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"
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
Romance Collection: Made For Each Other (1939) / Meet John Doe (1941) / Penny Serenade (1941) / The Amazing Adventure (1936) / The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Director: Alfred Zeisler, Frank Capra, George Stevens, John Cromwell, Richard Brooks
Starring: James Stewart, Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Irene...
This collection of classic romances includes: 'Made For Each Other' - Carole Lombard and James Stewart star in a classic comedy-drama about a young ma... 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
Tower of London (1962)
6.4/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Joan Freeman, Vincent Price, Robert Brown, Michael Pate
Horror superstar Vincent Price and schlock-master Roger Corman come together on this pseudo-Shakespearean tale, and make it their own! Price plays the... Read more
Kirk Douglas: Lust for Life / The Bad and the Beautiful / Young Man with a Horn / Before I Forget (1950)
7.1/10
Director: Jeff Kanew, Michael Curtiz, Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Dick Powell, Doris Day, Gloria Grahame, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner...
Kirk Douglas Box Set. 'Young Man with a Horn' (1950) - Trumpeteer Douglas' talent carries him from honky-tonks to posh supper clubs, but his search fo... Read more
The Humphrey Bogart Collection of Films: Across the Pacific / All Through the Night / Bullets or Ballots / Dark Passage (1936)
Director: Delmer Daves, John Huston, Vincent Sherman, William Keighley
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell, Lauren Bacall,...
Humphrey Bogart Box Set. 'Across the Pacific' (1942) - When disgraced American military officer Rick Leland (Bogart) boards a Japanese ship, he is app... Read more
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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
Paul Newman: The Mackintosh Man / Somebody Up There Likes Me / Cool Hand Luke / Harper (1966)
Director: Jack Smight, John Huston, Robert Wise, Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Dominique Sanda, George Kennedy, James Mason, Julie Harris, Lauren Bacall, Paul...
Paul Newman Box Set. 'Somebody Up There Likes Me' (1956) - Paul Newman plays a desperate youth who needs dough. He gives himself the name Rocky Grazia... Read more
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