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Early film from the legendary Powell/Pressburger team. A woman (Wendy Hiller) has always known what she wanted in life, and now she is about to marry a millionaire. But when she ends up stranded on a Hebredian island due to a storm, she changes her mind.
Junior doctor Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) gains a position at St Swithin's Hospital in London and ends up sharing 'digs' with a bunch of slightly older young medics, all of whom have failed the previous year on account of their inability to keep to the curriculum. Sparrow tries to find a balance between the antics of his new peers and the ever-terrifying Sir Lancelot Spratt, chief surgeon at St Swithin's and a man on the lookout for miscreant doctors wherever they may be. Menaced by the advances of his landlady's daughter, and feelings for one of the nurses, will Sparrow be able to qualify?
Every year, barrister Alan McKim (John Gregson) and wife Wendy (Dinah Sheridan) compete against Alan's friend (and Wendy's former beau), Ambrose Claverhouse (Kenneth More), in the London to Brighton vintage car race. This time round, however, Alan's 1904 roadster, 'Genevieve', breaks down on route. Angered by Ambrose's jokes at the expense of his beloved car, Alan bets his rival that he can beat him on the return journey to London - and the race is on! Larry Adler's harmonica score was nominated for an Oscar. Also included is a 'making of' documentary.
Self-made property developer Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) masterminds a successful billion-dollar bank job, even though he has no need of the money. Beautiful insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) begins to look into the case and instinctively picks Crown out as the major suspect. Thus begins an intriguing cat-and-mouse game, with Crown treating Anderson to a fine old time - beach buggies, gliders, kinky chess games - as the pair try to simultaneously seduce and outwit each other. Norman Jewison directs.
James Bond (Roger Moore), in his tenth screen outing, joins forces with a glamorous Russian spy (Barbara Bach) to outwit a megalomaniac shipping magnate (Curt Jurgens) who intends to achieve world domination by causing nuclear war between the superpowers. The film features the submersible Lotus Esprit, underwater battles, and 'Jaws', a seven-foot villain with steel teeth.
The fourth in the James Bond series, with Sean Connery once again in the title role. Global criminal organisation SPECTRE has stolen two nuclear bombs and is threatening to blow up the world. Bond infiltrates the terrorists' underwater base off the Bahamas in order to foil their plan. 'Thunderball' was remade in 1983 when Sean Connery returned to the role of 007 in 'Never Say Never Again'.
Happily-married Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is left in New York City while his wife and child go on summer vacation. His lively imaginings of what a summer of freedom has in store seem to have some validity when a beautiful and sensuous young girl (Marilyn Monroe) moves into the sublet upstairs.
1950s suspense thriller starring Dirk Bogarde as a wanted man. Hapless murderer Chris Lloyd (Dirk Bogarde) takes flight from his crime with 6-year-old witness Robbie (Jon Whiteley) in tow. As they head towards the Scottish border, the fugitive begins to strike up a relationship with the boy, who has problems of his own.
Roberto Rossellini co-writes and directs this Second World War drama starring Ingrid Bergman. To escape from a prison camp Lithuanian refugee Karen (Bergman) marries an Italian fisherman named Antonio (Mario Vitale). She is filled with romantic notions as her husband takes her to his home on the island of Stromboli but her dreams of an idyllic paradise are shattered by the reality of a barren, desolate landscape. She finds herself frowned upon by the local women who are suspicious of the foreigner and decides to leave the island, but her plan to raise enough money for her departure involves seducing the local priest (Renzo Cesana)...
The Searchers
Chisum
Rio Bravo
Cahill: United States Marshal
Almost a precursor to the phenomenon that is reality TV today, this 1976 title delivers a voyeuristic look at how people interact and behave when confined to a single room. The film depicts the results of an idea by avant-garde director Stephen Dwoskin to bring together a group of strangers, who volunteered to participate, and film them over a period of five days encouraging them to explore and act out their fantasies. The outcome, which was edited from 15 hours of footage filmed by Dwoskin, shows the formation of intense encounters and relationships. The use of ceremonial gowns and elaborate make up further add to the atmosphere of this provocative and experimental film.
The ninth in the series of the Bulldog Drummond adventure films based on the novels by Herman C. McNeile, this film was the only one to star John Lodge in the title role. In this outing for the daredevil sleuth, Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond finds himself up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret remote-controlled aircraft. Dorothy Mackaill co-stars as Drummond's feisty love interest, Doris.
Three classic films from acclaimed director, Roman Polanski. In 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968), Mia Farrow stars as Rosemary, a young wife whose husband (John Cassavetes), an actor, falls in with a group of Satanists. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, she begins to suspect that she may be carrying the child of the Devil. In 'The Tenant' (1976), when Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents a decrepit, barren flat he discovers that the flat's previous occupant, a young girl, had leaped to her death from its window. Intrigued, he begins to obsess about the girl and convinces himself that the other tenants of the building are trying to drive him to self-murder as well. But has Trelkovsky really only inherited the girl's suicidal urges? Finally, in 'Chinatown' (1974), private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired to follow water commissioner Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), only to see him turn up dead at the bottom of a reservoir. Realising he has been used, Gittes confronts Mulwray's widow Evelyn (Faye Dunway), a woman who seems to have plenty of secrets of her own, not least her ambiguous relationship with her father Noah Cross (John Huston).
Jose Carreras performs a Christmas selection in the winter wonderland of Oberndorf, Austria. Songs include 'Ave Maria' and 'Silent Night'.
You've visited lands where a cyclops roams (The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad), skeletons duel (Jason And The Argonauts) and cowboys lasso dinosaurs (The Valley Of Gwangi). They are the worlds of Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion effects master who creates another dazzling realm in Clash of the Titans. Olympian gods, mythological monsters and heroic mortals populate this imaginative spectacle. Harry Hamlin is Perseus, mortal son of Zeus and champion of captive Andromeda. From that storyline, Harryhausen unleashes sea creature Kraken, snake-haired Medusa, swamp denizen Calibos, flying horse Pegasus, two-headed dog Dioskilos, giant scorpions and all manner of eye-popping adventure. Let the clash begin!
Hitler's plan to loot a treasure-laden Greek island is under way. A prison camp is built where the inmates dig up priceless art under the eye of the Austrian commandant Major Otto Hecht. Zeno, the island's resistance leader and Eleana scheme to defeat the occupiers. Leading a group of freedom fighters, they clash with the Nazis as they try to save the condemned prisoners and the treasure hidden in the mountaintop monastery.
Kenneth More keeps his upper lip stiff in this colourful adventure set in colonial India. Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt, when a rebellion breaks out amongst the tribesmen. Scott and his men take the Prince and his governess into the hills in order to take the young Prince to safety in Kalapur, 300 miles away, in the pretext that while he is alive, no rebellion can succeed. But the last convoy has left, and their only chance of escape is a temperamental old train, called the "Empress of India".
This collection of classic Laurel and Hardy shorts are based around the maritime adventures of Stan and Ollie. In 'The Live Ghost' they help round up a reluctant crew for a ghost ship. Taxi driver Stan boards ship against his will in 'Sailors, Beware!'. In 'Two Tars', Stan and Ollie, as sailors on shore leave, become involved in a massive traffic jam. They are again sailors on leave in 'Men O'War', with hostilities taking place on a boating lake. 'Any Old Port!' sees Stan and Ollie arriving in port from a whaling voyage. In 'Why Girls Love Sailors' Stan helps a damsel in distress. And in 'Towed in a Hole', the men buy a boat - and fill it with water to detect the leaks.
Classic British adventure story of Harry Feversham (John Clements), a British officer, who resigns his commission on the eve of a battle in the Sudan. He is then given four white feathers by his friends and fiancée as a symbol of cowardice. Determined to win back his honour, Feversham exposes himself to hardship while disguised as a Sudanese in an attempt to aid his comrades. Directed by Zoltan Korda, this was the fourth film, but first sound version, of the tale.
Alfred Hitchcock's most celebrated British thriller, adapted from John Buchan's novel. Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) becomes the victim of mistaken identity when a female corpse is dumped in his flat by a spy ring. He tries to track down the true murderers whilst being pursued by the police, and hooks up with an unwilling accomplice (Madeleine Carroll). Their adventure eventually leads them to a music hall, where the secret of the 39 steps is revealed. Also included is the documentary 'Hitchcock - The Early Years'.
An epic film that re-creates in stunning detail one of the most disastrous battles of World War 2, A Bridge Too Far is a spectacular war picture. Painstakingly recreated; on actual battlefield locations and boasting a remarkable cast, A Bridge Too Far accurately recaptures the monumental scope, excitement and danger behind one of the biggest military gambles in history. In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion. the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. But a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and even worse weather led to disaster beyond the Allies' darkest fears.
When Jack Carter comes to Newcastle to inquire about his brother's mysterious death, racketeers think they can threaten him, rough him up, shoo him away like a fly. Which shows they don't know jack about Carter. Michael Caine plays the relentless title character in this gritty neo-noir classic. Carter is a sharp portrait of cold-blooded precision as he connects the dots of a cover-up that leads to a pornography ring. Revenge is sweet for Carter. But in the hard world of latter-day film noir, sweet is sure to turn suddenly, violently sour. |
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