Filmography Highlights
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Lilies Of The Field
1963- Rated:
- U
Sidney Poitier gives an Oscar-winning performance as an itinerant worker who helps a group of Eastern European nuns for no other reward than the one he hopes to gain in heaven
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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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Men in War
1957- Rated:
- TBC
There's an element of repetitiveness in the structure of this film, which, combined with some posturing by the actors, diminishes the film's undeniable integrity and quality. That said, Mann and Yord
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Rebel Without A Cause
1955- Rated:
- X
The film that established and immortalised James Dean as the ultimate icon for anguished youth. Charged and good-looking, it brought teen angst out of the malt shops and romper rooms and onto the big screen
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Jim Thorpe, All-American
1951- Rated:
- TBC
A miscast, but managing, Lancaster plays the title character, a Native American athlete whose Olympic triumph goes sour when he switches to baseball, is stripped of his gold and hits the bottle. It's
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Flame and the Arrow, The
1950- Rated:
- U
Lancaster, the greatest all-round athlete the cinema has produced, outleaped and outswashbuckled Fairbanks and Flynn in the first of two costume comedy dramas for his own production company. In fact,
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Always Leave Them Laughing
1949- Rated:
- TBC
A rather routine backstage tale of the rise to fame and fortune of a comedian which provides comic Berle with a showcase for his talents. The plot concerns a cocky vaudeville player Berle whose rocky
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Unfaithful, The
1947- Rated:
- TBC
Adaptation of a Somerset Maugham play already filmed in 1929 and then in 1940 as The Letter, starring Bette Davis. With husband Scott away at war, Sheridan's extra-marital affair keeps her home fires
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Verdict, The
1946- Rated:
- TBC
After a career as an editor, and a couple of short films, Siegel made his feature debut with this late-Victorian thriller whose dodgy period settings obscure rather than enhance. Greenstreet is memor
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Humoresque
1946- Rated:
- TBC
Crawford's entry is delayed for 30 minutes, but it is well worth waiting for. She is at her predatory best as a wealthy patron of the arts who patronizes, in both senses, a young violinist (Garfield,
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Mildred Pierce
1945- Rated:
- PG
Re-release of a Joan Crawford classic, a triumph for her at the time after being let go by studio MGM
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Mr Skeffington
1944- Rated:
- A
A soap opera of epic proportions or a longish weepie - either way, this is as corny as it gets. Davis plays a money-hungry socialite who marries Jewish banker Rains (to protect her embezzling brother
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In This Our Life
1942- Rated:
- TBC
Davis at her monstrous best, in the form of Stanley Timberlake, a libindinous broad who eats men for breakfast - though the diet eventually leads to violent bouts of indigestion. Huston's histrionic
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Manpower
1941- Rated:
- TBC
A conventional love-triangle plot has Robinson and Raft as the two power line workmen fighting for Dietrich, the daughter of another. While the plot is not much to write home about, its ingenious set
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Bride Came C.O.D., The
1941- Rated:
- TBC
It's easy to see why Davis and Cagney disliked this frantic screwball comedy, old-fashioned even for its time (1941) - it boasts few moments of decent comedy and even less chemistry between the leads
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Roaring Twenties, The
1939- Rated:
- TBC
Essential gangster thriller following the fortunes of three fellas - Cagney, Lynne and Bogart - who return to American from the First World War
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Gone With The Wind
1939- Rated:
- PG
The definitive Technicolor romantic epic. Rhett, Scarlett, burning sets and a whole slew of nostalgic and/or reactionary values, this is creator-producer David O Selznick's finest hour and a cornerstone of the Hollywood monolith
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Dark Victory
1939- Rated:
- TBC
A classic bit of soap opera film, with Davis turning in a remarkable, Oscar-nominate performance (and eventually losing to Gone with the Wind's Vivien Leigh) as the starchy socialite who is diagnosed
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Jezebel
1938- Rated:
- TBC
The crucial event in this 1850s-set melodrama is the insistence of Jezebel (Davis) on attending the debutante ball in a flame-red dress when all about her are dressed in virginal white. (Actually it
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Captain Blood
1935- Rated:
- PG
A swashbuckler that practically defined the term, Flynn is Peter Blood, an Irish doctor sold into slavery after being convicted of treason against the English King for treating the wounds of an injur
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