New @ Alice
To try to do justice to the avalanche of interesting finds, documentaries, curios and plain old good and great films arriving daily, Alice has split new additions into Recent Arrivals (3 Day Hire), Featured Acquisitions (7 Day Hire) , New TV to DVD (7 Day Hire) . This is designed to spotlight these offerings before they find their final resting place among Alice's eclectic permanent collection.
We trust these features be some help in your quest to ferret out a gem or three - and ultimately guide you towards expansion of your cinematic horizons and filmic enlightenment....
Conquest Of Space (Blu-ray) (1955)
5.6/10
Director: Byron Haskin
Starring: Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy, William Redfield, William Hoppe...
An American-led team of International astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get i... Read more
Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)
7.8/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Ernest Borgnine, John Ericson, Lee Marvin, Robert Rya...
Spencer Tracy gives one of his greatest performances in this suspenseful, action-packed drama as one-armed war vet John J. McCreedy who stirs up troub... Read more
Inferno (Blu-ray, 3D) (1953)
6.2/10
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Starring: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Larry Keating, Henry Hull
A tough, hard-driving business tycoon suffers a broken leg and is left to die in the desert by his scheming wife and her greedy lover. Read more
The Conquest Of Everest (1953)
7.1/10
Director: George Lowe
Starring: Meredith Edwards
Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach... Read more
Five (Blu-ray) (1951)
6.3/10
The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk. Read more
Dark City (Blu-ray) (1950)
6.7/10
Director: William Dieterle
Starring: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore, Jack...
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them. Read more
The Queen of Spades (1949)
7.3/10
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Dame Edith Evans
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fan... Read more
The Big Sleep (1946)
8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, Martha Vickers
Raymond Chandler's witty and convoluted whodunit comes to life under director Howard Hawks. Humphrey Bogart is tough private eye Philip Marlowe, Laure... Read more
Mildred Pierce (1945)
8/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
Superb Hollywood thriller with Joan Crawford (in her Oscar-winning role) as the waitress-turned-businesswoman who struggles to provide a good life for... Read more
Ninotchka (1939)
8/10
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Greta Garbo, Ina Claire, Melvyn Douglas
A sparkling comic treat, boasting witty dialogue co-written by Billy Wilder and expert direction by Ernst Lubitsch, features a shining performance fro... Read more