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Classic Cinema

Pinky (1949)

7.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan

Pinky (Jeanne Crain) is a black woman so fair-skinned she was able to pose as white throughout nursing school. Newly graduated, she flees south to vis... Read more

The Ladykillers / The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

7.6/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton
Starring: Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers, Stanley Holloway, Sid J...

A Box Set comedy collection from the acclaimed Ealing Studios. 'The Ladykillers' - This outrageous caper farce stars Alec Guinness as the criminal ma... Read more

Doris Day Collection (1960)

Director: David Miller, Michael Gordon, Frank Tashlin
Starring: Doris Day, James Garner, Rod Taylor, Richard Harris, Ray Walston

'Mignight Lace' 1960 In London, the American housewife Kit Preston (Doris Day) has been married for three months with the British executive Anthony P... Read more

Abbott and Costello Hold that Ghost (1941)

Director: Arthur Lubin
Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

Gas station attendants Chuck Murray (Bud Abbott) and Ferdie Jones (Lou Costello) aspire to better jobs. Working as temp waiters at Chez Glamour, a hig... Read more

The Chalk Garden (Blu-ray) (1964)

7.4/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Felix Aylmer, Elizabeth Sel...

An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed and spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands th... Read more

The Lodger (Blu-ray) (1927)

7.6/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Marie Ault, Ivor Novello

2012 restoration. Aesthetically influenced by German Expressionism, and based on the story of Jack the Ripper, 'The Lodger' was the film in which Hitc... Read more

Jamaica Inn (1983)

6.3/10
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Jane Seymour, Trevor Eve, John McEnery, Billie Whitelaw, Vivia...

The respected squire of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and... Read more

Abbott and Costello: Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Meet The Killer (1953)

7.6/10
Director: Charles Lamont
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Boris Karloff

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are 18th century American detectives in London chasing down the literary legend played by Boris Karloff. / Two employees o... Read more

Abbott and Costello: Meet the Keystone Kops / In the Foreign Legion (1954)

7.6/10
Director: Charles Lamont
Starring: Lynn Bari, Lou Costello, Fred Clark, Bud Abbott

A & C are in the movie business circa 1912 this time. In between pies in the face, there's a wild chase complete with the famous Keystone Kops. Mac Se... Read more

My Dear Secretary (1948)

5.7/10
Director: Charles Martin
Starring: Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn

The battle of the sexes has never been funnier than in this zany screwball comedy focussing on skirt-chasing author Kirk Douglas. After hiring busines... Read more