Classic Cinema
Classic John Mills: O.H.M.S. / The History of Mr Polly / The Singer Not the Song (1937)
Director: Raoul Walsh, Roy Ward Baker, Anthony Pelissier
Starring: Anna Lee, Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylene Demongeot, Sally Ann Howes, Wallace F...
The career of John Mills spanned an amazing seven decades. He was the quintessential English hero and gentleman, exuding strength and authority but wi... Read more
Keep Fit (1937)
6/10
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Starring: George Formby, Kay Walsh, Guy Middleton
Joan (Kay Walsh) is a manicurist and George (George Formby) a barber in the same department of the Regal Stores. George is besotted by the gorgeous Jo... Read more
Elephant Boy (1937)
6.6/10
Director: Robert Flaherty, Zoltan Korda
Starring: Sabu, W E Holloway, Walter Hudd
Sabu ("Jungle Book", "The Thief of Bagdad") made his film debut here as a young Indian boy who dreams of reuniting with his family's beloved elephant... Read more
On The Avenue (1937)
6.9/10
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Starring: Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, Alan Mowbray, Cora Witherspoon
A young Broadway producer puts on a hit show mocking a New York socialite, but gets himself caught between the real (and charming) debutant and the st... Read more
Something to Sing About (1937)
6.4/10
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Starring: James Cagney, Philip Ahn, Gene Lockhart
Jimmy Cagney's at his foot-tappin' best as a New York bandleader who is offered a movie contract in this song-filled comedy that includes a few jabs a... Read more
Classic Adventure Collection: North West Frontier (1959) / Ferry To Hong Kong (1959) / King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Director: J Lee Thompson, Lewis Gilbert, Robert Stevenson
Starring: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Orson Welles, Curt Jurgens, Sylvia Sym...
'North West Frontier' - It's got good guys and bad guys, Indians and a wild frontier, but this is no cowboy flick. Moslems have attacked a British co... Read more
King Solomon's Mines (1937)
6.4/10
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, John Loder, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, Arthur Sincl...
A ripping adventure with singing sensation Paul Robeson as the imperturbable African guide, Umbopa and Cedric Hardwicke as explorer Alan Quartermain.... Read more
Slaves in Bondage (1937)
4.6/10
Director: Elmer Clifton
Starring: Lorna Andre, Donald Reed
An exploitation classic about the perils of prostitution. Young, innocent, and demure "girls from good families" are lured into the big city and recru... 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
A Day At The Races (1937)
7.7/10
Director: Sam Wood
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Anyone for a tootsi-fruitsi ice cream? Side-splitting Marx Brothers comedy has horse doctor Groucho trying to keep Maureen O'Sullivan's sanitarium fro... Read more