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Classic Cinema

Written on the Wind (1956)

7.5/10
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone

Bathed in lurid technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's 'Written on the Wind' is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought dow... Read more

Written on the Wind (Blu-Ray) (1956)

7.5/10
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone

Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson) is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jared (Robert Keith), works hard to e... Read more

Wuthering Heights (1939)

7.7/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven

An internationally acclaimed version of Emily Bronte's classic story of passion, hatred and revenge. Laurence Olivier claimed that William Wyler taugh... Read more

X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

6.7/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Ray Milland, Diane Van Der Vlis, Harold J Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles

Roger Corman directs Ray Milland in this sci-fi shocker in which the brilliant Dr. Xavier (Milland) concocts a serum to improve human sight, stumbling... Read more

Yojimbo (1961)

8.3/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Eijiro Tono, Seizaburo Kawazu, Toshiro Mifune

Kurosawa's first full-length comedy. Toshiro Mifune is the unemployed samurai warrior who comes to a small village torn apart by two warring factions... Read more

You Bet Your Life! - The Best Episodes (1958)

Starring: Candice Bergen, Phyllis Diller, George Fenneman, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Johnn...

Groucho Marx hosted this classic 1950s game show where he had free reign to say and do pretty much whatever he liked - with hilarious results. Collect... Read more

You Can't Take It With You (1938)

8/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart

James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Lionel Barrymore star in this 1938 Academy Award winning nutty comedy. Based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss... Read more

You Only Live Once (1937)

7.4/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney, William Gargan

Fritz Lang's gripping drama features Henry Fonda as an innocent man on the lam with his girlfriend (Sylvia Sidney). Caught in an intense cat-and-mouse... Read more

Young Man With A Horn (1950)

7.2/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez

Based on the life of jazz trumpeter Bix Biederbecke and adapted from the novel by Dorothy Baker, Kirk Douglas is the Bix character, Rick Martin, one o... Read more

Young Mr Lincoln (1939)

7.6/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Alice Brady, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Marjorie Weaver

Few historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star pairings embody classic American cinema as perfectly as that of John F... Read more