Filmography Highlights
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The Dirty Dozen
1967- Rated:
- X
The most popular film from the Summer Of Love is all violence, war and death. Cracking entertainment with a strong anti-establishment message
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World of Henry Orient, The
1964- Rated:
- U
Sellers is the eccentric pianist of the title, a man idolized and pursued through New York by two adolescent friends (Spaeth and Walker) as he attempts to conduct an illicit affair with a married wom
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Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation
1962- Rated:
- U
James Stewart stars as Roger Hobbs, a banker who's looking forward to a quiet holiday with wife Peggy (Maureen O'Hara). Mrs Hobbs, however, has a different idea and hires a holiday home by the sea th
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Flaming Star
1960- Rated:
- PG
Made before Presley's film career descended into pantomime dreck, this has him strongly cast as a mixed-blood youth forced to choose between the two sides of his heritage. His father is a white farme
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The True Story of Jesse James
1957- Rated:
- U
Nicholas Ray's turn to deal with the legend of Jesse James, this time with Robert Wagner as the murdering thief cum folk hero and Jeffrey Hunter as his brother Frank
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Three Faces of Eve, The
1957- Rated:
- PG
Darkly brooding psychodrama based on an actual study by two Georgia psychiatrists. Woodward is the woman plagued by multiple personalities: the 'good' Eve White, the 'bad' Eve Black and a woman calle
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Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The
1956- Rated:
- TBC
Peck stars in this adaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-seller as a former Army officer turned TV writer who is forced to re-examine his values and all he holds dear when he is given a new assignment wr
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How to Marry a Millionaire
1953- Rated:
- U
This glossy, entertaining comedy - one of the few of the early CinemaScope, DeLuxe Color and Stereophonic Sound movies not to be a spectacle - allowed plenty of space for the stars to move around in
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We're Not Married
1952- Rated:
- A
Blink and you risk missing Marilyn Monroe in this flighty romantic comedy, whose biggest attraction is its plenitude of stars
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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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Desert Fox, The
1951- Rated:
- PG
A sympathetic portrayal of Second World German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel that was considered quite an exercise in daring when it was made just six years after the war had finished. It's a sanitized
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Three Came Home
1950- Rated:
- A
Fact-based WWII drama starring Claudette Colbert as a woman who, captured with her family in Borneo, is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a Japanese camp.
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Mudlark, The
1950- Rated:
- U
Squelching through the mud of the Thames at low-tide, 10-year-old Wheeler (Ray) finds a dead seaman. Searching the body, he discovers a cheap medallion of Queen Victoria, who he understands to be 'mo
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Dark Mirror, The
1946- Rated:
- TBC
De Havilland takes on dual good twin/bad twin roles in this melodrama, which once again demonstrates that identical siblings on film generally spell trouble. Here, the evil sister commits a murder an
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Along Came Jones
1945- Rated:
- PG
Comedy wasn't Cooper's natural forte, but he makes a decent fist of playing for laughs here. He takes the role of a clumsy, singing cowpoke who wanders the West with his sidekick Demarest. Mistaken f
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Woman in the Window, The
1944- Rated:
- TBC
The Woman in the Window is classic film noir. Robinson is the husband left to fend for himself when his wife and children go on holiday. Fascinated by the portrait of a woman in a shop window,
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Roxie Hart
1942- Rated:
- TBC
The play Chicago has manifested itself twice as a movie. This version is the best, a cynical take on journalistic scribblers and gullible punters that nearly ranks with His Girl Friday and Nothing Sa
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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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Tobacco Road
1941- Rated:
- TBC
Ford's adaptation of Jack Kirkland's play, based on Erskine Caldwell's novel, returns to similar territory he had depicted so successfully in The Grapes of Wrath, but this is a more sentimental, less
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The Grapes Of Wrath
1940- Rated:
- PG
John Ford's classic adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel. Stars Henry Fonda as the father of the poverty stricken Midwestern family heading for California during the Depression
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Chad Hanna
1940- Rated:
- TBC
Lancaster stars as the title character, a country bumpkin who demonstrates surprising resourcefulness when he joins a travelling circus and ultimately saves it from bankruptcy. Set in the mid-19th-ce
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Rose of Washington Square
1939- Rated:
- TBC
Loosely based on the life story of legendary musical star Fanny Brice and therefore the predecessor of Funny Girl. Thankfully, La Streisand is nowhere to be seen, and instead we get Faye and Power in
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Jesse James
1939- Rated:
- U
The first film on the notorious James brothers that attempted historical authenticity led to dozens more on the subject. It sets out, in a rather sprawling manner, to prove that the outlaws were wron
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Banjo on My Knee
1936- Rated:
- TBC
Like many musicals of the 30s, Banjo boasts the usual flimsy plot - this time around it has McCrea fleeing from new bride Stanwyck on his wedding night having convinced himself he is responsible for
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