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Box set comprising four classic Cary Grant films as well as a
documentary about his life and work made in 2004, 'Cary Grant: A
Class Apart'. 'Night and Day' (1946) is a fictionalized biography
of Cole Porter, made while the composer was still alive, starring
Grant in the title role. The film begins in the 1910s when Porter
is at Yale University, then follows him through the First World
War, in which he works as an ambulance driver in France and marries
a nurse from an aristocratic family (Alexis Smith). Director
Michael Curtiz then focuses on Porter's glittering career through
the 1940s, and the film contains performances of many of his most
famous songs. It is now generally conceded that many of the facts
on which the film is based are wildly inaccurate: Porter was in
fact gay and married a divorcee friend for convenience, and his
much-feted military experiences were a hoax. 'Destination Tokyo'
(1943) is a suspenseful wartime drama about a US submarine, USS
Copperfin, sent into Tokyo harbour under secret orders in the early
days of the Second World War. Cary Grant plays the submarine's
commander, whose mission is to get the submarine and its crew into
the harbour undetected and send a landing party ashore in order to
obtain vital information for the planned Doolittle air raid on
Tokyo. 'North By Northwest' (1959) is a masterful mix of comedy and
suspense from Alfred Hitchcock. Advertising executive Roger
Thornhill (Grant) is lunching in a restaurant with his mother when
he mistakenly answers a page for one George Kaplan. He soon finds
himself on the run across the country, being pursued by enemies of
the government who are convinced that he is a secret agent. He
finds a friend in Eve Kendall (Eve Marie Saint), who helps conceal
him during a perilous train journey, but soon discovers that she is
not all she seems. 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (1944) is a macabre
comedy about the elderly Brewster sisters, who poison lonely old
men to put them out of their misery and bury them in their
basement. When their nephew Mortimer (Grant) calls to announce his
engagement, he discovers the grisly family secret. To complicate
matters, his evil sibling Jonathan (Raymond Massey) has just
escaped from jail, and arrives at the family home with murderous
intentions of his own.
Alexander Hall directs this classic drama starring Robert
Montgomery as a boxer who his called up to Heaven too early due to
a clerical error. When promising fighter Joe Pendleton (Montgomery)
is killed in a plane accident, he is greeted at the Pearly Gates by
guardian angel Mr Jordan (Claude Rains) who tells him that he has
arrived too soon and that he must go back to Earth and enter the
body of a soul who needs some nurturing. The cast also includes
Rita Hayworth, John Emery and Don Costello.
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