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21 Days
Classic British crime drama starring Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks and Laurence Olivier. Keith Durrant (Banks) is a brilliant young barrister on the verge of being promoted to the bench. His plans hit a snag when his younger brother, Larry (Olivier), accidentally kills the ex-husband of his girlfriend, Wanda (Leigh), and asks Durrant for help. Durrant realises that he cannot go to the police because he may run the risk of ruining his promotion, so he says nothing. When a tramp is arrested for the murder, Larry knows he must turn himself in before the man is sentenced for a crime he did not commit. Sentencing takes place in 21 days, so Larry and Wanda decide to enjoy those days in the best way they can. However, when the tramp dies in prison, Larry is torn between confessing or living with the guilty secret forever.
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A Foreign Affair
Classic romantic comedy from director Billy Wilder starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lund. Captain John Pringle (Lund) is an American army captain who is having an affair with German singer Erika Von Schluetow (Dietrich). When Congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur) is sent to Germany on a fact-finding mission, John decides to clean up his act - or at least make it appear that way. Phoebe eventually falls for John, but Erika has other ideas. £5.99 -
A Letter to Three Wives
Classic romantic drama directed and co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Three best friends Deborah (Jeanne Crain), Rita (Ann Sothern) and Lora Mae (Linda Darnell) are on a boat trip when they each receive a letter from their absent friend Addie Ross, informing them that she has run off with one of their husbands. Forced to wait until they return from the trip that night to find out whose husband has absconded, the three women reminisce about their marriages and the way their lives have turned out compared to their expectations. Kirk Douglas also co-stars in an early role.
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A Matter of Life and Death
Classic fantasy from Powell and Pressburger in which an RAF pilot must argue for his life in a celestial trial after a mix-up sees him survive a fall from his plane. When Peter Carter (David Niven)'s plane is struck on his way back to England from a bombing mission and his parachute destroyed, he prepares himself for death. Incredibly, however, he awakes safely on the ground the next day. It turns out that the emissary sent from Heaven to carry him to his death, Conductor 71 (Marius Goring), was unable to locate him in the fog, but has now arrived to take him to the next world. Carter refuses to go, having fallen in love with the radio operator who talked to him while the plane was going down, June (Kim Hunter). A trial is convened in Heaven to see if Carter should be allowed to live on. Will the pilot be able to convince the court that his love for June is strong enough that he should be given another chance?
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A Run for Your Money
Ealing comedy directed by Charles Frend. Twm and Dai Jones (Meredith Edwards and Donald Houston), two brothers from a small mining village in Wales, win a coal-cutting competition and set off for London to claim their prize. There, the rural innocents are supposed to be escorted by newspaper reporter Mr Whimple (Alex Guinness), but they fail to make the rendezvous and instead get into various scrapes including a long pub crawl that ends up in a pawn shop and being taken for a ride by a pretty con woman, Jo (Moira Lister).
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A Tale of Two Cities/Oliver Twist/Great Expecta...
Three classic films adapted from novels by Charles Dickens. In 'A Tale of Two Cities' (1958), Sydney Carton (Dirk Bogarde) is a frivolous London barrister, hopelessly in love with Lucie (Dorothy Tutin), even after she marries Charles Darnay (Paul Guers), who is descended from an unpleasant French aristocrat. Darnay is lured back to France as the Revolution gets into swing where he is arrested and awaits execution. Sydney, seeing Lucie's despair, goes to France, frees Charles and takes his place in the queue for the guillotine. In 'Oliver Twist' (1948), Oliver (John Howard Davis) is a young orphan boy who is expelled from the workhouse run by Mr Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan). After becoming an apprentice to an undertaker Oliver decides to run away to London, only to meet the Artful Dodger (Anthony Newley) and fall amongst his gang of thieves, led by the scheming Fagin (Alec Guinness). Finally, in 'Great Expectations' (1946), orphan Pip (Anthony Wager) befriends an escaped convict before being elevated to higher circles as the companion of mad Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt) and her niece, Estella (Jean Simmons), with whom the boy quickly falls in love. When the adult Pip (John Mills) discovers a mysterious benefactor has paved the way for him to become a gentleman, he assumes Miss Havisham is responsible.
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A Throw of Dice
Classic silent movie in which two rival kings addicted to gambling, Ranjit (Charu Roy) and the evil Sohan (Himansu Rai), also vie for the same woman, Sunita (Seeta Devi), Kanwa the hermit's (Sarada Gupta) daughter. Ranjit loses his kingdom and his love and becomes Sohan's slave through a crooked game of dice. £16.99 -
A Walk in the Sun
Dana Andrews stars in this 1940s war drama adapted from the book by Harry Brown. Sergeant Bill Tyne (Andrews) is left in charge of the remaining platoons in his squad after his superiors are either killed or injured during the 1943 American invasion of Italy. He leads the soldiers in an attack to secure a fortified farmhouse occupied by Nazis. They have already lost a number of their men and their mission is only going to get more dangerous. £9.99 -
Against the Wind
At the height of the Second World War, a group of men and women are gathered together in London to be trained as spies. However, there is a traitor in their midst.
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All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz writes and directs this classic award-winning drama starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter. Eve Harrington (Baxter) is famous actress Margo Channing (Davis)'s biggest fan. When, by chance, she gets to meet the great lady, she quickly ingratiates herself into her life. Before long, however, she has become a bitter rival, stealing Margo's Broadway role and causing turmoil in her personal life. George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill and Thelma Ritter co-star with Marilyn Monroe making an early film appearance. Both Davis and Baxter received Oscar nominations for their roles with the film winning six awards including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and Supporting Actor (Sanders).
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An Ideal Husband
An adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde play, directed by Alexander Korda. When a blackmailing adventuress (Paulette Goddard) threatens a society gentleman (Hugh Williams), this 'ideal husband' has to fight to save his marriage and his reputation from a political scandal.
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Angel
Classic comedy starring Marlene Dietrich. Maria (Dietrich) is married to Sir Frederick Barker (Herbert Marshall), a British diplomat who spends a lot of time travelling and pays little attention to his partner. Maria is starting to feel neglected by her husband and while she is visiting a friend in Paris, she meets Anthony Halton (Melvyn Douglas), an American tourist. The pair develop a mutual attraction but Maria decides not to act on her feelings for the sake of her marriage. Shortly after her return to England, Maria and Frederick attend the races and she spots Anthony in the crowd. Maria is tempted to begin a romance with Anthony, while Frederick begins to suspect that his wife might be growing restless.
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Anna Karenina
Alexander Korda's screen adaptation of Tolstoy's novel starring Vivien Leigh. Anna Karenina (Leigh) is asked to come to Moscow to help sort out her brother's marital problems. On the train from St. Petersburg she befriends the Countess Vronsky who is met at the station by her son Colonel Vronsky. Anna immediately falls for him and, after the two keep meeting at various parties, they start an affair - despite Anna being married with a son. Tolstoy's novel has been adapted for both cinema and television several times from the first in 1935, starring Greta Garbo, through to the television version in 2000.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Macabre comedy about the elderly Brewster sisters, who poison lonely old men to put them out of their misery and bury them in their basement. When nephew Mortimer (Cary Grant) calls to announce his engagement, he discovers the grisly family secret. To complicate matters, his evil sibling Jonathan (Raymond Massey) has just escaped from jail, and arrives at the family home with murderous intentions of his own.
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Belle of the Nineties
Classic western comedy starring Mae West. Ruby Carter (West) is a cabaret singer working in Mississippi. In a man's world, Ruby has little trouble surviving on her own terms, resisting the attentions of a deluge of lecherous men. Instead, she reserves her affections for a boxer called The Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor).
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Bette Davis Box Set
Box set containing three popular movies starring Bette Davis. In 'All About Eve' (1950), Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) is famous actress Margo Channing's (Davis) biggest fan. When by chance she gets to meet the great lady she quickly ingratiates herself into her life. Before long, however, she has become a bitter rival, stealing Margo's Broadway role and causing turmoil in her personal life. In 'Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte' (1964), Davis plays a tortured woman who hasn't ventured outside her home for 27 years, because she is convinced that she killed her fiance. A certain turn of events begins to change her viewpoint. Finally, 'The Virgin Queen (1955) is an American-made feature chronicling the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England (Davis) and the explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd).
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Billy Wilder Collection: Volume 1
Box set containing five classic movies from popular filmmaker Billy Wilder. In 'Avanti!' (1972), Jack Lemmon stars as American executive Wendell Armbuster. On travelling to Italy to recover his father's body after a car accident, Wendell soon becomes tied up in endless red tape, and is shocked to discover that his father had a mistress, who also died in the car crash. The mistress' daughter, Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills), arrives in Italy to collect her mother's body, and she and Wendell embark on a series of misadventures both comic and romantic. In 'Irma La Douce' (1963), Nestor (Lemmon) is a bumbling Parisian policeman who manages to get the sack after raiding a house of ill repute at which his boss is in attendance. Looking for work, he is taken on by streetwalker Irma La Douce (Shirley Maclaine) as her business manager, and soon finds himself falling in love with her. Determined to keep Irma faithful, Nestor disguises himself as an elderly English lord and becomes her sole client. All goes well, until Irma confesses her love to Nestor - not for him, but for his aged alter ego! In 'Kiss Me, Stupid' (1964), Dean Martin plays a sex-crazed singer who feigns a professional interest in an amateur songwriter, so that he can pursue a romantic interest in the latter's wife. However, the deceit does not all lay on Martin's side, and there follows a tangled web of bluff and double bluff, as the characters strive to work out who is fooling who. In 'One, Two, Three' (1961), C.R. MacNamara (James Cagney), an ambitious Berlin-based executive for an American cola company, sees his chances for advancement go up in smoke when his boss' daughter (Pamela Tiffin) comes on holiday to Berlin and ends up marrying a fierce young communist (Horst Buchholz). With the boss due to visit in a few days time, MacNamara sets to work, juggling angry Russians, officious Germans, and his own increasingly-exasperated wife, as he tries to put matters right. Finally, in 'Some Like it Hot' (1959), unemployed musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Lemmon) go on the run after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre. Pursued by gangsters, the duo are forced to disguise themselves as women and join Sweet Sue's all-girl band on the next train for Florida. Joe is attracted to Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), the band's singer, while Jerry finds himself pursued enthusiastically by millionaire Osgood E. Fielding III (Joe E. Brown). Comic complications ensue.
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Billy Wilder Collection: Volume 2
Box set containing five classic films from acclaimed writer/director Billy Wilder. In 'The Apartment' (1960), Jack Lemmon plays C.C Baxter, an ambitious insurance clerk who hopes to win a promotion by letting his superiors use his apartment as a secret love nest. The plan seems simple enough, but things go awry when Baxter's immediate boss (Fred MacMurray) wants to use the apartment for a rendevouz with Fran Kubelik (Shirley Maclaine), an elevator operator whom the young clerk already holds a candle for. In 'The Seven Year Itch' (1955), happily-married Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is left in New York City while his wife and child go on summer vacation. His lively imaginings of what a summer of freedom has in store seem to have some validity when a beautiful and sensuous young girl (Marilyn Monroe) moves into the sublet upstairs. In 'Witness for the Prosecution' (1957), Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton) is an ailing barrister who has been told that he should accept fewer legal cases for the sake of his health. However, he cannot resist defending Leonard Stephen Vole (Tyrone Power), a man accused of murder whose only alibi is provided by his devoted wife, Christine (Marlene Dietrich). The police are convinced of Vole's guilt as he stands to benefit financially from the murder, but Robarts believes that he can prove the man's innocence in court. In 'The Fortune Cookie' (1966), Lemmon plays Harry Hinkle, a news cameraman who is knocked over while covering a football game and subsequently rushed to hospital. Walter Matthau plays Whiplash Willie, Hinkle's brother-in-law, an unscrupulous lawyer who knows an opportunity when he sees one and tries to persuade Hinkle to fake injury and sue for a million dollars. Hinkle agrees, but will he be able to keep up the pretence? Finally, in 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' (1970), Sherlock Holmes' pursuit of a missing husband provides the pretext to explore sides of the sleuth's character which have remained hitherto unexplored in filmed versions of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. Robert Stephens plays Holmes as a troubled man, addicted to cocaine and unsure about his sexuality. £12.99 -
Blithe Spirit
In this Noel Coward comedy, cynical writer Rex Harrison asks a medium (Margaret Rutherford) to hold a seance in his house so he can collect material for his latest book. No one is more surprised than the medium when she inadvertently conjures up the ghost of Harrison's first wife (Kay Hammond). The ghost refuses to go away, preferring to taunt her less sophisticated replacement (Constance Cummings).
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Blonde Venus
After giving up her dreams of stardom to marry, aspiring actress Helen Faraday (Marlene Dietrich) discovers that her scientist husband, Edward Faraday (Herbert Marshall), is suffering from radium poisoning. In order to raise the cash for a cure Helen finds work as a cabaret hostess, and is romanced by wealthy playboy Nick Townsend (Cary Grant). Nick gives Helen the money for her husband's treatment, and she takes up residence in her new beau's empty mansion - only for her indiscretion to be discovered when Edward recovers more speedily than she expected.
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