Classic Drama
Classic Drama is where you will find most of those great films you either grew up with or have heard of but never got round to seeing. Generally dramatic productions made between 1928 and 1965 fill this section. "Silents" and contempory "Drama" (post 1965) can be found under their respective headings..
Right: Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd gaze into one another's eyes in "Ben Hur"
Tiger Bay (1959)
7.6/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills
A lonely child witnesses a murder by a foreign sailor and is then abducted by the killer. Hayley Mills steals the film in her first major role. Horst... Read more
Time Without Pity (1957)
6.9/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Michael Redgrave, Peter Cushing
David Graham (Michael Redgrave) is an alcoholic father who arrives in London after his release from an American sanatorium. His son has been sentenced... Read more
Timelock (1957)
2.8/10
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Robert Ayres, Robert Beatty, Betty McDowell, Lee Patterson, Sean Connery
A textbook example of how a talented director and cast can do a lot with a little. Lensed in Canada, the story gets under way when a child is accident... Read more
To Have And Have Not (1944)
8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran
Director Howard Hawks once bet Ernest Hemingway he could make a good film from one of the author's worst books. Needless to say, he won the bet with t... Read more
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
8.3/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Brock Peters, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the defence lawyer of a black man accused of rape in the American South. Scripted by Hor... Read more
To Kill a Mockingbird ( Blu-ray ) (1962)
8.3/10
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Brock Peters, Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Paul Fix, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall...
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the defence lawyer of a black man accused of rape in the American South. Scripted by Hor... Read more
To Sir, With Love (1966)
7.7/10
Director: James Clavell
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, Lulu
Sidney Poitier is Mark Thackery, a no-vice teacher assigned to a slum school in London's East End. Faced with tough opposition from the disinterested... Read more
Tokyo Joe (1949)
6.4/10
Director: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa
Believing his wife is in a Japanese concentration camp, and ignorant of the daughter she bore, Air Corps hero Humphrey Bogart finds both in a post-war... Read more
Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
6.8/10
Director: Robert Stevens, Robert Stevenson
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Cedric Hardwicke, Gale Storm
The engrossing saga of Tom's exploits in a boy's school that seems like a hell-house until he improves things. Freddie Bartholomew, Cedric Hardwicke.... Read more
Topkapi (1964)
7.1/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
About a group of sophisticated thieves orchestrating the perfect heist, that of the gem-strewn dagger from the Topkapi Museum in Constantinople. Peter... Read more