Filmography Highlights
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964- Rated:
- 15
Davis gets to do her spooky old spinster act again in Aldrich's cracking thriller. This time she is the wealthy woman who has been shunned by society since murdering her fiancé 40 years previous
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Not As a Stranger
1955- Rated:
- TBC
Based on Morton Thompson's best-seller, Kramer's directorial debut is a worthy and laborious tribute to the medical profession. Nurse de Havilland supports her husband Mitchum through medical school.
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Heiress, The
1949- Rated:
- U
A soberly dramatic and polished version of Henry James's novel Washington Square, this shows some of its theatrical origins in situation and dialogue, having arrived via the Broadway adaptation by Ru
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Snake Pit, The
1948- Rated:
- TBC
Overemphatic and simplistic as it is, this heart-felt film was one of the very first Hollywood films to examine the subject of mental illness with any seriousness. However, it is rather dated in its
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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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They Died with Their Boots On
1942- Rated:
- TBC
Brazenly uninterested in historical accuracy, Walsh's Custer biopic suggests that those ol' Yankees and Injuns could have got along mighty fine, had it not been for some pesky varmint of a cadet a-gu
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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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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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Santa Fe Trail
1940- Rated:
- U
A curiously reactionary western from Warners, known as the most liberal of studios. Flynn plays Stuart, a conventional Confederate soldier hero who leads his troops in the capture of the abolitionist
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Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The
1939- Rated:
- TBC
Davis gives one of her finest performances as the English monarch in Curtiz's lavish costume drama focusing on her infamous relationship with Essex. Elizabeth is entranced by the charismatic Essex (F
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Dodge City
1939- Rated:
- PG
Curtiz' film has pretty much become shorthand for Western clichés, and has been cited as the main source for mockery in Mel Brooks' brilliant spoof, Blazing Saddles. It is not hard to see why: t
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Charge of the Light Brigade, The
1936- Rated:
- U
Historically incorrect, but magnificent nonetheless. Legendary swashbuckler Flynn leads the Light Brigade on their heroic charge into the Valley of Death. Flynn has everything going for him here: rom
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Anthony Adverse
1936- Rated:
- TBC
Lame, over ambitious attempt at a globetrotting swashbuckler, with Frederic March in the title role as the man on a mission to discover the truth about his life. As a unwanted child whose mother died
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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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