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Classic Cinema

Home Town Story (1951)

5/10
Director: Arthur Pierson
Starring: Donald Crisp, Alan Hale Jr, Marilyn Monroe, Marjorie Reynolds, Jeffrey Lynn

One of Marilyn Monroe's earliest starring roles (of her ten previous films, she had been uncredited in four of them) finds her playing the newspaper o... Read more

Mr Imperium (1951)

5/10
Director: Don Hartman
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main

Lush romantic tale starring Ezio Pinza as a charismatic prince who falls for aspiring nightclub singer Lana Turner. When Pinza becomes king of his cou... Read more

Mr Wong, Detective (1938)

6.2/10
Director: William Nigh
Starring: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Evelyn Brent

Following in the inscrutable footsteps of Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto, Boris Karloff portrayed Chinese-born crimefighter Mr Wong in a series of classic... Read more

Marilyn Monroe Collection: Hometown Story (1951) / Hollywood Remembers Marilyn (1989)

Starring: Marilyn Monroe

Includes two programs: 'Hometown Story' is one of Marilyn's very early films in which she plays the secretary of a newspaper editor who goes up agains... Read more

Mr Wong - Doomed to Die (1940)

Director: William Nigh
Starring: Boris Karloff

In his final "Mr. Wong" mystery, Boris Karloff solves the case of who killed shipping magnate Cyrus P. Wentworth (Melvin Lang). A mysterious fire dest... Read more

Comedy Classics (1952)

Director: Charles Barton
Starring: Alfalfa, Spanky, The Three Stooges, Vincent Price, Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton, J...

Features 240 minutes of classic stuff including from Our Gang (Spanky, Buckweat, Alfalfa, Froggy and Petey) - 'Our Gang Follies of 1938', 'Schools Ou... Read more

The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)

7.2/10
Director: John Rawlins, Ford Beebe
Starring: Keye Luke, Warren Hull, Wade Boteler, Anne Nagel

George W. Trendle's original masked crime fighter returns to the screen in this exciting follow-up to the 1940 serial presentation - gripping from one... Read more

Abraham Lincoln (1930)

5.8/10
Director: D W Griffith
Starring: Kay Hammond, Walter Huston

Abraham Lincoln was voted number two of the ten best films of 1930, heralding the comeback to movie-making by one of the world's leading pioneers - D.... Read more

The Hasty Heart (1949)

7.4/10
Director: Vincent Sherman
Starring: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd

In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is seriously wounded and transported to a local milita... Read more

7th Cavalry (1956)

5.9/10
Director: Joseph Lewis
Starring: Randolph Scott, Barbara Hale, Frank Faylen, Jeanette Nolan, Leo Gordon, Denver P...

Returning to Fort Lincoln, Captain Benson learns of Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn. At the inquiry as Custer's Officers blame Custer for the d... Read more