Mini-Series) (1987): Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, Burl Ives, Bruce Davison…; Farrah Fawcett divides and conquers in this sizable biopic on the life and times of heiress Barbara Hutton, whose lineage to the Woolworth fortune…
Poor Man's Orange (TV Mini-series) (1987): Dir. George Whaley
Feat. Martyn Sanderson, Anne Phelan, Kaarin Fairfax…; The continuing sagas of a poverty stricken Irish–Australian family, in this sequel to HARP IN THE SOUTH.
Radio Days (1987): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Julie Kavner; Woody Allen revisits his childhood days in the golden era of radio.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987): Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran; Frank sexuality has rarely been as squarely depicted as in this tale of two naive schoolgirls growing up in working class Liverpool. Bleak and darkly…
Roxanne (1987): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah; Steve Martin's splendid update of Cyrano de Bergerac casts him as a fire chief burdened with an enormous nose. Daryl Hannah is the object of his…
Secret of My Success (1987): Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan; Michael J. Fox returns back to the present to climb the Wall Street corporate ladder.
Spaceballs (1987): Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Rick Moranis, Mel Brooks, John Candy…; A rollicking and fairly successful Mel Brooks take–off of STAR WARS and the space–opera genre, with Rick Moranis irresistibly hilarious…
Three O'Clock High (1987): Dir. Phil Joanou
Feat. Casey Siemaszko; Bad day scenario finds teenage loner Siemaszko in a twist with the school’s leather–jacketed thug, who must wheedle out of a 3pm rendezvous…
Throw Momma from the Train (1987): Dir. Danny De Vito
Feat. Billy Crystal, Danny De Vito, Kim Greist…; Snappy comic spinoff of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.
Tin Men (1987): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Danny De Vito, Richard Dreyfuss, Barbara Hershey; A bitter feud escalates between aluminum–cladding salesm en Danny De Vito and Richard Dreyfuss in the 1950s. Both chinwaggers are in their…
Wall Street (1987): Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah…; Quintessential 1980s drama is a compelling morality tale with Michael Douglas in an Oscar–winning turn as a carnivorous corporate raider.…
Witches of Eastwick (1987): Dir. George Miller
Feat. Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer…; Lively comic fantasy about three bored spinsters whose dreams of Mr. Right unwittingly conjure up a diabolical Jack Nicholson.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie (TV Series) (1986-1995): Feat. Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry; A longrunning and consistently inventive sketch series by British funnymen Hugh Laurie (HOUSE M.D.) and Stephen Fry (WILDE), who manage to outbaffle…
About Last Night (1986): Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, James Belushi…; Hollywood adaptation of David Mamet's play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago".
Back to School (1986): Dir. Alan Metter
Feat. Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Keith Gordon…; The finest comedy to feature the loveably crass Rodney Dangerfield, here playing a millionaire who returns to university to set an example for his…
Blackadder 2 (TV Series) (1986): Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny…; Definitive, bloody hilarious second series set in England, 1558–1603. Six episodes contained on one DVD or two tape volumes: 'Bells', 'Head',…
Casualty (TV Series) (1986-2008): Long–running British medical soap following the trials of a group of overtaxed hospital employees working the night shift at Holby City…
Children of a Lesser God (1986): Dir. Randa Haines
Feat. William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie; Powerful drama in which teacher–for–the–deaf William Hurt falls in love with Marlee Matlin.
Clockwise (1986): Dir. Christopher Morahan
Feat. John Cleese, Alison Steadman, Joan Hickson; Headmaster John Cleese, with pupil in tow, gets hopelessly lost enroute to a conference. In a more deadpan mode than the usual Python–esque…
Club Paradise (1986): Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Harold Ramis, Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole…; Robin Williams retreats to a tropical Caribbean island, helping to renovate a run–down resort at the mercy of ruthless developers. With Jimmy…
Color of Money, The (1986): Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Tom Cruise, Paul Newman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio…; 25 years on from the THE HUSTLER, Paul Newman is the tainted ex–pool shark who passes his baton on to rookie Tom Cruise. Unremarkable Scorsese,…
Crime Story (TV Series) (1986-1988): Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Dennis Farina, Andrew Dice Clay; Genre stylist Michael Mann (COLLATERAL) followed up MIAMI VICE with this good–looking crime story set in hardboiled 60s Chicago. Dennis Farina…
Crimes of the Heart (1986): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek…; Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek play the Magrath sisters, who reunite in their family home in Mississippi to regroup and settle their…
Crocodile Dundee (1986): Dir. Peter Faiman
Feat. Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, David Gulpilil…; Immensely successful Aussie comedy with outbacker Hogan encountering New York.
Crossroads (1986): Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Ralph Macchio, Jami Gertz, Joe Seneca…; Great Ry Cooder music peps this light drama in which Ralph Macchio seeks lost blues tunes in the Deep South.
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986): Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler…; Street bum Nick Nolte moves in to the plush home of neurotic fat cat Richard Dreyfuss and family, to amply comedic effect.
Fringe Dwellers, The (1986): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Donald McAlpine, Ernie Dingo; Quietly dramatic race drama, has an Aboriginal woman move into the mainstream white suburbs with her mother, but finds her extended family have…
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest…; Spot–on romantic comedy from Woody Allen, aligning another witty and perceptive script with a stellar cast.
Haunted Honeymoon (1986): Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner…; Insipid farce has two hapless honeymooners besieged by various spooky happenings. There is some fun to be had here and Wilder's affection for Abbott…
Heartbreak Ridge (1986): Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill…; Eastwood stars as a rugged drill sergeant assigned to a platoon of raw recruits in order to whip them into shape. Lesser Eastwood effort is also…
Heartburn (1986): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson; Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson undergo some engaging marital strife.
Hoosiers (1986): Dir. David Anspaugh
Feat. Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey; Superior sports drama, with Hackman coaching a high–school basketball team out of their slump. Feelgood message is combined with a bit of…
Howard the Duck (1986): Dir. Willard Huyck
Feat. Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins, Jeffrey Jones; An H–Bomb of interstellar proportions, this George Lucus produced quack–job starred a dwarf–sized humanoid duck, sent to earth to…
It's Garry Shandling's Show (1986-1990): Feat. Garry Shandling; Hugely influential show centered around the neurosis of Garry Shandling – basically playing himself, who along with the rest of the cast just…
Kangaroo (1986): Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Judy Davis, Colin Friels; Thinly veiled autobiographical account of novelist D.H. Lawrence features Colin Friels as 'a British writer' in Australia who gets unintentionally…
Last Days of Frank and Jesse James, The (1986): Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson…; Likeable version of the last years, not days, of the legendary Frank and Jesse James played by 'outlaw' country music stars Johnny Cash and Kris…
Lucas (1986): Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen…; Genuinely sympathetic account of the teenage love of 'dweeb' Corey Haim for an older schoolmate (Green), through infatuation, rejection and...…
Malcolm (1986): Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Colin Friels, John Hargreaves; A simple young man with a genius for things mechanical is coerced into criminal activity by his dodgy new flatmate. Deserved winner of 8 Australian…
Money Pit, The (1986): Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Tom Hanks, Shelley Long; An often very funny 80s comedy about couple Tom Hanks’ and Shelley Long’s disastrous purchase of a home in Long Island that conceals a host of…
Paradise Postponed (TV Series) (1986): Feat. Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Vernon, Peter Egan…; Ambitious series following various characters in a small British village across three post–war decades. Written by John Mortimer, who adapted…
Pretty in Pink (1986): Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton; Molly Ringwald faces some tricky teenage dilemmas in John Hughes' quintessentially '80s rite–of–passage.
Round Midnight (1986): Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Dexter Gordon, Francois Cluzet; In 1950s Paris, a decadent American saxophonist develops a friendship with an appreciative French fan who shows him the virtues of clean living. A…
Ruthless People (1986): Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Bette Midler, Danny De Vito; A genuine classic from the Zucker brothers and Touchstone pictures. The ingenious plot is laced with great gags, giving Bette Midler and Danny DeVito…
Seize the Day (1986): Dir. Fielder Cook
Feat. Robin Williams, Joseph Wiseman, Jerry Stiller…; Under–valued drama, whose title ironically represents the quest of 40–something 'loser' Robin Williams to find some form of redemption…
Something Wild (1986): Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta; The then–hip Melanie Griffith takes conservative Jeff Daniels on a crash course in carefree living and kinky sex. But the fun turns to terror…
Space Camp (1986): Dir. Harry Winer
Feat. Kate Capshaw, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott…; Good natured 80's adolescent romp in which a group of young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is…
Three Amigos (1986): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short; Cheesy comedy with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase lured to Mexico as gunslingers.
Travelling North (1986): Dir. Carl Schultz
Feat. Leo McKern, Julia Blake; Screen adaptation of David Williamson's play about a cantankerous retiree who finds love at last, but then discovers his imminent mortality.
Umbrella Woman, The (1986): Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Rachel Ward, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown; Smalltown adultery in 30s Australia, with Rachel Ward and Sam Neill.
Wildcats (1986): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Swoosie Kurtz; Feel–good football flick with Goldie Hawn as the ambitious coach who takes on an unlikely team of misfits from an inner–Chicago school.
A Thousand Skies (1985): Dir. David Stevens; Television mini–series about the life of rugged Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, who pushed the bounds of aircraft performance in…
After Hours (1985): Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom…; Scorsese picked up Best Director award at Cannes for this brilliant, Kafka–esque black comedy about an ordinary guy's traumatic and bizarre…
Agnes of God (1985): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Jane Fonda, Meg Tilly, Anne Bancroft; Jane Fonda investigates, in this intriguing murder–mystery set in a nunnery.
Always (Always...But Not Forever) (1985): Dir. Henry Jaglom
Feat. Henry Jaglom, Patrice Townsend, Joanna Frank…; One–man–movie–machine Henry Jaglom transforms his own divorce into one of his typically witty naturalistic comedies. The couple…
American Flyers (1985): Dir. John Badham
Feat. Kevin Costner, Rae Dawn Chong, David Marshall Grant…; Cross–country cycle drama about a couple of brothers striving to complete a race across the Rocky Mountains by summoning all their physical and…
An Indecent Obsession (1985): Dir. Les Marinos
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Bruno Lawrence, Gary Sweet…; Set in a humid Asiatic mental hospital after the Japanese surrender in WW2, this moderately torrid psychodrama features a devout nun (Hughes) develop…
Better Off Dead (1985): Dir. Savage Steve Holland
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Wyss, Donald Ogden Stewart…; Skewed version of the 80s teenage comedy which follows the plight of likeable John Cusack after he is dumped by his girlfriend. After many original…
Big Trouble (1985): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Charles Durning…; Cassavette's final film is far from a fitting finale to the iconoclast's career, but its not without its charms. Arkin plays a besieged insurance…
Bliss (1985): Dir. Ray Lawrence
Feat. Barry Otto; Peter Carey's cult novel maintains its distinctive off–beat flavour in this screen adaptation, about a middle–aged ad–man who…
Catholic Boys (Heaven Help Us) (1985): Dir. Michael Dinner
Feat. Mary Stuart Masterson, John Heard, Donald Sutherland…; Slight, but engaging comedy set around a group of Roman Catholic schoolboys and their misadventures with the opposite sex.
Clue (1985): Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn…; Whodunnit comedy based on the well–known boardgame, with its characters undergoing the rounds of suspicion and questioning after a murder.…
Coca Cola Kid, The (1985): Dir. Dusan Makavejev
Feat. Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Bill Kerr…; Quirky Aussie comedy about a Coca Cola marketing guru (Roberts) who visits a small town in the Australian outback to try and sell his product, only…
Color Purple, The (The Colour Purple) (1985): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover…; Striking interpretation of Alice Walker's novel about a black girl's life and hard times in the South, spanning forty years. Whoopi Goldberg's screen…
Creator (1985): Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano…; A charmingly absurd sci–fi rom–com from the 1980's starring Peter O'Toole as a madcap scientist who applies his eccentric methodology to…
Death of a Salesman (1985): Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Charles Durning; An excellent adaptation of Arthur Miller’s most famous play, with Dustin Hoffman bringing pathos, seediness and tragedy to the central…
Dempsey & Makepeace (TV Series) (1985): Feat. Michael Brandon, Glynis Barber; Glynis Barber attained minor cult status as the smart, sexy partner of a rough and tumble New York cop (Brandon), mismatched of course in this…
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985): Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn…; Rosanna Arquette and Madonna shine in this spunky and spirited New York comedy/murder mystery – up there with the best of John Hughes' popular…
Eleni (1985): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. John Malkovich, Kate Nelligan, Linda Hunt; John Malkovich plays a U.S. reporter in Greece trying to find the long–lost truth about his mother's political execution.
Equalizer, The (TV Series) (1985-1989): Feat. Edward Woodward, Keith Szarabajka; Classic '80's show noted for its mix of espionage, crime drama, and the private eye genres rolled into a classy film noir package. Woodward excels…
Fletch (1985): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson…; Arguably considered his best feature comedy, Chevy Chase plays the titular newspaper reporter with a penchant for changing his identity who stumbles…
Fool for Love (1985): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton…; One of dir. Altman's ambitious stageplay adaptations, this largely succeeds in bringing Sam Shepard's brand of 'surreal Americana' to life. This…
Fortunate Life, A (Mini-series) (1985): Feat. Dominic Sweeney; At the turn of the 20th century, a motherless child faces hard labour, the trauma of Gallipoli, and the unforgiving outback in this life affirming…
Get Out of My Room (1985): Dir. Richard Marin
Feat. Cheech and Chong, Cassandra Peterson, Mary Woronov…; Cheech and Chong oddity, with the doped–out duo contriving four music–videos and a documentary about the whole deal.
Grunt - the Wrestling Movie (1985): Dir. Allan Holzman
Feat. Steven Cepello, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Robert Glaudini; A mid–1980s attempt to cash in on the WWF wrestling craze, with a SPINAL TAP–esque mockumentary about the wrestler 'Mad Dog Joe De…
Hollywood Wives (TV Mini-Series) (1985): Feat. Candice Bergen, Joanna Cassidy; The bold and the beautiful bitch it up in this superlative high society trash tale from the florid pen of Jackie Collins.
Howards' Way (TV Series) (1985-1990): Feat. Maurice Colbourne, Tracey Childs, Tony Anholt…; Cherished Brit drama series centred on a family trying to get by when newly redundant daddy invests his time and money into a dilapidated boatyard.…
Kane And Abel (Mini-series) (1985): Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Sam Neill, Peter Strauss, Ron Silver; Based on the epic best selling novel by Jeffrey Archer, about two ambitious men born on the same day on either side of the Atlantic, one to a…
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985): Dir. Hector Babenco
Feat. Raul Julia, William Hurt; Evocative drama posits a political activist and a gay window dresser in a South American prison cell, where fantasy becomes their only tool for…
Lost in America (1985): Dir. Albert Brooks
Feat. Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty; Albert Brooks and Julie Hagerty give up their stressful yuppie lifestyle to travel in a road–home across America, but things don't go quite to…
Mask (1985): Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Eric Stoltz, Cher, Sam Elliott; Highly watchable tearjerker skillfully steers a facially–deformed teenager through the trials of adolescence, dodging most of the cliches and…
Mischief (1985): Dir. Mel Damski
Feat. Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelly Preston, Chris Nash…; Nostalgic teen comedy set in 50's Ohio, where an introverted teen attempts to win the love of the school heart throb, while his extroverted friend…
Morons From Outer Space (1985): Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Griff Rhys-Jones, Mel Smith, James B. Sikking…; Tepid space comedy has four aliens crash land on a British motorway and are quickly captured by the authorities who quickly learn that maybe there…
Mussolini and I (1985): Dir. Alberto Negrin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon…; The last days of Il Duce as embodied by Bob Hoskins in this strong Italian miniseries.
Naked Country, The (1985): Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. John Stanton, Tommy Lewis, Rebecca Gilling; Confrontational outback western pits a gritty Queensland rancher against an antagonised tribe of aborigines in 50s Australia.
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985): Dir. Amy Heckerling
Feat. Beverly D'Angelo, Chevy Chase, John Astin; Second in National Lampoon's 'Vacation' series sees the Griswald family off to Europe for a round of slapstick shenanigans with the English, French,…
Once Bitten (1985): Dir. Howard Storm
Feat. Jim Carrey, Lauren Hutton, Cleavon Little; A mature vampiress (Hutton) becomes a predator on an American high school scene, seeking the beauty–enhancing fluids of virgins. Tamely…
Out of Africa (1985): Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Meryl Streep, Robert Redford; Epic, elegant retelling of Karen Blixen's African memoirs. Winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture.
Perfect (1985): Dir. James Bridges
Feat. John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis; John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis get physical in this under–rated slice of 80s sizzle: he plays a Rolling Stone journalist investigating the…
Plenty (1985): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, John Gielgud, Sam Neill…; Meryl Streep plays a hero of WWII, who finds the rest of her life an anticlimax.
Price, The (TV Mini-series) (1985): Feat. Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Aingeal Grehan; UK miniseries building a chilling web of intrigue around a priviledged dilettante wife (Harriet Walter) who finds herself caught between IRA thugs…
Private Function, A (1985): Dir. Malcolm Mowbray
Feat. Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott; Michael Palin and Maggie Smith star in Alan Bennett's savage satire of class hypocrisy. Set in post–WW2 Britain during food rationing, secret…
Prizzi's Honor (1985): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston; Jack Nicholson plays a Mafia hitman, embroiled in some ripely comic and sexy intrigues.
Purple Rose of Cairo (1985): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello; Exceptional comic fantasy about a depression–era housewife (Mia Farrow) whose solace in the movies blossoms into a romance with a screen…
Raising Arizona (1985): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter; Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter can't concieve a baby of their own, so they steal a quintuplet from a redneck tycoon. Highly original, off–beat…
St. Elmo's Fire (1985): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy…; The definitive 'Brat Pack' movie – seven graduates find the big wide world and the urge to pair off has consequences on their friendship as a…
Summer Lovers (1985): Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Valerie Quennessen…; Daffy drama set on a Greek isle with Gallagher and Hannah as a holidaying couple, trouble ensues when Gallagher meets a sexy archaeologist.
Sure Thing, The (1985): Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Tim Robbins…; Early John Cusack film puts an agreeable spin on the plot of IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, where he and female–nemesis Daphne Zuniga uncomfortably…
Sweet Dreams (1985): Dir. Carol Rice
Feat. Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth…; Sterling biopic of country singer Patsy Cline.
Teen Wolf / Teen Wolf Too (1985-1986): Dir. Rod Daniel, Christopher Leitch
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Jason Bateman; In TEEN WOLF, Fox plays a high–school student who discovers he has lycanthropic tendencies. The sequel TEEN WOLF TOO continues the story in…
That Was Then, This Is Now (1985): Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer; Emilio Estevez plays juvenile delinquent, in this version of the S E Hinton book.
That's Dancing! (1985): Dir. Jack Haley, Jr.
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, James Cagney…; A compilation of splendid dance sequences from dozens of Hollywood films. Includes over fifty top dancers, with the best of the crop generally dating…
Trip to Bountiful, The (1985): Dir. Peter Masterson
Feat. Geraldine Page, Rebecca De Mornay, John Heard; Geraldine Page won an Oscar for her portrait of a widow who finally embarks on one final journey to her Texas birthplace.
Trouble in Mind (1985): Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Keith Caradine, Lori Singer; Fans of the obscure should enjoy this rollicking film noir. Set in the near future, an ex–convict returns to his favourite cafe to rekindle a…
Volunteers (1985): Feat. Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson…; Broad eighties comedy stars a fresh–faced Hanks as a upper class snob who joins the peace corps in Thailand in order to escape his gambling…
Wetherby (1985): Dir. David Hare
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench…; Haunting psychodrama with Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench as guests at a dinner party that is overshadowed by a repressed tragedy which threatens to…
A Soldier's Story (1984): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Howard Jr. Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans…; In charge of an inquiry into the murder of a black sergeant on an army base in 1944, investigator Howard E Rollins Jnr uncovers a knot of racial…
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984): Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
Feat. Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson; Realistic and poignant drama that depicts the tentative yet soulful romance that blooms between a Polish woman and an American soldier who is…
All of Me (1984): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin; Martin gives a career–best turn when, through a little hocus–pocus, is forced to share his body with a crotchety millionairess.
Amadeus (1984): Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham; Academy–award winning biopic of Mozart's illustrious but brief existence that spawned much of the greatest music ever written. A humourous yet…
Annie's Coming Out (A Test of Love) (1984): Dir. Gil Brealey
Feat. Angela Punch McGregor, Drew Forsythe, Liddy Clark…; A therapist learns to communicate with cerebral palsy patient Annie using an alphabet board and comes to believe that although physically disabled,…
At Last Smith And Jones (TV Series) (Alas Smith and Jones) (1984-1998): Feat. Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones; Best of the British sketch show ALAS SMITH AND JONES. Similar in tone to NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS, this is equally hit–and–miss,…
Birdy (1984): Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage; Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage star in this complex yet compelling tale of a disturbed war veteran's descent into believing he is a bird. A bold and…
Blame it on Rio (1984): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Michael Caine, Demi Moore, Joseph Bologna…; French–style farce in which Caine and his business partner holiday in Rio de Janeiro with their respective teenage daughters in tow. Caine has…
Bodyline (TV Mini-series) (1984): Feat. Gary Sweet, Hugo Weaving; A classy TV drama which follows the infamous 1932–33 cricket tour of Australia by the English team led by Douglas Jardine (Weaving). The…
Broadway Danny Rose (1984): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Mia Farrow; Woody is a well–meaning show–biz agent who signs up any odd–ball with an act on the notion that they may pay long–term…
Cannonball Run 2 (1984): Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin…; The answer to the trivia question: which film features both Jackie Chan and Frank Sinatra? More star–studded carnage in this fitfully amusing…
Charles In Charge (TV Series) (1984): Feat. Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Nicole Eggert; Popular eighties sitcom starring then–heartthrob Scott Baio as a college student who takes on the role of live–in–carer for a…
Cheech and Chong: Corsican Brothers (1984): Dir. Thomas Chong
Feat. Cheech and Chong; Cheech and Chong abandon drug–humour for this comic historical spoof, taking three roles each, with their own families being recruited to fill…
Choose Me (1984): Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Genevieve Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley-Anne Down; A sultry, out–of–the–ordinary comedy/drama centred around a luminous late–night L.A. bar, this cemented Robert Altman protege…
Coolangatta Gold, The (1984): Dir. Igor Auzins
Feat. Joss McWilliam, Nick Tate, Colin Friels…; Fair dinkum sports drama in which a father pushes his son to become a champion of the nascent Iron Man competition on the southern Queensland…
Cosby Show, The (TV Series) (1984-1992): Feat. Bill Cosby; Classic sitcom which deals with life in the affluent black–American Huxtable household of five children and two working parents. Although later…
Cotton Club, The (1984): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines…; Richard Gere heads the ensemble for Coppola's glossy musical melodrama set in the thick of New York's glitzy gangster culture of the 1930s.
Falling in Love (1984): Dir. Ulu Grosbard
Feat. Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep; Star–combination of Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, as train–commuters having an affair which puts a wee glow back into their fairly…
Flamingo Kid, The (1984): Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Matt Dillon; Amiable teen vehicle for Matt Dillon set at a 1950s holiday resort.
Fresh Fields (TV Series) (1984-1986): Feat. Julia McKenzie, Anton Rodgers; Wholesome BBC situation comedy about Hester and William Fields, a happy middle–class couple who go about their daily routines with an…
Harry and Son (1984): Dir. Paul Newman
Feat. Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin…; Earnest drama concerning cantankerous working stiff Newman and his struggling author son. Those allergic to overt symbolism may want to give this one…
Highway to Heaven (TV Series) (1984): Feat. Michael Landon, Victor French; Feelgood, down–to–earth fantasy series for the whole family, starring Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) as a "probational"…
Hotel New Hampshire (1984): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski; Jodie Foster falls in love with brother Rob Lowe. From the John Irving novel.
Johnny Dangerously (1984): Dir. Amy Heckerling
Feat. Michael Keating, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner…; Michael Keaton turns to a life of crime to support his ailing mother in this zany spoof of 1930's gangster films.
Killing Fields, The (1984): Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich…; Devastating and award–winning account of Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia.
Last Bastion, The (1984): Dir. Chris Thomson
Feat. Bill Hunter, Ray Barrett, Robert Vaughn…; Australia's involvement in World War II is explored from behind closed doors in this dramatisation of the decisions made by politicians and generals…
Maria's Lovers (1984): Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Feat. Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum…; An embittered war veteran (Savage) experiences girl trouble upon returning from Vietnam. With a steamy Nastassja Kinski as the film's obscure object…
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (TV Series) (1984-1987): Feat. Stacy Keach; While hardly definitive, Stacy Keach's rendition of the famous detective hero, created by pulp–novelist Mickey Spillane, brings a light,…
Mistral's Daughter (Mini-series) (1984): Feat. Stefanie Powers, Robert Urich, Lee Remick…; Blubbery, melodramatic saga of three generations of women by way of artist Julien Mistral. Based on a novel by Judith Krantz.
Moscow on the Hudson (1984): Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Robin Williams, Alejandro Rey, Maria Conchita Alonso; Robin Williams plays a Russian musician who defects while touring the U.S., but finds his new home often less than rosy. Tragicomedy, played and…
Mrs. Soffel (1984): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine…; Sombre though interesting drama set in 1901 Pittsburgh about a woman who helps one of the inmates of her prison warden husband.
Muppets Take Manhattan, The (1984): Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Art Carney, James Coco, Dabney Coleman…; The third in the series of live–action musical feature films starring Jim Henson's Muppets sees Kermit and friends go to New York City to get…
Night Court (TV Series) (1984-1992): Feat. John Larroquette, Richard Moll, Harry Anderson; Subversive courtroom sitcom set around the antics of Manhattan legal personal – judge, prosecutor, defence counsel, bailiffs – who must…
Oxford Blues (1984): Dir. Robert Boris
Feat. Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays…; A streetwise American hustler pursues the girl of his dream to England's where he enrols at Oxford University and joins the rowing team in an effort…
Places in the Heart (1984): Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich; Moving period drama with Sally Field's Oscar–winning performance as a widowed cotton–farmer in Depression era Texas.
Police Academy (1984): Dir. Hugh Wilson
Feat. Steve Guttenberg, Michael Winslow, Kim Cattrall; Original of a long–series of 80s comedies lampooning various misfit recruits to a chaotic Police Academy. Stars Steve Guttenberg and Kim…
Pope of Greenwich Village, The (1984): Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke; Perennial no–hoper Eric Roberts cons pal Mickey Rourke into a final heist, but stealing from the Mob proves to be a bad idea.…
Protocol (1984): Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus; Goldie Hawn plays a charmingly naive cocktail waitress who ends up employed at the White House after saving the president's life, in this…
Racing with the Moon (1984): Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage…; A well–observed and resonant drama, about the last few days of boyhood for a couple of inductees into the US Marines in 1942. The cast all…
Revenge of the Nerds (1984): Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards; Distinguished among 80s comedies by its unique agenda in which two bespectacled, buck–toothed nerds battle it out with the college…
River, The (1984): Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, Scott Glenn; A handsomely–shot epic set around a struggling Midwest farming couple who must battle the elements and local land barons to survive on their…
Samson and Delilah (1984): Dir. Lee Philips
Feat. Antony Hamilton, Belinda Bauer, Max von Sydow…; Made–for–TV Old Testament epic centred on the classic Biblical tale of power, persuasion, and love between a Hebrew strongman and a…
Secret Honor (1984): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Philip Baker Hall; A fictionalized monologue adapted from the stage by playwrights Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, with the great Philip Baker Hall as former…
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984): Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruce Spence, Ray Barrett; Dir. Herzog’s usually compelling obsessions – myths, nature, primitive experience – come a cropper in this uneven depiction of a land rights…
Woman In Red, The (1984): Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Kelly Le Brock, Charles Grodin; Perhaps the height of Gene Wilder comedic indulgence, playing a middle–aged average man who becomes besotted with the womanly curves of leggy…
All The Right Moves (1983): Dir. Michael Chapman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson…; Stirring though conventional sports drama has a talented high–school football player (Cruise), weigh up his life priorities in the face of a…
All The Rivers Run (TV Mini-series) (1983): Dir. George Miller
Feat. Sigrid Thornton, John Waters; Soppy, though fondly remembered Australian turn of the century mini–series following 'Philadelphia' (Thornton), a young English refugee…
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (TV Series) (1983-2004): Feat. Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail, Tim Healy…; Much loved and admired British drama series about a gang of construction labourers who take slightly dodgy, yet lucrative jobs in Europe and…
Big Chill, The (1983): Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, William Hurt…; Old college friends gather together for a weekend after the funeral of one of their peers, where they reconcile their current lives in the 1980's…
Blackadder 1 (TV Series) (The Black Adder) (1983): Dir. Martin Shardlow
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny…; Quirky, frequently funny inaugural series of the 80's comedy smash, set in Medieval England. Six episodes contained on one DVD or two tapes: 'The…
Bullshot (1983): Dir. Dick Clement
Feat. Alan Shearman, Billy Connolly, Michael Aldridge…; Silly comedy starring Alan Shearman as 'Bullshot Crummond', a dunderheaded WW1 fighter pilot who must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto…
Careful, He Might Hear You (1983): Dir. Carl Schultz
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin; Rewarding period drama about a young orphan who becomes the object of a bitter dispute between his late mother's sisters.
Cheech and Chong - Still Smokin (1983): Dir. Thomas Chong
Feat. Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong; Further herbal adventures from the creators of UP IN SMOKE, this time in the 'promised land' of Holland.
Class (1983): Dir. Lewis John Carlino
Feat. Rob Lowe, Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew McCarthy…; McCarthy plays a preppy student who is goaded by roommate Lowe into losing his virginity. He ends up being seduced by an older woman who turns out to…
Deal of the Century (1983): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Gregory Hines; Self–destructing satire finds Chevy Chase dealing arms with a South American dictator, to the tune of $300 million. FRENCH CONNECTION hotshot…
Doctor Detroit (1983): Dir. Michael Pressman
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon; Under–the–radar 80's comedy sees Aykroyd play a mild–mannered professor of literature who accidentally gets involved with four high…
Don't Wait Up (TV Series) (1983): Feat. Nigel Havers, Tony Britton; Divorce is the comedy minefield in this likeable, if somewhat outdated sitcom positing the bumpy new life of recent father and son divorcees, who…
Easy Money (1983): Dir. James Signorelli
Feat. Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald…; Brash comedy with Dangerfield ideally cast as a middle–aged slob who must change his ways in order to receive a ten million dollar inheritance.
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983): Dir. Martin Davidson
Feat. Michael Pare, Ellen Barkin, Joe Pantoliano…; Unusual drama, only partially realised, based around a legendary presumed–dead 60s rock’n’roller (Michael Pare) whose life is investigated…
Educating Rita (1983): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Julie Walters, Michael Caine; Satisfying modern take on Pygmalion, with uncultured fair lady Julie Walters and sceptical tutor Michael Caine.
Exposed (1983): Dir. James Toback
Feat. Nastassja Kinski, Harvey Keitel, Rudolph Nureyev…; Typically unrestrained effort from cult director Toback has Nastassja Kinski in fine form as a midwestern girl seeking fame in New York CIty. If…
Finally Sunday (Vivement Dimanche!) (1983): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant; A businessman in trouble with the police over the murder of his wife's lover finds solace in his secretary who decides to investigate the case…
Kennedy (TV Mini-Series) (1983): Dir. Jim Goddard
Feat. Martin Sheen, Blair Brown, John Shea…; Absorbing, detailed biography of the doomed president covering the key events of his brief reign and providing subtle insights into his private life.
Lovesick (1983): Dir. Marshall Brickman
Feat. Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness…; A psychiatrist who falls in love with a patient is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it.
Man With Two Brains, The (1983): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner; Steve Martin plays a surgeon who frustrated with his wicked, overbearing wife (Kathleen Turner), falls in love with a…
Meaning of Life, The (Monty Python's Meaning of Life) (1983): Dir. Terry Jones
Feat. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle…; Hilarious, oft–times bilious Monty Python hit that examines The Big Issue in a series of loosely–connected sketches. Arguably more…
Mr. Mom (1983): Dir. Stan Dragoti
Feat. Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Christopher Lloyd…; Easy–going, if predictable role reversal comedy with a screenplay written by 80's teen icon John Hughes. Keaton plays a dad who, after…
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983): Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, John Candy; Inaugurating a series that would yield two more vacations/sequels, this moderately amusing gagfest follows the travails of Chevy Chase and family as…
Outsiders, The (1983): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio…; Based on the gritty novel by S. E. Hinton (THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW), this ‘realistic’ depiction of teenage outsiders in 50s America is…
Phar Lap (1983): Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Tom Burlinson; Legendary racehorse reared in New Zealand (though Australian makes claims), who died under mysterious circumstances in America. Good period piece,…
Risky Business (1983): Dir. Paul Brickman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay; A kind of '80s update of THE GRADUATE, this imaginative comedy propelled a 17–year old Tom Cruise into the limelight. Uncommonly stylish and…
Rumble Fish (1983): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper…; Coppola's cult fave is a highly stylised treatment of a teen delinquency drama may not be entirely appropriate, but it sure looks impressive. Equally…
Silkwood (1983): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Cher, Kurt Russell; Fact–based account of a Southern nuclear factory–worker who died mysteriously before exposing unsound trade secrets. Meryl Streep is on a…
Skin Deep (1983): Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. Briony Behets, Nicole Kidman; Big shoulder pads and even bigger hairdos compete in this trash 80s soap opera set in the world of Australian fashion. Nicole Kidman, in an early…
Terms of Endearment (1983): Dir. James L. Brooks
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger…; Classic family saga of loss and reconciliation with Shirley Maclaine and Jack Nicholson, who both won Oscars, as did the film.
Trading Places (1983): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Don Ameche…; A sturdy comic conceit – for a bet, two interfering millionaires swap the lives of a rich man (Dan Aykroyd) and a poor man (Eddie Murphy) – makes…
Two of a Kind (1983): Dir. John Herzfeld
Feat. John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning…; God (voiced by Gene Hackman) is so disappointed with mankind he prepares a second Flood, but is persuaded by angels to bet on the reformation of two…
Valley Girl (1983): Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily…; One of the coolest teen flicks of the early 80s exults a first starring role for Nicolas Cage as a Hollywood punk who crashes a suburban party and…
Year of Living Dangerously, The (1983): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt…; Multi–layered, vivid yarn posits Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver as foreign officials in 1965 Indonesia at the time of the communist coup.…
Yellowbeard (1983): Dir. Mel Damski
Feat. Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Eric Idle…; Pirate farce for serious Python completists only. Impressive cast though.
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982): Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Jr. Gossett; Irresistible formula romance between prospective army officer Richard Gere and Debra Winger.
Author! Author! (1982): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld…; Pacino plays a playwright whose wife deserts the family shortly before his breakthrough work opens on Broadway. Slight, but attractive comedy is a…
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The (1982): Dir. Colin Higgins
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise…; Dolly Parton is the buxom madam of Texas’ famous Chicken Ranch whorehouse (portrayed less flatteringly in Nick Broomfield’s documentary) in this…
Bounder, The (TV Series) (1982): Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. Peter Bowles, George Cole, Isla Blair; British series written by Eric Chappell (RISING DAMP) and starring Peter Bowles (TO THE MANOR BORN) in which a lovable rogue causes havoc in the…
Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams (1982): Dir. Thomas Chong
Feat. Cheech and Chong, Timothy Leary; Mark III from the C&C dope–movie factory sees the hapless pair use an ice–cream van to smokescreen their illicit activities. Cult…
Comic Strip Presents (DVD Box Set) (1982-1988): Feat. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French…; At the forefront of the 'alternative comedy' movement in the early 1980s, The Comic Strip are an ensemble of British comedians who have produced many…
Dallas - Season 6 (TV Series) (1982-1983): Feat. Larry Hagman, Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy…; Further episodes in the classic piece of 80s TV Americana, following the fortunes of the well–heeled Ewing and Barnes families. Available over…
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Steve Martin; Martin's most clever vehicle has him interacting with vintage film footage of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Lauren Bacall, to dazzling effect. A…
Deathtrap (1982): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Joe Silver…; A clever, self–referential comedy based around a failing writer of crime playwright who plans to murder his student for his brilliant whodunnit…
Diner (1982): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Kevin Bacon…; Endearing, and enduring, tale of college friends growing up in the 1950s Baltimore was a box–office flop but soon found an enthusiastic…
Dr Seuss - The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982): Emmy Award–winning tale in which two of Dr. Seuss' most popular characters square off in a whimsical showdown as the ever–clever Cat puts…
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982): Dir. Amy Heckerling
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold…; This early–80s teen pic survives a lot better than most, finding surprisingly subtle shades of the adolescent experience amid some frank…
Flying High 2 (1982): Dir. Ken Finkleman
Feat. Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges…; Sequel to spoof film Flying High has the same cast, same plot, same hero – and pretty much the same jokes, but is not nearly as funny as it's…
Gandhi (1982): Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox…; Epic retelling of the life of the inspirational Indian leader with Ben Kingsley as 'The Mahatma'. Won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Ginger Meggs (1982): Dir. Jonathan Dawson
Feat. Garry McDonald; Colourful movie adaptation of the iconic Australian comic strip, following the antics of a red–haired prepubescent mischief–maker who…
Irish R. M., The (1982-1985): Dir. Robert Chetwyn
Feat. Peter Bowles, Beryl Reid, Niall Toibin…; Classic Irish comedy–drama series following a retired English army officer living in turn–of–the–century West Ireland. Based…
King of Comedy, The (1982): Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Robert De Niro; Deliciously creepy story of a loser/nerd, who acts out his life ambition; to appear on a TV comedy show with Jerry Lewis. Lewis plays it straight,…
Making Love (1982): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Michael Ontkean; A glossy but under–rated love triangle drama starring former "Charlie's Angel" Kate Jackson that was the first mainstream Hollywood film to…
Missionary, The (1982): Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard…; Jolly Brit comedy sees Palin as the Rev. Charles Fortesque, recalled to England from missionary work in Africa to minister London's prostitutes,…
Monkey Grip (1982): Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Colin Friels, Noni Hazlehurst, Alice Garner…; Serious–minded drama set in the bohemian environs of 1980s Melbourne. Focused chiefly on a struggles of a divorcee to free herself from the…
Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl (1982): Dir. Terry Hughes
Feat. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam…; Sheaf of classic sketches, incl. Lumberjacks, delivered onstage in Los Angeles. Should provoke tears of nostalgic merriment for fans.
National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982): Dir. Michael Miller
Feat. Gerrit Graham, Fred McCarren, Miriam Flynn…; More of the same from National Lampoon – Lizzie Borden High's Class of '72 have their reunion disrupted by a deranged alum out for revenge…
Night Shift (1982): Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Shelley Long, Pat Corley, Michael Keaton…; Well–delivered comedy concerning a worker at a morgue who is persuaded to start a prostitution racket by a manic co–worker. Whole cast…
Not the Nine O'Clock News (TV Series) (1982): Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones…; The breakthrough series for comic superstars Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and, er, Pamela Stephenson. The political sketches are as…
One from the Heart (1982): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia; A lavishly mounted curiosity loosely following the romantic plight of an estranged couple, set against an impressively stylised backdrop of Las…
Portrait Of A Showgirl (1982): Dir. Steven Hilliard Stern
Feat. Lesley Ann Warren, Tony Curtis, Rita Moreno…; Chintz melodrama concerning three Las Vegas showgirls involved in a Caesar's Palace revue. Possibly the drabbest portrait of Sin City imaginable…
Privates On Parade (1982): Dir. Michael Blakemore
Feat. John Cleese; John Cleese stars in this perky adaptation of the play about a gay Song and Dance Unit of the Brtish army stationed in 1940s Singapore.
Return of the Solider, The (1982): Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Ann-Margret…; Alan Bates stars as a returning WWI soldier rendered catatonic by the horrors of the battlefield, with no memory of his wife. Somewhat overwrought…
Sophie's Choice (1982): Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline; Master of many accents Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her role as a European refugee of the Nazi death–camps whose uneasy relationship with…
Tender Mercies (1982): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Robert Duvall; Robert Duvall gives an Oscar winning performance as a down–out–his–luck country singer who paves the slow road back to sobriety.…
Things Are Tough All Over (1982): Dir. Thomas K. Avildsen
Feat. Cheech and Chong; The fourth outing for smokesters Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong in their usual guises, this time tangling with a pair of Arabs (also played by C & C)…
Tootsie (1982): Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Bill Murray; Much–loved classic, with unemployed actor Dustin Hoffman donning a dress to pay the bills. Unfortunately, his TV–soap character, Dorothy…
Verdict, The (1982): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason…; Sombre dramatic death–march, with Paul Newman playing a convincingly booze–soaked lawyer, whose last chance in the courtroom sees him…
White Dog (1982): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives…; A little–seen but widely heralded drama from cult director Samuel Fuller about the struggle of an African–American dog trainer to retrain…
Woman Called Golda, A (1982): Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Judy Davis…; Much–praised biopic in which Ingrid Bergman gives her final performance as Israeli Prime Minister and so–called "mother of Israel', Golda…
World According to Garp, The (1982): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Robin Williams, Glenn Close, John Lithgow…; Dazzling adaptation of John Irving's novel about an eccentric's often ill–fated journey through life. Robin Williams is brilliant as Garp, with…
All Night Long (1981): Dir. Jean-Claude Tramont
Feat. Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Dennis Quaid…; Gene Hackman escapes the druggery of family life by shacking up with nutty Barbra Streisand in this uneven screwball comedy. Totally erratic,…
Cannonball Run (1981): Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett…; Packed with an absurd combination of stars, this trans–continental car race yarn is largely a vehicle for Burt Reynolds wisecracks and some…
Continental Divide (1981): Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield…; Neglected Belushi outing is a gentle comedy with a hard–nosed journalist falling for an eagle researcher high in the mountains of Colorado.
Dallas - Season 5 (TV Series) (1981-1982): Feat. Larry Hagman, Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy…; Further episodes in the classic piece of 80s TV Americana, following the fortunes of the well–heeled Ewing and Barnes families. Available over…
Duet for Four (1981): Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Michael Pate, Wendy Hughes, Diane Cilento…; Wry Aussie dramatic comedy centres on wealthy toy manufacturer in the midst of a mid–life crisis, both his and his wife's infidelities and his…
East of Eden (TV Mini-series) (1981): Dir. Harvey Hart
Feat. Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour, Bruce Boxleitner…; Over six hours long, this sumptuous Emmy and Golden Globe winning mini–series, adapts Steinbeck’s quintessential novel "more fully and…
Endless Love (1981): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Brooke Shields; Brooke Shields is the saving grace of this fiasco made of Scott Spencer's acclaimed novel about an obsessive teenage romance.
Fine Romance, A (TV Series) (1981-1984): Feat. Judi Dench, Michael Williams; Dame Judi Dench stars opposite her real–life husband, Michael Williams, in this touching Britcom about middle–aged romance between two…
Green Ice (1981): Dir. Ernest Day
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif; Cheesy, outlandish heist romance finds Ryan O'Neal embroiled in the high–stakes world of emerald smuggling. Omar Sharif is good value as an…
Hill Street Blues (TV Series) (1981): Feat. Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Veronica Hamel…; Steven Bochco's progressive eighties policier found dramatic substance and acclaim in its realistic and ethnically diverse portrayal of the lives of…
Hoodwink (1981): Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. John Hargreaves, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush…; Devious bank robber Hargreaves eludes the law by pretending to be blind in this low–key Aussie caper–romance. Geoffrey Rush’s first…
Incredible Shrinking Woman, The (1981): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty…; Fitfully amusing comedy mines the considerable talents of Lily Tomlin in the role of a housewife accidentally shrunk by her husband. Considerably…
Lonely Hearts (1981): Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Jon Finlayson; An off–beat gem about an awkward agency–linked romance between a middle–aged piano tuner and a shy office clerk.
My Dinner with Andre (1981): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory; An honest exchange of philosophy transpires over dinner between an out–of–work playwright and a theatre director. Remarkably compelling…
Neighbors (Neighbours) (1981): Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Cathy Moriarty; Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi bicker over the back–fence in this suburban comedy.
On Golden Pond (1981): Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn; A warm–fuzzy Oscar winner, a fitting swansong for Henry Fonda, filled with poignant moments with his daughter Jane and Katharine Hepburn.
Peter and Paul (1981): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Robert Foxworth, Eddie Albert…; Epic account of the early spread of Christianity follows disciples Peter and Paul as they struggle against violent opposition and their own personal…
Private Lessons (1981): Dir. Alan Myerson
Feat. Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, Howard Hesseman…; A slightly queasy mix of thriller and sexual drama, has a teenager (Brown) initiated by the family maid (Kristel) into the carnal facts of life, and…
Private Schulz (1981): Feat. Michael Elphick, Ian Richardson, Billie Whitelaw…; Gleefully macabre farce focuses on the scheming titular character who convinces the Nazis to mass counterfeit millions of five pound notes in a bid…
Puberty Blues (1981): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja; Affecting teenage odyssey with Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja as surfing–groupies, learning to fit into a sex’n’drugs beach–scene.
Quartet (1981): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith…; Merchant–Ivory period drama, starring Isabelle Adjani as a young Parisian who moves in with an older couple following the arrest of her husband.
Ragtime (1981): Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn…; 8–time Oscar nominated adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's novel which recreates a real–life murder mystery in ragtime–era America…
Reds (1981): Dir. Warren Beatty
Feat. Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson; A provocative political saga about an American journalist's involvement with communism, the Russian revolution and the love of a like–minded…
Rich and Famous (1981): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Meg Ryan; Seasoned 'women's' director George Cukor remakes OLD ACQUAINTANCES in his final film, about two close friends turned literary rivals. A far cry from…
S.O.B. (1981): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan…; Blake Edwards' satire of the film industry and Hollywood society in which a movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by…
Simon and Simon (TV Series) (Simon & Simon) (1981): Feat. Gerald McRaney, Jameson Parker; Two sibling sleuths, one a sophisticate, the other a slacker, hunt counterfeiters, drug dealers and contract killers in this classic action series…
Stripes (1981): Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates…; In a moment of weakness and despair, a slobbish Bill Murray enlists in the US Army and spends the rest of the movie humourously regretting the…
True Confessions (1981): Dir. Ulu Grosbard
Feat. Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall; Roberts' De Niro and Duvall act their socks off as cop and priest who happen to be brothers. Conflicting loyalties come to a head through a…
Winter of Our Dreams (1981): Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Judy Davis, Bryan Brown, Baz Luhrmann; A fiercely acted Australian drama, with Judy David as a drug–addicted prostitute looking for solace in a former 60s radical (Bryan Brown).
9 to 5 (Nine to Five) (1980): Dir. Colin Higgins
Feat. Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin; Secretarial trio of Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin combine forces to outwit their sexist–pig boss in one of the spunkier 80s…
A Change of Seasons (1980): Dir. Richard Lang
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek; Comedy of tangled relationships and mid–life crises, following a forty–something woman who begins a relationship with a young,…
A Christmas Without Snow (1980): Dir. John Korty
Feat. Michael Learned, John Houseman, James Cromwell…; A divorced mother moves to San Francisco and joins the choir of a local church, lead by a curmudgeonly old gentleman who will accept nothing but…
American Gigolo (1980): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo; Low–key but effective drama. Richard Gere is suspected in a Hollywood murder.
Blue Lagoon, The (1980): Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins; Pubescent curiosity in which a young Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins take biology lessons from Mother Nature after they are stranded on a…
Blues Brothers, The (1980): Dir. John Landis
Feat. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher; Smash comedy with great soul music and epic sight–gags.
Caddyshack (1980): Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray…; Rude and crude golfing hi–jinks, often deliriously funny. Perhaps most famous for the infantile chocolate–bar in the swimming pool scene.
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980): Dir. Thomas Chong
Feat. Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, Paul Reubens…; The pot–head duo followed UP IN SMOKE with another batch of set pieces spiked with a brand of humour that (surely?) requires a particular state…
Club, The (1980): Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson; Doing for Australian Rules football what DON'S PARTY did for Australian politics, this examines in brawling, bawdy detail the behind–scenes…
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980): Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones; Biopic of country legend Loretta Lynn.
Cowboys (TV Series) (1980): Dir. Michael Mills
Feat. Colin Welland, David Kelly, Roy Kinnear; Wickedly funny early–80's comedy centered around a dubious firm of dis–functional builders.
Dallas - Season 4 (TV Series) (1980-1981): Feat. Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray…; Further episodes in the classic piece of 80s TV Americana, following the fortunes of the well–heeled Ewing and Barnes families. Available over…
Formula, The (1980): Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Marthe Keller…; Muddled thriller with Scott as a detective caught up in a conspiracy to manipulate world fuel prices. Brando –only in three scenes– does…
Foxes (1980): Dir. Adrian Lyne
Feat. Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman…; Four teenage loose cannons speed towards self–destruction in this frank, impressionistic portrait of L.A. teen culture. A young Jodie Foster…
Gambler, The (1980): Dir. Dick Lowry
Feat. Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner, Christine Belford…; Amiable western with a gambler saddling up after receiving a letter from his son requesting his help. Kenny Rogers knows when to fold 'em and hold…
Gentle Touch, The (TV Series) (1980): Feat. Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe; Ground–breaking police drama featuring Britain's first female TV detective fighting crime and the demands of being a solo mother. Jill Gascoine…
Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter) (1980): Dir. Helma Sanders-Brahms
Feat. Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi; Bleak WWII drama that follows the tragic fate of a couple who marry the day before the war breaks out when he is drafted to the Eastern front only to…
Hamlet (1980): Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart…; Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Hi-de-hi! (TV Series) (1980-1988): Feat. Paul Shane, Ruth Madoc, Jeffrey Holland…; The classic 1980s comedy series that took a sardonic look at the garish and cheerful culture of post–WW2 British holiday camps. Set around the…
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, MIchael Wager…; Delightful Merchant Ivory production has two rival theatre companies dueling over the right to produce a recently discovered Jane Austen manuscript.…
Jayne Mansfield Story, The (1980): Dir. Dick Lowry
Feat. Loni Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger; Loni Anderson plays the titular blonde bombshell in this tacky biopic of one of the Hollywood's most likeable sex kittens. Arnie co–stars as…
Jerk, The (1980): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Steve Martin; Classic debut for Steve Martin as a hayseed inventor raised in the bayou.
Last Married Couple in America, The (1980): Dir. Gilbert Cates
Feat. George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin…; A "happily married" Californian couple begin to doubt their 15 year marriage after their friends all divorce and pressure them to do the same.
Little Miss Marker (1980): Dir. Walter Bernstein
Feat. Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis…; Comedy set in the 30's, following a gloomy, cantankerous bookie (Walter Matthau) running a gambling operation, who finds himself with a 6–year…
McVicar (1980): Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell…; Based on the true story of infamous UK criminal John McVicar, this gritty thriller stars Daltrey as the bad boy sent to a maximum security prison…
Melvin and Howard (1980): Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Paul Le Mat, Jason Sr. Robards; Low–key gem of a road–movie in which yokel Paul Le Mat (AMERICAN GRAFFITI) rescues a grizzled tramp on a desert highway one night, who…
My Bodyguard (1980): Dir. Tony Bill
Feat. Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon…; A newcomer to a Chicago high school hires the biggest fellow student to be his 'bodyguard', especially to protect him from a lunch–money…
Private Benjamin (1980): Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante…; Well–fashioned vehicle for Hawn's natural comic talents, she here plays a swanky socialite who joins the army on the spur of the…
Rising Damp (TV Series) (1980): Dir. Ronnie Baxter
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, Frances de la Tour…; A dank Brit boarding–house is the setting for this classic sitcom written by Eric Chappell. Series 1 & 2 (15 episodes) available across two…
Scruples (Mini-series) (1980): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Kim Cattrall…; Trashy, high–society soap opera, with Lindsay Wagner overcoming privilege and class to rise beyond the upper echelons of the L.A. fashion…
Sea Wolves, The (1980): Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven…; Salty War drama based on a real covert mission during World War II in which a group of middle–aged civilian ex–soldiers are sent by the…
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980): Dir. Steve Roberts
Feat. Trevor Howard, Patrick Magee; Based on Vivian Stanshall's surreal radio monologues, this tipsy British comedy concerns the attempts of an eccentric British aristocrat to exorcise…
Staying On (1980): Dir. Silvio Narizzano
Feat. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Saeed Jaffrey; Drama based on the award–winning novel by Paul Scott (The Jewel in the Crown), and reuniting BRIEF ENCOUNTER actors Celia Johnson and Trevor…
Stir Crazy (1980): Dir. Sidney Poitier
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Craig T. Nelson; The first and best of the Pryor/Wilder comedies, about a pair of clumsy crooks who land in jail. Plenty of laughs – though fairly predictable…
Used Cars (1980): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jack Warden, Kurt Russell; Two sibling used car dealers (both played by Jack Warden) take their rivalry and sales gimmicks to a bad–taste extreme. Good script elevates…
10 (1979): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews; The cuddly charms of Dudley Moore lift this light comedy out of the saccharine. Moore plays a successful composer falling in love with gorgeous Bo…
1941 (1979): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Toshiro Mifune; The dir.’s only real commercial failure, this loose slapstick comedy, set in a Californian seaside town visited by a Japanese submarine in 1941,…
A Force Of One (1979): Dir. Paul Aaron
Feat. Chuck Norris, Jennifer O'Neill, Clu Gulager…; Passable crime thriller with Chuck Norris near the start of his career playing a karate champion assisting the police to hunt down a…
Alexandria... Why? (1979): Dir. Youssef Chahine; An autobiographical film about the early life of director Youssef Chahine, set in Alexandria. Winner of the Silver Bear at the 29th Berlin…
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Richard Thomas, Donald Pleasence…; While the 1930's film of Erich Maria Remarque's exceptional anti–war novel is undoubtedly a masterpiece, this later version should not be…
Animal House (1979): Feat. John Belushi, Donald Sutherland, Karen Allen…; National Lampoon's frat–house classic with a grossly hilarious Belushi.
Armchair Thriller Collection (1979-1981): Feat. Ian McKellen, James Bolam, Alun Armstrong; With memorably unsettling opening credits and exceptional performances and direction, this anthology series became a significant hit for Thames…
Ashanti (1979): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Omar Sharif…; When his wife is kidnapped by Arab slave traders, UN medic Michael Caine hops aboard a camel and goes on an adventure quest to retrieve her. Caine…
Bloodline (1979): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason…; Suspense–lite, Sidney Sheldon–based outing for Audrey Hepburn, with the ageless movie icon battling hostile takeovers from within a newly…
Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1979): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey…; Surprisingly enjoyable prequel to BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID has the roguish duo pursued across various New Mexico landscapes. Utterly…
Cat and the Canary, The (1979): Dir. Radley Metzger
Feat. Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox…; The classic spooky–house mystery by John Willard is here adapted for the fifth time. The relatives a recently–deceased man gather to hear…
Champ, The (1979): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder…; Franco Zeffirelli's sentimental remake of the 1931 Academy Award–winning film stars Jon Voight as a debt–ridden Florida…
Chapter Two (1979): Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. James Caan, Marsha Mason, Valerie Harper; Neil SImon's hit play is competently adapted for the big screen. James Caan in a rare romantic role plays a man recently widowed who falls for a…
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Head Over Heels) (1979): Dir. Joan Micklin Silver
Feat. John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert…; A celebrated early rom–com from writer–director Joan Micklin Silver (CROSSING DELANCEY) with a likable John Heard playing a hopeless…
Cribb (TV Series) (1979-1980): Feat. Alan Dobie; Superior crime series set in Victorian London, following the wry Detective Sergeant Cribb, a member of Scotland Yard's newly formed CID unit, as he…
Dallas - Season 3 (TV Series) (1979-1980): Feat. Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray…; Further episodes in the classic piece of 80s TV Americana, following the fortunes of the well–heeled Ewing and Barnes families. Available over…
Days of Heaven (1979): Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Sam Shepard, Richard Gere, Brooke Adams…; The mid–western wheat–fields provide a magnificent backdrop for this poignant tale of two disparate bachelors who vie for the same woman.…
Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Dudley Moore, Peter Cook; After a decade apart Dudley Moore and Peter Cook entered a Virgin recording studio for a drunken banter session, creating a much–bootlegged…
Design For Living / Mrs. Capper's Birthday / What Mad Pursuit (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 3) (1979-1985): Dir. Philip Saville, Mike Ockrent
Feat. Dandy Nichols, Patricia Hayes, Hugh Laurie…; –Design For Living (79') Contrived comedy set in a Paris apartment where a woman and the two men she loves all live together in an awkward…
Dick Emery - Thames TV Specials (1979): Feat. Dick Emery; Classic songs and sketches abound in this collection of Dick Emery comedy specials. Includes: 'The Dick Emery Comedy Hour', 'The Dick Emery Hour',…
Dukes of Hazzard, The (TV Series) (1979-1985): Feat. Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach…; Mixing hayseed humour and car–action aplenty, this hit TV show milked Southern stereotypes for all their worth as country cousins Bo (dark) and…
Electric Horseman, The (1979): Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine…; Curious romantic western with Redford as a former rodeo star who turns his back on his lucrative gig advertising cereal, and heads off to the desert…
Elvis (1979): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell…; Made just two years after Elvis's death, the king of rock 'n' roll's life is traced from dirt poor beginnings to becoming the most loved entertainer…
Eric Sykes Collection (The Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb!, It's Your Move, Mr H. Is Late, The Big Freeze, The Eric Sykes Show, The Likes of Sykes) (1979-1993): Dir. Eric Sykes
Feat. Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, Tommy Cooper…; A ridiculously long list of British comic talent star in these slapstick masterpieces from the 1970s and 80s, all of which are virtually dialogue…
Europeans, The (1979): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Lee Remick, Wesley Addy, Lisa Eichhorn; Possibly the best of the early Merchant–Ivory productions develops Henry James' novel of 19th century New England into a subtle study of family…
Facts of Life, The (TV Series) (1979-1988): Feat. Charlotte Rae, Molly Ringwald; Coming–of–age spin–off from the series DIFFERENT STROKES focused on a group of young girls growing up in a boarding house under the…
Flambards (TV Series) (1979): Feat. Christine McKenna, Rosalie Williams, Steven Grives; TV adaptation of the book by K. M. Peyton about an orphaned child who moves to a country estate in early 1900's England and falls in love with…
Hardcore (1979): Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. George C. Scott, Peter Boyle; Paul Schrader, rehashing his script of TAXI DRIVER, pits a Catholic mid–westerner against the seedy, amoral underworld of California's adult…
Henry V (1979): Dir. David Giles
Feat. David Gwillim, Alec McCowen, David Buck; Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Henry VIII (1979): Dir. Kevin Billington
Feat. Timothy West, Claire Bloom, Ronald Pickup…; Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Human Factor, The (1979): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi…; Otto Preminger last film is a mild espionage affair, concerning a low–level British informant suspected of being a double agent. A hefty cast…
In-Laws, The (1979): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini…; Alan Arkin and Peter Falk deliver some effortless comedy in this straightforward buddy–comedy, as a dentist and CIA–agent embroiled in a…
Junoon (1979): Dir. Shyam Benegal
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah…; Indian drama set during the 1857 War of Independence, where a feudal chieftain falls for an Anglo–Indian woman and encounters bitter opposition…
Lady Vanishes, The (1979): Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury…; Curious, though lackluster remake of Hitchcock's classic train thriller. Angela Lansbury plays the vanishing lady whose disappearance is investigated…
Life of Brian (Monty Python's Life of Brian) (1979): Dir. Terry Jones
Feat. John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin; This parody of the life and times of Jesus Christ is the funniest and most successful of the Monty Python features. A cult favourite.
Manhattan (1979): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway; This classy introspective comedy from Woody Allen tributes his beloved city while his neurotic alter–ego searches for romantic and intellectual…
Meatballs (1979): Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray; A laidback Bill Murray injects some meat into the summer camp cliche, here playing a trainee counselor in charge of a group of misfit stereotypes:…
More American Graffiti (1979): Dir. Bill L. Norton
Feat. Ron Howard, Bo Hopkins, Candy Clark…; College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s in this creaky sequel to the coming–of–age hit.
Murder by Decree (1979): Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings…; Sherlock Holmes and the ever faithful Watson are back, this time investigating the notorious Jack the Ripper and his gruesome fascination with…
My Brilliant Career (1979): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Sam Neill; Landmark Australian film, with Judy Davis as a determinedly independent femme in the late 19th century. From the novel by Miles Franklin.
North Dallas Forty (1979): Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Nick Nolte, Bo Svenson, Steve Forrest; A sports film set in late 1970s Texas, following American Football player Phil Elliott (Nolte), whose independent attitude and lifestyle of…
Porridge (1979): Dir. Dick Clement
Feat. Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale; Ronnie Barker returns for this feature film based on the popular British TV series as a long–time prison inmate Fletcher who here arranges a…
Potter (TV Series) (1979): Feat. Arthur Lowe; Memorable British sitcom of a busybody retiree who occupies his time by meddling in other people's business – much to the chagrin of his…
Prisoner (TV Series) (Prisoner Cell Block H) (1979-1986): Feat. Sheila Florance; The classic Australian women's prison series, which still sets the standard for its tough–as–nails cast, pithy dialogue and unglamorous…
Running (1979): Dir. Steven Hilliard Stern
Feat. Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Eugene Levy; Michael Douglas stars in this sports drama about a fictional American marathon runner's struggle to compete in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.
Sisters or the Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) (1979): Dir. Margarethe von Trotta; 1970s West German drama about two sisters whose unusually close relationship negatively impacts their individual personal lives.
Starting Over (1979): Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen…; James L. Brooks scripted this classic breakup comedy with Burt Reynolds and Jill Clayburgh (fresh off AN UNMARRIED WOMAN) as divorcees trying to get…
Testament of Youth (Mini-series) (1979): Dir. Moira Armstrong
Feat. Cheryl Campbell, Peter Woodward, Emrys James…; Sterling adaptation of Vera Brittain's memoir recounts her early years and lost loves admidst the turmoil of the first world war.
Tim (1979): Dir. Michael Pate
Feat. Mel Gibson, Piper Laurie; Mel Gibson and Piper Laurie are the young simpleton and older woman drawn together in this adaptation of Colleen McCullough's first novel.
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979): Dir. Milton Katselas
Feat. Candy Clark, Marjoe Gortner; A confrontational yet riveting psychodrama centering on a Vietnam vet–turned–drug dealer who terrorizes the patrons of a diner in a small…
Absolution (1978): Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Richard Burton, Billy Connolly
Alan Bennett at the BBC (1978-1992): Dir. Stuart Burge, John Schlesinger, Richard Eyre
Feat. James Fox, Alan Bates, Prunella Scales…; An exceptional anthology of previously unreleased BBC productions from revered playwright Alan Bennett. Collection includes: – A Day Out…
An Englishman's Castle (TV Mini-series) (1978): Dir. Paul Ciappessoni
Feat. Kenneth More, Isla Blair, Kathleen Byron…; TV miniseries set in an alternative history where Germany won WWII and England is ruled by a fascist government. Kenneth More plays a writer for a…
An Unmarried Woman (1978): Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy…; Jill Clayburgh endeared herself to a generation of women with this well–loved character study of a divorced New Yorker navigating the single…
BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 4 (Othello, Troilus and Cressida, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) (1978): The fourth in a series of boxed–sets compiling the BBC's comprehensive Shakespeare adaptations for television. This set includes: Othello:…
Blake's 7 (TV Series) - Series 1 (1978): Feat. Michael Keating, Gareth Thomas; An acknowledged classic of British television sci–fi, this long–running series followed the fortunes of disparate group of characters…
Bless Me, Father (TV Series) (1978-1981): Feat. Arthur Lowe, Gabrielle Daye; Beloved, spirited comedy set in the 1950's, about a warm hearted, mischievous Roman Catholic priest in a suburban London parish. Cleverly adapted…
Brass Target (1978): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn…; A classic 70's all–star cast feature in this post–World War II suspense film that suggests that the German automobile crash involving…
Centennial (TV Mini-series) (1978): Feat. Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Robert Conrad; Western mini–series spanning the 200 year history of the town of Centennial, Colarado. Well–researched in its depiction of the…
Corvette Summer (1978): Dir. Matthew Robbins
Feat. Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche…; Benign comedy with Hamill heading to Vegas in pursuit of a Corvette Stingray stolen from his auto–shop class.
Dallas - Season 1 and 2 (TV Series) (1978-1991): Feat. Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray…; The high–powered soap opera that became a 1980s icon, this follows the fortunes and misfortunes of Texas oil magnate JR Ewing and his family,…
Disraeli (TV Mini-series) (1978): Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. Ian McShane, Rosemary Leach, Mary Peach…; Detailed biopic of the remarkable life of the author turned British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Talky and visually limited this is more than a…
End, The (1978): Dir. Burt Reynolds
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise; Black comedy directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, who plays a real–estate agent who decides to kill himself when he is diagnosed with a…
F.I.S.T. (Fist) (1978): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle…; Earnest union drama with Stallone as a Jimmy Hoffa type union leader whose idealism is gradually corrupted. Curious misfire is worth a watch with a…
Famous Five, The (TV Series) (Enid Blyton's The Famous Five) (1978-1979): Feat. Michele Gallagher, Marcus Harris, Gary Russell…; The original and most beloved of The Famous Five TV serials, based on Enid Blyton's classic children's adventure novels. Of Blyton's 21 stories,…
Fantasy Island (TV series) (1978-1984): Feat. Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize; Unique and often inventive television classic set around a mysterious island resort, where white–suited Montalban and his diminutive sidekick…
Fedora (1978): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. William Holden, Marthe Keller, Jose Ferrer…; Fascinating later work from dir. Wilder, in which an impoverished film producer travels to the Greek islands to track down an elusive European star…
Flying High (Airplane!) (1978): Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges…; Side–splittingly funny lampoon of the Airport / Disaster movie genre, voted the best comedy of all time in 1999 by EMPIRE magazine.
Go Tell the Spartans (1978): Dir. Ted Post
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, David Clennon…; Set in the early stages of the conflict in Vietnam, Lancaster plays a Major who, with a small band of untested soldiers, is ordered to hold a small…
Grange Hill (TV Series) (1978-2008): Candid British kids series following the exploits of a group of school misfits dealing with the day–to–day struggles of life in a…
Hazell (TV Series) (1978): Feat. Nicholas Ball; Paying homage to classic film noir this ITV crime series centres around a charismatic private detective who tackles blackmail, missing persons cases,…
Heidi (TV Series) (1978): Dir. Tony Faadt, Joachim Hesss
Feat. Katharina Balhm, Katia Polletin; Thirteen episodes of the fondly remembered classic Heidi series.
Holocaust (TV Mini-series) (1978): Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
Feat. Meryl Streep, James Woods, Michael Moriaty…; Captivating saga of a Jewish family shattered by the rise of the Nazis. One of the top–rating and best quality mini–series of the 1970s.
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1978): Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan…; Comedy spoof of the book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring a generous spread of British comedy talent. Peter Cook plays Sherlock Holmes, who is…
House Calls (1978): Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney…; Matthau plays a recent widower who attempts to make up for all the fidelity by womanizing he much as he can, before Glenda Jackson comes along and…
Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Peggy Ashcroft, Saeed Jaffrey, Victor Banerjee; Television film from Merchant Ivory productions, about an attempted theft of valuable paintings from an Indian palace. The thieves include a museum…
International Velvet (1978): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Tatum O'Neal, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer…; Belated and earnest sequel to classic NATIONAL VELVET has an adult Velvet Brown take in an orphaned niece from America, who, with the help of an…
Irishman, The (1978): Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Michael Craig, Robyn Nevin, Simon Burke…; Rousing tale of hard living Irish teamster Paddy Doolan whose refusal to acquiesce to fashionable new technology pushes his family close to ruin in…
King of the Gypsies (1978): Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Sterling Hayden…; A credible and fascinating depiction of Gypsy culture through the smog of modern day America. Eric Roberts makes his screen debut as a New Yorker who…
Law And Order (TV Mini-Series) (1978): Dir. Les Blair
Feat. Peter Dean, Derek Martin; Discerning Brit crime series focusing on three men involved in a bungled armed robbery – the Criminal, the Inspector and the Lawyer and played…
Mork and Mindy (TV Series) (1978-1982): Feat. Robin Williams, Pam Dawber; The wacky TV show that proved a breakthrough vehicle for Robin Williams, playing the cutesome, unpredictable Mork, an alien from the planet…
Oliver's Story (1978): Dir. John Korty
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett…; Ryan O'Neal returns as Oliver Barrett IV in this tender sequel to LOVE STORY.
Patrick (1978): Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Robert Thompson, Sir Robert Helpmann, Susan Penhaligon; Shrill Aussie B–movie about a comatose hospital patient who utilizes his psychokinetic powers to inflict pain and death. Takes its time to…
Richard II (1978): Dir. David Giles
Feat. Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Jon Finch…; Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Rutles, The (All You Need is Cash) (1978): Dir. Gary Weis, Eric Idle
Feat. Michael Palin, John Belushi, Bianca Jagger…; The mock–Beatles twist and "rut" in a spot–on piss–take of the Fab Four, led by Monty Python’s Eric Idle and making a…
Stunt Rock (1978): Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. Monique Van de Ven; Corny stunt–fuelled musical actioner about an Aussie stuntman sent to LA to work on a TV series who helps his cousin's band 'Sorcery' to…
Taxi (TV Series) (1978-1983): Feat. Judd Hirsch, Danny De Vito, Tony Danza…; Another sitcom staple of the 1970s from the creators of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, set in the refreshingly blue–collar world of a New York cab…
Tommy Cooper - Just Like That (TV Series) (1978): Feat. Tommy Cooper, Andrew Sachs; Comedy–magician and cohort of Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, delivers his distinctive, hilarious brand of 'tragic magic' in this six–part…
Up in Smoke (1978): Dir. Lou Adler
Feat. Cheech and Chong; Cheech and Chong's first movie is their best and most remembered. They transpose their popular doped–out comic routines for the big screen, in…
Wise Blood (1978): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Brad Dourif; Brad Dourif plays the obsessed leader of the 'Church Without Christ' in this marvellous satire on contemporary evangelism in the American South. From…
You Are Not Alone (Du er ikke alene) (1978): Dir. Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
Feat. Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg; Beautifully evocative Danish coming–of–age story set in an all–boys boarding school, which confronts themes of homosexuality and…
Airport '77 (1977): Dir. Jerry Jameson
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart…; This third installment in the Airport franchise has a jetliner plunging into the mid–Atlantic's Bermuda Triangle where a fresh celebrity…
Another Bouquet (TV Mini-Series) (1977): Dir. John Frankau
Feat. Frank Finlay, James Aubrey, Deborah Grant…; So–so follow up to Andrea Newman's painful chronicle of incestual desire is set six months later, and the repercussions are still being felt.
Are You Being Served? - The Movie (1977): Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. John Inman, Mollie Sugden; Spinoff movie of the British TV–Series set in a department store. Retains the cast and broad campiness of the original, as the staff go on…
Ascent, The (Voskhozhdeniye) (1977): Dir. Larisa Shepitko
Feat. Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoli Solonitsyn; A Soviet WWII classic shot in appalling winter conditions in which two partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the…
Black Sunday (1977): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller…; A suspenseful, violent terrorist thriller based on Thomas Harris' fictional novel about the pro–Palestinian "Black September" group who…
Blue Fin (1977): Dir. Carl Schultz
Feat. Hardy Kruger, Greg Rowe; From the creators of STORM BOY, this ocean adventure focuses on the demanding relationship between a father and his son on a tuna–fishing boat…
CHiPS (TV Series) (1977): Feat. Erik Estrada, Larry Wilcox, Robert Pine; A prime–time smash hit and cheeseball classic from the disco era, centers around straight–up country boy 'Jon' and his rogue partner…
Count Dracula (TV Mini-series) (1977): Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon…; Faithful 70's adaptation of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, this critically–acclaimed BBC version utilises London's Highgate Cemetery…
Fun With Dick And Jane (1977): Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon…; Amusing low–brow satire sees affluent Segal and Fonda plunged into possible poverty and turning to criminal enterprise in an effort to sustain…
Grand Theft Auto (1977): Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Ron Howard, Marion Ross, Barry Cahill; Petrolhead debut in the directing seat for Ron Howard (who also stars) is a car–chase special involving a young runaway couple in the crunching…
Hobbit, The (1977): Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jnr
Feat. Orson Bean, Richard Boone, John Huston…; A homebody demi–human in Middle Earth gets talked into joining a quest with a group of dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon.…
Jabberwocky (1977): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Michael Palin; Monty Python's Lewis Carroll–inspired medieval farce with Michael Palin in the lead.
Joseph Andrews (1977): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Beryl Reid…; Bawdy picaresque revolves around the romantic misadventures of switched–at–birth servant. Chief amongst his concerns are the unwelcome…
Julia (1977): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards Jr.…; Dramatising the 1930s memories of playwright Lillian Hellman (THE LITTLE FOXES), this Oscar–winning classic centres on the relationship between…
Kentucky Fried Movie (1977): Dir. John Landis
Feat. Barry Dennen, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson…; A product of the Kentucky Fried Theatre (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker of FLYING HIGH fame), this collection of skits, gags and spoofs comes across as a…
Last Remake of Beau Geste, The (1977): Dir. Marty Feldman
Feat. Marty Feldman, Michael York, Ann-Margret…; Marty Feldman directs and co–writes this star–studded satire loosely based on the novel Beau Geste, a frequently–filmed story of…
Last Wave, The (1977): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, David Gulpilil; A provocative and eerie tale of prophecy and doom sees attorney Richard Chamberlain plagued by horrific visions when assigned to defend a group of…
Late Show, The (1977): Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy; A grumpy semi–retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.
Man From Atlantis (TV Series) (1977-1978): Feat. Patrick Duffy, Alan Fudge, Belinda Montgomery; In the wake of the success of shows like THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, Patrick Duffy ("Bobby" from DALLAS) steps up to play an earnest,…
Mind Your Language (TV Series) (1977): Dir. Stuart Allen
Feat. Barry Evans; Evans plays a mild–mannered, but harried teacher of non–English speakers at the Southbank College of Further Education in this amiably…
Oh, God! (1977): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. George Burns, John Denver; John Denver is a supermarket attendant whose life is turned upside down when God (George Burns) starts appearing to him in visions. A…
Professionals, The (TV Series) (1977-1983): Dir. William Brayne
Feat. Lewis Collins, Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson; CI5 hard–men Bodie and Doyle shoot first and then ask no questions in their dirty (but necessary) line of work. A seminal TV Series of the…
Rag Trade, The (TV Series) (1977): Dir. Stuart Allen
Feat. Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin; Factory girl comedy set in a working class, East–End fashion sweatshop, this was considered progressive for its time due to its largely…
Robin's Nest (TV Series) (1977): Dir. Peter Frazer-Jones
Feat. Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton…; Good–natured Brit TV comedy with Richard O'Sullivan reprising the role of Robin Tripp from the popular series, MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE. This time…
Rolling Thunder (1977): Dir. John Flynn
Feat. William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones; A classic of 70's exploitation, this gritty revenge thriller follows a Vietnam vet who returns home a hero, but soon embarks on a mission of bloody…
Roseland (1977): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Geraldine Chaplin…; Three separate but interlocking stories set in New York's famed dance palace, about people trying to essentially, 'find the right dance partner'.…
Secret Army (TV Series) (1977): Feat. Bernard Hepton; This gripping – and unlike its comedy spoof successor ALLO' ALLO!, deadly serious – BBC dramatic series focused on the exploits of a…
Semi-Tough (1977): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh…; A running back and wide receiver scrimmage over the adorable Jill Clayburgh in this loose–lipped satire of professional sport by way of the…
Silver Bears (1977): Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan…; Low–key crime comedy caper with Michael Caine playing a financial wizard working with a crime boss to launder money from a Swiss bank.
Soap (TV Series) (1977): Feat. Billy Crystal, Katherine Helmond, Robert Mulligan…; Still the best satire of the television soap opera, this initially controversial series enveloped its line–up of characters in plots involving…
Soldier of Orange (1977): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbe, Derek De Lint…; Dutch WWII film by Paul Verhoeven, following several young students during the German occupation of the Netherlands, and the different paths each of…
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centrefold Model? (1977): Dir. Russ Mayberry
Feat. Barbara Eden, Joseph Mascolo, Joan Hackett…; "Edgy" TV movie with Barbara Eden as female private detective going undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
Thorn Birds, The (TV Mini-series) (1977): Dir. Daryl Duke
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck…; Over–ambitious priest Richard Chamberlain is exiled to Australia, where he becomes embroiled in the dynastic power struggles of a wealthy…
Three Piece Suite (TV Series) (1977): Feat. Diana Rigg; Rarefied BBC sketch show with Diana Rigg portraying three different women across three separate sketches, alternating effortlessly between comedy and…
Turning Point, The (1977): Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov…; Rarely are ballet films quite so dramatically satisfying – if still laden with a few cliches – than this tale of two friends reuniting,…
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning…; A powerful political thriller following an American Air Force pilot (Burt Lancaster) who goes renegade, escaping from military prison and taking…
Washington: Behind Closed Doors (Mini-Series) (1977): Feat. Cliff Robertson, Jason Robards Jr., Stefanie Powers…; Sharply written mini–series inspired by the Nixon administration tells the story of a power–hungry U.S. President, and the men he…
White Buffalo, The (1977): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson…; Rugged and hokey psycho–adventurism in which Charles Bronson channels Captain Ahab in his quest to hunt down a mythical albino buffalo.
Wonder Woman, The New Adventures of (TV Series) (1977-1979): Feat. Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner; Charles Moulon’s 1940s comic strip updated to the feminist 70s, his superheroine fighting terrorist and subversive elements for undercover…
World's Greatest Lover, The (1977): Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise…; Hit–and–miss comedy set in the 1920s with Wilder as a sexually rapacious loser who heads to Hollywood intending to become the next…
21 Hours at Munich (1976): Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. William Holden, Shirley Knight, Franco Nero…; Teledrama depiction of the infamous events at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where the terrorist group Black September took 11 Israeli athletes…
Alfie Darling (1976): Dir. Ken Hughes
Feat. Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Joan Collins…; Alan Price is a poor substitute for Michael Caine in this limp sequel. This time round Alfie is driving lorries round Europe and back to his…
Bad News Bears (1976): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow; Delightfully cynical baseball comedy starring Walter Matthau as an alcoholic ex–baseball pitcher who becomes a coach for a youth baseball team…
Big John Little John (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Herb Edelman; Wacky 70's sitcom concerning the misadventures of a forty–something school teacher. After drinking from a fountain of youth finds himself…
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976): Dir. Mark L. Lester
Feat. Lynda Carter, Marjoe Gortner, Jesse Vint…; Crime drama starring Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) as an aspiring country music star who falls in with a young hustler who sees himself as a modern day…
Boomerang (Comme un boomerang) (1976): Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Alain Delon, Carla Gravina, Dora Doll; French crime film with Alain Delon playing an ex–gangster and father of a delinquent teen, who is determined to clear his son's name after he…
Bound for Glory (1976): Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon…; Superbly made biopic of folksinger Woody Guthrie, set during the tail–end of the Great Depression as Guthrie makes his way across dustbowl…
Bouquet of Barbed Wire (TV Mini-Series) (1976): Dir. Tony Wharmby
Feat. Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon, James Aubrey…; Quease–inducing drama of a middle–class family being torn apart by a father's obsessive love for his manipulative daughter. Shocking for…
Boy in the Plastic Bubble, The (1976): Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. John Travolta, Glynnis O'Connor, Robert Reed; A cult telemovie starring John Travolta as an immune–deficient youngster with potentially fatal allergies, who has to exist in a sealed…
Break Of Day (1976): Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. Andrew MacFarlane; Quiet Australian drama focused on a young soldier's struggle to adjust to his previous life after returning home post–WW1, and his pursuit of…
Caddie (1976): Dir. Donald Crombie
Feat. Helen Morse, Drew Forsythe, Jack Thompson…; Key film of the Australian cinema renaissance with Helen Morse exceptional as a young solo mother struggling to get by in a male dominated…
Captains and the Kings (TV Mini-Series) (1976): Feat. Patty Duke, Jane Seymour, Perry King…; Rich inter–generational saga chronicling the life of an Irish immigrant who arrives penniless in America in the mid–19th century.…
Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette) (1976): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira…; Daunting Fassbinder drama concerning a cheating mother and father unwittingly convinced by their disabled daughter to each take their lovers on a…
Deathcheaters (1976): Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. Grant Page, John Hargreaves, Chris Haywood; Stunt–packed Aussie adventure involving a couple of spies attempting to infiltrate the stronghold of a criminal genius. It's all just a…
Duchess of Duke Street, The (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove; A classic of BBC television, this easily equals UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS in its serio–comic depiction of domestic drama in Victorian–Edwardian…
Eat My Dust! (1976): Dir. Charles B Griffith
Feat. Ron Howard, Warren Kemmerling; Set around the racetrack world of stock–cars and demolition derbys, this Roger Corman–produced actioner has a young Ron Howard behind the…
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The (TV Series) (1976): Dir. John Howard Davies, Gareth Gwenlan
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Pauline Yates; The ultimate midlife–crisis sitcom, follows the adventures of Reginald as he wakes up to the absurdity of his middle–class existence and…
George and Mildred (TV Series) (1976): Dir. Peter Frazer-Jones
Feat. Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy; The landlords of MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE bicker away to much amusement in this still–funny 70s sitcom. Moving to an upmarket suburb proves an…
Killer Force (1976): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Telly Savalas, Peter Fonda, Hugh O'Brian…; Routine heist film made palpable by its oddball casting, with Savalas hot on the heels of Fonda and his crack team of thieves as they plot an…
Last Hard Men, The (1976): Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. Charlton Heston, James Coburn; Western starring Charlton Heston as a retired lawman who is hunted by James Coburn, a half–Navajo outlaw who has escaped from prison and is…
Laurence Olivier Presents (TV Series) (1976-1978): Feat. Laurence Olivier, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner…; A British television anthology series made by Granada Television, consisting of six plays that starred Laurence Olivier (with the exception of Hindle…
Laverne & Shirley (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams; From the golden age of sitcoms, this HAPPY DAYS spin–off followed the fortunes of two salty, life–long friends (Penny Marshall and Cindy…
Likely Lads, The (1976): Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Rodney Bewes, James Bolam; Feature spin–off from the unique 60's British comedy series focused on two men in the North East of England as they struggle with middle age…
Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, The (1976): Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Cliff DeYoung…; A TV film dramatising the events of the Lindbergh kidnapping, in which the son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted…
Logan's Run (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Gregory Harrison, Heather Menzies, Donald Moffat…; Television spin–off from the 1976 film of the same name expands on the premise of twenty–somethings Logan 5 and Jessica 6 searching for…
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV Series) (1976-1977): Feat. Louise Lasser, Greg Mullavey; Adventurous satirical soap opera from the 70's following a small–town housewife who encounters various complex and compounding…
Moneychangers, The (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Kirk Douglas, Christopher Plummer, Anne Baxter…; Kirk Douglas and Christopher Plummer play executives battling to claim the presidency of one of America's largest banks in this meaty financial…
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Bill Cosby…; 1970s black comedy about an ambulance company in Los Angeles and their rivalry with a fellow company, starring Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch and Harvey…
Murder by Death (1976): Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco…; A classic whodunnit premise is taken within an inch of its life by a knockout cast, here playing a gaggle of famous sleuths and sidekicks who convene…
Nickelodeon (1976): Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal…; Peter Bogdanovich’s affection for golden age Hollywood shines through in this heartfelt comedy about a lawyer sent to shut down an ailing silent…
Once an Eagle (TV Mini-Series) (1976): Feat. Sam Elliott, Glenn Ford, Amy Irving…; Much lauded, epic mini–series spanning the tumultuous years from WWI to the Vietnam Era, about two Army officers whose vast personal…
Peeper (1976): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn…; Patchy noir send–up with Caine as a poor man's Phillip Marlowe struggling to find a missing woman, with his biggest obstacle being himself.
Pinocchio (1976): Feat. Danny Kaye; Bright and energetic musical adaptation of the beloved children's fable, framed around the story of a young theater girl's desire to study and work…
Private Lives (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 2) (1976): Feat. Penelope Keith, Alec McCowen; Droll comedy–of–errors centred on a recently divorced couple that book into a hotel with their new spouses, only to discover their suites…
Rich Little Show, The (TV Series) (1976): Feat. Rich Little; World famous impressionist Rich Little attempted to forge his own persona in this well–remembered sketch series, though invariably, reverted…
Rich Man, Poor Man (Mini-series) (1976): Feat. Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely…; Popular TV Mini–Series with a superb ensemble cast based on the best–selling Irwin Shaw novel following the fate of two immigrant…
Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The (1976): Dir. Lewis John Carlino
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Sarah Miles; A sadistic young boy with an unusually strong attachment to his mother greatly resents her new suitor. Intriguing adaptation of Yukio Mishima novel…
Satan's Brew (Satansbraten) (1976): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven…; Schizophrenic Fassbinder dramedy involving a German poet struck with writer's block that partakes in a number of moneymaking schemes involving his…
Seven Percent Solution, The (1976): Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall…; Intriguing re–imagining of the Sherlock Holmes legend has the master sleuth fighting his own drug addiction under the guidance of Sigmund…
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976): Dir. Boris Sagal
Feat. Roger Moore, Patrick Macnee, John Huston…; Fun addition to the Holmes canon with the great detective pursuing his arch rival Moriarty through New York after his nemesis pulls off a daring bank…
Shout at the Devil (1976): Dir. Peter R. Hunt
Feat. Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins…; A diverting adventure yarn set in WWI–era East Africa, in which Marvin and Moore join forces to smuggle ivory in the face of German occupying…
Spanish Fly (1976): Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Sue Lloyd; Sex–on–the–brain British comedy from the permissive 70's follows the 'naughty' antics of the debonair Leslie Phillips and…
Starsky and Hutch (TV Series) (1976): Dir. George McCowan, Don Weis
Feat. David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser; The quintessential leather–jacketed, mirror–shaded 70s TV show presented a cool cop pose, with violent, all–American morals.
That's Entertainment II (1976): Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Spencer Tracy…; A second helping of musical nostalgia, with Astaire and Kelly again hosting while also contributing a number of brand new dance numbers together.…
Victory at Entebbe (1976): Dir. Marvin J. Chomsky
Feat. Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Burt Lancaster…; A made–for–television film first broadcast on ABC, depicting the raid on Entebbe Airport in Uganda and the freeing of Israeli hostages…
When The Boat Comes In (TV Series) (1976): Feat. James Bolam, James Garbutt, Jean Heywood; 'Northern' drama series set in a post–WW1 Britain, where Ex–Sergeant Jack Ford (Bolam) and his family must deal with the aftermath…
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, The (1975): Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise…; Fitfully amusing romp with Wilder as the great detective's resentful brother determined to steal the spotlight. Madeline Kahn steals the show.
American Film Theatre - Galileo (1975): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Topol, John Gielgud, Patrick Magee…; A generally satisfactory version of Bertolt Brecht's stageplay concerning the ethical dilemmas of the scientist Galileo, who among other things…
American Film Theatre - In Celebration (1975): Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye…; A tightly framed screen adaptation of David Storey's autobiographical play set around the reunion of a Nottinghamshire mining family, in which cast…
American Film Theatre - Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975): Dir. Denis Héroux
Feat. Elly Stone, Mort Shuman, Jacques Brel; With no plot or dialogue, this is surely the least theatrical of the American Film Theatre productions of the 1970s, instead comprising a revue of…
American Film Theatre - Philadelphia, Here I Come (1975): Dir. John Quested
Feat. Donal McCann, Des Cave, Siobhan McKenna; A young Irishman agonises over whether to leave his stifling Irish existence and join relatives in America, in one of the more subdued American Film…
Apple Dumpling Gang, The (1975): Dir. Norman Tokar
Feat. Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Harry Morgan…; Attractive Disney adventure set on the Californian frontier in the 1870s, with an inveterate gambler (Bixby) ending up in charge of three orphaned…
Aussie Rules Collection (Year of the Dogs, The Great MacArthy, The Club) (1975-1997): Three Aussie features concerning the unique rough–and–tumble of 'Aussie Rules' football.
Autobiography of a Princess (1975): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Madhur Jaffrey, James Mason; Merchant Ivory production about an Indian princess (Madhur Jaffrey) who has left her homeland and lives in contemporary London. On the anniversary of…
Barney Miller (TV Series) (1975): Feat. Hal Linden, Barbara Barrie, Abe Vigoda…; This offbeat '70s sitcom about the drudgery and ordinary absurdity of everyday police work remains a cult favourite among TV aficionados and…
Breakheart Pass (1975): Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna…; Charles Bronson plays a prisoner being transported on a train with a small U.S. army unit and medical supplies through the Rocky mountains. The…
Breakout (1975): Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland…; Action–adventure vehicle for Charles Bronson, giving the furrow–browed actor a more lighthearted role as a bush pilot who is hired for…
Charlie's Angels (TV Series) (1975- 1980): Dir. Richard Lang, Cliff Bol
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith…; Hugely successful 70s television series that ingeniously pooled the elements overt sex appeal, cod–feminism and crime fighting.
Conduct Unbecoming (1975): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard; Well–made, though somewhat old–fashioned version of Barry England's play about misbehaviour among the British Army in India. The stars…
Edward VII (TV Series) (1975): Dir. John Gorrie
Feat. Timothy West, John Gielgud, Robert Hardy…; Superb period drama covers the complicated 'Royal' Edward VII, who was almost an old man by the time he finally became King of England in the early…
Great Macarthy, The (1975): Dir. David Baker
Feat. John Jarratt, Judy Morris, Barry Humphries; A not unlikeable drama from 1970s Australian cinema, set on the boundary between amateur and professional Australian Rules football. Jarratt plays a…
Great Waldo Pepper, The (1975): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Robert Redford, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon; Rousing aviation film following Waldo Pepper (Redford), a former WW1 flight–instructor who takes up extreme stunt flying in order to make up…
Hanged Man, The (TV Series) (1975): Feat. Colin Blakely, Michael Williams; Colin Blakely plays a rich industrialist whose success has made him the death target of his shady competitors. Series follows Blakely pretending to…
Hard Times (Street Fighter) (1975): Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland…; During the Great Depression Charles Bronson fights economic gloom with his fists in this invigorating punch–fest from the action ace Walter…
Hiding Place, The (1975): Dir. James F. Collier
Feat. Julie Harris, Eileen Heckart; A Dutch family are sent to a concentration camp after turning their home into a shelter for Jews. Based on the autobiographical book by Corrie Ten…
Inside Out (1975): Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason…; UK action thriller film, shot in West Berlin and The Netherlands. Thirty years after World War II, a team of former soldiers from both the US and…
Love Among the Ruins (1975): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Colin Blakely…; Nicely polished period TV–movie, with barrister Olivier defending aging beauty Hepburn, who is being sued by a gigolo for 'abandonment'. Of…
Lucky Lady (1975): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds…; Shapeless caper with three rum–runners set during the prohibition whose lives are complicated by the personal relationships. A notorious…
Mahogany (1975): Dir. Berry Gordy
Feat. Diana Ross, Anthony Perkins, Billy Dee Williams…; Deliciously overripe melodrama with Diana Ross as an aspiring designer falling under the spell of jet–setting Anthony Perkins. Ross and…
Man Friday (1975): Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier; Spin–off on the Defoe classic, "Robinson Crusoe", updated with Man Friday revolting against white supremacy and engaging in a conflict with…
Man from Hong Kong, The (1975): Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. George Lazenby, Bill Hunter, Rebecca Gilling…; Cracking martial arts adventure tracking an inspector sent to Australia to expel a drug courier. Photogenically set against the backdrops of Ayers…
Master Gunfighter, The (1975): Dir. Frank Laughlin
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Ron O'Neal, Barbara Carrera; From the creator/actor of BILLY JACK this samurai western follows a peace–loving master swordsman and gunfighter, who's…
Night Moves (1975): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith; Underrated private–eye yarn with Gene Hackman tracking down a then very young Melanie Griffith. Intelligent fare that leads to a stunning…
Poldark (TV Series) (1975): Dir. Philip Dudley
Feat. Ralph Bates, Robin Ellis, Jill Townsend; Highly successful British TV series based on the series of novels by Winston Graham about the life of an 18th–century Cornish nobleman (Ellis)…
Posse (1975): Dir. Kirk Douglas
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins…; Kirk Douglas acts and directs in this revisionist western about a US Marshal with political ambitions who leads a uniformed posse to hunt down a…
Raffles (TV Series) (1975-1977): Feat. Anthony Valentine, Christopher Strauli; Known by day as A.J. Raffles, gentleman of leisure and top–rate cricketer, at night Raffles becomes "the amateur Cracksman", an expert jewel…
Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The (1975): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill…; Slow burn psychological horror directed by J. Lee Thompson (GUNS OF NAVARONE) about a university professor who is tortured by recurring nightmares…
Rooster Cogburn (1975): Dir. Stuart Millar
Feat. John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn; John Wayne saddles up for another round of boozing and revenging in this follow–up to TRUE GRIT. Reigning in the one–eyed Marshall this…
Rosebud (1975): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Peter Lawford…; Preminger's penultimate film is sadly a mess. Members of the Palestinian Liberation Army kidnap five heiresses in order to bring attention to their…
Shadows (TV Series) (1975-1978): Feat. Jenny Agutter, Pauline Quirke; Atmospheric and superbly scripted, this quintessential children’s series of the 1970s offers up psychological and supernatural tales in which young…
Slipper and the Rose, The (1975): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Sir Michael Hordern…; Middling musical retells the Cinderella story from the prince's point of view. An unlikely Richard Chamberlain plays the all–singin, all dancin…
Smurfs and the Magic Flute, The (1975): Dir. Peyo , Eddie Lateste; Big screen outing for the little blue creatures as they help a young prince retrieve a magical flute that causes people to dance uncontrollably.…
Sunshine Boys, The (1975): Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Walter Matthau, George Burns; Two ageing comedians, known as the "Sunshine Boys" for 43 years together, have parted ways on unfriendly terms and have not spoken to each other in…
Take a Hard Ride (1975): Dir. Anthony M. Dawson
Feat. Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson…; Fun western cheapie with Jim Brown heading to Sonora to deliver a payroll....Lee Van Cleef has other ideas.
Two's Company (TV Series) (1975-1979): Dir. Stuart Allen
Feat. Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden; Light–hearted comedy series outlining the cultural clash between an American writer living in London and her British butler who fail to see…
Welcome Back, Kotter (TV Series) (1975): Feat. Gabe Kaplan, John Travolta; This classic American sitcom still holds up in its rowdy but progressive view of high school delinquency and remedial education. A young John…
Wilby Conspiracy, The (1975): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson…; Activists Poitier and Caine are stalked by a sadistic policeman in this Apartheid–era suspenser, in which thrills take precedence over politics.
Winstanley (1975): Dir. Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Feat. Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins; The dramatized history of a Reformation–era religious sect called the Diggers. A nonviolent aggregation, the Diggers are devoted to tilling the…
Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) (1974): Dir. Derek Bennett, Michael Ferguson
Feat. Diana Rigg, Ian Ogilvy, Anna Calder-Marshall…; Seven tales from the fiction of Henry James are adapted to television with varying degrees of success and a wide range of actors. Plenty of…
And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) (1974): Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough…; Agatha Christie’s "Ten Little Indians" receives a clunky, if still entertaining makeover in this stacked international adaptation of the macabre…
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (1974): Dir. John Korty
Feat. Cicely Tyson, Richard Dysart, Michael Murphy; Notable classic tele–drama based on the novel of the same name by Ernest J. Gaines, set in the early 1960's, where a woman born into slavery in…
Best of Les Dawson, The (1974-1977): Feat. Les Dawson; Genial comedian Dawson was all over British (and NZ) television in the 1970s, using his array of comic and musical talents in shows like "Blankety…
Between Wars (1974): Dir. Michael Thornhill
Feat. Corin Redgrave, Judy Morris, Arthur Dignam…; Insightful portrait traces the career of famed Australian psychiatrist Dr Edward Trenbow, as he embarks on his groundbreaking research of…
Billy Two Hats (1974): Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gregory Peck, Desi Jr. Arnaz, Jack Warden…; Minor western with two bandits on the run from a racist sheriff after a botched bank robbery results in a death. Artful take on the genre is mostly…
Brief Encounter (1974): Dir. Alan Bridges
Feat. Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley…; The BBC revisit David Lean's classic unrequited romance, with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren excellent as would–be lovers who meet on a train…
California Split (1974): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. George Segal, Elliott Gould, Gwen Welles; A terrific gambling lark–come–cautionary tale from director Robert Altman, starring George Segal as a casual gambler who befriends a…
Daisy Miller (1974): Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Mildred Natwick…; A thoughtful if slightly 'out of tune' version of Henry James' early novel, in which the titular American tours Europe in the late 1800s. Nicely…
Day of the Dolphin, The (1974): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino…; An ecological sci–fi thriller, based on a French novel by Robert Merle. George C Scott stars as a scientist who has trained two dolphins to…
F for Fake (1974): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles; Ostensibly a documentary, on unrepentant art–forger Elmyr de Hory and 'fake biographer' Clifford Irving, this material is cunningly subverted…
For Pete's Sake (1974): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin, Estelle Parsons; Middling comedy depicts Barbra Streisand as the wife of depressed NYC taxi–driver Michael Sarrazin – to change their fortunes she pursues…
Freebie and the Bean (1974): Dir. Richard Rush
Feat. James Caan, Alan Arkin, Valerie Harper…; A genre–twisting cop film from the dir. of THE STUNT MAN, that has cops Caan and Arkin in pursuit of a gangster and leaving an immense trail of…
From Beyond the Grave (1974): Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen…; Enjoyable anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories linked through the classic device of an antique store and its mysterious owner…
Gambler, The (1974): Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton…; A typically gritty 70s crime drama, adapted from a story by Dostoevsky, that boasts a fine performance by James Caan as a well–respected…
Gold (The Great Gold Conspiracy) (1974): Dir. Peter Hunt
Feat. Roger Moore, Susannah York, John Gielgud…; A surprisingly tight, if strictly old–fashioned, thriller sees a top–form Roger Moore play the newly appointed manager of a South African…
Great McGonagall, The (1974): Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Valentine Dyall; Based on the true story of 19th Scottish 'nonsense' poet William McGonagall (Milligan), who courted favour from Queen Victoria (Sellers) amongst…
Groove Tube, The (1974): Dir. Ken Shapiro
Feat. Chevy Chase, Ken Shapiro, Richard Belzer; An early satire of television broadcasts, which takes news, programmes, childrens' shows and adverts in its subversive stride. Famous now for its…
Gun and the Pulpit, The (1974): Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Marjoe Gortner, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston…; A television pilot for an unproduced series starring former evangelist and cult figure Marjoe Gortner as a gunslinger on the lam who impersonates a…
Harry & Tonto (Harry and Tonto) (1974): Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Rene Enriquez…; Art Carney won the Oscar for his performance as a retiree embarking on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.
Invasion: UFO (1974): Dir. Gerry Anderson
Feat. Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Gabrielle Drake; A feature film cleverly edited from several episodes of Gerry Anderson's UFO TV Series. Set in the year of 1980, S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters…
Klansman, The (1974): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, Cameron Mitchell…; Samuel Fuller co–wrote this trashy Southern potboiler, graced with the acting chops of Richard Burton and Lee Marvin as landowner and sheriff…
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) (1974-1975): Feat. Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage; Darkly comic supernatural series following newspaper reporter Carl Kochak as he attempts to uncover supernatural occurrences in downtown Chicago.…
Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) (1974-1982): Feat. Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert; Gently focused account of a settler family building their 'little house' on the plains of Minnesota in the 1870s. While not exactly gritty, this is…
Little Prince, The (1974): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder; The classic childern's story by aviator Antoine de Saint–Exupery is here translated with whimsy and wit intact. A pilot is stranded in a desert…
Madhouse (1974): Dir. Jim Clark
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry…; British horror film based on the 1969 novel Devilday by Angus Hall, with Vincent Price playing a horror actor renowned for his character Dr. Death,…
Man About the House: The Movie (1974): Dir. John Robins
Feat. Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Spike Milligan; Big screen outing of the popular sitcom has an unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings, only Robin…
McQ (1974): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur…; John Wayne plays it tough in this neo–noir as a grizzled Seattle cop investigating the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the…
Murder On the Orient Express (1974): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam…; Extravagent production of Agatha Christie's mystery with Albert Finney as Poirot rounding up an all–star cast of suspects.
Onedin Line, The (TV Series) (1974-1980): Feat. Peter Gilmore, Howard Lang, Brian Rawlinson…; A sterling soap–opera of the 1970s, this immensely popular TV saga followed the empire–building and family fortunes of gruff 19th Century…
Pallisers, The (TV Series) (1974): Dir. Hugh David
Feat. Phillip Latham, Barbara Murray, Susan Hampshire…; Substantial saga of wealth, passion, power, and scandal set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid–Victorian England,…
Parade (1974): Dir. Jacques Tati; An eclectic comedy cabaret show that involves the filming of live performers on and offstage with small minuets dotted throughout. This final film…
Planet of the Apes (TV Series) (1974): Dir. Various, Don Weis, Arnold Laven
Feat. Roddy McDowall, James Naughton, Booth Colman; Continuing the ‘APES’ sequence of movies, this entertainingly fills–out the initial conceit. Roddy McDowall crosses over to the…
Policewoman (TV Series) (1974): Feat. Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman; Angie Dickinson stars in this classic police drama – the first cop show to feature a woman as the lead character– as Sergeant "Pepper"…
QB VII (TV Mini-Series) (1974): Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Ben Gazzara, Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Caron…; A multiple Emmy–winning adaptation of the novel by Leon Uris (best known for "Exodus") detailing the gripping court battle between a…
Rockford Files, The (TV Series) (1974-1975): Feat. James Garner, Noah Jr. Beery, Joe Santos…; In the spirit of 'Cold Case' this detective thriller series stars James Garner as an easy going plaid jacket attired investigator pursuing unsolved…
Space 1999 (TV Series) (1974- 1978): Dir. David Tomblin
Feat. Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse…; A live–action creation from puppet–master Gerry Anderson about a crew of scientists stationed on "Moonbase Alpha". With sterling…
Spikes Gang, The (1974): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith…; Downbeat western with Lee Marvin as a wounded outlaw who finds shelter with two young runaways. Regaling them his colorful stories of life on the…
Steppenwolf (1974): Feat. Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi; A strange yet spiritually faithful adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel about a solitary intellectual in 1920's Germany who is a half–human,…
Swallows and Amazons (1974): Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser; Solidly crafted adaptation of Arthur Ransome's celebrated children's novel about a group of children having a variety of holiday adventures in the…
Tamarind Seed, The (1974): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle…; Languid romantic thriller plays out against the backdrop of the Cold War looming. Andrews plays a British civil servant on holiday in the Caribbean…
Terminal Man, The (1974): Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart…; A man experiencing violent seizures agrees to undergo experimental treatment involving the implantation of microcomputers in his brain. Seventies…
Terrorists, The (Ransom) (1974): Dir. Caspar Wrede
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffry Wickham; Improbable thriller with Connery as a Norwegian colonel charged with liberating a plane full of hostages in the "country" of Scandinavia.
That's Entertainment (1974): Dir. Various; A jolly good compendium of MGM musical highlights that nutshell the magic of the productions and the times they were made, and judiciously cut out…
Thursday's Game (1974): Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. Gene Wilder, Bob Newhart, Ellen Burstyn…; Well regarded made–for–TV buddy movie. Acquaintances Gene Wilder and Bob Newhart, deeply mired in parallel mid–life crises,…
Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The (1974): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Frank Mills, Sheila Dunn, Anne Blake; Short TV movie based on the ghost story by M. R. James. Michael Bryant stars as a scholar of Medieval history who finds the clue to hidden treasure…
Vincent, François, Paul et les autres (1974): Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani…; French drama following three friends facing mid–life crises, based on the novel La grande Marrade by Claude Néron.
Voyage, The (Il Viaggio) (1974): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Ian Bannen; Melodrama from Italian master De Sica sees an incurably ill Sophia Loren torn between the love of two brothers (Richard Burton and Ian Bannen, both…
White Dawn, The (1974): Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Jr. Gossett; Adventure film set in the Canadian arctic where three ship wreck survivors are saved and adopted by an Inuit tribe, but take advantage of them and…
Zoo Gang, The (TV Series) (1974): Feat. Brian Keith, John Mills, Barry Morse…; Old fashioned but fun espionage series centered around five aged resistance fighters scamming scamming the scammers and gifting the money to the…
A Doll's House (1973): Dir. Patrick Garland
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Claire Bloom, Ralph Richardson…; A stagey, though strongly acted version of Henrik Ibsen's renowned proto–feminist stageplay set in a 19th century household beset by personal…
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973): Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Jim Dale, Arthur Lowe; Jim Dale plays a young Spike Milligan, then an aspiring jazz musician who in 1940 reluctantly obeys his call–up and joins the Royal Artillery…
American Film Theatre - Iceman Cometh, The (1973): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Fredric March…; Masterly filmic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's late stageplay set among the various seedy denizens of an early 20th century barroom, awaiting the…
Badlands (1973): Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek; Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are a knock–out as deluded teenage fugitives who chalk up a hefty body count as they flee across country. Based…
Barnaby Jones (TV Series) (1973): Feat. Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether; Forced out of retirement to solve the murder of his son, lanky, milk–drinking Detective Jones is back doing what he does best – catching…
Blockhouse, The (1973): Dir. Clive Rees
Feat. Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp; A crafted, though minor serious role for Sellers as one of a number of slave–labourers at work on the Nazi's Normandy defence bunkers. On…
Charley Varrick (1973): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr…; Walter Matthau makes for a fascinating, unconventional armed robber in this punchy heist picture, trademarked by Don Siegel's famously pacey…
Chino (1973): Dir. John Sturges, Duilio Coletti
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi…; Downbeat western casts a melancholic eye on the plight of a half Indian horse breeder and his struggles in face of racist townsfolk. Almost a…
Dillinger (1973): Dir. John Milius
Feat. Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman…; A tough portait of the Depression–era bank robber that like BONNIE AND CLYDE, invests the criminal with the mythic qualities of the outlaw.…
Don is Dead, The (1973): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster; A botched drug deal is at the centre of this competent mafioso film, one of many spawned in the wake of THE GODFATHER's success.
Emperor of the North (1973): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine…; Depression set actioner with Borgnine as a violent train conductor determined to prevent hobo Marvin bumming a ride.
Executive Action (1973): Dir. David Miller
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer; Rogue intelligence agents, right–wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free–lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination…
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Shane Briant; The sixth and final installment of the Frankenstein series for Hammer Films was also the last for its director and star Peter Cushing as Victor…
Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (1973): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan…; A superlative, cold–hearted, downright unforgiving crime classic of the 70s, with Robert Mitchum (never better) as an aging Boston gunrunner…
Kojak (TV Series) (1973-1978): Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Telly Savalas, Ned Beatty; Popular 70s cop show that turned Telly Savalas's funky, lollipop sucking, glow–domed police lieutenant into a cultural icon. Highly quotable,…
Last American Hero, The (1973): Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald…; Jeff Bridges' mix of redneck roughness and choirboy sweetness is just right for this 1973 true story of a country kid running moonshine and making…
Laughing Policeman, The (1973): Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe; Police procedural loosely based on the Swedish novel of the same name, set in the aftermath of a horrific shootout on a public bus. A detective…
Love Thy Neighbour - The Movie (1973): Feat. Jake Smethurst, Rudolph Walker; Card–carrying unionist Eddie Booth, a socialistic avowed racial discriminator who maintains a constant barrage of abuse at his neighbor, a…
Mackintosh Man, The (1973): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason; Old–fashioned cold war thriller with Paul Newman playing a British intelligence agent who goes undercover to infiltrate a spy organisation. A…
Man About the House (TV Series) (1973): Dir. Peter Frazer-Jones
Feat. Richard O'Sullivan, Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy; Classic Brit sitcom concerning the accomodation adventures of student Richard O'Sullivan and his two female flatmates. Two flies in the ointment…
Moonbase 3 (TV Series) (1973): Feat. Donald Houston, Ralph Bates; A British sci–fi show set in 2003 when five world powers have colonised the moon, the third of which is a European base run by Donald Houston…
National Health, The (1973): Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron…; Riotous black comedy focusing on the appalling conditions at an under–funded National Health Service hospital, based on the acclaimed 1969 play…
No Sex Please We're British (1973): Dir. Cliff Owen
Feat. Ronnie Corbett, Beryl Reid, Arthur Lowe…; "Riotous" British sex farce based on the long–running stageplay about a swell of "adult literature" that floods a prudish small town by the way…
Nothing But the Night (The Resurrection Syndicate) (1973): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors…; Lee and Cushing are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate a fatal bus crash and how it relates to the going–ons at a creepy orphanage.…
Offence, The (1973): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant…; One of the better Lumet films. Sean Connery – in a rare impressive performance – as a British cop who loses control while interrogating a…
Once Upon a Scoundrel (1973): Dir. George Schaefer
Feat. Zero Mostel, A Martinez, Katy Jurado; Obscure Mostel comedy, in which the stone–faced comedian plays a cruel landowner in rural Mexico. Worth a look for fans.
Optimists, The (1973): Dir. Anthony Simmons
Feat. Peter Sellers; Gentle, affirmative tale of a busker (Sellers) who inspires London's poor and neglected children to look on the bright side of life. Hard to dislike.
Paper Chase, The (1973): Dir. James Bridges
Feat. Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman…; Terrified Harvard Law students square off against the magnificent John Houseman (Oscar winner for his role as the professor from hell) in this well…
Picture Of Dorian Gray (1973): Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Shane Briant, Nigel Davenport; Capable TV version of Oscar Wilde's classic novel in which young Dorian (Shane Briant) cashes in his soul, in a deal whereby his painted portrait…
Revolver (Blood in the Streets) (1973): Dir. Sergio Sollima
Feat. Oliver Reed, Fabio Testi; Equal turns punchy and preposterous, this 'spaghetti crime thriller' involves a prison warden (Reed) who is drawn into an intricate web of deceit…
Satanic Rites of Dracula, The (1973): Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley…; When a group of Scotland Police Investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism, they call in Van Helsing to put a stop to Count…
Save the Tiger (1973): Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Harvey Jason…; Spotty meditation on moral conflict in 1970's America with Lemmon as a troubled business owner longing for the past. Wordy and overstuffed with…
Seven-Ups, The (1973): Dir. Philip D' Antoni
Feat. Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Victor Arnold…; Underrated action flick with Roy Scheider on as a tough NYC cop on the trail of his partner's killers. Salty thriller has atmosphere to spare and…
Six Million Dollar Man, The (TV Series) (1973-1978): Feat. Lee Majors; As the quintessential TV action figure of 70s, Steve Austin, Lee Majors was the coolest guy on the planet. The show ran for eight years until…
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) (1973): Feat. Michael Crawford, Michele Dotrice; The side–splitting misadventures of legendary klutz, Frank Spencer incarnated by a nimble, pre–'Phantom of the Opera' Michael Crawford.…
Sting, The (1973): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw…; Classic vehicle for Robert Redford and Paul Newman playing two Depression–era conmen. Winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture. Music by…
Stone Killer, The (1973): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin…; Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner duet for this pre–DEATH WISH actioner about a disgraced NYC cop who joins the L.A.P.D. where he…
Theatre of Blood (1973): Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry; Vincent Price plays a hammy stage actor who avenges the critics that have vilified him, staging their deaths like scenes from Shakespearian plays. No…
Three Musketeers, The (1973): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Oliver Reed, Michael York, Richard Chamberlain…; Splendidly cheeky version of Alexandre Dumas' enduring classic with dashing gents clearly enjoying the romp. It's Raquel Welch, however, who's the…
Tomorrow People, The (TV Series) (1973): Dir. Paul Bernard
Feat. Nicholas Young; Fitted out with stun–guns, digital watches and a talking biotronic computer called TIM, a group of highly–evolved youngsters also enjoy…
Touki Bouki (1973): Dir. Djibril Diop Mambety
Feat. Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang; A Senegalese drama, recently restored, about a cowherd and a university student try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past…
Train Robbers, The (1973): Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor; Light, traditional–style John Wayne Western following a gun hand who is hired by a widow to find the gold that was stolen by her late husband…
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? (TV Series) (1973): Feat. James Bolam; Popular sequel to "The Likely Lads", a hit British sitcom from the partnership of Dick Clement and Ian La Francis of which only nine of those shows…
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (Une Belle Fille Comme Moi) (1972): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Andre Dussollier; Twisted French black comedy of a licentious, manipulative murderess recounting her sordid past to a green criminology student. Dripping in silly…
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die! (Una Ragione per vivere e una per morire) (1972): Dir. Tonino Valerii
Feat. James Coburn, Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer…; Uneven spaghetti western set during the American Civil War concerns a private battle between a DIRY DOZEN style group and brutal Confederate…
Adventure's of Black Beauty, The (TV Series) (1972-1974): Based on the classic children's book, in which a thoroughbred horse is adopted into the household of a local doctor and widower, and befriended by…
Agatha Christie Murder Mystery Collection (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Mirror Crack'd, Endless Night) (1972-1981): Feat. Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Peter Ustinov…; Four of the best latterday adaptations of mystery–writer Agatha Christie.
Are You Being Served? (TV Series) (1972-1985): Feat. Mollie Sugden, John Inman; The staff at 'Grace Brothers' department store serve out the humourous innuendos in this long–running British sitcom.
Avanti (1972): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills; Neglected upon release, but now no more, this late Billy Wilder comedy, Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills connect in a Mediterranean resort, where each…
Banacek (TV Series) (1972): Feat. George Peppard, Ralph Manza, Murray Matheson…; Enjoyable riff on the detective genre with George Peppard playing suave insurance investigator Banacek who gets called into solve some ludicrously…
Barbra Streisand Collection (Nuts, What's Up Doc, The Main Event, Up the Sandbox) (1972-1987): Feat. Barbra Streisand
Biscuit Eater, The (1972): Dir. Vincent McEveety
Feat. Lew Ayres, Earl Holliman, Patricia Crowley; Sweetly sentimental version of James Street's novel about two young lads – one black, one white – who combine their efforts in training a…
Bless This House (1972): Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. Sidney James; Sidney Carry–On James is the long–suffering head of a madcap household, whose constant tomfoolery cause him endless headaches; his…
Buck and the Preacher (1972): Dir. Sidney Poitier
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Cameron Mitchell…; An intriguing 'black' Western set in the aftermath of the American Civil War, with a group of freed slaves setting out across the dangerous…
Butterflies Are Free (1972): Dir. Milton Katselas
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Edward Jr. Albert, Eileen Heckart; Early Goldie Hawn vehicle adapts Leonard Gershe's Broadway play, in which Hawn's blind neighbour falls in love with her.
Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1972): Dir. Brian Clemens
Feat. Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Carson; British cult TV writer Brian Clemens (THE AVENGERS) assumes directing duties on this spirited historical vampire romp he wrote for Hammer Studios,…
Carey Treatment, The (1972): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. James Coburn, Pat Hingle; 70s thriller starring James Coburn as Dr Peter Carey, a pathologist who becomes an amateur detective when he investigates an accidental death at his…
Chato's Land (1972): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore…; DEATH WISH in the desert with Bronson picking off rednecks in revenge for his wife's rape and murder. Michael Winner brings his customary…
Colditz (TV Series) (1972): Dir. Michael Ferguson, William Slater, Philip Dudley
Feat. Jack Hedley, Robert Wagner, David McCallum…; BBC drama series about prisoners of war in Colditz Castle during WW2, and their multiple attempts to escape. The real British Escape Officer at…
Cowboys, The (1972): Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. John Wayne, Bruce Dern; John Wayne loses his cattle ranchers to the gold–rush, so is forced to recruit 11 children, much to the delight of cowboy nasty, Bruce Dern.…
Culpepper Cattle Co., The (1972): Dir. Dick Richards
Feat. Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew…; Intriguing revisionist western with a young farm boy who always wanted to be a cowhand talking a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Glenn Corbett, Anton Diffring, Stephane Audran; German police procedural directed by Samuel Fuller, made as part of the television series Tatort but also given a theatrical release in the USA. An…
Death Line (Raw Meat) (1972): Dir. Gary Sherman
Feat. Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington; A cannibal zombie stalks the local stations of the London Underground picking off unlucky passengers for nourishment in this British 70's horror gem,…
Dr Seuss - The Lorax (1972): Award–winning animated version of the Dr. Seuss environmental fable about the greedy, tree–chopping Once–lers and the brave little…
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1972): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick; Delightfully camp turn on Stevenson's legendary fable of good and evil inhabiting the same body. Archetypal fun from Hammer studios.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972): Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing…; Vincent Price reprises the Phibes, and this time gets to go to Egypt.
Edwardians, The (1972): Dir. John Howard Davies, James Cellan Jones, Alan Clarke
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Timothy West, Robert Powell…; Superb examination of eight famous Edwardians who helped shape the early 20th century. Impeccably presented and directed by some of the BBC's finest…
Endless Night (1972): Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland…; Riveting Agatha Christie mystery based around the union of a chauffeur and heiress who end up moving into a cursed home. Heightened Hitchcockian…
Escape into Night (TV Series) (Marianne Dreams) (1972): Feat. Vikki Chambers; A convalescent young girl's drawings become the basis for her dreams in this six–part British TV serial that left an indelibly haunting…
Evil Roy Slade (1972): Dir. Jerry Paris
Feat. John Astin, Mickey Rooney, Henry Gibson…; Wacky western spoof made its way onto screens after originally flopping as TV pilot. John Astin (ADDAM'S FAMILY) plays the titular villain on…
Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973): Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…; Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
Godfather Trilogy, The (1972-1990): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola; Deluxe presentation of the entire GODFATHER trilogy, including featurette documentaries, commentaries and many deleted scenes.
Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, The (1972): Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Robert Duvall, Cliff Robertson; Hard–edged Western tells the story of the fading Jesse James gang and their most daring and ill–fated bank raid. Duvall and Robertson…
Gumshoe (1972): Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay…; Paying sly homage to Bogart, Chandler and Hammett, this sly detective spoof is the directorial debut of prolific British director Stephen Frears.…
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972): Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Keith Michell, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gough…; Spin–off from the BBC series, accounts the antics of England's most notorious monarch reign.
Jeremiah Johnson (1972): Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Will Geer; A counter–culture sensibility pervades this rugged wilderness western, about a mountain man whose distaste for civilization sees him go off the…
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972): Dir. Robert Bolt
Feat. Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain…; Playwright Robert Bolt (A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS) debuts as dir. with this intelligent account of the titular Englishwoman. Managing to rock early 19th…
Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972): Dir. Gene Saks
Feat. Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Paula Prentiss…; Neil Simon adapts his portrait of a middle aged restaurateur trying desperately to join the sexual revolution by taking advantage of his mother's…
Lo Scopone Scientifico (1972): Dir. Luigi Comencini
Feat. Bette Davis, Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano…; Little–known Italian comedy stars Bette Davis as a wealthy, Nora Desmond–esque countess who entices those less fortunate to gamble with…
Lord Peter Wimsey (TV Series) (1972): Feat. Ian Carmichael; Dorothy L. Sayers's archetypal British gentleman detective sleuths murders and crimes of passions in this sophisticated and subtly satirical BBC…
Lotus Eaters, The (TV Series) (1972-1973): Feat. Ian Hendry, Wanda Ventham; Unorthodox Mediterranean drama encircles the lives of various British ex–pats around a married couple (Hendry & Ventham) who run a tavern on…
Love Thy Neighbour (TV Series) (1972): Dir. Stuart Allen
Feat. Jake Smethurst, Rudolph Walker; Devised to defuse some of the racial tension of the day, this controversial 70s Brit sitcom hilariously pits black and white neighbours…
Man of La Mancha (1972): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco…; Peter O’Toole ‘dreams the impossible dream’ as Cervantes’ Don Quixote in this much–maligned adaptation of the popular Broadway musical.…
MASH (TV Series) (M*A*S*H) (1972-1983): Feat. Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit; Long running and much loved TV Series loosely based on Robert Altman’s 1969 film set in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean…
Mechanic, The (1972): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jill Ireland…; Charles Bronson broods away as an ageing hitman (or 'mechanic') who takes on a apprentice (Vincent). Although none–too–distinguished this…
Merchant of Four Seasons, The (Händler der vier Jahreszeiten) (1972): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Ingrid Caven, Peter Chatel…; Crushing melodrama centred on a man whose life begins to cave in on him after returning from service in the Foreign Legion to find his dreams…
Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different (1972): Feat. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle…; An anthology of some of the great moments from Monty Python's revolutionary comedy programme.
Night Stalker, The / Night Strangler, The (1972-1973): Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, Dan Curtis
Feat. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland…; Two excellent and groundbreaking tele–movies from the early 70s starring Darren McGavin as wise–cracking 'regular guy' reporter Carl…
Ooh, You Are Awful (1972): Dir. Cliff Owen
Feat. Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser; Cheeky Brit comedy focused on a con–man (Emery) who swindles an Italian millionaire out of a large sum of cash, only to have it deposited into…
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page…; Bittersweet character story of a smarmy rogue and an aging virgin who get married despite fundamental differences which remain unaltered nine years…
Pocket Money (1972): Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin…; Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher. Amiable comedy written by a pre–fame…
Pulp (1972): Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander…; After completing the phenomenal GET CARTER Caine and dir. Hodges reteamed for this lightweight, yet highly watchable comedy thriller. Caine plays…
Railway Children, The (1972): Dir. Lionel Jeffries
Feat. Jenny Agutter; When their father is jailed for espionage, Jenny Agutter and her siblings are relocated to rural Yorkshire. Local adventures slowly turn into an…
Rentadick (1972): Feat. Richard Briers, James Booth, Richard Beckinsale…; From a screenplay by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rentadick, a band of private detectives, are hired to protect a rich scientist's business as…
Salzburg Connection, The (Top Secret) (1972): Dir. Lee H. Katzin
Feat. Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer…; Entertaining espionage tale has Newman tangling with neo–Nazis and spies both in pursuit of the identity of German war criminals. Densely…
Savages (1972): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine…; Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Shelley (TV Series) (1972-1992): Feat. Hywel Bennett; Classic British comedy series revels in one of the more unlikely deadly sins: sloth. University graduate James Shelley (Bennett) is a cynical,…
Snoop Sisters, The (TV Series) (1972): Feat. Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick; Two elderly spinsters put down their mystery writing pens to catch perps for real in this dotty, genteel crime series. Starring former Miss Marple,…
Sounder (1972): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks…; Celebrated tale of a family of black sharecroppers struggling in the the American South during the 1930s. Hooks is excellent as a teenager who…
Steptoe and Son / Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1972-1973): Dir. Peter Sykes, Cliff Owen
Feat. Harry H. Corbett, Wilfred Brambell; Two spinoff feature films starring the same rag–and–bone men from the classic TV Series. In STEPTOE AND SON, Harold disastrously marries…
Streets of San Francisco, The (TV Series) (1972-1980): Feat. Karl Malden, Michael Douglas; Top–notch 70's crime show with granite–faced veteran Karl Malden and newcomer Michael Douglas sharing the billing with the photogenic and…
Tales from the Crypt (1972): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice…; A schlocky omnibus from Amicus Studios derived from EC comics in which five people are trapped in a crypt with the mysterious Crypt Keeper, who…
Till Death Us Do Part (TV Series) (1972-1974): Feat. Warren Mitchell; Contentious, well remembered BBC sitcom is a comedy firebrand about a narrow–minded Cockney geezer whose racist diatribes were intended to be…
Tout Va Bien (Everything’s All Right) (1972): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Feat. Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Anita Caprioli; Radical political drama from Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean Luc–Godard and frequent collaborator Jean–Pierre Gorin, set during a wildcat…
Travels With My Aunt (1972): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Jr. Gossett…; A young Maggie Smith ages up in this entertaining if over–stuffed whimsy based on the novel by Graham Greene about the odd–ball…
Ulzana's Raid (1972): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison; Burt Lancaster saddles up to hunt a band of Apache Indians who have escaped their impoverished reservation and have gone on the warpath. One of…
Up the Chastity Belt (1972): Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Nora Swinburne, Graham Crowden; More Howerd led malarkey, set in the middle ages, with Frankie as a servant comically defending his master's daughter.
Up the Front (1972): Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Hermione Baddeley…; One of Frankie Howerd's bigscreen starring roles in a spinoff of the 'Up Pompeii' TV Series. Here he plays an WWII soldier who has invasion plans…
Van Der Valk (TV Series) (1972-1992): Feat. Barry Foster, Joanna Dunham, Michael Latimer…; A hugely popular police procedural series starring Barry Foster as Van der Valk, a no–nonsense Dutch detective and head of the Amsterdam CID…
Visitors, The (1972): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods…; Tense chamber piece has Woods as a returned Vietnam Vet holidaying with his wife and son when two fellow ex–soldiers turn up unannounced.…
Waltons, The (TV Series) (1972-1981): Feat. Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned…; One of the most iconic TV Series of all time depicted the life of an extended family in Depression–era Virginia. Claimed as a repository for…
What's Up Doc? (1972): Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn…; Creditable homage to the screwball farces of Hawks and Sturges, with Barbara Streisand as the wildcard in the life of musicologist Ryan O’Neal.…
Where Does It Hurt? (1972): Dir. Rodney Amateau
Feat. Peter Sellers, Rick Lenz, Harold Gould…; Watchable farce has Sellers playing Dr. Albert T Hopfnagel, a corrupt hospital official devoted to the art of ripping off patients. Barbed satire…
Whodunnit? (TV Series) (1972-1974): This fondly–remembered primetime panel game from the 1970's invited viewers to play detective by pitting their wits against a panel of…
You'll Like My Mother (1972): Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas; Patty Duke plays a heavily pregnant woman who travels to rural Minnesota to meet her late husband's mother–in–law, who turns out to have…
A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker!) (1971): Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli; Leone’s final spaghetti–western is a sprawling adventure set in the Mexican revolution, with fistfuls of action and comedy aplenty to rival…
Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) (1971): Feat. Pete Duel, Ben Murphy; Two notorious outlaws receive amnesty on the condition they lay low for a year in this rumble–tumble western clearly inspired by the rogue…
Beware Of A Holy Whore (Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte, The Little Chaos, The City Tramp) (1971): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla; Dubbed Fassbinder's most autobiographical work, this ambiguous comedy investigates relations between a clan of artists attempting to make a film in…
Bless This House (TV Series) (1971): Dir. William G Stewart
Feat. Sidney James; A successful early 1970s British sitcom featuring the star of the CARRY ON... films. The six episodes of the first series examine the trials of a…
Born To Win (Addict) (1971): Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Karen Black…; Obscure, but charmingly unique drama–comedy about a former NYC hairdresser (Segal), who has turned street hustler to finance his destructive…
Boy Friend, The (1971): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian…; Unavailable on any format until recently, this long lost flight of fancy finds Ken Russell remodeling the golden age of musicals in his own…
Brotherhood of Satan, The (1971): Dir. Bernard McEveety
Feat. Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman…; Low budget horror set in the American Southwest, where a couple on a road trip discover a coven of elderly Satanists who are holding a town's…
Carnal Knowledge (1971): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret…; Classic from the early 70s 'zeitgeist', this funny yet sobering film chronicles the sex lives of two disparate men from high–school to…
Columbo (TV Series) (1971-2003): Dir. Richard Irving, John Smight
Feat. Peter Falk; Peter Falk's keynote character was this canny TV–Series police detective, whose rumpled charm and wobbly eye disguises his brilliant mind.…
Comedians, The (TV Series) (1971-1993): Born out of the working men's clubs in 70's England, and beginning as an experiment for Granada TV, this had more gags, one–liners and knowing…
Cousin Bette (TV Mini-series) (1971): Dir. Gareth Davies
Feat. Margaret Tyzack, Helen Mirren, Thorley Walters…; Rigorous adaptation of revered Balzac novel bears witness to the torment exacted by the unmarried titular character as she sets out to destroy her…
Dad's Army The Movie (1971): Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn; The feature film is a coarser expansion of the characters and situations that endeared millions to the long–running TV show.
Demons of the Mind (1971): Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Sir Michael Hordern…; A Victorian baron imprisons his two children, believing them to be possessed. Enticing Hammer offering, laced with blood–and–roses…
Doc (1971): Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin; Underrated retelling of events leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral with stronger emphasis on character than gunplay. This striking…
Dr Seuss - The Cat in the Hat (1971): Animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' iconic children's story is a television classic in its own right, with script and musical direction overseen by the…
Edward Woodward Hour, The (TV Series) (1971): Feat. Beryl Reid, Patrick Cargill; A light entertainment special from the early 1970s for Thames Television showcasing the whimsical side of Edward Woodward, most famous for his…
Ellery Queen (TV Series) (Don't Look Behind You) (1971-1975): Feat. Jim Hutton, Peter Lawford; Whodunnit series stars Jim Hutton as a mystery writer whose sleuthing know–how is regularly called upon by his Police Inspector…
Family Life (Wednesday's Child) (1971): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave; Grating realist cinema from ‘kitchen sink’ original Ken Loach, about a troubled young girl whose domineering parents drive her to a nervous…
Fat City (1971): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell; One of dir. Huston's later accomplishments, this gritty, yet warmly toned drama inhabits a neighbourhood of boxing gyms, lowrent bars and amiable…
Fiddler On the Roof (1971): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Topol, Molly Picon; Epic folk tale of community survival is given a vivid musical setting, as a Jewish family travel from pre–revolutionary Ukraine to America in…
Firechasers, The (1971): Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Chad Everett, Anjanette Comer, Roy Kinnear…; Brit–crime flick has an insurance investigator chasing down an arsonist, along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter…
Follyfoot (TV Series) (1971): Dir. Stephen Frears, Michael Apted, Vic Hughes
Feat. Gillian Blake, Desmond Llewelyn; Young Dora (Gillian Blake), discarded in the country by her globe–trotting parents, takes to caring for the neglected horses of Follyfoot Farm,…
Friends (1971): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Sean Bury, Anicee Alvina; Sentimental, page–turning romance blossoms an enternal love between two idealistic French teens head over heels. Hit soundtrack by Elton John…
Go-Between, The (1971): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Julie Christie, Alan Bates; A young boy acts as a secret messenger for class–divided lovers Julie Christie and Alan Bates during a hot Norfolk summer in Edwardian England.…
Grissom Gang, The (1971): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante…; Crime noir set in Missouri during the Depression, following the kidnapping of a priviledged meat heiress by notorious amateur hoodlums the Grissom…
Gunfight, A (1971): Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander…; An inventive late western in the Sergio Leone tradition, concerning rival gunfighters Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash (in his debut) charging admission…
Hired Hand, The (1971): Dir. Peter Fonda
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom…; An unusual directorial debut for Peter Fonda, who turns out a small masterpiece with this revisionist Western bathed in the hippie afterglow of the…
Home (1971): Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols…; Worthy TV adaptation of the stageplay by David Storey (THIS SPORTING LIFE), set amid the twilight psychodramas of residents at an old peoples' rest…
Horsemen, The (1971): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance…; An ambitious historical epic concerns the quest of an Afghani tribal horseman (Sharif) to regain his honour after losing a ritual Buzkashi…
Hospital, The (1971): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes…; Gallows humour permeates this caustic comedy of medical ineptitude and indifference. Scott plays a suicidal surgeon contending with multiple patient…
Hunting Party, The (1971): Dir. Don Medford
Feat. Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman; WILD BUNCH–wannabe with Gene Hackman hunting ruffian Oliver Reed and kidnapped wife Candice Bergan to the ends of the earth. A ridiculously…
Johnny Got His Gun (1971): Dir. Dalton Trumbo
Feat. Timothy Bottoms, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards Jr.…; Excoriating anti–war statement based on the dir.'s own novel, concerns an ordinary infantryman in WW1 and his nightmare experiences. In a…
Kidnapped (1971): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins…; A dashing Michael Caine heads this ambitious adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tales of 18th century Scotland. Grand, if ultimately unrealised…
Kill Django... Kill First (1971): Dir. Sergio Garrone
Feat. Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Aldo Sambrell, Krista Nell; Brutal spaghetti western with a ruthless cowboy teaming up with an old prospector to take down an unscrupulous banker and his network of killers.
Little Murders (1971): Dir. Alan Arkin
Feat. Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd; Actor Alan Arkin directs this black comedy about a girl who brings her boyfriend home to meet her severely dysfunctional family amidst a series of…
Long Day's Journey into Night (1971): Dir. Michael Blakemore
Feat. Laurence Olivier; A made–for–television National Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's classic play, which won Laurence Olivier an Emmy for best actor.
Love Story (1971): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Ray Milland; Romance on a New England campus between Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal. A huge hit. Oscar–winning theme–tune by Francis Lai.
Lucky Luke (1971): Hardcase western animation, from the creator of ASTERIX, centred on Lucky Luke the cowboy and his penchant for upholding law over the land.…
Macbeth (1971): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jon Finch, Francesca Annis; This version of violent tragedy benefits from Polanski's fine sense of storytelling. Bloodythirsty and geniunely eerie, it comes…
Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, The (1971): Dir. Graham Stark
Feat. Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, Harry H. Corbett…; Minor British comedy from the 'liberated' 70s, sees various comedians run the gamut of sinful behaviour in the company of some saucy female…
Man in the Wilderness, The (w/ The Deadly Trackers) (1971): Dir. Richard Serafian
Feat. Richard Harris, John Huston, Percy Herbert…; Double Bill Western starring Richard Harris. THE MAN IN THE WILDERNESS is based on the same source material that inspired the Oscar–winning…
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971): Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan…; Historical epic the maps the power struggle between the last Catholic ruler of Scotland and her cousin, the Queen of England.
Max and the Junkmen (Max Et Les Ferrailleurs) (1971): Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Romy Schneider; French crime drama set in the noir shaded streets of Paris follows a frustrated detective getting tangled up in a love triangle after commissioning a…
McMillan & Wife (TV Series) (1971-1977): Feat. Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James; Mild crime series centred on a husband and wife detective team solving crime and bringing felons to justice on the streets of San Francisco. More…
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Seymour Cassel, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes…; John Cassavetes' most accessible film is an unlikely romance between a museum curator and a parking attendant set over four days and nights.…
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1971): Dir. Ian Macnaughton
Feat. John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam…; A particularly surreal later–Python, first released on German television. Features strange and often absurd English subtitles.
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971): Dir. Al Viola
Feat. John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton…; Worthy version of NZ–er Graham Billing's classic novel about an immature young scientist who volunteers for a season observing penguin…
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Christine Kaufmann, Jason Robards Jr., Herbert Lom…; A series of grisly murders occur in a strange horror theatre in Paris and it's up to master sleuth August Dupin to solve the mystery. Based on Edgar…
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971): Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman…; The last Czars of Russia get an appropriately lavish send–off in this wagon–load of Hollywood corn. With Tom Baker (as Rasputin) and…
Panic in Needle Park, The (1971): Dir. Jerry Schatzberg
Feat. Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint…; Grungy drug pic with Pacino in his breakthrough role as a charismatic junkie pulling Kitty Winn into his destructive orbit. Screenplay written by…
Persuaders, The (TV Series) (Persuaders!, The) (1971): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore, Tony Curtis; Roger Moore and Tony Curtis play a debonair duo who lend their status and charm to dissuade the criminal fraternity. Wonderfully corny. DVD 'Box…
Plaza Suite (1971): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris…; Walter Mathau takes on three roles in this winning trilogy of one act plys by Neil Simon all set in the same hotel suite.
Private Road (1971): Dir. Barney Platts-Mills
Feat. Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson, Michael Feast…; The other lost gem from British independent film–maker Barney Platts–Mills, who follows up “Bronco Bullfrog” (1970) with a…
Raid on Rommel (1971): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Richard Burton, John Colicos, Wolfgang Preiss; In 1942 Libya, a German–speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret…
Return Of Sabata (1971): Dir. Frank Kramer
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Pedro Sanchez, Reiner Schone; Van Cleef takes the reins back from Brynner in the third and final outing for the ace gunslinger. This time out Sabata is a stunt rider with a…
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971): Dir. Giuliano Montaldo
Feat. Gian Maria Volonte, Cyril Cusack, Geoffrey Keen; Based on the true story of the trial and execution of Italian–American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, widely considered to be…
Secrets (1971): Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Per Oscarsson, Robert Powell; British erotic drama taking place over a single day in the life of a housewife (Jacqueline Bisset) who is having an affair, while her husband (Robert…
Simply Sykes (1971-1982): Feat. Tommy Cooper, Hattie Jacques; Comprising two shows made for Thames Television; Sykes – With the Lid Off (1971) has comedy legend Eric Sykes dare to take the lid off the many…
Six Dates with Barker (6 Dates with Barker) (1971): Feat. Ronnie Barker; A six–part showcase for the comedic talents of Ronnie Barker, this one–off series revolved around half–a–dozen situation…
Skin Game (1971): Dir. Paul Bogart
Feat. James Garner, Louis Jr. Gossett, Susan Clark…; Beguiling comedy about a pair of con–artists who pose as master and slave to deceive unsuspecting rednecks in the post–civil war era.
Stork (1971): Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Bruce Spence, Graeme Blundell, Jackie Weaver; True blue Aussie classic with the hyper–gangly Bruce Spence whose bawdy misadventures in work, life and love are fueled by booze and a twisted…
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971): Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette; James Garner again plays a con–man, this time mistaken for a notorious gunfighter. Good natured, entertaining satire.
T.R. Baskin (1971): Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, James Caan; Candice Bergen plays a naive but enthusiastic young woman who runs away to Chicago in the hopes of finding a fulfilling romantic life and career, but…
They Call Me Trinity (1971): Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Terence Hill, Bud Spencer; The film that triggered the careers of B–movie icons Terence Hill and Bud Spencer is an engaging spaghetti–western spoof. Something of a…
They Might Be Giants (1971): Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford…; A delightfully goofy comic mystery starring George C. Scott as a psychiatric patient who is convinced he is Sherlock Holmes at a Manhattan hospital…
Tom Brown's School Days (TV Mini-Series) (1971): Dir. Gareth Davies
Feat. Anthony Murphy, Iain Cuthbertson; Vivid BBC adaptation of Thomas Hughes' classic novel, following life at a Victorian Boys public school. Five episodes.
Under Milkwood (1971): Dir. Andrew Sinclair
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole…; Celebrated radio play by Dylan Thomas gets a surprisingly successful visual rendering, though some will always prefer the original format for Thomas'…
Up Pompeii (1971): Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Sir Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray…; Frankie Howerd's bawdy comedy with a Roman slave inadvertently becoming the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero.
Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series) (Upstairs Downstairs) (1971-1975): Feat. Pauline Collins, Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh; Famous 70s soap opera about the class struggle in a household of servants and gentry around the turn of the 20th century. Set a new standard in…
Villain (1971): Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport…; Violent London gangster movie released on the tail of Performance and Get Carter, but not as well received as either. Surprisingly, written by sitcom…
When Eight Bells Toll (1971): Dir. Etienne Périer
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley…; Expert hokum from the pen of Alistair Maclean has Anthony Hopkins as a secret agent on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that…
Wild Rovers (1971): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden…; Saddle–sore cowpunchers William Holden and Ryan O'Neal safeguard their retirement by bank robbery, then head for the Mexican border.…
Woody Allen Collection, The (Annie Hall, Bananas, Interiors, Love and Death, Manhattan, Sleeper, Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex) (1971-1979): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen; Seven Woody Allen classics all, bar one, from his earlier, funnier period – "Annie Hall", "Bananas", "Interiors", "Love and Death",…
A Man Called Horse (1970): Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Richard Harris, Dame Judith Anderson; Notorious yet serious–minded late western is set around the capture by Sioux of an English nobleman and his subsequent initiation into the…
Adios, Sabata (1970): Dir. Frank Kramer
Feat. Yul Brynner, Pedro Sanchez, Dean Reed; Yul Brynner takes over the role of the ex–confederate master blaster, but the song remains essentially the same as Sabata aids Mexican…
Angel Levine, The (1970): Dir. Jan Kadar
Feat. Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska…; In order to earn his wings Belafonte must convince the embittered Mostel that life still has value. Gentle yarn gets by chiefly on the charm of the…
Baby Maker, The (1970): Dir. James Bridges
Feat. Barbara Hershey, Sam Groom, Scott Glenn; Somewhat ahead of its time, this portrays a middle–class American couple who pay a hippy woman to be a surrogate mother for a child.…
Barquero (1970): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker…; Taut and bloody morality play set by a river's edge with Van Cleef as an ornery barge owner holding out against a band of mercenaries desperate to…
Bombay Talkie (1970): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Zia Mohyeddin; Probably the most visually distinguished Merchant–Ivory film, this semi–satiric swirl through the 'Bollywood' film industry works as both…
Callan (TV Series) (1970): Dir. James Goddard, Voytek
Feat. Edward Woodward; The bold British TV spy series with Edward Woodward as the cold–blooded but very human secret agent.
Catweazle (TV Series) (1970-1971): Feat. Geoffrey Bayldon, Charles Tingwell; An eccentric, disheveled 11th century wizard teleports to the 1970s, spending much of his time in a state of utter bewilderment at the many…
Chisum (1970): Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George…; A western starring John Wayne, very loosely based around events from the Lincoln County War in 1878, when a conflict arose over the control of goods…
Cold Sweat (De La Part Des Copains) (1970): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason; Tight Charles Bronson vehicle see the tough guy play a retired convict who lives with his wife and daughter in the idyllic French Rivera, until some…
Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970): Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent; Believably unsettling cold war parable concerning a huge electronic brain called Colossus, designed to control the American missile defense system.…
Conformist, The (Conformista, Il) (1970): Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin…; Dazzling images and a potent brew of sex and politics merge seamlessly in this milestone of cinema about a submissive Italian Fascist recruited to…
Cromwell (1970): Dir. Ken Hughes
Feat. Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley…; Routine, if spectacularly staged rendition of the career of English revolutionary and King–slayer Oliver Cromwell (Harris). Unfortunately, the…
Deep End (1970): Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Diana Dors; Remarkable, darkly comic story of 15–year–old Mike who takes a job at the local swimming baths and becomes obsessed with a beautiful…
Doctor in Trouble (1970): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Leslie Phillips, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe…; In this round of the British comedy series, the dear doctor (Phillips) hides himself aboard an ocean liner to pursue a marriage prospect. A strong…
Dr Seuss - Horton Hears a Who (1970): Dir. Chuck Jones; Remastered edition of the original animated Seuss story of a sentimental elephant who determinedly protects the tiny inhabitants of the microscopic…
Ear, The (Ucho) (1970): Dir. Karel Kachyna
Feat. Jirina Bohdalova, Radoslav Brzobohaty, Jiri Cisler; Set over the course of an evening this is a searing look at life under an oppressive totalitarian system and an equally harsh examination of a…
Eyewitness (1970): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George; A “boy who cried wolf” suspenser, centred on an imaginative youngster whose placid existence on the island of Malta is shaken when he witnesses…
Games, The (1970): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal, Charles Aznavour…; British sports drama about four marathon runners from very different backgrounds (one British, one American, one Czechoslovakian and one Aboriginal…
Hawaiians, The (1970): Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin…; Brotherly relations are strained when the black sheep returns home, plantation building and pineapple stealing ensues. Bloated sequel to HAWAII…
Hi Mom! (1970): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Robert De Niro, Charles Durning, Allen Garfield…; One of dir. De Palma's underrated early satires is loosely a sequel to 'Greetings', with Robert De Niro returning from the Vietnam War to try and…
I Never Sang For My Father (1970): Dir. Gilbert Cates
Feat. Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney…; Gene Hackman plays a widowed college professor in New York wanting to get out from under the thumb of his aging father yet guilty about his plans to…
Jane Eyre (1970): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen…; Susannah York and George C. Scott headline this fine adaptation of the Bronte classic.
Joe (1970): Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick; A 'cause celebre' in its day, this pungent drama unrolls after a wealthy executive (Patrick) murders the drug–dealing boyfriend of his daughter…
Kelly's Heroes (1970): Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas…; Comic WWII yarn in which Clint Eastwood recruits a wildcat tank platoon to help rob a bank in German territory. Features one of Donald Sutherland's…
King Lear (1970): Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Jack MacGowran…; This could hardly miss with Shakespeare perennials Paul Schofield in the title role and director Peter Brook at the helm. A strong and rewarding…
Last Grenade, The (1970): Dir. Gordon Flemyng
Feat. Sir Stanley Baker, Honor Blackman, Alex Cord…; Slam–bang action pic with Baker and Cord as opposing mercenaries duking it out in exotic Hong Kong locales, shot in scope and with a…
Lawman (1970): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb…; Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan are veteran adversaries in this violent '70s Western. Saddle–sore Lancaster is on the trail of a band of…
Liberation of L.B. Jones, The (1970): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Majors…; The final film by William Wyler, depicting racial tensions in a fictional Tennessee town, where a successful African–american businessman…
Little Big Man (1970): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam…; Life–story of 121–yr old 'white' Indian Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) at first lightly sketches his progress from Cheyenne brave to…
Lola (Twinky, London Affair) (1970): Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Susan George; Comedy drama following the relationship between a 38 year old American man who writes pornographic novels and the 16 year old girl he falls in love…
Loot (1970): Dir. Silvio Narizzano
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Milo O'Shea…; Broad English farce, based around Joe Orton's stageplay, in which bank–robbers hide their loot in a coffin under the body. As slapstick comedy…
Lovers and Other Strangers (1970): Dir. Cy Howard
Feat. Beatrice Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon…; Smart ensemble comedy about preparations for a young couple's wedding and how this stirs up the lives of those around them. Full of many delightful…
Man Who Haunted Himself, The (1970): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore; In one of his rare serious roles, Roger Moore plays the survivor of a car crash who discovers his doppelganger has been released into the…
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The (TV Series) (1970-1974): Feat. Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Knight, Edward Asner…; A highly polished, somewhat revolutionary sitcom following the career path and domestic life of a determinedly single newsroom journalist, this made…
McCloud (TV Series) (1970-1977): Feat. Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Ken Lynch…; Nicely executed crime series following an ex–sheriff from "out west" that joins up with a New York City police squadron to nab the baddies by…
McKenzie Break, The (Escape) (1970): Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry; Mostly engrossing, and certainly unusual and authentic, this is a WWII POW escape yarn with a difference – here, it's Germans attempting to…
McMasters, The (Blood Crowd, The) (1970): Dir. Alf Kjellin
Feat. Burl Ives, Brock Peters, David Carradine…; A tough depiction of post–Civil War strife, with former slave Peters, who fought for the Union, trying to start over in the American southwest.…
Molly Maguires, The (1970): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar…; An ambitious drama set in the squalor of the 1870s Pennsylvania coalmine towns, and the underground group of Irish saboteurs 'The Molly Maguires' who…
Odd Couple, The (TV Series) (1970): Feat. Jack Klugman, Tony Randall; Spinning off from the feature film based on Neil Simon's Broadway play, this small screen version winningly supplants the Lemmon–Matthau double…
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart…; Hi–gloss screen version of the Broadway musical with Barbra Streisand as a kooky chain–smoker who is told by psychiatrist Yves Montand…
Only Game in Town, The (1970): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor; An aging showgirl stumbles into a clandestine affair with a brash young gambler. Based on a stage play by Pulitzer Prize winner Frank D. Gilroy.
Out-of-Towners, The (1970): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis; Playing on the prejudices of 'ordinary folk' towards the Big Bad City of New York, writer Neil Simon cranks out a series of escalating indignities…
Patton (1970): Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates…; George C. Scott is unnervingly convincing as the real life WW2 General with whose military convictions were indeed unnerving. Co–written by…
Pippi Longstocking (1970): Dir. Olle Hellbom
Feat. Maria Persson, Inger Nilsson, Pär Sundberg; Classic kids adventure in this, Pippi's first feature–length film. Here the troublesome redhead moves into an abandoned house with her monkey…
Pippi On The Run (Pippi Longstocking IV) (1970): Dir. Olle Hellbom
Feat. Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg; Fourth and final outing for the popular preteen heroine with this time the freckled star accompanying two runaways on their journey. There's a…
Pufnstuf (1970): Dir. Hollingsworth Morse
Feat. Jack Wild, Billie Hayes, Martha Raye; Fabulous feature version of the HR PUFNSTUF TV–series, that's a 60s counter–cultural rival to the WIZARD OF OZ. Mildly psychedelic…
Rabbit Run (1970): Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. James Caan, Carrie Snodgrass, Anjanette Comer…; James Caan stars in this adaptation of John Updike's acclaimed 1960 novel about a has–been basketball star who impulsively abandones his life…
Rider on the Rain (Le passager de la pluie) (1970): Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Marlène Jobert, Annie Cordy, Charles Bronson; Stylish psychosexual French mystery thriller in obvious homage to Hitchcock, with Charles Bronson playing a US Army colonel hunting down an escaped…
Rio Lobo (1970): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Jack Elam, Victor French…; The third and final Western collaboration between John Wayne, dir. Hawks and screenwriter Leigh Brackett (after RIO BRAVO and EL DORADO), this…
Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The (1970): Dir. Kevin Billington
Feat. Peter Cook, John Cleese, Harold Pinter…; Follow the meteoric rise of one Michael Rimmer, an entry–level ad exec. who turns a fledging agency into an industry heavyweight, graduates to…
Ryan's Daughter (1970): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles; The love triangle is given a sweeping, old–fashioned spin by David Lean, set on the rugged Irish coast during WW1.
Scars of Dracula (1970): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Troughton; In search of his missing brother a man discovers the deadly lair of Count Dracula.
Shadows of Fear (TV Series) (1970): Feat. Sheila Hancock, Ronald Hines, Edward Fox…; Featuring some of Britain's most renowned stage and TV performers, this anthology series brings together eight plays with a 'chilling Hitchcockian…
Simon Simon (1970): Feat. Graham Stark; Short but farcical 'sound–effect' comedy, featuring a host of cameo appearances from the comedians and actors of the day, including Michae…
Six Wives of Henry VIII, The (TV Mini-Series) (1970): Feat. Keith Michell, Rosalie Crutchley, Jane Seymour; Accurate BAFTA–winning TV series chronicling the life of the notorious Henry VIII by way of six plays, featuring a notable cast and immaculate…
Soldier Blue (1970): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, Candice Bergen; Perhaps the most violent and disreputable of the ‘revisionist’ Westerns (initiated by THE WILD BUNCH), this depiction of mutual barbarity between…
Sometimes a Great Notion (1970): Dir. Paul Newman
Feat. Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick…; Sweaty account of a family of fiercely–independent Oregon loggers struggling to keep the family business alive amidst changing times. Based on…
Spring and Port Wine (1970): Dir. Peter Hammond
Feat. James Mason, Diane Coupland, Susan George; James Mason and Diana Coupland play a stern father and a lenient mother who are trying to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives…
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970): Dir. Hy Averback
Feat. Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette…; Tensions rise to boiling point between an Army base and a neighbouring redneck town in this off–beat satire.
There Was a Crooked Man (1970): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda; Prison inmate Kirk Douglas matches wits with warden Henry Fonda in an attempt to escape. Curious mix of black comedy and melodrama.
There's A Girl In My Soup (1970): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Diana Dors…; Romantic comedy set around the unpredictable frission between a ladykilling TV personality (Sellers) and a kooky young thing (Hawn). A bit…
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Juano Hernandez; The first sequel to IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT has Sidney Poitier’s detective now settled in San Francisco and investigating a girl’s…
Things of Life, The (Les Choses De La Vie) (1970): Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise; Golden Palm nominated French comedy focusing on the life of a fatally injured man who upon seeing his life flash before his eyes realizes he must…
Timeslip (TV Series) (1970-1971): Feat. Spencer Banks, Cheryl Burfield, Denis Quilley; A smart children’s sci–fi series that tells in four separate stories what happens when two intrepid siblings discover an invisible portal…
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Jason Robards Jr.…; Elaborate account of events that led to the bombing of Pearl Harbour, told from both American and Japanese veiwpoints. Explosive finale.
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Shirley Maclaine; Mexican–set western adventure following a mysterious nun pursued by the French Army who begins a mutually beneficial relationship with a…
Walk in the Spring Rain, A (1970): Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Hopkins; Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Hopkins conduct an illicit affair in their middle age. Romantic slush best enjoyed as unintentional comedy.
Waterloo (1970): Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles; Napoleonic epic from the Russian director of WAR AND PEACE is dramatically woolly, but includes superb, sprawling battle–scenes. Rod Steiger…
Where's Poppa? (Going Ape) (1970): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman…; George Segal becomes determined to hurry along the demise of his ultra–demanding, super–senile 87 year–old mom (Ruth Gordon). Few…
All the Right Noises (1969): Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Tom Bell, John Standing…; The story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl, this forms part of a peculiarly 1960s British wave of films exploring such…
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969): Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Richard Burton, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas…; Opulent recounting of the doomed romance between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn with a gallery of fine performances and stunning costume design.
Army of Shadows (L'Armée des Ombres, aka Army in the Shadows) (1969): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel…; Melville’s heavyweight masterpiece – by turns sombre, exhilarating, and tension–filled – tackles the clandestine rearguard…
Arrangement, The (1969): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway; Advertising exec Kirk Douglas follows a mid–life suicide attempt with some desperate hi–jinks and a cry of rage at his hollow life.…
Assassination Bureau, The (1969): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas…; Spirited crime caper which translates Jack London's novel of the same name to Europe on the cusp of WWI. Diana Rigg plays an aspiring journalist…
Bed Sitting Room, The (1969): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Spike Milligan, Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore…; Spike Milligan and Richard Lester have a field day with this absurdist post–apocalyptic premise, in which British survivors prevail through the…
Boot Hill (1969): Dir. Giuseppe Colizzi
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill, Woody Strode…; Typically raucous Hill and Spencer westerner with the un–dynamic duo doing battle with a tyrannical mayor.
Bronco Bullfrog (1969): Dir. Barney Platts-Mills
Feat. Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd; Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from…
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Paul Newman, Robert Redford; This light and tasty yarn enjoyed huge popularity, partly due to the abounding charisma of Paul Newman and Robert Redford who together have lots of…
Cactus Flower (1969): Dir. Gene Saks
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Ingrid Bergman, Walter Matthau; Broadway adaptation won a supporting actress Oscar for Goldie Hawn, playing second fiddle to Ingrid Bergman for the love of dentist Walter Matthau.…
Carry on Christmas (Carry on Christmas ('69) , Carry on Long John, Carry on Stuffing, Carry on Christmas (73')) (1969-1973): An essential addition to the collection of any Carry On fan; four TV specials over two discs with over 90 minutes of bonus material. A bright caper…
Castle Keep (1969): Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont…; Anachronistic WWII film in which a ragtag squad of GI's, led by an eye–patched Burt Lancaster, hunker down in a medieval castle and try to halt…
Chairman, The (1969): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill…; Engrossing and utterly preposterous spy flick with Peck as a scientist who must sneak into communist China to steal a secret formula, and to…
Change of Habit (1969): Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair…; Elvis Presley's final acting role was this musical drama in which he plays a doctor who falls in love with Mary Tyler Moore, playing one of three…
Charro (1969): Dir. Charles M. Warren
Feat. Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French; An Elvis curiosity which (mis)casts him in a dramatic Western. An unintentional hoot.
Che! (1969): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Omar Sharif, Jack Palance; Made barely two years after his death, this Che Guevara biopic boasts the reputable acting talents of Omar Sharif and Jack Palance and picks up where…
Colour of Pomegranates (Color of Pomegranates) (1969): Dir. Sergei Paradjanov
Feat. Sofiko Chiaurel, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan; A visually exquisite, at times baffling film from the much–censored Armenian director. Retells the life of 18th century mystic poet Sayat Nova…
Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The (1969): Dir. Robert Butler
Feat. Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn…; One of Kurt Russell's early, family–friendly appearances in a straightforward Disney comedy. He plays a student who is injected with a…
Death of a Gunfighter (1969): Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor…; The first Alan Smithee film is a hard–bitten western with Widmark as an old–fashioned lawman in a town determined to modernise. The title…
Department S (TV Series) (1969): Feat. Peter Wyngarde; Perhaps the last elaborate flourish in its genre, this AVENGERS–style TV series was set around three 'special agents' who solve the unsolvable…
Downhill Racer (1969): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv; A pre–HOOSIERS Gene Hackman dons the coach's whistle in this Winter Olympics drama, with Robert Redford providing the film’s clash of…
Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Soretsu) (1969): Dir. Toshio Matsumoto
Feat. Shinnosuke Ikehata (aka Peter), Yoshio Tsuchiya; A bold and significant product of the Japanese New Wave that loosely transposes Oedipus Rex to the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo with a…
Futtocks End (1969): Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Ronnie Barker, Sir Michael Hordern, Roger Livesey; Bonafide comedy classic in the 'wordless' style of Eric Sykes, stars Ronnie Barker as a lecherous befuddled Army General who hosts a weekend…
Hamlet (1969): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins…; The predominant use of close–ups enhances Nicol Williamson's bold performance as an impulsive, roguish young Hamlet.
Hello Dolly! (Hello, Dolly!) (1969): Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford…; Barbra Streisand is the attraction of this Gene Kelly musical, as a meddling matchmaker.
John and Mary (1969): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan; Archetypal late–sixties timepiece has Hoffman and Farrow wandering New York after a one–night stand. Yates's direction is equally…
Katzelmacher (1969): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla; Daring Fassbinder drama focused on a group of Munich friends indulging in the banality of their ordered lives until the arrival of a Greek immigrant…
Liver Birds, The (1969): Feat. Nerys Hughes, Polly James, Mollie Sugden; Two very different single girls share a flat in the age of glam–rock, the pill and women's lib in this hugely popular BBC sitcom that was the…
Ma Nuit Chez Maud (My Night at Maud's / My Night with Maud) (1969): Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Francoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault; Rohmer's fourth moral tale again presents the idea of a man's romantic dilemma with more than one woman in his life. The wordy philosophising is…
Mackenna's Gold (1969): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif; Sprawling Western adaptation of the best–selling Will Henry novel about an Arizona Marshal travelling to an unknown canyon of gold who gets…
Magic Christian, The (1969): Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough…; From Terry Southern's novel, a wildly loopy satire about an eccentric multi–millionaire (Peter Sellers) who adopts a destitute son (Ringo…
Marcus Welby MD (TV Series) (1969): Feat. Robert Young, James Brolin; Long–running medical drama, with Robert Young as the beloved General Practioner whose unorthodox care of patients riled his much younger,…
Me, Natalie (1969): Dir. Fred Coe
Feat. Patty Duke, James Farentino, Salome Jens…; Thoughtful, though occasionally mawkish coming–of–age tale with Patty Duke as a young woman struggling with low self esteem and fighting…
Mister Jerico (1969): Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Patrick Macnee, Herbert Lom, Connie Stevens; Cheesy 60s crime caper stars AVENGERS actor Patrick Macnee as a conman set out to rob a diamond from a millionaire, only to have his plans disrupted…
Model Shop (1969): Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay; A mesmerizing, shamefully neglected stateside film from French New Wave director Jacques Demy that follows an aimless, unemployed architect who ends…
Noel Coward Collection, The (1969-1991): Definitive collection of plays and short stories composed by high society playwright and actor Sir Noel Coward. Extras include interviews with the…
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969): Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves…; Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
On the Buses (TV Series) (1969): Dir. Stuart Allen
Feat. Reg Varney, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis; From the classic British TV–series starring Reg Varney, Bob Grant and Stephen Lewis as various nitwits riding the buses of London.
Over the Hill Gang, The (1969): Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Pat O'Brien…; Laidback reunion for various horse–opera stars of old cleaning up a lawless town in the old west. Telemovie doesn't quite have a script worthy…
Paint Your Wagon (1969): Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg…; Entertaining musical epic based on the popular Lerner–Loewe play. Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood play gold prospectors who share a wife they…
Paul Temple (TV Series) (1969): Feat. Francis Matthews, Ros Drinkwater; Forgotten 70s crime series follows the fortunes of a globetrotting novelist–cum–amateur sleuth and his dishy wife. Something of an…
Phantom Tollbooth, The (1969): Dir. Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow; Young lad Butch Patrick gets a ‘magic tollbooth’ which transports him into the crazed animated world of Chuck Jones (Bugs Bunny), whose…
Pit Stop (1969): Dir. Jack Hill
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Richard Davalos, Sid Haig; Stock car racing movie tracking the rise and fall of a rookie Figure Eight driver who breaks into the racing circuit with the help of a ruthlessly…
Probability Zero (1969): Dir. Maurizio Lucidi
Feat. Henry Silva
Reivers, The (1969): Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White…; Amiable coming–of–age lark set in 1905 Mississippi with a mischievous McQueen hitting the road with his employer's prized automobile and…
Ring Of Bright Water (1969): Dir. Jack Couffer
Feat. Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna; Charming, autobiographical story about a Londoner who moves with his pet otter to a cottage on the coast of Scotland, where they make the…
Sabata (1969): Dir. Frank Kramer
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Pedro Sanchez; Berzerk spaghetti western with Van Cleef as the titular master gunfighter hunting robbers for rewards. Memorable is an understatement for this…
Scream and Scream Again (1969): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee all turn in for this Hammer mad–doctor–creates–super–being yarn.
Secret of Santa Vittoria, The (1969): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Hardy Kruger…; Bombastic war comedy with Quinn as a wine sodden local buffoon who through a number of contrivances becomes town mayor. When the townsfolk learn of a…
Slogan (1969): Dir. Pierre Grimblat
Feat. Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg; Vivacious French romance about a reckless advertising director who throws caution to the wind and abandons his preggers wife to embark on a worldwide…
Some Girls Do (1969): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, James Villiers…; Return outing for Richard Johnson's 'Bulldog Drummond' pits the Bond–wannabe against a cabal of mini–skirted fembots and his…
Special Branch (TV Series) (1969-1974): Feat. Derren Nesbitt, Fulton MacKay; Brit detective series revolving around England's finest police duo tackling the bad guys of the local district. This series still holds appeal to a…
Staircase (1969): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt; Sitting somewhere between farce and melancholy, a pair of aging barbers bicker over the possibility of ending their loving but often volatile…
Strange Report (TV Series) (1969): Feat. Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, Anneke Wills; Wily Anthony Quayle is Adam Strange, ex–police officer turned criminologist charged with cleaning up murder sprees and other unsolvable cases…
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969): Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. James Garner, Joan Hackett; The definitive Western spoof stars James Garner as a reluctant sheriff ordained to restore law and order to a village struck by goldrush fever.
Take a Girl Like You (1969): Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed; A rare adult role for child star Hayley Mills, playing a school teacher in a small British town who is reckoning with the attentions of multiple…
Take the Money and Run (1969): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen; Woody's first film as do–it–all is a collection of hilarious gags about the life of a would–be thief.
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969): Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Feat. Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake…; This Western comeback from blacklisted director Polonsky (FORCE OF EVIL) focuses (rather ironically) on the manhunt of Robert Blake, who here plays…
That Cold Day in the Park (1969): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sandy Dennis; Containing various embryonic Altman trademarks, this early work portrays a neurotic spinster (Sandy Dennis) who ensnares a young man in her…
Tintin and the Prisoners of the Sun (1969): Dir. Raymond LeBlanc; Feature–length sequel to TINTIN AND THE CALCULUS AFFAIR, this installment sees Tintin, Professor Haddock et al journey through the Andes in…
Topaz (1969): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin…; Intelligence spooks John Forsythe and Frederick Stafford run through the gamut of spy moves in the 60s Cold War world. Needless to say, Hitch ain't…
Touch of Zen, A (Hsia Nu) (1969): Dir. King Hu
Feat. Hsu Feng; A dazzling blend of medieval potboiler, religious fable and martial arts spectacular, set in an ancient China wracked by civil war. Centred on the…
True Grit (1969): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. John Wayne, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate…; John Wayne subtly sends–up his hardcase persona, playing an over–the–hill marshall who drags himself out of semi–retirement…
U.F.O. (TV Series) (1969): Feat. Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Gabrielle Drake; Supermarionator Gerry Anderson pulls the strings on this live–action sci–fi series, full of the same secret agencies, evil empires and…
Undefeated, The (1969): Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Lee Meriwether; Amiable post–Civil War Western starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson as ex–Union and ex–Confederate Colonels who lead two disparate…
Virgin Soldiers, The (1969): Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport…; Comdey–drama following a squad of naive young British soldiers in 1950's Singapore who fall for the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major.
Vortex, The / Hay Fever (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 1) (1969-1984): Dir. Philip Dudley
Feat. Margaret Leighton, Richard Warwick, Penelope Keith…; –The Vortex (69') Dark and disturbing drama centred on a family torn apart by drug abuse and sordid affairs. This deeply shocking play, that…
Where Eagles Dare (1969): Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure…; Exciting adaptation of Alistair MacLean's WW2 novel concerning British paratroopers rescue mission from an impregnable castle.
Wild Bunch, The (1969): Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan…; Sam Peckinpah's uncompromising Western bloodbath with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine leading the famous band of unruly marauders. Astonishing in…
Winning (1969): Dir. James Goldstone
Feat. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner…; Paul Newman challenges for Joanne Woodward on and off the track in this high–speed racing melodrama, shot spectacularly amongst the competitive…
Women in Love (1969): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson; Ken Russell's esteemed version of D.H. Lawrence's finest novel about a macho entrepreneur, his philosophically and sexually dubious friend and their…
Young Billy Young (1969): Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jnr…; Serviceable western has Mitchum hunting for the man who killed his son. Pic drifts along a little too amiably at times though the name cast to their…
Zulu (1969): Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Sir Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson…; Vivid historical epic about a British army post besieged by the Zulu hordes in 19th century South Africa. Half of the film is a blow by blow recount…
A Lovely Way to Die (1968): Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach, Sylva Koscina; Dramatic suspense in which a retired vigilante NYC cop hired to look after a potential murderess ends up unprofessionally mixing business and…
Ace High (I quattro dell'Ave Maria) (1968): Dir. Giuseppe Colizzi
Feat. Eli Wallach, Terence Hill, Brock Peters…; Spaghetti western starring Eli Wallach as a bandit seeking revenge on those who framed him, teaming up with two bounty hunters and an acrobat in the…
Adam-12 (TV Series) (1968-1975): Feat. Kent McCord, Martin Milner, William Boyett; Cult cop show following the lives of two LAPD officers shot in a gritty docudrama style, and distinguished by a strict adherence to realism that…
Age of Consent (1968): Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. James Mason, Helen Mirren; Dir. Michael Powell's (PEEPING TOM) last feature, based on Aussie artist Norman Lindsay (who also inspired SIRENS). Here, a cranky James Mason goes…
Anzio (1968): Dir. Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy…; Robert Mitchum and Peter Falk lead an international cast for this ropey war epic – an Italian–American co–production about…
Bandolero! (1968): Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch…; Number three in James Stewart's Western repertoire centred on two brawling brothers who must find a way to work together to avoid the death sentence…
Billion Dollar Brain (1968): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley…; The third 'Harry Palmer' spy caper taken from Len Deighton's series, with the bespectacled Caine this time chasing a meglomaniac Texas…
Birthday Party, The (1968): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Dandy Nichols; A lodger at a boarding house is menaced by two sinister visitors, in this version of Harold Pinter's Kafka–esque first play. Flashes of black…
Boom! (1968): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Noel Coward…; Thud: Only film buffs who admire Losey's very original directorial style are likely to appreciate fuzzy adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Milk…
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968): Dir. Melvin Frank
Feat. Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers…; Genial World War II farce with Italian seductress Lollobrigida receiving payments from three American GIs all under the impression they are the…
Caesars, The (TV Series) (1968): Dir. Derek Bennett
Feat. Roland Culver, Andre Morell, Ralph Bates…; A British television series depicting Ancient Rome and the lives of the early emperors. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, his adopted son…
Candy (1968): Dir. Christian Marquand
Feat. Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton…; Sixties sex farce that satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive eponymous heroine, played by Swedish model, Ewa Aulin.…
Champions, The (TV Series) (1968-1969): Feat. Anthony Nicholls; A superior, if earnest, sci–fi thriller series with an Anglo–American cast, created by spy–genre guru Monty Berman (The Baron,…
Charge of the Light Brigade (1968): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, David Hemmings; Updated version of the Mid–Victorian battle made in the sardonic spirit of the swinging sixties. Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and David Hemmings…
Charly (1968): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala…; Child–minded Cliff Robertson has experimental brain–surgery, but his resulting super–intellect proves a mixed blessing. Credible,…
Dad's Army (TV Series) (1968-1977): Feat. Arthur Lowe, Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier…; The classic British TV series set around the gently–observed antics of home–guardsmen during WW2 under the inimitable Sergeant Mannering…
Damned, The (1968): Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger; Italian dir. Luchino Visconti casts a languorous eye over the decline of a German industrialist family during the Nazi era. Heavyweight cast includes…
Dandy in Aspic, A (1968): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow; A curious failure, Anthony Mann’s final film, completed by star Laurence Harvey after the director died during filming, muddles the deception of a…
Danger Diabolik (1968): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli…; Cat–burgling cool from the pop–art 1960's, outfitted in futuristic chic and the effortless glamour of John Phillip Law and blonde…
Deadfall (1968): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman…; Somewhat lumpy thriller with Caine recruited by a husband and wife to pull of a daring diamond heist. The actual robbery is cross–cut with a…
Death Rides A Horse (Da uomo a uomo) (1968): Dir. Giulio Petroni
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Mario Brega…; 'Spaghetti Western' about the years–in–the–waiting revenge mission of an orphan to hunt his parent's bandit murderers. Although…
Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television (1968-1979): Feat. Ian Holm, John Neville; Containing three of Dennis Potter's single plays for television, including "Shaggy Dog" which was thought to be lost until recently, these diverse…
Detective, The (1968): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker…; Interestingly dark and unsentimental policier has Frank Sinatra play an embattled cop investigating the murder of a wealthy homosexual while trying…
Devil Rides Out, The (1968): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee; Devilishly straight–faced Hammer with Christopher Lee orchestrating a scheme to save the life (and soul) of his long–time confidant from…
Doris Day Show, The (TV Series) (1968-1972): Feat. Doris Day, Denver Pyle, Fran Ryan…; A popular and ever–changing sitcom centred around America's 'apple–pie' actress, here making her first smallscreen foray. Appearing at…
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee returns in fangs for a third Hammer bite at the vampire story.
Finian's Rainbow (1968): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele; Completely whimsical latter–day musical sees Irishman Fred Astaire popped–down in the American South to tackle racial injustice with the…
Five Card Stud (1968): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens; Western set in small–town Colorado where players from an ill–fated game of poker start to go missing, and murder is suspected. From the…
For Love of Ivy (1968): Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Beau Bridges, Carroll O'Connor; A well–heeled black family find their maid is about to leave, so contrive to engineer a romance for her with a local truck–driver.…
Funny Girl (1968): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif; Barbra Streisand's bravura debut, playing real–life showbiz celeb Fanny Brice, won her an Oscar. Rates also as a well–executed musical.
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (TV Series) (1968): Feat. Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare; Fondly remembered sitcom based on the R. A. Dick novel (itself made into a 1947 film) about a young widow and family who befriend a ghost haunting…
Great Silence, The (1968): Dir. Sergio Corbucci
Feat. Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frank Wolff; A 'pure' spaghetti western in the Italian language, with Trintignant playing a mute desperado being pursued by bounty–hunter Kinski through a…
Green Berets, The (1968): Dir. Ray Kellogg, John Wayne
Feat. John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton…; Notoriously jingoistic blockbuster designed to drum up support for America's invasion of Vietnam. The Duke leads two ace fighting teams into battle…
Hang 'em High (1968): Dir. Ted Post
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens; A stateside attempt at a spaghetti Western. Clint Eastwood avenges a gang of vigilantes who wrongfully tried to hang him for murder.
Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (1968): Feat. Jack Lord, James MacArthur; Cult policier set in the sunny underworld of Hawaii with a special task force assigned to combat crime in paradise. While best remembered for its…
Heidi (1968): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, Walter Slezak…; TV movie adaptation of the 1880 novel about the Swiss orphan who is left in the care of her grumpy grandparents in the alps.
Hell in the Pacific (1968): Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune; American GI Lee Marvin encounters lone Japanese soldier Toshiro Mifune on a remote Pacific island. A series of tense confrontations unfolds, expertly…
Hellfighters (1968): Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Bruce Cabot…; A John Wayne–led action melodrama about a group of Houston–based oil well firefighters who are sent down to Venezuela to deal with a…
Here's Lucy (TV Series) (1968): Feat. Lucille Ball; Audiences still loved Lucy in this swansong sitcom for the beloved comedian. Ball plays a zany widow; her real–life son and daughter play her…
How To Save A Marriage And Ruin Your Life (1968): Dir. Fielder Cook
Feat. Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Eli Wallach…; Comedy where an attorney and bachelor attempts to save his friend's marriage by seducing the woman who his friend is having an affair with, with…
Ice Station Zebra (1968): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine; Good old–fashioned Cold War intrigue based on the Alistair Maclean novel. An all–bloke ensemble battle against human and natural force,…
Immortal Story, The (1968): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau; Orson Welles directs and stars in this little–seen French TV production, playing a European merchant who lures a sailor into seducing his fake…
Inspector Clouseau (1968): Dir. Bud Yorkin
Feat. Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Patrick Cargill…; This little known entry in the "Pink Panther" series of films was made by the Mirisch company in spite of Peter Sellers and director Blake Edwards…
Isadora (1968): Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser, James Fox…; Vanessa Redgrave is memorable as Isadora Duncan in this watchable biopic of the iconic free–style dancer's flamboyant youth and radical…
It Takes a Thief (TV Series) (1968): Feat. Robert Wagner; A super–cool product of sixties spy style, with Robert Wagner globe–trotting as a world–class cat burglar recruited by the U.S…
Italian Job, The (1968): Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Michael Caine, Sir Noel Coward, Benny Hill; Petty crook Michael Caine and an incarcerated Noel Coward have a crack at the big one in this ebullient caper movie memorable for its glam car chases…
Joe 90 (TV Series) (1968): Dir. Gerry Anderson; All thirty episodes of Gerry Anderson's wonder boy of hi–tech espionage. With a subtext as high camp as the theme song, this may well send you…
Journey to Shiloh (1968): Dir. William Hale
Feat. James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Harrison Ford…; Diverting counterculture western with seven fresh–faced young men embarking on a cross–country journey to join the confederate army.…
Kill Them All And Come Back Alone (1968): Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Chuck Connors, Frank Wolff, Franco Citti…; Spaghetti western set during the American Civil War, with a confederate going after a cache of gold owned by the Union Army. He is aided by a group…
Kuroneko (1968): Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi; Visually exquisite black and white horror film from Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA). An adaptation of a supernatural folktale set during…
Lady in Cement (1968): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker…; Second–tier detective flick with Ol' Blue Eyes as a private dick hired to find the murderer of a beautiful young woman found underwater,…
Land of the Giants (TV Series) (1968-1970): Feat. Gary Conway, Don Marshall; Irwin Allen's long lost sci–fi adventure for the ages finally comes to DVD! In the future (1983), a spaceship of travellers crash lands on a…
Lion in Winter, The (1968): Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn; An acting feast for Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn (who won an Oscar) as tempestuous King Henry II and his estranged wife who fiercely…
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, Rudy Vallee; Another musical comedy pairing director Norman Taurog with The King. Elvis plays a playboy pin–up photographer whose carefree life is…
Long Ride From Hell, A (Vivo per la tua Morte) (1968): Dir. Camillo Bazzoni
Feat. Steve Reeves, Wayde Preston; An overlooked, tough–minded Spaghetti Western featuring the legendary Steve "Hercules" Reeves in his final screen performance, this tells the…
Magus, The (1968): Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen…; A difficult, if beguiling adaptation of John Fowles’ supposedly unfilmable novel about a troubled schoolteacher (Caine) who arrives on a Greek…
Mandabi (The Money Order) (1968): Dir. Ousmane Sembene; The first significant film to be made in an African language (Wolof), directed by the 'father of African cinema', Ousmane Sembène. The title…
Mayerling (1968): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason…; Austrian Crown–Prince Omar Sharif neglects the business of running the 19th Century Hapsburg empire, to have a secretive and ill–fated…
Milky Way, The (1968): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny…; Bunuel experiments with narrative in relating theories of traditional Catholicism to the encounters of two wandering vagrants.
More Dead than Alive (1968): Dir. Robert Sparr
Feat. Clint Walker, Vincent Price, Anne Francis…; Western about a reformed killer who struggles with life on the outside. After trying to settle down as a rancher but failing to win people's…
Nearest and Dearest (TV Series) (1968-1973): Dir. June Howson
Feat. Hylda Baker, Jimmy Jewel; Likeable Brit comedy series centred on a middle–age brother and sister who inherit their father's derelict pickle factory and must contend with…
Night of the Following Day, The (1968): Dir. Hubert Cornfield
Feat. Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno…; An unusual thriller (filmed in France), in which a seedy kidnap plot goes awry. Brando plays the ringleader who must not only run the show, but deal…
Night of the Living Dead (1968): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Duane Jones; Highly original and influential drive–in cheapie, distinguished by its realistic, documentary atmosphere and imaginative ending. Graphically…
Night They Raided Minskey's, The (1968): Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Jason Robards Jr., Britt Ekland, Norman Wisdom…; An exquisite recreation of New York’s lower East Side burlesque domain headlines this 1920s romp, with Britt Ekland as the Amish girl turned saucy…
No Way to Treat a Lady (1968): Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal…; Macabre cat–and–mouse thriller from the pen of suspense–master William Goldman (MARATHON MAN), about a psychotic master of disguise…
Odd Couple, The (1968): Dir. Gene Saks
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau; Neil Simon's genius was in full force when he wrote this smash Broadway play – a letter–perfect, belly–aching examination of men in…
Oliver! (1968): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Mark Lester; Perfect screen adaptation of the 1960 stage musical by British writer and composer Lionel Bart, based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale. For a…
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968): Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards Jr.…; A 13–minute credit sequence opens this riveting frontier saga, arguably the finest film of the genre. Charles Bronson steps in to Clint…
One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, The (1968): Dir. Michael O'Herlihy
Feat. Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren…; A rambunctious Disney musical in which the large Bower family band sets off to the 1888 Democrat Party convention in St. Louis to support Grover…
Petulia (1968): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain; Peculiar relic from the late 60s, a radical studio pic – anti–narrative, bizarre angles, hip dialogue, contentious themes, Frisco…
Play Dirty (1968): Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green; During the Desert War in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised in Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital…
Please Sir! (TV Series) (1968-1972): Feat. John Alderton; A window into the British education system of old, this award–winning comedy series sees John Alderton (Upstairs Downstairs) as an optimistic…
Pretty Poison (1968): Dir. Noel Black
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld; A fan of PSYCHO? Then check out Anthony Perkins in this chilling tale of a couple of psychos in love. Tuesday Weld glitters as a teenage bad seed.
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1968): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin…; Schoolteacher at a private girls school, Maggie Smith grooms and instructs her pupils with a passionate sense of vocation, unfortunately making more…
Randall and Hopkirk Deceased (TV Series) (1968): Dir. Various
Feat. Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, Annette Andre; Cult 60s British comedy–thriller in which Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope play investigators, one of whom happens to be dead. Complete series…
Romeo and Juliet (1968): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea…; Definitive screen version has the lovelorn couple played by teenagers, the costume designer working overtime and a youthful, fashionable feel to it.…
Secret Ceremony (1968): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum…; Farrow resembles Taylor's dead daughter, Taylor resembles Farrow's dead mother, and their meeting has strange results. Originally an excellent…
Sergeant, The (1968): Dir. John Flynn
Feat. Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law; Rod Steiger plays a decorated war veteran who turns to drinking after he experiences an attraction to one of the soldiers under his command.
Shalako (1968): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, Stephen Boyd…; Silver screen vamp Brigitte Bardot teams up with Sean Connery in this "damsel in distress" western, where a hunting party who've wandered onto the…
Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (A Study In Scarlet, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four, The Blue Carbuncle) (1968): Feat. Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock; One of the best to ever play Sherlock Holmes (formerly, in Hammer's HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES), Peter Cushing steps back into the shoes of the famed…
Shoes of the Fisherman, The (1968): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud…; Anthony Quinn plays a Russian bishop who is elected Pope after twenty years in political asylum. Beautifully adorned best–seller adaptation.
Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo (TV Series) (1968): Iconic TV Series that put Australia on the map in the late 60s, featuring Skippy, the super–versatile kangaroo (who also cropped up on a…
Stanley Kubrick Collection (1968-1999): Dir. Stanley Kubrick; An 10–disc collection of five iconic Stanley Kubrick pictures: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980),…
Star! (1968): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig…; A commendably lavish biopic of the stage–comedienne Gertude Lawrence, who wooed the British stage in the first half of the 20th…
Stolen Kisses (Baisers Voles) (1968): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig; Third film in the director's Antoine Doinel series (see also THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS) starring Jean–Pierre Leaud, here as a careless young man…
Sweet Charity (1968): Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Ricardo Montalban, John McMartin…; Neil Simon's Broadway version of Fellini's NIGHTS OF CABIRIA makes a smashing musical film thanks to the director's razzamatazz, late 60's chic, and…
Theorem (Teorema) (1968): Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti…; A mysterious stranger seduces and corrupts each member of a bourgeois family. Pasolini stitches religious, social and political metaphors into his…
This Man Can't Die (1968): Dir. Gianfranco Baldanello
Feat. Guy Madison, Lucienne Bridou, Rik Battaglia; Mean and gritty spaghetti western following a government agent hot on the trial of the rich boss who murdered his family.
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway; Split–screen pyrotechnics accord this 60s–chic pastiche of exotic crime thriller and steamy romance. Steve McQueen is the…
Up The Junction (1968): Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Maureen Lipman…; A compelling later example of the British kitchen sink drama that follows a bored rich London girl from Chelsea who decides to "slum it" in depressed…
Up Tight (1968): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera…; In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their…
Villa Rides (1968): Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Lom…; Violent western set during the Mexican revolution, with Robert Mitchum playing a corrupt Texas gunrunner and pilot who joins Pancho Villa (Yul…
Werner Herzog Collection (Signs of Life, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek, Heart of Glass, Where the Green Ants Dream) (1968-1982): Dir. Werner Herzog; Comprehensive box–set containing six early films from renowned German director Werner Herzog.
What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968): Dir. George Seaton
Feat. George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Don Stroud…; A hip, literally infectious comedy centred around a cynical former advertising executive living a Beatnik–Bohemian life in a New York loft. The…
Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968): Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern; Possibly the finest of the BBC's M R James adaptations, this spooky tale concerns a closeted, sceptical professor (Hordern) whose seaside holiday…
Will Penny (1968): Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence…; An impressive, unromanticised view of an aging cowpuncher – played by Charlton Heston in possibly his finest dramatic performance – as he…
With Six You Get Egg Roll (1968): Feat. Doris Day, Brian Keith; Doris Day's last film sees the archetypal girl–next–door a more mature "working mom", here a widower trying to integrate her three sons…
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968): Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson…; Family comedy based loosely on the life of Helen Beardsley, who in the 1960's had a family of 18 children with husband Frank Beardsley, from their…
Z (1968): Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Papas; Pioneering conspiracy thriller based on the true story of the murder of a doctor and the raw sore of Greek political corruption it exposes. Oscars…
A Guide for the Married Man (1967): Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon…; Daffy skit comedy with Morse giving Mathau lessons on how to cheat on his wife in order to preserve their marriage, and these 'lessons' are…
Accident (1967): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Vivien Merchant, Michael York; The second classic Joseph Losey / Harold Pinter collaboration takes place in a deceptively placid Oxford University setting, that conceals…
Anniversary, The (1967): Dir. Roy Thomas Baker
Feat. Bette Davis, Jack Hedley, James Cossins…; Bette Davis sinks her fangs into the role of domineering widow, lording it over three spineless sons at her annual get–togethers. While firmly…
Banning (1967): Dir. Ron Winston
Feat. Robert Wagner, Anjanette Comer, Jill St. John…; Biting critique of the country club set with Robert Wagner as a jaded ex–golfer who hustling his way into Los Angeles' high society.
Barefoot in the Park (1967): Dir. Gene Saks
Feat. Robert Redford, Jane Fonda; Newlyweds Robert Redford and Jane Fonda make their bed in a five–story walk up apartment. Neil Simon pens out the funnies for the dynamic star…
Bedazzled (1967): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch…; A brilliant and enduring satire that updates of the 'Faust' tale to swinging London, with Moore playing a lovelorn chef who is lured into a pact by…
Belle De Jour (Beauty of the Day) (1967): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli…; Cool and elegant comedy of manners about a virginal newlywed who works the day shift in a high class brothel. Bunuel's surrealist…
Blood Beast Terror, The (1967): Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Peter Cushing; In Victorian rural England, Peter Cushing's murder enquiries uncovers a beastly weremoth and the gruesome experiments of a crazed entymologist.
Bobo, The (1967): Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi…; Sellers chews up the scenery as 'Juan', a singing bullfighter who finally books a job with a famous theatre director on the proviso that he can…
Bonnie and Clyde (1967): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman…; One of the seminal films of the late 1960s, an artful depiction of the exploits of Depression–era bank–robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde…
Camelot (1967): Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero…; This King Arthur musical was a disastrous, expensive–looking flop. Good performances though.
Caprice (1967): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Doris Day, Richard Harris, Michael J. Pollard; Madcap comedy features Day as a spy for a cosmetics company who stumbles upon a drug smuggling ring. Richard Harris plays a fellow agent who may or…
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (1967): Dir. Gerry Anderson; The complete series of Gerry Anderson's most technically accomplished sci–fi puppet, Captain Scarlet, who has limitless clones of himself…
Castle of the Walking Dead (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism) (1967): Dir. Harald Reinl
Feat. Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor; The blood runs thick for its vintage in this variation on Poe's Pit and the Pendulum in which a Count is drawn and quartered for killing twelve…
Champagne Murders, The (Le scandale) (1967): Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux…; Claude Chabrol transitions into his revered period of thrillers with this potboiler about a champagne tycoon's partner who suspects his partner's…
Charlie Bubbles (1967): Dir. Albert Finney
Feat. Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Liza Minnelli…; Albert Finney plays the titular character, an ennui–ridden author whose return to his hometown of Manchester is less than…
Cool Hand Luke (1967): Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, George Kennedy; Sure–footed, entertaining chain–gang yarn with a famously repulsive egg–eating contest.
Counterpoint (1967): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Leslie Nielsen; During World War II, a conductor (Charlton Heston) and his orchestra are captured by the Nazis while touring Europe. While held captive in a castle,…
Countess from Hong Kong, The (1967): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Syd Chaplin…; None too distinguished final film for dir. Chaplin is set aboard a cruise ship, on which US diplomat Brando finds a stowaway Russian countess…
Dragnet (TV Series) (1967): Feat. Jack Webb, Harry Morgan; The classic hard–case, ultra–realistic sixties police procedural, with officers Friday and Gannon cleaning up the mean streets of…
Elvira Madigan (1967): Dir. Bo Widerberg
Feat. Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer…; Ultra–romantic story of an army officer and a tightrope dancer who sacrifice everything for each other. Filmed like a shampoo commercial, it…
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp…; Pastoral, moody epic set in 18th Century England follows the romantic intrigues of an independent woman farmer with three men. Photography by Nic…
Firemen's Ball, The (1967): Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebanek, Josef Valnoha; Early film from the director of AMADEUS and CUCKOO'S NEST is an engaging, off–beat collection of comic vignettes, including a clumsy beauty…
Flim-Flam Man, The (1967): Dir. Irvin Kershner
Feat. George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan…; Light–hearted comedy in which a veteran Southern conman attempts to pass on his tricks to a young army deserter, only to discover his novice is…
Flying Nun, The (TV Series) (1967-1970): Feat. Sally Field, Marge Redmond, Madeleine Sherwood…; Wholesome, if rather off–kilter, family sitcom in which the young Sally Field plays a novice nun, whose starched headgear somehow enables her…
Forsyte Saga, The (TV Series) (1967): Dir. David Giles, James Cellan Jones
Feat. Eric Porter, Ngaire Dawn Porter, Kenneth More…; The BBC's acclaimed version of John Galsworthy's series of novels known as "The Forsyte Saga", which cover the lives of five generations of a wealthy…
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters; The fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series starring Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein and Susan Denberg as his new creation. Diverts away from…
Gentle Ben (TV Series) (1967): Feat. Clint Howard, Dennis Weaver; Based on the children's novel of the same name, Gentle Ben follows the adventures in the Florida Everglades of a game warden, Tom Wedloe (Dennis…
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1967): Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef; The third, the funniest and most violent of Clint's association with director Leone. Set during the Civil War, three low–lifes search for a…
Graduate, The (1967): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross; An endearing Dustin Hoffman in his first leading role, is seduced by a middle–aged woman and then falls in love with her daughter. A brilliant…
Grand Slam (Ad Ogni Costo) (1967): Dir. Giuliano Montaldo
Feat. Janet Leigh, Klaus Kinski, Edward G. Robinson; Smooth–running thriller about an international criminal gang who attempt a gruelling diamond heist during the chaotic Carnival in Rio de…
Gruesome Twosome (1967): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell; Typical H.G. Lewis fare that is both disgusting and amusing. The plot revolves around a wig shop that makes its products by scalping people with an…
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier; Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy become perplexed parents of son–in–law Sidney Poitier, in this agreeable mixed–marriage comedy.
Hell on Wheels (1967): Dir. Will Zens
Feat. Marty Robbins, John Ashley; While not quite living up to the title, this action–comedy set around two stockcar–obsessed brothers has a certain kitsch 60s appeal…
High Chaparral, The (TV Series) (1967): Feat. Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Linda Cristal…; Conceived amidst the popularity of BONANZA, this classic TV western sought to replicate its success. The series centres on the ranch life of an…
Honey Pot, The (1967): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Maggie Smith…; Trifling comedy of money and manipulation in which Harrison plays a millionaire who deceives a trio of former mistresses into believing he is dying.…
Hour of the Gun (1967): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. James Garner, Jason Robards Jr., Robert Ryan…; Slowburning, melancholic revenge flick follows on from the events of Gunfight at the O.K Corral, with Garner as Wyatt Earp wrecking vengeance on the…
How I Won the War (1967): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. John Lennon, Michael Crawford; John Lennon and Michael Crawford do service in this black satire on military lunacy.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967): Dir. David Swift
Feat. Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee; Skillfully treading the line between silliness and satire, this adaptation of the lauded Broadway musical sees Morse play an ambitious young window…
I am Curious Yellow / I am Curious Blue (1967): Dir. Vilgot Sjoman
Feat. Vilgot Sjoman, Lena Nyman; Originally intended to be one 3.5–hour film but later split into two parts, both presented in a faux–documentary style, with director…
In Cold Blood (1967): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe…; A masterpiece of crime fiction adapted from Truman Capote’s novel about events surrounding the senseless murder of an innocent family by two…
Incident, The (1967): Dir. Larry Peerce
Feat. Martin Sheen, Tony Musante, Beau Bridges…; This stark, hard–hitting melodrama depicts two young thugs who drunkenly taunt and terrorize their fellow passengers on a New York subway…
Invaders, The (TV Series) (1967-1968): Feat. Roy Thinnes, Diane Baker, J.D. Cannon…; After a close encounter with an alien spacecraft, architect David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) tries to persuade a skeptical world that…
Ironside (TV Series) (1967): Dir. James Goldstone, Leo Penn
Feat. Raymond Burr; Raymond Burr followed 'Perry Mason' with this different, but equally classic TV–series, shedding the lawyer role for a stint as a…
King Kong Escapes (1967): Dir. Ishiro Honda
Feat. Mie Hama, Akira Takarada, Rhodes Reason…; Kaiji co–production between Japan and the USA which pits a robot version of King Kong (MechaniKong!) against a giant dinosaur Gorosaurus. A…
Le Samourai (The Samurai) (1967): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon; Alain Delon plays an ultra–cool assassin whose flawless disposition is impenetrable to the Gendarmerie but not to a sexy key witness. Steely…
Long Duel, The (1967): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews…; MIddling adventure yarn set in India under the British Raj. Idealistic policeman Trevor Howard is given orders to capture a rebellious Sultan dead or…
Madigan (1967): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda; Possibly the last film in which cops and crooks dress in snappy fedora hats and dark coats, a craggy Richard Widmark plays the addled NY Inspector…
Magnificent Two, The (1967): Dir. Cliff Owen
Feat. Morecambe and Wise; Perhaps the tightest of the TV comedy duo's cinematic attempts, in which they play a pair of salesmen dithering around in an unstable South American…
Mouchette (1967): Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Maria Cardinal; An impoverished young girl in rural France bears the brunt of hard times in this perfectly formed study, taken from the novel by George Bernanos.…
Mummy's Shroud, The (1967): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell, John Phillips, David Buck…; An archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharoah and ignoring warnings of a deadly curse they unleash a vengeful spirit…
Night of the Generals, The (1967): Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay…; WWII crime thriller concerning the prolonged investigation of the murder of a Polish prostitute and German agent that implicates three generals, and…
Oedipus Rex (1967): Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli; Striking visual achievement, filmed amidst the Moroccan desert and Bologna, describes the Oedipal tale of a tortured soul who murders his father and…
Playtime (1967): Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati; Tati's satirical vision of modern city life and brutalist architecture is his magnum opus. His alter–ego Mr. Hulot goes about his third…
Point Blank (1967): Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn…; Fascinating, at times jarring, thriller has underworld hitman Lee Marvin hunting for those who double–crossed him in The Organisation, only to…
Poor Cow (1967): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Carol White, Terence Stamp, Malcolm McDowell; Striking the tone of much of his subsequent work, Ken Loach's debut film gives a semi–documentary edge to the story of 'poor cow' Carol White,…
President's Analyst, The (1967): Dir. Theodore J. Flicker
Feat. James Coburn; Madcap comedy suspense tracking a hapless guy awarded the task of being the president's assistant, who then must deal with bribes and death threats…
Prisoner, The (TV Series) (1967-1968): Feat. Patrick McGoohan; Patrick McGoohan stars as No.6, a man who wakes to find himself the pawn of a mysterious big brother organisation in this 60's soaked sci–fi…
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith…; Adaptation of Carson McCuller's novel. Taking place on a peacetime army base, a career officer finds his personal and professional life compromised…
Reluctant Astronaut, The (1967): Dir. Edward Montagne
Feat. Don Knotts, Leslie Nielsen, Joan Freeman; Don Knotts, best known as the comedic sidekick on the "Andy Griffiths Show", plays a goofy carnival ride operator who is hired as a janitor at the…
Robbery (1967): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Sir Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth…; Topnotch heist film is a tension filled reconstruction of "The Great Train Robbery" with Stanley Baker in the Ronnie Biggs role. Film gets off to…
Rocket To The Moon (1967): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Frobe…; Jules Verne’s sci–fi classic gets a stupendously silly makeover in this comic chronicle of a scientific consortium’s attempts to launch a…
Rough Night in Jericho (1967): Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Dean Martin, Slim Pickens, Jean Simmons…; Dean Martin terrorizes a town and its helpless folk in this coarse, outdated western. Rough indeed.
Stranger on the Run (1967): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter, Michael Parks…; Henry Fonda is once again THE WRONG MAN in this tasty Don Siegel western. Fonda plays an embittered ex–con who falls foul of a ruthless…
Targets (1967): Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Boris Karloff, Peter Bogdanovich; The influential first feature from a young Peter Bogdanovich, that effectively contrasts the story of a retiring horror actor (played by Boris…
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing…; Likeable, though overlong musical set in the swinging 20s and something of a sequel to Andrew's "The Boyfriend". Harebrained farce predominates…
Torture Garden (1967): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams…; Grisly, well–acted omnibus of four horror stories by PSYCHO–scribe Robert Bloch, framed by the fiendish hype of Burgess Meredith's…
Two of Us, The (Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant) (1967): Dir. Claude Berri
Feat. Alain Cohen, Michel Simon; Touching wartime nostalgia, with Michel Simon as a grizzly anti–Semite who befriends a Jewish boy sent to countryside during occupied France.…
Ulysses (1967): Dir. Joseph Strick
Feat. Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roeves…; A brave stab at filming James Joyce's sprawling novel, but it's better known for the stir it caused over its seminal use of the f–word and…
Wait Until Dark (1967): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna; A blind Audrey Hepburn is trapped in her apartment by psycho–beatnik Alan Arkin, who's looking for hidden heroin. Based on a stageplay, this…
War Wagon, The (1967): Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel…; A light–hearted western with John Wayne playing a rancher who returns to his home town after being wrongfully imprisoned, to take revenge on…
Weekend (1967): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne; A poetic, stylised and savage vision as only Godard could dream up and/or get away with. Road chaos and carnage is his metaphor for the decline of…
Woman Times Seven (1967): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman…; Shirley MacLaine inhabits seven different women in seven fanciful, star–studded mini–stories of adultery for Italian dir. Vittorio De…
Young Girls of Rochefort, The (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1967): Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Francois Dorleac, Gene Kelly; The carrot of love is dangled in Jacques Demy's positively radiant follow–up to UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG: an unbridled, colour–saturated…
10:30 PM Summer (1966): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch; Tawdry, heavy–handed curiosity adapts Marguerite Duras’s New Wave novel into a sordid, albeit beautifully locationed spectacle. With a…
A Bullet For the General (Quien Sabe?) (1966): Dir. Damiano Damiani
Feat. Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick; Spaghetti western set during the Mexican revolution where a gringo assassin infiltrates a gang of bandits in order to find and kill a rebel general.…
A Man Called Adam (1966): Dir. Leo Penn
Feat. Sammy Jr. Davis, Louis Armstrong, Cicely Tyson…; Sammy Davis Jr stars as a caustically charismatic jazz musician who questions his self–destructive lifestyle upon falling in love with a civil…
Adam Adamant Lives! (TV Series) (1966): Feat. Gerald Harper, Juliet Harmer, Jack May; A lost classic of British television starring Gerald Harper as an intrepid Edwardian Gentleman–Adventurer frozen by his nemesis ‘The Face’,…
After The Fox (Caccia alla Volpe) (1966): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland…; Peter Sellers plays a con–man who escapes jail and must masquerade as a film–director, managing to pull off a major gold bullion…
Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection, The (Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family Plot.) (1966-1976): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Four Hitchcock masterpieces made during his later years after he returned to Britain..
Alvarez Kelly (1966): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. William Holden, Richard Widmark; Set during the American Civil War, this violent western concerns a running feud between the leads over cattle–rustling activities.
Andrei Rublev (1966): Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko; Enthralling historical drama vividly portrays the 15th Century Russian painter who was encumbered by the political turbulence of the time.
Appaloosa, The (Southwest to Senora) (1966): Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon…; Minor, though well–crafted and photographed Western set around Brando's attempts to recover his prized horse from a Mexican bandit (Saxon).
Arabesque (1966): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Sophia Loren, Gregory Peck; Whimsical spy shenanigans in London, with Anglo–Arab relations straining over the custody of a hieroglyphic code. Sophia Loren's extraordinary…
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966): Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Anne Wiazemsky, Francois Lafarge, Philippe Asselin; Robert Bresson's immediately recognisable minimalist style is here lent to one of the few films whose central character is a donkey.
Batman (TV Series) (1966-1968): Feat. Adam West, Burt Ward, Burgess Meredith…; Batman and Robin, as many would best remember them, take on a succession of colourful Gotham City villains – Catwoman, The Joker, The Penguin,…
Batman: The Movie (1966): Dir. Leslie Martinson
Feat. Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether…; Spawned from the original sixties TV series, this feature–length adventure pitting the caper crusader against his fiercest adversaries was the…
Before the Revolution (1966): Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Adriana Asti, Francisco Barilli; Bertolucci's second film – made at the age of 22! – demonstrates his bravura visual style fully formed around this coming of age in the…
Bible, The (1966): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, John Huston…; A sincere, if not entirely successful, attempt to transpose the Old Testament to the screen – from Adam to Isaac. Appropriately grand and…
Black Girl (La Noire de...) (1966): Dir. Ousmane Sembene; A French–Senegalese drama film and the directorial debut of Ousmane Sembene, often considered to be the first Sub–Saharan African film by…
Blue Max, The (1966): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. George Peppard, Anton Diffring, James Mason…; Impressively staged, this WW1 actioner concerns the career of ace German combat pilot Bruno Stachel (Peppard). Although the human drama is fairly…
Catacombs (The Woman Who Wouldn't Die) (1966): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow; A minor British thriller in which a domineering woman (Merrow), whose existence becomes inconvenient for her husband (Merrill) and a blackmailed…
Cathy Come Home (1966): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Carol White; Dramatic critique of Britain's housing problems follows the progress of a young couple in London as they slip down the social and class ladder into…
Chase, The (1966): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda…; Action–packed Southern potboiler set around the attempts of a sheriff to protect an escaped convict from mob–justice in smalltown…
Closely Observed Trains (1966): Dir. Jiri Menzel
Feat. Vaclav Neckar, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodsky; Oscar–winning Czech film about a lonely train guard's attempt to lose his virginity while his country copes with the German occupation. The…
Daisies (1966): Dir. Vera Chytilova
Feat. Julius Albert, Jitka Cerhova, Marie Ceskova; Much–loved cinematic firecracker from the halcyon days of 60s Czech radicalism, in which two girls (both called Marie) live out their anarchist…
Danger Man (TV Series) (1966): Dir. Peter Yates, Don Chaffey
Feat. Patrick McGoohan; Before THE PRISONER, Patrick McGoohan played a prototype of the same character as the cool and calculated John Drake, a special agent who keeps up…
Dark Shadows (TV Series) (1966): Feat. Jonathan Frid, Joan Bennett; A camp classic of 'Gothic soap opera', this long–running daytime melodrama centred on 175–year–old vampire Barnabas Collins and a…
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966): Dir. Bernard Girard
Feat. James Coburn, Aldo Ray, Camilla Sparv; James Coburn stars as Eli Kotch, a captivating rogue and full–time con man in this comical crime caper.
Deadlier Than the Male (1966): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina…; Retro adventure spy flick compiled of alluring girls with spear guns in trouble after knocking off a couple of oil industry big wigs. This thriller…
Death of a Salesman (1966): Dir. Alex Segal
Feat. James Farentino, Mildred Dunnock, George Segal…; A 1966 teleplay adaptation of Arthur Miller's classic Pulitzer Prize–winning play, often thought one of the definitive versions. Lee J Cobb…
Defector, The (1966): Dir. Raoul Levy
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Hardy Kruger, Macha Meril…; Thriller about an American physicist who is blackmailed by the CIA into travelling to East Germany, where he must acquire a microfilm from a…
Django Shoots First (1966): Dir. Alberto De Martino
Feat. Glenn Saxson, Ida Galli, Nando Gazzolo…; Spaghetti western riffing liberally on Sergio Leone stereotypes, and carrying the distinction of being the first DJANGO knock–off. A man sets…
El Dorado (1966): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Edward Asner, James Caan…; A poignant portrait of cowboys past their prime has boozy sherriff Robert Mitchum and aging gunman John Wayne team up to rid their town of cattle…
Family Way, The (1966): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills…; This Boulting Brothers classic is a hilarious yet affecting portrait of the marital difficulties of a young newlywed couple (Hywel Bennett and Hayley…
Few Dollars for Django (1966): Dir. Leon Klimovsky
Feat. Antonio De Teffe, Gloria Osuna, Frank Wolff; Imitation spaghetti–Western, several times removed from the Sergei Leone/Clint Eastwood model, let alone Franco Nero's original 'Django'.…
Follow Me, Boys! (1966): Dir. Norman Tokar
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish; Disney classic about a simple man who settles in a small town during the 1930's and starts a Boy Scout Troop.
Fortune Cookie, The (1966): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau; Comical cynicism by the experts: the magical trio of Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau (who won an Oscar), and dir. Wilder. When Lemmon suffers a football…
Frankie and Johnny (1966): Dir. Frederick de Cordova
Feat. Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Harry Morgan…; The King and Donna 'Elly May' Douglas (of The Beverly Hillbillies) hitch up in Mississippi, only for a wily seductress (Kovack) to crach their party.…
Funeral in Berlin (1966): Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka; Sequel to THE IPCRESS FILE again features Michael Caine as the Harry Palmer, hero of Len Deighton's novel series. This time the espionage functionary…
Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, A (1966): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, Jack Gilford…; Wild spoof–musical set in Roman times, is somewhat spotty but still generates plenty of comic gas courtesy of some old pros. Mostel plays a…
Gambit (1966): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Michael Caine; Charming, clever heist flick about a Cockney conman and a kooky showgirl whose brilliantly elaborate plan to steal an invaluable sculpture backfires…
Georgy Girl (1966): Dir. Silvio Narizzano
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling…; Quaint comedy in which 'ugly duckling' Lynn Redgrave strives for happiness alongside her flamboyant friends. Its casual depiction of abortion made…
Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The (1966): Dir. Alan Rafkin
Feat. Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond…; A pretty darned funny Don Knotts vehicle that has the rubber–faced comedian as a timid typesetter who hasn't a chance of becoming a reporter…
Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966): Dir. Don Weis
Feat. Nancy Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Tommy Kirk…; Seventh and final in a loose series of 'Beach Party' movies, featuring Nancy Sinatra and an ageing Boris Karloff.
Glass Bottom Boat, The (1966): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Dom DeLuise…; Completely transparent comedy of the fluffy 60s variety, with Doris Day, pursued by Rod Taylor and mistaken for a Soviet spy.
Grand Prix (1966): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. James Garner, Yves Montand, Eva Marie Saint…; James Garner, Yves Montand and others rival for the Formula One championship in this exciting sports epic. Split–screen effects and widescreen…
Guerre Est Finie, La (1966): Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Genevieve Bujold…; (The War is Over). Deeply romantic film in which Spanish Civil War refugee Yves Montand tries in vain to keep alive the memory of his struggle.
Hawaii (1966): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris…; Lush epic of colonial expansion with Harris as an uptight missionary on a crusade to convert the natives of Hawaii, and Andrews his long suffering…
Hills Run Red, The (Un fiume di dollari ) (1966): Dir. Carlo Lizzani
Feat. Dan Duryea, Henry Silva, Thomas Hunter; Violent spaghetti western doesn't spare the sauce as two confederate soldiers flee the civil war with some ill–gotten loot. Duryea appears to…
Hombre (1966): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone…; Paul Newman portrays the sombre hombre, a white man brought up by the Apache, who helps the red–neck passengers of an ambushed stagecoach.…
How to Steal a Million (1966): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach…; A top cast lifts this romantically–inclined suspense caper, wherein Hepburn must steal a forged sculpture belonging to her own family before it…
Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûle-t-il?) (1966): Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron…; An international cast grace this lengthy war drama, set in 1944 Paris as the retreating Germans prepared to burn the city to the ground on Hitler's…
Island of Terror (1966): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing; Peter Cushing stars in this Hammer sci–fi tale about cancer research gone awry.
Khartoum (1966): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Charlton Heston…; Lavishly mounted biopic of General Gordon's defeat by Arab tribesmen in 1833.
Le Deuxieme Souffle (Second Breath) (1966): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin; A gangster escapes from prison and returns to his criminal ways, but a determined inspector is on his tail. Has all the style and restraint we can…
Lost Command (1966): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal…; Atypical war movie follows Anthony Quinn's realpoliticking officer through French colonial defeats from Dien Bien Phu to Algeria. Tough action film…
Madame X (1966): Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban…; Sudsy melodrama with Turner as a woman with a past who's dalliance with a wealthy politician leads to murder. Superior weepie, lushly mounted and…
Man and a Woman, A (1966): Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Barouh; Classic love story is one of the most popular foreign films of all time. Intelligent, sensitive script is ignited with exotic locations and Francis…
Man for All Seasons, A (1966): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Paul Scofield, Dame Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern…; Paul Scofield plays Thomas More, a verbal opponent of King Henry VIII who 'stuck his neck out' once too often. First–class adaptation of the…
Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) (1966): Feat. Richard Bradford, Donald Sutherland, Felicity Kendall…; Perhaps lesser known (and less innovative) than other suspense series of the 1960s, this ITC production still packs a gritty punch. Bradford plays…
Masculin Feminin (1966): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Chantal Goya, Brigitte Bardot; Godard steers toward the political with this bittersweet social comment about the Parisian youth culture of '65 through a series of oddly connected…
Mission: Impossible (TV Series) (1966- 1973): Dir. Bernard L. Kowalski
Feat. Peter Graves, Steven Hill, Barbara Bain…; Forget Tom Cruise, this is the real McCoy – '60s fashion, gadgets, and plots worth talking about the day after. On DVD rental: Season 1 (28…
Monkees, The (TV Series) (1966): Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Michael Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork…; Relive classic "Monkeemania" with the irrepressibly cheerful and zany 60's pop group's TV series, initially inspired by The Beatles' "Hard Day's…
Munster, Go Home (1966): Dir. Earl Bellamy
Feat. Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis…; Feature length outing for the Munsters has the family travelling to London after Herman discovers he's a Lord.
Naked Prey, The (1966): Dir. Cornel Wilde
Feat. Cornel Wilde; Forgotten actor–turned–auteur Cornel Wilde leads the pack in this savage survivalist adventure, on the run from African tribesman who…
Namu, My Best Friend (Namu, The Killer Whale) (1966): Dir. Laslo Benedek
Feat. Robert Lansing, John Anderson, Richard Erdman…; A compassionate marine biologist forms an unlikely friendship with a killer whale in this tenderly told story for all ages.
Nevada Smith (1966): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith…; McQueen plays an orphaned half–breed in the West, who quests relentlessly for his parents' killers. Beautifully made in some stunning…
Paddle to the Sea (1966): Dir. Bill Mason; This breathtaking miniature classic tells the story of a hand carved Indian in a toy canoe, which journeys from the snowcapped mountains of Canada,…
Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966): Dir. Michael D. Moore
Feat. Elvis Presley, James Shigeta, Suzanna Leigh…; A touristy musical that sticks to the Elvis Presley formula of songs and romance with the added bonus of lush tropical scenery.
Patriotism (Yûkoku) (1966): Dir. Yukio Mishima
Feat. Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka; Short film directed by Japanese writer and revolutionary Yukio Mishima, based on his short story of the same name published in 1961. Set in February…
Persona (1966): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson; Perhaps dir. Bergman's most renowned and haunting work, a study of the psychological processes between a mute patient and her repressed nurse. Liv…
Professionals, The (1966): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan…; A taut precursor to THE WILD BUNCH, with a gang of American mercenaries making an incursion into Mexican territory to rescue a beautiful hostage…
Rage (1966): Dir. Gilberto Gazcón
Feat. Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso; Sweaty Mexican American thriller with Glenn Ford playing a self–pitying alcoholic doctor who lives alone in a border town, and finds himself…
Reptile, The (1966): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Noel Willman, Ray Barrett; When villagers start dying from snake venom in Cornwall, things point suspiciously to the tinkerings of a strange doctor. Moody Hammer schlock.
Romeo and Juliet (1966): Dir. Paul Czinner
Feat. Margot Fonteyn, Rudolph Nureyev; The famed Royal Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet. This historical performance stars Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev as the quintessential…
Russians Are Coming, The Russians are Coming! The (1966): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint…; A Russian submarine runs aground on the New England coastline, sending locals into paroxysms of humourous paranoia. Fairly well–judged satire…
San Ferry Ann (1966): Dir. Jeremy Summers
Feat. Barbara Windsor, David Lodge, Wilfred Brambell…; Dialogue–free comedy about a group of rag–tag British travellers travelling on the San Ferry Ann from Dover to France and getting up to…
Sand Pebbles, The (1966): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen; An epic series of adventures on an American gunboat in the turbulent China of the 1920s, Steve McQueen giving a particularly underrated performance,…
Seconds (1966): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Rock Hudson; Boldly experimental thriller from the director of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, in which a bored businessman opts for a new, 'more fulfilling' identity…
Spinout (1966): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares; Musical comedy starring Elvis as a race car driver and singer in a band, whose carefree single life is threatened by the romantic advances of three…
Steptoe and Son (TV Series) (1966): Feat. Harry H. Corbett, Wilfred Brambell; The classic 60s comedy show featuring the bickering father and son team, who run a faltering rag and bone business.
Taming of the Shrew (1966): Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor; Famous couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as Petruchio and Katharina in this spirited parody of gender role plays. Zeffirelli succeeds…
Texas Across The River (1966): Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth…; Gag–heavy Western spoof sees Joey Bishop get painted up 'native' and Dean Martin and Alain Delon facing off for the love of Rosemary Forsyth's…
That Riviera Touch (1966): Dir. Cliff Owen
Feat. Morecambe and Wise; The British comic duo's second cinematic outing, here getting unknowingly entangled with a gang of jewel thieves in the Cote d'Azur, who use them to…
This Property is Condemned (1966): Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Charles Bronson…; A splendid Tennessee William's adaptation, where Redford plays a Railroad company official sent to close down a yard in a Southern small town during…
Time Tunnel, The (TV Series) (1966-1967): Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. James Darren, John Zaremba, Lee Meriwether…; One of producer Irwin Allen's (LOST IN SPACE) most ambitious and successful series, finds two US scientists working on the secret time–travel…
To Sir with Love (1966): Dir. James Clavell
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Lulu; Sidney Poitier instructs a class of cheeky, wayward teenagers in this feel–good classic of British cinema.
Tobruk (1966): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Guy Stockwell…; This WW2 desert actioner is about the activities of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), who ran commando raids against Rommel and his Afrika…
Torn Curtain (1966): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Paul Newman, Julie Andrews; Atom–bomb boffin Paul Newman defects across the Iron Curtain of the title to East Germany, testing the boundaries of trust for true–blue…
Trace of Stones (Spur der Steine) (1966): Dir. Frank Beyer
Feat. Manfred Krug, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Eberhard Esche; An East German film which was censored by the ruling communist party for years before being finally released in 1989, depicting the working…
Triple Cross (1966): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard…; Minor curio concerns the real–life adventures of English safe–cracker Eddie Chapman (Plummer) who was in prison on Jersey when the Nazis…
Two for the Road (1966): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney; Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney play a married couple who reflect on their twelve year marriage while driving through France in a sports car with…
Walk, Don't Run (1966): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Cary Grant; During the Tokyo Olympics, an American athlete shares an apartment with an amorous distraction and a wealthy businessman. Breezy comedy marks Cary…
War and Peace (1966): Dir. Sergei Bondarchuk
Feat. Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Gubanova; The definitive version of Leo Tolstoy's gargantuan novel, set during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in the early 19th century. Nothing else quite…
What Did You Do In The War, Daddy? (1966): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Aldo Ray; Deft farce set during World War II. Coburn and company charged with seizing a small Sicillian village are surprised to find its inhabitants only too…
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor; High powered melodrama with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in peak form as a married couple whose dinner party turns into a violent debacle.…
Witches, The (1966): Dir. Cyril Frankel
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen…; Hammer horror adapted by Nigel Kneale under the pseudonym Peter Curtis, and featuring the final big–screen film role for Joan Fontaine.
Wrong Box, The (1966): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine…; A classic black farce where two Victorian siblings (Richardson and Mills) scramble tooth and nail to collect a massive legacy, each trying to outwit…
10 Little Indians (Ten Little Indians) (1965): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian…; Swinging London 60s version of the much–filmed Agatha Christie whodunnit 'And Then There Were None...' set in an isolated Alpine manse, where…
A Blonde in Love (1965): Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Hana Brejchova, Vladimir Pucholt, Vladimir Mensik; This early film from the director of AMADEUS tells the simple story of a young girl's search for a pianist with whom she spent the night. Forman…
A Study in Terror (1965): Dir. James Hill
Feat. John Neville, Robert Morley, Donald Houston…; Carefully crafted, though at times crude and bloody, Sherlock Holmes mystery (not by Conan Doyle), with the sleuth pursuing the murderous Jack the…
Agony and the Ecstasy, The (1965): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento; Hollywood portrait of Michelangelo's struggle to paint the Sistine Chapel under the patronage of belligerent Pope Julius II. Rex Harrison fares…
Alfie (1965): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Michael Caine, Shelley Winters; The film that made Michael Caine a household name. His eponymous anti–hero is that of a likely lad who likes to 'ave a go wiv the birds. They…
Alphaville (1965): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff…; A private eye is sent to a futuristic city run by a computer to rescue a trapped scientist. Amalgam of film noir and science fiction illustrates the…
Amicus Collection (Asylum, The Beast Must Die, And Now the Screaming Starts, The House that Dripped Blood, City of the Dead, Dr. Terrors House of Horrors) (1965-1974): Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; A collection of low–budget horror films from Amicus Studios. CITY OF THE DEAD (a.k.a. HORROR HOTEL): A student is sent by her professor to…
Art of Love, The (1965): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer…; Amiable con–artist comedy with Dick van Dyke as a frustrated painter who fakes his own death to increase his painting's value.
Battle of Algiers, The (1965): Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Feat. Brahim Haggiag; Gripping account of the Muslim uprising which led to the withdrawal of France from Algeria was shot merely four years after the revolution, and as…
Battle of the Bulge (1965): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan…; Admirable and far from simplistic recreation of the Nazi's WW2 counter–offensive in the Ardennes in 1944, which led to a series of bitter…
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965): Dir. William Asher
Feat. Paul Lynde, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello…; Most successful and best known of the ‘Beach Party’ movies, though it shows signs of being fifth in a series by straying quite a way from the…
Bedford Incident, The (1965): Dir. James B. Harris
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier; Excellent Cold war navy thriller in which an US captain (Richard Widmark) treads the nuclear tightrope in obsessive pursuit of a Russian sub.
Belle and Sebastien (TV Series) (1965): Dir. Cecile Aubry, Jean Guillaume; Cherished children's series lovingly recreates the classic French tale of a six–year–old orphan who forms an enduring friendship with a…
Big Job, The (1965): Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. Sid James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery; Classic comedy in the tradition of the 'CARRY ON' films centered around a group of arrested bankrobbers, who, after being released from prison, try…
Blindfold (1965): Dir. Philip Dunne
Feat. Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden…; Rock Hudson stars in this wry thriller as a psycho–analyst caught up in an international spy plot after one of his patients knows more than…
Boeing, Boeing (1965): Dir. John Rich
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Thelma Ritter; Comedy with Tony Curtis playing a philanderer who is secretly engaged to three different air stewardesses, and Jerry Lewis as the surprise house…
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier…; Deeply eccentric chiller centred on the hunt for a missing child who the police begin to suspect may never have existed at all. Both a finely…
Cast a Giant Shadow (1965): Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Angie Dickinson…; Spectacular epic concerning the Israeli War of Independence in 1947–8, that like EXODUS somewhat romanticises events. Weaves a romance around…
Cat Ballou (1965): Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin; Amusing spoof of the genre with Jane Fonda as a school–teacher who becomes an outlaw after her father's untimely death. Lee Marvin won an Oscar…
Catch Us If You Can (1965): Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Dave Clark, Barbara Ferris, Lenny Davidson; Surprisingly downbeat comedy vehicle for pop band the Dave Clark Five sees a stuntman (Clark) for a pro–meat commercial run away with its star…
Chimes at Midnight (1965): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud…; Orson Welles' late–career masterpiece in which one of the Bard's great supporting characters Falstaff is given his due through a series of…
Cincinnati Kid, The (1965): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Tuesday Weld…; Memorable visit to the shady world of card–sharking in Depression–era America, with some excellent character acting from a great cast.
Collector, The (1965): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar; Terence Stamp plays a disturbed butterfly collector who kidnaps a girl in the hope that she will grow to love him. Truly memorable chiller maintains…
Color Me Blood Red (1965): Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Feat. Gordon Oas-Heim, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner; "Blood–feaster" Hershell Gordon Lewis tones down the gore for this third of his splatter forays – a spin on A BUCKET OF BLOOD about an…
Curse of the Fly (1965): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Burt Kwouk; Second sequel to the original 1958 THE FLY, sans Vincent Price, but with touches of genuine gothic atmosphere and some creepy mutants. The tale of a…
Darling (1965): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde; Oscar–winning, watershed film of British sexual mores is a fashionably flashy and cynical moral fable. Julie Christie social climbs to a…
Die, Monster, Die (1965): Dir. Daniel Heller
Feat. Boris Karloff, Freda Jackson, Nick Adams…; Enjoyable Lovecraft adaptation, featuring an older Boris Karloff going nuts in the greenhouse.
Do Not Disturb (1965): Feat. Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Hermione Baddeley…; Everything seems rosy for a pair of well–to–do newlyweds. That is, until the Husband (Taylor) begins spending more time out with his sexy…
Doctor Zhivago (1965): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Omar Sharif; Omar Sharif plays the Russian doctor exiled for writing poetry during WW1, and separated from his only love. Complex, beautifully conceived epic will…
Duel at Diablo (1965): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, James Garner; Violent, off–beat Cowboys–and–Indians conflict successfully revives the formula. With Sidney Poitier, and James Garner in a sober…
Family Jewels, The (1965): Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, Jay Adler…; Jerry Lewis directs while mugging his way through no less than seven roles, six of whom who are the uncles of a 10–year–old heiress who…
Fists in the Pocket (1965): Dir. Marco Bellochio
Feat. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Mase; A ferocious intensity pervades this bitter yet utterly startling tale of a family afflicted with epilepsy, blindness and frustration, unafforded the…
Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch…; One of the great survival–adventure films has an all–star cast crash landing their cargo plane deep in the Sahara, with no obvious means…
For a Few Dollars More (1965): Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte; An improvement on the original film with Eastwood encoring to the strains of that unmistakable Morricone score.
Get Smart (TV Series) (1965-1968): Feat. Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Edward Platt; Iconic 60's spy spoof series following the enduringly hilarious adventures of an enthusiastic but incompetent secret agent and his loyal, glamorous…
Gidget (TV Series) (1965-1966): Feat. Sally Field, Don Porter, Betty Conner; Truly likeable television spinoff series of the 1959 movie, about a spunky young surfer girl (Field) who comes of age around her friends, solo Dad…
Girl Happy (1965): Dir. Boris Sagal
Feat. Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone; Elvis escorts the daughter of a mobster to a Florida beachside resort for a holiday. Enjoyably kitsch Presley musical.
Glory Guys, The (1965): Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Andrew Duggan; A bigoted Civil War general and his subservient cavalry set about to obliterate the Native Indian populous in this atypical western, from the pen of…
Great Race, The (1965): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood…; Near–classic comedy set around the first New York–to–Paris car race in the early 20th century, with a cast of greats and bag of…
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Loggia…; Not the greatest movie ever made, however one might get a kick out of spotting all the famous faces in this reverant, picturesque epic about the life…
Green Acres - Farm Favorites (1965-1966): Dir. Richard L. Bare
Feat. Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor; Innocuous odd–couple series centred on a high–flying Manhattan lawyer who craves the simple country life and drags his pouting socialite…
Hallelujah Trail, The (1965): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence…; Unusual western adventure about a wagon train of whisky that becomes the target of the US cavalry, the Temperance League and local Indians. Overlong…
Harlow (1965): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone…; Biopic loosely based on the life of 1930's star Jean Harlow, in the years leading up to her tragic death at the age of 26.
Heroes of Telemark, The (1965): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson…; Douglas and Harris are bickering leaders of an allied attempt to destroy a Nazi atom–bomb factory in the snowy wastes of Norway. Predictably…
Hill, The (1965): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Roy Kinnear; Intense military stockade drama, with Sean Connery doing gruelling punishment in the Sahara.
Hogan's Heroes (TV Series) (1965-1966): Feat. Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner…; Cheeky American WW2 series centred around a motley bunch of Yankee prisoners and their haphazard endeavours to disturb the Nazi war effort and make…
How To Murder Your Wife (1965): Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Claire Trevor…; Lemmon plays a wealthy cartoonist who accidentally marries stripper Lisi while on a bender, and struggles to devise a quick 'solution' to the…
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten; Macabre shocks and bitter twists spike this outrageous gothic melodrama about an ageing, lonely Bette Davis disturbed by pressure from council…
I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) (1965-70): Feat. Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman; Sitcom magic with a BEWITCHED–inspired premise, features Barbara Eden as the obliging but overzealous (and of course, sexy)…
I Spy (TV Series) (1965-1968): Feat. Bill Cosby, Robert Culp; Bill Cosby and Robert Culp star as international espionage agents Alexander Scott and Kelly Robinson in this snazzy cult '60s TV series. A blend…
In Harm's Way (1965): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal…; Epic and stately treatment of the aftermath of Japan's WW2 attack on Pearl Harbour, with Wayne playing a sidelined Admiral who tries to claw back…
Inside Daisy Clover (1965): Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon; Curious account of the rise and fall of a starlet in 30s Hollywood has improved with age thanks to off–kilter performances from Natalie Wood as…
Intelligence Men, The (1965): Dir. Robert Asher
Feat. Morecambe and Wise; The big–screen debut of TV duo Morecambe and Wise, who bumble through this spy spoof with reputations just intact. Has a few scenes of cheeky…
Juliet of the Spirits (1965): Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina; Perhaps the female flipside of Fellini's 8 1/2, he again infuses stylised flashbacks and fantasies into the real world of a gregarious housewife who…
Kimba the White Lion (TV Series) (Janguru taitei) (1965-1967): A cutely effective animation series that combined American and Japanese production influences in its story of a white lion cub who strives to bring…
King Rat (1965): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. George Segal, James Fox, Tom Courtenay…; Star–studded adaption of James Clavell's novel, set in a Japanese POW camp during WWII. At the darker end of the genre, with 'hero' George…
Knack and How to Get It, The (1965): Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Rita Tushingham, Michael Crawford, Ray Brooks; Under–rated moddish mid–60s item with a slightly mixed reputation, concerning a youthful Crawford's attempts to learn how to have a "way…
Lassie's Great Adventure (1965): Dir. William Beaudine
Feat. Jon Provost, Richard Kiel, June Lockhart…; Timmy and Lassie get carried away in a hot air balloon and land in the wilds of Canada. This theatrically released movie, pretty much the last gasp…
Life at the Top (1965): Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman…; Laurence Harvey returns for this sequel to Room at the Top (1958). Thinking he's really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill…
Lord Jim (1965): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Jack Hawkins…
Loved One, The (1965): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer…; Satirical take on the funeral business in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery. Doing for funerals what that DR…
Marriage on the Rocks (1965): Dir. Jack Donohue
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin…; Romantic comedy pairing Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, about a businessman's wife who ends up divorcing him and marrying his best friend through a…
Mickey One (1965): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Warren Beatty, Hurd Hatfield; A young Warren Beatty plays as an entertainer who assumes a new identity to flee growing debts to the mob, and search for meaning in his life. French…
Mirage (1965): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau…; An excellent example of the Hitchcockian thriller with Peck an amnesiac caught up in the murder of a philanthropist.
Nanny, The (1965): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett; Bette Davis' stoney ambivalence is well employed in this Hammer production as the malevolent/misunderstood minder of a disturbed child who has been…
Once Before I Die (1965): Dir. John Derek
Feat. John Derek, Ursula Andress, Richard Jaeckel…; Fairly substandard drama with a good premise set in the Philippines in 1941, where a column of Americans retreats before the advancing Japanese.…
Othello (1965): Dir. Stuart Burge
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith…; Laurence Olivier transposes his stage performance of Othello for the screen with able supporting cast.
Outlaws Is Coming, The (1965): Dir. Norman Maurer
Feat. Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe De Rita; In their last comic feature, the Three Stooges don cowboy hats for a slapstick romp in the Wild West.
Patch of Blue, A (1965): Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman; Near flawless film about the friendship between a blind, uneducated girl and a black man she meets in the park, who becomes determined to help her…
Pawnbroker, The (1965): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Rod Steiger; Rod Steiger gives a career–best performance as a Jewish pawnbroker whose new life in Spanish Harlem conjures haunting images of his Nazi prison…
Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) (1965): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina; A striking example of the French New Wave. It's kiss, kiss, bang, bang all the way with Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as maverick intellectual…
Rage to Live, A (1965): Dir. Walter Grauman
Feat. Suzanne Pleshette, Ben Gazzara; Soapy melodrama starring Suzanne Pleshette as a young heiress who has a series of steamy relationships, undermining her wealthy family's reputation.…
Ride In the Whirlwind (1965): Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell; A low–budget western shot back–to–back with THE SHOOTING and although the lesser of the two, has a few gritty moments. The VHS tape…
Saragossa Manuscript, The (1965): Dir. Wojciech Has
Feat. Zbigniew Cybulski; Captivating Polish oddity with a labyrinthine plot involving the discovery of a book which reveals all manner of beguiling…
Shakespeare Wallah (1965): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendall, Madhur Jaffrey; The first major film from the Merchant–Ivory collaboration, this elegaic drama follows the progress of an English theatre troupe through India…
She (1965): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Ursula Andress; A scantily–clad Ursula Andress commands attention in this Hammer exotica as the love–starved eternal queen seeking reincarnation of her…
Shenandoah (1965): Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. James Stewart, Doug McClure; Moving melodrama in which James Stewart heads a Virginian family deeply affected by the American Civil War. Co–stars Doug 'The 'Virginian'…
Ship of Fools (1965): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret…; A gaggle of ocean liner passengers intermingle in this leaky melodrama, headlined by a top–notch cast. Vivien Leigh's last film.
Shooting, The (1965): Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Millie Perkins; Avant–garde cowboy tale co–written by and featuring a typically crazed performance from Jack Nicholson, plus a memorable and unexpected…
Shop on High Street, The (The Shop on Main Street) (1965): Dir. Jan Kadar; A key film of the Czech film renaissance of the 1960s, that explores 'everyday fascism' through the story of a Jewish shopkeeper who mistakes her…
Simon of the Desert (1965): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook; A short surrealist fantasy concerning the life of Simon Stylites (Claudio Brook), an early Christian ascetic, who stood for years atop a column in…
Sons of Katie Elder, The (1965): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer…; Big screen return for John Wayne after his cancer scare that tells the tale of the four unruly sons of frontier woman Katie Elder who set out to…
Sound of Music, The (1965): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker…; Enduring Rogers and Hammerstein musical based on the real–life Von Trapp family, who deserted their homeland to escape the Nazis.…
Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom…; Stark yet gripping adaptation of John Le Carre's espionage novel. Richard Burton plays the dispossessed spy reluctantly engaged in the most dangerous…
Strange Bedfellows (1965): Dir. Melvin Frank
Feat. Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young; Dim comedy with Hudson and Lollobrigida as an estranged couple perpetually on the verge of reconciling.
That Darn Cat! (1965): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine…; One of the very best Disney live–action comedies, has Hayley Mills and her Siamese cat help solve a bank–robbery and kidnapping case.…
That Funny Feeling (1965): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor…; Third of the Darin and Dee comedies is a comic misadventure in which a New York publisher humors an actress/maid who tries to pass off his apartment…
Those Calloways (1965): Dir. Norman Tokar
Feat. Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Walter Brennan…; Sincere and effective Disney drama about a smalltown eccentric (Keith) in New England, who, with the help of his family, decides to buy a lake and…
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox…; Great theme tune sets the tone of this large–scale, rip–roaring comedy about a 1910 aeroplane race, rife with international conflicts,…
Thunderbirds (TV Series) (1965- 1966): The complete series of Gerry Anderson's exemplary puppet suspense TV series that continues to enthrall new generations. Set around the…
Tomb of Ligeia (1965): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price; The last of the director's Poe interpretations is one the most memorable. Effective use is made of the eerie English locations and Vincent Price's…
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1965): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey; The life of a Parisian prostitute, analysing the likes of women, language, western society as well as cinema itself. Godard's cinematic essay broke…
Viva Maria! (1965): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton; Louis Malle harnesses the assets of Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau, here playing two circus performing ‘Marias’ with a penchant for viva la…
Von Ryan's Express (1965): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Frank Sinatra; Frank Sinatra plays an unpopular US Colonel who leads a train–bound escape from an Italian POW camp. Tension mounts to a smashing finale.
War Lord, The (1965): Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth…; Charlton Heston stars in this muscular historical adventure as an honoured knight who takes over a castle tower in the swampland of Normandy.…
Wild Wild West (TV Series) (1965): Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Robert Conrad, Ross Martin; Two detectives in the turn–of–the–century Wild West fight weird adversaries with the then latest technology and a sense of humour.
Young Sinner, The (Like Father, Like Son) (1965): Dir. Tom Laughlin
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Stefanie Powers; The story of a small–town football player, told mostly in confessional flashbacks, who has to go against God and decent society to do naughty…
A Home of Your Own (1964): Dir. Jay Lewis
Feat. Ronnie Barker, Richard Briers, Peter Butterworth…; Classic 1960s slapstick about a cavalier construction team working on a new housing estate, this began a fruitful trend for 'wordless' English film…
Addams Family, The (TV Series) (1964-1966): Feat. John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy…; Macabre 1960s sitcom about a family whose gothic lifestyle and trappings make for a mordant contrast with 'apple–pie' America. 22 episodes…
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The (TV Series) (1964): Feat. Robert Hoffmann; A fondly–remembered French–produced 60's TV serial based on Daniel Defoe's famous eponymous hero who is shipwrecked on an uninhabited…
Americanization of Emily, The (1964): Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas…; Plucky black comedy with James Garner as the scapegoat for a wacky US admiral's grand plan to have a American naval officer be the first killed at…
Back Door to Hell (1964): Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jimmie Rodgers, Jack Nicholson, John Hackett; Rousing tale of a three–man commando team as they try to knock out a Japanese communication center. Strong performances, ribald banter, and…
Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964): Dir. Bill Ward
Feat. Marty Robbins, Robert Barron, Nestor Paiva; Minor western with singer Marty Robbins acquitting himself well as a prairie Robin Hood thieving from stage coaches in order to give to the poor.…
Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders) (1964): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey; One of the dir.’s more accessible films follows the carefree criminal adventures of Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey, while still…
Bargee, The (1964): Dir. Duncan Wood
Feat. Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes…; Mildly sexist, politically incorrect Brit comedy from the writers of STEPTOE AND SON follows a womanising barge worker (Corbett) and his fellow…
Beauty Jungle, The (Contest Girl) (1964): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Ian Hendry, Janette Scott, Ronald Fraser…; Interesting early expose of the lurid, cut–throat world of beauty pageants has a fetching Bristol typist (Scott) teased into entering a local…
Becket (1964): Dir. Peter Glenville
Feat. Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud…; Stinging, fact–based epic turns the trusted relationship between King Henry II (O’Toole) and his best friend, the Archbishop of Canterbury…
Best Man, The (1964): Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams…; Bitter political satire finds Fonda and Robertson competing against each other in a bid to win the presidency. The two foes soon find themselves…
Bewitched (TV Series) (1964-1972): Feat. Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Dick Sargent; Sublime fantasy sitcom, anchored by the adorable Elizabeth Montgomery as witchy housewife, Samantha Stephens, who is married to mere mortal, Darren,…
Beyond the Fringe (1964): Feat. Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett…; The West End / Broadway comedy sketch show that paved the way for satirical revue shows, with four of Britain's top comedians performing a variety of…
Bikini Beach (1964): Dir. William Asher
Feat. Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Keenan Wynn…; The third of the "Beach Party" movies starring peaches 'n' cream teens Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, this is arguably an improvement on both…
Brass Bottle, The (1964): Dir. Harry Keller
Feat. Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden…; Agreeably daffy comedy that inspired I DREAM OF JEANNIE with Tony Randall accidentally releasing of a long trapped genie who predictably causes all…
Captain Newman, M.D. (1964): Dir. David Miller
Feat. Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson…; Drama/comedy set during World War II, starring Gregory Peck as a psychiatrist in a military hospital in Arizona. Based on a novel by Leo Rosten,…
Carpetbaggers, The (1964): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker…; Drama based on the best–selling 1961 novel by Harold Robbins about a cheerfully vulgar business tycoon (perhaps modelled off Howard Hughes),…
Chalk Garden, The (1964): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills…; British melodrama based on the eccentric stage play by Enid Bagnold, with Hayley Mills playing a rebellious teenager who meets her match in governess…
Charade (1964): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn; Excellently scripted Hitchcock–style thriller crosses the romantic with the macabre.
Children of the Damned (1964): Dir. Tony Leader
Feat. Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris…; Sequel to VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED finds the original film's blue–eyed humanoids transported to England for scientific study. Naturally, they…
Christmas Television Classics (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town) (1964-1970): Feat. Fred Astaire; Three festive features garanteed to bring nostalgic cheer to any child of the sixties.
Comedy of Terrors, The ( The Graveside Story) (1964): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price…; Business is slow for undertaker Vincent Price so taking matters into his own hands he sets about smothering elderly people in their sleep. Enjoyable…
Daniel Boone (TV Series) (1964): Feat. Fess Parker, Albert Salmi; Daniel Boone was a big man, and Fess Parker was a huge television star as the coon–skin wearing frontier hero of this iconic TV series set in…
Dead Ringer (1964): Dir. Paul Henreid
Feat. Bette Davis; Enjoyable, high camp star vehicle for Bette Davis who is driven by jealousy to murder her twin sister in order to assume her identity. Bette, of…
Devil Doll (1964): Dir. Lindsay Shonteff
Feat. Bryant Halliday, William Sylvester; A hypno–ventriloquist attempts to transfer a woman's soul into a dummy. Ghoulish sleeper is sure to keep fans of low–budget chillers wide…
Devilship Pirates (1964): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee, John Cairney, Ernest Clark…; Taking a non–horror tack, this Hammer offering concerns a Spanish galleon, 'Diablo' (captained by Christopher Lee)which comes ashore in…
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Georges Geret, Michel Piccoli; Maid Jeanne Moreau manipulates two blue–blooded households to ascend her status in pre–war France. Another shrewd political jape from the…
Disorderly Orderly, The (1964): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis; Jerry Lewis creates comic havoc in a hospital as an inept and over–sympathetic orderly. Mixed bag of wild slapstick and mushy pathos.
Dollars Trilogy, The (A Fistful of Dollars; For Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) (1964-1966): Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood; Box–set containing all three of Clint Eastwood's iconic 'spaghetti westerns'. A.K.A "The Man With No Name Trilogy"
Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Duncan Lamont, David Hutcheson; Number three in the renowned Hammer horror Frankenstein series set in an isolated castle. The Baron (Cushing) and his assistant, in need of help to…
Fail Safe (1964): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman; Henry Fonda plays the American president struggling to avert an imminent nuclear holocaust, due to a computer malfunction. A nailbiting Cold War…
Fall of the Roman Empire (1964): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, James Mason…; Monumental event is given a proportionate treatment with sets reputed to be the largest ever built and a literate script to boot.
Famous Five, The: Five Have a Mystery to Solve (1964): Dir. Ernest Morris
Feat. Darryl Read, Mandy Harper, Paula Boyd…; Jolly hockey sticks! The Five are back, and set for even more adventures this time on a mysterious island, with perilous cliffs, and secret treasure.…
Father Came Too (1964): Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker, James Robertson-Justice…; Jovial slapstick comedy reunites THE FAST LADY's cast for a showdown between homemaking newlyweds and an overbearing father determined to have his…
Father Goose (1964): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard; Wartime situational comedy with Cary Grant in his penultimate role as an uncouth South Sea beachcomber who becomes a coast watcher for the Allies,…
Fistful of Dollars, A (1964): Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonte; Perhaps the most famous of the spaghetti Westerns, with Clint Eastwood influencing a generation of tough guy anti–heroes with his formidable,…
Flipper (TV Series) (1964): Feat. Brian Kelly; Popular, laid–back TV incarnation of the enduring dolphin/boy relationship makes for perfect family viewing splashed with natural aquatic…
Gertrud (1964): Dir. Carl Dreyer; Exploring similar territory to fellow Scandinavian Ingmar Bergman, Dreyer's final film is an intense psychological study about a middle–aged…
Gideon's Way (TV Series) (1964-1965): Feat. John Gregson; Superior mid–60s documentary–style police series that centres around the criminal investigations of Commander George Gideon of Scotland…
Gilligan's Island (TV Series) (1964-1965): Feat. Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jim Backus…; The classic fluffy American sitcom, follows the adventures of the crew of the SS Minnow when they are marooned on a desert island. Due to an…
Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C (TV Series) (1964-1965): Feat. Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton; Gomer Pyle, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW’s loveable country bumpkin, joins the marine core in this classic sitcom of naivety–meets–reality of…
Gorgon, The (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…; A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964): Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini; Acted entirely by non–professionals, this is a startlingly visual rendering of the biblical text, blending breath–taking photography with…
Guns of August, The (1964): Dir. Nathan Kroll; A World War I documentary based on the writings of Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara Tuchman that traces the origins and actions of the…
Hamlet (1964): Dir. Grigori Kozintsev
Feat. Innokenti Smoktunovsky; The legendary Russian version of Shakespeare's play, which visually at least, stands as the greatest yet. Staged amidst the massive battlements of…
Hamlet (1964): Dir. Bill Colleran, John Gielgud
Feat. Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn; Highly successful Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of…
High Bright Sun, The (McGuire, Go Home!) (1964): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg…; Convoluted espionage tale with Bogarde on the trail of a Cypriot freedom fighter with an American Archaeology student holding the key to his…
Hot Enough For June (1964): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley…; A struggling young writer is plunged into a terrifying world of international espionage while on a seemingly innocent commercial assignment to Prague.
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964): Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, Brad Dexter…; Set in New Mexico in the wake of the Civil War, a small bigoted town is beset by racist prejudices despite being outwardly pro–Union. Yul…
Killers, The (1964): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, Angie Dickinson…; Transposed into the garish 60s, Ernest Hemingway's famous story is transformed into a harder, more callous exercise in casual violence and sexual…
King and Country (1964): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern; Earnest, expertly acted drama in which a detached army lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) attempts to defend a working–class deserter (Tom Courtenay) during…
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Dean Martin, Kim Novak; Philandering crooner Dean Martin shows interest in an aspiring songwriter, but only in order to bed his wife. Silly sex farce, though from talented…
Kissin' Cousins (1964): Dir. Gene Nelson
Feat. Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Glenda Farrell…; Elvis both an Air Force officer and his hillbilly cousin, and negotiates the affections of two other female cousins, in this cheerfully hick musical…
Kitten with a Whip (1964): Dir. Douglas Heyes
Feat. Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Peter Brown…; Ann–Margaret brings white–hot intensity to this cult classic about a teenage girl on the run from the law who blackmails a clueless…
Kwaidan (1964): Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratana, Misako Watanabe; A four part anthology of visually intoxicating Japanese period ghost stories. Each tale expanding domestic melodramas into the paranormal realm.…
Last Man on Earth, The (1964): Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price; Rough but effective version of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" (also the basis for OMEGA MAN), Price playing the last living survivor of the human…
Leather Boys, The (1964): Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton; Gritty study of an impulsive young woman's incompatible marriage to motorcycle–loving mechanic, and his subsequent 'close' relationship with a…
Likely Lads, The (TV Series) (1964-1966): Feat. James Bolam, Rodney Bewes; A slice of 60s working class life from the writers of PORRIDGE, that centres around two sharp lads from Newcastle, eager to live their young lives to…
Magnificent Showman, The (Circus World) (1964): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth; Grandiose "Cinerama" spectacle (that flopped at the box office) starring John Wayne as a circus proprietor who decides to take his show on a…
Man from U.N.C.L.E., The (TV Series) (The Man from Uncle) (1964): Feat. Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, George Sanders…; Robert Vaughan and David McCallum starred in this cool, tongue–in–cheek spy series, which exemplifies the genre at the peak of Cold War…
Man's Favorite Sport? (1964): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy…; Tepid late–period Hawks has phony fishing expert Hudson fumbling his way through an angling contest with brash Paula Prentiss the only one in…
Marnie (1964): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren, Martin Gabel…; Rich businessman Sean Connery blackmails kleptomaniac secretary Tippi Hedren into marrying him, thence free to try out his own brand of experimental…
Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio All'italiana) (1964): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren; This hilarious marriage farce features Sophia Loren as a long–suffering unwedded woman: on her deathbed, she convinces the commitment–shy…
Mary Poppins (1964): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke; Disney's beloved live–action feature is a timeless, dazzling musical with Julie Andrews as an enchanted London nanny. Dick Van Dyke…
Masque of the Red Death (1964): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher…; The best of Corman's Poe adaptations allies the director's playful yet virulent treatment to one of the writer's most strongly allegorical stories.…
McHale's Navy (1964): Dir. Edward Montagne
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Joe Flynn…; War–time comedy where marines are embroiled in a gambling misadventure, based on the 60's TV sitcom of the same name.
Misadventures of Merlin Jones, The (1964): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames; Disney live–actioner about a brainy freshman (Kirk) who causes a stir on campus when he goes to college, with the help of a mind–reading…
Moon Spinners, The (1964): Feat. Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery…; A Hitchcockian thriller for the younger set from Disney in which a young girl (Hayley Mills) becomes involved in a jewel theft in Crete.
Mr. Magoo Show, The (TV Series) (1964): Animated 60's series starring Mr. Magoo–the bumbling geriatric with shoddy eyesight voiced by Jim Backus (GILLIGAN'S ISLAND). Magoo gets…
Munsters, The (TV Series) (1964-1965): Dir. Various
Feat. Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis…; Memorable TV–comedy set around a ghoulish–looking, but otherwise normal family – who are mystified as to why everyone reacts so…
Murder Ahoy (1964): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell…; Rutherford dons Miss Marple's hat again, this time boarding a ship to uncover more murders and a ring of thieves.
Murder Most Foul (1964): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell…; Fourth and final film in the Agatha Christie/MGM set. Rutherford appears again as Miss Marple, defiant as the only member of a jury who believes the…
My Fair Lady (1964): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison; Ever–popular, though rather long musical version of George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion', starring Audrey Hepburn as riffraff transformed into…
Night of the Iguana, The (1964): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon…; Tennessee Williams–scripted brew of melodrama, old–style religion and sexual repression sees defrocked priest/alcoholic Richard Burton…
Nightmare (1964): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. David Knight, Moira Redmond, Brenda Bruce…; Psychological horror about a young girl (Jennie Linden, WOMEN IN LOVE) living at a private school who is plagued by nightmares involving her mother,…
Nothing but the Best (1964): Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews; Ruthless real estate agent Alan Bates grubs and grafts a way upwards, out of his working–class background and into the snobbish…
Onibaba (the Hole) (1964): Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura; An eerie, brazenly sensual medieval folk tale about a mother and daughter–in–law who kill just to survive and eventually turn on each…
Paris When it Sizzles (1964): Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Sir Noel Coward…; Paris simmers in this minor comedy about a group of movie–writers acting out their ideas of the streets of the French capital, with a good cast…
Patsy, The (1964): Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, John Carradine, Nancy Kulp…; The retinue of a recently–deceased celebrity connive to groom his bellhop to impersonate him and thus continue the gravy train. Of course with…
Phantom of the Opera (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Herbert Lom, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough…; British Hammer Horror production adapting the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux. The studio was hoping to ride on the previous huge success of the 1943…
Pink Panther Collection, The (The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, Pink Panther Strikes Again, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Trail of the Pink Panther) (1964-1982): Feat. Peter Sellers; Five of Peter Sellers' iconic "Pink Panther" films in a deluxe pink boxed set.
Pumpkin Eater, The (1964): Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason…; Anne Bancroft is riveting as a woman of the verge of a nervous breakdown in this penetrating and vastly under–rated British melodrama. As…
Red Desert (il Deserto Rosso) (1964): Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Monica Vitti, Richard Harris; Housewife Monica Vitti embarks on a casual affair with Richard Harris following a nervous breakdown. Set amidst an oppressive industrial landscape,…
Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby…; A spoof of the Robin Hood legend set in '20s gangland Chicago.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964): Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Paul Mantee, Adam West, Victor Lundin; Unusually accurate pre–space age adventure chronicles the marooning of an American astronaut on inhospitable Mars, sometime before mankind…
Roger Ramjet (TV Series) (1964): Entertaining, slightly wacko animated series, set around the super–strength Roger, who was voiced by LA radio personality Gary Owens, as he…
Roustabout (1964): Dir. John Rich
Feat. Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck; Relatively pleasing Elvis Presley vehicle. The King joins a carnival run by Barbara Stanwyk.
Seance On a Wet Afternoon (1964): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough; This British classic boasts a rare performance by the amazing Kim Stanley as a gently off–her–rocker matron who goads her meek husband…
Secret Invasion, The (1964): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney…; Expedient actioner is a rare, unsensational Roger Corman flick about British intelligence using criminals behind enemy lines in WW2 Yugoslavia.
Send Me No Flowers (1964): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall; Fluffy comedy of the 'Rock and Doris' variety, with Hudson playing a hypochondriac who believes he is about to die. A top support cast adds to this…
Seven Days in May (1964): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster; Kirk Douglas stumbles upon a conspiracy led by General Burt Lancaster, to bring down the US President (who goes and signs treaties with the…
Shot in the Dark, A (The Pink Panther II) (1964): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders…; The second Inspector Clouseau film, in which the bumbling detective becomes convinced a beautiful woman is innocent of murder, despite the evidence…
Soft Skin, The (La Peau Douce) (1964): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Francois Dorleac, Jean Desailly; Moving New Wave drama from Francois Truffaut tells the story of a scholar pursuing a torrid affair with a stewardess while attempting to juggle his…
Star Trek - Season 1 (TV Series) (1964): Feat. Jeffrey Hunter, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy…; The original Star Trek series was a milestone in television – as one of the best sci–fi conceptions and as the start of a remarkable…
Tarzan the Fearless (1964): Dir. Robert F. Hill
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Julie Bishop; Feature–film adaptation of the 1933 serial sees Edgar Rice Burroughs classic creation rescue the wayward father of the beautiful Mary Brooks,…
Thin Red Line, The (1964): Dir. Andrew Marton
Feat. Keir Dullea, Jack Warden; First version of James Jones' war–novel (later redone by Terrence Malick), chronicles the US invasion of Guadalcanal during WWII in grim B&W,…
Tintin and the Calculus Affair (1964): Dir. Raymond LeBlanc; Full length animated feature sees Tintin, Captain Haddock and the gang go on a rescue mission to save Professor Calculus, who has been kidnapped for…
Topkapi (1964): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell…; A classy comic–romantic spin on the director’s RIFIFI shot on location in Turkey and Greece, that climaxes with another brilliantly exacted…
Train, The (1964): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau…; Burt Lancaster leads the French Resistance in stopping (or at least diverting) a train used by the Nazis to steal precious French art treasures in…
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964): Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo; Gorgeous French musical with Catherine Deneuve, in her acting debut, one of its many pleasures. A bittersweet romantic story is allied to a lush…
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Ed Begley, Harve Presnell; Rags to riches musical based on the eventful life of Margaret Brown who survived flooding, snobbery and a trip on a boat called the Titanic. One of…
Visit, The (1964): Dir. Bernhard Wicki
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa; Ms. Bergman is hypnotic as always in this revenge tale about a millionaire who returns to the village that drove her out as a pregnant teenager,…
Viva Las Vegas (1964): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret; Elvis Presley is paired with Ann–Margret in this rumbunctious Vegas–set musical.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) (1964): Feat. Richard Basehart, David Hedison; A spin–off of Irwin Allen's 1961 underwater adventure movie about top–secret team sent below waters to battle enemies of…
What a Way to Go! (1964): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum…; Stacked, big–budget comedy has fun at the expense of a cursed Shirley MacLaine: she plays a wealthy widow whose $200 million fortune has been…
What's Happening: The Beatles in the USA (The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit) (1964): Dir. David Maysles, Albert Maysles
Feat. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr…; First aired for television, this all access fly–on–the–wall account of the Beatles first trip through the USA in February 1964 is a…
Whistle Down the Wind (1964): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Alan Bates, Hayley Mills; Alan Bates plays an escaped convict who Hayley Mills meets and believes to be Jesus himself. Unsentimental yet moving account of childhood faith…
Woman of the Dunes (1964): Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida; From a simple premise – a man becomes trapped in a valley of sand in which a solitary woman lives – the director is able to draw out…
World of Henry Orient, The (1964): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury…; An irreverant and oddly unique Sellers comedy, in which the 'Pink Panther' plays a NYC concert pianist who is 'stalked' by two teenage devotees,…
Yellow Rolls-Royce, The (1964): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Omar Sharif…; Star–studded omnibus following three consecutive owners of a cute Rolls Royce Pantom II. An English aristocrat, a Chicago gangster and a…
Zorba the Greek (1964): Dir. Michael Cacoyannis
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas; Keynote role for Anthony Quinn as the title–character of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, a bawdy, womanising,…
4 For Texas (Four for Texas) (1963): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ursula Andress…; Frivolous comedy–western in which "Rat Pack–ers" Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin play friendly rivals who each make a bid for a waterfront…
55 Days at Peking (1963): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Charlton Heston, David Niven, Ava Gardner; Set in the turmoil of 1900 China, during the Boxer Rebellion, this splashy Hollywood epic succeeds on the strength of its stylish visuals and…
633 Squadron (1963): Dir. Walter Grauman
Feat. Cliff Robertson, James Clavell; WWII airmen Cliff Robertson and co maintain their staunchly British reserve as they prepare to bomb a Nazi rocket factory in Norway. Slow but with…
A New Kind of Love (1963): Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Thelma Ritter…; Husband–and–wife team Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star in this Paris–set rom–com about a womanizing reporter and a…
An Actor's Revenge (1963): Dir. Kon Ichikawa
Feat. Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto; Unusual storyline concerns a Kabuki female impersonator, who seduces and arranges the destruction of three nobles responsible for his parents'…
Balcony, The (Le Balcon) (1963): Dir. Joseph Strick
Feat. Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant…; Fascinating adaptation of Jean Genet's play set in a fictional country, where Shelley Winters plays the Madam of a brothel that satisfies the erotic…
Billy Liar (1963): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie; Tom Courtenay daydreams his way out of a dull office job, to entertaining yet damaging effect, eventually ending up engaged to two fiances at the…
Birds, The (1963): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy…; Hitch's masterful rendering of Daphne Du Maurier's novella contains some of his most memorable set pieces, as the population of a seaside resort come…
Bye Bye Birdie (1963): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh…; Fluffy yet fabulous film version of the hit Broadway musical with rock 'n' roller Dick Van Dyke traveling to small town Ohio to make his final…
Cardinal, The (1963): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, John Saxon…; Otto Preminger draws out an epic crisis of faith in this examination of an ordained Catholic Priest’s struggle to reconcile family turmoil and his…
Caretaker, The (1963): Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Alan Bates, Robert Shaw; Praised film adaptation of Harold Pinter's breakthrough stageplay, in which two brothers invite a tramp into their London flat – an act of…
Child is Waiting, A (1963): Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands; At a school for disabled children music therapist Judy Garland butts heads with the conservative superintendent Burt Lancaster. Film is of note as…
Cleopatra (1963): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton; Magnificent sets and Rex Harrison's dynamic Caesar are the saving graces of this, Hollywood's most extravagant turkey. Both Liz Taylor and Richard…
Damned, The (These Are The Damned) (1963): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors…; Dir. Joseph Losey’s bleak but brilliant movie about a breed of radioactive children groomed to withstand a nuclear apocalypse is one of best…
Dementia 13 (1963): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton; An early shocker from Francis Coppola proving that even the best start at the bottom. Quite a blurry print.
Dinner for One (Der 90. Geburtstag (The 90th Birthday)) (1963): Dir. Heinz Dunkhase
Feat. Freddie Frinton, May Warden; A classic two–hand comedy sketch staged by German TV in its original English language (written by British author Lauri Wylie), with a short…
Doctor Who (TV Series) [William Hartnell] (Dr. Who) (1963-1966): Feat. William Hartnell; William Hartnell plays the very first incarnation of the BBC's highly successful TV creation, the resourceful Time Lord "Doctor Who" who travels time…
Donovan's Reef (1963): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden…; One of dir. Ford’s more comically inclined efforts with ex–Navy buddies John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Jack Warden raising hell on the remote…
Doulos, Le (The Finger Man) (1963): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani; Eschewing the French New Wave movement in favour of homage to the then ‘passe’ genre of film noir, dir. Jean–Pierre Melville adds shades of…
Dr. Strangelove (or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1963): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott; A brilliant black comedy in which the U.S. president and his henchmen await imminent nuclear retaliation from the Russians. A landmark satire with…
Empty Canvas, The (La Noia) (1963): Dir. Damiano Damiani
Feat. Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak; Unsuccessful painter Buccholz falls for a young model who spurns his love and drives him to both ruin and his overbearing mother. Based on the novel…
Fast Lady, The (1963): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker, James Robertson-Justice…; Stanley Baxter attempts to woo Julie Christie with a Bentley convertible he can't drive in this hilarious English comedy, centred on the perils of…
Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963): Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni; Fellini's most revered film is a self–analytical exercise casting Marcello Mastroianni as a troubled director trapped by his own visions and…
Francis Durbridge Presents... (1963): Feat. Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Quilley, Gerald Harper…; A collection of mystery writer Francis Durbridge's works for BBC television. Billed as 'event' thrillers they featured an enjoyable mix of…
Fugitive, The (TV Series) (1963-1967): Feat. David Janssen; David Janssen is Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man accused of murder who escapes prison to track down his wife's killer. Long–running TV…
Gidget Goes to Rome (1963): Dir. Paul Wendkos
Feat. Cindy Carol, James Darren; Cindy Carol as Gidget #2 strays miles from the beach in this affable enough sequel that doesn’t quite have the spontaneous charm of Sandra Dee and…
Girl with Green Eyes (1963): Dir. Desmond Davis
Feat. Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham; Rewarding 'kitchen sink' drama about an ill–fated attraction between a young girl and a married writer. Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham are the…
Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città) (1963): Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti; An astute and ever–pertinent story of political corruption in post–World War II Italy starring Rod Steiger as a ruthless developer and…
Haunted Palace, The (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Lon Jr. Chaney, Debra Paget…; Minor Corman–Price collaboration has Price in a dual role both as the genteel inheritor of a castle, and as the fiendish warlock who once…
Haunting, The (1963): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson…; Exquisite photography/design and nerve–shredding sound effects urgently conspire for this, the definitive haunted house movie. Played…
Heavens Above (1963): Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Peter Sellers; Frightfully British satire of life in the clergy saved from 'Carry–On' status by Peter Sellers' winning performance.
High and Low (1963): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune; Adapted from a crime–novel by Ed McBain, this kidnapping–thriller is a central work in dir. Kurosawa’s series of film noirs, combining…
Householder, The (1963): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote…; A young Indian newlywed is ill–prepared for marriage to his charming but independent wife and seeks advice from his tyrannical mother, a…
Hud (1963): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas…; Handsome idler Paul Newman sows the seeds of trouble in this excellent modern–day Texas western, with his piercing eyes and calculated slouch…
I Could Go on Singing (1963): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman…; A successful singer visits her estranged son while on tour in England. Teary melodrama was Garland's last film and featured arguably her best acting.
Irma La Douce (1963): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Tura Satana; On patrol in the red–light district of Paris, gendarme Jack Lemmon pines after whore–with–a–heart–of–gold Shirley…
It Happened At The World's Fair (1963): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley, Yvonne Craig, Gary Lockwood…; The King plays a pilot–for–hire who hitchhikes to the World's Fair in Seattle to earn some cash after his plane is seized by the local…
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar…; Spencer Tracy leads a countless cast of cameos for a slapstick epic centering around a frantic search for buried bank loot. Your attention might…
Kings of the Sun (1963): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field…; Rollicking tribal adventure has a Mayan tribe searching for new homelands while being pursued by vengeful Indians.The athletic Brynner dominates…
Kiss of the Vampire (1963): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza…; An ominous and highly–regarded Hammer horror in which a honeymooning couple are stranded in Bavaria where they become embroiled in the…
Ladies Who Do (1963): Dir. C.M. Pennington-Richards
Feat. Peggy Mount, Harry H. Corbett, Robert Morley…; Dusty sixties Brit comedy, about a group of office cleaning ladies who make a killing on the stock exchange after striking upon some inside…
Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within) (1963): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Alexandra Stewart; Brilliantly measured account of an alcoholic (Maurice Ronet) who makes a final social round to find reason why he should not take his own life. Rich…
Le Mepris (Contempt) (1963): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang; An insecure screen–writer struggles with vulgar producers as well as his movie–star wife on the set of Homer's Odyssey. Brigitte Bardot,…
Leopard, The (Il Gattopardo) (1963): Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale…; An Italian classic, concerning the decline of the 19th century Sicilian aristocracy – represented by Burt Lancaster– that fulfils its…
Lilies of the Field (1963): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier; Helping to repair a chapel for a convent of German nuns and rewarded with an Oscar for Best Actor, this sees Sidney Poitier giving one of his quieter…
List Of Adrian Messenger, The (1963): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis…; An intelligence officer is on the trail of a psychopath intent on working his bloody way through a seemingly unrelated list of…
Live it Up! (Sing and Swing) (1963): Dir. Lance Comfort
Feat. David Hemmings; Low–budget, but historically fascinating musical wraps some great mid–60s pop music around its slender plot. Hemmings plays a…
Long Ships, The (1963): Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn; Expensively produced Viking epic has the Nordic warrior Widmark clash with Moorish general Poitier over a mythical treasure, the 'Golden Bell of St…
Lord of the Flies (1963): Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin…; The chilling original screen adaptation of William Golding's novel about a gang of schoolboys stranded on a desert island, whose instinctive…
Man from the Diners' Club, The (1963): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Danny Kaye, Cara Williams, Martha Hyer…; Comedy with Danny Kaye playing a meek clerk who gets into trouble when he approves a Diner's Club card for a mobster running a racketeering…
Marriage Lines (TV Series) (1963-1965): Feat. Prunella Scales, Richard Briers; A classic domestic comedy with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales as a newly married couple jumping hurdles both at home and at work. Included here…
Martin Scorsese's Short Films (What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?; It’s Not Just You, Murray; The Big Shave; Italianamerican; American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince) (1963-78): Dir. Martin Scorsese; Four early short films and one documentary from the man widely regarded as the best living filmmaker. Includes: – What’s a Nice Girl Like…
McLintock! (1963): Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne De Carlo…; TAMING OF THE SHREW goes West in this rambunctious battle of wits between cattle rancher (Wayne) and his firebrand wife (O’Hara), in search of a…
Mind Benders, The (1963): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, Michael Bryant…; A sombre and sobering thriller about the dangers of scientific experiments into sensory deprivation. Investigating the suicide of a colleague,…
Move Over, Darling (1963): Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Doris Day, James Garner; Originally intended for Marilyn Monroe as 'Something's Got to Give', Doris Day and James Garner instead appear in this comedy about a long…
Murder at the Gallop (1963): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Dame Flora Robson…; Agatha Christie on film with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. Suspicions mount as relatives gather for the reading of a dead man's will.
Nutty Professor, The (1963): Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens; Jerry Lewis' most hilarious, certainly most personal work uses the Jekyll–and–Hyde device to exploit his comic genius as both awkward…
Organizer, The (I Compagni) (1963): Dir. Mario Monicelli
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot…; Engrossing, beautifully filmed Italian drama about working class solidarity, set amidst the rapid expansion of industrial society in 19th Century…
Paranoiac (1963): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell; A Hitchcockian thriller from Hammer studio about a man long believed dead (Oliver Reed) who returns to the family estate, a palatial mansion near…
Petticoat Junction (TV Series) (1963-1970): Feat. Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benaderet; Charming cornpoke sitcom was a 'sister–show' to both THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES and GREEN ACRES, being also set in the town of Hooterville and…
Prize, The (1963): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer; Paul Newman plays an alcoholic writer in Stockholm to collect his Nobel Prize who drunkenly stumbles upon an overly complicated spy plot.
Raven, The (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff…; A great cast inhabits this low budget fantasy–comedy version of Edgar Allan Poe's tale – one of Corman's best.
Servant, The (1963): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles; First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
Siege of the Saxons (1963): Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Ronald Lewis, Janette Scott, Ronald Howard; Costume action, with a cartoonish quality, set in a post–King Arthur Britain.
Silence, The (1963): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom; Final part of Bergman's Faith Trilogy (begun with THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY and WINTER LIGHT) is set in an anonymous war–torn country where…
Son of Flubber (1963): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn…; A (then) rare Disney sequel in which Fred MacMurray returns as THE ABSENT–MINDED PROFESSOR for another round of visual gags based around the…
Sparrows Can't Sing (1963): Dir. Joan Littlewood
Feat. James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear…; A sprightly British kitchen sink comedy about a man who returns from two years at sea to find his house demolished and his wife living with a married…
Stitch in Time, A (1963): Dir. Robert Asher
Feat. Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jeanette Sterke…; More disasters befall Norman as on a trip to the hospital he meets a young girl hasn't smiled since her parents death so our kindhearted hero wrecks…
Summer Magic (1963): Dir. James Neilson
Feat. Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire; Sweetly sentimental Disney version of the Kate Wiggins novel 'Mother Carey's Chickens', about a poor Boston family who make a drafty Maine homestead…
Take Her, She's Mine (1963): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley…; Lightly likable comedy with Stewart as an anguished father concerned that his college–age daughter is hanging out with the wrong crowd –…
Terror, The (1963): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Boris Karloff; A legendary Corman quickie on which all of star Boris Karloff's scenes were shot in 3 days on sets leftover from THE RAVEN!
That Kind of Girl (1963): Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Margaret Rose Keil, David Weston, Linda Marlowe; Another gem rescued from obscurity by the BFI's Flipside label, this one deals with the hush–hush topic of venereal disease against a backdrop…
This Sporting Life (Sporting Life, The) (1963): Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts; Richard Harris gives a star–making performance as a roguish rugby player with a no less gruelling personal life. Intense melodrama edifies the…
Thrill of It All!, The (1963): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Doris Day, James Garner; Carl Reiner (THE JERK) wrote this mildly thrilling Doris Day vehicle, where she plays a housewife roped into a series of TV commercials.
Tom Jones (1963): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith…; Albert Finney inhabits the randy trou of Tom Jones, a wild and reckless young man with an eye for the ladies. A lavishly produced Oscar winner,…
Toys in the Attic (1963): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux…; Raw melodrama adapted from the acclaimed play with Dean Martin returning home to his two spinster sisters. Chewy dialogue and gives flight to this…
Twice Told Tales (1963): Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland; Triptych of horrors drawn from the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ham actor extraordinaire Vincent Price is in ripping form here.
Ugly American, The (1963): Dir. George Englund
Feat. Marlon Brando, Arthur Hiller, Sandra Church; Featuring one of Marlon Brando’s more interesting choices of roles, this political thriller dramatises the American–vs–Communist…
Who's Minding the Store? (1963): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead; Energetic rom–com with Jerry Lewis playing a clumsy and socially inept dog–walker who is engaged to the heiress of a department store…
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni; A compendium of three stories starring Sophia Loren in her luscious prime in three very different roles. Together with Marcello Mastroianni, it…
300 Spartans, The (1962): Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker; Richard Egan leads the hardened best of Sparta into the famous battle at Thermapayle between the Greek and Persian empires in in the 5th century…
40 Pounds of Trouble (Forty Pounds of Trouble) (1962): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, Phil Silvers…; Tony Curtis plays a harangued casino manager dodging outstanding alimony payments while caring for an abandoned six–year–old girl.…
A Kind of Loving (1962): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. June Ritchie, Alan Bates; A key film of the British New Wave, describing in unfussy black–and–white images the life of young couple June Ritchie and Alan Bates…
Advise and Consent (1962): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray…; Political thriller–fable set in the corridors and committee rooms of Washington DC, where the fundamentally decent Senator, Henry Fonda, learns…
Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The (TV Series) (1962-1965): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various; Picking up directly from where 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' left off, this three season series expands Hitch's iconic mystery anthology to 50 minute…
Barabbas (1962): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Jack Palance, Arthur Kennedy…; Lavish, literate and thrilling by equal measure, this Hollywood Roman speculation follows the wanderings of the legendary thief (Quinn) who was saved…
Beverly Hillbillies, The (TV Series) (1962-1971): Feat. Buddy Ebson, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas…; A searing indictment of the American class system disguised as a lame–brain 60's TV show. Great theme tune too.
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante…; Cracking musical extravaganza based around the real–life Billy Rose stageshow and doctored with brilliant Rodgers and Hart songs, plus dance…
Brain, The (1962): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Anne Heywood, Peter Van Eyck, Bernard Lee…; A well–meaning doctor keeps alive the brain of a sadistic millionaire who gradually compels him to carry out his evil requests. Well directed…
Cape Fear (1962): Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck; The original chiller that inspired the recent remake, complete with Bernard Herrmann's bombastic score. Robert Mitchum plays the ex–con…
Carnival of Souls (1962): Dir. Herk Harvey
Feat. Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey; A woman's vision of the world is not quite the same after surviving a car accident in this vastly under–appreciated spook story that comes…
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962): Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Corrine Marchand; One of the treasures of the French New Wave, dir. Varda’s debut is, Pauline Kael contends “one of the few films directed by a woman where the…
Courtship of Eddie's Father, The (1962): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Glenn Ford, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones; Wholesome family comedy, wherein widower Glenn Ford is prodded into romance by his six–year son Ron Howard (who went on to become the…
Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle; Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (1962): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Edward Judd, Leo McKern; A solidly old–fashioned 'disaster film' in which H–Bomb test knock the Earth of its axis, leading to terrifying and accelerating climate…
Days of Wine and Roses (1962): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford…; A bittersweet reprise of THE LOST WEEKEND, with PR–expert Jack Lemmon's never–ending round of cocktail parties dragging him and his wife…
Devil's Hand, The (1962): Dir. William J. Hole Jnr
Feat. Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Neil Hamilton; Hammy low–budget horror of a man seduced by a blonde vixen who forces him to become involved in a mysterious satanic cult she holds allegiance…
Dick Van Dyke Show, The (TV Series ) (1962-1966): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore; Seminal sitcom set around a New York comedy writer and his family. Van Dyke's wife was played by Mary Tyler Moore in her first major…
Dr. Crippen (1962): Dir. Robert Lynn
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar; This well paced drama centered around Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen's murder of his wife was originally billed as a horror, but is actually a rather…
Exterminating Angel, The (1962): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal; A psychic 'disaster movie', in which guests become trapped at a dinner party by a mysterious forcefield. As the days go by, dinner–table…
Fireball XL5 (TV Series) (1962): Dir. Gerry Anderson; A precursor to the Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5 is a massive spacecraft, patrolling a dangerous sector of the galaxy and piloted by the handsome and…
Five Miles to Midnight (1962): Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young…; Unfocused but intriguing murder–mystery with Anthony Perkins as a domineering, jealous husband who convinces his wife (Loren) to collect…
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962): Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden…; Predictable but entertaining adaptation of Jules Verne's tale about a professor (Hardwicke) who plans to fly across Africa in a balloon and ends up…
Freud (1962): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks…; John Huston once again proves his mastery of adaptation and biography, here depicting the famous psychoanalyst's clash with conservative Viennese…
Geronimo (1962): Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Chuck Connors, Adam West; Despite the ridiculous casting of blue–eyed Connors as the legendary renegade Apache, this is a half decent B movie, loosely following the…
Gigot (1962): Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath; Splendidly poignant comedy made in part as a tribute to Charlie Chaplin, about a mute vagabond who befriends the little daughter of a prostitute.…
Grim Reaper, The (La Commare Secca) (1962): Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Carlotta Barilli, Lorenza Benedetti, Clorinda Celani; Dir. Bertolucci's first film – with trademark technical virtuosity already in evidence – is a whodunnit about a prostitute murdered in a…
Gypsy (1962): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden; Eye–catching musical comedy–drama based on the memoir of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, whose career was driven by her aggressive…
Harakiri (Seppuku) (1962): Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama…; Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) set at the beginning of the Edo period, following a masterless samurai (ronin) who wishes to commit suicide…
Hatari (1962): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne; Tremendous, good–natured adventure with John Wayne on safari in the great African wilderness. Memorable score by Henri Mancini.
Hell Is For Heroes (1962): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker…; An expertly written and delivered WWII adventure, where a small squad of US soldiers, headed by Steve McQueen, must hold off an advancing German…
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Richard Beymer, Diane Baker; Drama from director Martin Ritt (HUD), based on Ernest Hemingway's semi–autobiographical character Nick Adams, a restless young man who leaves…
How the West Was Won (1962): Dir. Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Fonda…; The history of the West through three generations, with three directors each contributing an instalment. Headed by a cast to match its ambitions and…
If a Man Answers (1962): Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Micheline Presle…; Very light comedy with Sandra Dee as a rich socialite conspiring with her mother in an attempt to make new hubby Bobby Darin jealous.
It's Only Money (1962): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Zachary Scott; Comedy with Jerry Lewis playing a hapless TV repairman who aspires to be a private detective, but ends up getting confused for the man he is trying…
Ivan's Childhood (1962): Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov; A teenage spy works behind enemy lines in WW2 Germany. The Russian master's first feature is his least self–conscious and most efficient…
Ken Russell at the BBC (Elgar; Debussy; Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante's Inferno; Song of Summer) (1962-1968): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vladek Sheybal, Vernon Dobtcheff…; The engrossing early works of the controversial director comprises six of his famed artist portraits
Kid Galahad (1962): Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Elvis Presley, Charles Bronson, Joan Blackman…; Musical remake sees Elvis enter the ring as an upstart boxer under the tutelage of grizzly Charles Bronson, who's not about to put the champ in…
Knife in the Water (1962): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz; The old adage 'three is a crowd' is chillingly played out in Polanski's directing debut about a couple's troubled yachting weekend with a…
L-Shaped Room, The (1962): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Leslie Caron; Defining slice of gritty Brit realism tackles the issue of pregnancy outside marriage with considerable pathos. French girl Leslie Caron crosses the…
La Jetee (1962): Dir. Chris Marker; Classic science–fiction short told almost entirely in stills takes a man from the future on a terrifying journey back to his childhood. The…
Lawrence of Arabia (1962): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn…; Superlative epic biography of enigmatic adventurer T.E. Lawrence played by a charismatic Peter O'Toole in his first leading role. The spectacle is…
Lolita (1962): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. James Mason, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters…; A middle–aged man falls in love with a 14–year–old girl, so marries her mother to be near her. Fascinating black comedy of sexual…
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Alec McCowen; Rebellious borstal–boy Tom Courtenay finds self–discovery while cross–country training. An emotionally powerful critique of class…
Lonely Are The Brave (1962): Dir. David Miller
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau…; Kirk Douglas is on top form in this Dalton Trumbo–penned 'psychological' Western, playing an anti–establishment cowboy who purposefully…
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr.…; Faithful and masterful adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play about family life, love and losers drinking and tearing each other apart in leafy New…
Longest Day, The (1962): Dir. Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki
Feat. John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum…; One the great WW2 films, with over 40 international stars. The large scale battle scenes have taken some outdoing.
Lucy Show, The (TV Series) (1962-1968): Feat. Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon; Lucille Ball's followup to I LOVE LUCY (without husband Desi Arnaz) was a longrunning classic in its own right, with many of the Ball offspring…
Madame (1962): Dir. Christian-Jaque
Feat. Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein; Rags–to–riches tale set in Napoleonic France mirrors the real life of its Italian bomb–shell star, Sophia Loren.
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962): Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles…; A dream cast and director deliver the classic that one would expect. Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne compete for Vera Miles but unite against Lee Marvin…
Manchurian Candidate, The (1962): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh…; Politically–charged nail–biter with Frank Sinatra experiencing post–war paranoia about a fellow soldier who may have been…
Miracle Worker, The (1962): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft; The classic telling of the Helen Keller story, in which blind, profoundly deaf Keller was coaxed into communication by her Irish governess Anne…
Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian…; James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, and a gaggle of kids take the holiday from hell in this early, jovial precursor to NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION.
Music Man, The (1962): Dir. Morton DaCosta
Feat. Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett…; A lively and delightful Broadway musical adaptation with conman Robert Preston (reprising his stage role) diddling a small Iowa town in 1912. Full of…
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris…; The story of Captain Bligh and mutineer Fletcher Christian is orchestrated here with a star cast and many a visual flourish. Marred, though not…
Night Creatures (Captain Clegg) (1962): Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen…; Hammer horror set in 18th–century England, where a captain of the Royal Navy is sent to investigate reports of illegal activity in a coastal…
Night of the Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn) (1962): Dir. Sydney Hayers
Feat. Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston; A successful academic (Peter Wyngarde) plumbs a prime teaching post at an English village idyll, causing a flurry of petty jealousies among the…
Panic in Year Zero (1962): Dir. Ray Milland
Feat. Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon; Eerily filmed in black–and–white, this is a minimalist yet vividly detailed post–apocalyptic survival thriller directed by Ray…
Pity Me Not! (Without Each Other) (1962): Dir. Saul Swimmer
Feat. Tony Anthony, Anne Hegiba, Saul Swimmer; A trapeze artist has the unfortunate duty of informing the wife of a fellow performer that her husband has been crushed by an elephant.
Planeta Bur: The Planet of Storms (1962): Dir. Pavel Klushantsev
Feat. Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Yuri Sarantsev; Cult science–fiction with Russian cosmonauts landing on a Venus teeming with flesh–eating plants, lizard men and dinosaurs! Ingeniously…
Premature Burial (1962): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Hazel Court; The third of Corman's eight Poe adaptations, with Ray Milland cast instead of Vincent Price as a paranoid med student. Tape includes bonus Milland…
Ride the High Country (1962): Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea; Perhaps the last hoorah of a great western tradition, directed with supreme artistry by Sam Peckinpah. Scott and McCrea play retiring lawmen who…
Road to Hong Kong, The (1962): Dir. Norman Panama
Feat. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins…; Last in the series of 'Road' movies starring Hope and Crosby, this time the mad–cap duo play a pair of con–men who accidentally learn of…
Roman Polanski Collection, The (Knife in the Water, Repulsion, Cul-de-Sac) (1962-1966): Dir. Roman Polanski; The first three features of the Polish master – "Knife in the Water", "Repulsion" and "Cul–de–Sac".
Saint, The (TV Series) (1962): Feat. Roger Moore; The role of Simon Templar enabled a young Roger Moore to perfect the savvy quips that would mark him as a natural choice for James Bond. Also…
Salvatore Giuliano (1962): Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Frederico Zardi; An epic Italian political drama, charting in a non–linear fashion the true story of Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano, a criminal and…
Sanjuro (1962): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai; The sequel to YOJIMBO unravels the story of nine would–be Samurai unveiling a government corruption ring. Kurosawa adopts a satirical…
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight…; The South at its over–ripest, Tennessee Williams providing a repressive, smalltown setting for gigolo Paul Newman and faded movie–star…
Tale of Zatoichi, The (1962): Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Shintaro Katsu; The inaugural movie in the iconic 'Zatoichi' series – which followed the intriguing adventures in mythical Japan of a blind masseur, who has…
Tales of Terror (1962): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone; Three Edgar Allen Poe adaptations from his best filmic interpreter Roger Corman. The Tales on offer here are "Morella", "The Black Cat" and "The Case…
Taras Bulba (1962): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann; Violent epic in which Cossack leader Yul Brynner battles the Poles in 16th Century Ukraine while wayward son Tony Curtis falls in love with one of…
Terence Rattigan Collection, The (1962-1994): Feat. Kenneth More, Ralph Richardson, Geraldine McEwan…; A boxed compendium of Terence Rattigan's finest work, a British playwright reknowned for his profound understanding of the human heart and his…
That Touch of Mink (1962): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Doris Day, Cary Grant; Pure–hearted country girl Doris Day becomes a romantic target for rich playboy Cary Grant, after his Rolls splashes her with mud. Other,…
Three Stooges in Orbit / Meet Hercules (1962): Dir. Edward Bernds
Feat. Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe De Rita; Two features in which the three kings of slapstick are propelled into space with hostile Martians, and visit ancient Rome via a time machine.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962): Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Gregory Peck, Mary Badham; Moving adaptation stars Gregory Peck in an Oscar–winning performance as the genial lawyer who defends an innocent Negro accused of rape in the…
Tower of London (1962): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman; This Roger Corman remake of the 1939 original sees Vincent Price stepping into Basil Rathbone shoes as the bloodthirsty Duke of Gloucester. Being…
Trial and Error (The Dock Brief) (1962): Dir. James Hill
Feat. Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Beryl Reid; Sellers plays a washed–up barrister who must represent wife–murderer Attenborough, who insists upon his guilt. This is ignored by Sellers…
Trial, The (1962): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Anthony Perkins; Orson Welles makes a visual and intellectual feast of Kafka's novel about a man accused of crimes that remain unexplained. Anthony Perkins is…
Two For The Seesaw (1962): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Shirley Maclaine, Edmon Ryan…; 'Odd couple' comedy set in NYC, where a Nebraskan lawyer (Mitchum) moves to start life anew and hits the romantic playground in the company of kooky…
Walk on the Wild Side (1962): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Jane Fonda, Capucine…; A schlocky tease–fest with Laurence Harvey as a penniless cowboy who hitches to New Orleans with a drifter (Jane Fonda) searching for his…
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton…; Bruising comedy with an elderly general struggling to come to terms with impending retirement and his ruinous personal life.
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono…; Joan Crawford and Bette Davis scheme and brood in this memorable gothic melodrama about an aged child star and her embittered and jealous sister who…
Winter Light (1962): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Gunnel Lindblom…; The second in Bergman's faith trilogy, in which a village priest finds himself drawn towards atheism after the death of his wife. Crisp, reflective…
Wrong Arm of the Law, The (1962): Dir. Cliff Owen
Feat. Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins…; Hilarious comic spoof, in which a gang of Australian thieves is pursued by Scotland Yard and criminal underworld alike. Peter Sellers is at the…
Z Cars (TV Series) (1962-1972): Feat. Brian Blessed, Joseph Brady; 12 episodes of the vintage British police series including the very first story.
2000 Year Old Man, The - The Complete History (1961-1998): Feat. Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner; Mel Brooks, playing the 'oldest man in the world' in conversation with Carl Reiner, fronts this all–time classic comedy sketch, much of which…
Agatha Christie 'Miss Marple' Boxset (Murder She Said, Murder at the Gallop, Murder Most Foul, Murder Ahoy) (1961-1964): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford; Four classic Agatha Christie stories from MGM's brief 'Miss Marple' phase, with the mercurial Margaret Rutherford doning the old spinster's detective…
Avengers, The (TV Series) (1961-1969): Feat. Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson; The impossibly hip secret agent show is a high–camp classic and a nostalgic pleasure. Well–devised scripts, quirky dialogue and playful…
Awful Dr. Awloff, The (1961): Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Howard Vernon; Deranged doctor Howard Vernon collects skin–grafts for his disfigured daughter, in a Spanish makeover of Franju's 'Eyes Without A Face'. A…
Babes in Toyland (1961): Dir. Jack Donohue
Feat. Ray Bolger, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn; The second version of Victor Herbert's operetta set in the fantasy world of 'Toyland' where the wedding plans of two young toys are interrupted by an…
Blast of Silence (1961): Dir. Allen Baron
Feat. Allen Baron; Grumpy, low–fi noir presides over the movements of a tetchy contract killer (dir. Baron) as he prepares to whack a two–bit mobster during…
Blue Hawaii (1961): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley; Lush setting for this Elvis vehicle is easy on the eye. The King's least Rock'n'Roll effort.
Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1961): Dir. Joseph Green
Feat. Jason Evers; Ripping off other 'brain transplant' cheapies, this flick goes several steps further down the exploitation path and thus has burrowed a special place…
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal…; Audrey Hepburn is just lovely as an uptown Manhattan socialite who proves a major distraction for her writer neighbour. A chic, carefree frolic based…
Children's Hour, The (1961): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Maclaine, James Garner…; Good performances from the two leads as lesbian school–teachers who are involved in smalltown scandal when a trouble–making student…
Cliff Richard Collection, The (The Young Ones, Summer Holiday, Wonderful Life) (1961-1964): Feat. Cliff Richard; Three nostalgic Cliff Richard films, remastered with commentary from the directors.
Comancheros, The (1961): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin…; John Wayne stars (and served as an uncredited director when Michael Curtiz fell ill) in this Western set in Texas in 1843. A Texas ranger arrests a…
Come September (1961): Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Bobby Darin…; Racy romp with Rock on the Riviera as a businessman habitually harangued on holiday when all he wants is to lavish the luscious Lollobrigida.
Curse of the Werewolf, The (1961): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Oliver Reed, Clifford Evans; Hammer horror based on the novel "The Werewolf of Paris" by Guy Endore and starring Oliver Reed as the werewolf in his first credited film…
Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961): Dir. Various
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles Chaplin…; The third in Robert Youngson's trilogy of definitive compilations of silent comedy, this time with swashbuckling action to match the outrageous…
Deadly Companions, The (1961): Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara, Steve Cochran; Sam Peckinpah's debut film is a typically unorthodox western, that while uneven reveals the quirky characters and emotive nostalgia of his later…
Double Bunk (1961): Dir. C.M. Pennington-Richards
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Sid James…; Newlyweds Ian Carmichael and Janette Scott purchase a rickety houseboat, set sail for France in this buoyant and occasionally bawdy Brit comedy.
El Cid (1961): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Charlton Heston; The tale of the 11th century warrior–king who drove the Moors from Spain. By dint of its fine acting and avoidance of the obvious, this epic…
End of Summer, The (Kohayagawa-ke no aki) (1961): Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara; Another intimate portrayal of Japanese family life from the dir. of TOKYO STORY that explores the breakdown of traditional family values in the face…
Errand Boy, The (1961): Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear…; Lewis plays his perennial bumbler, here recruited as an oddjob man on a Hollywood Studio lot who must also spy on employee activities. Contains some…
Fanny (1961): Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer…; Adored melodrama set in Marseilles, starring Leslie Caron as the titular character who falls in love with a young sailor (Buchholz) but must grapple…
Femme Est Une Femme, Une (A Woman is a Woman) (1961): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo…; Godard flirts with the Hollywood musical, and any other idea that takes his fancy to tell his buoyant tale of a free–spirited stripper who…
Five Minutes To Live (Door-to-Door Maniac) (1961): Dir. Bill Karn
Feat. Johnny Cash, Cay Forrester, Donald Woods…; Little known B–movie thriller with Cash and Forrester playing hoods who complete a smalltown bank robbery, then start paying suburban house…
Flower Drum Song (1961): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta; Amiable if overlong musical comedy telling the story of a Chinese girl who smuggles herself into San Francisco as a "picture bride" to marry a young…
Francis Of Assisi (1961): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman; Cinema–scopic religious epic about the founder of the school of monks, with Bradford Dillman well suited as St. Francis, and Dolores Hart good…
Frightened City, The (1961): Dir. John Lemont
Feat. Sean Connery, Herbert Lom, John Gregson; London becomes terrorised by protection racketeers who intend to amalgamate into one vast crime syndicate.
Goodbye Again (Aimez-Vous Brahms) (1961): Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins…; Elegant love triangle has Bergman falling in love with dashing young Anthony Perkins much to her philandering husband's chagrin. Overly familiar…
Great Impostor, The (1961): Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien…; Tony Curtis bluffs his way though society in this comic caper based on the true story of Ferdinand Demara who successfully passed himself off as a…
Guns of Navarone, The (1961): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, David Niven; A great WW2 nail–biter in which Gregory Peck and David Niven lead the all–star macho cast as an elite squad assigned to destroy two giant…
Hustler, The (1961): Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott…; Classic Paul Newman, playing a pool–shark with potential who gets into a match with the legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). George C…
Innocents, The (1961): Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins…; Notable adaptation of Henry James' ghost story "The Turn of the Screw", featuring Deborah Kerr as a neurotic nanny. Taking a job at a spooky…
Intruder, The (I Hate Your Guts) (1961): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. William Shatner, Leo Gordon; The only Corman film ever to lose money is not surprisingly perhaps his best. William Shatner excels as a small–time drifter who preaches the…
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell…; Dramatisation of the trial of the Nazi judges at Nuremberg, facing the patient integrity of Judge Spencer Tracy. Epic, gripping courtroom drama, with…
Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1961): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre…; Jeanne Moreau stars in this famous New Wave melodrama caught up in the spirit of its swinging times. A twenty–year love triangle, lightening…
King of Kings (1961): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Robert Ryan…; Faithful, intelligent telling of the life of Christ, with Jeffrey Hunter in the robes of JC, benefits from a lesser–known cast. Orson Welles…
Ladies Man, The (1961): Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, George Raft; A handyman at an academy for aspiring actresses, Jerry Lewis must grapple with a vast, split–level set in one of his best comedies.
Last Sunset, The (1961): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone…; Melodramatic Western set against the backdrop of the Texas/Mexico border stars Kirk Douglas as a fugitive hounded by Rock Hudson's sheriff, only to…
Last Year at Marienbad (L'Annee Dernier a Marienbad) (1961): Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi; All the rules of film–making are broken in this notorious question mark of a film in which a past event plagues the occupants of a grand…
Lover Come Back (1961): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall; Doris Day and Rock Hudson spar away as rival ad–execs – Day is the ethical virgin, Hudson the unscrupulous lady–killer, while Tony…
Misfits, The (1961): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe; Stark melodrama was to be the curtain call for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. They are two of a group of cheerless souls roping wild mustangs…
Mr. Ed (TV Series) (Mister Ed) (1961-1966): Feat. Alan Young; Golden age television sitcom centred around a talking horse who lives in the backyard stable of a husband and wife, but is only conversant with the…
Murder She Said (1961): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, James Robertson-Justice…; Miss Marple sees a murder aboard a passing train. First of four accomplished Agatha Christie films starring Margaret Rutherford.
Mysterious Island (1961): Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan…; Robust adventure yarn finds a group of Yankee soldiers escaping a Confederate jail using a hot air balloon during the American Civil War. After…
No Love for Johnnie (1961): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Donald Pleasence…; Peter Finch excels as a British MP whose desire for career advancement threatens his personal life.
Notte, La (The Night) (1961): Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti; A compelling bout of urban alienation, with Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau as a despairing married couple coming slowly apart at the seams.…
On the Double (1961): Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White; Zany action–comedy set during the Invasion of Normandy, where an American soldier and talented mimic (Danny Kaye) impersonates a British high…
One Eyed Jacks (1961): Dir. Marlon Brando
Feat. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado…; Marlon Brando is an outlaw battling a sheriff in this psychological Western played out against a brooding landscape. Bursts of violence punctuate the…
One, Two, Three (1961): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin; James Cagney is marvellous as a zealous Coke executive in Germany, keen on penetrating the Russian market, but mortified when his boss's daughter…
Only Two Can Play (1961): Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough…; One of Peter Seller's earlier films sees him in rare semi–dramatic part, playing a librarian in a small Welsh town who has an affair. Dryly…
Paris Blues (1961): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward…; Undernourished romantic drama has Newman and Poitier as Jazz musicians on holiday in Paris forced to decide whether to stay or return to the U.S. for…
Pit and the Pendulum, The (1961): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele; Corman's most famous plundering of Poe extracts a host of psycho–sexual tensions out of a fine script. Vincent Price is convinced he is the…
Pocketful of Miracles (1961): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Ann-Margret, Bette Davis, Glenn Ford…; Frank Capra's final film (and Ann–Margret's debut) is an appealing remake of his earlier LADY FOR A DAY, in which the poverty–stricken…
Raisin in the Sun (1961): Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee…; Rounded drama about the struggles of black family living in Chicago in the 1940s, that was ground–breaking in its day and features several…
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961): Dir. Jose Quintero
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Coral Browne…; Middle–aged actress in crisis, Vivien Leigh, finds sexual fulfillment at the hands of the gigolos of Rome, chiefly Warren Beatty's.…
Samson (Sansome) (1961): Dir. Gianfranco Parolini
Feat. Brad Harris, Serge Gainsbourg, Irena Prosen; Pioneering film in "sword and sandal" genre about Samson, the character from the Hebrew bible who joins Queen Mila and a rebel army to take back the…
Scream of Fear (Taste of Fear) (1961): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis…; Christopher Lee's favourite Hammer film in exercise in sustained tension with Susan Strasberg as a paralysed young woman haunted by visions of her…
Singer Not the Song, The (1961): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot…; Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
Splendour in the Grass (1961): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle…; Smitten teens work up considerable sexual frenzy when their respective families won't let them be together. Appropriately, it's the lurid scenes…
Supercar (TV Series) (1961-1962): The first fully developed Supermarionation series from Gerry Anderson, establishing his winning formula of futuristic vehicles, high adventure, and…
Taste of Honey, A (1961): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens…; Powerful and starkly realistic 'kitchen sink' drama in which a mollycoddled lonely girl (Rita Tushingham) leaves her loveless home to befriend a…
Through a Glass Darkly (1961): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow; Husband, father and brother must cope with the disintegrating mental health of a young woman on an island. The focus is on religion, madness and the…
Town Without Pity (1961): Dir. Gottfried Reinhardt
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Robert Blake, Richard Jaeckel…; Bitter legal drama with Kirk Douglas defending four American soldiers charged with the gang rape of a young German woman. Somewhat sluggish in its…
Two Rode Together (1961): Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones; Overlooked Jimmy Stewart and Richard Widmark starrer with the master of the genre at the helm.
Two Sides of Johnny Cash (Five Minutes to Live + Johnny Cash: An Anthology) (1961): Dir. Bill Karn
Feat. Johnny Cash; Double disc DVD includes Cash's starring turn in sixities B–movie thriller FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE, plus JOHNNY CASH: AN ANTHOLOGY, a tribute…
Two Women (1961): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren; Sophia Loren won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as a WW2 widow who endures turmoil with her 13–year–old daughter before they are…
Underworld U.S.A (1961): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Cliff Robertson; Revenge story about a 14–year–old who witnesses the murder of his father by four mobsters, and seeks retribution against them years later.
Victim (1961): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms; As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…
Viridiana (1961): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey; Bunuel purges his spiritual demons in this potent psychological study of a novice nun who loses her innocence when she visits her…
West Side Story (1961): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn…; Oscar–sweeping, hugely influential film version of Bernstein and Sondheim's landmark Broadway musical, updating Romeo and Juliet to dockland…
Wild in the Country (1961): Dir. Phillip Dunne
Feat. Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld…; Unusual Elvis Presley vehicle, playing a country hothead with a literary bent.
Yojimbo (1961): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa; Mercenary Sanjuro walks into town and sells his services to both factions of rival gangs – to stand back and watch them destroy each other.…
Young Ones, The / Summer Holiday (1961-1962): Dir. Sidney J. Furie, Peter Yates
Feat. Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, The Shadows; A pairing of delightfully dated musical vehicles for Brit pop sensation of the day, Cliff Richard. THE YOUNG ONES has Cliff organising a fundraising…
Young Savages, The (1961): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews…; Arresting crime drama set on the segregated streets of East Harlem and focused on a district attorney investigating the murder of a blind Puerto…
Alamo, The (1960): Dir. John Wayne
Feat. John Wayne; Duke's sprawling historical epic centres around a small fort where Texas fought for its independence. Slow pace builds to an exciting climax.
Andy Griffith Show, The (TV Series) (1960-1968): Feat. Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Ron Howard; Classic US TV series set in the quiet town of Maybury, North Carolina, out of which comedian Griffith spun his homely brand of humour. Two volumes of…
Apartment, The (1960): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine; Neurotic insurance clerk Jack Lemmon wheedles his way up the corporate ladder by loaning his apartment keys to philandering executives, unknowing…
Bad Sleep Well, The (1960): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune; A contemporary gangster saga that uses a Hamlet–esque narrative to indict corporate and political corruption. Government officials were not…
Bellboy, The (1960): Dir. Jerry Lewis
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry; A quickly–made diversion for director/star Lewis that became a major hit. The comic piles on the on 'spastic' routines as the…
Bells are Ringing (1960): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark…; Winning musical rom–com from Vincente Minnelli (MEET ME IN ST LOUIS), with Judy Holliday playing a fictionalised version of real–life…
Bonanza (TV Series) (1960): Dir. Lewis Allen, Arthur Lubin
Feat. Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts…; Iconic, larger–than–life western TV show set near Virginia City, Nevada, in which Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and his sons help protect…
Breath of Scandal, A (1960): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, Angela Lansbury…; Soufflé–light romance tuned to the love streams of Vienna, with a regal Sophia Loren courted by handsome American John Gavin. Sweet,…
Brides of Dracula (1960): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt; Recognised as one of Hammer Studios' best horrors, this acclaimed sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA reconvenes director/actor team Fisher and Cushing. This…
Bulldog Breed, The (1960): Dir. Robert Asher
Feat. Norman Wisdom, Ian Hunter, David Lodge…; Nautical farce with our Norman persuaded to join the navy as if that wasn't a bad enough idea they want to send the genial buffoon into space.
Butterfield 8 (La Venus au Vision) (1960): Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher…; A purring Elizabeth Taylor stars in this high–strung melodrama as a bed–hopping New York model, who questions her ways when she falls in…
Can-Can (1960): Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Shirley Maclaine, Maurice Chevalier…; Agreeable Cole Porter musical by way of Old Blue Eyes' Rat Pack croon. Sinatra teams up with Shirley Maclaine, here the proprietor of Parisian cafe…
Cinderfella (1960): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Dame Judith Anderson…; Many years before SHREK, there was this comical parody on the world of fairy–tales, with ace comic Lewis playing a male version of the…
Circus of Horrors (1960): Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton…; After horribly botching a face–job, plastic surgeon Anton Diffring hides out in a travelling circus with some of his 'beauties', who begin to…
Classe Tous Risques (Consider All Risks) (1960): Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo; French–Italian gangster film following the exploits of a French mobster (Lino Ventura, based on a real life henchman for the French Gestapo)…
Comanche Station (1960): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins…; Last of the Boetticher/Scott westerns with Randolph Scott again essaying the taciturn hero brilliantly. Here he's attempting to resuce saving a…
Coronation Street (TV Series) (1960-1989): Feat. William Roache, Violet Carsen, Margot Bryant…; The UK's longest running soap follows the dramatic lives of the residents of a close–knit town in Manchester, with many of the series' most…
Criminal, The (1960): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan; Joseph–Losey–directed crime drama of a con sent to prison after a profitable robbery who is tortured by his fellow prisoners to leak…
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse) (1960): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dawn Addams, Peter Van Eyck, Gert Frobe; The final film in Fritz Lang's DR. MABUSE series, which includes DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER and THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE, is also the director's…
Elmer Gantry (1960): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Shirley Jones; The Sinclair Lewis novel set in the American Midwest of the 20s, is splashed across the screen in true barnstorming style, with a big–canvas of…
Entertainer, The (1960): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Laurence Olivier; Laurence Olivier portrays a faded comedian who reflects on his failure as an entertainer and as a man. Another fine example of moody British…
Esther and the King (1960): Dir. Raoul Walsh, Mario Bava
Feat. Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea…; The Book of Esther is retold in this minor Biblical epic, with Joan Collins as a Jewish girl saves her people from a pogrom launched by the evil…
Exodus (1960): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sal Mineo; Paul Newman stars in this epic adaptation of Leon Uris' novel about the founding of modern Israel and the plight of the Palestinians. Ernest Gold won…
Fall of the House of Usher, The (1960): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Mark Damon; More stately than Corman's later Poe adaptations, this three hander set the template with its tale of a poorly nymph afflicted with the 'family…
Flaming Star (1960): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Dolores Del Rio; Elvis Presley plays a half Native American rancher whose neighbourhood starts getting raided by people from the same tribe he is descended from, in…
From the Terrace (1960): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy…; Adapted from the novel by John O’Hara, this slick drama tracks war veteran Paul Newman’s rise to the top. Ironic touches help the story, as do…
G.I. Blues (1960): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley; A fond Elvis vehicle in which his guitar–playing G.I. meddles with things a young cadet shouldn't while stationed in Germany. Presley sings…
Gladiators 7 / The Giant of Marathon (1960-1962): Dir. Pedro Lazaga, Jacques Tourneur, Mario Bava
Feat. Steve Reeves, Mylene Demongeot, Gerard Tichy; Two dubbed 'spaghetti epics' from the heyday of the early 1960s: Gladiators 7 (1962) Directed by Pedro Lazaga – A Greek riff on THE…
Grass Is Greener, The (1960): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum…; The wife of an English Earl falls in love with an American millionaire tourist. Songs by Noel Coward.
Hell Bent for Leather (1960): Dir. George Sherman
Feat. Audie Murphy, Felicia Farr, Stephen McNally…; Another "mistaken identity" western for Murphy. This time he's an honest horse–trader wanted for a murder he didn't commit pursued across Texas…
Heller in Pink Tights (1960): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn; Dysfunctional stagecoach high jinx with Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren fleeing with a theatre company into the American's heartland. While lush as a…
Hercules (1960): Dir. Pietro Francisci
Feat. Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale; The first of the Italian versions of 'Hercules' starring former Mr Universe, Steve Reeves. Here he embarks on a mission to retrieve the 'golden…
Hercules Unchained (1960): Dir. Pietro Francisci
Feat. Steve Reeves; Representative Italian ‘Hercules’ in which Steve Reeves flexes himself on an epic journey to Thebes.
High School Caesar (1960): Dir. O'Dale Ireland
Feat. John Ashley; John Ashley plays a budding crime–lord in this racy wee B–movie, with his own high school proving a rich source of revenue, via exam…
Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead) (1960): Dir. John Moxey
Feat. Christopher Lee; A search party ventures to Salem county after an occult student disappears under mysteriously witchy circumstances. Eerie photography.
Inherit the Wind (1960): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly; The Evolutionist vs Creationist debate is encapsulated in this courtroom recreation of the Monkey Trial of the 1920s (a Tennessee schoolteacher was…
It Started in Naples (1960): Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica; Winning combination of Gable and Loren guided by director Shavelson (HOUSEBOAT) team up again for this romantic comedy drama set in Naples following…
L'Avventura (1960): Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Monica Vitti; The quintessential Euro–arthouse film of the 60s – a rambling yet elegant voyage through the sterile lives of the bourgeiousie, following…
La Dolce Vita (1960): Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni; An episodic film following the very cool Marcello Mastroianni, a disillusioned journalist trapped in shallow, so called 'decadent' society. A…
League of Gentlemen, The (1960): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes…; A high–class league of British actor gents – Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Roger Livesy and others – conspire…
Let's Make Love (1960): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand; An under–rated Marilyn Monroe comedy with Yves Montand as a millionaire who joins her theatre company, then hires a host of real–life…
Light Up the Sky! (1960): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Benny Hill, Dick Emery…; Ian Carmichael leads an inept searchlight unit during in this bumbling and occasionally tragic wartime comedy. Larrikins Benny Hill and Tommy Steele…
Lola (1960): Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Anouk Aimee, Marc Michel; Irresistible 'New Wave' confection breezily spins its romantic tale around the alluring presence of Anouk Aimee, here a cheery cabaret–dancer…
Long and the Short and the Tall, The (1960): Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris…; A taut WW2 drama, based on a stageplay, set around a dysfunctional British patrol caught out behind enemy lines in Burma. Hinging on the treatment…
Magnificent Seven, The (1960): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson…; Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson head other famous faces–to–be in this popular remake of Kurosawa's THE SEVEN SAMURAI.
Make Mine Mink (1960): Dir. Robert Asher
Feat. Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques…; Four unlikely crims embark on a fur thieving spree in this good–natured comedy with a somewhat politically incorrect theme.
Man in the Moon (1960): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field; Loony space–race satire sees Kenneth More as an arrogant bachelor whose ability to withstand anything marks him out as the first astronaut.
Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barbara Steele; Italian shock–merchant Mario Bava's finest hour – his graphic, gothic images are way beyond 1960 and still impress today. A stylish…
Midnight Lace (1960): Dir. David Miller
Feat. Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin…; Suave thriller with a strong dramatic performance for Day who plays a newly–wed in Paris taunted and pursued by a stalker.
Millionairess, The (1960): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica…; Loren plays a spoiled heiress who tries to 'buy' a husband in the form of principled doctor Sellers. Fairly good adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's…
Murder, Inc. (1960): Dir. Stuart Rosenberg, Burt Balaban
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Simon Oakland; Cinemascope gangland film based on the true story of the eponymous Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s. It launched the careers of both Stuart…
My Three Sons (TV Series) (1960): Feat. Fred MacMurray, Don Grady, Stanley Livingston…; One of the longest–running sitcoms in American television history (at 360 episodes), this 'family values' classic starred Fred MacMurray as a…
Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) (1960): Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama; An exquisitely simple and moving Japanese drama, notable for having almost no spoken dialogue in depicting a year of struggle for a small farming…
Never Let Go (1960): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Adam Faith…; Solid crime drama about a young salesman (Todd) who has his car inconveniently stolen – leaving him with a large debt – and then…
Never On Sunday (1960): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri; Director Jules Dassin (think a bug–eyed Tony Randall) plays a disillusioned American philosopher searching for answers in the birthplace of…
Ocean's Eleven (Ocean's 11) (1960): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Jr. Davis, Peter Lawford…; The definitive 'Rat Pack' movie, with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop among the eleven confederates who…
October Man, The (1960): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman…; Atmospheric pot–boiler in which John Mills plays an amnesiac accused of murder who fights to prove his innocence, apprehend the murderer and…
One Foot in Hell (1960): Dir. James B. Clark
Feat. Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy…; Alan Ladd's final western –scripted by Aaron Spelling – has him cast as a psychotic killer exacting revenge on a small town by assuming…
Our Man in Havana (1960): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara…; Witty, forgotten spy satire from dir. Reed (THE THIRD MAN) has Alex Guinness run riot as an undercover vacuum cleaner salesman spooking for the…
Platinum High School (1960): Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, Dan Duryea…; Mickey Rooney overheats in investigating his son's death at a military academy. Casting quirks includes singer Conway Twitty.
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. David Niven, Doris Day; NY critic David Niven, wife Doris Day and their gaggle of kids (plus pet sheepdog) are an unstoppable hurricane of cheer and frivolous good humour,…
Portrait in Black (1960): Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart…; Sudsy potboiler with Turner and Quinn murdering Turner's wealthy husband, unfortunately the perfect crime does not go undetected. Campy fun.
Psycho (1960): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles…; Only Mr. Hitchcock could plunder B–movie conventions and turn in the biggest box–office success of his career. A plethora of…
Pure Hell of St Trinian's / Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1960-1966): Dir. Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Feat. George Cole, Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell…; A double feature of later 'St Trinians' comedies derived from Ronald Searle's cartoons (though without mainstay Alistair Sim). Pure Hell of St…
Rebel, The / Punch and Judy Man, The (1960-1962): Dir. Robert Day, Jeremy Summers
Feat. Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Dennis Price…; A double feature of Tony Hancock's two big–screen outings. The Rebel (1960) Dir. Robert Day – Here Hancock trades in his office career…
Rise and Fall of 'Legs' Diamond, The (1960): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart…; A professionally–shot thriller about the career of New York gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond, who rose to prominence in the 1920s and maintained…
Rocco and His Brothers (1960): Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot…; An uncompromising, richly detailed portrait of an impoverished family who travel to Milan where they are beset by violent misfortune.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960): Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts; Possibly the finest film of the British New Wave, Albert Finney burns up the screen as an ‘angry young man’ who grasps at weekend freedom from…
Savage Innocents, The (1960): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, Yoko Tani; Curiously compelling ethnological drama from dir. Ray in which an eskimo (Quinn) wages an ongoing battle for survival in the Arctic environment and…
Shoot the Pianist (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger…; Part homage to Hollywood film noir, part love story and part and parcel of the new wave, a down–on–his–luck pianist is drawn into…
Sink the Bismarck (1960): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith…; A no–nonsense depiction of the WW2 hunt by the British navy to destroy the German super–warship Bismarck. Conveying both the allied…
Song Without End (1960): Dir. Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Genevieve Page, Capucine…; Pleasant biopic of the great composer Franz Liszt which despite focusing mostly on his love affairs does boast a terrific score. This was Charles…
Sons and Lovers (1960): Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Trevor Howard, Dame Wendy Hiller…; Richly photographed rendition of D.H. Lawrence's classic novel, in which the son of a coal–miner (Stockwell) struggles to find his path in the…
Spartacus (1960): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton…; First–rate epic details the revolt of the ancient Roman slaves as led by Kirk Douglas in the title role. Production spares little expense but…
Strange World of Gurney Slade, The (TV Series) (1960): Feat. Anthony Newley; An unpredictable, wildly inventive comedy where an actor (Anthony Newley) walks off the set of a banal sit–com and into an absurd fantasy world…
Strangers When We Meet (1960): Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs…; Romantic drama adapted by Evan Hunter from his novel of the same name, about two married neighbours who have an affair. Kirk Douglas plays the…
Sundowners, The (1960): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov…; Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr play a devoted couple in 1920s Australia who come to a crossroads over their gypsy lifestyle. Affectionate saga about…
Swiss Family Robinson (1960): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur; The shipwrecked family prove as resourceful as the eponymous army–knife in their fight for survival against Mother Nature and dastardly…
Tall Story (1960): Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins; A young Jane Fonda makes her screen debut in this candy–coated comedy as a bubbly co–ed with romantic yearnings for basketballer Anthony…
Testament of Orpheus (Testament D'orphee) (1960): Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Cocteau, Yul Brynner, Jean-Pierre Leaud…; Cocteau's swansong is an intensely personal odyssey, with the director himself immersed in a world of his cumulative creation. Like a moving…
Thirteen Ghosts (1960): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow; A nuclear family inherit a house haunted by a dozen ghosts of various colourful guises and some hidden stash. Trademark William Castle…
Tunes of Glory (1960): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price…; Two colonels of a Scottish regiment – one convivial, one disciplinarian – face off in a battle of wills in this drama of peacetime…
Two Way Stretch (1960): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bernard Cribbins…; Peter Sellers leads a jailbird trio whose plans for the ultimate heist are scuppered by the arrival of a staunch prison warden.
Unforgiven, The (1960): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster; Audrey Hepburn plays an adopted ranchers daughter who becomes the focus of a racist furore when her Indian roots are discovered.
Village of the Damned (1960): Dir. Wolf Rilla
Feat. George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn…; The original, superior version of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about a brood of malevolent blue–eyed kiddies born in an English…
Virgin Spring, The (1960): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow; Bergman won his first Oscar for this brooding yet gripping medieval tale about a peasant couple who avenge the savage murderers of their daughter.
Wasp Woman, The (1960): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark; A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
When Comedy Was King (1960): Dir. Various
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel…; Second anthology of priceless silent comedy from complier Robert Youngson features excerpts from the likes of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy,…
Where the Boys Are (1960): Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux…; Fairly 'swingin' sixties beach romp with Hart, Hamilton and a cast of bright young co–eds on Spring Break vacation at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.…
World of Suzie Wong, The (1960): Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. William Holden, Nancy Kwan; Aspiring artist William Holden courts the Chinese prostitute of the title (Nancy Kwan) in 1950s Hong Kong. Lukewarm dramatically, but with some…
Young One, The (La Joven; White Trash) (1960): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton; Bunuel’s English–language feature masterfully unfurls the quandary between a young girl and an itinerant black musician unjustly accused of…
Zazie Dans Le Metro (Zazie in the Underground) (1960): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret; Anarchistic comedy drops the impudent 11yr old Zazie into the care of Uncle Phillipe Noiret and the whirlygig chaos of modern Paris. Adapted from…
39 Steps, The (1959): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Kenneth More, Taina Elg; Colour copy of Hitchcock's spy thriller, this time with Kenneth More and Taina Elg as the innocents entangled in Scottish intrigue.
400 Blows, The (1959): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy…; Truffaut's first film rocketed him to fame as some kind of New Wave radical, but at a second glance this story of a teenage delinquent thrown in and…
A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1959): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger…; Godard's landmark first film pulls out all the stops in the style department – with Jean–Paul Belmondo as the romantic fugitive,…
Adventures Of Antoine Doinel, The (400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run) (1959-1979): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud; Francois Truffaut's most enduring cinematic creation, the irrepressible Antoine Doinel (played synonymously by Jean–Pierre Leaud) is…
Al Capone (1959): Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory…; Rod Steiger is a belligerent Scarface in this throwback to the 30s gangster films.
Amants, Les (Lovers, The) (1959): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny; This helped push the envelope of frank sexuality in cinema and made a star of Jeanne Moreau, as the rich, bored housewife whose extra–marital…
Anatomy of a Murder (1959): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara…; Smalltown lawyer James Stewart defends a man accused of murdering a suspected rapist. The shifting ambiguities of the case make this more a…
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959): Dir. Bernard Kowalski
Feat. Yvette Vickers; A 'rubber–suited' swamp thing lurks in a Florida bayou. Even B–movie aficianados shouldn't get suckered by this one. 'Stars' Yvette…
Battle of the Sexes, The (1959): Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings…; An archly engaging comedy based upon a James Thurber story in which the head clerk (Sellers) of a tweed manufacturer resists the efforts of the…
Ben-Hur (1959): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd; Spectacular production of the Jews plight against the Roman empire, complete with landmark chariot race, awesome sea battle and a cast of thousands…
Beyond the Time Barrier (1959): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Robert Clarke; An astronaut on a space mission is unwittingly catapulted into a plague–ridden Earth of 50 years into the future. Inriguing low–budgeter…
Black Orpheus (1959): Dir. Marcel Camus
Feat. Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes De Oliveira; Get caught up in the rhythms and colour of Rio De Janiero at Carnival time for an exotic, utterly unique spin on the Greek legend of doomed lovers…
Brand (1959): Dir. Michael Elliot
Feat. Patrick McGoohan; Spellbinding BBC version of Henrik Ibsen's great play, with Patrick McGoohan playing a young priest who idealistically adopts a doctrine that one…
Compulsion (1959): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles…; As distinctive a rendition of the infamous Leopold–Loeb murder case as ROPE and SWOON, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman playing the…
Crimson Kimono, The (1959): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta; Two detectives, one of Japanese heritage, both fall in love with the key witness in a murder case. Noted for its inclusion of an interracial romance…
Danger Within (1959): Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Richard Attenborough; In an Italian POW camp in WW2, 400 plan to escape but one plans to betray. Can you spot the traitor? Richard Attenborough leads the cast of suspects.
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Albert Sharpe, Sean Connery, Jack MacGowran…; Sharpe plays an Irish caretaker who befriends the King of the Leprechauns. This live–action classic from Uncle Walt, mixes whimsy, humour and…
Day of the Outlaw (1959): Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise…; Bleak snowbound western has a gang of outlaws terrorizing the inhabitants of a small farming town. Shot in stark black and white this is a…
Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters…; Absorbing film version of the play based on the experience of a Jewish girl who was forced to live within the confines of a tiny attic, under…
Don't Give Up the Ship (1959): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill; Comedy with Jerry Lewis playing a Junior Navy Officer whose ship mysteriously goes missing years after WWII, and he is called upon to find it right…
FBI Story, The (1959): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton…; This official ‘biopic’ of the FBI, seen through the eyes of career agent James Stewart from 1924 to the late 1950s, has sturdy…
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Curt Jurgens; Maritime adventure in which Orson Welles portrays a reluctant sea captain forced to take a shady rogue deportee from Hong Kong onboard his vessel…
Five Pennies, The (1959): Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong…; Cheery Red Nichols biopic with Danny Kaye turning in a heartfelt performance as the famed jazz trumpter. Contains many soapy moments between Kaye…
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959): Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura; An aging actor who returns with his troupe to his provincial town, and becomes caught between his long–lost family and his jealous…
Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Henry Daniell; Beware–the–family–curse is the theme in this low–budget take on Orville H. Hampton's tale about a family whose members are…
Fugitive Kind, The (1959): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani…; A directionless, but quirky version of Tennesse Williams' play 'Orpheus Descending' with Brando playing a troublesome hobo who spreads romantic…
Girls Town (1959): Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Paul Anka…; Wayward teen Mamie Van Doren is sent to a girls' home after being ratted out by 'greaser' Mel Torme. Loaded with rock'n'roll.
Great St Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959): Feat. Steve McQueen, David Clarke; A little known noir gem starring a young Steve McQueen as a getaway driver for a group of criminals plotting to rob a bank in St Louis. Based on…
Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959): Dir. Charles Guggenheim, John Stix
Feat. Steve McQueen; This noir thriller is one of McQueen's best early roles, and although somewhat obscure has a cult reputation for its shootout scenes and intense,…
Gunfight at Dodge City, The (1959): Dir. Joseph M. Newman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire…; Lean and mean western with Joel McCrea as a reluctant sheriff struggling to restore order to town besieged with corruption and violence.
Hannibal (1959): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rik Battaglia…; Virile extravaganza recounts the journey of Cathiginian general Hannibal as he marches on Rome in a war of revenge. Brilliant direction from…
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959): Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada; Romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect rekindles their traumatic wartime experiences. The twin threads of despair and sensual love…
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959): Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Michael Gough, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen…; Well–acted Hammer horror about a writer who uses his hypnotised helper to commit a series of inventively gruesome killings.
Horse Soldiers, The (1959): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers; Set around a Yankee incursion into Rebel territory during the American Civil War, this rates about average against Dir. Ford's other action films. …
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell…; Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
Human Condition, The (No Greater Love, Road to Eternity, A Soldier's Prayer) (1959-1961): Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratana; An epic Japanese film trilogy following the life of a well–intentioned yet naïve pacifist and socialist as he tries to survive in the…
I'm All Right Jack (1959): Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas…; Brilliant satire of labour and class relations, makes a glorious mockery of unions and management alike as upperclass twit Ian Carmichael joins the…
Imitation of Life (1959): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee…; Douglas Sirk's famed melodrama of American ambition and racism is justly renowned for the surprisingly bitter commentary buried within its involving…
It Happened to Jane (1959): Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs; Ordinary folk take on corporate bullying in this under–rated rom–com starring Doris Day as a widowed small–business woman and…
Killer Shrews, The (1959): Dir. Ray Kellogg
Feat. James Best, Ken Curtis; Low–budget B–movie set on an isolated island where a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a…
Last Days of Pompeii / City of Metropolis (1959-1961): Dir. Mario Bonnard, Umberto Scarpelli
Feat. Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey; Two dubbed 'spaghetti epics' from the heyday of the 1950s and 1960s: The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) Directed by Mario Bonnard –…
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones…; Underrated American Western telling the tale of a U.S. Marshal seeking revenge in the town of 'Gun Hill' after the racially charged rape and murder…
Les Cousins (1959): Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Blain; Claude Chabrol continues his city / country theme from LE BEAU SERGE with this estranging drama following a country boy who ends up in a despicable…
Manster, The (1959): Dir. George P. Breakson
Feat. Peter Dyneley; An American correspondent in Japan becomes an unwitting human guinea pig while trying to get the scoop on the work of a reclusive scientist. His…
Mummy, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.
No Name on the Bullet (1959): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans…; Considered Audie Murphy's strongest Western, he plays a gun–for–hire who rides into a town where the leading citizens are justifiably…
North by Northwest (1959): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason…; Cary Grant becomes a victim of mistaken identity and is chased across America by enemy agents, in one stylish set piece after another. One of Hitch's…
North West Frontier (1959): Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More; Colonial adventure in which a British army captain must venture into India to rescue a prince and his governess who are being hunted by rebels…
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters…; Injecting race problems into a surefire thriller formula, this has an unstable criminal trio – ex–convict (Ryan), crooked cop (Begley)…
On the Beach (1959): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire…; 50's cold war paranoia piece set in post–WW2 Melbourne, the only place in the world yet untouched by creeping radiation. Based on Nevil Shute's…
One Step Beyond (TV Series) (1959): Feat. John Newland; Classic television series billed as 'your guide to the supernatural' serves half–hour docudramas of unexplained, paranormal 'true events'.…
Operation Amsterdam (1959): Dir. Michael McCarthy
Feat. Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton; Gripping wartime drama tracking two gem specialists attempting to remove a valuable horde of diamonds from Amsterdam in 14 hours before the nasty…
Operation Petticoat (1959): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Cary Grant, Tony Curtis; Submarine Capt. Cary Grant and First Mate Tony Curtis excel in this seaborne comedy.
Pillow Talk (1959): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall; Party–line adversaries Rock Hudson and Doris Day conduct a hilarious romance of deception in this imaginative sex comedy. With Rock as the…
Pork Chop Hill (1959): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn…; Given a gritty believability by Dir. Milestone ('All Quiet on the Western Front'), this recounts the bloody, meaningless conquest of a lowly hill…
Rawhide (TV Series) (1959- 1966): Feat. Clint Eastwood; Clint Eastwood steals the show as Rowdy Yates in this 60's cattle–driving TV show.
Ride Lonesome (1959): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, James Best, Lee Van Cleef…; Randolph Scott stars as a bounty hunter tasked with escorting a killer back to the gallows, all the while using him as bait to lure his murderous…
Rio Bravo (1959): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson…; John Wayne plays a sheriff who has captured a high profile bandit. With the state Marshall many days away and a gang of thugs planning a raid from…
Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (TV Series) (1959): The classic family cartoon series. Join the titular reindeer and chipmunk, plus Snidley, Horse, Nell, Dudley, Mr Peabody, Sherman and the rest for…
Sapphire (1959): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig…; Scandalous subject–wise for post–war Britain, where a murdered black woman is discovered to have been posing as white. Obviously dated…
Serious Charge (1959): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Anthony Quayle, Cliff Richard, Sarah Churchill…; Cliff Richard's film debut is a slight melodrama about a parish priest attempting to tame a young petty criminal. Cliff sings "Living Doll" in a…
Shaggy Dog, The (1959): Dir. Charles Barton
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk…; Fred MacMurray excels in this Disney live–actioner, playing a postman whose son accidentally transforms himself into a talking sheepdog with…
Smiley Gets A Gun (1959): Dir. Anthony Kimmins
Feat. Sybil Thorndike, Chips Rafferty, Keith Calvert…; Sequel to the 1956 Aussie family movie, with Archer and Rafferty again appearing, as young hero and local constable respectively. Likeable,…
Solomon and Sheba (1959): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida; Colourful biblical epic with Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida as the noble rulers of Israel.
Some Like It Hot (1959): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe; One of the great comedies, in which Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress as women and join an all–girl travelling jazz band in order to escape the…
Square Peg, The (1959): Dir. John Paddy Carstairs
Feat. Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman…; Chaotic comedy with Wisdom as an an inept council workman whose road mending gets him into conflict with the Army. Arguably Wisdom's best film with…
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift; A kitsch classic in which Elizabeth Taylor is in finest neurotic form as a young woman trying to fight her vindictive aunt's will to have her…
Summer Place, A (1959): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue…; Lush melodrama set on a remote isle with the two couples of different generations trapped in romantic asides and anxieties.
Tiger Bay (1959): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz; Haley Mills’ breakthrough is a memorable and mature British thriller; she plays witness to a murder by a Polish sailor, who she subsequent…
Tingler, The (1959): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman; B–movie classic in which mad doctor Vincent Price conjures the 'physical form of fear itself', and lets the damned thing run amok! With bizzaro…
Too Many Crooks (1959): Dir. Mario Zampi
Feat. Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Sid James…; Four incompetent, would–be criminals make a meal of a kidnapping–ransom plot in this farcical crime caper from the Rank Organisation.
Torchy The Battery Boy (TV Series) (1959): Children's TV series from the late 1950's with string puppets depicting the adventures of a boy doll who has a battery inside him and a lamp on his…
Umberto D. (1959): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari; A pensioner struggles to make ends meet in post–war Italy. Gloomy neo–realist piece wrenches the heart through a compassionate lead…
Untouchables, The (TV Series) (1959-1963): Feat. Robert Stack, Paul Picerni; An iconic crime series that once baited controversy for its escalation of television violence, this pulled out the stops to authentically…
Warlock (1959): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn…; A–grade western set in the lawless town of Warlock where the citizens hire a notorious gunman to keep the peace who brings with him his own set…
World of Apu, The (1959): Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty; Final installment of the 'Apu trilogy' sees the complexities of adulthood painfully and euphorically realised for Apu through ambition, marriage and…
Young Philadelphians, The (1959): Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Paul Newman, Barbara Rush; Engaging drama with Paul Newman as an attorney of dubious background who defends an affluent friend in a murder trial while hussling his way into the…
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. John Gavin, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore…; Bittersweet WWII melodrama finds Douglas Sirk at his gravest; John Gavin plays a returning German solider who falls in love under the shadow of war.…
Another Time, Another Place (1958): Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns…; Though a vehicle for Lana Turner, this enjoyable romantic melodrama is remembered for introducing Sean Connery to a wider audience, as a married BBC…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958): Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney…; One of the earliest depictions of the creepy puppet master, this low budget sci–fi horror follows a doll maker with abandonment issues who…
Auntie Mame (1958): Dir. Morton DaCosta
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Peggy Cass, Coral Browne; Classic Oscar–nominated showcase for Rosalind Russell, as a colourful, high–living rouser who educates her 10yr old nephew in the ways of…
Ballad of Narayama, The (Narayama bushiko) (1958): Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka; Sombre but stylised retelling of a Japanese legend, about a poverty–stricken village and its eldest resident who, in accordance with tradition,…
Barbarian and the Geisha, The (1958): Dir. John Huston
Feat. John Wayne, Sam Jaffe, Eiko Ando; Uncharacteristic John Wayne vehicle has the big lug play an ambassador to Japan following the US intervention in 1863. Eiko Ando plays the titular…
Bell, Book and Candle (1958): Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon; Enchanting romantic comedy adapted from the Broadway play stars Kim Novak as a witch who casts a spell on her neighbour, played by James Stewart.
Big Country, The (1958): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston; A big Western – where feuding families with rival patriarchs fight it out to the bitter end.
Bonjour Tristesse (1958): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg; Ripe for rediscovery is this lush Francoise Sagan adaptation, centred around a tawdry love triangle between a father, daughter and…
Bonnie Parker Story, The (1958): Dir. William Witney
Feat. Dorothy Provine, Dick Bakalyan, Jack Hogan; Dorothy Provine is sensational in this low–budget telling the story of the tommy–gun toting 1930s gangster Bonnie Parker,…
Bravados, The (1958): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Lee Van Cleef…; Peck sets out on the grim task of annihilating the rapists and killers of his wife in this taut, if occasionally obvious Western. As Peck works his…
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelley…; Randolph Scott plays a loner who finds himself caught up in a violent feud in this taut Budd Boetticher western.
Carry On Forever! Box Set (Carry On Screaming; Carry On Constable; Carry On Cowboy; Carry On Sergeant; Carry On Teacher; Carry On Spying; Carry On Nurse; Carry On Jack; Carry On Cabby; Carry On Regardless; Carry On Cleo; Carry On Cruising) (1958-1966): Feat. Sid James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams…; A 12–disc set containing various 'Carry On' comedies of the 1950–60s. All are also available separately for rental: Carry On…
Carve Her Name With Pride (1958): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner…; Brit war–time romance centred on a lady living in London during WW2 who marries and has a child with a French soldier. Upon hearing of his…
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman; Compelling melodrama based on Tennessee Williams' play of greed, lust and impotence in a wealthly Southern family. Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor…
Christine (1958): Dir. Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Feat. Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Micheline Presle; Vienna set classic love triangle between an unfaithful man, his current love interest (played by darling French actress Romy Schneider) and an…
Cool and the Crazy, The (1958): Dir. William Witney
Feat. Scott Marlowe, Dick Bakalyan, Gigi Perreau; Dick Bakalyan is impressively cool and crazy in this over–the–top 50s B–movie that cautions teenagers about getting mixed up with…
Corridors of Blood (Doctor from Seven Dials, The) (1958): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie…; A gruesome enactment of medical experimentation in pre–Victorian London, with Karloff donning apron and scalpel to try and discover an…
Cry Terror! (1958): Dir. Andrew L. Stone
Feat. James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger…; Crime thriller with Rod Steiger as a mad extortionist who forces a New York shop owner (James Mason) to collect a ransom after threatening to blow up…
Damn Yankees (Whatever Lola Wants) (1958): Dir. George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Feat. Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston…; Supremely entertaining musical rom–com that transposes the Faustian legend to the world of American baseball, with Gwen Verdon in the iconic…
Defiant Ones, The (1958): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier; That well known image of race–hatred – escaped black and white prisoners unwillingly handcuffed together – originated here, with…
Desire Under the Elms (1958): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives; Anthony Perkins and Sophia Loren requite their love over a heated land dispute in this mild star vehicle for the then–wildly popular Loren.…
Dunkirk (1958): Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Attenborough, John Mills, Bernard Lee…; British war film set during the 1940 evacuation of French and British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk, following the contrasting perspectives of a…
Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold, aka. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud) (1958): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly…; A young Jeanne Moreau stars in this elegant thriller about a crime of passion that backfires when the murderer gets trapped in a lift. Ambience par…
Fly, The (1958): Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price; Classic B–movie is a hammy horror tale of an obsessed scientist who unwittingly turns himself into a freak of nature.
Geisha Boy (1958): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis; Jerry Lewis plays a clumsy stage–magician touring Japan who leaves multiple havoc in his wake.
Giants and Toys (1958): Dir. Yasuzo Masumura
Feat. Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe; Japanese satirical comedy about an advertising war between three candy production companies, and a teenage girl who becomes a celebrity after one of…
Gigi (1958): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan…; This cheerful musical odyssey of a Parisian girl trained to be a courtesan was the Oscar–winner of its year.
Hidden Fortress (1958): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune; Toshiro Mifune displays astounding skill with horse and sword as the ultimate warrior in this innovative amalgam of fairy–tale and Samurai…
Hitchcock Collection Volume 2 (The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family Plot, Vertigo) (1958-1976): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Excellently–presented box–set with eight of Hitch's best later suspensers.
Horror of Dracula (1958): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
Horse's Mouth, The (1958): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston; This impressively subtle portrait of a tortured artist stars Alec Guinness as a deteriorating painter whose pursuit of creative perfection has him on…
House On Haunted Hill (1958): Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart; Vincent Price is in full ham here, offering patrons $10,000 each to endure a night in the titular spooky mansion. Good fun, if a bit slight.…
Houseboat (1958): Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer…; Fortunes change for widower and father–of–three Cary Grant when he takes up residence on a floating home, and employs Sophia Loren as his…
How To Make A Monster (1958): Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris; A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
Hunters, The (1958): Dir. Dick Powell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan; Robert Mitchum portrays an aging fighter pilot in the Korean War who falls for the wife of a fellow squadron member in this aviation–romance.
I Bury the Living (1958): Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Richard Boone; Weird, imaginatively designed graveyard chiller with Richard Boone as a cemetery curator who thinks he has power over life and death by shifting…
I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958): Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott; An exceptional, well–directed 1950's B–movie in which a race of monster–like aliens try to conquer Earth by taking over a…
I Want to Live! (1958): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent…; True–life case of career criminal Barbara Graham's (allegedly) false conviction and execution, chillingly dramatised all the way to the…
I Was Monty's Double (1958): Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Clifton James, John Mills, Leslie Phillips…; Absorbing war drama based on the true story of a man hired to imitate General Montgomery in order to hoodwink the Germans before the North Africa…
Ice Cold In Alex (1958): Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Anthony Quayle; After a hurried retreat from the siege of Tobruk, a band of medics and nurses in an ambulance, attempt an arduous crossing of the Libyan Sahara…
Indiscreet (1958): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman; Snappy comedy in which sophisticates Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman indulge in a whirlwind romance that cools off smartly when she finds his claim of…
Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The (1958): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curt Jurgens; Biopic of English maid, Gladys Aylward (Ingrid Bergman) who realised her dream of becoming a missionary to China in the 1930s. Despite its…
Invisible Man, The (TV Series) (H. G. Well's Invisible Man) (1958-1960): Feat. Tim Turner; H.G Wells’ classic sci–fi premise is preserved in this superior television adaptation of science gone awry. Tim Turner plays the eponymous…
King Creole (1958): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones; Many would agree with Elvis that this is his best film. He plays a roguish street hustler who manifests his rebellion in his music. Tight direction…
Kings Go Forth (1958): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood; Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis are comrades in arms who fight over Natalie Wood, but her mixed heritage arouses their bigotry instead.
Law and Jake Wade, The (1958): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens…; Western from director John Sturges (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) about a reformed town marshal whose old criminal partner starts stalking him while he's on…
Le Beau Serge (1958): Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Blain; Accepted as the first film of the French New Wave, this Claude Chabrol drama tells the story of a man returning to his hometown only to discover his…
Left Handed Gun, The (1958): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Paul Newman; Influential version of the Billy the Kid story, with Paul Newman portraying the Kid in an ambiguous light, unstable and homosexually repressed. Has…
Long Hot Summer, The (1958): Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Orson Welles, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman; The steam rises in this William Faulkner adaptation about sex and sin in the small–town South. With a tyrannical Orson Welles, and Joanne…
Look Back in Anger (1958): Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure; Richard Burton plays the angry–young–man to the hilt in this grimly realistic slice of British life in the '50s. Based on John Osborne's…
Machine Gun Kelly (1958): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot; A baby–faced Bronson gives an exciting edge to this superior B–movie biopic, based around the criminal career of the Depression–era…
Magician, The (The Face) (1958): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow; Bergman's allegorical self–portrait of a controversial travelling magician who exacts revenge on a cynical doctor, but becomes trapped in his…
Man of the West (1958): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb…; Gary Cooper stars in this battle of nerves as a former gunman forced by his old gang to engage in their criminal activity. Solid, intelligent film…
Marjorie Morningstar (1958): Dir. Irving Capper
Feat. Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood; Would–be actress Natalie Wood gives up her Jewishness and independence to get ahead in this mild adaptation of Herbert Wouk's novel.
Matchmaker, The (1958): Dir. Joseph Anthony
Feat. Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley Maclaine…; Farcical adaptation of the Broadway play about a meddling madam who prides herself on playing cupid to the young folk around town until one day…
Me and the Colonel (1958): Dir. Peter Glenville
Feat. Danny Kaye, Nicole Maurey, Curt Jurgens; Danny Kaye plays a Jewish refugee being comically resourceful in his efforts to evade the Nazi's before WWII, in this charming comedy.
Men in War (1958): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Vic Morrow…; Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray play the leaders of a small detachment of American soldiers cut off and desperately trying to rejoin their division over a…
Mon Oncle (1958): Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati; Monsieur Hulot returns in another gag–laden adventure. His whimsical ways endear him to his nephew, but leave the boy's trendy parents cold.…
Night to Remember, A (1958): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres…; Vivid re–enactment of events that led to the sinking of the Titanic, with careful attention payed to the human drama. Kenneth More leads a…
Nun's Story, The (1958): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans; Audrey Hepburn stars in this satisfying account of a young woman's ambition to serve in the Belgian Congo after her time in a strict convent.
Old Man and the Sea, The (1958): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Spencer Tracy; Spencer Tracey excels in this faithful adaptation of Hemingway’s famous novel, as an aging fisherman who carries on a lengthy duel with the forces…
Party Girl (1958): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb…; Delicious Nicholas Ray–directed potboiler finds bum–legged Robert Taylor trying to cut ties with the mob. A slinky Cyd Charisse (tearing…
Quatermass and the Pit (TV Series) (1958): Dir. Nigel Kneale
Feat. Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell; The third in the landmark trilogy of serials involves Professor Quatermass in the excavation of an ancient alien–insect capsule in London, and…
Quiet American, The (1958): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Audie Murphy; This early screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s cautionary novel was the first major film to address to thorny issue of Vietnam, although loses…
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958): Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins…; None too funny surburban satire is kept afloat by Woodward and Newman – despite the latter's lack of comedic flair. The two stars play husband…
Return of Dracula (1958): Dir. Paul Landres
Feat. Francis Lederer; Coinciding with Hammer studios revival of the Transylvanian count, this commendable effort has a long–in–the–tooth Francis Lederer…
Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn…; One of the best in the series of six Frankenstein films made by Hammer, with Peter Cushing reprising one of his signature roles as Baron Frank. …
Ride a Crooked Trail (1958): Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau…; Routine western with Murphy as a bank robber mistaken for a famed U.S Marshall and going along with the ruse. Some nice comedic touches and location…
Road Racers (1958): Dir. Arthur Swerdloff
Feat. Joel Lawrence, Marian Collier, Skip Ward; Utterly obscure, but this B–grade runs with a full tank of gas! Set around a melodramatic race–track plot, it features some classic 50s…
Rock-A-Bye-Baby (1958): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell; A stooging Jerry Lewis must babysit the triplets of starlet Marilyn Maxwell, who wants to keep them a secret from her public.
Room at the Top (1958): Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret; Matters sexual are treated with rare maturity in this stunning, landmark British drama about an ambitious, working–class cad who falls in love…
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster; One of the best WWII submarine movies, this pits Commander Clark Gable against rebel Lt. Burt Lancaster as together they patrol the deeps.
Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) (1958): Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Michael Craig…; Brit war thriller about an army team sent to destroy a German petrol dump in preparation for an attack who are confronted by their enemies in the…
Separate Tables (1958): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven…; Fascinating melodrama contrasts individuals in a tea house at an English seaside resort. Sharp script gives the A–list talent much to chew…
Sheepman, The (Stranger with a Gun) (1958): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Glenn Ford, Shirley Maclaine, Leslie Nielsen…; Lighthearted western with Glenn Ford as a hard–bitten sheep farmer duking it out with cattle baron Nielsen and Shirley Maclaine as the object…
Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, The (1958): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Jayne Mansfield, Kenneth More, Henry Hull…; In this goofy western, Jayne Mansfield plays a buxom saloon proprietor who lassos a clueless Englishman when he becomes the sheriff of the titular…
Some Came Running (1958): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley Maclaine…; Frank Sinatra gives an affecting, lowkey performance as soldier returning from WW2 to pick up his writing career again. Effective representation…
Sophia Loren Collection (Desire Under the Elms, Heller in Pink Tights, A Breath of Scandal) (1958-1960): Feat. Sophia Loren; Three classic ‘contract’ pictures from Italy’s enduring Sophia Loren, made during the height of her Hollywood fame.
South Pacific (1958): Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr…; Solid screen version of Rogers and Hammerstein's stage spectacle, memorable for its lush location photography and infectious tunes.
Speedway (1958): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra; Elvis Presley musical set in stock–car racing scene. With Nancy Sinatra in the passenger seat.
Tale of Two Cities, A (1958): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence…; An intrepid Dirk Bogarde negotiates the rough and tumble of the French Revolution, in this, the version most faithful to the Charles Dickens novel.…
Tarnished Angels, The (1958): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone; WRITTEN ON THE WIND's tawdry trio (Stack, Malone, Hudson) reunite in this soaring melodrama about an exiled, enigmatic WWI pilot whose debonair…
Teacher's Pet (1958): Dir. George Seaton
Feat. Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young…; Self–taught newspaper–man Clark Gable is cynical about journalism school, but becomes enchanted with a teacher (Doris Day) and decides to…
Teenage Caveman (1958): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Robert Vaughn, Sarah Marshall, Leslie Bradley; Prehistoric drive–in fare boosted by Roger Corman's knack for never letting action drag, and a baby–faced Robert Vaughn (Man from Uncle)…
Terror in a Texas Town (1958): Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot; Eccentric western with Sterling Hayden as a Swedish whaler –armed with harpoon – seeking to exact revenge on the greedy oil baron who…
Thunder Road (1958): Dir. Arthur Ripley
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon…; Effective, gritty road movie about a mountain man moonshiner at war with both authorities and big–city competitors. An unusually personal…
Touch of Evil, A (1958): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor…; Declaring its virtuosity right from the famous opening–shot, this late film–noir weaves a tale of murder and blackmail in a Mexican…
Tunnel of Love, The (1958): Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young…; Romantic comedy starring Doris Day and Richard Widmark as a couple who are unable to conceive, and try to adopt a baby. When they find one, its…
Vertigo (1958): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes…; Hitchcock at his most daring and surreal weaves a complex tale of neurosis when Jimmy Stewart's detective begins trailing a mysterious woman (Novak).…
Vikings, The (1958): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine; Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine sport their Nordic apparel to conduct a brutal dispute over the throne of Northumbria. Elegant…
Wanted Dead or Alive (TV Series) (1958): Feat. Steve McQueen; Riding on the back of success in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Steve McQueen lends his star charisma to this TV western series as bounty hunter Josh…
War Of The Colossal Beast (1958): Dir. Robert Gordon
Feat. Sally Fraser, Russ Bender, Rico Alaniz; Colossally inept sequel to the genuinely interesting AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, has the scarred giant discovered looting government food trucks in the…
Young Lions, The (1958): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin…; Sensitive, well–mounted WW2 epic charts the effect of war on young lives from both sides. Marlon Brando as a confused German commandant…
3:10 to Yuma (1957): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Glenn Ford, Van Heflin; Outlaw Glenn Ford is escorted via train to his trial in Yuma by rookie bounty–man Van Heflin. A suspenseful yarn made of Elmore Leonard's novel.
A King in New York (1957): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Dawn Addams; Mild satire, in which Chaplin plays the leader of 'Estrovia' whose visit to NYC is beset by witchhunts, noise, and 1950s conservatism. Has often…
Abominable Snowman (1957): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis; Hammer Horror's version of the 'yeti' legend has Cushing and Tucker journey to the roof of the world to hunt out the elusive creature. From a…
Across the Bridge (1957): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Marla Landi, Noel Willman…; An underrated and little–known thriller with Steiger playing a shady accountant on the run from the FBI and Scotland Yard, who tries to make…
Admirable Crichton, The (1957): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes; Comedy about an impeccable butler (Kenneth More) who becomes the ruler of an aristocratic family when social order is flipped after they all become…
An Affair to Remember (1957): Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr; Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet and decide they're engaged to the wrong people, but their future liaison proves kind of awkward if not dangerous.
Bitter Victory (1957): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens, Ruth Roman…; Superior war drama is set around a WW2 mission by British commandos in North Africa, trying to retrieve vital papers from a German HQ before…
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957): Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Alastair Sim…; Particularly raucous installment of the popular naughty schoolgirl series; this time their behaviour gets the headmistress thrown in jail and the…
Boy on a Dolphin (1957): Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Alan Ladd, Sophia Loren, Clifton Webb…; Greek picaresque with Sophia Loren as a diver who catches the scent of ancient sunken treasure. Mainly memorable for the actress's drenched figure…
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957): Dir. David Lean
Feat. William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins; Another rousing, grand scale production from director Lean, about a group of British POW's employed by the Japanese to build a bridge, while their…
Brothers Karamazov, The (1957): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom…; A sumptuous Hollywood version of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of Czarist Russia. Centred around Karamazov (Cobb) and his four disparate offspring,…
China Gate (1957): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson; In 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy…
Cranes are Flying, The (Letyat Zhuravli) (1957): Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
Feat. Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev; A Russian classic which conveys homefront anxieties during WW2 for a young bride whose original fiance has gone to the front. Pursued by his…
Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1957): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis…; Classy occult thriller survives its big reputation through an intelligent script and controlled sense of menace. Dana Andrews' cynical professor…
Decision at Sundown (1957): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele…; Another fruitful Boetticher/Scott collaboration is the grimmest of the lot with Scott on the trail of the man who drove his wife to suicide.
Delicate Delinquent, The (1957): Dir. Don McGuire
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Darren McGavin, Martha Hyer…; Comedian Lewis plays a janitor who is mistakenly picked–up by police as a juvenile delinquent and forced into the police training himself. This…
Delinquents, The (1957): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Dick Bakalyan; Future luminary Robert Altman's debut feature, an "expose" of juvenile delinquency in the rock'n'roll era. Filmed in Kansas City in a…
Designing Woman (1957): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray; A sportswriter and a fashion–designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common in this diverting rom–com…
Desk Set (His Other Woman) (1957): Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young…; Screwball Tracy–Hepburn vehicle makes good use of their excellent chemistry. Tracy is an efficiency expert come to computerise a New York firm…
Enemy Below, The (1957): Dir. Dick Powell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, Theodore Bikel…; Naval thriller with Mitchum as a U.S. destroyer captain caught in a cat–and–mouse battle with German U–boat commander Jurgens he…
Face in the Crowd, A (1957): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau…; Pungent social commentary on American mass culture outlays the rags–to–riches trajectory of a hick nobody (Griffith) whose rapid rise to…
Famous Five, The: Five on a Treasure Island (1957): Dir. Gerald Landau
Feat. Rel Grainer, Richard Palmer, Gillian Harrison…; Ginger beer and picnics are put on hold as the five set out in search of hidden treasure, and in pursuit the requisite dastardly villains.…
Fire Down Below (1957): Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon…; Adventure drama set in the Caribbean, with Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum playing U.S. expatriates who eke out a meager subsistence transporting…
Golden Age of Comedy, The (1957): Dir. Various
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Ben Turpin…; Perfect introduction to the world of silent comedy, this is the first of three celebrated compilations from cinephile Robert Youngson. Hailed as…
Green Man, The / School for Scoundrels (1957-1960): Dir. Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Feat. Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas…; A double feature of comedies starring Alastair Sim. The Green Man (1957) Dir. Basil Dearden – One of Sim's best films, playing an apparently…
Gun for a Coward (1957): Dir. Abner Biberman
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule…; Character driven western with the tragic Jeffrey Hunter as a peaceful cowboy whose non–violent manner saddles him with a reputation for…
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming; The legendary Doc Holliday–Wyatt Earp clash with the Clayton gang with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the leading spurs. A textbook Western.
Haunted Strangler, The (1957): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Boris Karloff; Jekyll–and–Hyde variation with criminologist Boris Karloff delving into a serial–murder case for which he suspects the wrong man…
Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) (1957): Feat. Richard Boone, Hal Needham; Popular classic Western series about the adventures of professional gunfighter Paladin and his manservant Hey Boy.
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr; Kerr and Mitchum play a nun and Marine sergeant respectively, who are stranded on a desert island during WWII – the island happens to also be…
Hell Drivers (Hard Drivers) (1957): Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Patrick McGoohan, Sir Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom…; Stanley Baker plays a hard–nosed trucker forced to take on a dangerous long haul, through which a bitter rivalry develops with a fellow driver…
Hellcats of the Navy (1957): Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Arthur Franz…; WW2 submarine actioner that is chiefly remembered as the only film to star both Ronald Reagan and his future wife Nancy Davis. Storywise this…
Il Grido (The Outcry) (1957): Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair; This lesser–known work from Antonioni provides a missing link between Italian neorealism and the director's later works like L'AVVENTURA,…
Ill Met By Moonlight (1957): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley; Conventional WW2 flick focused on a group of Resistance fighters in German occupied Crete who hatch a plan to kidnap the head of the German army.…
Incredible Petrified World, The (1957): Dir. Jerry Warren
Feat. John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates; This slimly plotted adventure has four divers trapped in an undersea cavern with a grim–faced hermit. This dull fate is soon livened by…
Interlude (1957): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch…; June Allyson falls for the charms of a married European conductor while being courted by a Munich doctor. One of Sirk's weaker melodramas, this was…
Jailhouse Rock (1957): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Elvis Presley; Great musical numbers highlight this Elvis Presley vehicle. The handsome delinquent learns to pick the guitar while behind bars, which of course…
Kiss Them For Me (1957): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson…; Very very silly war comedy with Grant and his navy buddies fighting for their right to spend their shore leave as they see fit, which inevitably…
Leave It to Beaver (TV Series) (1957): Feat. Jerry Mathers, Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley; One of the most beloved family sitcoms of its time set around the mischief–making exploits of young Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver.
Love in the Afternoon (1957): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier; Dark horse Audrey Hepburn classic sees dir. Billy Wilder riff Ernst Lubitsch by way of Gary Cooper and Maurice Chevalier (a wall fixture of…
Lucky Jim (1957): Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith…; A likeable British comedy adapted from the beloved novel by Kingsley Amis about the constant frustrations of a young history lecturer with his…
Man in the Shadow, The (1957): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Ben Alexander; Socially–conscious Western thriller starring Orson Welles as a property kingpin who provides most of the town a thriving economy. But when his…
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957): Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer; James Cagney moulds his ‘dirty face’ into the many classic horror personas of actor Lon Chaney Jr, in this liberal biopic of the actor’s…
Monster That Challenged the World, The (1957): Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson…; Campy 50's sci–fi creature feature in which an underwater earthquake in California's Salton Sea causes a crevice to open, releasing an army of…
Mother India (1957): Dir. Mehboob Khan
Feat. Nargis , Sunil Dutt, Raaj Kumar; A quintessential Indian classic, depicting the struggle of a woman through her adult life to reconcile traditional values and village life with a…
Mysterians, The (1957): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Kenji Sahara, Susumu Fujita; Pastel coloured invader movie from the creative team behind GODZILLA. Aliens refugees from a planet destroyed by atomic bombs flee to Earth in the…
Naked Truth, The (Your Past is Showing) (1957): Dir. Mario Zampi
Feat. Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Peggy Mount…; Dark comedy set in the tabloid industry with an extortionate publisher marked for death by his celebrity victims.
Night Passage (1957): Dir. James Neilson
Feat. James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea…; A 'railroad western' with good guy Stewart defending the tracks against a gang of desperados led by Duryea. Tough cast give some distinction to a…
Nights of Cabiria (1957): Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Giulietta Masina; Giulietta Masina is marvelous as a waifish prostitute dreaming of a rich, wonderful life but always finding sorrow. Tragicomic masterpiece won an…
Old Yeller (1957): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk…; Many Mums and Dads (and Grand–folk) will remember queuing up for this Disney classic about a boy's love for his dog in 1850s Texas.
One That Got Away, The (Einer Kam Durch) (1957): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon, Terence Alexander…; Sturdy war thriller centred on the true story of German airman Franz von Werra – the only German POW to successfully escape from allied custody…
Pajama Game, The (1957): Dir. George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Feat. Doris Day; Exemplary screen musical stars Doris Day in exuberant form as a feisty union delegate who falls for her boss while negotiating a wage rise for her…
Pal Joey (1957): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, Frank Sinatra; Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak clash over Frank Sinatra who happens to belt out 'The Lady is a Tramp' among others in cool, jazzy musical.
Paths of Glory (1957): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou…; Kubrick's muscular drama deals frankly with the hypocrisy and inhumanity of military ethics, based on a true incident in WWI France. Following a…
Perry Mason (TV Series) (1957-1966): Feat. Raymond Burr, William Hopper, William Talman…; Benchmark legal drama series which turned star Raymond Burr into a television institution as the near–invincible criminal lawyer, Perry…
Peyton Place (1957): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Lee Philips…; A cheesy classic based on the mega–seller, weaving almost any domestic scandal you can think of into a compelling melodrama. Followed by a TV…
Pride and the Passion, The (1957): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren…; A solemn epic set around Napoleon's campaign in Spain in the early 19th century – the cast doing their sincere best with a fairly passionless…
Prince and the Showgirl, The (1957): Dir. Laurence Olivier
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe; Curious comedy juxtaposes the talents of Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe to surprising effect. Filmed in London during the coronation of George V.
Raintree County (1957): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint…; Civil War set romance has Montgomery Clift as a schoolteacher whojoins the Union Army as they march into Georgia in the hope of finding his estranged…
River's Edge, The (1957): Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget…; Tight crime drama with Milland as a murderous thief who forces Quinn to escort him safely across the desert to Mexico. There's a nice twist in the…
Robbery Under Arms (1957): Dir. Jack Lee
Feat. Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith…; Seminal Aussie western with Peter Finch as charismatic outlaw Captain Starlight leading two brothers astray after they join his roving band of…
Run of the Arrow (1957): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Rod Steiger, Brian Keith, Charles Bronson…; Technicolour western set in the aftermath of the American Civil War, with Confederate veteran Rod Steiger going rogue and joining the Sioux, but…
Sad Sack, The (1957): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Jerry Lewis, David Wayne, Phyllis Kirk…; A charming adaptation of the beloved comic strip by George Baker, with Jerry Lewis playing a hopeless soldier whose planned six weeks weeks of…
Saint Joan (1957): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, John Gielgud…; Colourized version of the Joan of Arc story with Jean Seberg in her acting debut.
Sayonara (1957): Dir. Joshua Logan, Marlon Brando
Feat. Patricia Owens, Ricardo Montalban, Martha Scott…; An effective, well–acted version of James Michener's novel set during the Korean War, in which ace pilot Brando inconveniently falls in love…
Sea Wife (1957): Dir. Bob McNaught
Feat. Richard Burton, Joan Collins, Basil Sydney…; Melodramatic adventure tale with Burton and Collins adrift on a raft after their ship is sunk by the Japanese. Clunky, but oddly compelling, though…
Seventh Seal, The (1957): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow; The solemn Swede garnered world prominence with this stunning, poetic allegory set in the plague–ridden 16th Century, where a disillusioned…
She-Creature, The (1957): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marla English, Tom Conway, Chester Morris…; A sideshow hypnotist attains fame by predicting murders that are actually carried out by his lovely assistant, under his hypnotic spell. Slow yet…
Silk Stockings (1957): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Peter Lorre; Handsome musical version of Garbo's NINOTCHKA, with Cyd Charisse's million dollar legs the star attraction.
Smallest Show on Earth, The (1957): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers…; A small gem of British comedy, concerning a young couple who inherit a movie–house from a long lost uncle. Along with the semi–decrepit…
Spirit of St. Louis (1957): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. James Stewart; Jimmy Stewart embraces the pioneering spirit of Charles Lindberg in this lovingly detailed biography of the first man to cross the Atlantic.
Stopover Tokyo (1957): Dir. Richard L Breen
Feat. Joan Collins, Robert Wagner; Familiar spy story uses exotic locales to best advantage.
Sweet Smell of Success (1957): Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster; New York–style cynicism reaches its apogee in this bitter pill from the 50s, with press agent Tony Curtis playing self–degrading lapdog…
Tall T, The (1957): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan; The formidable Budd Boetticher–Randolph Scott alliance delivered this lean, mean stagecoach thriller – probably the finest of the duo’s…
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957): Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Brennan; Debbie Reynolds shines in this classic rom–com about an unsophisticated woman from backwoods Mississippi who falls in love with a wealthy pilot…
Three Faces of Eve (1957): Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb; Joanne Woodward pulls out all the stops as a southern housewife who suffers multiple personality disorder, and won an Oscar for her portrayals of…
Throne of Blood (1957): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura; Kurosawa transposes MacBeth into a Samurai setting and the result justifies his reputation. Nothing short of an awesome spectacle Shakespeare himself…
Thunder Over Hawaii (Naked Paradise) (1957): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Richard Denning, Beverly Garland; Corman drive–in melodrama exploits a Hawaiian setting and the sensuous Beverly Garland for a tale of savage passion, kidnapping, and robbery of…
Time Without Pity (1957): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Ann Todd…; Nervy noir has Michael Redgrave in top form as an alcoholic father racing against time to save his son from the gallows. Somewhat dated thriller…
Timelock (1957): Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. Sean Connery, Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson; Tense thriller based on a play by Arthur Hailey (AIRPORT), in which a young boy is locked in a bank vault by accident, which can only be opened…
Tin Star, The (1957): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer…; Anthony Perkins stars in one of his earliest roles playing a young sheriff eager to prove himself in a small town, who accepts help and advice from a…
True Story of Jesse James, The (1957): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange…; Remake of the 1939 film Jesse James, but hardly a true story, as it is only loosely based on the notorious outlaw's life and his relationship to…
Twelve Angry Men (12 Angry Men) (1957): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley…; Henry Fonda holds–out on a unanimous jury who wish to convict an alleged murderer. A sweltering tension is worked up as he struggles to…
Une Parisienne (1957): Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer; Dated yet enjoyably fluffy Bardot comedy, with the sex kitten playing the mischief–making daughter of the French Premier who seduces a cabinet…
Until They Sail (1957): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman…; 1950s Christchurch is the novelty star of this MGM prestige picture set entirely in Canterbury, New Zealand, with landmarks such as the Christchurch…
Vicious Circle, The (Circle) (1957): Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. John Mills, Derek Farr, Lionel Jeffries; Neatly convoluted mystery has John Mills play an eminent medical specialist who is implicated in a murder when the body of a German actress turns up…
Voodoo Woman (1957): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Tom Conway, Marla English; A greed–and–revenge themed horror melodrama set deep in the jungle, where a mad scientist (Conway) botches his first attempts to create a…
Wagon Train (TV Series) (1957-1965): Feat. Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson, Robert Horton…; Classic adventures of a wagon train and its varied passengers as they journey from Missouri to California in the aftermath of the Civil War. Wagons,…
Wild Strawberries (1957): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin; A classic film of one man's reminiscences and his dramatic search for the meaning of human existence. The bleakness is imbued with a quiet optimism.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Joan Blondell; Single ad man Tony Randall saves his job but complicates his romantic life by using superstar sexpot Jayne Mansfield in a lipstick campaign.…
Windom's Way (1957): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Robert Flemyng…; Malayan–set drama with Finch as a doctor – who along with his estranged wife – finds himself caught up in political turmoil that…
Witness for the Prosecution (1957): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton…; Tense courtroom thriller, with Tyrone Power in the dock, defended by Charles Laughton, and consoled by wife Marlene Dietrich. Agatha Christie's story…
Yangtse Incident, The (The Yangtze Incident, Battle Hell) (1957): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Richard Todd; The crew of the HMS Amethyst must escape via the Yangtse river after sauntering into China on the eve of Communist takeover. A riveting dramatization…
23 Paces To Baker Street (1956): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker…; Genuine nail–biter with Van Johnson as a blind writer who has the misfortune to overhear a kidnapping plot, enlisting his two friends he sets…
A Town Like Alice (1956): Dir. Jack Lee
Feat. Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch; Based on Neville Shute's 1950s bestseller, this WWII drama opens with the fall of Singapore and the internment of Virginia McKenna in a Japanese POW…
Alexander the Great (1956): Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom; Earnest epic follows the life and early death of the Greek warrior who conquered the entire known world. This seismic production has Richard Burton…
Anastasia (1956): Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner; Refugee peasant Ingrid Bergman is compelled by Yul Brynner to impersonate the legendary 'lost' Russian princess. All–round high production…
And God Created Woman (1956): Dir. Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Curt Jurgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant; The Bardot movie, set in sleepy St. Tropez where Bridget is the misunderstood town hussy who impulsively marries the brother of a boyfriend. Works…
Aparajito (1956): Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Pinaki Sengupta…; Sequel to PATHER PANCHALI sees Apu now as an adolescent who abandons his village and travels to Calcutta, where he is inevitably confused with his…
Around the World in 80 Days (1956): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley Maclaine; Lively spectacle in which David Niven attempts to perform the title feat, while no less than 44 other stars make cameo appearances. Garnered four…
Attack! (1956): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert; Departing from the glory–day stories of WW2, Aldrich offers a hard–edged realism to the nightmare of war. Jack Palance, Lee Marvin and…
Baby Doll (1956): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Carroll Baker; After success with STREETCAR, Kazan tackled another squalid Tennessee Williams tale of sex, jealousy and obsession. Karl Malden, Eli Wallach and…
Backlash (1956): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell…; Richard Widmark and Donna Reed play the tough–talkin', rootin–tootin leads in this gritty horse opera, as they both seek vengeance for…
Bad Seed, The (1956): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones; A taut, gripping drama about a spoilt, psychotic child who has murdered her classmate. The juicy dialogue and Patty McCormack's wicked performance…
Battle of the River Plate (1956): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressbuger
Feat. John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch; Straight–ahead account of the British attempt to capture a gigantic German battleship in 1939 off the coast of South America.
Benny Goodman Story, The (1956): Dir. Valentine Davies
Feat. Steve Allen, Donna Reed; Biopic of swing band leader Benny Goodman from age 10 (in 1919) to his landmark Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938. Not exactly historically…
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer…; This bleak film noir from director Fritz Lang is a triumph of style and mood with a cynical take on fate and the human condition. An impeccably…
Bigger Than Life (1956): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau; Enormously potent, landmark melodrama is also a career high for James Mason: he plays a suburban family man struck down with a rare heart disease,…
Burmese Harp, The (Biruma no tategoto) (1956): Dir. Kon Ichikawa
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni; Another muted anti–war elegy conceived during Japan’s post–WWII recovery, this tells the journey of a Japanese private, who upon…
Bus Stop (1956): Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray; Marilyn Monroe excels in this comedy/drama as a distraught southern showgirl who becomes the object of desire and marriage for an obsessive and naive…
Carousel (1956): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell; Rodgers and Hammerstein carnival musical has some of their best songs. A darker than usual storyline – possibly partly why it wasn't such a…
Conqueror, The (1956): Dir. Dick Powell
Feat. John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz…; Notorious Howard Hughes produced flop with John Wayne woefully miscast as Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. Filmed downwind from a nuclear test site many of…
Court Jester, The (1956): Dir. Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Feat. Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury; Much–loved comedy thrives off the charms of Danny Kaye as a bogus jester entangled in spoofed up royal intrigues from the Middle Ages. Basil…
Creature Walks Among Us, The (1956): Dir. John Sherwood
Feat. Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason; Second sequel to THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this time focusing on a group of scientists on a mission to capture Gill Man and put him on show…
D-Day - The Sixth of June (1956): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Edmond O'Brien…; Well–executed enactment of the Normandy landings in WW2, with some extravagent action scenes and solid dramatics.
Day the World Ended (1956): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens; Tight B–movie version of post–nuclear existence from with a small group of survivors battling various mutant creatures and their own…
Don't Knock the Rock (1956): Dir. Fred F. Sears; Small town Mellonville becomes a makeshift Woodstock in this swinging companion piece to dir. Sears' ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK. Quaint fashion, bad…
Eddy Duchin Story, The (1956): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, James Whitmore; Tearjerking, CinemaScope biopic of the beloved but short–lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
Fastest Gun Alive, The (1956): Dir. Russell Rouse
Feat. Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Jeanne Crain…; Modest–scale Western with Ford playing a reformed gunfighter who is not allowed to leave his past behind.
Female Jungle (1956): Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine; Lawrence Tierney, in a rare leading role, plays a hard–drinking cop who puzzles over a nightclub murder encumbered with a 'hangover'. Careful…
Flowing (Nagareru ) (1956): Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Isuzu Yamada; Dir. Naruse’s compassionate portrait of the fading post–war geisha trade. Considered one of the director's best among his many films to…
Forever Darling (1956): Dir. Alexander Hall
Feat. Lucille Ball, James Mason, Desi Arnaz; The unique talents of Lucille Ball is the strongest aspect of this 'dysfunctional marriage' comedy, starring James Mason as her Guardian Angel. Ball…
Friendly Persuasion (1956): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins…; Gary Cooper headlines this sentimental yet atmospheric and beautifuly crafted drama about a Quaker family in southern Indiana whose pacifist beliefs…
Funny Face (1956): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn; Hip musical boasts the unrestrained ebullience of Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn as a fashion photographer and book–clerk who becomes his…
Giant (1956): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. James Dean, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor; A beautifully conceived saga of life on a Texas cattle ranch told through two generations. James Dean's final performance.
Girl Can't Help It, The (1956): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Julie London; This ebullient comedy is not only the best showcase for what one Jayne Mansfield had to offer, but also for many of the rock 'n' roll talent of the…
Great Locomotive Chase, The (1956): Feat. Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York; An adventure story based on a true American Civil War mission behind Confederate lines to steal a Union train and destroy some strategically…
Gunslinger (1956): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes; In this cut–price Roger Corman western, town ain’t big enough for a touch–as–nails lady marshall, and her nemesis, a spiteful…
Harder They Fall, The (1956): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger; A quality bow–out from the movies for Humphrey Bogart, playing a jaded sports press–agent in the hard world of professional boxing in a…
Helen of Troy (1956): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Rossana Podesta, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Niall MacGinnis…; Homer's epic of the Trojan War is treated with Hollywood gloves in this above–average adaptation. Centering around the the ambiguous figure of…
High Society (1956): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra…; On the button remake of THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, giving the skewed love–triangle tale a musical treatment. Score by Cole Porter.
Hollywood or Bust (1956): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin; Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin try to crash the Hollywood lifestyle, in frenzied style.
Kanal (1956): Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar; The darkest chapter of dir. Wadja's WWII 'Trilogy', is an unremitting portrayal of the last gasps of the 1944 Warsaw uprising. With desperate…
Killer is Loose, The (1956): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey; Film noir about a bank robber who escapes prison and sets out on a revenge mission to bring down the cop the killed his wife. Leaning heavily into…
Killing, The (1956): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards; Brilliantly observed caper movie from the early career of Mr. Kubrick about an ex–con who organises a heist from a racetrack. You'll be glued…
King and Four Queens, The (1956): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes…; Wily comedy–western with con man Gable ingratiating himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to…
King and I, The (1956): Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno…; Lush screen adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's broadway show, Anna and the King of Siam. Yul Brynner is unforgettable in the title role.
Kiss Before Dying, A (1956): Dir. Gerd Oswald
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward…; The first and best version of Ira Levin's (ROSEMARY'S BABY) early novel, in which status–anxious student Wagner plots the murder of his…
Last Wagon, The (1956): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner…; Racially charged western with a vengeful Widmark and a wagon full of bigots under siege from Indians.
Lone Ranger, The (1956): Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger…; Modest but proficient movie spinoff from the popular 1950s TV series, with the masked one (Moore) and Tonto (Silverheels) taking on a rancher who is…
Man Escaped, A (1956): Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Francois Leterrier; Bresson's films are all extremely controlled in style: no suspense, no histrionics, flat acting, spare and simple camerawork, yet this is an…
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956): Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March…; Adapted from the novel by Sloan Wilson, this powerful drama evokes the multiple crises of an Madison Avenue advertising executive (Peck), whose…
Man in the Vault (1956): Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. William Campbell, Berry Kroeger, Karen Sharpe; Tommy Dancer is an ordinary man thrust into an extraordinary situation – a locksmith forced into a heist by a ruthless mobster and his…
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Doris Day; Hitchcock remakes his 1934 film and generally comes up trumps with James Stewart and Doris Day as the innocent victims of international espionage.…
Man Who Never Was, The (1956): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng…; Riveting adaptation of Ewen Montagu's book about the true story of a British Navy commander's involvement in a tricky scheme to fool the Nazis, by…
Moby Dick (1956): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart; Celebrated version of Herman Melville's classic novel, about a whaler obsessively pursuing the whale that bit off his leg, is flawed but brilliantly…
Mohawk (1956): Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. Scott Brady, Rita Gam; White men playing Indians is typical of this hokey affair, which is about as ethnically sensitive as Adolf Hitler. In retrospect, though, it's a…
Naughty Girl (Cette Sacree Gamine) (1956): Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Francoise Fabian; A con–artist father leaves his devious minx of a daughter in the hands of a performer who discovers the girl is bent on disrupting his life the…
Pardners (1956): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Agnes Moorehead; Comic–partners Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis saddle–up for a jaunt in the Old West.
Please Murder Me (Please Murder Me!) (1956): Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran…; Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury square off in this tough–minded noir about a lawyers who successfully defends his client only to discover…
Plucking the Daisy (Mademoiselle Striptease) (1956): Dir. Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Roger Vadim; One of the Brigitte Bardot/Roger Vadim light comedies that relies on Bardot's charms rather more than the simple story of a smalltown woman who is…
Private's Progress (1956): Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas…; Popular Ealing war satire finds Ian Carmichael, as the film’s spotty college freshman, conscripted to military service where he’s whipped into…
Reach for the Sky (1956): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More; British WW2 favourite tells the courageous true story of pilot Douglas Bader who overcame the amputation of both legs to miraculously continue his…
Red Balloon, The (Ballon Rouge, Le) (1956): Dir. Albert Lamorisse; Classic French short that still manages to captivate audiences with its simple premise of a young Parisian boy who discovers a red balloon with a…
Rock Around the Clock (1956): Dir. Fred F. Sears; This upbeat, toe–tapping 'advertorial' for rock & roll was intially brushed off as a show–reel for live performance, yet remains a lively…
Run for the Sun (1956): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer…; Righteous remake of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has Widmark and Greer running through some almighty foliage desperate to evade smarmy baddie…
Searchers, The (1956): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles…; A grand example of what made this such a popular genre. A disturbed John Wayne treks the untamed wilderness in a five–year odyssey to kill the…
Seven Men From Now (1956): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin…; Revered, obscure Western from iconoclast Budd Boetticher: Randolph Scott plays a lone rider charged with bringing seven ruthless bank robbers to…
Smiley (1956): Dir. Anthony Kimmins
Feat. Ralph Richardson, John McCallum, Chips Rafferty…; An iconic, simple depiction of smalltown life in rural 1950s Australia, loosely revolving around the life of a young boy, whose father is a nomadic…
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Paul Newman; Paul Newman laces on the gloves in this round of boxing biography, playing NYC heavyweight Rocky Graziano with true Method–acting guts.…
Spanish Gardener, The (1956): Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sir Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack…; Curious father/son drama with Bogarde in the title role forming a close relationship with a young boy much to his father's envy. Narrative wise…
Star in the Dust (1956): Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. John Agar, Richard Boone, Mamie Van Doren…; Psychological western with Agar as a sheriff caught between farmers and cattlemen who disagree the impending execution of a gunman.
Teahouse of the August Moon, The (1956): Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo…; Dated culture clash comedy with Glenn Ford as an American GI charged with teaching democracy to the inhabitants of a small Japanese…
Ten Commandments, The (1956): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter…; The director remakes his 1923 silent epic with improved results and Charlton Heston as Moses, who battles the odds to lead the Israelites to the…
The Buccaneers (1956): Dir. C.M. Pennington-Richards
Feat. Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond, Paul Hansard; Frisky frolics on the high seas with Robert Shaw as a former pirate pardoned by the English King and now given to policing the Caribbean
There's Always Tomorrow (1956): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett; Resolute Sirk melodrama tugs at the heartstrings of a disenchanted family man whose chance encounter with an old–flame compels his children to…
Three Worlds of Jacques Cousteau, The (The Silent World, World Without Sun, Voyage to the Edge of the World) (1956-1976): Dir. Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle; A trilogy of award–winning documentary feature films from famed oceanogragher, Jacques Cousteau. The Silent World (1956) won the Palm D'Or…
Trapeze (1956): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida…; Surprisingly well–realised drama, which sets a love–triangle (Lancaster, Curtis, Lollobrigida) in the world of European circus…
Unguarded Moment, The (1956): Dir. Harry Keller
Feat. Esther Williams, George Nader, John Saxon…; Film noir with MGM star Esther Williams playing a High School music teacher and unmarried 'career woman' who is targeted by a stalker. Although…
Walk the Proud Land (1956): Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Anne Bancroft, Charles Drake; Considered one of Audie Murphy's best Westerns, based on the true story of an Indian agent who is sent to try a new approach to peace with the…
War and Peace (1956): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda; In treating Tolstoy's literary sprawl, Hollywood pinned its hopes on a high–profile cast and extravagant battle sequences to redeem a…
While the City Sleeps (1956): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders…; Considered a vastly under–rated Fritz Lang noir, this newspaper drama provides plenty of social commentary depicting the story of the "Lipstick…
Written On the Wind (1956): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack…; Douglas Sirk’s strident Texas oil–dynasty drama about a pair of spoiled and wayward heirs to the family fortune and the…
Wrong Man, The (1956): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Henry Fonda; Henry Fonda plays a New York musician whose personal life is dismantled through being falsely accused of robbery. The documentary style well suits…
Yield to the Night (Blonde Sinner) (1956): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig; British crime drama film that features a celebrated performance by "blonde bombshell" Diana Dors. Bearing a coincidental resemblance to the Ruth…
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955): Dir. Charles Lamont
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello; An interesting 'Abbott and Costello' where the duo, circa 1914, take refuge from crooks by hiding in the Mack Sennett studios and end up…
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955): Dir. Charles Lamont
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor; One of the better films in the 'Abbott and Costello' series, sees the bumbling duo wrapped up in the intrigue surrounding the excavation of The…
Above Us the Waves (1955): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. John Mills, Donald Sinden, John Gregson…; Robust submarine yarn from WW2 concerns the efforts of Commander John Mills and his men to sink the deadly German battle–ship 'Tirpitz' with…
Alfred Hitchcock Directs - The TV Collection (1955-1962): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; A special compilation of the 18 episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS that were directed by Hitch himself, plus a bonus episode from the 60s…
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various
Feat. Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, John Forsythe…; Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
All That Heaven Allows (1955): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead…; Middle–aged widow Jane Wyman fights for the respect of her family and upscale community when she conducts an affair with her ‘gardener’…
Artists and Models (1955): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley Maclaine…; Bubbly, brain–addled comedy with comic–artist Dean Martin getting his ideas from roommate Jerry Lewis’ wild nocturnal mutterings. Rated…
Atomic Kid, The (1955): Dir. Leslie Martinson
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss; Mickey Rooney becomes radioactive after bumbling into a nuclear test–site. Minor comedy, the first credit for Blake Edwards (as writer).
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin…; An unflappable Spencer Tracy arrives in a desolate town to investigate a dormant missing–persons report, but the surly locals don't take to…
Battle Cry (1955): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Aldo Ray…; Entertaining WWII yarn concerning a squad of American marines romancing and training (in Paekakariki, New Zealand!) before heading off to action in…
Big Combo, The (1955): Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy; Late period film noir borders on parody, with light and dialogue straight out of some parallel universe. Untouchables–style story has some…
Big Knife, The (1955): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Rod Steiger…; Lurid expose of the Hollywood 'studio system' from the melodramatic pen of playwright Clifford Odets. Palance shows a rare vulnerability as a…
Blackboard Jungle, The (1955): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow; Famously controversial on release and first of the 'Rock–n–roll' films, this lifted the lid on the heated youth tensions in 50s America.…
Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corney; Superb French noir from the dir. of LE SAMOURAI, here debuting with a taut plan to rob the Deauville casino, that grows ever more perilous for…
Cockleshell Heroes (1955): Dir. Jose Ferrer
Feat. Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley…; Fictionalised account of Operation Frankton, a British canoe–borne raid on Bordeaux Harbour during WWII.
Colditz Story, The (1955): Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes; A compulsive and tightly wound prison yarn, set around the supposedly unescapable German POW camp. Britisher John Mills unites prisoners of various…
Confidential Report (Mr. Arkadin) (1955): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori…; A typically Welles–ian shaggy dog story, with Welles himself playing a possibly insane, Kane–like billionaire, who hires a detective to…
Daddy Long Legs (1955): Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore…; An orphaned French teenager (Caron) endears herself to a playboy sophisticate (Astaire), who secretly sponsors her in an American private education.…
Desperate Hours, The (1955): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy…; A bunch of escaped convicts, led by Bogart, hold a family hostage in this domestic noir thriller based on the Broadway play by Joseph Hayes.…
Doctor at Sea (1955): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot; Dirk Bogarde is once again the eligible MD, in this entertaining second entry in the series taken from Richard Gordon's novels. The crushing boredom…
East of Eden (1955): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey; James Dean's acting debut electrifies the screen in this emotionally charged drama about two brother's rivalry for the love of their father. Based on…
Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Joan Collins; Glossy account of a truelife scandal in early 20th century NYC.
Gunsmoke (TV Series) (1955): Feat. James Arness; James Arness plays Marshal Matt Dillon protecting Dodge City from roaming gunslingers in this seminal TV show – the Grandaddy of TV…
Guys and Dolls (1955): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Vivien Leigh; Snappy popular musical in spite of its length. Marlon Brando appears in an atypically upbeat performance.
Honeymooners, The (TV Series) (The Color Honeymooners; The Jackie Gleason Show) (1955-1956): Feat. Jackie Gleason; This Jackie Gleason sitcom from the 1950s is the saga of a not–so–newly–wed couple who lived in a run down apartment. "The…
House Of Bamboo (1955): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi…; Samuel Fuller directs this exciting Tokyo–set noir, about an American army cop who goes undercover to take down an organised crime ring lead by…
I am a Camera (1955): Dir. Henry Cornelius
Feat. Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters…; Dreary drama is the original "Cabaret". Julie Harris gives a somewhat overheated portrayal of Sally Bowles, the bawdy nightclub entertainer in…
I Died A Thousand Times (1955): Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin…; Enjoyable remake of High Sierra that benefits from a fantastic cast and a rousing finale. Look for a young and uncredited Dennis Hopper.
It's A Dog's Life (1955): Dir. Herman Hoffman
Feat. Jeff Richards, Jarma Lewis, Edmund Gwenn…; Drama narrated by a bull terrier called Wildfire, and following his adventures in turn–of–the–century New York.
It's Always Fair Weather (1955): Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Feat. Gene Kelly; An American musical satire, shot in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor, with music by Andre Previn. It was one of the last major dance–oriented MGM…
Jedda (1955): Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Ngarla Kunoth, Robert Tudawali; An adopted Aboriginal girl is kidnapped by a 'wild black' in this beautifully shot Australian classic.
Kentuckian, The (1955): Dir. Burt Lancaster
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn…; Western directed by and starring Burt Lancaster, an adaptation of the novel The Gabriel Horn by Felix Holt. Beautifully shot in Kentucky and…
Killer's Kiss (1955): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane; Early Kubrick moodily accounts the tooth–and–nail conflict between a washed–up boxer and a sleazeball club owner, after a club…
Kismet (1955): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Howard Keel, Ann Blyth; An Arabian–Nights style musical, with Howard Keel attempting to woo wicked wizar's wife Ann Blyth.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart…; Ralph Meeker is Mike Hammer in this high–octane film noir, shamelessly blood–soaked in B–movie / pulp novel tradition. The…
La Strada (The Road) (1955): Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Anthony Quinn; Fellini hit his stride and won a Foreign Film Oscar with this gentle road odyssey about a simple–minded clown whose loyalty to her boorish…
Ladykillers, The (1955): Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Frankie Howerd; Priceless Ealing black comedy in which bungling robbers Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers et al conspire to snuff out their rich old landlady, an…
Land of the Pharaohs (1955): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin; High–camp spectacle about treachery in ancient Egypt during the building of the great Pyramid has procured something of a cult following, with…
Lola Montes (1955): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook; The life of the famous 19th century courtesan provides the basis for this sophisticated portrayal of the capriciousness of fate, which leads to the…
Long Gray Line, The (1955): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp; Engrossing true life tale of military instructors Marty Maher and his rise to the top of his profession.
Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing (1955): Dir. Henry King
Feat. William Holden, Jennifer Jones; Romantic splendour set in Hong Kong at the time of the Korean war about a married US war correspondent who embarks on a forbidden love affair.
Love Me or Leave Me (1955): Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Doris Day, James Cagney; Multiple Oscar–nominated biopic of singer Ruth Etting, played here by Doris Day in a more substantial role than usual. Story chiefly concerns…
Lucky Me (1955): Dir. Jack Donohue
Feat. Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers; Showbiz musical comedy with Doris Day paired once again with CALAMITY JANE tune smiths Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster.
Lust for Life (1955): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn; Kirk Douglas makes a stirring, enthusiastic Van Gogh in this biopic, choosing to echo the empassioned melancholia of his work rather than drawing…
Man from Laramie, The (1955): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp…; An angst–ridden James Stewart seeks retribution on arms dealers whose illegal trade resulted in the ambushing of his brother's cavalry patrol.…
Man with the Golden Arm, The (1955): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak; Cardsharp Frank Sinatra, is fresh out of 'the joint' with dreams of being a jazz drummer. Heroin though, is keeping him down, trapped in a…
Man with the Gun (1955): Dir. Richard Wilson
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jan Sterling, Karen Sharpe…; Brawny western with Mitchum typically taciturn as a mercenary hired by frightened citizens to vanquish a pack of murderous gunfighters.
Man Without A Star (1955): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor; Character–driven Western sees Kirk Douglas plays a laconic gunslinger with a dark–side, who drifts from scrape to scrape while working…
Marty (1955): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Karen Steele…; Sweeping the Oscars on its release, Paddy Chayefsky's (NETWORK) well–scripted vernacular lifted Ernest Borgnine to a career best in an…
Mister Roberts (1955): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon; Naval officer Henry Fonda yearns for combat but instead must tolerate his eccentric captain (James Cagney). Jack Lemmon won an Oscar for his funny…
Napoleon (1955): Dir. Sacha Guitry
Feat. Daniel Gelin, Raymond Pellegrin, Yves Montand…; A somewhat farcical film that suffers from being dubbed into English, over–narration, and the attempt to give a complete account of Napoleon's…
Night My Number Came Up, The (1955): Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox…; A prophetic nightmare about an ill–fated plane flight begins to play out as reality for 13 passengers aboard a British military aircraft in…
Night of the Hunter, The (1955): Dir. Charles Laughton
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish; A disturbing yet poetic masterpiece in which Robert Mitchum is mighty mean as a psychopathic preacher pursuing two runaways across the American…
Not As A Stranger (1955): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra…; Undemanding medical drama notable for being Kramer's directorial debut and for its abundance of big stars in small roles. Mitchum plays against…
Oklahoma! (1955): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson…; Ground–breaking Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, includes many classic numbers.
Ordet (1955): Dir. Carl Dreyer; Hailed by many critics as dir. Dreyer's masterpiece, this deep exploration of the true meaning of Christianity, set in rural Denmark, will repay the…
Otto Preminger Director's Collection, The (The Man With the Golden Arm, The Cardinal, The Human Factor) (1955-1979): Dir. Otto Preminger; Further trifecta of Otto Preminger films.
Passage Home (1955): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Finch, Anthony Steel, Diane Cilento…; Torrid melodrama with the presence of a young woman on board a cargo ship causing tensions amongst the male crew.
Pather Panchali (1955): Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee; The first film from Asia's most respected film–maker also initiates his 'Apu trilogy', three of most admired films in history. A lyrical…
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955): Dir. Jack Webb
Feat. Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien…; Musical set in 1920's Kansas which blends jazz, gangsters and political corruption. Directed by and starring Jack Webb as a cornet player who is…
Picnic (1955): Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Kim Novak, Cliff Robertson, William Holden…; Epitome of the 50s smalltown melodrama has the sultry Kim Novak relieved of boyfriend Cliff Robertson and the general Mid–West tedium, by…
Quatermass II (TV Series) (1955): Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. John Robinson; Professor Quatermass returns (this time palyed by John Robinson) in Nigel Kneale's popular sci–fi serial of the 1950s. The six–part…
Quatermass Xperiment, The (The Creeping Unknown) (1955): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner; Effective Hammer Films feature adaptation of the 1953 BBC sci–fi TV serial written by Nigel Kneale, in which an astronaut mysteriously returns…
Queen Bee (1955): Dir. Ranald MacDougall
Feat. Joan Crawford; Archetypal glamour–bitch Joan Crawford is deliciously hammy as a compulsive socialite who brings destruction to an blue–blooded Southern…
Ray Harryhausen: Special Edition Collection (1955-1977): It Came From Beneath The Sea Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers The 3 Worlds of Gulliver Mysterious Island Jason and the Argonauts The 7th Voyage of…
Rebel Without a Cause (1955): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo; James Dean's intense portayal of an alienated youth from a wealthy family opened the eyes of a generation and catapulted him to stardom. One of the…
Revenge of the Creature (1955): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield…; Follow–up to the cult hit CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, with poor, harassed Gill Man captured in the Amazon this time round and brought back…
Rififi (1955): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Jean Servais, Jules Dassin, Magali Noel…; The French reclaim film noir with this methodical and stylish heist movie, famous for its 35 minute real–time bank robbery, executed in virtual…
Robin Hood: The Movie (1955-1991): Dir. Ralph Smart, Terence Fisher
Feat. Richard Greene, Leo McKern; A feature film colourized and edited in 1991 from episodes 1,2,3,5,8 & 27 of the 1955 TV Series. Notably, Will Scatlock who dies at the end of…
Sergeant Bilko (TV Series) (The Phil Silvers Show) (1955-1959): Feat. Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck; Three–disc compilation of 18 episodes from the classic US sitcom about an irresponsible, gambling conman of a staff sergeant at a US Army base…
Seven Year Itch, The (1955): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell; Marilyn Monroe gives plenty of dumb blonde for this comedy about a married man (Tom Ewell) who has a fling with you–know–who.
Soldier of Fortune (1955): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie…; Mercenary Clark Gable is recruited to search for Hayward's lost husband in this proficient Hong Kong set thriller. Anti–communist thriller…
Storm Fear (1955): Dir. Cornel Wilde
Feat. Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea…; Crime noir about a gang member who seeks shelter with his brother's family after being wounded during a botched bank robbery. Once there, he…
Summertime (Summer Madness) (1955): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda; Katharine Hepburn, middle–aged spinster, flees to Venice on vacation, only for the romance of the city – and a dark, handsome Italian catch…
Tall Men, The (1955): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan…; Effortlessly enjoyable western with Gable as a Confederate who signs up for a grand cattle drive from Texas to Montana, Jane Russell and Robert Ryan…
Tarantula! (1955): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll…; One of the best B–movie directors of the 1950s crafts an effective tale of a manic scientist (Carroll) whose experiments unleash a gigantic and…
Tight Spot (1955): Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith…; Tense crime melodrama in which Ginger Rogers is persuaded by attorney Edward G. Robinson to testify against her gangster boyfriend.
To Hell and Back (1955): Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy; Unique war film presents Audie Murphy in his own real–life story as the most decorated US Soldier during WW2.
To Paris with Love (1955): Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray…; Widowed aristocrat Guinness takes his estranged son to Paris where romantic entanglements await. Tepid romantic comedy fails to rise to the standard…
Trouble with Harry, The (1955): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. John Forsythe, Shirley Maclaine; The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and the townspeople, including a young John Forsyth and Shirley Maclaine, don't quite know how to deal with…
Violent Men, The (1955): Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson…; Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson transform a standard conflict of the land into a notable diversion.
Violent Saturday (1955): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally…; Crisp southern noir in which a bank robbery gone wrong ignites trouble in amongst the morally corrupt citizens of a small town. Ripping dialogue and…
Virgin Queen, The (1955): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Bette Davis; Bette Davis is in full flight playing Queen Liz I, for the second time. Quality Hollywood.
We're No Angels (1955): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov…; Moderately interesting Hollywood comedy concerns three convicts (Bogart, Ray and Ustinov) who escape from Devils Island and have to transform into…
White Feather (1955): Dir. Robert D. Webb
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, John Lund…; Superior liberal western, scripted by Delmer Dawes, concerns the surrender of the last Cheyenne warriors to the U.S. government. Though Wagner…
3 Coins in the Fountain (Three Coins in the Fountain) (1954): Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters…; Likeable, but modest classic in which three women throw coins into the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, to try their romantic luck. Great tourist locales…
A Star Is Born (1954): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Garland, James Mason; All–time great musical melodrama, with actress Judy Garland's star eclipsing hubby James Mason's.
An Inspector Calls (1954): Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham; Alastair Sim, superb here as the titular inspector, bears down on a smug upper crust family whose closely–guarded secrets are exposed to…
Barefoot Contessa, The (1954): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner; Humphrey Bogart plays a cynical film director who recalls the life of a Spanish beauty whom he helped make a Hollywood star. Hailed a 'trash…
Beachcomber, The (1954): Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden…; Entertaining and deeply silly romantic yarn with prim missionary Johns falling for slovenly Newton as they team up to fight a cholera outbreak on a…
Belles of St. Trinian's, The (1954): Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole…; Classic pre–CARRY ON hi–jinks set in a seedy girl's school and based on Ronald Searle's cartoon series. Alastair Sim (in drag) plays…
Bridges at Toko-Ri, The (1954): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. William Holden, Grace Kelly; Ace pilot William Holden is out to destroy the 'impossible' target in this excellent Korean War thriller.
Brigadoon (1954): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse; Overlooked Gene Kelly musical, with Kelly discovering a magical Scottish village.
Broken Lance (1954): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters…; King Lear loosely transposed as a gripping Western melodrama with proud yet stubborn patriarch Spencer Tracy at odds with his ungrateful sons over…
Caine Mutiny, The (1954): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Humphrey Bogart; Solid action with unstable Ship's Captain Humphrey Bogart contending with mutinies and typhoons.
Carmen Jones (1954): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte; Blazing screen version of George Bizet's "Carmen" classic opera uniquely staged in the Deep South with an all–black cast and new lyrics by…
Carrington V.C. (Court Martial) (1954): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Allan Cuthbertson; Legal drama adapted from the stage play in which a court–martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit's funds.
Country Girl, The (1954): Dir. George Seaton
Feat. Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden; Bing Crosby sobers up to play an alcoholic has–been actor aided to make a comeback by wife Grace Kelly and pal William Holden.
Crash of the Moons (1954): Dir. Hollingsworth Morse
Feat. Scotty Beckett, Richard Crane; Feature–length edit of the classic sci–fi TV serial 'Rocky Jones Space Ranger' in which Richard Crane plays the raygun–toting hero…
Dambusters, The (Dam Busters, The) (1954): Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Charles Carson; British inventor Barnes Wallis's ingenious attempts to destroy German dams during WWII forms the basis of this splendid thriller. Michael Redgrave…
Davy Crockett - King of the Wild Frontier (1954): Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, William Bakewell…; TV version of the quintessential American story, which created such a phenomenal interest when screened that it was released in a movie version. Fess…
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Victor Mature; Efficient sequel to THE ROBE follows Demetrius, the Greek slave (Victor Mature), to Rome where he is trained as a gladiator. Rousing combat sequences.
Desiree (1954): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons; Marlon Brando plays a young Napoleon whose first romance, with Desiree Clay (Jean Simmons), is strained when he is swept into the cut–throat…
Dial M for Murder (1954): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ray Milland, Grace Kelly; An ageing tennis champion arranges the death of his wife for her inheritance. Hitch adapts the chilling stageplay, obviously well at home with the…
Doctor in the House (1954): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde; First and best of a series in which Doctors and Nurses exchange fleeting glances and banter for comic effect while training at a med school. Dirk…
Drum Beat (1954): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan…; Fine western with Indian fighter Ladd sent by President Grant to negotiate a treaty with the Medoc Tribe. Charles Bronson's first major role.
Egyptian, The (1954): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Edmund Purdom…; Epic "CinemaScope" drama set in ancient Egypt where a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaoh's court where…
Elephant Walk (1954): Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch…; Love–triangle melodrama set on Ceylon tea plantation is a tad overblown, with thunder stolen from the good cast by a climactic elephant…
End of the Affair, The (1954): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills; Original screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s tale of unrequited wartime love, with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson entangled in a brief but illicit…
Far Country, The (1954): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Walter Brennan; The Yukon Ranges provide the unforgiving backdrop to this prototypical Anthony Mann western, in which James Stewart must battle the elements and…
Fast and the Furious, The (1954): Dir. Edward Sampson, John Ireland
Feat. John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruno Ve Sota…; Reputedly Roger Corman's first ever production, this low–budget noir follows the dueling relationship between a prison escaper (Ireland) and…
Father Knows Best (TV Series) (1954-1960): Dir. Peter Tewksbury
Feat. Sarah Selby, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray; Cloying sitcom bathed in the idealised glow of 50's apple–pie America, centred on a suburban family and their typically patriarchal upbringing.…
Garden of Evil (1954): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward…; A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches. In Cinemascope.
Generation, A (Pokolenie) (1954): Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Roman Polanski; Fast–moving account of the Polish Resistance during WWII, as a scrappy young recruit falls in love with his unit leader. Depicts the spirited,…
Glenn Miller Story, The (1954): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, June Allyson, Louis Armstrong…; A creditable star–biography of the big–band leader and trombonist, which, verging on the overly sentimental, is saved by its reverance to…
Godzilla (Gojira) (1954): Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura; The original Japanese version of GODZILLA, complete with the anti–nuclear subplot which was cut from the 1956 US version. Concerns a…
Good Die Young, The (1954): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Sir Stanley Baker, Joan Collins…; Fiery British heist–noir with a debt–burdened Laurence Harvey leading a motley crew of down–on–their–luck military men…
Hell and High Water (1954): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen…; Cold war thriller with Widmark helming a submarine in pursuit of a Red freighter. Unexceptional by Samuel Fuller's usual standards – he was…
High and the Mighty, The (1954): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day…; John Wayne undercuts his bravura persona as the reluctant hero piloting a stricken passenger flight over the Atlantic. Solid disaster clichés and a…
It Should Happen to You (1954): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon; Aspiring model Judy Holliday gets the kind of attention she hadn't bargained for when she advertises herself on a giant billboard. Jack Lemmon's…
Knock on Wood (1954): Dir. Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Feat. Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher…; Danny Kaye plays a ventriloquist who is comically unlucky in love due to his jealous dummy, who manages to sabotage every relationship he has right…
Lassie (TV Series) (1954-1974): Feat. Jon Provost, Tommy Rettig; A representative selection of episodes from the long–running US series depicting the adventures of a rather intelligent collie dog with a…
Les Diaboliques (1954): Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse…; Simone Signoret stars as one of two women who conspire to murder the man they share – a sadistic schoolmaster. Iconic French thriller with a…
Life at Stake, A (1954): Dir. Paul Guilfoyle
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglas Dumbrille…; Minor noir elevated by the presence of Lansbury as a seductress who's business proposition to a struggling architect may not be strictly financial.
Lifeboat (1954): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix; Enterprising thriller staged entirely within the confines of a lifeboat. Its simplistic anti–Nazi politic is perhaps redeemed by Tallulah…
Living It Up (1954): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh…; One of the funnier Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedies of the 17 they made together. Jerry Lewis plays a stationmaster from provincial New Mexico…
Long, Long Trailer, The (1954): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz; Gallivanting in an enormous RV across America, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz journey to disaster in this winning slapstick comedy. The classic TV…
Maggie, The (High and Dry) (1954): Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie; Ealing comedy about the argumentative crew of an aged cargo boat, captained by a wily Scottish man who clashes with a wealthy American industrialist.
Magnificent Obsession (1954): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman; Douglas Sirk's famously tumultuous melodrama, starring Rock Hudson in his first leading role as a guilt–ridden playboy indirectly responsible…
Night People (1954): Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork…; Talky thriller with Gregory Peck as a Colonel trying to negotiate the release of a young G.I. held in East Germany. Plenty of political chicanery and…
On the Waterfront (1954): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb…; Brooding tour–de–force with Marlon Brando in his prime as the square–jawed misfit entangled in corrupt union politics. Winner of 8…
Prince Valiant (1954): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner…; Star studded tale of a young Viking prince striving to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Purple Plain, The (1954): Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Lee…; Strong psychological drama, shot in lush Technicolor, with Peck as a shell–shocked pilot stuck with wounded comrades behind enemy lines in the…
Rear Window (1954): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Grace Kelly; Convalescing photographer Jimmy Stewart observes what may have been a murder in an opposing apartment. A Hitchcock must.
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954): Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Russell Johnson…; Classic B–movie western following a railroad surveyor who forms an unlikely alliance with a notorious gunslinger to avenge the death of his…
Rin Tin Tin (TV Series) (1954): Feat. Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joseph Sawyer; Two episodes from the TV series about the eponymous Alsation's adventures at a cavalry outpost.
Ring Of Fear (1954): Dir. James Edward Grant
Feat. Clyde Beatty, Mickey Spillane, Pat O'Brien…; Campy thriller with lion tamer Clyde Beatty and crime writer Mickey Spillane, appearing as themselves, teaming up to track a killer obsessed with a…
Riot In Cell Block 11 (1954): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen…; No–nonsense prison movie portrays simmering frustrations from both sides of the bars that develop into chaos. Shot on location using inmates as…
River of No Return (1954): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum; A Western adventure set aboard a river raft in which the frayed temperaments of Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum endure the perils of raging water…
Robinson Crusoe (1954): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Dan O'Herlihy; Daniel Defoe's classic novel of a shipwreck's sole survivor. Luis Bunuel directs with a few surrealist flourishes.
Romeo and Juliet (1954): Dir. Renato Castellani
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Mervyn Jones…; An Italian co–production, this version benefits from magical locations in Verona and Venice and the sumptuous Renaissance–influenced eye…
Sabrina (1954): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden; Cinderella–ish comic yarn with a dream cast and director. Audrey Hepburn plays a humble chauffeur's daughter who wins the affections of noble…
Salt of the Earth (1954): Dir. Herbert J. Biberman
Feat. Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer; An incendiary tale of racial prejudice, big business greed and feminist uprising that pushed plenty of buttons in the fifties, making it first of its…
Samurai Trilogy, The (Musashi Miyamoto, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Duel at Ganryu Island) (1954-1956): Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune; Sweeping saga of a legendary 17th century samurai Musashi Miyamoto, that made an icon of actor Toshiro Mifune. Played out against the turmoil of a…
Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) (1954): Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa…; One of Mizoguchi's great classics, based on an 11th century Japanese folktale elaborated into a sprawling vision of a cruel, mysterious cosmos, where…
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards…; Rollicking musical set in backwoods Oregon, with brothers all looking for brides–to–be.
Seven Samurai, The (1954): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune; Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…
Sleeping Tiger (1954): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde; Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
Sound of the Mountain (Yama No Oto) (1954): Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Soh Yamamura; Dir. Naruse reprises the disintegrating marriage (and cast) of his earlier film, REPAST, in this profoundly affecting tale of a young woman (Hara)…
Student Prince, The (1954): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson…; Taken from the operetta by Sigmund Romberg, and the third filmed version of the tale of a young Prince breaking out into the real world by falling in…
Suddenly (1954): Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden; Frank Sinatra impresses in an unsympathetic role: a sneering, cynical war–veteran out to practice his marksmanship on the President of the…
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954): Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe…; Gaudy musical about Show Business. Stars Marilyn and some great Irving Berlin songs.
To Catch a Thief (1954): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly; Hitchcock takes a whimsical approach for this caper about a reformed cat burglar who sets about catching the thief that is imitating his old style.…
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Hands Off the Loot) (1954): Dir. Jacques Becker
Feat. Jean Gabin, René Dary, Jeanne Moreau; Laid–back though influential French noir chronicling a wealthy, retired racketeer (Gabin) who is pulled back into the life of crime when his…
Track of the Cat (1954): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Tab Hunter…; Claustrophobic allegorical western finds a feuding family snowbound and under siege from a less than benevolent panther. Certainly something of a…
Twenty-Four Eyes (24 Eyes/Nijushi no hitomi) (1954): Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Hideko Takamine, Chishu Ryu; An elegiac triumph of nostalgia for youth and wartime humanism, this cherished landmark of Japanese cinema gracefully chronicles the 20–years…
Ulysses (1954): Dir. Mario Camerini
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano…; Kirk Douglas muscles his way home in this admittedly pretty, but vacant, adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Anthony Quinn is gets all the best lines, but…
Vera Cruz (1954): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster; Humour and suspense reflect the uneasy alliance of Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster who collaborate to depose a corrupt Emperor in 1860s Mexico.
White Christmas (1954): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye; Timeless Irving Berlin musical, whose stocking full of great tunes – 'Sisters', 'Blue Skies' and of course the title–track – redeem…
Who Done It? (1954): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Benny Hill; A young Benny Hill nudges and winks his way through his only feature film, as a novice private eye who gets involved with foreign spies.
Wild One, The (1954): Dir. Laslo Benedek
Feat. Marlon Brando; Marlon Brando leathers up for a bit of rebellion Hollywood–style, leading a gang of bikies to terrorise a small town. Controversial for their…
Witness to Murder (1954): Dir. Roy Rowland
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill…; Film noir following a woman who doubts her sanity after witnessing a murder from her apartment window. While the cops think she is just some…
Young at Heart (1954): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Doris Day; Slick musical with Frank Sinatra wooing Doris Day, while trying to make it as a singer.
Affairs of Dobie Gillis, The (1953): Dir. Don Weis
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Bob Fosse…; Lighthearted MGM college musical set on a Midwestern university campus, where two freshmen spend their time cutting class and courting two coeds.…
Albert Lamorisse's Classic Shorts (White Mane, The Red Balloon) (1953-1956): Dir. Albert Lamorisse
Feat. Alain Emery; French director Albert Lamorisse's two landmark films WHITE MANE and THE RED BALLOON presented together on a single DVD is a must–have…
All I Desire (1953): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck; Template Sirk melodrama features Barbara Stanwyck as an ambitious stage actress who abandons her husband and family for Broadway, only to return when…
Audrey Hepburn Boxset (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Funny Face, Paris When It Sizzles, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, War and Peace) (1953-1964): Feat. Audrey Hepburn; Striking 6–disc 'Ruby Collection' box set including six classic films starring the unforgettable Audrey Hepburn, also includes a series of…
Band Wagon, The (1953): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Cyd Charisse; In the top echelon of screen–musicals, this follows the fortunes of toe–tapping movie actor Fred Astaire, revue style, as he attempts a…
Beat the Devil (1953): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre…; Spoofing their own suspense movies (such as CASABLANCA and MALTESE FALCON), Humphrey Bogart and dir. Huston produced this comic oddity with the help…
Beggar's Opera, The (1953): Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Laurence Olivier; Initially a commercial failure, this energetic romp through John Gay's 18th century ribald opera has since been critically acclaimed. In his first…
Big Heat, The (1953): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame; Pugnacious cop Glenn Ford turns up the heat on civic corruption in this iconic film–noir from dir. Lang's 50s period. When a detective's…
Bigamist, The (1953): Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino…; A San Francisco adoption agency, investigating salesman Edmond O'Brien and wife Joan Fontaine, discover he has a second life, and wife, in LA.…
British War DVD Collection, The (Ice Cold in Alex, The Cruel Sea, The Colditz Story, The Dambusters) (1953-1958): Four classic British b&w war films beautifully remastered.
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953): Dir. David Butler
Feat. Doris Day, Gordon MacRae; Quaint sequel to ON MOONLIGHT BAY finds Gordon MacRae returning from WWI where fiancée Doris Day waits impatiently to begin married life together.…
Caddy, The (1953): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin; Golf comedy from the Jerry Lewis/Dean Martin stable. Lewis caddies, Martin sings ‘That’s Amore’.
Calamity Jane (1953): Dir. David Butler
Feat. Doris Day, Howard Keel; Big, rousing musical western, featuring Doris Day as the tomboy heroine, who falls for easygoing Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel).
Call Me Madam (1953): Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen…; Delightful musical starring Ethel Merman as a Washington hostess who becomes a Truman–era US ambassador to a European grand duchy. Songs by…
Captain's Paradise (1953): Dir. Anthony Kimmins
Feat. Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson; Nautical romp with captain Alec Guinness paying the price of having a wife in two ports – sultry Yvonne De Carlo and a genial Celia Johnson.
Commando Cody: Sky Marshall of the Universe (1953): Feat. Aline Towne, Gregory Gaye, Judd Holdren; Black–and–white TV series following the adventures of masked super–scientist Commando Cody, who is recruited by the U.S. government…
Conquest of Everest, The (1953): Dir. George Lowe; Technicolour documentary about the various expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest. Both cameraperson Tom Stobart and New Zealand director George…
Dangerous When Wet (1953): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Esther Williams; Musical starlet Esther Williams gets to do what she does best as an athlete who attempts to swim the English channel. Highlight is a subterranean…
Desert Rats, The (1953): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Richard Burton; No–nonsense British Army officer Richard Burton assumes command of an Australian platoon, but struggles to win their respect. Sequel to The…
Fear and Desire (1953): Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Kenneth Harp, Frank Silvera, Paul Mazursky; Kubrick's debut feature – not regarded as worthy of reconsideration by the director himself – is nonetheless a eerie allegorical war…
Final Test, The (1953): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph…; Gentle comedy of values has a famed cricketer making his way to the middle for one last innings. Meanwhile is son is torn between seeing dad bat one…
From Here to Eternity (1953): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr…; Frank Sinatra established himself an actor alongside Burt Lancaster in this account of life at a Honolulu barracks at the time of Pearl Harbour.…
Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) (1953): Dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
Feat. Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata; Tragic story of unrequited love set during the Heiji Rebellion in 1159, where a samurai warrior falls in love with a married…
Genevieve (1953): Dir. Henry Cornelius
Feat. John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More…; The London to Brighton car rally sets off this high–spirited, fondly remembered comedy in which a couple make a wager with their affectionate…
Give a Girl a Break (1953): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion, Gower Champion…; Musical comedy about three unknown actresses who are all competing for Broadway stardom after a temperamental performer walks off the set of a major…
Gun Fury (1953): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Philip Carey…; Attractively shot revenge western shot on location in Arizona, with Rock Hudson going after the ruthless gang that stole his fiancé and left him for…
Heart of the Matter, The (1953): Dir. George More O'Ferrall
Feat. Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell…; Solid adaptation of Graham Greene's bleak novel has Trevor Howard as a policeman in Sierra Leone tormented by his extra–marital affair.
Hitch-Hiker, The (1953): Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman; Weekend hunters Edmond O’Brien (D.O.A.) and Frank Lovejoy are terrorised by a psychotic, mass–murdering passenger (William Talman) in this…
Hobson's Choice (1953): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Charles Laughton; Hard to take one's eyes off the maniacal acting of Charles Laughton in this Dickensian comic–drama, as a vulgar cobbler whose rebellious eldest…
Hondo (1953): Dir. John Farrow
Feat. John Wayne, Geraldine Page; A Louis L'Amour story gives John Wayne a chance to swagger his stuff as a wily half–Apache cavalry scout who finds and assists Geraldine Page,…
Houdini (1953): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher; Drama exploring the life of magician and illusionist Harry Houdini, with then husband–and–wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh playing…
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953): Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall; An extravagent, cheery comedy with a trio of sexy opportunists who collectively devise schemes to entrap well–to–do bachelors.
I Confess (1953): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden; Striking Wellesian cinematography and an excellent performance by proto–Method actor Montgomery Clift more than make up for minor shortcomings…
I Vitelloni (1953): Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi; This neo–realist Fellini combines humour and pathos for a truthful study of aimless youths either ill–equipped or unwilling to embrace…
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift; Little–seen melodrama with Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift as lovers, together for one last fling. An Italian–American…
Island in the Sky (1953): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, James Arness; Decent action vehicle for John Wayne, who plays a pilot whose transport plane makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Labrador, Canada, where…
Johnny Guitar (1953): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge, Sterling Hayden…; Cowgirls Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge come head to head over the men they love in this wild Western soap opera, brimming with quirky…
Julius Caesar (1953): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud…; Marlon Brando, James Mason and John Gielgud star in this beautifully staged Hollywood adaptation. Passionate drama of power, conspiracy and murder in…
Kiss Me Kate (1953): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller; Cole Porter’s irreverent take on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most pleasurable (and fabulously danced) MGM musicals of the…
Knights of the Round Table (1953): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer…; Sumptuous retelling of the legends of Camelot was MGM's first Cinemascope production. Tayloris excellent as Lancelot while Ava Gardner is inspired…
Lawless Breed, The (1953): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle…; Western based on the life of outlaw John Wesley Hardin (Rock Hudson), a former gunfighter who creates a manuscript detailing his life and adventures,…
Life of Oharu (1953): Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune; The prolific, though rarely seen dir. Mizoguchi came to attention with this chronicled downfall of a court–concubine in 17th century Japan,…
Lion Is in the Streets, The (1953): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Barbara Hale; Political parable based on Southern governor Huey Long stars James Cagney as the populist peddler–turned–politico who yields to…
Little Fugitive (1953): Dir. Raymond Abrashkin
Feat. Richie Andrusco, Richard Brewster; A young boy runs away to Coney Island after fearing that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. An exquisitely naturalistic film with…
Madame De... (Earrings Of Madame De..., The) (1953): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Charles Boyer; Widely considered one of the dir.'s peak achievements, this gracefully and ironically traces a doomed menage–a–trois in 18th century…
Malta Story (1953): Dir. Brian Desmond Hurst
Feat. Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel; A taut wee adventure set among the special forces of the British Air Force defending the island of Malta during WW2. Real–life locations and a…
Man from the Alamo, The (1953): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills…; Glenn Ford stars in a sprawling but nuanced Western from the legendary Budd Boetticher that hurtles from the battle of the Alamo to a gripping wagon…
Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The (1953): Dir. Harold French
Feat. Claude Rains; Dutch office clerk Claude Rains hurtles on the Paris Express when he stumbles across stolen loot and his boss winds up dead. Based on the Georges…
Million Pound Note, The (1953): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell…; A fairly neat adaptation of Mark Twain's satirical fable about a pair of rich brothers who bet over whether a man can live on a million pounds,…
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953): Dir. Curtis Bernhardt
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Jose Ferrer, Aldo Ray…; Rita Hayworth turned it on in this lavish musical with a hard edge of sex and sin in the South Seas, here playing a smokin’ dame stranded on a…
Mogambo (1953): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly; Clark Gable squeezes in wooing both Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly between bouts of elephant shooting in the African jungle.
Moon is Blue, The (1953): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. William Holden, Maggie McNamara, David Niven; Bright, bristling romantic comedy centered on the courtship of a blithe and carefree commercials actress (McNamara) by the smooth–as–silk…
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) (1953): Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud; Jacques Tati fine–tunes the virtues of JOUR DE FETE to create his most eponymous character. The first of four Hulot features follows the…
Naked Spur, The (1953): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan…; Cited as one of the Great Westerns; a tough, hard little film about self–styled bounty hunter Stewart trying to capture Ryan, who stirs tension…
Norman Wisdom Collection, The (Trouble in Store, Up in the World, On the Beat.) (1953-1962): Feat. Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford; Collection of three comedies – Trouble in Store, Up in the World and On the Beat – from admired British slapstick comedian Norman Wisdom,…
Otto Preminger Collection, The (The Moon is Blue, Saint Joan, Advise and Consent, Anatomy of a Filmmaker) (1953-1991): Dir. Otto Preminger; Attractively–packaged Preminger trifecta, with the added bonus ANATOMY OF A FILMMAKER, a thorough two–hour documentary on the…
Pickup On South Street (1953): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Widmark; Pick–pocket Richard Widmark inadvertently steals a micro–film and becomes a fugitive from both police and spies. Vivid espionage thriller…
Plunder of the Sun (1953): Dir. John Farrow
Feat. Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina; Insurance investigator Ford, in possession of a mysterious package, is embroiled in a high stakes treasure hunt in Mexico. Ancient, exotic locations…
Quatermass Experiment, The (TV Series) (1953): Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean; The seminal serial (in six parts) by award–winning writer Nigel Kneale that laid the foundations of British Sci–Fi TV.. This first…
Redhead From Wyoming, The (1953): Dir. Lee Sholem
Feat. Maureen O'Hara, Alex Nicol; Breakout Western for Maureen O’Hara – usually second fiddle to John Wayne – here as the plucky proprietress of saloon who’s equally adept on…
Return to Paradise (1953): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes; Understated drama with Cooper as a carefree drifter content to live aimlessly in his Pacific Island paradise. His idyllic existence is threatened by…
Robe, The (1953): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Richard Burton; Richard Burton acquires Jesus' robe after supervising his crucifixion and becomes wreaked with fear and guilt. A lavish biblical epic, the first film…
Robot Monster (1953): Dir. Phil Tucker
Feat. George Barrows; Sharing the mantle with PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE as the "worst movie of all time", this lesser–known unpolished turd is just as bad, only…
Roman Holiday (1953): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck; Audrey Hepburn's Oscar–winning and breakthrough performance is her princess who abandons regal responsibilities while abroad to run off with…
Salome (1953): Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton…; Biblical epic loaded with Hollywood opulence and famed for its erotic dance sequence by Rita Hayworth. The star plays Jewish Princess Salome who…
Samuel Fuller Boxset (Pickup on South Street, Forty Guns, Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss) (1953-1964): Dir. Samuel Fuller; Samuel Fuller’s quartet of sizzling B–picture masterpieces.
Sea Devils (1953): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Bryan Forbes…; Old–fashioned smuggling yarn, with Rock Hudson playing a Channel Islands contrabandist who gets involved in the French Revolution. Minor sea…
Seminole (1953): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn…; Superlative Western set against the backdrop of 1835 Florida, where Rock Hudson plays a West Pointer Lieutenant who, on the insistence of Richard…
Shane (1953): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Emile Meyer; Former gunfighter Alan Ladd comes to the defence of homesteaders menaced by Jack Palance (satanically clad all in black). Classic Western is splendid…
Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The (1953): Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie; Spirited biopic of the careers of W.S. Gilbert, a barrister turned–comic–writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer (converted…
Story of Three Loves, The (1953): Dir. Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Feat. Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron…; Romantic anthology film telling three separate stories in flashbacks experienced by three characters on board the same ocean liner. "The Jealous…
They Who Dare (1953): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dirk Bogarde; Bonus film with SLEEPING TIGER is a Dirk Bogarde WWII actioner that details a commando raid on German–controlled Aegean air fields.
Thunder Bay (1953): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland…; Stewart and Mann swap horses for oil–rigs – though its still very much a western – in this brawny adventure set in the Gulf of…
Titanic (1953): Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner…; The infamous maritime disaster goes down here in grand Hollywood style, reflecting the onboard marital downswing of Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyk.…
Tokyo Story (1953): Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara; The master of Japanese cinema, this is Ozu's masterpiece. An emotional tour–de–force is drawn from an elderly couple's ill–fated…
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953): Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka; Stories by the 18th century writer Akinari Ueda are woven into an odyssey of civil–war misfortune, in which two peasant–potters and their…
Voyage to Italy (Journey to Italy/ Journey in Italy) (1953): Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders; A meditative journey through the landscapes of Italy, accompanying Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders in the midst of a breakup. The ongoing drama of…
Wages of Fear (Salaire de la Peur, Le) (1953): Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Yves Montand, Charles Vanel; A young Yves Montand leads a group of impoverished men over rocky Latin American terrain with a dangerous load of nitro–glycerine. Considered…
White Mane (Crin-Blanc) (1953): Dir. Albert Lamorisse
Feat. Alain Emery; Striking, allegorical children's fable from the dir. of THE RED BALLOON concerns the taming of an unruly ‘white mane’ by a young boy, and his…
Adventures of Superman (TV Series) (1952-1958): Feat. George Reeves, Phyllis Coates; The first ever 'Superman' TV series, this was an immensely popular rendition of the comicbook tale of the Man of Steel, whose life as…
Angel Face (1952): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons; Jean Simmons is a woman possessed in this quietly unconventional film noir, playing a take–no–prisoners femme fatale who systematically…
Angels One Five (1952): Dir. George More O'Ferrall
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray…; British war film following the experience of a young fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain during WWII. Based on the book "What Are Your Angels…
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon…; Masterpiece of Hollywood navel–gazing, with charismatic producer Kirk Douglas clawing his way to success on a Freudian subtext, using and…
Bend of the River (1952): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Rock Hudson…; A gritty and compelling showdown on the Oregon Trail between settler James Stewart and double–crosser Arthur Kennedy. Beautiful Rocky Mountain…
Best of Frankie Howerd, The (1952-1981): Feat. Frankie Howerd; A compilation of classic moments in the TV career of comedian Frankie Howerd. Although he initially got his start in post–WW2 radio, he went to…
Card, The (1952): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson; Robust comedy with Alec Guinness playing an enthusiastic young man of lower–class origins who takes every opportunity to advance his station,…
Carrie (1952): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins…; Tough–minded and unusual "male melodrama" follows middle aged restauranteer Olivier's descent from riches to rags when he falls for Jones'…
Cimarron Kid, The (1952): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler; Budd Boetticher directs Audie Murphy as a cowboy who is unjustly accused of robbing a train but then re–joins his old gang and becomes a…
Clash by Night (1952): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe; Simmering jealousies in a run–down fishing village provide downbeat fare from the pen of Clifford Odets. With Barbara Stanwyk, Robert Ryan and…
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952): Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore…; An affecting melodrama based on William Inge's stageplay, concerning a loveless marriage, alcoholism and the price of misplaced love. Burt…
Crimson Pirate, The (1952): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Burt Lancaster; Camp swashbuckler stars Burt Lancaster as a spirited pirate who leads an island people's revolt against a ruling tyrant. Rollicking entertainment…
Cruel Sea, The (1952): Dir. Charles Frend
Feat. Denholm Elliott; Bracing account of life aboard a British Corvette during WWII fighting German U–Boats and Atlantic storms, featuring a young Denholm Elliot…
Deadline U.S.A. (1952): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Humphrey Bogart; Tightly scripted account of the newspaper business. Editor–in–Chief: Humphrey Bogart.
Douglas Sirk Boxset (1952-1959): Dir. Douglas Sirk; Lavish box–set highlighting nine classics from the 'King of Hollywood Melodrama'. Includes the previously unreleased 'No Room for the Groom'…
Down Among the Z Men (The Goon Show Movie) (1952): Dir. Maclean Rogers
Feat. Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe…; A rare outing into film for the Goons, in their original four–man lineup – Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine –…
Fanfan la Tulipe (1952): Dir. Christian-Jaque
Feat. Gerard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Genevieve Page; Irresistible swashbuckling fluff, with Gerard Philipe imperious on the battlefield and in the bedroom. A daredevil pace matched with lusty female…
Films of Charles & Ray Eames, The (1952-1982): A collection of the cinematic work of Charles and Ray Eames, the 20th century industrial designers and married couple, who channelled their separate…
Five Fingers (5 Fingers) (1952): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie…; Witty espionage thriller set during the Second World War with Mason as a status–hungry valet who hawks important documents to the Germans in…
Gentle Gunman, The (1952): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, John Mills; Dirk Bogarde and John Mills are Irish brothers sent to London by the IRA during the Blitz, but one succumbs to pacifism.
Ghost Ship (1952): Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden…; Small–budget supernatural yarn with a uniquely British flavour about a couple that purchase a haunted yacht.
Greatest Show On Earth, The (1952): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. James Stewart, Charlton Heston; Roll up for an Oscar–winning spectacle from Hollywood's greatest showmeister. The big–top excitement features a tent–load of stars.
Hangman's Knot (1952): Dir. Roy Huggins
Feat. Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Claude Jr. Jarman…; Handsome technicolour western with Randolph Scott leading a band of Confederate soldiers who are unaware that the war is over, and attack a wagon of…
Hans Christian Andersen (1952): Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Danny Kaye, Farley Granger; A fabricated musical 'biopic' of the famed 19th century Danish fairytale writer, sees him (played by Danny Kaye) smile through a succession of…
Has Anyone Seen My Gal? (1952): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Charles Coburn, Lynn Bari, Piper Laurie…; Sirk–for–hire musical comedy finds the iconic melodramatist at his most unidentifiable: Coburn stars as an elderly money bags with no…
High Noon (1952): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell…; Retiring marshal Gary Cooper faces a crisis of conscience when he learns an old adversary wants revenge. A classic that derives its impact through…
Horizons West (1952): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Robert Ryan, Julie Adams, Rock Hudson; Western with shades of film noir and gangster pic, set in post–civil war Texas, where two confederate soldier brothers return to their family…
Hunted (1952): Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Keen…; Brit suspense trailing an orphan on the run from his foster parents wrath after an accident who is kidnapped by a wanted criminal who trys to prevent…
Ikiru (1952): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka; A patient meditation on life and death about a sullen yet dutiful office clerk of 30 years whose terminal illness compels him to rediscover his…
Importance of Being Earnest (1952): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Dame Edith Evans…; Screen version of Oscar Wilde's brilliant comedy of manners starring a host of British stage thesps.
Invasion U.S.A. (1952): Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy; A crudely devised, but fascinating slice of early Cold War paranoia, this has the 'Land of the Free' being invaded by hordes of Russians, with…
Ivanhoe (1952): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine…; Boisterous Middle–Ages spectacular featuring brutal action scenes.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952): Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello; Abbott and Costello romp through the fairytale passages of Jack and his Beanstalk. While their comedy doesn’t transpose so well, this is an amiable…
Jumping Jacks (1952): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin; The comic duo of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin make an unlikely pair of paratroopers.
Kansas City Confidential (1952): Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray…; A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld. Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
Le Plaisir (House Of Pleasure) (1952): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon…; Three tales by Guy de Maupassant go into this visually elegant treatise on the changing moods of love, youth and memory. The most successful…
Lili (1952): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer; Fairytale–like story of Leslie Caron's amorous adventures in a carnival is swimming in charm, whimsical songs and 'circus–type'…
Love Nest (1952): Dir. Joseph M. Newman
Feat. Marilyn Monroe; Unremarkable comedy about nosey neighbours in a broken–down apartment block, one of whom is Marilyn Monroe.
Lusty Men, The (1952): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy; A nicely close–to–the–ground take on the life of the rodeo rider – and one of Wim Wenders' favourite films – this…
Mandy (1952): Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan; British drama about a girl who has been deaf and mute her whole life, and her family's attempts to help her with a unique education, which causes…
Miracle of Our Lady Fatima (1952): Dir. John Brahm
Feat. Gilbert Roland; Religious technicolor film based on the true story of three Portuguese children who reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1917.
Monkey Business (1952): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn…; Scientist Cary Grant discovers a rejuvenation serum which has screwball side–effects. Stars include the director and writing team – Ben…
Moulin Rouge (1952): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jose Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon…; Opulently staged fictional biopic of Toulouse–Lautrec, highlighted by a dazzling can–can sequence. The pint–sized French painter is…
Narrow Margin (1952): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White…; A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Niagara (1952): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters…; This bold film provided Marilyn with her first big part, and it's possibly her best. She's a scheming, faithless wife who plots to murder her husband…
On The Beat (1952): Dir. Robert Asher
Feat. Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne, Raymond Huntley…; Wisdom returns to his most popular role as Norman Pitkin, and more trouble ensues when he takes to the streets dressed in his father's police uniform.
Othello (1952): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Suzanne Cloutier…; Dir. Welles filmed Shakespeare's great tragedy over four years in Europe and North Africa, and despite some patchy moments, turned in probably the…
Pat and Mike (1952): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy; Athlete Katharine Hepburn pursues track triumphs with the aid of coach Spencer Tracy. Hepburn–Tracy coupling runs like a well–oiled…
Phone Call from a Stranger (1952): Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Bette Davis; Fine acting, from Bette Davis among others, lifts story of aircrash survivors coming together.
Planter's Wife, The (Outpost in Malaya) (1952): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel…; Claudette Colbert and Jack Hawkins star in this fiery actioner as plantation owners under siege from commie bandits. Colbert is a dab hand with a…
Prisoner of Zenda, The (1952): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason…; Second version of Anthony Hope's archetypal swashbuckler, sees King of Ruritania Stewart Granger deposed by his half–brother and…
Quiet Man, The (1952): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara; Ex–boxer John Wayne retires to his Irish homeland in search of tranquillity and maybe the hand of Maureen O'Hara. This romantic comedy was a…
Radar Men from the Moon (1952): Dir. Fred C. Brannon
Feat. George Wallace, Roy Barcroft, Aline Towne…; Cracking Republic serial has Commando Cody taking on the baddies – including future Lone Ranger Moore – armed with his trusty aluminum…
Rancho Notorious (1952): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer; Lively and interesting Western about a vengeful gunman who search brings him to the ranch of sultry saloon mistress Marlene Dietrich.
Road To Bali (1952): Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour; The only Technicolor Road picture they made, this time the comic and the crooner star as two song–and–dance men who set out to rescue a…
Scandal Sheet (1952): Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek; When the editor of a sensationalist newspaper commits an accidental murder, his own staff start to report on the case, and gradually inch closer to…
Scaramouche (1952): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Stewart Granger; Stewart Granger is Sabatini's swashbuckling anti–hero who champions the French revolution armed with razor saber and a quiver of tomfoolery. A…
Scared Stiff (1952): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin; Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin make a ‘spooktacle’ of themselves in this version of Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard’s Broadway hit.
Singin' in the Rain (Singing in the Rain) (1952): Dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Feat. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds…; The quintessential Hollywood musical happens to be about the movie biz. Its blend of vivacious style and humour, catchy numbers and dazzling…
Sniper, The (1952): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr…; Film noir shot on location in San Francisco, with Arthur Franz (THE CAINE MUTINY) playing a disturbed professional driver who harbours misogynistic…
Snows of Kilimanjaro, The (1952): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward; One of the more convincing attempts to adapt Ernest Hemingway for the screen, this follows the deathbed reverie of an American writer (Peck) from his…
Sound Barrier, The (1952): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick…; Ralph Richardson excels as an aircraft manufacturer aiming to break the titular barrier with a newly developed jet, but exacting a bitter cost on his…
Stalag 17 (1952): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger…; Sophisticated WW2 film in which comedy and suspense make uneasy but fascinating bedfellows. William Holden leads imprisoned American G.Is who plan…
Summer with Monika (1952): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson; Early Bergman turns his lens on a pair of working class, teenage lovers. At first this rebellious holiday boat ride comes across as dreamy escapism…
Three Stooges - Volume 2 (1952-1956): Feat. The Three Stooges; Five shorts: Squareheads of the Round Table (1948), Gents in a Jam (1952), Tricky Dicks (1953); Rumpus in the Harem, Hot Stuff (1956, recycled of…
Titfield Thunderbolt, The (1952): Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne…; Gorgeously shot comedy with Stan Holloway leading the way in saving his local branch railway from being cut by British Rail. At the more whimsical…
Venetian Bird (Assassin) (1952): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson…; Complex thriller with a detective sent to Venice by an insurance company finds himself on the run after being framed for a series of murders.…
Viva Zapata! (1952): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn; Stirring treatment of the life of the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) who rose from peasanthood to presidency in the…
We're Not Married (1952): Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen…; Overlooked Marilyn Monroe starrer is a multi–episode comedy in which six married couples find out their weddings weren't legitimate.
What Price Glory? (1952): Dir. John Ford
Feat. James Cagney, Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet; Soldiers James Cagney and Dan Dailey take time out from the trenches of WWI for some zesty romantic rivalry over local attraction Corrinne Calvet.
Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall; Cast in a hole until recently, this scathing editorial on media sensationalism and the human spectacle stars Kirk Douglas (never fiercer) as a…
African Queen, The (1951): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn; A magnificent combination of comedy, character and adventure with odd companions Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn trying to survive each other…
An American in Paris (1951): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Gene Kelly; Ebullient, multi–styled musical with Gene Kelly dancing his socks off. Terrific George Gershwin score.
Appointment with Venus (1951): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. David Niven, Glynis Johns, Kenneth More; Bizarre war drama based on a true story about a small recently occupied British isle with a very important prize cow living on it that the War Office…
As Young As You Feel (1951): Dir. Harmon Jones
Feat. Marilyn Monroe; A young Marilyn Monroe has a support role in this affable corporate satire about a printing employee who won’t sit still for retirement. Based on a…
Big Night, The (1951): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. John Jr. Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring…; Tense melodrama has Barrymore traumatised by watching his father submit to a beating at the hands of a petty gangster. Setting out to avenge his…
Browning Version, The (1951): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent; Sterling adaptation of Terrence Rattigan’s play features an unforgettable performance from Michael Redgrave as the cuckolded,…
Cry, The Beloved Country (1951): Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey, Canada Lee…; Deeply felt racial drama has Rev. Sidney Poitier encountering South African–style bigotry as he searches for his son in Johannesburg.
David and Bathsheba (1951): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey…; The Hollywood romance as Biblical epic, with Gregory Peck as an adulterous King David who falls for the foxy Bathsheba (Hayward) – nevermind…
Desert Fox, The (1951): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Sir Cedric Hardwicke…; James Mason gives a definitive performance as Nazi General Rommel (which he repeated for THE DESERT RATS), whose troubles proved overwhelming despite…
Detective Story (1951): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, Cathy O'Donnell…; Kirk Douglas is his grizzled, hard–bitten self as one of several detectives trying to get through the work day at a busy Brooklyn…
Five (1951): Dir. Arch Oboler
Feat. William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubeš, James Anderson…; Apocalyptic 50's sci–fi set in the aftermath of an atomic bomb disaster where five survivors (a pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a…
Fixed Bayonets (1951): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea; Brassy Korean War flick with a diminished platoon struggling for survival, and Basehart as the soldier terrified of having leadership thrust upon…
Flight to Mars (1951): Dir. Lesley Selander
Feat. Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Virginia Huston…; Expedition adventure set on a Red Planet inhabited by an underground–dwelling but dying civilization that appear to be human.
Go for Broke! (1951): Dir. Robert Pirosh
Feat. Van Johnson, Warner Anderson, Don Haggerty; The story of the 442nd Regiment, a team composed of second–generation Japanese–American soldiers fighting in Italy who were heavily…
Great Caruso, The (1951): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Mario Lanza; Entertaining biopic of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso with American protege Mario Lanza in the title role. His hokey performance and some…
Green Grow the Rushes (1951): Dir. Derek Twist
Feat. Richard Burton, Honor Blackman, Roger Livesey…; Minor comedy, of the English variety, set in a brandy–soaked Kent village.
He Ran All The Way (1951): Dir. John Berry
Feat. John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford; Tense film noir features John Garfield as a bank robber on the run and Shelly Winters as the woman who takes him into her home. Garfield's final…
I Love Lucy (TV Series) (1951- 1961): Feat. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley; Seven selected episodes from the classic 50's sitcom that never dates. Episodes are 'The Diet', 'Be a Pal', 'The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub',…
Lady with the Lamp, The (1951): Dir. Herbert Wilcox
Feat. Dame Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young…; Well–wrought biopic charts the dramatic life of Florence Nightingale, finely played by Dame Neagle, and her pioneering nursing career.
Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951): Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Alec Guinness; Clever, effervescent Ealing comedy stars Alec Guinness as a timid bank teller who organises an elaborate gold heist. The chase finale is magic.
Let's Make It Legal (1951): Dir. Richard Sale
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Marilyn Monroe; Marilyn Monroe has an ornamental role in this light ‘divorcee’ comedy.
Limelight (1951): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Claire Bloom; Charlie Chaplin's final film recreates in spirit his poverty–stricken London boyhood and escape into the vaudeville world. With such…
Man From Planet X, The (1951): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, William Schallert; As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions. An…
Man in the White Suit (1951): Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker; Lab–worker Alec Guinness invents a fabric that never wears out or gets dirty, only to have it suppressed by industry and unions alike. More…
Marilyn Monroe Collection (Bus Stop, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, Let's Make it Legal, Monkey Business, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, There's No Business Like Show Business) (1951-1959): Dir. Billy Wilder, Joshua Logan, Otto Preminger
Feat. Marilyn Monroe; Eight Marilyn classics in a specially–priced box set.
No Highway in the Sky (1951): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns…; Early disaster pic has Stewart as an aeronautical engineer convinced that a new model of airplane is doomed to disaster due to metal fatigue, and…
Olivia (1951): Dir. Jacqueline Audry
Feat. Simone Simon, Edwige Feuillere; One of the first French films to portray lesbian relationships, Olivia is set in a girls' school in the late 1900s, where a newly arrived British…
On Dangerous Ground (1951): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond…; Grimly rewarding noir, with real–life tough guy Robert Ryan in one of his best roles. As a cop helping with a protracted rural manhunt, he…
On Moonlight Bay (1951): Dir. Roy Del Ruth
Feat. Doris Day, Gordon MacRae; Winning musical with Doris Day trading baseball obsession for the courtship of a strapping Gordon MacRae. Folksy tunes are blended with carefree…
On The Riviera (1951): Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet…; Talented Broadway veteran Danny Kaye stars in this musical comedy, playing an American entertainer who develops a skit impersonating a wealthy…
Outcast of the Islands (1951): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley…; Sturdy British adventure melodrama from the director of THE THIRD MAN and FALLEN IDOL based on Joseph Conrad's 1896 novel. A riveting Trevor Howard…
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951): Dir. Albert Lewin
Feat. Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick…; Ava Gardner stars as the ravishing siren of a small Spanish town who has never fallen for anyone until the arrival of the mysterious James Mason, the…
People Will Talk (1951): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn; Enjoyable and sophisticated allegory, disguised as a standard Hollywood romantic comedy, in which a humanitarian doctor (Grant) must contend with the…
Place in the Sun, A (1951): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters…; Montgomery Clift excels as a penniless youth whose determination to win the heart of socialite Elizabeth Taylor (in her debut as an adult actress) is…
Prowler, The (1951): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell…; This underseen "perv noir" deliciously subverts archetypes by twisting its menacing male lead (a terrific Van Heflin) into a 'homme fatale', replete…
Quo Vadis? (1951): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov…; Lavish Roman epic, set during the decadent reign of Nero, has legionnaire Robert Taylor falling for lion–bait Christian Deborah Kerr, amid…
Racket, The (1951): Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott…; An incorruptible police captain's attempts to clean up the streets of his town leads to confrontation with the local mob boss. Minor noir, previously…
Rashomon (1951): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori…; The film that brought Kurosawa to the attention of the world, and an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film. Four wildly varying perspectives on a…
Rawhide (1951): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Dean Jagger…; Tense western with a stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveler finding themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on…
Red Badge of Courage, The (1951): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Audie Murphy, Royal Dano, Arthur Hunnicutt; A classic film version of the classic American Civil War novel by Stephen Crane, which depicts the line between courage and cowardice in the Yankee…
Repast (Meshi) (1951): Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara; A perceptive study of a fading marriage, in which a housewife (Hara) confronts the tedium and unhappiness of her domestic life, brought into sharp…
River, The (1951): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Nora Swinburne, Arthur Shields; A sublime and serene drama set on the banks of India's holy Bengal River in the 1920s, where a trio of young English girls come under the spell of a…
Roy Rogers Show, The (TV Series) (1951-1957): Feat. Roy Rogers, Dale Evans; Much–loved early TV classic with 'King of the Cowboys' Roy Rogers hanging out on the Double R Ranch with Trigger ('The Smartest Horse in the…
Royal Wedding (1951): Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford…; Famous for its legendary tap–dance on the ceiling, this otherwise thinly–plotted musical (set against the marriage of Princess Elizabeth…
Show Boat (1951): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel…; Lavish technicolor adaptation of the 1920 Hammerstein stage musical in which an aspiring actor goes from working a Mississippi river–boat to…
Sirocco (1951): Dir. Curtis Bernhardt
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lee J. Cobb, Zero Mostel…; Standard–issue thriller, with Bogie playing a gun–runner who tangles with the Syrian authorities, French occupiers and an underground…
Stooge, The (1951): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen; Comedy set in the world of 1930's vaudeville, where an egotistical but struggling Broadway performer (Dean Martin) finds success when he hires a…
Strange Door, The (1951): Dir. Joseph Pevney
Feat. Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest; Thriller based on the short story "The Sire de Maletroit's Door" by Robert Louis Stevenson, with Charles Laughton playing a sadistic man who…
Strangers On a Train (1951): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Robert Walker, Farley Granger; The Master of Suspense justifies his mantle with this consummate thriller. He executes one glorious set piece after another as psycho Robert Walker…
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter…; Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the savage brute who taunts his disturbed sister–in–law (Vivienne Leigh). Virtuoso…
Susana (The Devil and the Flesh) (1951): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Rosita Quintana; A sexually devious reform girl seeks refuge in a decent working class family, only to cause upheaval with her devilish ways. Early Bunuel…
Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown, Sir Robert Helpmann…; Boldly visual imagining of Offenbach's 1880 opera which takes three tales of magic and deception by E.T. Hoffmann and weaves them into a disquieting…
A Christmas Wish (The Great Rupert) (1950): Dir. Irving Pichel
Feat. Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake; Holiday classic about a down and out family at Christmas who discover they have a squirrel guardian angel living in their rafters.
Alfred Hitchcock - The Signature Collection (Dial M for Murder, I Confess, Stage Fright, The Wrong Man.) (1950-1957): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Box set contains four 50's classics from The Master of Suspense.
All About Eve (1950): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders…; Bette Davis is in her element as ageing Broadway star Margot Channing, under threat of the hidden menace of an ambitious young actress. A scathing…
American Geurrilla In The Phillipines (I Shall Return) (1950): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle; War film from Fritz Lang following a group of American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after a motor torpedo boat is destroyed by Japanese…
Annie Get Your Gun (1950): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Betty Hutton, Howard Keel; The much–filmed story of Annie Oakley, star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, is the subject of this Irving Berlin musical, with Betty Hutton…
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Marilyn Monroe; Brute force and eloquent dishonesty intersect as different walks of low–life are helplessly drawn to the ultimate heist, engineered by German…
Astonished Heart, The (1950): Dir. Terence Fisher, Antony Damborough
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton…; Noel Coward stars in this adaptation of his play; a drawing–room melodrama about a married psychiatrist who unhappily succumbs to the wiles of…
At War with the Army (1950): Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin; The first of many films Martin and Lewis made together, here the duo go from one mishap to another in an army training camp in World War II.
At War With The Enemy (1950): Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis; After stealing the show in MY FRIEND IRMA, the duo of Martin and Lewis took centre stage here for the first time, enveloped in the potential madness…
Bitter Springs (1950): Dir. Ralph Smart
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Tommy Trinder; Racially dubious Australian bush western about a 20th century settler (Chips Rafferty) trying to make a living off land shared by an Aboriginal tribe.
Blue Lamp, The (1950): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Patrick Doonan, Jack Warner; A confident, precisely–judged thriller set in post–war London, with feral petty–crooks Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan being hunted…
Born Yesterday (1950): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden; Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her role as the 'dumb' blonde mistress of a ruthless tycoon who takes up English lessons, falls for her teacher, then…
Broken Arrow (1950): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget; This influenced a trend in offering a more sympathetic view of Indian culture. James Stewart is amiable as always as an army scout who arbitrates…
Cisco Kid, The (TV Series) (1950-1956): Feat. Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo; A generous selection of episodes from the 1950s TV Western serial, in which the semi–masked 'Cisco Kid' (Renaldo) redistributes justice and…
Classic TV Commercials of the 50's 60's & 70's (1950-1979): Collection of American TV commercials from the decorous 50's, rampant 60's and radical 70's. Includes ads on every perfect housewifes dream products…
Clouded Yellow, The (1950): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Kenneth More…; Superior British noir with Howard as a jaded ex–secret service agent pressed into service when he falls for the charms of mysterious young…
Comanche Territory (1950): Dir. George Sherman
Feat. Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey, Will Geer…; Solid enough B Western with Carey as Jim Bowie sent by the government to negotiate a treaty with an Indian tribe. Double–crossing ensues, but…
Cyrano De Bergerac (1950): Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Jose Ferrer, Mala Powers; The original film version of the famous French fable with Jose Ferrer in Academy Award–winning form as Cyrano, the 17th Century poet and…
D.O.A. (1950): Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Edmond O'Brien; Edmund O'Brien finds himself the victim of a slow poison and sets about finding his own murderer. Impressively detailed film noir uses location…
Damned Don't Cry, The (1950): Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran…; Loosely based on the relationship between Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill, this riveting film tells of a New York socialite's involvement with an…
Destination Moon (1950): Dir. Irving Pichel
Feat. John Archer, Warner Anderson, Dick Wesson…; Prescient sci–fi film that deals with the practical scientific and engineering challenges of space travel and to speculate on what a manned…
Diary of a Country Priest (Journal D'Un Cure De Campagne) (1950): Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Claude Laydu; Compelling and uncompromising – this adaptation of Georges Bernanos' classic French novel is one of dir. Bresson's best examinations of the…
Enforcer, The (1950): Dir. Bretaigne Windust
Feat. Humphrey Bogart; Gripping, well–characterized crime drama leads D.A. Humphrey Bogart into the seedy underworld to trail the leader of a notorious murder ring.
Father of the Bride (1950): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor; The original comedy in which the affable Spencer Tracy gets his knickers in a twist when young daughter Elizabeth Taylor decides to tie the knot.
Flame and the Arrow, The (1950): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Nick Cravat; Middling, though colourful medieval epic with Lancaster leading as a 'Robin Hood' who leads the peasants of Lombardy into a revolt against the local…
Francesco giullare di Dio (Francis, God's Jester; The Flowers of St Francis) (1950): Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Aldo Fabrizi; Following after dir. Rossellini's more obviously left–wing films (ROME OPEN CITY, PAISA), this unusual biopic would prove a transition work to…
Fuller Brush Girl, The (1950): Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Lucille Ball; Slapstick comedy with Lucille Ball playing a quirky receptionist who loses her job and goes to great lengths to secure new employment as a…
Furies, The (1950): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Wendell Corey; Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston lock horns in this colossal, psychosexual western, notable for its Oedipal complex and Freudian horseplay. Anthony…
Gone to Earth (1950): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack; Marvellous Technicolor evocation of the rustic Welsh border–country, set around Jennifer Jones’ entry into the world of passionate desire and…
Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life (TV Series) (1950-1961): Feat. Groucho Marx; Legendary TV quiz show featuring the iconic Marx Brother, questioning, sparring and toying with various contestants. Despite the format, verbal…
Gunfighter, The (1950): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell…; Right up there with the best cowboy flicks is this bleak yet brilliant tale of a retiring gunfighter (Gregory Peck) who is challenged by a young punk…
Halls of Montezuma (1950): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Karl Malden…; Unflashy and well–cast war film, that follows the US Marines into action on a Pacific island. Makes a fairly gung–ho contrast to dir.…
Harvey (1950): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. James Stewart; Jimmy Stewart's personal favourite role is his middle–aged drunk who has a six–foot rabbit friend that only he can see. From Mary Chase's…
House by the River (1950): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt…; Crime noir which chillingly evokes the Victorian era thanks to director Fritz Lang's characteristic attention to detail and mood. When a rich…
In a Lonely Place (1950): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame; Hot–headed Hollywood writer Humphrey Bogart is suspected of murder by his new girlfriend and old army pal detective. Gutsy psycho–drama…
Kim (Rudyard Kipling's Kim) (1950): Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas…; Adventure based on the classic Rudyard Kipling novel of the same name, set during the British Raj in India, where the orphan of a British soldier…
King Solomon's Mines (1950): Dir. Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Feat. Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Richard Carlson; Stewart Granger is Allan Quartermain, Deborah Kerr and Richard Carlson are his intrepid side–kicks who venture the perilous African jungle in…
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. James Cagney, Ward Bond, Luther Adler; Hard gangster flick about an escaped con who blackmails, betrays and murders his way through a robbery scam. Hits the mark with a great script and…
La Ronde (1950): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani…; A witty chronicle of circular love–affairs and seductions in 19th century Vienna. Lavish sets and extravagent spiralling camerawork complement…
Long John Silver (1950): Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Robert Newton, Bobby Driscoll, Basil Sydney…; Rambunctious adventure with arch pirate Long John Silver on the hunt for his young friend Jim Hawkins and maybe some treasure. Arrrrrgh!!! Notably…
Magnet, The (1950): Dir. Charles Frend
Feat. Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox; After tricking a school–chum out of a toy magnet, an 11yr–old James Fox gets the guilts and resolves to 'do good'. Quirkily…
Men, The (1950): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane…; Famous as Marlon Brando's film debut, playing a paraplegic war veteran struggling to come to terms with post–war life. Brando's smouldering…
Miracle in Milan (1950): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Paolo Stoppa; Memorable foray into satirical fantasy for dir. de Sica, in which a hobo philanthropist is given the power to work miracles in the…
Morning Departure (Operation Disaster) (1950): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough; A British submarine patrolling in the period just after WWII, hits a leftover mine and plunges seriously damaged to the sea–bed. The captain…
My Blue Heaven (1950): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Dan Dailey, Betty Grable, David Wayne…; Treacly musical concerns a variety show couple enduring all manner of misfortune as they try to create a family of their own. Unusually bright…
Night and the City (1950): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers…; An overlooked film noir gem that fires on all cylinders, marked above all by a sensationally giddy performance by Richard Widmark as a two–bit…
Odette (1950): Dir. Herbert Wilcox
Feat. Dame Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring…; Drama based on the true story of Odette Sansom, the British Special Operations Executive agent in WWII who miraculously evaded death after being sent…
Outrage (1950): Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke; One of the earliest post–Code Hollywood films to deal with the subject of rape, this black–and–white B–movie follows a young…
Panic in the Streets (1950): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes…; Early New Orleans–set Kazan noir, follows the hunt for a killer who may be spreading a bubonic plague. Tense, detailed examination of morality…
Petty Girl, The (1950): Dir. Nat Perrin
Feat. Constance Cummings; Robert Cummings stars in this comedy–musical as an artist who causes a scandal through his choice of model.
Rio Grande (1950): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson; Concluding instalment of John Ford's cavalry trilogy has John Wayne in more trouble with Indians on the Mexican border. Even minor Ford stands tall.
Scandal (Shubun) (1950): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimura…; This excellent early Kurosawa, has Mifune playing a painter who becomes acquainted with a pop–singer, and thus the target of a tabloid…
So Long at the Fair (1950): Dir. Antony Damborough, Terence Fisher
Feat. Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson…; Spooky urban legend gets the cinematic treatment in this accomplished chiller. At the 1896 World Fair in Paris two siblings check into a hotel, in…
Stage Fright (1950): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding…; Aspiring actress Jane Wyman investigates her friend's claims of innocence after he's imprisoned for murder. A polished job from Hitch, notable for a…
Stromboli (1950): Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Ingrid Bergman; After his neo–realist masterpieces, this is one of the dir.'s best films, concerning a WW2 refugee who hastily marries an Italian fisherman and…
Summer Interlude (1950): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin; Perhaps Bergman's first significant work, about an aging ballerina who reflects on a youthful romance with her now–deceased lover in moody…
Summer Stock (1950): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken…; This technicolor musical was Judy Garland's final film for MGM as she struggled with many personal problems during filming. Garland plays a farm…
Sunset Boulevard (1950): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim…; Faded screen vamp Gloria Swanson and screenwriter William Holden exploit each other mercilessly in this searing dissection of Hollywood decadence,…
Three Secrets (1950): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman; Three women exchange handkerchiefs and spill their secrets while awaiting news of their children after a plane crashes. You may need the tissues…
Treasure Island (Long John Silver) (1950): Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney…; This definitive version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story was the first live–action feature from Disney studios, and contains…
Un Chant D'amour (A Song of Love) (1950): Dir. Jean Genet; Sole foray into cinema for French convict–turned–playwright Jean Genet is a brief and intense visual poem about the fantasies of…
Wagon Master, The (1950): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Ben Johnson; Pioneering saga starring Ben Johnson. A personal favourite of its director.
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Karl Malden, Gary Merrill…; In one of his keynote roles, Dana Andrews plays an over–aggressive cop on the dirty sidewalks of New York who takes matters into his own hands…
Winchester '73 (1950): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Shelley Winters; Lean, mean, and superbly photographed, this helped repopularise the Western in the '50s. Stewart wins a rare 'perfect' rifle, which is subsequently…
Woman on the Run (1950): Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith…; Twisty, San Fransisco–set noir spins a gripping yarn around a mob witness on the run and his estranged wife in grave danger. Excellent and…
Wooden Horse, The (1950): Dir. Jack Lee
Feat. Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel…; Allied P.O.W.'s attempt to escape a Nazi prison camp by way of an excercise vaulting horse.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949): Dir. Tay Garnett
Feat. Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix…; Mark Twain's comedy given a light musical spin with Bing Crosby.
Act of Violence (w/ Mystery Street) (1949-1950): Dir. Fred Zinnemann, John Sturges
Feat. Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh…; Van Heflin's blissful small–town existence is upended when a returning WWII–vet arrives, determined to settle an old score. Disturbingly…
Adam's Rib (1949): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn; A bittersweet battle of the sexes in which married lawyers find themselves on opposite sides of an attempted murder case. High–brow romp was…
Adventures of Don Juan (1949): Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Errol Flynn; Errol Flynn swashbuckler that somewhat exploits his public reputation for debauchery.
Adventures of Francis the Talking Mule, The - Volume 1 (Francis, Francis Goes to the Races, Francis Goes to West Point, Francis Covers the Big Town) (1949-1952): Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Donald O'Connor, Chill Wills, Piper Laurie…; The first four comedies starring O'Connor as an affably naive young man, who is assisted through life by a berating, smart–arsed talking mule…
Africa Screams (1949): Dir. Charles Barton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello; More dependable comedy from the Abbott and Costello duo, this time running amok in Africa, complete with racial stereotypes.
All the King's Men (1949): Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge; Broderick Crawford brilliantly plays a well intentioned but bullheaded Southern senator whose thirst for power sets him on the road to ruin. Fine…
Batman and Robin (1949): Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennett; The first screen incarnation of Bob Kane's comicbook duo – a 15–episode serial following the caped crusaders portentous perils. Two…
Battleground (1949): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban…; A tough depiction of WW2 combat set among an American squad during the gruelling Battle of the Bulge, that stands as something of an early classic.…
Big Steal, The (w/ Illegal) (1949-1955): Dir. Don Siegel, Lewis Allen
Feat. Robert Mitchum, William Bendix, Jane Greer…; On the run after being framed for a payroll robbery, GI Robert Mitchum evades William Bendix, teaming up with Jane Greer enroute to Mexico. Exciting…
Black Magic (1949): Dir. Gregory Ratoff
Feat. Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff; Orson Welles excels an 18th century hypnotist, part Gypsy charlatan, part demonic master of the black arts, who uses his powers for revenge against…
Boys in Brown, The (1949): Dir. Montgomery Tully
Feat. Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde…; Soft youth rebellion drama with Jack Warner as warden of a borstal struggling to keep his tempestuous young charges in line. Mostly of note for its…
Caught (1949): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes, James Mason; Noir–melodrama hybrid has half–mad millionaire Robert Ryan (a role based on Howard Hughes), wrapping Barbara Bel Geddes in the coils of a…
Champion (1949): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Kirk Douglas; Kirk Douglas is sensational as a hot–blooded prize–fighter who winds up hurting himself after alienating the friends and family who aided…
Ealing Comedy Collection Boxset (Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore!, The Lavender Hill Mob, School for Scoundrels, The Maggie) (1949-1960): Five of Ealing Studios' most enduring – and endearing – comedies.
Eureka Stockade (Massacre Hill) (1949): Dir. Harry Watt
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert…; Stirring account of the Victorian gold miners rebellion against British colonial authority in the 1850's and it's violent result. Ealing Studio's…
First Films of Samuel Fuller, The (I Shot Jesse James, The Baron of Arizona, The Steel Helmet) (1949-1951): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. John Ireland, Vincent Price, Gene Evans; Sam Fuller's directorial debut is I Shot Jesse James (1949), the tale of Robert Ford (John Ireland), a member of the James gang who shot their leader…
Fountainhead, The (1949): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Gary Cooper, Raymond Massey, Patricia Neal; A touchstone movie for architects, idealists, and geniuses of any profession modelled on the career of architectural wunderkind Frank Lloyd Wright.…
Golden Age of Comedy (TV Series) (1949-1960): Feat. Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, Bob Hope…; Treasure trove of broadcast comedy classics from America's variety show golden age. Includes a bonus sixth disc with rare standup performances from…
Great Gatsby, The (1949): Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey…; The second adaptation of the literary classic has the miscast Alan Ladd as the mysterious Long Islander.
Heiress, The (1949): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson…; A near perfect adaptation, this Henry James tale of a naive young girl, her abusive father and fortune–hunting suitor, is considered one of the…
History of Mr. Polly, The (1949): Dir. Anthony Pelissier
Feat. John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins…; Bracing comedy set in the Victorian era follows the various misfortunes of sensitive but ineffectual draper Mills as he sets out in search of…
House of Strangers (1949): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte…; A tour–de–force performance from Edward G. Robinson as a wealthy Italian American patriarch whose controlling presence in his sons' lives…
In the Good Old Summertime (1949): Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall; Judy Garland and Van Johnson star in this musical adaptation of the 1940 film, The Shop Around the Corner, with the locale changed from 1930s…
Inspector General, The (1949): Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Danny Kaye, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart…; Danny Kaye plays a travelling salesman who is arrested in a small–town and mistakenly identified as a feared tax–inspector. One of Kaye's…
It's a Great Feeling (1949): Dir. David Butler
Feat. Jack Carson, Dennis Morgan, Doris Day…; Soft–edged Hollywood satire with Jack Carson, Denny Morgan and Doris Day on the path to success. Notable for its great array of show–biz…
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949): Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness; Distinguished Ealing black comedy about a disaffected cast–off of an aristocratic family who murders his way through a series of dotty…
Ladies of the Chorus (1949): Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Marilyn Monroe; Modest musical burlesque has the distinction of giving Marilyn Monroe her first sizeable role.
Letter to Three Wives, A (1949): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern…; Three women each hear from a friend that she is about to run off with one of their husbands. Replete with characteristically sharp dialogue from the…
Little Women (1949): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor…; Technicolour adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel about four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. The fourth of seven film…
Love Happy (1949): Dir. David Miller
Feat. Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Marilyn Monroe; Final Marx Bros. comedy, is a downbeat entry, with a brief scene with Marilyn Monroe.
Man from Colorado, The (1949): Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew; Gritty technicolor psycho–drama set during the American Civil War starring Glenn Ford as a Union officer who becomes addicted to killing.
Man on the Eiffel Tower, The (1949): Dir. Burgess Meredith
Feat. Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith…; Solid early outing for Inspector Maigret has Laughton in the iconic role pursuing a murderer against some splendid Parisian locales.
Mighty Joe Young (1949): Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong…; Worthy successor to KING KONG, reunites many of the cast and crew, with a compellingly different slant on the 'Giant Ape' premise. Here, Armstrong…
My Dear Secretary (1949): Dir. Charles Martin
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day; Underrated comedy concerning an aspiring young writer (Laraine Day) hired as the new secretary for a top author (Kirk Douglas) who is bitterly…
My Friend Irma (1949): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin; Clown–prince Jerry Lewis first teamed with Dean Martin in this airheaded comedy based on a hit CBS radio–show.
Obsession (The Hidden Room) (1949): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Robert Newton, Phil Brown; Loaded film noir of jealously gone awry, with Robert Newton kidapping his wife’s latest adulterous fling, and threatening, among other things, a…
Omoo Omoo The Shark God (1949): Dir. Leon Leonard
Feat. Ron Randell, Trevor Bardette, Devera Burton; Sea–faring B–movie cheapie takes liberty with the Herman Melville story of a ship captain who falls under a shaman's curse after pinching…
On the Town (1949): Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly; Exuberant musical about three sailors enjoying a day's leave in New York is about as good as this stuff gets. The cast almost bounce off the screen.
Orpheus (Orphee) (1949): Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea…; Cocteau's surrealist retelling of the classical tragedy stars Jean Marais as Orphee, the writer who retrieves his wife Eurydice from the dead. A…
Passionate Friends, The (1949): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains; A wistful Ann Todd divides her loyalty between a secure, older husband (Rains) and a free–spirited toff (Howard) in this rich, unrequited…
Passport to Pimlico (1949): Dir. Henry Cornelius
Feat. Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Rutherford; To avoid licensing laws, a district of London declares itself an independent kingdom. Sounds like a premise for a classic Ealing satire!
Quartet (1949): Dir. Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford, Honor Blackman; Four W Somerset Maugham stories are given exemplary treatment by the best of British, incl. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford and Honor Blackman. Unlike…
Queen of Spades (1949): Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Dame Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell…; Expressionistic ghost story in which an obsessive army officer in 18th Century Russia becomes convinced an elderly countess has gained the ability to…
Reckless Moment, The (1949): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks…; Masterful suspenser in which concerned parent Joan Bennett covers up an apparent murder in order to protect her vulnerable daughter and…
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949): Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. John Wayne; Popular WWII saga with John Wayne as a tough Sarg, spurring his troops on in the Pacific.
Secret Garden, The (1949): Dir. Fred M. Wilcox
Feat. Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell…; Story about an orphan who discovers a secret garden at her Uncle's Victorian manor continues to fascinate young and old. Colour sequences give the…
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar…; Cavalry officer John Wayne is about to retire on the eve of impending war with Indians. Followed by RIO GRANDE.
Shockproof (1949): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Cornel Wilde; Written by Samuel Fuller. A parole officer falls in love with a beautiful parolee, and tries to keep her away from her gambling ex–boyfriend.…
Small Back Room, The (Hour of Glory, The) (1949): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins…; .
Sorrowful Jones (1949): Dir. Sidney Lanfield
Feat. Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest…; Buddy comedy with Bob Hope as an inveterate gambler who fins himself the guardian for a young girl.
Story of Seabiscuit, The (1949): Dir. David Butler
Feat. Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister; Shirley Temple stars in this version of the Seabiscuit racehorse story in which the 1930s 'underdog' triumphed against the thoroughbred champions of…
Stray Dog (Nora Inu) (1949): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune; An early film noir from Japan’s best–known director tracks police detective Toshiro Mifune into the underbelly of Tokyo in search of a pistol…
Streets of Laredo (1949): Dir. Leslie Fenton
Feat. William Holden, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman…; Middling western with Holden as an outlaw who separates from his two partners in crime when they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit…
Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Everybody's Cheering) (1949): Dir. Busby Berkeley
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly; An excellent warm–up for ON THE TOWN with Sinatra and Kelly playing vaudeville buddies in the early–1900s who yuck it up in variety…
Thieves' Highway (1949): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb…; One of dir. Dassin's early noir triumphs, this has Conte seeking to avenge his father's maiming at the hands of a corrupt Californian fruit…
Third Man, The (1949): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard; Superb romantic thriller about a writer in post–war Vienna whose old friend fails to meet him – under mysterious circumstances. Justly…
Trapped (1949): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt; U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters in this fast–paced B–noir.
Tulsa (1949): Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendariz…; Glossy melodrama with Hayward whose determination to save her ranch from a greedy oil baron sees her enter the cut throat world of prospecting.
Twelve O'Clock High (1949): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck; Gregory Peck is at his peak as a General brought in to restore morale to a squadron engaged in daily bombing raids over Germany. One of the great…
Under Capricorn (1949): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding…; An alcoholic woman (Bergman) is torn between her roguish husband and the governor of NSW in this Hitchcock oddity, a romantic melodrama set in…
We Were Strangers (1949): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz…; Adventure drama with Jennifer Jones playing a woman who joins the Cuban Underground and helps devise a plot to bring down the country's corrupt…
Where Danger Lives (w/ Tension) (1949-1950): Dir. John Farrow, John Berry
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains…; Tautly directed crime of passion, with secret lovers Mitchum and Domergue making a beeline for the Mexican border after killing her millionaire…
Whirlpool (1949): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer…; Tierney stars as Mrs Ann Sutton, a beautiful woman who seems to be living the dream in LA with her successful psychoanalyst husband William (Conte),…
Whisky Galore! (1949): Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Joan Greenwood; When villagers on a dry Scottish isle 'rescue' a cargo of shipwrecked whiskey, a classic Ealing comedy ensues. Generous doses of sly humour help this…
White Heat (1949): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien; Intense, verging–on–primal performance from a greying James Cagney blasts this straight into the pantheon of greatest–ever crime…
Yasujiro Ozu Boxset (Early Summer; Tokyo Story; An Autumn Afternoon; Floating Weeds; Good Morning; The Flavour Of Green Tea Over Rice; Late Spring) (1949-1959): Dir. Yasujiro Ozu; Eight masterpieces from the great Japanese filmmaker.
Young Man With a Horn (Young Man of Music) (1949): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall…; Sharp biopic based on legendary jazz trumpeteer Bix Beiderbecke (played here by Kirk Douglas), who rose from obscurity to possess one of the most…
A Woman's Vengeance (1948): Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy…; Murder caper based on the short story "The Gioconda Smile" by Aldous Huxley. Charles Boyer (GASLIGHT) plays a philanderer who's accused of…
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948): Dir. Charles Barton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi…; One of the best of the 35 features A&C made between 1940 and 1956 sends up those golden–age monster mashes with winning gags and detailed…
Anna Karenina (1948): Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore; Transplanted French director Duvivier – one of the key figures of 1930s "poetic realism" movement – brings grit and thoughtfulness to a…
Bicycle Thieves (The Bicycle Thief, Ladri di biciclette) (1948): Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell; A huge sentimental favourite about a man whose chance at meaningful labour is taken from him when his precious bicycle is stolen from him. Though not…
Big Clock, The (1948): Dir. John Farrow
Feat. Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester; Fine clockwork suspenser lands Ray Milland in a murder–mystery bind instigated by his manipulative media baron boss (Laughton). Texbook noir…
Blanche Fury (1948): Dir. Marc Allegret
Feat. Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough…; Gothic melodrama set around a sombre English country estate, soon to be home to upwardly–ambitious Valerie Hobson. When her secret lover…
Call Northside 777 (1948): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Conte…; An enjoyable 'noir' yarn, based on the true story of a man unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a policeman in 1930s Chicago. Jimmie Stewart…
Criss Cross (1948): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea…; Film noir stars Lancaster as Steve Thompson, a love–lorn armored truck driver obsessed with air–headed ex–wife Anna (De Carlo) who…
Cry of the City (1948): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark…; Dying cop–killer Conte refuses to confess to a crime, and worries that childhood friend turned flinty cop Mature, will implicate his girlfriend…
Dick Barton Trilogy, The (Dick Barton Special Agent, Dick Barton Strikes Back, Dick Barton at Bay) (1948-1950): Dir. Godfrey Grayson, Alfred J. Goulding
Feat. Don Stannard, Sebastian Cabot, George Ford…; A collection of three campy spy thrillers from Hammer Studios during their successful post–war period, with Don Stannard playing the special…
Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) (1948): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura; The film that made Toshiro Mifune a star – playing a petty gangster with TB, who turns to an alcoholic doctor for help after a shoot–out.…
Easter Parade (1948): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Fred Astaire, Amy Miller, Judy Garland; Big–scale musical treat by Irving Berlin, has Fred Astaire swapping dance–partner Amy Miller for celebrity plus Judy Garland, in a role…
Fallen Idol, The (1948): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Ralph Richardson; Celebrated, tasteful British thriller about the muddled attempt of an 8–year–old ambassador's son to protect the embassy butler (Ralph…
Force of Evil (1948): Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Feat. John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor; Fascinating film noir in which crooked lawyer John Garfield turns on the mob to finance his gambling debts. This fiercely masculine morality tale is…
Fort Apache (1948): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Shirley Temple; The first film of Ford's cavalry trilogy tells of a maverick martinet (Henry Fonda) at odds with his peers and the Injuns. Followed by SHE WORE A…
Gun Crazy (1948): Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. John Dall, Peggy Cummins; Cocked with outstanding set pieces, daring twists and a desperate, exciting romanticism, this 'B–movie' thriller makes the grade with any of…
Hamlet (1948): Dir. Laurence Olivier
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney…; The Oscar winner of Best Picture, Actor, Art direction and Costume, Laurence Olivier's version soars with vitality and atmosphere. A classic.
He Walked By Night (1948): Dir. Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts; High–tension film noir shot in semi documentary style follows Richard Basehart as a psychopathic loner being doggedly pursued by LAPD's finest.
Joan of Arc (1948): Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer, Gene Lockhart…; Ingrid Bergman is radiant as the saintly Joan in Fleming's last film, and though perhaps unsuitably theatrical, has been greatly improved by…
Jungle Jim (1948): Dir. William Berke
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller; Johhny Weissmuller's follow–up role to Tarzan, as similiarly styled jungle adventurer, with companion chimpanzee.
Key Largo (1948): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall; Moody, suspenseful melodrama in which war vet Humphrey Bogart is confronted with gangster nastiness on the Florida Keys. Lauren Bacall looks on.
Lady from Shanghai (1948): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles; A bold experiment from Orson Welles in which his Irish traveller joins Rita Hayworth and others aboard a luxury yacht where a murder–mystery…
Les Enfants Terribles (The Strange Ones) (1948): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Edouard Dermithe, Nicole Stephane; A poetic drama–fantasy from the pen of Jean Cocteau (who also directed several scenes), that centres round the narcissistic,…
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan; Joan Fontaine waxes regretfully in a letter to her object of infatuation, a womanizing concert pianist (dishy Louis Jourdan) in late 19th Century…
Loves of Carmen, The (1948): Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford; Famous Spanish fable with Rita Hayworth making a fine sultry, conniving Gypsy whose love for a respectable corporal leads to murder. No music, though.
Macbeth (1948): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Roddy McDowall; An expressionistic version of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, with Welles in the title role. Shot quickly and on the cheap, this is notoriously…
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948): Dir. H.C. Potter
Feat. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas; Reliably entertaining comedy has newlywed city slickers Cary Grant and Myrna Loy attempt to live in the quiet countryside.
My Brother's Keeper (1948): Dir. Alfred Roome
Feat. Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, David Tomlinson…; Rickety chase film from Gainsborough Pictures with two prisoners chained together making a dash for freedom.
Naked City, The (1948): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart…; Classic crime thriller has its eye on a young woman's murder in the 'naked city' of New York, and the two veteran cops in charge of tracking down her…
Oliver Twist (1948): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh…; Astonishing version of the Dicken's classic, notable for great atmosphere and Alec Guinness.
Paleface, The (1948): Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong…; One of Bob Hope's most popular comedies is a western spoof in which he stars as a hapless dentist who through a series of misfortunes winds up…
Paradine Case, The (1948): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd; Lawyer Gregory Peck falls in love with the 'wrong woman', in this case Alida Valli, a client charged with murdering her blind husband. In classic…
Pirate, The (1948): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly; Real–life partnership Judy Garland and Vincente Minelli reteam for a fine musical that also boasts Gene Kelly's footwork and Cole Porter's…
Portrait of Jennie (1948): Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Joseph Cotton, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore…; An exquisite flight of fantasy, in which starving–artist Joseph Cotton is visited upon by an otherworldly Jennifer Jones. Dazzling photography…
Rachel and the Stranger (1948): Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. William Holden, Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum; Western 'rom–com' with husband William Holden and 'stranger' Robert Mitchum competing for the affections of Loretta Young ('Rachel') towards…
Red River (1948): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru; Another contender for the best of the west. John Wayne is in prime mode as a tyrannical rancher whose adopted son is determined to prove his…
Red Shoes, The (1948): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring…; Beloved dance classic is a strikingly realised story of a young ballerina who, in an echo of the Hans Christian Andersen story, becomes torn between…
Road House (1948): Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Richard Widmark; Engrossing melodrama exploring the dark side of human emotion. Psychotic club owner Richard Widmark goes into a jealous rampage when his girl decides…
Rope (1948): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger; A perverse comedy about a couple of gay men who murder a friend for the thrill of it, then throw a party with the body hidden in a cabinet. Hitch's…
Scott of the Antarctic (1948): Dir. Charles Frend
Feat. John Mills; Ealing studios produced thie epic recount of Scott's final voyage to the South Pole. With John Mills.
Set-Up, The (1948): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias; This film noir classic is a gripping, real–time examination of a night in the life of an aging prize–fighter who refuses to be corrupted…
Snake Pit, The (1948): Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Celeste Holm; Hollywood melodrama that gives serious attention to the subject of mental illness with Olivia de Havilland (in a career–best performance) as a…
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948): Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster; The great Barbara Stanwyck cracks up in this crime melodrama, an enjoyably overrought 'visualisation' of what was a gripping and highly successful…
State of the Union (1948): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Angela Lansbury; An idealistic industrialist is urged to run for President, but finds uncomfortable compromises are required on both a political and marital level.…
Street With No Name, The (1948): Dir. William Keighley
Feat. Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan…; One of the grittier film noirs of the 1940s, evokes its tale of corruption, mob violence and FBI infiltration with a semi–documentary surface.…
They Live By Night (w/ Side Street) (1948-1950): Dir. Nicholas Ray, Anthony Mann
Feat. Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell; Nicholas Ray's terrific, heartfelt tragi–noir fluctuates between high tension and sweet romance, underpinning the fate of criminal lovers…
Three Godfathers (3 Godfathers) (1948): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne; Sentimental, exquisitely–shot Western parable of the Three Wise Men with John Wayne leading the outlaws who adopt a newborn baby.
Three Musketeers, The (1948): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Gene Kelly, Lana Turner; An inventive and high–spirited version with duels presented like musical numbers.
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart; Alltime Hollywood classic, rides with forlorn roughnecks Walter Huston and Humphrey Bogart (in a rare unsympathetic role) as they scrounge around…
Unfaithfully Yours (1948): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Barbara Lawrence…; Rex Harrison plays an irascible, paranoid orchestra conductor who comes to suspect his devoted wife's infidelity. Anchored around a memorable…
Velvet Touch, The (1948): Dir. Jack Gage
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn…; Film noir with Rosalind Russell (HIS GIRL FRIDAY) playing a Broadway star who accidentally kills her producer during an argument, then stands by as a…
Whispering Smith (1948): Dir. Leslie Fenton, Mel Epstein
Feat. Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall…; Swish, action–packed western features Alan Ladd chasing train robbers and sentimental skirt. Good stuff.
Yellow Sky (1948): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark…; Tough–minded western shot largely in Death Valley has Anne Baxter coming across a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in a neighboring…
13 Rue Madeleine (1947): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte…; A group of OSS operatives penetrate behind German lines in this rough–edged WWII thriller. Seeking a secret missile site, they must also…
A Double Life (1947): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters…; Ronald Colman won a Best Actor Oscar as a Broadway idol who immerses himself in the role of Othello and allows his off–stage cruel streak to…
Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle, The (The Egg and I, Further Adventures, Go to Town, On the Farm) (1947-1951): Dir. Chester Erskine, Charles Lamont, Edward Sedgwick
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main…; The first four movies about the homespun, cornpoke hillbilly couple, drawn from Betty MacDonald's bestselling book 'The Egg and I'. Cheaply made, but…
Angel and the Badman (1947): Dir. James Edward Grant
Feat. John Wayne, Gail Russell; Classic model Western with big John Wayne as a gunfighter tamed by the love of a good woman.
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, The (1947): Dir. Irving Reis
Feat. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple…; Playboy bachelor Cary Grant is ordered by Judge Myrna Loy to escort her teenage sister (Shirley Temple), so that the ‘bobby–soxer’ might…
Body and Soul (1947): Dir. Robert Rossen
Feat. John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, William Conrad…; Vital companion–piece to FORCE OF EVIL with John Garfield again lined up for the fall, as a naive, get–ahead young boxer whose propensity…
Born to Kill (1947): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Audrey Long…; Cracking, hard–edged B–movie thriller, with studly Lawrence Tierney as a ‘homme fatale’ who seduces his way into a cushy marriage in…
Brighton Rock (1947): Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell; One of the coolest British crime flicks sees Richard Attenborough give an attention–grabbing portrayal of a delinquent gang leader who wants…
Brute Force (1947): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford…; Surprisingly visceral and violent for its time, this prison drama sees Lancaster play a tough inmate in Westgate Penitentiary who decides to wage war…
Captain from Castile (1947): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero…; Extravagant technicolour epic set in the early years of the 16th century, recounting the adventures of a young nobleman (Tyrone Power) who flees…
Crossfire (1947): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan…; Controversial Best Picture nominee, with Robert Mitchum investigating an anti–Semitic murder committed amongst American soldiers recently…
Daisy Kenyon (1947): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda…; Joan Crawford gives one of her greatest performances in this surprisingly compelling soap opera, finding herself torn between Fonda and Andrews.…
Dark Passage (1947): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall; Smokey Bogie and Bacall noir thriller in which his convicted murderer flees prison and changes his face to prove his innocence. The first third is…
Dead Reckoning (1947): Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott; Minor Bogart vehicle, playing a war veteran out to avenge the murder of his buddy. Femme Fatale Lizabeth Scott is undoubtedly involved.
Desert Fury (1947): Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster…; Small town Nevada desert set suspense focusing around a gambling empire obstinately led by a tough woman whose perfect monopoly is interrupted by her…
Dick Tracy - Four Original Serials (1947): Feat. Ralph Byrd, Boris Karloff; Ralph Byrd stars as Chester Gould's comic–strip crimefighter in a pair of original serial movies Dick Tracy's Dilemma, and Dick Tracy meets…
Dishonored Lady (1947): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder; Hedy Lamarr and then–husband John Loder star in this deliciously ludicrous, dated melodrama, with Lamarr as a fashion editor and lively party…
Down To Earth (1947): Dir. Alexander Hall
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, James Gleason…; Musical comedy sequel to HERE COMES MR. JORDAN starring Rita Hayworth as Greek Goddess Terpsichore who comes down to Earth to join a Broadway…
Egg and I, The (1947): Dir. Chester Erskine
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray; A comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray as a married couple who move to the countryside to become chicken farmers. While husband Bob…
Farmer's Daughter, The (1947): Dir. H.C. Potter
Feat. Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore…; Congressman Joseph Cotton's maid, Loretta Young, decides to run against him in the next election. A perceptive comedy that won an Oscar for Young.
Gentleman's Agreement (1947): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Gregory Peck; Gregory Peck stars in this Academy Award winning melodrama about a writer who, for the sake of research, pretends to be Jewish and becomes a victim…
Germany Year Zero (1947): Dir. Roberto Rossellini; A heart–breaking depiction of life in the post–WW2 ruins of Berlin, in which a boy struggles to help his family who are forced to live in…
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison; A whimsical tone pervades this mildly spooky tale of widow Gene Tierney being haunted by phantom sea–captain Rex Harrison. Music by Bernard…
Golden Earrings (1947): Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland, Murvyn Vye; Romantic spy film set the eve of World War II in which Ray Milland plays an English officer on an espionage mission in Nazi Germany to recover a…
Good News (1947): Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall…; Toe–tapping MGM musical based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. Set on a collage campus, where a football star falls in love…
Green Dolphin Street (1947): Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed…; One of the biggest box office hits of its time, this sweeping colonial melodrama of unrequited lovers who migrate to Aotearoa in the 1850s has dated…
Guilt of Janet Ames (1947): Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Rosalind Russell; Rosalind Russell plays an anguished WW2 widow who comes to terms with her husband's death by confronting the five men he saved in a heroic but fatal…
Hue and Cry (1947): Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Alastair Sim, Valerie White, Jack Warner; The first Ealing comedy is an affable yarn about kids who detect criminal information encoded in comic books. Shot on the post–war streets of…
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947): Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner; Overlooked masterpiece of British crime noir which blends kitchen sink realism with the poetic sensibilities of 30's French cinema. An escaped…
Jour De Fete (1947): Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati; Jacques Tati established himself as a major new comic as a postman who attempts to modernise his mail service. Such precise visual humour had not…
Kiss of Death (1947): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray…; Fantastic film noir about a career criminal whose attempts to start a new life entangle him with a psychopathic murderer bent on revenge. Richard…
La Terra Trema (1947): Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli; Life–study of a poor Sicilian fishing village that is reverently neo–realist in its approach. Lovely B&W photography never distracts from…
Last of the Redmen (1947): Dir. George Sherman
Feat. Jon Hall, Michael O'Shea; Economy–sized take on the Last Of The Mohicans story.
Life with Father (1947): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor; Keen adaptation of the Broadway staple, with a starched–shirt father raising daughter Elizabeth Taylor in 19th century NYC.
Lured (Personal Column) (1947): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Charles Coburn…; Earlier work in the oeuvre of cult director Douglas Sirk isn’t up there with his later masterworks but is more than just a footnote, with a first…
Miracle On 34th Street (1947): Dir. George Seaton
Feat. Natalie Wood, Edmund Gwenn; Original version of the Yuletide fantasy, where child–sceptic Natalie Wood becomes gradually convinced that department–store Santa,…
Monsieur Verdoux (1947): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin; Charlie Chaplin plays a bank cashier who marries and murders rich spinsters in order to support his real family. Chaplin's only commercial failure,…
My Favourite Brunette (1947): Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Peter Lorre, Lon Jr. Chaney; A spoof of Chandler–style detective novels with Bob Hope as a photographer who gets mixed up with mobsters. With Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney.
Nightmare Alley (1947): Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray…; Cast against type, Tyrone Power smolders as a nefarious conman whose powers of seduction are employed to crib a secret mind–reading act from a…
Odd Man Out (1947): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. James Mason, Robert Newton; James Mason, in one of his best roles, plays a wounded IRA–gunman hunted by police through a nightmare city–scape that clearly…
Out of the Past (1947): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas; Superbly crafted pulp, details the ominous voyage of doomed hero Robert Mitchum as he recalls the convoluted intrigues, involving femme fatale Jane…
Perils of Pauline, The (1947): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy DeWolfe…; Showbiz melodrama in which Hutton plays true–life actress Pearl White, who graduated from being a lowly–paid seamstress to queen of the…
Quai Des Orfevres (1947): Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair…; Romantically bleak French noir about an ambitious starlet and her protective husband who find themselves implicated in the murder of a lecherous…
Red House, The (1947): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Dame Judith Anderson…; A man dares to unlock the mystery of the red house in the thick of the woods. Music, photography and Edward G. Robinson in a spooky key role combine…
Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947): Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff; Danny Kaye shines in this delightful family film as a quiet day–dreamer whose real life catches up with his elaborate adventure fantasies.
Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The (Mad Wednesday) (1947): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Harold Lloyd’s last film transplants his go–getting character from the silent film ‘The Freshman’ into the rather different comic…
Sinbad, the Sailor (1947): Dir. Richard Wallace
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Maureen O'Hara…; Swashbuckling technicolour adventure set in medieval Persia telling the story of the eighth voyage of Sinbad, where he discovers the lost treasure of…
Song of the Thin Man (1947): Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn…; The Thin Man legacy is stretched out to a sixth film, with Nick and Nora busting one last case involving a dispute over owed money to a two–bit…
Two Mrs Carrolls, The (1947): Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith; Bogie plays the baddie in this tense psychodrama – a mad artist who paints his female models before killing them. Barbara Stanwyk is the latest…
Anna and the King of Siam (1946): Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell…; The first version of the true story of an English governess (Dunne) who in the 1860s journeyed to South East Asia to look after the King of Siam's 62…
Beast with Five Fingers (1946): Dir. Robert Florey
Feat. Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre; Psychological horror with Peter Lorre hamming it up as only he can when spooked and stalked by the severed hand of a maddened pianist.
Bedlam (1946): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Val Lewton, Boris Karloff, Anna Lee…; Meticulous though a trifle tame Val Lewton (CAT PEOPLE) production frequents the drawing rooms and asylums of 18th century London. Boris Karloff is…
Belle Et La Bete, La (Beauty and the Beast) (1946): Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Josette Day; Cocteau brings a fine sense of fantasy to the old fable, creating a luxuriant atmosphere unique to his film–making. A true classic.
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews…; Uncommonly accurate portrait of small–town America after WW2 focuses on three war veterans attempting to adjust to civilian life. Historically…
Big Sleep, The (1946): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall; This adaptation of Raymond Chandler's mystery novel has perhaps become the greatest film noir of all time. Humphrey Bogart as detective Marlowe falls…
Black Beauty (1946): Dir. Max Nosseck
Feat. Mona Freeman, Richard Denning, Evelyn Ankers…; Based on Anna Sewell's much loved novel about the bond between a young girl and her beautiful black colt. Also contains "Courage of Black…
Black Narcissus (1946): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar…; Visually stunning film about a group of nuns who try to establish a mission on a remote Himalayan outpost in the face of formidable conditions. One…
Blue Dahlia, The (1946): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix; Riveting Raymond Chandler noir teams Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in their third on–screen pairing as an ex–bomber pilot accused of…
Brief Encounter (1946): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Cyril Raymond…; Controlled rendering of Noel Coward's touching story about a romance that evolves between two happily married strangers. This much loved British…
Canyon Passage (1946): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward…; Jacques Tourneur's grand western is a sub–plot heavy ode to community. Dana Andrews is a fledgling businessman whose friendship with…
Captive Heart (1946): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister…; An exciting story of POWs in WWII Germany. Michael Redgrave gives an acclaimed performance as a Czech prisoner masquerading as a British officer.
Cloak and Dagger (1946): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Gary Cooper; Fritz Lang spruces up this WWII spy thriller in which Gaz Cooper takes on the the Nazis.
Cluny Brown (1946): Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer, Sir C. Aubrey Smith…; Jennifer Jones is radiant (and a hoot, to boot) as the makeshift plumber to a leaky high society household. Ernst Lubitch’s splendid…
Crime Wave (w/ Decoy) (1946-1954): Dir. Andre De Toth, Jack Bernhard
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk…; Sterling Hayden burns a hole through the screen in this hard–boiled, viciously paced noir about a botched robbery and the ensuing manhunt.…
Dark Corner (1946): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens…; Expert film noir concerns a private detective (Stevens) living under the shadow of a murder frame–up concocted by villain Clifton Webb (LAURA).…
Dark Mirror, The (1946): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres; Playing twin sisters with obvious relish, Olivia de Havilland is the chiefsuspect in a murder investigation who confounds the prosecution with a pair…
Dragonwyck (1946): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Walter Huston; 1940s gothic thriller. Gene Tierney gets married to the local lord of the manor, before discovering the skeletons in the closet of his big spooky…
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946): Dir. Hans Richter; A luckless artist who sets up business as a merchant of dreams is the plot device that allows the cream of European Avant–Garde – Max…
Dressed To Kill (1946): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison; The final of the 14 Rathbone–Bruce 'Sherlock Holmes' adaptations concerning a criminal gang's pursuit of three music–boxes for mysterious…
Duel in the Sun (1946): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten…; Brothers Gregory Peck and James Cotton feud over the family ranch and legacy. Lauded by the likes of Martin Scorsese for its visual splendour, this…
Gaiety George (Showtime) (1946): Dir. George King, Leontine Sagan
Feat. Richard Greene, Ann Todd, Peter Graves…; Victorian–era musical about Irishman George Howard, who moves to London and purchases a theatre, aiming to enhance the local entertainment…
Gilda (1946): Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready; Rita Hayworth defines the femme fatale for Hollywood in this sassy love–triangle musical set in Latin America. Glenn Ford and George Macready…
Great Expectations (1946): Dir. David Lean
Feat. John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles…; Esteemed treatment of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a young orphan aided by a mysterious benefactor brought major international success to the…
Green for Danger (1946): Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim; Sly whodunit finds Trevor Howard and Sally Gray prime suspects in the death of a hospital patient. Cue Scotland Yard’s finest (Alistair Sim), whose…
Humoresque (1946): Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Joan Crawford, John Garfield; Elegant drama features Joan Crawford in a towering performance as wealthy patron who falls in love with a gifted musician. A masterpiece of the…
I See a Dark Stranger (The Adventuress) (1946): Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley…; Absorbing thriller with Deborah Kerr outstanding as a young Irish woman who despises England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart; A down–on–his–luck Jimmy Stewart is rescued from suicide by a Guardian Angel who shows him the virtues of his life gone by. This…
Jolson Story, The / Jolson Sings Again (1946): Dir. Alfred E. Green, Henry Levin
Feat. Larry Parks; An American success story in song, accomplished biography traces the career of mammy–singing Al Jolson. Larry Parks offers a flawless…
Killers, The (1946): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner; Textbook film noir has insurance investigator Edmund O'Brien auditing the curious death of prize–fighter Burt Lancaster, in a series of…
Leave Her to Heaven (1946): Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde; Beware the beautiful woman! Gene Tierney makes a gorgeous yet domesticated vamp whose suffocating personality mutates into murderous frustration.…
Locket, The (1946): Dir. John Brahm
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day, Brian Aherne…; Film noir set during the day of a wedding, where a surprise guest tries to convince the groom that his bride–to–be is in fact a murderer…
Looney Tunes (TV Series) (Bugs Bunny) (1946-1969): 56 Restored shorts from the Warner Bros classic (violent) cartoon vault. Appearing are Sylvester, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Road…
Man I Love, The (1946): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett…; Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
Matter of Life and Death, A (1946): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. David Niven; By a miracle, RAF pilot David Niven escapes certain death, only to find he must argue for his right to live before a 'heavenly tribunal'. A…
MGM Film Noir Collection (The Stranger, He Walked By Night, He Ran All The Way, Odds Against Tomorrow ) (1946-1959): Dir. Orson Welles, John Berry, Robert Wise; Four vintage film noirs from the MGM vault.
My Darling Clementine (1946): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, Walter Brennan; Masterful retelling of the O.K. Corrall incident by John Ford, is also a note–perfect rendition of many classical Western themes. Henry Fonda…
Night and Day (1946): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Jane Wyman; Somewhat unreliable biography of Cole Porter that gets by on it's soundtrack and Cary Grant's amiable performance.
Night in Casablanca, A (1946): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. The Marx Brothers; The Marx Brothers bring their revered and anarchic energy to this "post–war spoof of wartime intrigue" set in the Hotel Casablanca. Though it…
Notorious (1946): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant; Sexy, suspenseful romantic thriller with Ingrid Bergman at her most radiant as an American spy who unwittingly falls in love with her contact, Cary…
Overlanders, The (1946): Dir. Harry Watt
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Daphne Campbell; A rather odd blend of high adventurism, wartime propaganda, and agricultural instruction, this Ealing production recounts the true story of a…
Paisa (1946): Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emmanuel; Six short films focusing on the minor victories and losses of ordinary folk during WW2. Pioneering the now–familiar use of documentary footage,…
Panique (1946): Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Michel Simon, Viviane Romance; Exemplary French noir based on the novel Les Fiançailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon, the source of the Patrice Leconte film, MONSIEUR HIRE…
Pink String And Sealing Wax (1946): Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson; Brit film noir set in a dark and dirty Brighton sees a scheming landlady (Withers) befriend a young chemist's assistant in order to obtain poison to…
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946): Dir. Tay Garnett
Feat. John Garfield, Lana Turner; Steamy film noir with John Garfield and Lana Turner as doomed, murderous lovers.
Purple Monster Strikes, The (1946): Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon
Feat. Dennis Moore, Roy Barcroft, Linda Stirling…; Charmingly hokey serial with a shape–shifting martian out to steal our best scientific secrets setting the stage for an alien invasion.
Razor's Edge, The (1946): Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter…; Engrossing adaptation of Somerset Maugham's philosophical novel about an affluent war veteran's worldly search for spiritual fulfillment.
Road to Utopia (1946): Dir. Hal Walker
Feat. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour; The final and perhaps wackiest of the "Road to...' series, this time in the Klondike goldrush. Many goofy gags and a few cliches too.
Shoeshine (Sciuscia) (1946): Dir. Vittorio De Sica; Perhaps Vittorio De Sica's first acknowledged masterpiece, concerns two young boys struggling to survive on the streets of post–WWII Rome by…
Somewhere in the Night (1946): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan…; Often underrated 'film noir' has an amnesiac soldier (Hodiak) return to Los Angeles from WW2 to rediscover his identity, only he may not want to... A…
Spiral Staircase, The (1946): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent; This creaky staircase descends into a spooky mansion of cantankerous matriarchs, mute nymphettes, 'weak' stepsons and impending murder. Dated, yes,…
Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin…; Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
Stranger, The (1946): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson; Orson Welles plays a Nazi war criminal who marries an unsuspecting American, but Edward G. Robinson is hot on his trail. Welles also directed this…
Terror By Night (1946): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray; The penultimate Rathbone–Bruce "Sherlock Holmes", with the duo on the trail of a large diamond 'The Star of Rhodesia' which has gone missing…
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946): Dir. Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley, Henry Koster
Feat. Robert Walker, June Allyson, Lucille Bremer…; A technicolor MGM musical, which was the first in a series of biopics by MGM about Broadway composers: this one is a fictionalised account of the…
Vincent Price Double (The Bat, Shock!) (1946-1959): Dir. Crane Wilbur, Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon; A double feature of B–grade Vincent Price horrors. SHOCK! (1946) – Dir. Alfred L. Werker. This concerns a murderous psychiatrist…
Woman in Green, The (1946): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce; Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce play the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this updated (to the 40s) version of the original Conan Doyle…
Yearling, The (1946): Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Claude Jr. Jarman, Jane Wyman, Gregory Peck; Delightfully quaint fable of childhood, has innocent lad Claude Jarman Jnr raising a pet deer in backwoods Florida, while Ma and Pa, scrape together…
Years Between, The (1946): Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Dame Flora Robson; Michael Redgrave plays a British MI6 officer who returns home after working for the French Resistance to find that his wife, who had presumed him…
A Bell For Adano (1945): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix…; Hodiak plays an army major assigned to restore order in a small Italian town in this gentle–natured drama. The luminous –and blonde…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn…; Dir. Kazan's restrained debut, adapting Betty Smith's novel about a family of immigrants making do in the Brooklyn tenements of the early 20th…
Abbott & Costello: The Naughty Nineties, The Time of Their Lives (1945-1946): Dir. Jean Yarbrough, Charles Barton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis…; A double feature of slapstick shenanigans "Naughty Nineties": A captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers and stage show…
Anchors Aweigh (1945): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly; Wartime tale of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. A milestone due to the combination of gene Kelly's live–action choreography coupled with…
And Then There Were None (1945): Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward…; The best film version of Agatha Christie's novel, that is literally a by–the–numbers whodunnit. A little dated, but you'll have fun…
Blithe Spirit (1945): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Rex Harrison; Novelist Rex Harrison jestingly arranges a seance, and inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, who then wittily haunts his new…
Blood On the Sun (1945): Dir. Frank Lloyd
Feat. James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall; Minor Cagney suspense vehicle is distinguished by its unusual setup: Cagney plays a newspaper man in 1920s Japan who uncovers a military plot for…
Body Snatcher, The (1945): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi; Quietly creepy Val Lewton production with Boris Karloff as a sinister grave robber who provides bodies for medical research and then blackmails the…
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945): Dir. Gabriel Pascal
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Claude Rains…; The oft–told tale of the First Roman Emperor and the Queen of Egpyt, here adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play. Stagey filming is offset by…
Captain Kidd (1945): Dir. Rowland V Lee
Feat. Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton…; Charles Laughton has a great time playing the 17th century English pirate, who swindles King William III. Rollicking production is a nicely comic…
Clock, The (1945): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason…; Judy Garland's first dramatic role (in which she did not sing) reunites her with director (and future husband) Vincente Minnelli from MEET ME IN ST.…
Dead of Night (1945): Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden; This model of the horror portmanteau film remains unsurpassed by modern all–comers, with five strong, scary short stories that converge quite…
Detour (1945): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Tom Neal, Ann Savage; Often touted as the best B–movie ever made, this blistering film noir upstaged many of the Hollywood main features it was paired with. Short on…
Diary of a Chambermaid (1945): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Paulette Goddard; Chambermaid Paulette Goddard upsets an aristocratic household brimming with secrets and intrigues. One of Renoir's early Hollywood pictures.
Dillinger (1945): Dir. Max Nosseck
Feat. Lawrence Tierney; Lawrence Tierney stars in this robust B–Movie biopic as the notorious gangster who declared war on America's banking system.
Dolly Sisters, The (1945): Dir. Irving Cummings
Feat. Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver; Flash, energetic musical biopic on Hungarian–born sisters Jennie and Rosie Dolly, who conquered Broadway in the early 1900s. Ravishing…
Fallen Angel (1945): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell; Follow–up to Preminger's film noir LAURA stars Andrews as a penniless drifter who falls in love with beautiful waitress Stella (Darnell) so…
Harvey Girls, The (1945): Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger…; A much–loved, if rather formless musical about the heyday of the railroad in the Old West and the Harvey House restaurants which sprang up…
House of Dracula (1945): Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, John Carradine, Onslow Stevens…; Actually a sequel to HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with a scientist attempting to rectify the monstrous villains of the Universal Studios horror movies.
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dame Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney; A headstrong Wendy Hiller seeks marriage and wealth on the Scottish Hebrides, but is sidetracked by true romance. The powerful landscapes and lyrical…
I'll Be Seeing You (1945): Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotton, Shirley Temple…; Ginger Rogers picks up a rare dramatic role in this sincere, if at times clunky melodrama, playing a convict on Christmas leave who falls in love…
Isle of the Dead (1945): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew; Boris Karloff stars in this Val Lewton "superstitious chiller" about a group of plague–ridden people quarantined on a tiny Greek…
Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne (1945): Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Maria Casares; Dir. Bresson and writer Jean Cocteau are strange bedfellows in this lush, stylish drama, well–removed from the director’s austere later…
Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945): Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur…; This resplendent evocation of nineteeth century Paris street theatre follows the love of mime Jean–Louis Barrault for the highly–strung…
Lost Weekend, The (1945): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard da Silva…; Would–be novelist Ray Milland's personal frustrations bring on a three day drinking binge of desperate, terrifying proportions. Laced with a…
Mildred Pierce (1945): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Joan Crawford; Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her career–defining role as a stoical housewife–turned–waitress who finds success in business, but…
My Friend Flicka (1945): Dir. Harold Schuster
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson; Rancher lad Roddy McDowall is finally allowed a horse of his own, but chooses a wild, unmanageable colt, whose trust he only slowly, and painfully,…
Objective, Burma (1945): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, James Brown; A swift, gritty WW2 actioner in which Errol Flynn heads a paratroop mission to disable a Japanese radar station against considerable odds.
Place of One's Own, A (1945): Dir. Bernard Knowles
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price…; Elegant Victorian ghost story has an elderly couple James Mason and Margaret Lockwood buy a house possessed by a spirit who begins to fascinate their…
Rhapsody in Blue (1945): Dir. Irving Rapper
Feat. Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith…; George Gershwin's life and work is given a good glossing over from Hollywood, but the magical music keeps things sprightly for over two hours.
Rome: Open City (1945): Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi; Neo–realist war drama about resistance fighters in fascist Italy places the action right inside the everyday and humanises the heroic.…
San Antonio (1945): Dir. David Butler, Robert Florey
Feat. Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall…; In the middle of a range war a tough dance hall girl falls for a chivalrous cowboy trying to bring law and order to San Antonio.
Scarlet Street (1945): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett; One of dir. Fritz Lang's best American film noirs, salts a slightly bizzare plot with pinches of cruelty and sexual repression. Edward G Robinson…
Seventh Veil, The (1945): Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. James Mason, Ann Todd; Renowned film serves up psychiatry in bite sized chunks as a concert pianist is cured of her complexes by a shrink intent on fixing her up with the…
Sherlock Holmes Collection (The Woman in Green, Terror by Night, Dressed To Kill) (1945-1946): Feat. Basil Rathbone; Three of Basil Rathbone's classic renditions of the Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes.
Song to Remember, A (1945): Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde; Biopic on the life of Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin, taking a few liberties here and there to follow the child prodigy through his…
Southerner, The (1945): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Betty Field, Zachary Scott, Beulah Bondi…; One of dir. Renoir's finest American films, follows the year–long trial of a young family who attempt to grow cotton on a derelict…
Spellbound (1945): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck; Beguiling Hitchcock, with Ingrid Bergman psychoanalyzing murder suspect Gregory Peck. Famed dream sequence by Salvador Dali.
State Fair (1945): Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes…; Cheerful Rodgers & Hammerstein musical about Iowa family visiting a colossal fairground.
They Were Expendable (1945): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Robert Montgomery; Fine tribute to the US Torpedo–boat troops who were last to retreat from the Philippines after Pearl Harbour. John Wayne and Robert Montgomery…
Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson…; Nick and Nora's reputation precedes them as they wrap up another murder mystery while visiting Nick's parents. The penultimate film in the popular…
Tonight and Every Night (1945): Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Rita Hayworth; Rita Hayworth starring musical about a London nightclub during the war which despite bombings and blitzes, never skips a beat.
Walk in the Sun, A (1945): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne…; Absorbing character study of men at war set in WW2 North Africa.
Way to the Stars, The (1945): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Douglas Montgomery…; An RAF airfield in WWII is the setting of this unassuming war–drama, set around the lives of the ‘flyers’ and the ground–crew. Given…
Wonder Man (1945): Dir. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen…; A typically zany fairy–tale for Danny Kaye, as a mild–mannered student persuaded by the ghost of his dead twin to seek out his murderer.…
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944): Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Leif Erickson…; Adventure film based on 'The Book of One Thousand and One Nights' about a boy prince who takes revenge on the Mongol invaders who murdered his father…
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey; Renowned black farce features a frenzied Cary Grant trying to convince his two elderly aunts that their habit of poisoning lonely old men, out of…
Bells of St. Mary's (1944): Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman; Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman team up for a musical comedy as a gentle priest and a prim nun who slug out their differences. 8 Oscar nominations.
Buffalo Bill (1944): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell; Fictionalized story of one of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, from his days as an army scout to his…
Can't Help Singing (1944): Dir. Frank Ryan
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff; Sugary sweet technicolour western musical based on the book "Girl of the Overland Trail" by Samuel J. and Curtis B. Warshawsky. Set during the…
Canterbury Tale, A (1944): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Eric Porter, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price; A typically uncategorisable Powell/Pressburger movie, that draws on British eccentricities to flesh out its simple story about three wartime…
Champagne Charlie (1944): Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Stanley Holloway, Jean Kent; Ealing musical drama following the fortunes of an ambitious entertainer trying to make it big in grimy late 19th century London. This often…
Christmas Holiday (1944): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly; Considered one of the bleakest Film Noirs of the 1940s, casting musical star Deanna Durbin in a rare serious role as a woman who marries an…
Cover Girl (1944): Dir. Charles Vidor
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers…; Sheer energy and razzamatazz compensate for the rampant cliches of this Rita Hayworth/Gene Kelly dance–musical, set in the world of magazine…
Curse of the Cat People (1944): Dir. Gunther V Fritsch, Robert Wise
Feat. Simone Simon; Sequel of worth to the original Val Lewton psychological chiller, again with the feline Simone Simon, here haunting the imagination of a small girl…
Double Indemnity (1944): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson; The jewel in the crown of all things film noir has hardly dated an iota despite countless imitations. You'll savour each moment as…
Fighting Sullivans, The (1944): Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Anne Baxter, Edward Ryan; Early telling of the true story that inspired SAVING PRIVATE RYAN about five brothers who served in WWII (in reality, at Guadacanal).
Frenchman's Creek (1944): Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone…; A faithful adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel about an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate during the reign of…
Gaslight (1944): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten; Menacing, atmospheric psycho–thriller in which Ingrid Bergman marries suave romantic Charles Boyer, unaware of his murderous obsession to find…
Going My Way (1944): Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Bing Crosby; Oscar–sweeping musical favourite stars Bing Crosby as the singing priest, Father O'Malley, whose casual unorthodoxy casts an influential spell.
Great Moment, The (1944): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Betty Field, William Demarest…; An oddly serious drama for dir. Sturges, this biopic of WTG Morgan (who discovered the anaesthetic properties of ether in the 19th century), played…
Hail The Conquering Hero (1944): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest…; Crazed comedy from dir. Sturges, with Bracken starring as a WW2 soldier, who never actually saw any action because of his hay fever, but who upon…
Henry V (1944): Dir. Laurence Olivier
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks; Brimming with zest, this Shakespeare adaption became an instant classic when released, featuring Laurence Olivier in full sail as the youthful…
House of Frankenstein (1944): Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Boris Karloff, J. Carrol Naish, Lon Jr. Chaney…; Genuinely odd horror film in the Universal Studios stable, has scientist Karloff rolling out a monster freakshow of the 'classics', including…
Keys of the Kingdom, The (1944): Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price…; Quietly powerful drama about a devout Catholic priest (played by a young Gregory Peck) who travels to China to establish a parish. Through…
Laura (1944): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb…; Classic noir with detective Dana Andrews assembling the pieces of the puzzle surrounding the mysterious death of glamourpuss Gene Tierney. Thriller…
Love Story (A Lady Surrenders) (1944): Dir. Leslie Arliss
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc…; Classy tearjerker with dying pianist Lockwood falling in love with blind pilot Granger. Treacly but satisfying with the two leads performances…
Meet Me in St Louis (1944): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor…; In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move…
Ministry of Fear (1944): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond…; Fritz Lang's classic film noir focuses on a man who, upon being released from an insane asylum, unwittingly discovers a piece of microfilm intended…
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn…; Madcap screwball comedy from genius writer–director Preston Sturges (THE LADY EVE), following a small–town girl from the Midwest (Betty…
Mr. Skeffington (1944): Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel; Unrepentant weepie of epic length with Bette Davis as a NYC 'society girl' who snags a devoted and rich Jewish husband (Rains). But after a tangle…
Murder, My Sweet (Farewell, My Lovely) (1944): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley…; An iconic 'noir' whose unsavoury storyline is taken from Raymond Chandler's classic novel. Powell plays a detective dragged into a murky case of…
National Velvet (1944): Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney; Ever–exciting family classic, with 12 year–old budding equestrian Elizabeth Taylor, taking her horse Velvet all the way to the Grand…
Passage to Marseille (1944): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre; Distinguished by the use of flashbacks within flashbacks, this WW2 propaganda piece re–unites the director with CASABLANCA alumnae.
Phantom Lady (1944): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac…; Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
Pin Up Girl (1944): Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye…; Betty Grable, America's #1 pin–up during WWII, strikes a pose as a canteen girl who pretends to be broadway star in order to stay close to her…
Purple Heart, The (1944): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger…; Watchable flag–waver from WW2 depicts the show trial of a crew of American airmen (led by Andrews) who are shot down over Tokyo in 1944. Has…
Rats of Tobruk, The (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk) (1944): Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch; Aussie battler Chips Rafferty fight hard in the Battle of Rommel in this chest–thumping follow–up to FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN.
Since You Went Away (1944): Dir. John Cromwell, Andre De Toth
Feat. Joseph Cotton, Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones…; While husband Joseph Cotton is away at WWII, Claudette Colbert must hold home and family together. A lengthy dose of home–front stoicism, that…
Tall in the Saddle (1944): Dir. Edwin L. Marin
Feat. John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond; An action–packed John Wayne Oater in which he plays a tough, quiet cowboy who arrives at an Arizona town to find his boss has been murdered and…
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, Robert Walker; True life WW2 story about the first American air raids on Japan with Spencer Tracy and Robert Mitchum in his leading debut.
This Happy Breed (1944): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills; Another David Lean–Noel Coward collaboration, the pair who later made the fine BRIEF ENCOUNTER. Here they turn their sensibilities to the…
To Have and Have Not (1944): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart; In the upper–bracket of Bogart films, this first time match–up with Lauren Bacall still sets the screen alight. Adapted from the…
Torment (Hets) (1944): Dir. Alf Sjoberg
Feat. Stig Jarrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling…; Impressionistic study of authoritarian education and adolescent love was scripted by a young Ingmar Bergman, and its universe of cruel twists and…
Uncertain Glory (1944): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson; Wartime romance with Flynn playing French criminal Jean Picard who vows to make the ultimate sacrifice, only to fall in love.
Uninvited, The (1944): Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp…; Classic tale of the macabre with Ray Milland discovering that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply…
Way Ahead, The (1944): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. David Niven, Stanley Holloway, Trevor Howard…; A depleted battalion must scrub up and train a ragtag bunch of conscripts to re–fill the positions left by deceased soldiers in this morale…
White Cliffs of Dover, The (1944): Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowall, Irene Dunne…; Patriotic sentiment up full–bore, this extended saga of English–American fraternising over both World Wars, has Irene Dunne and family…
Woman in the Window, The (1944): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey; Fritz Lang applies his quietly gripping style to this highly–ranked film–noir in which Criminology Professor Edward G Robinson is led…
Action in the North Atlantic (1943): Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale…; Dramatic battle scenes highlight this Oscar–nominated WW2 drama, in which Bogie portrays the first mate of a freighter travelling the…
Air Force (1943): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Garfield; Persuasive propaganda piece focusing on the crew of a B–17 bomber, quite thrilling in the hands of director Hawks.
Cabin in the Sky (1943): Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, " Eddie ""Rochester""" Anderson…; Landmark musical presents a 'faux–negro' folk story accompanied by the sophisticated musicianship of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and…
Crash Dive (1943): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews; A submarine lieutenant and his commander fall in love with the same girl in this thrilling propaganda piece that won the 1943 Oscar for best special…
Day of Wrath (1943): Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam; Witchcraft drama set in 17th century rural Denmark, where an innocent young woman is denounced following the death of her much older, harshly…
Destination Tokyo (1943): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Cary Grant; Suspenseful Cary Grant war melodrama set aboard a U.S sub encroaching Japanese waters.
Edge of Darkness (1943): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston…; Taut account of Resistance activities in Norway during WWII, has extra–good camerawork of Erroll Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Walter Huston in some…
Five Graves to Cairo (1943): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim…; Rousing early outing for Billy Wilder; a nimble, well–executed piece of WWII propaganda exaggerating the exploits of a British corporal officer…
Flemish Farm, The (1943): Dir. Jeffrey Dell
Feat. Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane Baxter; Low budget WW2 aviation drama focused on a regiment of Belgian pilots who use a Flemish farm as an airstrip with one of the injured men becoming…
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943): Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman; Splendidly mounted Spanish civil–war drama, in which International Brigade–er Gary Cooper leads local guerillas, including Ingrid…
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Patric Knowles, Ilona Massey…; Unique 'dual sequel', following both THE WOLF MAN and GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN. In this episode, the hairy Chaney seeks out the Doctor for a cure, but…
Gang's All Here, The (1943): Dir. Busby Berkeley
Feat. Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda; Exhibitionist Fox musical combines some sensational talent (Miranda, in particular) with wildly innovative visuals from the great Busby Berkeley. The…
Ghost on the Loose (1943): Dir. William Beaudine
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Leo Gorcey; At the 'Ed Wood' end of the horror–comedy canon, this has Lugosi haunting the suburban house of some newlyweds. Also stars screen…
Guadalcanal Diary (1943): Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Lloyd Nolan, Preston Foster…; Filmed just after US victory in the Solomon Islands during WW2, this standard issue war–film is a reasonably solid account of a grueling…
Hangmen Also Die (1943): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee…; Moody political thriller with Donlevy on the run after assassinating a prominent Nazi and finding shelter with a Czech family as the manhunt consumes…
Hard Way, The (1943): Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie; Musical drama based on a story by Irwin Shaw, which was reportedly inspired by Ginger Rogers' first marriage to Jack Pepper. Joan Leslie plays a…
Heat's On, The (Tropicana) (1943): Dir. Gregory Ratoff
Feat. Mae West; Famous Mae West flop, with the screen vamp playing a Broadway star torn between rival producers. Once the talk of the town, she wouldn't make another…
Heaven Can Wait (1943): Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn; Amusing comic fantasy in which playboy Don Ameche recalls his life of sin for the devil, to find he wasn't such a bad guy after all.
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943): Dir. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie…; Classic technicolor musical set in Frisco's lively vaudeville scene in 1915.
I Walked with a Zombie (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway; Incandescent spook story about a nurse who unleashes historical and spiritual demons when called out to a Caribbean island. Its scare value may have…
Ivan the Terrible Pts. 1 & 2 (1943): Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikolai Cherkassov, Serafima Birman, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya; Spectacularly staged chronicle of the life of Czar Ivan IV, and his struggle to consolidate the Russian empire in the 16th Century. One of the…
Jane Eyre (1943): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Peggy Ann Garner…; Orphan Jane's (Joan Fontaine) harsh childhood and strange marriage are fuel for splendid gothic melodrama in this version of Charlotte Bronte's…
Le Corbeau (1943): Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Pierre Fresnay; Fascinating as a wartime allegory made under the German Occupation of France, a small town becomes a hot–bed of paranoia following a rash of…
Leopard Man, The (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dennis O'Keefe; The final Val Lewton–Tourneur horror collaboration concerns an escaped leopard (apparently) running amok in a small New Mexico town. A slim…
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook; The numerous off–beat adventures of a British soldier are chronicled over a period of three wars, with Deborah Kerr playing all three of the…
Lulu Belle (1943): Dir. Leslie Fenton
Feat. Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Albert Dekker; Montgomery leaves his fiancee to take up with disreputable night club singer Lulu Belle. Almost forgotten musical is mostly of interest for it's…
Man in Grey, The (1943): Dir. Leslie Arliss
Feat. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert…; Stagy melodrama told largely in flashback centers on the story of two women one rich, one poor and the man with whom a love triangle develops with…
Millions Like Us (1943): Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford…; Honest dramatization of the British "home front" during the second World War focuses on a factory worker struggling to overcome her grief after the…
More the Merrier, The (1943): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn; Winning romantic comedy with a peerless Jean Arthur allowing two men to share her apartment, one of whom she falls in love with.
My Learned Friend (1943): Dir. Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Feat. Will Hay, Mervyn Johns; British comedy starring Will Hay as a lawyer on the run from a serial killer, whom he had previously defended and been unable to keep out of jail.…
Outlaw, The (1943): Dir. Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Feat. Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell…; Off–beat retelling of the legend of Billy the Kid with Jane Russell's cleavage outraging the censors of the day. Now a tame curiosity.
Ox Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes…; Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford. Although…
Phantom of the Opera (1943): Dir. Arthur Lubin
Feat. Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster; Technicolour version of the old tale with Claude Rains warbling it up behind the mask. The emphasis here is more on singing than chills, it could be…
Power of the Press (1943): Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger; Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. During World War II, a newspaper publisher investigates the murder of a colleague, who was attempting to steer his…
Presenting Lily Mars (1943): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter…; MGM Musical comedy starring Judy Garland in an early grown–up role as the titular small–town girl who heads to Broadway but struggles to…
Return of the Vampire, The (1943): Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch…; Serving as an unofficial follow–up to DRACULA (1931), Bela Lugosi plays another vampire called Armand Tesla, who encounters with an…
Sahara (1943): Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Humphrey Bogart; Good WWII actioner, with Humphrey Bogart commanding a tank stuck behind enemy lines.
Seventh Victim, The (1943): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell…; One of the finest of producer Val Lewton’s low–budget RKO horror films, here investing a tale of satanists at work in NYCs Greenwich Village…
Shadow of a Doubt (1943): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten; Teenager Teresa Wright is thrilled when relative Joseph Cotten comes to stay, then less so, gradually realising Uncle Charlie may be a psychopathic…
Silver Fleet, The (1943): Dir. Vernon Sewell
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Esmond Knight, Googie Withers…; A rousing WW2 maritime drama in which a Dutch shipping port owner decides to swindle the Nazis by agreeing to provide them with his submarines for…
Son of Dracula (1943): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton…; The toothsome Count (not the son, despite the title), here played by Lon Chaney Jnr, sinks fangs into a selection of Southern belles and their…
Song of Bernadette, The (1943): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Jennifer Jones, Vincent Price, Charles Bickford…; Religious melodrama set in 19th century rural France, where Jones controversially has visions of the Virgin Mary. Over–lavish (and long), this…
Stormy Weather (1943): Dir. Andrew L. Stone
Feat. Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway…; An on–off romance between a dancer and a popular songstress provides a suitable excuse for a fantastic retrospective of the great…
We Dive at Dawn (1943): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Niall MacGinnis; Sturdy WWII actioner has a British sub sent out to sink a heavily–armed Nazi battleship with the help of three German sailors, but getting into…
WWII - The John Huston Documents (Let There Be Light; The Battle of San Pietro) (1943-1947): Dir. John Huston; Two legendary war documentaries from John Huston (THE MALTESE FALCON) who participated in WWII as a combat filmmaker yet whose films are the…
Across the Pacific (1942): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor; Bogie and director Huston reunite with other MALTESE FALCON leads for a similarly toned WW2 spy adventure set on the eve of Pearl Harbour. Huston was…
Arabian Nights (1942): Dir. John Rawlins
Feat. Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu…; Lavish sets and costumes distinguish this story of two brothers competing for the throne of Turkey and the hand of the fiery dancing girl played by…
Black Swan, The (1942): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara; Premium pirate hokum with a spirited assortment of heroes and villains and a plot that never lulls.
Casablanca (1942): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman; The role that immortalised Bogart is that of Rick, the laconic cafe–owner who assists old flame Ingrid Bergman to escape the Nazis with her…
Cat People (1942): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Simone Simon, Jack Holt, Kent Smith…; Producer Val Lewton's most celebrated low–budget horror evokes a disturbing atmosphere of repression and menace with shadows, music and the…
Day Will Dawn, The (1942): Dir. Harold French
Feat. Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr…; Propaganda fuelled WW2 drama about a foreign journalist reporting on German U–Boats attacking Norwegian ships who finds himself up against the…
Desperate Journey (1942): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan; Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan are stranded Allied pilots who flee the clutches of the Nazis in Boy's Own WW2 propaganda film.
Dr Seuss (TV Series) (1942-1994): Dir. Various; The classic children's books in their animated television versions. On tape and disc: "Best of..." containing three Dr Seuss tales – ‘Horton…
Eternel Retour, L' (1942): Dir. Jean Delannoy
Feat. Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologney, Yvonne de Bray…; (Love Eternal) A contemporary take on the legend of Tristan and Isolde, lovers united after death. Jean Cocteau's script is realised with the…
First of the Few (Spitfire) (1942): Dir. Leslie Howard
Feat. Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John…; Rousing true life tale of aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell and his streamlined monoplane that led to the devolpment of the spitfire. Released with…
For Me and My Gal (1942): Dir. Busby Berkeley
Feat. Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, George Murphy; A Busby Berkeley–directed musical that provided the first real "adult" role for a nineteen–year–old Judy Garland. Gene Kelly…
Glass Key, The (1942): Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy; Alan Ladd re–teams with blonde siren Veronica Lake in this almighty film noir of divided loyalties, crooked politicians, and underworld snares.…
Goose Steps Out, The (1942): Dir. Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Feat. Will Hay, Frank Pettingell, Charles Hawtrey…; British war comedy with Hay as a bumbling teacher conveniently turns out to be the double of a German general. In the true spirit of wartime…
Hitchcock Collection Volume 1 (Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, The Trouble With Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955), Psycho) (1942-1960): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Excellently–presented box–set with eight of Hitch's best early suspensers.
Holiday Inn (1942): Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby; Love–triangle musical scored by Irving Berlin has Astaire dancing without Rogers and Bing Crosby unleashing 'White Christmas'.
I Married A Witch (1942): Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Veronica Lake, Fredric March, Robert Benchley…; Charming screwball comedy sees a smoldering Veronica Lake play a reincarnated witch, who torments Fredric March's uptight politician for being a…
In Which We Serve (1942): Dir. David Lean
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles…; WW2 drama contrasts the service lives of a destroyer crew with their memories of back home. Powerful film won an Oscar for writer, director and star…
Journey into Fear (1942): Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles…; Hitchcockian suspenser set around an American engineer's adventures in WW2 Turkey. Loaded down with a maze–like plot (written by star Joseph…
Jungle Book (1942): Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Sabu; Live–action version of Rudyard Kipling's novel with Sabu as Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves who attempts to adapt to human custom.
Keeper of the Flame (1942): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf…; Spencer Tracy plays a top–notch reporter who falls in love with the widow of the deceased national hero he's assigned to investigate. A tight…
Kings Row (1942): Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan…; Celebrated and infamous melodrama of the titular smalltown, a seemingly placid American community, around which insanity, poverty and sadism hover…
Les Visiteurs Du Soir (1942): Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Arletty, Marie Dea, Fernand Ledoux…; Two of the Devil's henchmen are dispatched to a fairytale–like 15th century castle with an eye to corrupting its inhabitants, especially a pair…
Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello; Following up CITIZEN KANE, Orson Welles again drew a bead on the American rich, chronicling the dynastic squabbles of a…
Major and the Minor, The (1942): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson…; Billy Wilder’s first film is a dexterous screwball gem: the delectable Ginger Rogers plays a spunky woman posing as a child so she can afford a…
Mrs. Miniver (1942): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon; An unabashed patriotic war drama, so effective in that capacity it garnered political commendation as well as six Oscars, including Best Picture and…
Native Land (1942): Dir. Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand; Impassioned and authentic, this landmark film call for social revolution in Depression–era America blends vivid re–anactments with actual…
Now, Voyager (1942): Dir. Irving Rapper
Feat. Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid; Compelling story of unrequited passion with Bette Davis radiant as the repressed spinster turned elegant socialite who falls in love with a married…
One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Eric Portman, Bernard Miles, Hugh Williams; Brisk war–thriller about how a six man British aircrew must find their way back to England across the Occupied Netherlands. Raised above the…
Orchestra Wives (1942): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari…; Swing–era musical featuring the Glenn Miller orchestra, with Miller himself playing the leader of a band. When the trumpet player…
Ossessione (1942): Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani; Visconti's awesome debut interprets James Cain's novel of lust, greed, murder and recrimination, The Postman Always Rings Twice. Its stark rendering…
Palm Beach Story, The (1942): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor…; Another fine Preston Sturges comedy, this concerns a gifted but struggling architect (McCrea), whose wife (Colbert) abandons him for the hope of…
Pittsburgh (1942): Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne; Marlene Dietrich – striking as always – is courted by John Wayne and Randolph Scott as coalminers–turned–millionaires. A…
Random Harvest (1942): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Ronald Colman, Greer Garson; A shell–shocked WW1 officer marries and is contented until he remembers his past life in the aristocracy. Far–fetched but very enjoyable…
Reap the Wild Wind (1942): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. John Wayne, Raymond Massey, Paulette Goddard; Rugged ships captain John Wayne conducts hair–raising salvages off the 19th century Florida coast, in this spectacular sea–adventure,…
Road to Morocco (1942): Dir. David Butler
Feat. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour; Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour do their bit for the war effort by enchanting the public with mad–cap (rom)antics on the North African…
Roxie Hart (Chicago) (1942): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery…; Comedy adapting the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, which was the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical. Ginger Rogers plays the…
Saboteur (1942): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane; Robert Cummings dodges shady conspirators and skeptical patriots as the wrong man thought to be responsible for some anti–American sabotage.…
Secret Mission (1942): Dir. Harold French
Feat. Michael Wilding, James Mason, Hugh Williams; Wartime propaganda piece focused around four Brit intelligence officers on a mission in France to gauge the force of the German defences while being…
Secret Weapon, The (1942): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill…; Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce play the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this updated (to the 40s) version of the original Conan Doyle…
Silver Screen Collection Boxset (1942-1960): 25 classics from the British and American golden age. – The African Queen – A Town Like Alice – Brief Encounter – Odd…
Spoilers, The (1942): Dir. Ray Enright
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne; A gold–rush Western set in Alaska in which gold–miner John Wayne tussles it out with corrupt commissioner Randolph Scott over his claims…
Spy Smasher (1942): Dir. William Whitney
Feat. Kane Richmond, Sam Flint, Marguerite Chapman; Wartime serial adapted from the comic strip has twin brothers protecting democracy from the needle–nosed Nazi spys. 12 instalments on one…
Tales of Manhattan (1942): Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers…; A star–studded portmanteau of five tales of life in the Big Apple. Runs the gamut from film noir, to romantic comedy, to high melodrama.
Talk of the Town, The (1942): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Jean Arthur; Vaguely radical factory–worker Cary Grant goes on the run after being framed for arson and manslaughter by a corrupt establishment, and hides…
This Gun for Hire (1942): Dir. Frank Tuttle
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston…; Dynamite film noir, with Alan Ladd leaping to prominence as an unsmiling hitman embroiled in a vicious revenge quest for a traitorous confederate,…
Thunder Birds (Soldiers of the Air) (1942): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton…; Routine wartime love triangle with two fighter pilots falling for a radiant Gene Tierney, gorgeous Technicolor and ace aerial photography liven it up…
Thunder Rock (1942): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen…; Wonderfully cerebral first film from the great Boulting Brothers in which a disillusioned newspaperman living in self imposed exile in a Michigan…
To Be or Not to Be (1942): Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Jack Benny, Carole Lombard; Wonderful black comedy about a Polish theatre group who in the face of a German invasion, become involved in a covert operation that masquerades them…
Went the Day Well? (1942): Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Leslie Banks, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr; British pluck and courage is put to the test in this Graham Greene story, where a cosy English village is infiltrated during WWII by a truckload of…
Woman of the Year (1942): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn; Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's endearing screen partnership ignited as disparate newspaper reporters whose personalities at once clash and…
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston; An energy–filled and well–loved musical biography of Show–Biz King George Cohan, played by James Cagney.
You Were Never Lovelier (1942): Dir. William A Seiter
Feat. Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth; Gently funny musical with Fred Astaire pursuing Rita Hayworth.
49th Parallel (1941): Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Laurence Olivier; A taut, effective actioner in which five German U–boat men become stranded off the Canadian coast and try to make it overland to the neutral…
Ball of Fire (1941): Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Dana Andrews…; Screwball comedy with Gary Cooper playing a professor working hard on a new encyclopedia with his colleagues, who meets a nightclub performer…
Big Store, The (1941): Dir. Charles Riesner
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx; Marx Bros. let loose in a department store.
Black Cat, The (1941): Dir. Albert S. Rogell
Feat. Basil Rathbone, F. Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford…; A curious genre hybrid for the time, both haunted house movie and comedy (with the help of comedy actor Bob Hope), adapting the Edgar Allan Poe story…
Blood and Sand (1941): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Tyrone Power, Rita Hayworth; Steamy romantic tragedy with Tyrone Power as an accomplished but naive matador whose bull–ring heroics take a back–seat for brazen Rita…
Blossoms in the Dust (1941): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Marsha Hunt; Campaigner for orphans–rights Greer Garson frets and furrows her brow to perfection in this slick, high–minded weepie.
Bride Came C.O.D., The (1941): Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin…; Slapstick rom–com with Cagney as cash–strapped charter pilot who is hired to kidnap a tycoon's daughter to prevent her marrying a vapid…
Captain Marvel (1941): Dir. Bill Witney
Feat. Tom Tyler; Tom Tyler transforms himself into superhero Captain Marvel simply by saying the word...Shazam! Considered by some to be the finest pre–show…
Citizen Kane (1941): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead; Orson Welles ground–breaking work chronicles a publishing tycoon's rise to power, told through a reporter's efforts to discover the meaning of…
Cottage to Let (1941): Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills…; Brit thriller focusing on an inventor in the business of bomb testing for the Air Ministry, whose supposedly innocent domestic staff is riddled with…
Devil and Daniel Webster, The (1941): Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig…; Originally released in a heavily edited version as "All That Money Can Buy", this recently restored version can now be fully appreciated as a true…
Devil and Miss Jones, The (1941): Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur; Tycoon Charles Coburn goes undercover to investigate union activities, and instead falls for shopgirl Jean Arthur. Well–regarded social comedy.
Dive Bomber (1941): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn; The life and duties of a navy doctor turned flight surgeon entering WW2 with a dashing Errol Flynn. Notable for top–flight aerial sequences.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941): Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner…; Handsomely produced version of the Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, in which a mild doctor transforms himself by night into a murderous maniac.
Face Behind the Mask, The (1941): Dir. Robert Florey
Feat. Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes; Film noir following the descent of a kind watch maker whose face is disfigured in a fire shortly after immigrating to America, and despite being a…
Hellzapoppin' (1941): Dir. H.C. Potter
Feat. Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson; Batty and rambunctious comedy classic runs a gamut of slight gags and inspired slapstick lunacy, with wild pair Olsen and Johnson guiding the…
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941): Dir. Alexander Hall
Feat. Claude Rains; Memorable romantic fantasy in which a none–too–bright boxer is killed in a plane crash before arch–angel Claude Rains sends him…
High Sierra (1941): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino; Crucial role that steered Humphrey Bogart towards more sympathetic anti–heroes, here playing a prison escapee/gangster facing the end with Ida…
How Green Was My Valley (1941): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara; Memories of childhood in a Welsh mining village are vividly portrayed in this highly emotive drama. Winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture.
I Wake Up Screaming (1941): Dir. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Betty Grable; Betty Grable tackles a dramatic role for this exciting whodunnit surrounding the murder of her sister. Quality film noir with a surprise twist in its…
Jean Grémillon: During the Occupation (Remorques, Lumière d'été, Le Ciel Est à Vous) (1941-1944): Dir. Jean Gremillon
Feat. Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud; Three character–driven dramas from the heralded French film director who has been little represented outside of his home country: Remorques…
Lady Eve, The (1941): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn…; One of the greatest Hollywood screwball comedies ever, this begins with naïve zoologist Henry Fonda (“Snakes are my life”) falling in love with…
Laurel and Hardy Collection, The (The Bullfighters; The Dancing Masters; Great Guns; A-Haunting We Will Go; The Big Noise; Jitterbugs) (1941-1945): Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy; Six late–period comedy gems from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, available to buy as a box–set or for rental as separate titles. Great…
Little Foxes, The (1941): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall; Masterful period drama adapted from a stageplay by one the great directors. Bette Davis is in brilliant form as Regina, the scheming matron…
Loyal 47 Ronin, The (47 Ronin) (1941): Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Yoshizaburo Arashi; Sombre rendition of a famous Japanese legend that's both quietly dignified and overtly nationalistic, tooled as propaganda during the height of…
Lydia (Illusions) (1941): Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotton, Alan Marshall…; Dreamy, melancholic melodrama follows the life and numerous loves of a society gal (Oberron) in New England over thirty odd years. Dir. Duvivier…
Maltese Falcon, The (1941): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre…; A remarkable debut from director Huston hires Bogart's detective Sam Spade to locate a priceless statuette. Prototype film noir based on Dashiell…
Man Hunt (1941): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders…; A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
Meet John Doe (1941): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan…; Always partial to a ripe political parable, dir. Capra has Barbara Stanwyck leading hickster Gary Cooper around by the nose on a national goodwill…
Moon Over Miami (1941): Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Betty Grable, Don Ameche, Robert Cummings; One of Betty Grable's better musical outings, it's a bright and breezy story of two sisters who attempt to ensnare a pair of Miami millionaires when…
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond…; An interesting departure for Alfred Hitchcock, this airy screwball comedy follows a happily married couple in New York who are shocked to learn that…
Penny Serenade (1941): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne; Cary Grant and Irene Dunne adopt a infant, then lose it, in a brilliantly crafted tear–jerker.
Road to Zanzibar (1941): Dir. Victor Schertzinger
Feat. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour; The second in the 'Road to...' series sees the classic trio (Hope, Crosby and Lamour) down Africa–way in darkest Zanzibar.
Sergeant York (1941): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Gary Cooper; A wartime classic about a real–life pacifist turned WW1 hero. Gary Cooper won an Oscar for his vivid portrayal.
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Donna Reed…; Yet another relaxing weekend for sweethearts Nick and Nora turns into a head–scratcher, as the crime–stopping couple divert from a day at…
Strawberry Blonde (1941): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth…; Winning 40's rom–com based on the play "One Sunday Afternoon" by James Hagan. Set in 1890's New York City, with James Cagney playing a…
Sullivan's Travels (1941): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick…; Hailed as dir. Sturges most reflective statement on his comic art, this finds lightweight Hollywood director Joel McCrea dressing as a tramp in order…
Sun Valley Serenade (1941): Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Sonja Henie, John Payne, Milton Berle…; Winter wonderland musical sets the stage for the Glenn Miller Orchestra and skating star Sonja Henie, here playing a Norwegian refugee turned…
Suspicion (1941): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine; One of Hitch's first American films uses the artificial charms of Cary Grant to strangely sinister effect, as a manipulative playboy whom wife Joan…
Swamp Water (1941): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter…; An interesting melodrama, dank with the regional atmosphere of the Florida Everglades, about the problems undergone by a youthful fur trapper…
Tarzan's Secret Treasure / Tarzan's New York Adventure (1941-1942): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan; Double feature of the 5th and 6th TARZAN films from Johnny Weissmuller. TARZAN'S SECRET TREASURE (1941) – Here Tarzan fights…
That Hamilton Woman (1941): Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh; Star–chemistry between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh ignites this portrayal of the infamous romance between Lord Horatio Nelson and Emma…
They Died With Their Boots On (1941): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland; Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland lead a great cast for the life and times of General Custer. Part romantic comedy, part tragedy, done in grandest…
Western Union (1941): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger…; Outlaw Vance Shaw tries to escape his dark past by protecting the good citizens building telegraph poles in the Great Plains from bandits, only to…
When the Daltons Rode (1941): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy…; Stirring western centred around a lawyer forced to choose between loyalty to his friends or the word of law when the infamous Dalton Gang are framed…
Wolf Man, The (Wolfman) (1941): Dir. George Waggner
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Claude Rains; Universal horror classic has Lon Chaney Jnr. bitten by werewolf Bela Lugosi among the foggy glades of Alpine–set English villages.
Woody Woodpecker and Friends (1941): Classic cartoons from the Walter Lantz archive, featuring the iconic woodpecker and stablemates Chilly Willy, Andy Panda, Swing Symphonies and Oswald…
You'll Never Get Rich (1941): Dir. Sidney Lanfield
Feat. Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, John Hubbard…; Generally amusing showbiz comedy has Fred Astaire play a star Broadway dancer who helps his boss (Benchley) out of trouble with his wife over a…
Ziegfeld Girl (1941): Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr…; A star–sudded MGM musical melodrama featuring musical numbers staged by Busby Berkeley, highlighted by "You Stepped Out of a Dream". Set in the…
Angels Over Broadway (1940): Dir. Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
Feat. Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Rita Hayworth; Off–beat melodrama about three of life's failures who redeem themselves in one night's gambling in a New York cafe.
Arizona (1940): Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William; Epic frontier Western set in Tuscon, Arizona in early 1860's, where an independent, tough–as–nails pioneer woman aspires to be a cattle…
Bank Dick, The (1940): Dir. Edward Cline
Feat. W.C. Fields, Una Merkel, Cora Witherspoon; W.C. Fields last great outburst of lunatic humour, playing a not–particularly–interested–in–the–job bank–guard,…
Best of Abbott and Costello, The - Volume 1 (One Night in the Tropics, Buck Privates, In the Navy, Hold that Ghost, Keep 'Em Flying, Ride 'Em Cowboy, Who Done It?, Pardon My Sarong) (1940-1942): Dir. A. Edward Sutherland, Arthur Lubin, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello; The first eight movie comedies with duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in their patented roles. After careers in variety, silent films and radio, they…
Bob Hope Collector Box Set (Road to Singapore, Road to Zanzibar, Road to Morocco, Road to Utopia) (1940-1946): Feat. Bob Hope; Droll comedian Bob Hope's four "ROAD TO..." comedies.
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy…; The final of the loosely connected BROADWAY MELODY quartet is unusually plot–heavy, but still features glittery dance numbers and a lovely Cole…
Brother Orchid (1940): Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern…; Low–key but interesting star vehicle for Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart with the big guy playing a has–been gangster who joins a…
Casper and Friends (TV Series) (1940): Collection of classic episodes from the 40s and 50s originally appearing as part of the 'Harveytoon' show, following Casper the friendly ghost as he…
Christmas in July (1940): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn…; Dir. Sturges second film is a short, sweet and sharp satire on 'success', in which a gullible office clerk (Powell) is fooled by his colleagues into…
Down Argentine Way (1940): Dir. Irving Cummings
Feat. Carmen Miranda, Betty Grable, Don Ameche; A horse mad New Yorker falls for a wealthy Argentine rancher in this fluffy technicolor musical, but is hampered by the longstanding feud between…
Fighting 69th, The (1940): Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent; James Cagney plays a loudmouthed braggart who alienates his comrades and officers, but the regimental chaplain (Pat O'Brien) has faith that he'll…
Flash Gordon Serial (Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) (1940): Dir. Ford Beebe
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton; One of the early Flash Gordon serials, which enthralled audiences in the 1940s. Here Flash must battle Ming the Merciless who has unleashed the…
Foreign Correspondent (1940): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Joel McCrea, Laraine Day; On the eve of WWII, journalist Joel McCrea gets involved in European espionage, some classic Hitchcock set–pieces (esp. the Dutch windmill…
Forty Thousand Horsemen (40,000 Horsemen) (1940): Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Chips Rafferty; This rollicking war romp depicts the deeds of the Australian Light Horse cavalry during WWI. Stars the archetypal Aussie bushman, Chips Rafferty.
Gaslight (1940): Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell…; This potently atmospheric "Victorian" thriller boasts a suitably wired Anton Walbrook as a repressed patriarch who torments his wife in an effort to…
Ghost Breakers, The (1940): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson…; THE CAT AND THE CANARY stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard reunite for this middling chiller with Goddard inheriting a haunted mansion on a small…
Go West (1940): Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx; The Marx Brothers take on the Wild West armed with one–liners and slapstick in a tamer effort from their later career.
Grapes of Wrath (1940): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, John Carradine; Henry Fonda stars in this masterful humanist film about a group of destitute Oklahoma farmers that trek to California in hope of a better life. One…
Great Dictator, The (1940): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin; Chaplin's brave subversive satire in which he inhabits dual roles – dictator Adenoid Hynkle and a Jewish barber – for his damning…
Great McGinty, The (1940): Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest…; The first film with Preston Sturges both scripting and directing, this dryly wacky political satire sees cynical bum Donlevy rise to the heights of…
Green Hornet, The (1940): Dir. Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Feat. Gordon Jones, Keye Luke, Anne Nagel…; George W. Trendle's classic masked vigilante – originally stepping out in comic book and radio form, before appearing on TV (with Bruce Lee as…
His Girl Friday (1940): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy; Fast and furious comic masterpiece with Cary Grant in superb form as a conniving newspaper editor whose ex–wife happens to be his star…
Howards Of Virginia, The (1940): Dir. Frank Lloyd
Feat. Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Sir Cedric Hardwicke; Cary Grant rather bumbles through this melodrama set during the American Revolution, playing a rugged surveyor who marries aristocrat and royalist…
Invisible Man Returns, The (1940): Dir. Joe May
Feat. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey; A man falsely sentenced to death for murdering his brother – the original Invisible Man, takes a drug enabling him to vanish from his cell in…
Invisible Woman, The (1940): Dir. A. Edward Sutherland
Feat. Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard…; The mad professor (Barrymore) is about to lose hope of salvaging his project when finally someone answers the call (an ad in the paper) to be his…
It All Came True (1940): Dir. Lewis Seiler
Feat. Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart; A crime–themed musical comedy featuring Ann Sheridan as a fledgling singer in her first starring role as well as Humphrey Bogart as a fugitive…
Johnny Apollo (1940): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold…; Elegant crime drama stars Tyrone Power as a well–heeled graduate who resorts to underworld activities to assist his imprisoned father.
Killer Bats (The Devil Bat) (1940): Dir. Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien; Although fairly low–tech in its special effects this short horror boasts a committed performance from Lugosi, as a doctor who is developing…
Let George Do It! (1940): Dir. Marcel Varnel
Feat. George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh; Ealing Studios comedy sees George Formby star as a ukulele player who unwittingly takes the wrong boat and finds himself mistaken for a British…
Letter, The (1940): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson; Although not quite of the first rank, this sultry melodrama counts as one of Bette Davis' most interesting 1940s works. Set among the frustrated…
Little Men (1940): Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft…; Based on the inferior follow–up to Louisa May Alcott's hugely successful Little Women, we find Jo March and her husband operating the Plumfield…
Little Nellie Kelly (1940): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Judy Garland, George Murphy; Filmed version of the hit Broadway musical comedy from 1922 about Irish–American immigrants starring Judy Garland, who was fresh to…
Long Voyage Home, The (1940): Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter…; John Wayne is a Swedish sailor aboard a doom–ridden tramp steamer circa. WWII, in this portmanteau of four stories by Eugene O'Neill. An…
Mark of Zorro, The (1940): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Tyrone Power; Zestful remake of the Fairbanks swashbuckler, this time with Tyrone Power as the masked hero who carves zeds over every available surface.
My Favourite Wife (1940): Dir. Garson Kanin
Feat. Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott; Witty marital mixup comedy with the seven–years–shipwrecked Irene Dunne returning home to discover husband Cary Grant about to embark on…
My Little Chickadee (1940): Dir. Edward Cline
Feat. Mae West, W.C. Fields; Mae West and W.C. Fields profitably co–exist in this formula story of marital shenanigans in the Wild West, garlanded with lunatic gags, dirty…
North West Mounted Police (1940): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Lon Jr. Chaney…; Technicolour western set in 1885, with Gary Cooper playing a Texas Ranger who travels to Canada to arrest a fugitive who is inciting rebellion…
Northwest Passage (1940): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan…; Rousing adventure yarn set during the French–Indian war with Tracy and team opening up trade routes and leading raids. Splendid Technicolour…
Our Town (1940): Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott; Affectionate study of small–town American life, set in New Hampshire over a twelve year period. Frank Craven narrates our tour of the community…
Philadelphia Story, The (1940): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart; A second marriage for a stuffy heiress is threatened by scandal. A witty, sparkling romantic farce with golden trio – Katharine Hepburn, Cary…
Pride and Prejudice (1940): Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson; Jane Austen's splendid comedy of manners is brought to the screen for the first time, with wit and subtlety firmly in tact.
Rebecca (1940): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders; A masterful gothic romance about a nobleman's second wife who becomes haunted by the image of his beloved first. Hitchcock's first American film was…
Remember the Night (1940): Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi…; Preston Sturges scripted this forgotten yuletide gem, about an assistant D.A. (MacMurray) who, feeling sorry for a glamorous jewel thief (Stanwyck),…
Return of Frank James (1940): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper; Worthy sequel to JESSE JAMES with Henry Fonda reprising his role of Frank, now out to avenge the death of his brother.
Road to Singapore (1940): Dir. Victor Schertzinger
Feat. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour; The first of half a dozen 'Road to' films has Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as clowning, crooning rivals vying for the affections of Dorothy Lamour.
Santa Fe Trail, The (1940): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland…; Set in the leadup to the American Civil War, this professionally executed Western has future Confederate general Jeb Stuart (Flynn) lead the charge…
Sea Hawk, The (1940): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn; Adventure on the high seas with Errol Flynn at the height of his popularity. Magnificent swordplay and battle scenes.
Seven Sinners (1940): Dir. Tay Garnett
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker…; Tropical romance ensues for Marlene Dietrich's quick–witted, sultry saloon singer whose bad behaviour washes her up at the Seven Sinners Cafe,…
Shop Around the Corner, The (1940): Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan…; One for the pantheon of romantic–comedy this, directed by the illustrious Ernst Lubitsch (of the famed 'Lubitsch touch') and excelling in its…
They Drive by Night (1940): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Ida Lupino; Freelance truckies Humphrey Bogart and George Raft do night–runs to deliver their cargo on time, making the first–half an…
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940): Dir. Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan
Feat. Sabu, Conrad Veidt, June Duprez; Sabu stars in this magical, intoxicating vision of the Arabian Nights, some twenty years before the genre was revived in SINBAD. Romance, tragedy,…
Tom Brown's School Days (1940): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Freddie Bartholomew, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Jimmy Lydon; Thomas Hughes' classic novel of life at the Victorian Boys public school of Rugby is given a generous, populist treatment. New boy Lydon finds…
Torrid Zone (1940): Dir. William Keighley
Feat. James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien; Caribbean–set adventure–comedy in which a fruit company executive (Pat O'Brien) has his plantation plagued by revolutionaries so he…
Twenty One Days (21 Days Together) (1940): Dir. Basil Dean
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks…; Laurence Olivier plays a playboy embroiled in the death of an attractive model's blackmailer in this curious pre–war melodrama, from the…
Waterloo Bridge (1940): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor; Vivien Leigh's follow–up performance to GONE WITH THE WIND is cited as her favourite. It's a sumptuous romantic tragedy about war–torn…
Westerner, The (1940): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan; Gary Cooper stars in accomplished Texan yarn concerning land disputes. Most impressive, though, is Walter Brennan in an Oscar–winning…
Another Thin Man (1939): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Otto Kruger…; Nick and Nora, with newborn baby in tow, spend a weekend on Long Island, sleuthing out a shady character whose death threats lead to murder. Adapted…
At the Circus (1939): Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx; Ring–side high–jinx with the Marx Brothers, one of the high–lights being Groucho's rendition of 'Lydia the Tattoed lady'.
Beau Geste (1939): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston…; Classic Hollywood gallantry with, Gary Cooper as the eldest of three brothers who run away to join the French Foreign Legion, only to clash bayonets…
Bette Davis Collection (Dark Victory; Mr Skeffington; The Letter; Now, Voyager) (1939-1944): Feat. Bette Davis; Four early Bette Davis features including the alltime classic NOW, VOYAGER.
Buck Rogers- Original Complete Series (1939): Feat. Henry Brandon, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall…; Beloved classic series about a heroic pilot and his young passenger who crash–land on a mountaintop where a mysterious gas puts them into a…
Cat and the Canary, The (1939): Dir. Elliott Nugent
Feat. Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard; Bob Hope lends his charm to this playful remake of 1927 expressionist silent film about siblings who inherit an uncle's fortune but must first prove…
Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, The (1939-1946): Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce; Complete collection of all 14 SHERLOCK HOLMES films starring Basil Rathbone as the iconic detective and Nigel Bruce as his loyal sidekick Dr Watson.…
Dark Eyes of London (Human Monster; Dead Eyes of London) (1939): Dir. Walter Summers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt; Weirdly atmospheric chiller has Bela Lugosi using his blind disciples as pawns in an elaborate murder/insurance scam.
Dark Victory (1939): Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart…; Sleekly upholstered melodrama, with Davis as a willful, party–going Long Island millionairess who discovers she is dying. Great performances…
Destry Rides Again (1939): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Una Merkel; James Stewart is once again a mild–mannered law–man while Marlene Dietrich makes her most sensational Hollywood turn as exotic saloon…
Divorce Of Lady X (1939): Dir. Tim Whelan
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson…; Sprightly Technicolor story has Olivier playing a barrister who falls in love with the woman he thinks his client will soon be divorcing.
Dodge City (1939): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland; Lusty western with Errol Flynn cutting the mustard as a cowboy hero. Olivia De Havilland is his gracious co–star once again.
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Edna May Oliver…; Minor Ford drama with Fonda and Colbert as newlyweds whose farming career gets stymied by the Revolutionary War and attacks from Native Americans.…
Eternally Yours (1939): Dir. Tay Garnett
Feat. Loretta Young, David Niven, Broderick Crawford…; A woman leaves stability and a wealthy fiancée behind to travel the globe as a magician's assistant after she is swept off her feet. However 'The…
Four Feathers, The (1939): Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. John Clements, Ralph Richardson, Sir C. Aubrey Smith…; Best version of the much–filmed, classic A E W Mason story, where a British civilian (John Clements), accused of cowardice, must prove himself…
Golden Boy (1939): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck; William Holden, in his starring debut, plays a gifted youth who trades off a promising career as a musician to make it as a boxer.
Gone with the Wind (1939): Dir. Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
Feat. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland…; One of the greatest examples of story–telling on film, this maintains one's firm interest for nearly four hours with its romantic story, strong…
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939): Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Robert Donat, Greer Garson; Slow–moving, heartfelt story of a devoted schoolteacher. Robert Donat won an Oscar in the lead role.
Gunga Din (1939): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Cary Grant, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Victor McLaglen; Brilliant, wildly nonsensical adventure yarn has a carousing trio of soldiers let loose in colonial India, then ganging together to defeat the…
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939): Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Charles Laughton; Charles Laughton is perfectly cast in this beautifully expressionistic version of the classic.
Intermezzo (1939): Dir. Gregory Ratoff
Feat. Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, John Halliday; Sweetly sentimental love story sees unhappily married violinist Leslie Howard fall for his protegee Ingrid Bergman.
Jamaica Inn (1939): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara; Minor Hitchcock item about pirates and smuggling in Olde England.
Jesse James (1939): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly; Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda play the legendary James brothers in this somewhat romanticised version of their fable. Sequel: THE RETURN OF FRANK…
Jour Se Leve, Le (Daybreak) (1939): Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Jean Gabin, Arletty; A renowned example of 'poetic realism', Jean Gabin gives another consummate performance as a doomed anti–hero. His tragic story is told in…
La Regle Du Jeu (Rules of the Game) (1939): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Roland Toutain…; Considered one the greatest films in history, this downbeat yet incisive satire centres around weekend shooting party that results in a myriad of…
Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William…; Early, often imitated adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' musketeer legend, with Louis Hayward as the eponymous man in the mask.
Midnight (1939): Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore…; Vintage romantic comedy, with a glamorous Claudette Colbert stranded in Paris and chased by two potential suitors: a modest taxi driver who's really…
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart, Jean Arthur; Another brilliant comic parable from Frank Capra, in the wake of MR. DEEDS. The endearing Jimmy Stewart plays a young idealist who discovers the…
Nancy Drew...Reporter (1939): Dir. William Clemens
Feat. Bonita Granville; One of the very first screen adaptations of Edward Stratemeyer’s series of "Nancy Drew" mystery stories, Bonita Granville stars as the youthful…
Ninotchka (1939): Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire…; “Garbo laughs!” proclaimed the ads for this sparkling romantic comedy, a first for its legendary star, Greta Garbo. She plays a Soviet agent who…
Of Mice and Men (1939): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Burgess Meredith, Betty Field…; A mentally–challenged giant and his level–headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in this adaptation of John Steinbeck's…
Only Angels Have Wings (1939): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth; Quintessential Hawks fare in which men are men and women have to be equally tough. At a South American outpost, mail pilot Cary Grant becomes…
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Bette Davis, Errol Flynn; Bette Davis is perfectly cast as Queen Liz, opposite Errol Flynn. An enjoyable romp.
Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) (1939): Dir. Tim Whelan
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson; Delightfully preposterous comedy–thriller about superspys attempting to steal British aircraft secrets. Amid the secret rays and droll…
Roaring Twenties, The (1939): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane…; Seminal gangster drama, paired screen–tough Cagney with a then lesser–known Bogart. Becoming buddies during WWI, they later enter and…
Second Fiddle (1939): Dir. Sidney Lanfield
Feat. Tyrone Power, Edna May Oliver, Sonja Henie…; A musical romance with a score composed by Irving Berlin and a screenplay based on George Bradshaw's story "Heart Interest". A studio publicist…
Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939): Dir. Rowland V Lee, Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi…; A double feature of horrors from Universal Studios, the third and fourth films respectively in the FRANKENSTEIN series. Son of Frankenstein (1939)…
Spy In Black, The (U-Boat 29) (1939): Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, June Duprez; The brilliant debut collaboration between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (COLONEL BLIMP, THE RED SHOES), twists an already exciting spy yarn…
Stagecoach (1939): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Claire Trevor, John Wayne, John Carradine; As the first fully realised Western, this blazed the trail for all subsequent efforts, as well as carrying John Wayne to stardom. Panoramic…
Stars Look Down, The (1939): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams; Gritty account of life in a Northumberland coal mining village was dir. Reed's first notable film and still one of his most successful. Centred…
Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The (1939): Dir. H.C. Potter
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver…; Fred & Ginger star in the story of the dancing team who taught the world to two–step, based on the stories "My Husband and My Memories of…
Tarzan Finds a Son (1939): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield…; Tarzan and Jane raise a boy – the only survivor of a jungle plane crash – in their vine–swinging style. Later, his relatives search…
Three Musketeers, The (1939): Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers; Early musical rendering with a dashing Don Ameche and the Ritz Brothers.
When Tomorrow Comes (1939): Dir. John M. Stahl
Feat. Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O'Neil; Overly sentimental romantic melodrama about an unhappily married concert pianist who casually falls for a restaurant waitress whom he takes back to…
Wizard of Oz, The (1939): Dir. Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Feat. Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr…; The world's best loved film down through and across the generations, and a key cultural icon. MGM pulled out all the stops to realise L. Frank…
Women, The (1939): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell…; They gossip! They bitch! They cackle! What does one expect with a cast of 135 women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell head the…
Wuthering Heights (1939): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon; Emily Bronte's passionate romantic classic is immortalised in celluloid with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon unforgettable as doomed lovers Kathy…
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver…; A fresh–faced Henry Fonda gives credence to the formative years of Abraham Lincoln, seen here as a country boy–turned–lawyer…
Adventure in Sahara (1938): Dir. D. Ross Lederman
Feat. C. Henry Gordon, Paul Kelly; Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. Following the death of his brother, Jim Wilson joins the French Foreign Legion and is stationed in Northern…
Adventures of Marco Polo, The (1938): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier…; Chronicles the numerous exploits of the famed explorer, played by Gary Cooper. More light–hearted than the usual swashbuckler.
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938): Dir. Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Feat. Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Olivia de Havilland…; The remakes look stodgy next to this stirring and vibrant original which basks in breakthrough technicolour and the definitive presence of Errol…
Alexander Nevsky (1938): Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikolai Cherkassov, Nikolai Okhlopkov; Eisenstein's first sound film is a patriotic epic about the 13th century hero who led his people against the Teutonic Knights. Monumental battle…
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche…; Irving Berlin contributes over two dozen songs as well as the screenplay for this rousing story of the history of (white) jazz music from ragtime to…
Algiers (1938): Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie…; Remake of a PEPE LE MOKO, in which a dashing jewel thief who has been hiding out for two years in the mysterious, murky Casbah, falls madly in love…
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Pat O'Brien, James Cagney; Childhood pals Pat O'Brien and James Cagney end up as adult enemies, in the priesthood and underworld respectively. Pleasing mix of comedy and…
Bank Holiday (Three on a Weekend) (1938): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, John Lodge, Hugh Williams…; Minor drama with nurse Lockwood heading to the seaside for an illicit weekend only to have her enjoyment tempered by her job.
Beachcomber, The (Vessel of Wrath) (1938): Dir. Erich Pommer
Feat. Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester; Drama based on the short story by Somerset Maughamet, set in a remote tropical Dutch colony, where the sister of a missionary attempts to reform a…
Bete Humaine, La (1938): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux…; Adaptation of Zola's romantic tragedy brims with tension and exults the presense of French icon Jean Gabin as a hot–headed train driver coaxed…
Boys Town (1938): Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney; Bittersweet weepie in which Spencer Tracy won an Oscar as a priest who develops a school for delinquents with a knee–high Mickey Rooney as his…
Bringing Up Baby (1938): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn; Definitive screwball comedy, has paleatologist Cary Grant and tiger–owning Katharine Hepburn striking sparks.
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1938): Dir. Roy Del Ruth
Feat. Judy Garland, Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell; Splendidly lavish "Show Musical", where a flimsy storyline is but an excuse to launch the brilliant dancing talents of Eleanor Powell. Also included…
Carefree (1938): Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy; The eighth of the ten films that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers did together, this screwball comedy features only four musical numbers, and is…
Dawn Patrol, The (1938): Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Errol Flynn, David Niven; Errol Flynn and David Niven play ace fighter–pilots in a tense action/drama set during WWI.
Good Earth, The (1938): Dir. Sidney Franklin
Feat. Paul Muni, Luise Rainer; Pearl S. Buck's epic novel is given the proud, grand and serious treatment by Hollywood. The tale told is about greed and gain amongst Chinese…
Great Waltz, The (The Life of Johann Strauss) (1938): Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Fernand Gravey, Luise Rainer, Lionel Atwill; The lIfe story of Johann Strauss is given a rich if somewhat corny treatment in this otherwise well–mounted musical biopic.
Holiday (1938): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn; Sparkling Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn duet stands as tall as its famous successor, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. The drawbacks of life in high society are…
Hurricane, The (1938): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall; A doomed South Seas romance between islander natives, provides the melodramatic prelude to an awesome special f/x typhoon. Vintage Hollywood…
I Accuse (J'Accuse) (1938): Dir. Abel Gance
Feat. Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou; Dir. Gance’s own remake of his 1919 silent classic, in which a soldier traumatised by the slaughter of WWI attempts to prevent future…
Jezebel (1938): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Bette Davis, Henry Fonda; A classic, Oscar–winning role for Bette Davis, as a southern belle who defies the arch conventions of 19th century New Orleans high society…
Lady Vanishes, The (1938): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty…; Prime British Hitchcock, tracks a brilliantly–plotted mystery of an old lady's disappearance on a trans–Europe train, with…
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938): Dir. George B. Seitz
Feat. Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland…; Mickey Rooney stars in this early teenage rom–com as a ruddy–faced youth who becomes entangled with three different girls (Garland,…
Made for Each Other (1938): Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. James Stewart, Carole Lombard; Couple James Stewart and Carole Lombard test their marriage vows through a patch of misfortune in this finely acted soap.
Marseillaise, La (1938): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Pierre Renoir, Lisa Delamare, Leon Larive…; Renoir's classic depicts events leading up to the French revolution in the 18th Century, electing to extract history from the heart of the common…
New Adventures Of Tarzan, The (1938): Dir. Edward Kull
Feat. Herman Brix (Bruce Bennett); Surprisingly gutsy version of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character, originally presented as a 12–part movie serial in competition to the…
Pygmalion (1938): Dir. Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Feat. Leslie Howard, Dame Wendy Hiller; Leslie Howard trains Wendy Hiller to be a lady, in an excellent version of the G B Shaw play.
Room Service (1938): Dir. William Seiter
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…; Marx Bros cause chaos in a hotel frequented by Broadway producers.
St Martin's Lane (Sidewalks of London) (1938): Dir. Tim Whelan
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton, Rex Harrison…; Vivien Leigh stars in this oddball comedy–drama as a talented pickpocket who forms an alliance with street performer Laughton.
You Can't Take It with You (1938): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart, Jean Arthur; Sentimental comedy from the James Stewart/Frank Capra camp, and something of a classic. Wealthy, straight–laced Jimmy falls for Jean Arthur,…
Young In Heart (1938): Dir. Richard Wallace
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Paulette Goddard; Comedy about a family of con artists who travel from the French Riviera to London with the police on their tail. They befriend an elderly widow with…
A Star Is Born (1937): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Fredric March, Janet Gaynor; The first version of this since twice–remade tale of Hollywood tragedy is non–musical, developing a more critical edge to accompany the…
Angel (1937): Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas; Love triangle between a distracted husband, a neglected wife and an ardent suitor set amid the rigid social norms of the…
Awful Truth, The (1937): Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne; Cary Grant stars in this delightful screwball comedy about a divorced couple who, through misadventure, decide they are best for each other.
Camille (1937): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore…; One of Greta Garbo’s finest roles, playing the courtesan heroine of Alexandre Dumas’ potboiler, navigating the treacheries of the French…
Captains Courageous (1937): Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney…; Classic 'boys own' adventure from the pages of Rudyard Kipling, sees Freddie Bartholomew falling off an ocean liner for more rugged sea–faring…
Damsel in Distress, A (1937): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Fred Astaire, George Burns, Joan Fontaine…; A wealthy American entertainer (Astaire) must win the heart of a lovely English lady (Fontaine). His efforts to woo are drastically hindered by her…
Dark Journey (1937): Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Ursula Jeans…; British spy caper with Leigh as a French spy falling for a German double–agent.
Day at the Races, A (1937): Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…; Marx Brothers' flamboyantly staged comedy in which unabridged lunacy never lets up at a sanitarium and then a racecourse. Contains some of cinema's…
Dead End (1937): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea…; Highly watchable account of life in the slum tenements of NYC – if you can accept the sentimental touches. With Humphrey Bogart as a gangster…
Easy Living (1937): Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland…; A breathless screwball comedy from the pen of Preston Sturges that almost rivals the writer–director's best work. Spunky Jean Arthur is the…
Edge of the World, The (1937): Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. John Laurie, Belle Chrystall, Eric Berry…; In what is considered his first major film, director Michael Powell depicts a majestic account of the depopulation of one of the isolated outer…
Elephant Boy (1937): Dir. Zoltan Korda, Robert Flaherty
Feat. Sabu, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes; Docu–drama based on Rudyard Kipling's novel about government elephant hunters in the British Raj, helped by an Indian boy (debut for Sabu).…
Fire Over England (1937): Dir. William K. Howard
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Dame Flora Robson, Raymond Massey…; The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as the backdrop for this lavish drama. Laurence Olivier plays a British naval…
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) (1937): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim…; The heroics and hypocrasies of war are illustrated through an imprisoned French squadron in WW1 and their cultured German commandant. A hailed…
Heidi (1937): Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher…; Ideal vehicle for Shirley Temple, who jerks the tears as the lovable orphan taken from her grandfather by her nasty Aunt in 1800's Switzerland.
In Old Chicago (1937): Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche…; Lavish disaster movie based on the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which almost completely destroyed the original city in a huge fireball. Although the…
It Happened in Hollywood (1937): Dir. Harry Lachman
Feat. Fay Wray, Richard Dix; Not very good.
Keep Fit (1937): Dir. Anthony Kimmins
Feat. Kay Walsh, Guy Middleton, George Formby; Snappy–yet–slight musical–comedy sees Formby play a skinny wimp who faces off against a stocky Middleton in a 'keep fit' contest in…
Kid Galahad (1937): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart…; A potent prize–fighting movie with room for some romantic asides and weighty egos.
King Solomon's Mines (1937): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Paul Robeson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young…; Stirring original film version of this well–known novel based African adventure about a group of intrepid explorers on a life–changing…
Knight Without Armour (1937): Dir. Jacques Feyder
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Herbert Lomas…; Visually sumptuous tale of Russian Countess Marlene Dietrich fleeing the 1917 Revolution with the help of Robert Donat. Dir. Feyder made his name as…
Life of Emile Zola, The (1937): Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Paul Muni; The great French 'naturalist' writer is the subject of this appropriately epic biopic, with Paul Muni giving a signature performance in the title…
Lost Horizon (1937): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton…; Wonderful fantasy adventure about five people who find sanctuary in a Tibetan Valley where good health, peace and longevity reign. A haunting and…
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937): Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter…; Frankly, one of the most devastating movies ever made, this long neglected classic served as inspiration for Ozu's revered TOKYO STORY many years…
Maytime (1937): Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore; Love affair between opera soprano and two–bit singer in Paris. An exemplary Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy musical.
Nothing Sacred (1937): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Carole Lombard, Fredric March; Top comedy–farce rests on the charms of Carole Lombard, here at her mercurial best playing a screwy smalltown gal. Pretending to have an…
Oh! Mr Porter (1937): Dir. Marcel Varnel
Feat. Will Hay; One of the best British comedies of the 1930s, this predates Ealing in its winning blend of whimsy, slapstick and inventiveness. Will Hay plays a…
On the Avenue (1937): Dir. Roy Del Ruth
Feat. Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye; The songs of Irving Berlin feature prominently in this infectious Broadway–set musical, with Dick Powell, Alice Faye and the Ritz Brothers (as…
Pepe Le Moko (1937): Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin; Jean Gabin plays a super–cool gangster who finds immunity in the Algierian Casbah. Marvellously romantic, this classic of the French golden age…
Prince and the Pauper (1937): Dir. William Keighley
Feat. Errol Flynn, Claude Rains; Fine adaptation of Mark Twain's immortal tale of two disparate young look–alikes who trade places.
Shall We Dance (1937): Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pretend to be married in this last notable musical of their partnership. Features the classic roller–skate…
Slaves In Bondage (1937): Dir. Elmer Clifton; Prototypical 1930s exploitation effort from legendary producer J.D. Kendis, about a sleazy vice ring run by evil mobsters which comes unstuck after a…
Stella Dallas (1937): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles; Definitive family melodrama in which Barbara Stanwyck compels as the social–climbing Stella, ultimately driven to painful self–knowledge…
Storm in a Teacup (1937): Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker…; Capra–lite comedy set in Scotland with Harrison as a journalist falling for a local politicians daughter.
Three Stooges Collection, The (1937-1946): Feat. The Three Stooges; A collection of approximately one sixth of the Three Stooges prolific output, encompassing 29 shorts and a feature–length outing, SWING PARADE…
Topper / Topper Returns (1937): Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young…; Once classic comedy concerns a deceased young couple (Grant and Bennett) who as ghosts haunt the dull life of a banker. Spawned several sequels…
Uncivilised (1937): Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Margot Rhys, Dennis Hoey, Ashton Jarry; Illogical Chauval epic with a white authoress, looking for a story in the outback, kidnapped by an Afghan slaver!
Way Out West (1937): Dir. James W Horne
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy; One of Laurel and Hardy's best features, spreading their brand of chaos into the Old West.
Wee Willie Winkie (1937): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen; Charming adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's adventure story, with young Shirley negotiating between the British army and Afghani rebels.
You Only Live Once (1937): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney; An awesome early film noir from dir. Lang with Fonda playing a career criminal determined to go straight, but compelled by fate into murdering a…
Young and Innocent (1937): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont; A young girl aids a fugitive on the run, who she believes is innocent. Hitch adds some clever twists to his reworking of THE 39 STEPS.
After the Thin Man (1936): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart…; That great American screen coupling, William Powell and Myrna Loy, forgo their New Year's celebrations to wittily dissect another murder mystery. A…
Anything Goes (1936): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles…; The first film adaptation of the famous Cole Porter musical.
As You Like It (1936): Dir. Paul Czinner
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Sir Felix Aylmer…; Early cinematic adaptation of the bard's comedy is stagey and very mannered, but boasts an exceptional cast with a young Olivier a stand out.
César (1936): Dir. Marcel Pagnol
Feat. Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay…; Playwright Marcel Parcol takes over the director's reins himself for this concluding part of his Marseille trilogy, following 'Marius' and 'Fanny'.…
Charge of the Light Brigade (1936): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn; Rousing action on the North–western frontier with Errol Flynn leading the climactic charge into certain death with fellow British cavalry men.
Chronological Donald, The (1936-1941): An excellent archive collection of all the early shorts starring Walt Disney's most successful cartoon character – Donald Duck. Includes an…
Desire (1936): Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper; Cooper and Dietrich make a spellbinding duo in this highly entertaining tale of an automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain who becomes…
Dimples (1936): Feat. Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Robert Kent; Shirley Temple musical set in the New York Bowery, where the young lass helps her pickpocket grandfather., Soon however her musical talents come to…
Dodsworth (1936): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas…; While on a European holiday, businessman Walter Huston's marriage reaches crisis point. A mature, highly–rated studio pic with especially…
Dracula's Daughter (1936): Dir. Lambert Hillyer
Feat. Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill…; Worthy sequel to the Lugosi classic, substitutes female fangster Holden in the lead. Nice atmospherics.
Follow the Fleet (1936): Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers; Astaire & Rogers musical that marked a career peak for the pair after TOP HAT. Irving Berlin scores.
Fury (1936): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney; Blunt statement against the mob–mentality with Spencer Tracy as an innocent man set upon by vicious locals intent on lynching with extreme…
Garden of Allah (1936): Dir. Richard Boleslawski
Feat. Marlene Dietrich; Disaffected socialite Marlene Dietrich journeys to the Sahara looking for meaning in her life, and finds unexpected romance. Rather…
Gay Desperado, The (1936): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Nino Martini…; A light comedy with operatic tenor Nino Martini playing a singer who works as a live entertainer in a movie theatre, and is kidnapped by a trigger…
Great Ziegfeld, The (1936): Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer; A showbiz epic centred round the life of vaudeville impressario Florence Ziegfeld, who rose to prominence after the 1893 Chicago World Fair and went…
Jacques Tati Shorts (1936): Dir. Jacques Tati; Three rare short comedies for those that can't get enough of the French funnyman. Watch your Left! (1936), School for Postmen (1947), and Evening…
Keep Your Seats, Please (1936): Dir. Monty Banks
Feat. George Formby, Florence Desmond, Gus McNaughton; An endearing Formby is at his gormless best in this musical comedy, where he must find his aunt's inheritance sewn up in 12 chairs that have…
Klondike Annie (1936): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Mae West, Victor McLaglen; Star–centric comedy based on the play by Mae West with the steamy starlet taking the lead role as a club entertainer dabbling in romantic…
Marihuana (1936): Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Harlene Wood; Perhaps second only to REEFER MADNESS in demonstrating the perils of dope with laughably straight–faced paranoia, this sees some unsuspecting…
Mary of Scotland (1936): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, John Carradine…; Katharine Hepburn stars as Mary, Queen of Scots who, after languishing in jail for 18 years at Elizabeth I's command, is offered a pardon if she will…
Modern Times (1936): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard; A last hurrah for the Little Tramp, who finds himself a casualty of industrial turmoil. Chaplin's produced this silent classic in spite of the sound…
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur; Archetypal screwball comedy stars Gary Cooper as Mr. Deeds, a country hick who arrives in New York to collect a 20 million dollar inheritance, which…
Pennies from Heaven (1936): Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Bing Crosby; Bing Crosby vehicle sees the showman protecting a little girl from the big bad school system.
Plainsman, The (1936): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur; A brash, implausible Western from grand master DeMille: Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur run amok in a spectacle that wildly bastardizes the Old West and…
Popeye - The Sailor Man (1936-1956): One of the longest–running cartoon sensations of all time, Popeye the Sailor Man burst into cinemas in 1933 in a BETTY BOOP cartoon and soon…
Princess Comes Across, The (1936): Dir. William K. Howard
Feat. Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglas Dumbrille…; Carole Lombard, playing a Swedish princess on the sly, falls for Fred MacMurray on board an ocean liner. Romance–cum–murder mystery is…
Prisoner of Shark Island, The (1936): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart; Gripping John Ford–directed prison yarn is based on the ordeal of Dr. Samuel Mudd, a famous victim of circumstance who unknowingly cared for…
Rembrandt (1936): Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Charles Laughton; Vignettes from the life of the great 17th century painter whose popularity sharply regressed after he painted 'The Nightwatchmen'. Charles Laughton…
Rose Marie (1936): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy; Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy musical vehicle set in the Canadian Rockies.
Sabotage (1936): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder; Suspenseful early Hitchcock, with a foreign saboteur terrorising London.
San Francisco (1936): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke, D.W. Griffith
Feat. Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy; Outstanding chronicle of old Frisco, climaxing with great FX earthquake. Stars Clark Gable, amid all star cast .
Secret Agent, The (1936): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud; Peter Lorre plays a reluctant officer assigned to kill a WW2 spy. Good Hitchcock fare from his early career.
Show Boat (1936): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger…; A faithful adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein's 1920's stage musical covering four decades as an aspiring actor goes from working a Mississippi…
Swing Time (1936): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers; A fine example of Fred and Ginger's magical screen partnership, their sixth together, weaving the music of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, into…
Tarzan Escapes (1936): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Benita Hume; One of the best Weissmuller TARZAN sequels, has the jungleman kidnapped by hunters and taken back to England. Excitingly action–packed.
Texas Rangers, The (1936): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker…; High–end, intricately plotted Western from King Vidor about three outlaws in a scheme to pose as Texas Rangers and gain the advantage in…
Things to Come (1936): Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman; Mind–boggling visualisation of a 21st century utopia, with ant–like humans inhabiting monolithic structures on towering, ten–acre…
Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The (1936): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda; This pioneering colour film is an engaging old–fashioned Western tale of loyalty, family and romance set against an age–old feud between…
Dangerous + Hell's House (1935/32): Dir. Alfred Green, Howard Higgin
Feat. Bette Davis; Bette Davis in two early roles – her lead performance as a star–turned–alcoholic in DANGEROUS fetching her the first of two Best…
39 Steps, The (1935): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Madeleine Carroll, Robert Donat, Peggy Ashcroft; A ripping yarn about a innocent man embroiled in a spy conspiracy and is chased across Scotland. Set a sophisticated precedent for the spy/thriller…
Anna Karenina (1935): Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Greta Garbo, Basil Rathbone; Leo Tolstoy's heroine is the ideal vehicle for Greta Garbo, luminous amid some of the more extravagant sets MGM ever lavished on a costume drama.
Annie Oakley (1935): Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas…; Sharpshooter Barbara Stanwyck joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for friendly rivalry with resident top gun Preston Foster. A romantic–comic…
Barbary Coast (1935): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Edward G. Robinson…; Set as far out west as a Western can go – San Fransisco, circa the 1850s gold–rush days. Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea are two…
Bride of Frankenstein (1935): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff meets his match when mad Dr. Frank builds his forlorn monster a mate. Sequel to FRANKENSTEIN is possibly the best horror of the '30s…
Captain Blood (1935): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Errol Flynn; Condemned surgeon Errol Flynn escapes and becomes a Caribbean pirate. Low–budgeted action–packed swashbuckler catapulted its star into…
Crime and Punishment (1935): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh; Modest adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a criminology student turned murderer who becomes tortured with remorse.
Crusades, The (1935): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon; Hollywood Heavyweight Cecil B. DeMille Directs this overblown spectacle that differs vastly from it's grisly historical origins.
David Copperfield (1935): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. W.C. Fields; Top–line Hollywood–ization of the Dickens classic.
Devil Is A Woman, The (1935): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero; Set during Carnival in turn on the century Seville where a temptress comes between a young revolutionary and his old friend.
Errol Flynn - The Signature Collection (Captain Blood; Dodge City; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; The Sea Hawk; They Died With Their Boots On; The Adventures of Errol Flynn) (1935-1941): Feat. Errol Flynn; A six–disc box set comprising five early classics from swashbuckler Errol Flynn, along with a 2004 documentary on his colourful life featuring…
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935): Dir. Busby Berkeley
Feat. Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart…; Summer season at New England's Wentworth Plaza hotel..the rich will come out to play, and so will the golddiggers! Dick Powell heads up this…
Heritage (1935): Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Frank Harvey, Margot Rhys, Franklyn Bennett; Epic Australian drama following three generations of the same family from their initial arrival to the outbreak of the first World War.
Informer, The (1935): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Victor McLaglen; Stunning character study unfolds when an IRA leader is sold out by his dim–witted friend for reward money. Full–blooded acting by all was…
Le Crime De Monsieur Lange (1935): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Rene Lefevre, Florelle , Jules Berry; One of the dir.’s early classics. Rene Leferve rises to newsprint fame as the author of the serial “Arizona Jim” after his boss, a…
Les Miserables (1935): Dir. Richard Boleslawski
Feat. Fredric March, Charles Laughton; Most faithful of the numerous film versions of Victor Hugo's novel, chronicling the lifelong harassment of reformed petty thief Ferric March by the…
Little Colonel, The (1935): Dir. David Butler
Feat. Shirley Temple; One of Shirley Temple's best vehicles is set in the Deep South, with young Shirl attempting to patch–up her grandparent's broken marriage.
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The (1935): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell; Set in India during the British Raj, this rousing literary adaptation follows a British regiment struggling to retain it's stronghold in the…
Marx Brothers Collection 2 (The Big Store, Go West, At the Circus, A Day at the Races, A Night at the Opera) (1935-1941): Feat. The Marx Brothers; Five mid–period Marx Brothers comedies in one box set.
Mickey Mouse in Living Color (1935-1995): The ultimate cartoon personification of Walt Disney's entertainment empire – Mickey Mouse – is presented in all his glory here, in two…
Miracle Rider, The (1935): Dir. B. Reeves Eason, Armand Schaefer
Feat. Tom Mix, Joan Gale, Charles Middleton; Fifteen–part serial Western stars former silent star Tom Mix in a highly energetic role as a Texas Ranger who must protect a group of native…
Mutiny On the Bounty (1935): Dir. Frank Lloyd
Feat. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable; Charles Laughton (as Capt. Bligh) and Clark Gable spar memorably in this, the classic version. Winner of the Best Picture Oscar in 1935.
My Man Godfrey (1935): Dir. Gregory La Cava
Feat. Carole Lombard, William Powell, Gail Patrick…; Breathlessly nit–witty comedy from the screwball era with society dame Carole Lombard plucking William Powell out of skid–row for a…
Naughty Marietta (1935): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy; The first vehicle for onscreen singing duo Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy – both hugely popular in their day – is a rehash of an…
Night at the Opera, A (1935): Dir. Sam Wood
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…; A Marx brothers extravaganza with the three sibling buffoons in top form as they wreak havoc on an opera company. As good as they get.
No Limit (1935): Dir. Monty Banks
Feat. George Formby, Florence Desmond, Howard Douglas; The template for all the Ealing Studio comedies to follow, this follows 'George' (Formby), a chimney sweep with dreams of winning the Isle Of Man TT…
Petrified Forest, The (1935): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Genevieve Tobin…; Featuring probably Bogart's first classic role, this adaptation of the Robert Sherwood play is set in a remote diner in Arizona where a fugitive…
Phantom Empire, The (1935): Feat. Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette; Oddball children's serial from the thirties has singing cowboy Autry discovering the last remaining inhabitants of the lost continent of Mu living…
Roberta (1935): Dir. William A. Seiter
Feat. Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers…; An unsuccessful American Football player inherits his Aunt's Parisian fashion house. One of the weaker Rogers/Astaire efforts.
Sanders Of The River (1935): Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson; Fascinatingly skewed epic set in a colonial protectorate in West Africa, where the British Commissioner (Banks) tries to cultivate 'civilized'…
Scrooge (1935): Dir. Henry Edwards
Feat. Donald Calthrop, Sir Seymour Hicks; First screen adaptation of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' in which a mean old miser is shown the ghosts of Christmas past, present and…
She Married Her Boss (1935): Dir. Gregory La Cava
Feat. Claudette Colbert; Pleasant romantic comedy stars Claudette Colbert, who just may regret her marital decision.
Sylvia Scarlett (1935): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant; Katharine Hepburn looks smashing as a boy in this cross–dressing flop that was reappraised in the 1960s as a lost classic, with a unique style…
Tale of Two Cities (1935): Dir. Jack Conway
Feat. Ronald Colman; A model screen adaptation of a classic novel. Script and spectacle are in perfect accord to tell Charles Dickens' story of courage and honour in 18th…
Tarzan and His Mate (1935): Dir. Cedric Gibbons
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton…; Johnny Weissmuller returns in what is widely considered the best of the Tarzan series, with first–rate production values, stunts and Maureen…
Top Hat (1935): Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers; Magically irrepressible musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers enacting some brilliant toe–tapping routines to the tunes of Irving Berlin…
Werewolf of London / She-Wolf of London (1935): Dir. Stuart Walker, Jean Yarbrough
Feat. Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Don Porter…; A double feature of early 'werewolf' horrors. Werewolf of London (1935) Dir. Stuart Walker – The first film to feature the 'werewolf'…
Whole Town's Talking, The (1935): Dir. John Ford
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl…; Edward G. Robinson stars in a duel role as a meek office clerk who bares a resemblance to Public Enemy Number One. Entertaining mix of farce and…
Wolf Man, The - The Legacy Collection (The Wolf Man, Werewolf of London, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, She-Wolf of London) (1935-1946): Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney; A 3–disc set containing two of Lon Chaney Jr.'s WOLF MAN films and two other 'werewolf' horrors WEREWOLF OF LONDON and SHE–WOLF OF LONDON.
Anne of Green Gables (1934): Dir. Dawn O'Day
Feat. Dawn O'Day, Tom Brown, Sara Haden…; Charming early adaptation of the classic L.M. Montgomery novel starring Dawn O'Day as Anne Shirley (Dawn legally changed her name to Anne Shirley…
Belle of the Nineties (1934): Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Mae West; Mae's first post–production code outing: she plays a sultry cabaret singer lusted after by a myriad of Missippian males. Duke Ellington also…
Bright Eyes (1934): Dir. David Butler
Feat. Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell…; Colourised version of an early Shirley Temple classic – with the recently orphaned cutie mixed up in an adoption battle. Features the song,…
Cleopatra (1934): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Warren William; Claudette Colbert stars as the sultry Roman Empress in this baroque De Mille version. Most noted for the lavish barge scene and some startling action…
Count of Monte Cristo, The (1934): Dir. Rowland V Lee
Feat. Robert Donat, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer…; Exemplary version of Alexandre Dumas' classic swashbuckler. Robert Donat plays the imprisoned officer seeking revenge with steel and panache.
Dames (1934): Dir. Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley
Feat. Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, ZaSu Pitts…; This blissful musical battle between stage–hopefuls and a disapproving decency group is often referred to by critics as the 'Gold Diggers of…
Gay Divorcee, The (1934): Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers received top–billing for the first time in this excellent revision of Cole Porter's Broadway musical. Songs…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 2 (The Cat's Paw, The Milky Way) (1934-1936): Dir. Sam Taylor, Leo McCarey
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Two classic Harold Lloyd features. Includes THE CAT'S PAW, with Lloyd entangled in local body politics; and THE MILKY WAY, in which the silent…
It Happened One Night (1934): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert; The first film to win all five major Oscars is the classic story of an East–end boy who goes about winning the heart and changing the snobbish…
L'Atalante (1934): Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Michel Simon, Jean Daste; A recently restored master work from the French film archive combines lyrical romance with inspired touches of fantasy.
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre; Peter Lorre stars in this original version as the villain who kidnaps an innocent man's child to ensure his silence. Budget limitations are overcome…
Maniac (1934): Dir. Dwain Esper
Feat. Horace B. Carpenter, Bill Woods; Named as one of the "100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made" in The Official Razzie Movie Guide, this early sexploitation/horror shocker was loosely…
March of the Wooden Soldiers (Babes In Toyland) (1934): Dir. Gus Meins, Charles R. Rogers
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy; Imaginative musical fantasia also makes the most of Laurel and Hardy's comic genius – as dim–witted toymakers whose mistaken order for…
Merry Widow, The (1934): Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald; Out of cold–blooded patriotism to his homeland Marshovia, gadabout Maurice Chevalier attempts to seduce millionairess Jeanette MacDonald into…
Of Human Bondage (1934): Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard; The film which propelled Bette Davis to stardom, with her vivid personification of a coy, but slutty Cockney waitress who becomes the object of…
Our Daily Bread (1934): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper…; Another fascinating sociological drama from director King Vidor about a struggling couple during the Great Depression who move to the country and…
Scarlet Empress, The (1934): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Sam Jaffe; Outrageously ornate telling of the rise of Russia's Catherine the Great. Marlene Dietrich plays the Empress, with her great director/collaborator at…
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1934): Dir. Harold Young
Feat. Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Merle Oberon; Leslie Howard leads a double–life as an aristocratic fop by day and swashbuckling hero by night in the dark days of the French Revolution.…
Thin Man, The (1934): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy; Taken from Dashiell Hammett's novel, this near–perfect comedy–thriller virtually invented the genre, with William Powell and Myrna Loy as…
Twentieth Century (1934): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Barrymore, Carole Lombard; Cracking good comedy staged aboard a luxury express–train, where egomaniac theatre producer John Barrymore attempts to win back…
Vanishing Shadow, The (1934): Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Onslow Stevens, Walter Miller, Ada Ince…; 12–episode sci–fi serial about an electrical engineer and a mad scientist who attempt to take down a corrupt politician with a device…
42nd Street (1933): Dir. Lloyd Bacon
Feat. Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent; The definitive backstage musical, centered around a chorus girl's shot at stardom when the leading lady twists her ankle. Busby Berkeley wrote the…
A Shriek in the Night (1933): Dir. Albert Ray
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark…; A murderer terrorises a quiet neighbourhood, with each victim ominously receiving a polite card before being dispatched. This solidly produced…
Alice in Wonderland (1933): Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Charlotte Henry, Edward Everett Horton, W.C. Fields…; Extravagant early version of the Lewis Carroll classic was a box office bomb in its day, but age has been kind, and if Charlotte Henry is a little…
Betty Boop - The Ultimate Collection (1933-1939): Dir. Max Fleisher; An early cartoon sensation, Betty Boop flashed her curves and batted her eyelids across Depression–era America in an amusing, slightly…
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck; Barbara Stanwyck plays an American missionary in Shanghai who comes to fall in love with her Chinese warlord abductor. Eloquent, sensual cinema with…
Cry of the Bewitched / Vampire Bat, The (1933-1956): Dir. Frank Strayer, Alfredo Crevenna
Feat. Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas…; A double feature of low–rent but worthy horrors: The Vampire Bat (1933) Directed by Frank Strayer – An eerie suspenser in which a mad…
Devil's Brother, The (1933): Dir. Hal Roach
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy; Laurel and Hardy become fearless highwaymen in 1700s Italy but meet their match in a notorious highwayman. Funny spoof of Auber's operetta.
Dinner at Eight (1933): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Jean Harlow; Impeccably directed version of the popular Broadway play boasting an all–star cast of the early talkie era – distinguished New York…
Duck Soup (1933): Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…; A commercial bomb when released, this has since emerged as The Marx Brothers' tour–de–force, and the most popular among fans on account…
Ecstasy (1933): Dir. Gustav Machety
Feat. Hedy Lamarr; Hedy Lamarr came to world attention in this 1932 film, playing a sexually–frustrated bride who goes on a fifteen minute nude romp in an alpine…
Footlight Parade (1933): Dir. Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley
Feat. James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler…; James Cagney stars as an indefatigable Broadway producer, working show–biz miracles to keep his company afloat through the Depression. Most…
Ghoul, The (1933): Dir. T. Hayes Hunter
Feat. Boris Karloff, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger…; Creaky, but efficient Karloff outing centres on an Egyptologist who returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon…; Busby Berkeley brings his snappy camerawork and choreography magic to the production numbers of this pre–'Hays code' musical, in which Dick…
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan…; Freewheeling musical comedy set (and made) during the Great Depression, with Al Jolson playing a hobo in New York who falls in love with the mayor's…
I'm No Angel (1933): Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Mae West, Cary Grant; Man–eater and circus performer Mae West digs for gold, settling on (and suing!) the loaded Cary Grant, only to fall in love for…
Island of Lost Souls (1933): Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen…; First screen version of H.G. Wells' fascinating novel features the delightfully loony Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau, the exiled scientist obsessed…
Kennel Murder Case, The (1933): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. William Powell, Mary Astor; Stylish murder mystery from the pre code era with William Powell playing detective and Scottish Terrier owner Philo Vance, popularised in the novels…
King Kong (1933): Dir. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Feat. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong; An iconic classic of cinema that literally smashed new ground in terms of special effects, and must have had unwitting audiences of the day…
Liebelei (1933): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Arthur Schnitzler; An early work from the German maestro of the tracking shot, whose tale of doomed romance between a young soldier and fraulein (taken from a play by…
Little Women (1933): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Katharine Hepburn; Constantly enjoyable version of Louisa Alcott's novel about four sisters and their mother coping while their father fights in the Civil War. Splendid…
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh; An early horror which formed the basis of Vincent Price's HOUSE OF WAX. Containing its own grisly twists on the 'waxing' process, this is well worth…
Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933): Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon; The signature role for actor–extraordinaire Charles Laughton was this portrayal of England's notorious, much–married monarch. His…
Queen Christina (1933): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert; Historical costume drama with Greta Garbo appropriately cast as the Swedish Queen.
She Done Him Wrong (1933): Dir. Lowell Sherman
Feat. Mae West, Cary Grant; A raucous comedy success, debuting Mae West as a bawdy bar room entertainer with a penchant for vulnerable men (namely, Cary Grant).…
Sons of the Desert (Fraternally Yours) (1933): Dir. William A. Seiter
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy; A 24–carat Laurel and Hardy classic sees the boys wanting to attend a fraternal organisation shindig, but having to deceive their wives to do…
Tarzan The Fearless / Tarzan And The Trappers (1933-1958): Dir. Charles Haas, Robert F. Hill
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Gordon Scott; "Tarzan The Fearless" is feature film stitched together in the 1960's from the first four chapters a 12–part 1933 serial starring Buster Crabbe…
Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (1933): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge; Dir. Lang's brilliant sequel to the silent DR. MABUSE – THE GAMBLER, rethinking his vision of the evil controlling mastermind for the nascent…
Three Musketeers, The (1933): Dir. Colbert Clark
Feat. Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Francis Bushman…; An early John Wayne movie serial set in distant Arabia, where he rescues three French Legionaires (Hatton, Mulhall and Bushman) from Arab attacks and…
American Madness (1932): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Walter Huston; Vivid parable in which Walter Huston portrays a bank president facing the threat of commercial failure during the Great Depression.
Bela Lugosi Collection (White Zombie, Killer Bats, Ghost on the Loose) (1932-1943)
Bill of Divorcement, A (1932): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke…; Shell–shocked war veteran John Barrymore returns to the world after 15 years in an asylum, to find that wife Katharine Hepburn (in her screen…
Bird of Paradise (1932): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday…; Erotic adventure drama about a sailor who falls in love with a woman from an unnamed Pacific island where the film is set. Plenty of colonialist…
Black Cat, The (1934) / The Raven / The Mummy (1932-1935): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, Lew Landers
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff; Notable debut of B–movie legend Ulmer, pits Bela Lugosi against Boris Karloff's formibable architect of evil. Bizarre sets and a dreamy,…
Blonde Venus (1932): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall…; Director Josef von Sternberg reunites with muse Marlene Dietrich in this sweeping melodrama about a German chanteuse turned struggling housewife who…
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hania; Renoir's joyfully anarchic attack on the bourgeoisie in which vagrant Michel Simon wreaks emotional havoc in the orderly household that have offered…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins; Lurid and expressionistic 30s version of Stevenson's novel, and still the best, with Fredric March (who won an Oscar) as the idealist Doctor who…
Fanny (1932): Dir. Marc Allegret
Feat. Raimu, Orane Demazis, Pierre Fresnay…; Leisurely French romantic drama based on the play by Marcel Pagnol that marks the second part in the Marseille film trilogy that started with Marius…
Freaks (1932): Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams; The only film in history to exploit real–life 'mutants' is actually a sensitive and fascinating piece of cinema history. Perhaps misunderstood…
Grand Hotel (1932): Dir. Edmund Goulding
Feat. Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore…; The granddaddy of extravagent soap–opera, this pre–eminent, Oscar–winning Hollywood affair glitters with stars. Weekend guests'…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 8 (Movie Crazy, Welcome Danger) (1932): Dir. Clyde Bruckman
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Two classic Harold Lloyd features. Includes MOVIE CRAZY, arguably the comedian's best sound film, about making it in Hollywood; and WELCOME DANGER,…
Horse Feathers (1932): Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…; Marxist malarkey in which the crazy quartet engage in a college football conspiracy. Their wildest screen outing.
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson…; Minor American classic unravels Paul Muni's plight an as innocent man subjected to the brutality of prison life. With fierce conviction, the film…
Love Me Tonight (1932): Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy…; Charismatic tailor Maurice Chevalier makes beautiful music with princess Jeanette MacDonald in this splendiferous romance, one of the great musicals…
Most Dangerous Game, The (1932): Dir. Ernest B Shoedsack, Irving Pichel
Feat. Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks; This mother of all chase–movies was adapted from Richard Connell's book by the makers of KING KONG. A fresh–faced Joel McCrea is…
Mummy, The (1932): Dir. Karl Freund
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff gives a famously restrained performance, in one the great Universal Studios horrors. Story of the bandage–man's rise from the…
Old Dark House, The (1932): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton; Seeking refuge from an encroaching storm, six travellers pick the wrong house to take shelter in, with a spooky Boris Karloff, among other terrors in…
Rain (1932): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Joan Crawford, Walter Huston; A turbulent adaptation of Somerset Maugham's short story 'Miss Thompson' set on a Samoan island quarantine station during the rainy season. When a…
Red Dust (1932): Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mary Astor…; Steamy pre–code drama that captures Jean Harlow at her tough, raunchy best, playing a Saigon hooker who's competing with Mary Astor for the…
Scarface (1932): Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley; The most potent ganster flick of the '30s caused great controversy over its violent content when first released, still makes an impact today.…
Shanghai Express (1932): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland; Hollywood's version of pre–revolutionary Shanghai is a lavish parallel universe of sin and oriental treachery with Marlene Dietrich (as…
Sign of the Cross, The (1932): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton…; Pre–Code Hollywood epic from director Cecil B. DeMille, based on the Wilson Barrett play of the same name. Forms a biblical trilogy with…
Smilin' Through (1932): Dir. Sidney Franklin
Feat. Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard; Winning tear–jerker with Norma Shearer and Fredric March in dual roles as two sets of unrequited lovers caught in a blood feud.
Tarzan Collection, The (Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan Escapes, Tarzan and His Mate, Tarzan Finds a Son, Tarzan Secret Treasure, Tarzan's New York Adventure) (1932-1942): Feat. Johnny Weissmuller; All 6 of the 'Tarzan' movies starring Johnny Weismuller.
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan…; If you're looking for the classic chest beatin', vine swingin' versions of Edgar Rice Burrough's much–abused creation, this is where you start.…
Trouble in Paradise (1932): Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis; Perhaps dir. Lubitsch's most celebrated comedy, this concerns a pair of endearing swindlers (Marshall and Hopkins) whose partnership in romance and…
Vampyr (1932): Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Julian West, Henriette Gerard; Seminal psychological horror film makes up for in atmosphere what it lacks in technical sophistication. Dream–like plot concerns a young man…
White Zombie (1932): Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn; Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…
A Nous la Liberte (1931): Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy; Pre–dating – and disputedly influencing – Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES by some years, this is both more lyrical and whimsical in its…
Cimarron (1931): Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor; Set during the Oklahoma Land Rush of the 1880's, a charismatic newspaper editor claims a plot of land and resettles himself, along with his rather…
City Lights (1931): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow; Chaplin's most melancholy and beautiful film revolves around his love for a blind flower girl and his on–off relationship with a drunkard…
Dracula (1931): Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Bela Lugosi; The role that immortalised Bela Lugosi – the original and most convincing Dracula ever committed to the screen. For sheer gothic ambience, look…
Dracula - The Legacy Collection (Dracula (1931), Dracula's Daughter, Son of Dracula, House of Dracula,) (1931-1948): Feat. Bela Lugosi; An excellent set comprising Bela Lugosi's DRACULA and five Universal followups. Includes both the US and Spanish versions of the original film.
Frankenstein (1931): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff is the definitive incarnation of Mary Shelley's tragic man–monster, while the delicate balance of horror and pathos give the film…
Frankenstein - The Legacy Collection (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, Ghost of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein) (1931-1945): Feat. Boris Karloff; All four of Boris Karloff's FRANKENSTEIN series plus GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, in a 3–disc set.
M... Worst Crime of All (1931): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Peter Lorre; A chilling expressionist classic starring Peter Lorre as psychotic child molester. Dir. Lang masterfully fills the screen with understated but…
Madchen in Uniform (1931): Dir. Leontine Sagan
Feat. Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck; Influential early German sound–film notorious (and censored) for the sensual lesbian overtones that colour its tale of Hertha Thiele's…
Marius (1931): Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis…; Based on the play by revered French writer Marcel Pagnol, this is the first film in the Marseille Trilogy featuring the characters of Marius (Pierre…
Mata Hari (1931): Dir. George Fitzmaurice
Feat. Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore…; Heavily fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, the exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I. Garbo is magnetic…
Miracle Woman, The (1931): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy; Barbara Stanwyck teams with dir. Frank Capra for this captivating pre–Code film about a preacher's daughter who becomes disillusioned by the…
Monkey Business (1931): Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx…; The four Marx Brothers stowaway, crash a society party and manage to hatch a few crooks in the process. Another exercise in breathlessly sustained…
Parlour, Bedroom & Bath (1931): Dir. Edward Sedgewick
Feat. Buster Keaton; Buster Keaton is mistaken for a rich playboy in one of his rare 'talkies'. Not in the same league as his silent classics, but an interesting curio.
Platinum Blonde (1931): Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams…; Breezy comedy about a young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must…
Possessed (1931): Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Joan Crawford, Clark Gable; Vivid and detailed early drama about a rich NYC lawyer and his mistress, made when its lead performers were both on the verge of stardom. Centred…
Public Enemy, The (1931): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. James Cagney, Jean Harlow; The most influential of early crime films exhibits an unglorified depiction of the American underworld, but James Cagney makes a hoodlum sure worth…
Range Feud, The (1931): Dir. D.Ross Lederman
Feat. John Wayne, Buck Jones; A better than B–Western with a young, gangly John Wayne as a ten–galloned Romeo framed for murder while entangled in a feud with his…
Sally in Our Alley (1931): Dir. Maurice Elvey
Feat. Gracie Fields; Gracie Fields debuted in this lightweight English comedy as a heartbroke girl who, on moving to London, hits it off splendid with the Cockneys.…
Silent Naruse (Flunky, Work Hard; No Blood Relation; Apart From You; Every-Night Dreams; Street Without End) (1931-1934): Dir. Mikio Naruse; A collection of silent era films from renowned Japanese director Mikio Naruse, the only five from the 1930's that still exist today, featuring new…
Street Scene (1931): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., Estelle Taylor…; Drama set over a single 24 hours on a city block in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Describes a melting pot of gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery…
Svengali (1931): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Bramwell Fletcher…; Adapted from the novel by George du Maurier, this has a hypnotic maniac (Barrymore) turning his evil gaze on a young model and forcing her to…
Tabu (1931): Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Anna Chevalier; A beautifully filmed romantic tragedy based on a simple Pacific island folk tale. Poetry and sensuality is startlingly evoked through the play of…
Vintage Mickey (1931-1933): Timeless collection of Mickey Mouse's more memorable cartoons, featuring the classic "Steamboat Willie", notable for being the very first appearance…
All Quiet On the Western Front (1930): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray…; Landmark film looks at WW1 from the enemy's point of view. It remains brilliant and quite moving after all these years. Academy Award winner for Best…
Animal Crackers (1930): Dir. Victor Heerman
Feat. Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx…; Pre–Hollywood Marx Brothers, a little stagey yet with a glorious abundance of gags.
Anna Christie (1930): Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler…; Ayoung woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past. Garbo's first…
Bat Whispers, The (1930): Dir. Roland West
Feat. Chester Morris, Una Merkel, Richard Tucker…; An early talkie about a mysterious criminal known as "The Bat", who terrorises a group of people looking for treasure in an old country…
Big Trail, The (1930): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel…; The film that elevated a young John Wayne from bit–part actor to leading man is this grand saga of a wagon trail, shot in an early form of 70mm.
Blood of a Poet (1930): Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Lee Miller, Pauline Carton; Cocteau's first film is a surrealist gem that sewed the seeds of his style. The Dali/Bunuel influence is clear, but this goes one step further with…
Blue Angel, The (1930): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings; A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.
City Girl (1930): Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence; Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
Earth (Zemlya) (1930): Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko; One of the poetic highpoints of Soviet cinema, this sets its simple tale amid the life of a Ukrainian peasant village undergoing modernization after…
Films of Jean Vigo, The (À propos de Nice; Taris, roi de l'eau; Zero De Conduite, L' Atlante) (1930-1933): Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Jean Daste; Three early, formative short works from seminal French filmmaker Jean Vigo. A PROPOS DE NICE (1930, 21 min): Vigo juxtaposes the affluence and…
Hell's Angels (1930): Dir. Howard Hughes
Feat. James Hall, Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon…; Still highly watchable, this early sound feature financed and 'directed' by the notorious Howard Hughes, boosts its melodramatic story of WWI heroics…
Hitchcock Showcase (1930): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Four films from the early career of suspense's elder statesman, available on twin cassettes – MURDER (1930), SKIN GAME (1931), NUMBER 17…
Little Caesar (1930): Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell; Star–making debut for Edward G Robinson as a bullying, Al Capone–style hood, whose unscrupulous methods land him the top job. Like most…
Madam Satan (1930): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Roland Young; A genuine oddity (and second talkie) from Cecil B. DeMille, this typically extravagant pre–Code musical comedy stars Kay Johnson as a jealous…
Marx Brothers Collection (Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Animal Crackers) (1930-1933): Feat. The Marx Brothers; Three early–period comedies from the Marx Brothers.
Murder! (1930): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Herbert Marshall, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander; Hitchcock's second talkie is a clever whodunnit in which a juror (Marshall) in the murder trial of a young woman decides to open his own…
Party Girl (Dangerous Business) (1930): Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Douglas Jr. Fairbanks; Tarty pre–code expose of ‘party girl’ rackets – or prostitution rings – with Douglas Fairbanks as a college cad looking for love in all…
Prix de Beaute (1930): Dir. Augusto Genina
Feat. Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini; Louise Brooks is vivacious beyond compare in her first sound film, a jazz–age classic about a young office worker who enters a beauty…
W.C. Fields Collection, The (1930-1933): Feat. W.C. Fields; Compilation of the gin–blossomed comics finest shorts taken from when his slapstick tomfoolery was at its peak. Films Featured: THE GOLF…
Asphalt (1929): Dir. Joe May
Feat. Gustav Frohlich, Betty Amann; Bravura melodrama from the German Expressionist era wrangles with the divided loyalites of a love–struck police officer who falls for a sultry…
Blackmail (1929): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood…; Notable early thriller from Hitch, with Ondra being blackmailed by someone who knows she accidentally killed a rapist. Features good London…
Broadway Melody of 1929 (1929): Dir. Harry Beaumont
Feat. Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love…; "100% All Talking! 100% All Singing! 100% All Dancing!" – this creaky MGM tale of two sisters bringing their act to Broadway was tremendously…
Cocoanuts, The (1929): Dir. Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Feat. Groucho Marx, Zeppo Marx, Chico Marx…; The first feature–length Marx Brothers is probably one for completists only, with much of the film's running time devoted to mediocre musical…
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929): Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks; Exceptional follow–up to the eye–opening PANDORA’S BOX, with Louise Brooks again provoking disorder with her unrestrained vitality and…
Eternal Love (1929): Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. John Barrymore, Camilla Horn; Made during the last days of the silent era, the legendary Ernst Lubitsch directs John Barrymore and Camilla Horn as two lovers living in the Swiss…
Little Rascals, The (1929-1938): Highlights from the classic 30s movie serial starring a band of young rapscallions up to adventurous and inventive trouble. On tape, 6 episodes:…
Man with a Movie Camera (1929): Dir. Dziga Vertov; Breath–taking moving snapshot of life in Leninist Moscow uses dissolves, split screen, slo–mo, and freeze frames to dazzlingly illustrate…
New Gentlemen, The (Les Nouveaux Messiers) (1929): Dir. Jacques Feyder
Feat. Albert Prejean; A satirical French silent film, which uses a number of inventive visual techniques to comic effect. A dancer at the Paris Opera is the mistress of an…
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1929): Dir. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer; Scripted by a young Billy Wilder, this pivotal silent film harnessed the nascent talents of many other German film–makers that would come to…
Queen Kelly (1929): Dir. Erich von Stroheim
Feat. Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Walter Byron…; Star/producer Gloria Swanson fired her director before this picture was even half completed, but this 'shortened' epic about a sex scandal in…
Silly Symphonies (1929-1939): An exemplary collection of 31 animated musical shorts from the astonishing heyday of the Walt Disney empire. With animation that is sometimes rough…
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Willy Fritsch, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus…; Silent–era sci–fi from director Fritz Lang. Based on the 1928 novel "The Rocket to the Moon" by his collaborator (and wife at the time)…
Alfred Hitchcock Silent Double (The Manxman, The Ring) (1928-1929): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Two silent films from Hitchcock's early career.
Circus, The (1928): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin; Chaplin's Little Tramp stumbles into a travelling circus where he falls in love and finds work as a circus clown and high–wire artist. Hasn't…
Docks of New York, The (1928): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. George Bancroft, Betty Compson; George Bancroft plays a roughneck stoker who gets into all sorts of trouble during a brief shore leave when he falls hard for a wise and weary…
L'Argent (Money) (1928): Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Pierre Alcover, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel…; Classic of the late silent era from French filmmaker, writer and film theorist Marcel L'Herbier, based on the book of the same name by Émile…
Last Command, The (1928): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Emil Jannings; Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra…
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928): Dir. Herbert Brenon
Feat. Lon Chaney, Loretta Young, Nils Asther…; Profoundly moving melodrama with Lon Chaney playing a traveling circus clown who raises an abandoned child as his daughter, but falls into deep…
Man Who Laughs, The (1928): Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova; One of the most spectacular (and sophisticated) of the silent epics adapts a historical story by Victor Hugo concerning the destiny of a disfigured…
October : 10 Days That Shook the World (1928): Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Nikandrov , N. Popov, Boris Livanov; A brilliant reconstruction of the momentous events of 1917, when revolutionary soldiers overthrew the provisional Government bringing Lenin and the…
Pandora's Box (1928): Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer; Louise Brooks become a star and influenced a million haircuts as the voluptuous call–girl, Lulu, whose misdeeds meet with an appropriate fate.
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928): Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Renee Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Michel Simon…; An intense recreation of Joan of Arc’s trial and sentence that qualifies as one of cinema’s most transcendental achievements. Consisting…
Phantom of the Opera (1928): Dir. Rupert Julian
Feat. Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Gibson Gowland; First screen version of the Gaston Leroux novel with Lon Chaney grimacing through his greatest hour as the phantom. The atmosphere is creepy and the…
Show People (1928): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson…; A satire of Hollywood life in the last of the silent years, this rom–com from director King Vidor (THE FOUNTAINHEAD) has Marion Davies playing…
Spies (Spione) (1928): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Willy Fritsch; Post WWI Europe provides a volatile backdrop for this silent spy–saga, whose brilliant visual flourishes and 'house–of–mirrors'…
Steamboat Bill Jr (1928): Dir. Charles Riesner
Feat. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire; One of Buster Keaton's best films begins as sly farce, with his wimpish city–slicker meekly tussling with a thuggish steamboat–captain…
Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) (1928): Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin; An epic of silent Russian cinema to rival Eisenstein, this is set around a young Mongol fur–trapper who is swindled by traders and develops a…
Street Angel (1928): Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell; Janet Gaynor radiates as a streetwalker whose love for an Italian painter is jeopardized by her past brushes with the law. As with 7th HEAVEN, dir.…
Un Chien Andalou (1928): Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Salvador Dali; Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborated for this sensational short film that blew the lid off convention in a way history could never repeat. A…
7th Heaven (Seventh Heaven) (1927): Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell; Eternal lovers Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell endure spiritual turmoil and the ravages of war in this beautiful silent era classic, remarkable for…
Cat and the Canary, The (1927): Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Laura La Plante, Tully Marshall; Seminal haunted house flick centres around the gathering of greedy contestants to the will of a rich relative. Imaginative thrills are executed with…
College (1927): Dir. James W. Horne
Feat. Buster Keaton; Buster Keaton goes to college where he tries to win the girl of his dreams by proving himself in the sports arena. An ideal set up for 'Stoneface' to…
End of St. Petersburg, The (1927): Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov; The tensions that exploded with the 'October Revolution' in Russia, 1917 are schematised here using understated characterisations (of workers and…
Gaucho, The (1927): Dir. F. Richard Jones
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay; Prime Douglas Fairbanks adventure with the dashing swordsman fighting to save a city from a sadistic general.
It (1927): Dir. Clarence Badger
Feat. Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, Gary Cooper; Clara Bow sprang to stardom in this silent comedy, using ‘it’ to gold–dig department–store boss Antonio Moreno. Memorable for its…
Jazz Singer, The (1927): Dir. Alan Crosland
Feat. Al Jolson, May McAvoy; Historically important as the first–ever 'talkie' (ie. sound–film), featuring synchronised singing in several numbers. Al Jolson plays…
Napoleon (1927): Dir. Abel Gance
Feat. Albert Dieudonne; Renowned silent epic treats the life of the French general and emperor as a melodramatic spectacle of the highest order, with a…
Silent Films Of Alfred Hitchcock, The (1927-1929): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Two of Hitchcock's early films showcasing the best from the Master Of Suspense during his silent era. THE RING: A boxer must compete with a rival…
Sunrise (1927): Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Bodil Rosing; The first American outing from the master of German Expressionism turned out to be perhaps his best film of all. He instils an electric charge on a…
Underworld (1927): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook; Josef von Sternberg’s breakthrough silent film arguably pioneered the American gangster genre, with George Bancroft cast as a criminal kingpin…
Unknown, The (1927): Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz…; Lon Chaney is fantastically expressive in this Grand Guignol inspired silent horror, from frequent collaborators Chaney and director Tod Browning, in…
Wings (1927): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Gary Cooper; Renowned silent film represents the epic struggles of the allied airforces in WWI, with brilliant aerial sequences, battle recreations and several…
Adventures of Prince Achmed, The (1926): Dir. Lotte Reiniger; The dashing Prince Achmed saves a lovely damsel from evil witches and mythical beasts, as well as discovering Aladdin's lamp, all in the primitive…
Battling Butler (1926): Dir. Buster Keaton
Feat. Buster Keaton; Buster Keaton's seventh feature film is based on a Broadway play in which he plays a love–struck weakling who must masquerade as a boxer in…
Black Pirate, The (1926): Dir. Albert Parker
Feat. Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp…; An excellent silent swashbuckler with Douglas Fairbanks at his racy best, sliding down sails and flashing his cutlass. Beautifully shot on early…
Der Heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain) (1926): Dir. Arnold Fanck
Feat. Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker; One of the landmark films of German Cinema, this is chiefly remembered as the awesome debut of Leni Riefenstahl who later became chief filmmaker for…
Faust (1926): Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings; Innovative camera tricks and production design distinguish this rendering of the literary staple about a man who sells his soul to the devil.…
Garbo Silents Collection, The (Flesh and the Devil, The Temptress, The Mysterious Lady) (1926-1928): Dir. Clarence Brown, Fred Niblo
Feat. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert; Three MGM classics that well represent the great Greta Garbo as the ultimate silent movie icon: Flesh and the Devil (1927, 112m.) A gorgeous high…
General, The (1926): Dir. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Feat. Buster Keaton; Buster Keaton risks life and limb to pursue his beloved rail engine, hijacked by Union spies at the time of the U.S. Civil War. Hilarious…
Gribiche (Mother of Mine) (1926): Dir. Jacques Feyder; A silent French film by Jacques Feyder. A 13–year–old working–class boy lives alone with his mother. While shopping in a Paris…
La Boheme (1926): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree…; Silent film adaptation of the 1896 opera by Giacomo Puccini, with Lillian Gish starring alongside John Gilbert as doomed lovers Mimi and Rodolphe, a…
Lodger, The (1926): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney…; The first notable Hitchcock, this silent variant of the 'Jack the Ripper' features a memorable turn from Ivor Novello and some spine–tingling…
Metropolis (1926): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge…; Fritz Lang's masterpiece is a magnificent marriage of pure cinema innovation and startlingly ambitious set design. Set around the year 2000, a…
Mother (1926): Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov; In one of the masterpieces of early Russian cinema, a fable of pre–revolutionary worker–resistance and Tsarist oppression is heightened…
Son of the Sheik (1926): Dir. George Fitzmaurice
Feat. Rudolph Valentino; Rudolf Valentino's most famous and best outing is a high camp romp in the desert in which he plays the dual role of father and son, no doubt to…
Tartuffe (Herr Tartuff) (1926): Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings, Hermann Picha; This neglected Murnau masterpiece innovatively precedes FAUST by presenting its adaptation of a Molière’s satire as a…
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926): Dir. Harry Edwards
Feat. Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford; An overlooked silent oddity from Harry Langdon, whose boyish innocence contrasted sharply against the likes of contemporaries Chaplin and Keaton.…
Battleship Potemkin (1925): Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Blasky, Grigori Alexandrov; This landmark Soviet propaganda film about the 1905 revolution is one of the greatest classics of all time. The smart use of visual metaphor and that…
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Master Filmmaker (Master of the House, Day of Wrath, Ordet, Gerturd, My Metier.) (1925-1995): Dir. Carl Dreyer; Fetching boxset featuring four films – MASTER OF THE HOUSE, DAY OF WRATH, ORDET, GERTRUD – by admired but often underrated Danish film…
Eagle, The (1925): Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Rudolph Valentino; Rudolph Valentino's penultimate picture – and one of his most popular – in which he plays a Russian lieutenant who becomes a masked…
Gold Rush, The (1925): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain; Immortal comedy with Charlie Chaplin at his clownish best. The Little Tramp is a lone gold prospector who through a series of adventures, strikes it…
Greed (1925): Dir. Erich von Stroheim
Feat. ZaSu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt; One of the great silent masterpieces paints a savagely ironical portrait of a mismatched marriage in oldtime San Francisco, ruined through greed of…
Kriemhilde's Revenge (Die Nibelungen Pt. 2) (1925): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Margarete Schon, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos; Second part of Lang's Die Nibelungen saga (Part One – SIEGFRIED) has the aggrieved Kriemhilde joining forces with Attila the Hun against her…
Last Laugh, The (Letzte Mann, Der) (1925): Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings; One of the classics of silent German cinema, this puts visual expressionism to use for a penetrating psychological study of a man's systematic…
Late Mathias Pascal, The (Feu Mathias Pascal) (1925): Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon; A French silent film, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello. Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine stars as Mathias, an assistant librarian from a…
Lost World, The (1925): Dir. Harry Hoyt
Feat. Bessie Love, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone; An inventive precursor to KING KONG, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure story. Prehistoric monsters abound in this showcase of pioneering…
Merry Widow, The (1925): Dir. Erich von Stroheim
Feat. Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall…; Silent romantic comedy about a prince who falls in love with a dancer and commoner (Mae Murray) but after the marriage is forbidden she goes on to…
Seven Chances (1925): Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Feat. Buster Keaton; Another of Buster Keaton's masterpieces is this romantic comedy in which he plays a man who is offered a seven million dollar fortune if he marries…
Variety (1925): Dir. E.A. Dupont
Feat. Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti; A cautionary fable of romantic treachery set in the since–vanished vaudeville world, lent depth through its sophisticated visual style. Emil…
Iron Horse, The (1924): Dir. John Ford
Feat. George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy; An early silent western presenting an idealised portrayal of the development of the first American transcontinental railroad. Its romantic,…
Kean (1924): Dir. Alexandre Volkoff
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine; A French silent film depicting the life of Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, played by Ivan Mosjoukine, focusing on his romance with countess Elena de…
Michael (Mikael) (1924): Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Feat. Nora Gregor, Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen; A landmark in gay silent cinema from Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Walter Slezak as the young assistant and model to the artist Claude Zoret…
Navigator, The (1924): Dir. Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Feat. Buster Keaton; One of Buster Keaton's most evocative silent comedies, playing a naive youth who becomes marooned upon a gigantic yacht drifting out to…
Siegfried (Die Nibelungen Pt. 1) (1924): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Paul Richter, Margarete Schon, Theodor Loos…; First part of Dir. Lang's recreation of the German Nibelungen myth cycle (that inspired Wagner's 'Ring'), features fire–breathing dragons,…
Strike (1924): Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Grigori Alexandrov; Eisenstein's first feature is a depiction of a violent factory strike in Czarist Russia, filmed with a protoform version of his 'montage' theories in…
Thief of Bagdad (1924): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong, Brandon Hurst; Douglas Fairbanks Snr. stars in this original version of the Arabian Nights fable about a young Indian native who out–smarts an evil magician.
A Woman of Paris (1923): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou, Charles Chaplin; Chaplin's early attempt at drama is a mostly successful tale of a woman, who despite serious intentions, ends up the mistress of a boozing lecher in…
Buster Keaton Boxset (1923-1928): Dir. Buster Keaton, Charles Riesner, James W. Horne
Feat. Buster Keaton; Classic boxset includes four of Buster Keaton's most revered silent comedies: THE GENERAL, STEAMBOAT BILL JR, THE THREE AGES and COLLEGE.
Hunchback Of Notre Dame,The (1923): Dir. William Worsley
Feat. Lon Chaney; Perhaps the first classic version of Victor Hugo's novel about a hunchback who becomes lovestruck with a gypsy lass in 18th century Paris. Features…
Our Hospitality / Sherlock Jr. (1923): Dir. Buster Keaton
Feat. Buster Keaton; A pair of classic cinematic comedies from deadpan master Buster Keaton. 'Our Hospitality' – Keaton plays the youngest member of a Southern…
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover; Lang's first foray into ze evil exploits of Dr. Mabuse is a visually dazzling example of German expressionism, involving the master criminal's plan…
Foolish Wives (1922): Dir. Erich von Stroheim
Feat. Erich von Stroheim; Sophisticated blend of realism and decadence elevates this early silent classic from the notorious Erich Von Stroheim. A con–man masquerading…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 3 (Why Worry?, Dr. Jack, Feet First) (1922-1930): Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Clyde Bruckman
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Three classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes, WHY WORRY?, the tale of a hypochondriac whose retreat to a Paradise island lands him in the…
Lotte Reiniger: The Fairy Tale Films (1922-1961): Dir. Lotte Reiniger; THE FAIRY TALE FILMS is an inspired collection of animated shorts by renowned director Lotte Reiniger, whose signature style incorporated black and…
Nosferatu (1922): Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Max Schreck, Alexander Granach; Max Schreck is unforgettable as the titular vampire in this exquisitely chilling, silent forerunner to Lugosi's Dracula. A milestone of early…
Robin Hood (1922): Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery; The first memorable version of the story with the lithe Douglas Fairbanks Snr leaping around some remarkable period sets. Initially we find Robin…
Wizard of Oz, The (1922): Dir. Larry Semon
Feat. Oliver Hardy, Larry Semon; Original adaptation of the L Frank Baum story, conjures up more laughs than the Judy Garland version, with Oliver Hardy as the Tin–Man, and…
Ace of Hearts, The (1921): Dir. Wallace Worsley
Feat. Lon Chaney, Leatrice Joy, John Bowers; A silent–era crime drama with Lon Chaney as a member of a secret vigilante society. The group make a plan to dispatch a wealthy businessman…
Kid, The (1921): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance; Silent comedian Chaplin's first full–length feature has him teaming with lovable scamp Jackie Coogan for a life of crime.
Orphans of the Storm (1921): Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut…; Vivid melodrama with the sisters Gish caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
Phantom Carriage, The (Körkarlen) (1921): Dir. Victor Sjostrom
Feat. Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg; Impeccable Swedish silent film following a ghostly carriage as it takes a man's soul on a journey following his death on New Year's Eve, forcing him…
Buster Keaton Shorts (1920-1923): Feat. Buster Keaton; A selection of early Buster Keaton short comedies, dating from just after his period as sidekick to Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and prior to his classic…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920): Dir. John S. Robertson
Feat. John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst…; The first of many adaptations is this unsettling silent version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella about a charitable scientist whose…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 1 (Safety Last!, An Eastern Westerner, Girl Shy) (1920-1924): Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Three classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes dazzling comedy SAFETY LAST! (co–written by Hal Roach), with Lloyd's justly famous…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 5 (Hot Water, Now or Never, High and Dizzy, Get Out and Get Under) (1920-1924): Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Hal Roach, Sam Taylor
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Four classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes the hilarious marriage farce, HOT WATER, and three underseen shorts.
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 6 (Speedy, Never Weaken, Haunted Spooks, Grandma's Boy) (1920-1928): Dir. Ted Wilde, Fred Newmeyer, Hal Roach
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Four classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes Lloyd's last silent film, SPEEDY, about a baseball–obsessed no–hoper (with a cameo…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 7 (Number Please?, A Sailor Made Man, I Do, Among Those Present, For Heaven's Sake) (1920-1926): Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Hal Roach, Sam Taylor
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Five classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes the comedian's first feature–length film, A SAILOR MADE MAN, about the misadventures of…
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20s (1920-1929): Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy; A Robert Youngson compilation of shorts from the formidable comedy duo.
Mark of Zorro, The (1920): Dir. Fred Niblo
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks; First outing for the Californian masked righter–of–wrongs established Douglas Fairbanks' swashbuckling screen persona in the public eye.…
Saphead, The (+ The High Sign, One Week) (1920): Dir. Herbert Blaché, Winchell Smith
Feat. Buster Keaton; The film that launched Buster Keaton's career as a leading man features his debut starring role in a feature film as the simple–minded son of a…
Way Down East (1920): Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess; A prototypical Hollywood melodrama, detailing the innocence, corruption and eventual fate of Lillian Gish in 19th century America. Expertly…
Arbuckle and Keaton - Volume 1 (1919): Dir. Fatty Arbuckle
Feat. Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle; Five rare ‘two–reelers’ from the 1910s display two genius comedians in fine style: the mature routines of Roscoe…
Blind Husbands / The Great Gabbo (1919-1929): Dir. Erich von Stroheim, James Cruze
Feat. Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland, Sam De Grasse…; Two feature films on one disc featuring visionary Austrian–American silent filmmaker and actor Erich von Stroheim. Blind Husbands (directed…
Broken Blossoms (1919): Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Robert Barthelmess; D.W. Griffiths low–key lyric tragedy, set in 19th century London's docklands, with Lillian Gish at her most otherworldly. As the…
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919): Dir. Robert Wiene
Feat. Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt; An evil doctor uses a sleepwalker to carry out his barbarous fantasies in this seminal foray into horror and expressionist cinema. Notable for its…
Der Golem (1919): Dir. Paul Wegener
Feat. Paul Wegener; On the cobbled streets of 16th Century Prague, a Rabbi rescues the Jews from anti–semitic rule by invoking the clay monstrosity from Jewish…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 4 (The Kid Brother, Bumping into Broadway, Billy Blazes Esq.) (1919-1927): Dir. Ted Wilde, J A Howe, Hal Roach
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Three classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes THE KID BROTHER, one of Lloyd's best comedies; he plays an unappreciated sibling in a family…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 9 (Ask Father, From Hand to Mouth, The Freshman) (1919-1925): Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Hal Roach
Feat. Harold Lloyd; Three classic Harold Lloyd features. Includes THE FRESHMAN, one of Lloyd's best films, about the trials of campus life; and two shorts.
Harold Lloyd Collection, The (The Definitive Collection) (1919-1936): Feat. Harold Lloyd; Ample remastered collection from the versatile and much–loved silent era comedian. A visual feast for fans of the silent movie era and the…
Sentimental Bloke, The (1919): Dir. Raymond Longford
Feat. Arthur Tauchert; Restored version of the iconic Australian silent drama, adapted from a series of poems by C.J. Dennis, telling the story of a typical bloke meeting…
True Heart Susie (1919): Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Clarine Seymour…; Lillian Gish plays an innocent and big–hearted country girl who sacrifices everything for the clueless minister that breaks her heart. A…
Chaplin Revue, The (1918-1923): Feat. Charles Chaplin; A collection of comic shorts from Charlie Chaplin, playing his 'Tramp' character. Featured are 'Shoulder Arms', 'The Idle Class', 'The Pilgrim',…
Harold Lloyd Collection, The (1918-1922): Dir. Hal Roach, Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Feat. Harold Lloyd; An outstanding comedian of the silent era, Harold Lloyd forged a prolific oeuvre in the shadow of Chaplin and Keaton, films that were characterised…
Genius of Buster Keaton, The (The Short Films Collection) (1917-1923): Dir. Buster Keaton
Feat. Buster Keaton; A stunning, near–complete collection of 33 "two–reelers" from Buster Keaton's formative years before his run of successful feature…
Burlesque On Carmen (1916): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Ben Turpin; A twist ending highlights Chaplin's second 'feature' in which his forlorn soldier is loved and left by a gypsy girl.
Charlie Chaplin Collection (The Mutual Films Collection) (1916-1917): Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin; A collection of Chaplin "two–reelers" made for the Mutual Film Corporation that see him trialling and perfecting what would become the…
Intolerance (1916): Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh; Staggeringly ambitious film has a rightful place in many critic's 'all–time' lists. Its mammoth story unfolds in four parts simultaneously…
Birth of a Nation (1915): Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish; The cinema's first major epic marked the birth of an artform – newly defining the artistic boundaries of the medium. It retains much of its…
Carmen (1915): Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid; From prolific Hollywood pioneer Cecil B. De Mille, this was one of his many early works that brought famous plays and novels to the screen. Opera…
Keystone Komedies (1915-1926): Dir. Mack Sennett
Feat. Fatty Arbuckle, Mack Swain, Al St. John…; A bevy of comic shorts from silent film legends the 'Keystone Production Company' founded by Mack Sennett. Featuring incredibly exaggerated slapstick…
Les Vampires (1915): Dir. Louis Feuillade
Feat. Musidora, Edouard Mathe; The legendary French movie serial created by the enormously prolific silent dir. Feuillade, set around a murderous crime–ring who operate in…
Laffing Gas (1914-1929): Dir. Various
Feat. Charles Chaplin; Prime comic–narcotic from the early days of the movies and the heyday of Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Harold Llyod, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and…
Fantomas (1913-1914): Dir. Louis Feuillade
Feat. Edmund Breon, Rene Navarre, Georges Melchior…; Early French film serial adapting the novel of the same name by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre about the criminal genius who is obsessively…
Story of the Kelly Gang, The (1906): Dir. Charles Tait; Thought to be the world’s first ever feature film, this dramatic recreation of the Ned Kelly outback legend stands as a remarkable artifact of…
Early Cinema - Primitives and Pioneers (1895-1910): A must for cinephiles, historians and the simply curious, this two–volume set of early silent films features rare and important works from…
Landmarks of Early Film (1886-1913): A compilation of early films spanning the years from 1886 to 1913, beginning with experiments in "serial photography" and leading towards the…
Bogart Collection 1, The (They Drive By Night, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not): Feat. Humphrey Bogart
Bogart Collection 2, The (The Big Sleep, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Dark Passage): Feat. Humphrey Bogart
Britain's Greatest Comedy Heroes: Feat. Ronnie Barker, Kenneth Williams, Sid James…; Healthy tribute to Britain's late kings of comedy relives some of their funniest skits, spoofs and sketches, with added commentary from friends and…
Busby Berkeley Disc, The: Dir. Busby Berkeley; A unique collection of twenty one complete musical numbers that established the choreographic genius of Busby Berkeley.
Carry On Collection, The: Assorted film titles from the iconic British comedy franchise.
Dr Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham & Other Stories: Three Dr. Seuss classic stories, "Green Eggs and Ham", "The Zax", and "The Sneetches" animated with script adaptation and musical embellishments…
Gilbert & Sullivan Box Set: This extensive collection contains twelve of Gilbert and Sullivan's best loved operas specially filmed for home entertainment. A cast of top…
Grampa's Monster Movies: Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney…; Al Grampa Lewis from the original Addam's Family hosts this collection of 28 horror trailers unearthed from the vaults of Universal studios. This…
Laugh with the Carry On's: Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Williams, Sid James; Best of the Laugh with the Carry On's TV–Series which starred the same cast as the films.
Mondo Lugosi: Feat. Bela Lugosi; A compilation of many great sequences in which Bela Lugosi appeared. The perfect bill for your next vampire masquerade party.
Pulp Cinema: A sterling collection of film–noir movie trailers, including: The Big Heat, The Big Knife, The Big Sleep, Grand Central Murder, I Am A…
TV Treasures: A complete evening's entertainment from the golden age of TV including an episode each of 'Federal Men in Action', 'I'm the Law', 'Mr. and Mrs.…
Weird Cartoons 1 & 2: Two volumes of the weirdest cartoons from the archives of film history. Highlights include Betty Boop, WW2 propaganda, Cobweb Hotel and Little Black…
Winsor McCay - Animation Legend: Dir. Winsor McCay; Though his surviving oeuvre is small, animator and artist Winsor McCay (1869–1934) was extremely influential in the early development of the…
World's Best Dicks: Dir. Various; Compilation tape of gumshoes, gangsters, broads and bombshells including Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Moto, Dick Tracy, Mr. Wong and many more.

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