Filmography Highlights
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Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
1962- Rated:
- X
Quintessential melodrama starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as sisters and former stars trapped in a neurotic co-dependent relationship
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Horse Soldiers, The
1959- Rated:
- PG
Ford delivers his own take on the American Civil War in this loose retelling of the story of Colonel Benjamin H Grierson. Here he is renamed Colonel John Marlowe and played by Wayne, leading a platoo
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Crimson Kimono, The
1959- Rated:
- TBC
One of Fuller's least well-known crime thrillers, this has his characteristic punchy style, though the tale of two LA detectives, one Japanese-born, investigating and solving a stripper's murder, is
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Gideon's Day
1958- Rated:
- TBC
The legendary John Ford comes to London to follow Inspector Gideon (Jack Hawkins) as he survives outrage and danger in bringing the capital's criminals to justice. Comic tone offsets the drama, with
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The Ghost And Mrs Muir
1947- Rated:
- U
Whimsical supernatural comedy with Rex Harrison as the ghost of a gruff sea captain, who haunts and then falls in love with Gene Tierney
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Bedlam
1946- Rated:
- PG
Straight historical melodrama very loosely inspired by William Hogarth's illustrations of The Rake's Progress. Lee plays a young actress whose concern for the pitiful conditions in the lunatic asylum
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Summer Storm
1944- Rated:
- TBC
Sirk's first feature in the USA, apart from the 1942 Hitler's Madman, was made four years after he was invited there by Warners. Summer Storm is an adaptation of Chekhov's only novel, The Shooting Pa
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Hangmen Also Die!
1943- Rated:
- PG
Lang's marvellously dark adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's fictionalized take on the assassination of notorious Nazi leader and Czech 'protector' Reinhard Heydrich by the resistance movement, killed in
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How Green Was My Valley
1941- Rated:
- U
Ford abandons western territory for Wales, to direct this brilliant adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's novel and become the first director ever to win consecutive Oscars (he nabbed the big one the pre
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Seven Sinners
1940- Rated:
- TBC
Marlene Dietrich is the sultry singer at an Indonesian club and John Wayne the navyman who falls for her dangerous charms in this 1940 romantic adventure
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King Solomon's Mines
1937- Rated:
- TBC
Allan Quartermaine embarks upon the ultimate rescue mission in this adaptation of H Rider Hagard's much-loved tale of derring-do
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Man Who Changed His Mind, The
1936- Rated:
- TBC
Vintage British-made chiller starring Boris Karloff as a scientist who discovers a way to transfer minds from the body of one person to another only to turn to murderer when publisher Frank Cellier w
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Camels are Coming, The
1934- Rated:
- U
Vintage British comedy starring Jack Hulbert as a squadron leader on the trail of drug traffickers in Egypt.
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