Filmography Highlights
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Tender is the Night
1962- Rated:
- TBC
A sad weakness in this lugubrious version of Fitzgerald's novel is the miscasting of Jones as the neurotic wife. This is a mistake to be laid at the door of producer Selznick, who masterminded her ca
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Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
1961- Rated:
- U
Cheesy, wobbly Cold War B-movie, with a penchant for nuclear missiles
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Until They Sail
1957- Rated:
- TBC
Set in New Zealand during World War II, this love story focuses on four sisters - Barbara Leslie Forbes (Jean Simmons), Anne Leslie (Joan Fontaine), Delia Leslie (Piper Laurie) and Everly Leslie (San
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Serenade
1956- Rated:
- U
Mario Lanza made a comeback with this enjoyable musical that successfully showcases his singing talents.
Serenade contains 14 songs, ranging from pop to classical, with the highlight b -
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956- Rated:
- A
A writer trying to expose the inadequacies of trials based on circumstantial evidence, gets himself charged with a murder. His plan is to have a newspaper publisher come forward with the evidence at
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Casanova's Big Night
1954- Rated:
- TBC
Daft but very likeable musical comedy starring Hope as the meek little Italian tailor who disguises himself as Casanova in order to woo the woman he has a crush on (Fontaine) but is too shy to approa
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The Bigamist
1951- Rated:
- TBC
When a couple try to adopt a baby, the head of the adoption agency launches an investigation that leads to a shocking discovery. Thriller starring Joan Fontaine, directed by Ida Lupino
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Letter From An Unknown Woman
1948- Rated:
- U
Joan Fontaine stars in Max Ophüls's haunting drama about a lonely woman's hopeless obsession with a former lover
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Emperor Waltz, The
1948- Rated:
- U
Crosby is gramophone salesman Virgil Smith, peddling his wares in pre-First World War Austria. He decides it would be a marketing coup to sell to Emperor Franz-Joseph (Haydn) and, in attempting to do
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This Above All
1942- Rated:
- TBC
Hollywood does its bit for the war effort in this stirring romance starring Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine: he's a war hero turned deserter, she's the WAAF who convinces him that he needs to carrying
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Suspicion
1941- Rated:
- PG
Classic early Hitchcock. Cary Grant is suspected by his new bride when his business partner shows up dead and he develops an unhealthy interest in poisons
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Rebecca
1940- Rated:
- PG
Hitchcock's first Hollywood feature is a stylish and suitably disturbing retelling of Daphne Du Maurier's melodramatic bestseller
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The Women
1939- Rated:
- U
Golden Age Hollywood comedy from director George Cukor, starring Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford in a scathing story of love, betrayal and revenge
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Gunga Din
1939- Rated:
- U
Working from Rudyard Kipling's poem about an Indian bearer who died for the regiment, RKO came up with this rousing adventure story, only marginally about him (played unconvincingly by American Jaffe
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