Filmography Highlights
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Kiss Before Dying, A
1956- Rated:
- 12
Woodward, whose second film this was, had little good to say of it, but in fact it's a gripping version of Ira Levin's best novel. She plays the victim of Bud (Wagner) a handsome, money-orientated st
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Act of Violence
1949- Rated:
- TBC
Zinnemann's film noir is a rather cynical dig at post-war triumphalism, which questions ideas of heroism. Frank Enley (Heflin) is a man who has come good after the Second World War. He has a loyal fa
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Meet Me in St Louis
1944- Rated:
- U
The dawn of the MGM musical in the dark days of the Second World War. Stars Judy Garland as a singing, dancing and romancing member of a middle-class St Louis family in 1904, year of the World's Fair
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The Maltese Falcon
1941- Rated:
- PG
Humphrey Bogart is quintessential film noir private eye Sam Spade in this stone cold classic about murder, greed and a stolen statue
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Midnight
1939- Rated:
- TBC
A magical comedy, Midnight stars Colbert as the gal who is stranded in Paris and taken on by an aristocrat to divert the attention of his wife's lover. But she catches the eye of taxi driver Ameche,
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The Prisoner Of Zenda
1937- Rated:
- TBC
The rip-roaring and best version of Hope's much filmed novel stands out as one of the greatest adventure films of the 1930s. It is the story of a Englishman on holiday in a mythical European country,
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Hurricane, The
1937- Rated:
- A
No expense spared for this film based on the best-seller by James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff, who wrote Mutiny on the Bounty. Pacific island native Hall fights against the injustice of l
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Dodsworth
1936- Rated:
- TBC
Director Wyler's interpretation of the Sinclair Lewis novel takes a frequently contemplative look at how the lives of two Americans are changed by European sensibilities. Huston is the self-made Yank
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Page Miss Glory
1935- Rated:
- TBC
A detailed synopsis of this lighthearted romantic comedy adapted from a play would reveal nothing of importance. In essence it concerns the numerous complications that follow when Click (O'Brien) and
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Kennel Murder Case, The
1933- Rated:
- TBC
In this highly enjoyable detective story Powell - later The Thin Man - enjoyed early success as the sleuth, Vance, who here solves the mystery of who killed a wealthy man and his brother. His associa
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Red Dust
1932- Rated:
- TBC
A solid melodrama set in Indo-China which has a plantation owner (Gable) romancing a sexy harlot (Harlow), while married Astor also takes a shine to Gable. This love triangle made a reappearance in 1
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