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"
Written and Directed by Preston Sturges 1: Hail the Conquering Hero / The Great McGinty / The Palm Beach Story (1941)
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Brian Donlevy, Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Ella Raines, Eddie Bracken, Murie...
"Hail The Conquering Hero" (1944 ): When Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith is discharged from the Marines due to a hayfever condition, he is reluct... Read more
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
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
Zorba the Greek (1964)
7.8/10
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova
Anthony Quinn's much-beloved performance as a lusty Greek residing on the island of Crete highlights this Oscar-winning film about living life to the... Read more