Filmography Highlights
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Jane Austen In Manhattan
1980- Rated:
- A
Rival New York theatre directors compete for the right to perform a play written by Jane Austen. Drama starring Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, Michael Wager and Sean Young, produced by Ismail Merchant and directed by James Ivory
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Walk on the Wild Side
1962- Rated:
- TBC
As an idea it's interesting: Harvey is the goodie-goodie lonesome cowboy in search of his one true love, Capucine, who has washed up in a New Orleans brothel called the Doll House run by Stanwyck, a
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Cimarron
1960- Rated:
- U
A dull remake of a dull film, this western about 25 years in the life of a family of Oklahoma settlers relies on soap-opera mechanics to drive the plot. While Mann does his best to instil some visual
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Chase A Crooked Shadow
1957- Rated:
- TBC
A man believed dead returns to collect his inheritance in a noir thriller starring Richard Todd and produced by Douglas Fairbanks Jnr
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Ten Commandments, The
1956- Rated:
- U
Bank holiday afternoon fare it might be, but DeMille's remake of his 1923 silent is a marvellous epic of the kind they don't make any more. The action follows Moses (Heston) from his life as the adop
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I Confess
1953- Rated:
- PG
Montgomery Clift stars as a priest burdened with a deadly secret and obliged to conceal the confessions of a murderer. An early Hitchcock
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Blue Gardenia, The
1953- Rated:
- TBC
Taut noir thriller from Lang released in the same year as his classic The Big Heat and photographed by ace cameraman Musuraca in a shimmering haze of rain-streaked windows, shattered mirrors and mood
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O Henry's Full House
1952- Rated:
- TBC
A starry cast, including Laughton, Widmark and Monroe, head up this portmanteau of films by five respected directors, each based on one of the stories of classic American author O Henry. Meanwhile, S
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A Ticket To Tomahawk
1950- Rated:
- U
A railway company tries to finish its line to the titular Colorado town before a deadline but faces a series of obstacles. 1870s-set comedy western starring Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter
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All About Eve
1950- Rated:
- U
Bette Davis excels as an aging diva in the six times Oscar Winner. Sit back and 'Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night'
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Yellow Sky
1948- Rated:
- TBC
A bunch of outlaws, led by Peck, seek refuge in a ghost town populated only by an elderly prospector (Barton) and his granddaughter (Baxter). When the gang get wind of nearby riches, they plan to kno
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Smoky
1946- Rated:
- U
A cowpoke is heartbroken when his favourite steed is stolen. Family-friendly western starring Fred MacMurray Anne Baxter
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The Razor's Edge
1946- Rated:
- TBC
An American soldier survives the First World War but is spiritual shaken by the experience. Adaptation of the novel by Somerset Maugham, starring Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter
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A Royal Scandal
1945- Rated:
- TBC
Otto Preminger and Ernst Lubitsch's adaptation of Melchior Lengyel's play about Catherine The Great, with Tallulah Bankhead as the Russian empress and Vincent Price as the French ambassador
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The Eve Of St Mark
1944- Rated:
- TBC
The horrors of horror are visited upon a small-town, all-American boy. War drama adapted from a hit stage play, and starring Vincent Price
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The North Star
1943- Rated:
- TBC
A band of Ukrainian villagers strive to keep the Nazi hordes at bay. Second World War drama starring Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews and Walter Huston, and directed by Lewis Milestone
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Five Graves to Cairo
1943- Rated:
- A
Wilder's second film in America is a Second World War espionage drama that is both witty and tense. It concerns a British soldier (American Tone making no effort to change his accent) stranded in a d
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Crash Dive
1943- Rated:
- U
Three-way submarine drama following an ambitious navy officer (Tyrone Power) who falls for a schoolteacher (Anne Baxter) prior to leaving for a mission aboard a submarine bound for German targets. He
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Pied Piper, The
1942- Rated:
- TBC
Monty Woolley stars as a pig-headed English misanthrope leading an unusual group of refugees out of France in spring 1940.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1942- Rated:
- U
Orson Welles's second film is a moving and funny depiction of family strife. It was butchered by the RKO studio who radically changed the ending, but this is still excellent cinema
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Swamp Water
1941- Rated:
- PG
French film-maker Renoir's first outing across the pond finds him a little uneasy about what to do with the American market. The tale of a refugee hiding away in the Georgia swamps still features ple
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Charley's Aunt
1941- Rated:
- TBC
The sixth screen version of the famous Thomas farce of 1892, had the perennially 39-year-old Benny (he was 47 at the time) as an Oxford undergraduate, who finds himself forced to impersonate his own
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