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"
Victim (Blu-ray) (1962)
7.7/10
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Dennis Price, Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms
Dirk Bogarde, Britain's most popular matinee idol, risked his career to portray Melville Farr, a closeted gay lawyer, at a time when homosexual acts w... Read more
Mr Wong at Headquarters (1940)
Director: William Nigh
Starring: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds
AKA 'The Fatal Hour'. This entry in the Mr. Wong series once again stars Boris Karloff as the inscrutable detective, enlisted by baffled police to so... Read more
Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
5.3/10
Director: Robert Hill
Starring: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Jacqueline Wells, Edward Woods
Buster Crabbe dons the loincloth this time as the Lord of the Jungle, helping a young girl find her father and discover a lost city. This delightful,... Read more
Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)
5.1/10
Director: Edward Kull, Wilbur McGaugh
Starring: Herman Brix, Ula Holt, Frank Baker
In this classic Tarzan adventure, culled from 1935's 'The New Adventures of Tarzan' serial, Tarzan (Herman Brix) and his allies are in Guatemala, wher... Read more
Omoo Omoo - The Shark God (1949)
3.2/10
Director: Leon Leonard
Starring: Ron Randell, Michael Whalen
A sea captain (Trevor Bardette) courts disaster when he removes a pair of black pearls from a native shrine. According to native legend, bad luck will... Read more
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
6.4/10
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Glenn Ford, Luther Adler, Rita Hayworth, Victor Jory, Ron Randell
Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford take the lead roles in this Hollywood treatment of the novella by Prosper Mérimée. Don José (Ford) is a guard who begins... Read more
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Blu-ray) (1958)
7.7/10
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Don DeFore, Keenan Wynn, John Gavin, Jock Mahoney, Lilo Pulver
Douglas Sirk's wartime romance is based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, author of the classic anti-war novel 'All Quiet On the Western Front', w... Read more
The Servant (Blu-ray) (1963)
7.9/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig
Joseph Losey directs a Harold Pinter screenplay, a tale of decadence and debauchery unravelling the relationship between the servant (Dirk Bogarde) an... Read more
Johnny Belinda (1948)
7.8/10
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford
A kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant. 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