Filmography Highlights
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Seven Little Foys, The
1955- Rated:
- U
Hard, perhaps, for non-USA audiences to get worked up about this routine, rather sentimental biopic of a famous vaudeville entertainer, Eddie Foy. He flourished towards the end of the 19th century, m
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Glenn Miller Story, The
1953- Rated:
- TBC
An affectionate and fitting tribute to a man who, in his brief life, defined an era of music, and who died when his plane crashed over the English Channel in 1944 - his body was never found. Your tol
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Ten Tall Men
1951- Rated:
- U
Foreign legionnaires try to outfox their Arab foes. Desert-bound comedy drama starring Burt Lancaster
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Set Up, The
1949- Rated:
- PG
A rare movie, based on a poem and set in real time, the movie echoing the 70 minutes of the narrative. A film about the brutality of boxing, about the greater brutality of gamblers in their response
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Objective Burma!
1945- Rated:
- PG
Flynn and a handful of his fellow paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines into Burma's 'Jap-infested jungle', to destroy an enemy radio station. Their task accomplished, they find themselves with
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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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Mask of Dimitrios, The
1944- Rated:
- TBC
Based on Eric Ambler's novel A Coffin for Dimitrios. Lorre is the Dutch crime writer inspired to investigate a murder. As he pieces the puzzle together, the life story of the dead man (low-life crimi
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Mission to Moscow
1943- Rated:
- TBC
A year after co-writing Casablanca, Koch was assigned this propaganda movie. His career flourished, but when HUAC questioned the motives of this studio-made film he (not particularly left-wing) was t
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Air Force
1943- Rated:
- TBC
Patriotic Americans tend to go doolally over this wartime epic. Directed by Hawks, it follows a B-17 bomber that landed in Hawaii the morning of the Pearl Harbor bombing and traces it through to a ba
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942- Rated:
- U
A successful biopic of George M Cohan which became one of the top box office hits of 1942 and an Oscar-winner, including Best Actor for Cagney as the ebullient and egotistical entertainer. If his car
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Strawberry Blonde, The
1941- Rated:
- TBC
Director Walsh's pleasant remake of Hogan's play One Sunday Afternoon is a gentle romantic comedy about Biff Grimes (Cagney), a turn-of-the century ex-con turned dentist. Although he is happily marri
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Sergeant York
1941- Rated:
- TBC
The First World War hero whose life formed the basis of the film, would not allow anyone else to play him but Cooper. The actor subsequently won his first Best Actor Oscar for his sincerity and under
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Out of the Fog
1941- Rated:
- TBC
Litvak's film is an impressive adaptation of Irwin Shaw's play The Gentle People. Qualen and Mitchell are two honest and decent Brooklyn fishermen confronted by racketeer Garfield, who puts the squee
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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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