Filmography Highlights
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Tobruk
1967- Rated:
- PG
Po-faced and hard-going Second World War actioner, about Allied soldiers' attempts to destroy Rommel's fuel supply in preparation for an ambitious raid on the North African coast. Along with German t
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Hawaii
1966- Rated:
- TBC
Von Sydow plays a stern missionary spreading the word in 19th-century Hawaii while struggling to prevent wife Andrews's affections from straying towards salty skipper Harris. This was originally Fred
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Great Race, The
1965- Rated:
- U
This is one of those spectacular comedy star vehicles which is perfectly watchable on a wet Sunday afternoon but which, looked at from almost any other perspective, is just a waste of celluloid. A ca
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Man's Favourite Sport?
1963- Rated:
- TBC
Overly long screwball comedy from director Hawks who sticks to a formula he used better in Bringing Up Baby. When super fishing-equipment salesman Willoughby (Hudson) is entered into an anglin
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To Kill A Mockingbird
1962- Rated:
- PG
Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall star in this Oscar-winning adaptation of Harper Lee's novel. In America's Deep South a lawyer defends a black man charged with raping a white woman, to the disgust of the other townsfolk
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Rio Bravo
1959- Rated:
- U
"John Wayne, the big guy with the battered hat... and Dean Martin, the ragged woman-wrecked cast-off called Dude... and Ricky Nelson, the rockin' babyfaced gunfisted kid... And time was running out through bullet holes at Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo". Great tagline, great film
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Operation Petticoat
1959- Rated:
- TBC
Cary Grant and Tony Curtis head out to sea with a submarine full of ladies in this enjoyable wartime comedy
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Run Silent, Run Deep
1958- Rated:
- U
A taut submarine thriller about an obsessive commander forcing his crew to hunt down a Japanese destroyer. One of Clark Gable's final films, co-starring Burt Lancaster
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King Creole
1958- Rated:
- TBC
One of Elvis's more famous movies, with the king as a young high-school drop-out who lands his big singing break while washing dishes at a nearby nightclub, only to fall in with a big-time crime boss
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Witness For The Prosecution
1957- Rated:
- U
A revered criminal lawyer ignores the advice of his doctors to participate in a sensational murder trial. All-star adaptation of the Agatha Christie play directed by Billy Wilder
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Lust For Life
1956- Rated:
- PG
Kirk Douglas stars as the great impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh in this 1950s studio biopic by Vincente Minnelli
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Land of the Pharaohs
1955- Rated:
- U
No expense was spared for this spectacular tale about one pharaoh who decides to build himself a quiet, modest resting-place with the help of a few thousand slaves. The construction of the real pyram
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Blackboard Jungle, The
1955- Rated:
- X
Vintage tale of a teacher having to contend with a class of aggrieved inner-city teens. Among the rock 'n' rock students are young Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier
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Riot in Cell Block Eleven
1954- Rated:
- 15
A prison movie with intelligence, reality and a cracking good story. It was fikmed in Folsom Prison and used some of the serving cons as extras, so the setting and atmopshere are as authentic as you
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Ruby Gentry
1952- Rated:
- TBC
When impoverished Jones falls for aristocrat Heston only to be taken advantage of, she seeks revenge. This is sweeping, unconvincing melodrama which is nonetheless compulsively watchable. Vidor piles
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Big Sky, The
1952- Rated:
- U
Hawks's adventure movie, featuring Douglas and Martin as Kentucky frontiersmen on an expedition up the Missouri river to deliver a shipment of furs to Blackfoot Indians, is flawed but has a pleasing
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The Thing From Another World
1951- Rated:
- 12
A defrosted, ferocious alien sends shivers down the spine of a bunch of scientists and Air Force crew in an Antarctic research team. Banal yet wonderfully engrossing sci-fi/horror fluff produced and orchestrated by Howard Hawks
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Red River
1948- Rated:
- U
A cattle baron and his adopted son try to drive their livestock from north from Texas to the Missouri railhead. Western drama starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift
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Ramrod
1947- Rated:
- TBC
Lake heads the cast of this pretty standard De Toth western as a sheep rancher who is forced to take the law into her own hands when her flock comes under threat from evil cattlemen. Although De Toth
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Walk in the Sun, A
1945- Rated:
- 12
A strangely quiet Second World War movie which concentrates more on characterization than on depicting the conflict at its most brutal. The focus is on a platoon involved in the invasion of Italy, wi
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Town too Tough to Die, The
1942- Rated:
- TBC
We all know the story. It's 1881, and the Clantons and the Earps are a-feudin' in a small Arizona town. Soon, there'll be blood upon the sawdust in the Last Chance Saloon. Not soon enough, though. Mc
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Tombstone
1942- Rated:
- TBC
We all know the story. It's 1881, and the Clantons and the Earps are a-feudin' in a small Arizona town. Soon, there'll be blood upon the sawdust in the Last Chance Saloon. Not soon enough, though. Mc
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