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• 3 Classic Bela Lugosi Films Of The Silver Screen: Vol.1 (3 Classic Films On 1 Disc) -By:Joseph H. Lewis ; Christy Cabane ; Victor Halperin/Actors:Bela Lugosi ; Polly Ann Young ; Clarence Muse ; John McGuire ; George Zucco ; Nat Pendleton ; Molly Lamont ; Madge Bellamy ; Joseph Cawthorn ; Robert Frazer ; John Harron ; Brandon Hurst
  Invisible Ghost: Actor Bela Lugosi, born in Lugas Hungary on October 20, 1882, was the screens most notorious personification of evil - at the peak of his career in the early 30's he helped usher in an era of new popularity for the horror genre. In this ...
  
   
• 3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - Volume 1 (3 Classic Films on 1 Disc)  -Actors:Elizabeth Taylor ; Spencer Tracy ; Joan Bennett ; Billie Burke ; Don Taylor ; Wa
  Father's Little Dividend: Reprising his role from the 1950 release, 'Father Of The Bride', Spencer Tracy rejoins Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor and Don Taylor in a charming sequel. Tracy portrays Elizabeth Taylor's father, Stanley Banks, who is still ...
  
   

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• Amazing Adventure -By:Alfred Zeisler/Actors:Cary Grant ; John Turnbull ; Mary Brian ; Peter Gawthorne ; Leon M. Lion ; Iris Ashley ; Andreas Malandrinos ; Garry Marsh ; Arthur Hardy ; Henry Kendall
  In an effort to subdue a bout of depression, a millionaire playboy (Cary Grant) makes a 50,000 British pound bet with a psychiatrist that he could become a famous business tycoon without using his family's inheritance. Based on the novel "The Amazing Quest" by Ernest Bliss. Please note: This is a NTSC disc.
  
  
• And God Created Woman (1956) -By:Roger Vadim/Actors:Brigitte Bardot ; Curd Jurgens ; Jean-Louis Trintignant ; Jane Marken ; Jean Lefebvre
  God may have created woman but the devil created Brigitte Bardot! In Saint Tropez, two fisherman brothers become involved with the same woman. One marries her but she can't hide her feelings for the other... Roger Vadim's classic exploration of sensuality became a European cinema sensation upon its release and made Bardot a Gallic icon of the twentieth century.

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• Barabbas (1961) -By:Richard Fleischer/Actors:Anthony Quinn ; Silvana Mangano ; Jack Palance ; Ernest Borgnine ; Katy Jurado ; Harry Andrews ; Vittorio Gassman ; Arthur Kennedy ; Valentina Cortese ; Michael Gwynn
  Barabbas (Anthony Quinn) is a man literally marked with the blood of Jesus. Before being crucified, Jesus is brutally flogged while tied to a post outside Barabbas' cell. When released by decree of the people, Barabbas staggers into this post, covering his hands in Christ's blood. His life is never the same again...
  
  
• Bedknobs And Broomsticks (Live Action / Animated) -By:Robert Stevenson/Actors:Angela Lansbury ; David Tomlinson
  An Academy Award winner for Best Visual Effects, 'Bedknobs And Broomsticks' features a spellbinding mix of live action and animation that makes it one of Disney's most delightfully endearing Classics! Screen legend Angela Landsbury gives a bewitching performance as an amateur witch who reluctantly takes in three precocious orphans. The children soon find themselves swept aboard a flying bed, it's magic brass bedknob their ticket to on fantastic adventure after another - including a visit to an enchanted island inhabited by wondrous animated animal characters, and the most hilarious soccer match in motion picture history. Now it's your turn to take a ride on 'Bedknobs And Broomsticks', a fun-filled flight of fantasy, music and Disney magic for all ages!
  
  
• Billy Liar -By:John Schlesinger/Actors:Tom Courtenay ; Julie Christie ; Wilfred Pickles ; Mona Washbourne ; Finlay Currie ; Rodney Bewes ; Leonard Rossiter
  Tom Courtenay gives a flawlessly nuanced performance as Billy Fisher, the underachieving undertaker's assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname "Billy Liar." Julie Christie is the handbag-swinging charmer whose free spirit just might inspire Billy to finally move out of his parents' house. Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy, Billy Liar is a dazzling and uproarious classic.
  
  
• Bing Crosby Box Set (Screen Legends) -By:Victor Schertzinger ; Leo McCarey ; Mark Sandrich ; Norman Z. McLeod/Actors:Bing Crosby ; Bob Hope ; Dorothy Lamour ; Una Merkel ; Eric Blore ; Barry Fitzgerald ; Frank McHugh ; Gene Lockhart ; Fred Astaire ; Marjorie Reynolds ; Virginia Dale ; Madge Evans ; Edith Fellows ; Louis Armstrong ; Donald Meek
  This box set features a quartet of 'Der Bingle's' best-loved movies! A Road To Zanzibar (Dir. Victor Schertzinger, 1941): Chuck and his pal Fearless flee a South African carnival when their sideshow causes a fire. After several similar escapades, they've
  
  
• Birdman Of Alcatraz (1962) -By:John Frankenheimer/Actors:Burt Lancaster ; Neville Brand ; Betty Field ; Karl Malden ; Edmond O'Brien ; Thelma Ritter ; Telly Savalas
  How does bitter convict Robert Stroud cope with a lifetime of solitary confinement? The answer, in a sense, comes from above in the form of a feeble sparrow he finds in the isolation yard. Stroud brings this newfound companion to his cell, nurses it to health and, from that point on, there's no turning back. Despite having only a third grade education, and no hope of parole, Stroud becomes a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind prison walls than many in the outside world will ever know...The "finest prison picture ever made" (Variety), this inspirational and compelling classic stars Burt Lancaster in an Oscar-nominated performance as Stroud -- the convict who, in his power to heal birds, finds the power to heal himself.
  
  
• Born Yesterday -By:George Cukor/Actors:Judy Holliday ; William Holden ; Broderick Crawford ; Howard St. John ; Larry Oliver
  Brock is a corrupt millionaire junk dealer with social ambitions and a willingness to do anything to fulfill them. Embarrassed by his girlfriend Billie's crass behaviour and lack of social sophistication, he decides to hire a tutor to give her English lessons and to give her some cultural background. What he doesn't bargain for is her falling in love with the teacher!
  
  

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• Caesar And Cleopatra -By:Gabriel Pascal/Actors:Claude Rains ; Vivien Leigh ; Jean Simmons ; Cecil Parker ; Stewart Granger ; Flora Robson ; Basil Sydney ; Francis Sullivan ; Stanley Holloway
  Vivien Leigh is the young Cleopatra and Claude Rains is Julius Caesar in the spectacular 1945 version of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. As Rome invades Egypt, Julius Caesar (Rains) stumbles across the young and unrefined princess Cleopatra (Leigh), sheltering in the Sphinx. Impressed by her spirit and intelligence, seduced by her charm he determines to make her Queen. Cleopatra learns about power and politics at the feet of a master but her downfall begins when she is seduced by Mark Antony.This witty, brilliantly designed movie features a memorable cast including Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Stanley Holloway and a very young Jean Simmons as a harpist. Caesar and Cleopatra was the most expensive movie made in Britain at the time, with director Gabriel Pascal even using sand from Egypt to get the right cinematic colour.
  
  
• Cary Grant Box Set: An Affair To Remember / Kiss Them For Me / People Will Talk / Born To Be Bad (4 Discs) -By:Leo McCarey ; Stanley Donen ; Joseph L. Mankiewicz ; Lowell Sherman/Actors:Cary Grant ; Deborah Kerr ; Richard Denning ; Neva Patterson ; Werner Klemperer ; Jayne Mansfield ; Leif Erickson ; Ray Walston ; Jack Mullaney ; Walter Slezak ; Hume Cronyn ; Finlay Currie ; Henry Tavers ; Loretta Young ; Jackie Kelk ; Marion Burns
  This box set features four classic Cary Grant films. An Affair To Remember: In this poignant and humorous love story nominated for four Academy Awards, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to ...
  
  
• Cast A Giant Shadow (1966) -By:Melville Shavelson/Actors:Kirk Douglas ; Senta Berger ; Angie Dickinson ; John Wayne ; Frank Sinatra ; Topol ; Yul Brynner
  A highly intelligent spectacular…executed with pace and imagination. -British Monthly Film Bulletin. After a brilliant career with the U.S. army, WWII hero and Jewish American Mickey Marcus (Kirk Douglas) is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes. Against the wishes of his wife (Angie Dickinson), Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a rag-tag underground army into a first-class fighting machine. But as the threat of war looms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon (Senta Berger).
  
  
• Charlie Chaplin Collection Vol.09
  Featuring the Chaplin shorts; The Adventurer (1916), The Cure (1916), Easy Street (1916) and One A.M. (1916).
  
  

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• Danger - Love At Work (BFI) -By:Otto Preminger/Actors:Ann Sothern ; Jack Haley ; Mary Boland ; Edward Everett Horton ; John Carradine ; Elisha Cook Jr.
  In this 1930s screwball comedy lackadaisical lawyer Henry MacMorrow attempts to get the kooky Pemberton family to agree on a large property deal involving part of their estate. Frustrated by the family's scatty entourage which includes a Dali lookalike, an exceedingly precocious child and their whimsical parents, he turns to the beautiful Toni Pemberton, the independently minded daughter of the family, with a fake sob story. The two of them join forces in a bid to gather the signatures from her decidedly odd family - but will it be love or trouble? Danger - Love At Work was Otto Preminger's second film for the Hollywood studios and offers great insight into the working methods of the Austrian director who went on to create classic masterpices such as Laura and Anatomy Of A Murder.
  
  
• Dr Strangelove - Collector's Edition -By:Stanley Kubrick/Actors:Peter Sellers ; George C. Scott ; Sterling Hayden ; Keenan Wynn ; Slim Pickens ; James Earl Jones ; Peter Bull
  A brilliant film, a classic black comedy. A group of war-eager military men plan a nuclear apocalypse that is both funny and frightening - and seems as relevant today as ever. Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott) - trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man's future. The President is helpless to stop the bombers, as is Captain Mandrake (Sellers again), the only man who can stop them...

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• East Of Eden: Special Edition (2 DIscs) -Actors:James Dean ; Jo Van Fleet ; Julie Harris ; Lois Smith ; Raymond Massey ; Richard
  The searing classic of paradise lost. The 24-year old idol-to-be James Dean plays Cal, a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his favored brother Aron (Richard Davalos). Playing off the haunting sensitivity of Julie Harris, Dean's performance earned one of the film's four Academy Award nominations. Among the movie's stellar performers, Jo Van Fleet won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
  
  

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• Fanny And Alexander (Bergman) (2 Discs) -Actors:Pernilla Allwin ; Bertil Guve ; Kristina Adolphson ; Borje Ahlstedt ; Kristian A
  'Fanny and Alexander' is the story of two children belonging to a wealthy, extensive theatrical family in provincial Sweden in the early years of the 20th century, 10-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) and his younger sister, Fanny (Pernilla Alwin). When their father dies unexpectedly during a performance and their mother decides to remarry, the children are forced to relocate to the austere (and possibly haunted) home of their stern and rather coldhearted stepfather, Bishop Vergerus (Jan Malmsjo). A means of escape is eventually provided by Isak Jacobi (Erland Josephson), a longtime friend of the Ekdahl family's who seems to possess magical powers. In this somewhat autobiographical movie, which was filmed in the director’s hometown of Uppsala, the gifted, precocious Alexander is a stand-in for Bergman himself, who had a problematic relationship with his own father, a strict clergyman.
  
  

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• Giselle
  'Giselle' is a beautiful and haunting ballet, a romantic tale of innocent love and betrayal. Deceived by Prince Albrecht, the peasant maid Giselle loses her reason and dies- only to become one of the wilis, ghostly apparitions who lure unsuspecting wayfarers to dance until they die of exhaustion.
  
  

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• Hidden Fortress (BFI) -By:Akira Kurosawa/Actors:Toshiro Mifune ; Misa Uehara ; Minoru Chiaki ; Takashi Shimura ; Susumu Fujita ; Eiko Miyoshi
  A story of rival clans, hidden gold and a princess in distress, The Hidden Fortress is a thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai action movie. It was Kurosawa's first film shot in the widescreen process of Tohoscope, and he exploited this to the full in the film's rich variety of landscape locations, including the slopes of Mount Fuji. The Hidden Fortress became Kurosawa's biggest box-office hit to date and won several awards, including the Golden Bear at the 1959 Berlin Film Festival. Some twenty years on, the film's influence would have even greater impact on world cinema history, when George Lucas borrowed its plot for the first of his Star Wars series.
  
  

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• I Am A Dancer  -Actors:Rudolf Nureyev ; Margot Fonteyn ; Carla Fracci ; Michael Somes
  I Am a Dancer is an intimate portrait of the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev. It is not simply Nureyev's life story, but more a study of his personality, and of course his dancing. I Am Dancer delves deep into the world of the professional ballet dancer, showing the work done backstage as well as breathtaking footage of Nureyev's partnership with, as well as Lynn Seymour and Carla Fracci. I Am Dancer contains rare filmed performances from La Sylphide, Field Figures, Sleeping Beauty as well as Nureyev and Fonteyn dancing Marguerite and Armand.
  
   

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• James Stewart Box Set (Screen Legends) -Actors:James Stewart ; Josephine Hull ; Victoria Horne ; Peggy Dow ; Charles Drake
  This tremendous box set features a quartet of Jimmy Stewart's classic performances. Harvey (Dir. Henry Koster, 1950): James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy alcoholic whose sunny disposition and drunken antics are tolerated by most of the citize
  
   

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• Kagemusha (1980) -By:Akira Kurosawa/Actors:Tatsuya Nakadai ; Tsutomu Yamazaki ; Kenichi Hagiwara ; Kota Yui ; Shuji Otaki ; Hideo Murota ; Takayuki Shiho ; Shuhei Sugimori
  Also known as: 'The Shadow Warrior'.In this exciting, visually dazzling epic from Akira Kurosawa, a petty thief named Kagemusha gets saved from a death sentence because he resembles the warlord Shingen Takeda. The warlord has been fighting two other ...
  
  
• Killer's Kiss (1955) -By:Stanley Kubrick/Actors:Irene Kane ; Frank Silvera ; Jamie Smith ; Ruth Sobotka
  Stanley Kubrick's second film, Killer's Kiss, made the world take notice. The young moviemaker won acclaim for this dazzling film noir about a struggling New York boxer (Jamie Smith) whose life is imperiled when he protects a nightclub dancer (Irene Kane)
  
  
• King Kong Box Set (1933) -By:Merion C. Cooper ; Ernest B. Schoedsack ; Ishiro Honda/Actors:Fay Wray ; Bruce Cabot ; Robert Armstrong ; James Flavin ; Frank Reicher ; Sam Hardy ; Tadao Takashima ; Kemji Sahara ; Yu Fujiki ; Ichiro Arishima ; Rhodes Reason ; Mie Hama ; Linda Miller ; Akira Takarada ; Eisei Amamoto
  This fantastic box set lets you re-discover the classic 1933 original King Kong and share in a piece of film history that has entertained and terrified audiences for years. The box set also includes the colourised version of the 1933 original, the ...
  
  
• King Kong: Special Edition (1933) -By:Merion C. Cooper ; Ernest B. Schoedsack/Actors:Fay Wray ; Bruce Cabot ; Robert Armstrong ; James Flavin ; Frank Reicher ; Sam Hardy
  When a film crew pays a visit to a remote tropical island, they discover that its inhabitants are worshippers of a colossal ape called 'Kong'. The fearsome beast takes a shine to blonde bombshell Fay Wray, which leads to his downfall. Captured and brought to New York as a Broadway attraction, Kong escapes from his captors and goes on a rampage in Manhattan, searching for the woman he loves.The unforgettable climax set on the Empire State building guarantees that this 1933 classic will live forever in the legends of cinema.
  
  

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• La Dolce Vita -By:Federico Fellini/Actors:Marcello Mastroianni ; Anita Ekberg ; Lex Barker ; Yvonne Furneaux ; Anouk Aimee ; Alain Cuny
  Marcello Mastroianni plays a playboy reporter, on the hunt for scandal amongst Rome's high society, in this classic Italian film, directed by Federico Fellini. Both drawn to and repelled by the decadent lifestyle that provides his living, he finds himself torn between his passion for a starlet (Anita Ekberg) and his desire for a Bohemian life like that of his friend (Alain Cuny)...
  
  
• Laurel And Hardy - Comedy Shorts Vol 4 (Silent) -Actors:Stan Laurel ; Oliver Hardy
  Oliver Hardy stars in 'Should Sailors Marry', 'Fluttering Hearts' and 'Crazy Like A Fox. Stan Laurel stars in 'Short Kilts' and 'The Soilers'.
  
  
• Laurel And Hardy - March Of The Wooden Soldiers (Eureka Label) -By:Gus Meins ; Charles Rogers/Actors:Stan Laurel ; Oliver Hardy ; Henry Brandon ; Charlotte Henry
  Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) are well-meaning but brainless toymakers in Toyland. They misinterpret an order from Santa Claus for 600 one foot high toy soldiers and come up instead with 100 six foot high soldiers. But their toy ...
  
  
• Les Diaboliques (1954) -By:Henri-Georges Clouzot/Actors:Simone Signoret ; Vera Clouzot ; Jean Brochard ; Charles Vanel ; Michel Serrault ; Paul Meurisse
  Director Henri-Georges Clouzot cast his own wife Vera as the hapless victim in this acclaimed masterpiece of the macabre. A wife plans the murder of her tyrant husband with the help of his mistress yet when his body dissappears panic and confusion ensues... The Great Suspense Film That Shocked the World... And Became A Classic.
  

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• Mad Love (3 Silent Films By Yevgeni Bauer) (BFI) -By:Yevgeni Bauer
  Three silent films from the pioneering Russian film-maker Yevgeni Bauer. Includes newly composed music and video essay on Bauer.Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913), his first surviving film, already shows his masterful use of deep-focus photography. After Death (1915) is adapted from a story by Turgenev and is imbued with one of Bauer's favourite themes: the psychological hold of the dead over the living. The Dying Swan (1916) takes a sardonic view of the popular obsession with morbidity and includes a chilling dream sequence. His sense of cinematic space, his insight into the creative use of light and an audacity in the handling of the camera, set him far ahead of his contemporaries, influencing Eisenstein and Kuleshov amongst others.
  
  
• Manina: The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter -By:Willy Rozier/Actors:Brigitte Bardot ; Jean-Francois Calve ; Howard Vernon ; Espanita Cortez ; Robert Arnoux ; Raymond Cordy
  Gerard, a young student, discovers a fragment of a Phoenician amphora in Corsica. Several years later he sets off on board the boat of some traffickers, in search of the treasure he thinks he has found. Once more on the Island, he falls in love with the young Manina. The remains are rediscovered, but the boat goes off with its precious cargo, leaving the young man on the island. The seafarers are shipwrecked, and Gerard, still poor, consoles himself with Manina's pure love. More than the story of young love, 'Manina - The Lighthouse Keepers Daughter' is particularly noteworthy for the contribution of Brigitte Bardot, just eighteen years old. The actress already lights up the screen, before her appearance in 'And God Created Woman'.
  
  
• Marie Galante / Spencer Tracy On Film -By:Henry King/Actors:Spencer Tracy ; Arthur Byron ; Leslie Fenton ; Sig Rumann ; Ketti Gallian ; Ned Sparks ; Helen Morgan
  Marie Galante: (1934, 88 min., B&W) Movie newcomer Ketti Gallian plays Marie Galante, kidnapped by a drunken sea captain and left stranded in the Yucatan. While working as a cafe singer hoping to pay for her ticket out of the Panama Canal, she meets American detective Crawbett (Spencer Tracy), the only person who believes her abduction story. In a series of twists and turns, the two find themselves caught in the middle of an unexpected adventure, including espionage and a plan to blow up the canal. Spencer Tracy On Film: It's almost as if there were two Spencer Tracys. There was the talented, magnanimous Tracy--charming, witty and surprisingly generous. As an actor, he was considered peerless. And then there was the melancholy Tracy, the troubled, complex man who lived an uneasy life. In Laurence Olivier's words, Spencer Tracy was "the greatest living screen actor."
  
  
• Marty (1955) -By:Delbert Mann/Actors:Ernest Borgnine ; Betsy Blair ; Esther Minciotti ; Augusta Ciolli ; Joe Mantell
  In 1955, America - and the world - fell in love with Marty, the first film to win both the Best Picture Oscar and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme D'Or. Nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards, writer Paddy Chayefsky's classic is a small wonder of ...
  
  
• My Favourite Brunette: 1947 (Stonevision Edition) -By:Elliott Nugent/Actors:Bob Hope ; Dorothy Lamour ; Peter Lorre ; Lon Chaney Jr. ; John Hoyt ; Reginald Denny
  In My Favorite Brunette we witness Bob Hope's own unique brand of film comedy as he teams up with the great screen beauty Dorothy Lamour (who later co-starred with him in many of the classic Road To... movies along with Bing Crosby). Co-starring Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr., Hope romps through this yarn playing a bumbling photographer turned private eye and finds himself involved with a spy caper, the mob and a dangerous brunette.
  
  

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• Never Let Go (Peter Sellers) -By:John Guillermin/Actors:Richard Todd ; Peter Sellers ; Elizabeth Sellars ; Adam Faith ; Carol White ; Mervyn Johns ; Nigel Stock ; John Le Mesurier ; John Dunbar
  Jophn Cummings (Richard Todd) is one of life's near failures. A toiletry salesman, he buys a flash car he cannot afford to insure. When it is stolen by a gang running a car theft racket, he vows to retrieve it whatever the cost - hi job, his family and his dignity. He begins to delve into a sinister criminal underworld with potentially lethal consequences. The stark British thriller features Sellers in his first dramatic role as Cummings' nemesis, a gangland villain.
  
  

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• Oliver Twist / Great Expectations (2 Discs) -By:David Lean/Actors:Robert Newton ; Alec Guinness ; Kay Walsh ; Francis L. Sullivan ; Henry Stephenson ; John Howard Davies ; Anthony Newley ; John Mills ; Valerie Hobson ; Bernard Miles ; Jean Simmons
  Oliver Twist: Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies), orphaned at birth and raised in the workhouse, is expelled for daring to ask the Beadle (Francis L. Sullivan) for more food. Unhappily apprenticed to an undertaker, Oliver escaped to London where he meets the cheeky Artful Dodger (Anthony Newly), the villainous Fagin (Alec Guiness), the aggressive Bill Sykes (Robert Newton) and the kindly but doomed Nancy (Kay Walsh). Torn constantly between the forces of good and evil, Oliver eventually seals his fate by picking the pocket of a rich gentleman (Henry Stephenson)...Great Expectations: David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor, and of the consequences for the young man as he establishes himself in the world.
  
  

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• Paths Of Glory (1957) -By:Stanley Kubrick/Actors:Kirk Douglas ; Richard Anderson ; George Macready ; Ralph Meeker ; Adolphe Menjou ; Wayne Morris
  Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax: take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal blunder, the Generals order the arrest of three innocent soldiers, charging them with cowardice and mutiny. Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, rises to the men's defense but soon realizes that, unless he can prove that the Generals were to blame, nothing less than a miracle will save his clients from the firing squad.
  
  

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• Rocco & His Brothers (2 Discs) -By:Luchino Visconti/Actors:Claudia Cardinale ; Alain Delon ; Annie Girardot ; Katina Paxinou ; Renato Salvatori ; Roger Hanin ; Paolo Stoppa ; Suzy Delair ; Claudia Cardinale
  Brilliant and overwhelming... Among the classics of the screen. -The New York TimesIn sweeping epic style, the award-winning Rocco & His Brothers tells the story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to ...
  
  

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• Shooting Elizabeth -By:Baz Taylor/Actors:Jeff Goldblum ; Mimi Rogers ; Burt Kwouk ; Juan Echanove
  Jeff Goldblum and Mimi Rogers star in this dark comedy about a man who feels trapped with his overbearing and cold wife. Sometimes divoce isn't final enough!
  
  
• Soft Beds, Hard Battles (Peter Sellers) -By:Roy Boulting/Actors:Peter Sellers ; Lila Kedrova ; Curt Jurgens ; Beatrice Romand ; Jenny Hanley ; Francoise Pascal ; Vernon Dobtcheff ; Philip Madoc ; Thorley Walters ; Timothy West
  Peter Sellers plays six different characters in this hilarious sexploitation comedy. A renowned Paris brothel has turned into an active centre for the French Resistance. The girls assist the Allied war effort by attracting and eliminating the enemy amongst its clientele in the bedroom...
  
  
• Stalag 17 -By:Billy Wilder/Actors:William Holden ; Otto Preminger ; Don Taylor ; Neville Brand ; Peter Graves ; Robert Strauss
  During World War II, a group of G.I.'s are thrown together in the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17. For the most part, they spend their time scheming ways to help each other escape. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there is a spy among them. William Holden was awarded an Oscar for his performance as a cynical, sharp-tongued soldier who spends his time scheming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special privileges.
  
  
• Stray Dog (1949) (BFI) -By:Akira Kurosawa/Actors:Toshiro Mifune ; Takashi Shimura ; Isao Kimura ; Keiko Awaji ; Reisaburo Yamamoto ; Minoru Chiaki ; Noriko Sengoku
  Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog is a masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set on the sweltering mean streets of Occupied Tokyo. When rookie detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) has his pistol stolen from his pocket while on a bus, his frantic attempts to track down the thief lead him to an illegal weapons market in the Tokyo underworld. But the gun has already passed from the pickpocket to a young gangster, and Murakami's gun is identified as the weapon in the shooting of a woman. Murakami, overwhelmed with remorse, turns for help to his older and more experienced senior, Sato (a superb performancce by Takashi Shimura). The race is one to find the shooter before he can strike again.
  
  
• Summer With Monika (Bergman) (1952) -By:Ingmar Bergman/Actors:Harriet Anderson ; Lars Ekborg ; John Harryson
  Summer With Monika belongs to Bergman's middle period when he was primarily concerned with the trials and tribulations of adolesence and the problems of young love. A chance meeting in a coffee shop between Harry (Lars Ekborg), a young errand boy, and ...
  
  

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• The African Queen -By:John Huston/Actors:Humphrey Bogart ; Katharine Hepburn ; Robert Morley ; Theodore Bikel ; Walter Gotell ; Richard Marner ; Peter Bull
  The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut, saves prim and proper Rose Sayer after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship. Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester, the wonderful combination of Hepburn and Bogie (who won an Oscar) makes this a thoroughly enjoyable blend of comedy and adventure. Later came the book (and Clint Eastwood film) White Hunter, Black Heart, which chronicled screenwriter Peter Viertel's experiences observing Huston throughout the making of the picture.
  
  
• The Ape Man -By:William Beaudine/Actors:Bela Lugosi ; Wallace Ford ; Louise Currie ; Minerva Urecal ; J. Farrell MacDonald ; Wheeler Oakman
  Mad scientist Dr. Brewster, long thought dead, is working away in his basement laboratory on a serum derived from gorilla spinal fluid. Experimenting on himself, Dr. Brewster is dismayed to discover that the injections have given him a bushy beard and begun to force his spine into a distinctly simian posture.
  
  
• The Barefoot Contessa -By:Joseph L. Mankiewicz/Actors:Humphrey Bogart ; Ava Gardner ; Edmond O'Brien ; Franco Interlenghi ; Marius Goring ; Valentina Cortese ; Rossano Brazzi ; Warren Stevens ; Alberto Rabagliati ; Mari Aldon ; Elizabeth Sellars
  A Brilliant Picture!" -The Hollywood Reporter.Sparking with "juicy dialogue" (Leonard Maltin) and a superb cast (including Edmond O'Brien in an Oscar-winning performance), this landmark film is "spectacular... ingeniously-fashioned, original entertainment" (Variety).With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul. No matter what the cost, The Barefoot Contessa will dance to no one's music but her own...
  
  
• The Big Trees -By:Felix E. Feist/Actors:Kirk Douglas ; Eve Miller ; Patrice Wymore ; Edgar Buchanan ; John Archer ; Alan Hale Jr. ; Roy Roberts ; Charles Meredith ; Harry Cording ; Ellen Corby
  A remake of 'Valley Of The Giants', 'The Big Trees' features Kirk Douglas as an ambitious lumberman who wants to make a fortune from the Redwood Forest by pushing a religious sect off their land. His many adventures include organising the religious sect to take action and leading them against their enemies as well as saving a heroine from a runaway train.
  
  
• The Blue Angel Special Edition (English & German Versions) -By:Josef Von Sternberg/Actors:Emil Jannings ; Marlene Dietrich ; Kurt Gerron ; Hans Albers ; Rosa Valetti
  Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel is a crowning achievement of Weimar cinema, an exquisite parable of one man's fall from respectability. Emil Jannings, the quintessential German Expressionist actor, stars as Professor Immanuel Rath, ...
  
  
• The Defiant Ones (1958) -By:Stanley Kramer/Actors:Tony Curtis ; Sidney Poitier ; Theodore Bikel ; Lon Chaney ; Kevin Coughlin ; King Donovan ; Charlie McGraw ; Cara Williams
  Nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Defiant Ones broke new ground by delivering its message of racial tolerance through a fast-moving blend of action and suspense. It remains "a raw, powerful film that is as exciting as it is moving, real and literate" (Variety).Joker Jackson (Tony Curtis) and Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run. Escaping from a Southern work gang, the two men are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by an unbridled hatred towards each other. Relentlessly pursued by a posse and bloodhounds, they put aside their differences to survive. But when a lonely woman (Cara Williams) breaks their chain and deliberately sends Cullen to certain death, Jackson must decide what's more important: saving Cullen… or saving himself.
  
  
• The Frank Capra Collection Box Set (4 Discs) (Digipack) -By:Frank Capra/Actors:Clark Gable ; Claudette Colbert ; Walter Connolly ; Alan Hale ; Jean Arthur ; Lionel Barrymore ; James Stewart ; Edward Arnold ; Claude Rains ; Thomas Mitchell
  It Happened One Night (1934) Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly), who wants to stop her from ...
  
  
• The General: Special Edition (2 Discs) -By:Clyde Bruckman ; Buster Keaton/Actors:Buster Keaton ; Marion Mack ; Glen Cavender ; Jim Farley ; Joseph Keaton
  Love, locomotives and laughs! On this special edition DVD, the original film has been digitally restored frame by frame and is accompanied by a symphonic score written and recorded by Jo Hisaishi, one of modern cinema's leading composers. Johnny Gray ...
  
  
• The Ghoul (1934) -By:T. Hayes Hunter/ActorsBoris Karloff ; Cedric Hardwicke ; Ernest Thesiger ; Dorothy Hyson ; Anthony Bushell ; Kathleen Harrison ; Harold Huth ; D.A Clarke-Smith
  Boris Karloff's first British film. The story of Professor Morlant, an eccentric Egyptologist who becomes obsessed with the mystical powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed he orders his servant to bind a sacred jewel called 'The Eternal Light' to his hand. He warns that if the jewel is stolen, he will return from the grave looking for revenge. Please note: This is a NTSC disc.
  
  
• The Goons In...Down Among The Z Men (1952) -By:MacLean Rogers/Actors:Peter Sellers ; Spike Milligan ; Michael Bentine ; Harry Secombe ; Clifford Stanton ; Carol Carr ; Miriam Karlin ; Graham Stark ; Russ Allen ; Robert Cawdron ; Howell Evans ; Eunice Gayson
  The cast from 'The Goons' star in this whacky tale of mistaken identity and hidden, dangerous formulas.
  
  
• The Killing (1956) -By:Stanley Kubrick/Actors:Vince Edwards ; Jay C. Flippen ; Colleen Gray ; Sterling Hayden ; Marie Windsor
  When ex-con Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) says he has a plan to make a killing, everybody want to be in on the action. Especially when the plan is to steal $2 million in a racetrack robbery scheme in which "no one will get hurt." But despite all their careful plotting, Clay and his men have overlooked on thing: Sherry Peatty (Marie Windsor), a money-hungry, double-crossing dame who's planning to make a financial killing of her own...even if she has to wipe out Clay's entire gang to do it!
  
  
• The Last Emperor (1 Disc) -By:Bernardo Bertolucci/Actors:John Lone ; Joan Chen ; Peter O'Toole ; Ying Ruocheng ; Victor Wong ; Denis Dun ; Ryuichi Sakamoto ; Vivian Wu ; Dennis Dun ; Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film tells the incredible story of Pu Yi, who in 1908 at the age of three, became ruler of nearly half of the world's population. He was the "Son of heaven", "Lord of Ten Thousand Years" and the last emperor of China. His reign
  
  
• The Man With The Golden Arm (1956) -By:Otto Preminger/Actors:Frank Sinatra ; Kim Novak ; Eleanor Parker ; Darren McGavin ; Arnold Stang ; Robert Strauss ; John Conte ; Doro Merande ; George E. Stone
  Frank Sinatra stars with Kim Novak and Eleanor Parker in this riveting drama about a poker dealer/jazz musician who descends to skid row after becoming addicted to heroin. Will he make it back into the spotlight -- or even survive? Based upon the classic
  
  
• The Marlon Brando Collection Box Set (4 Discs) (Digipack) -By:Laszlo Benedek ; Elia Kazan ; George Englund ; Sidney J. Furie/Actors:Marlon Brando ; Mary Murphy ; Lee Marvin ; Robert Keith ; Karl Malden ; Lee J. Cobb ; Rod Steiger ; Leif Erickson ; Eva Marie Saint ; Marin Balsam ; Pat Hingle ; Eiji Okada ; Reiko Sato ; John Saxon
  A collection of classic and unusual Marlon Brando movies including The Wild One, One The Waterfront, The Ugly American and The Appaloosa.The Wild One (1954) An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as The Wild One in this powerful 50s cult classic
  
  
• The Nutty Professor (1963) -By:Jerry Lewis/Actors:Jerry Lewis ; Les Brown ; Kathleen Freeman ; Del Moore ; Stella Stevens
  Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo.The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times, and the professor begins to suffer hilarious symptoms of his personality split.
  
  
• The Original Phantom Of The Opera -By:Rupert Julian/Actors:Lon Chaney ; Mary Philbin ; Norman Kerry ; Snitz Edwards ; Gibson Gowland ; Bernard Siegel
  The original and best version of Gaston Leroux's legendary book The Phantom Of The Opera is an awesome monument to the Golden Age of Hollywood starring "The Man of a Thousand Faces", Lon Chaney. In the film, Chaney is Erik, the horribly disfigured Phantom who leads a menacing existence in the catacombs and dungeons beneath the Paris Opera. When Erik falls in love with a beautiful prima donna (Mary Philbin), he kidnaps her and holds her hostage in his lair, where he is destined to have a showdown with her fiance and the secret police.
  
  
• The Paleface -By:Norman Z. McLeod/Actors:Bob Hope ; Jane Russell ; Robert Armstrong ; Iris Adrian ; Bobby Watson ; Jackie Searl ; Joseph Vitale ; Charles Trowbridge
  Like Merry Xmas and Happy New Year...They belong together! The Wild West has never been wilder - or funnier - than in this classic six-shootin' farce which introduced the Academy Award winning song "Buttons and Bows." In one of his most popular roles, Bob Hope plays "Painless" Peter Potter, a timid correspondence school dentist earninga shaky living in the lawless West. When "Painless" is seduced into agreeing to a quickie marriage by the voluptuous Jane Russell, he thinks his luck has changed. Little does he suspect that Russell is actually sharpshooter Calamity Jane, hot on the trail of a dangerous renegade gang and that she is simply using "Painless" as her cover and unwitting dupe! This Old West burlesque, brightened by Technicolor and uproarious slapstick went on to become one of Bob Hope's best-loved film vehicles and his biggest box office hit. Saddle up for the wild comic ride!
  
  
• The Rita Hayworth Collection Box Set (4 Discs) (Digipack) -By:William A. Seiter ; Charles Vidor/Actors:Rita Hayworth ; Fred Astaire ; Adolphe Menjou ; Isobel Elsom ; Gene Kelly ; Phil Silvers ; Eve Arden ; Glenn Ford ; George MacReady ; Frank Sinatra ; Kim Novak ; Barbara Nichols
  You Were Never Lovelier (1942) In this lavish Hollywood musical, the headstrong daughter (Hayworth) of a powerful Argentine hotelier has to contend with her father's attempts to get her to marry...Cover Girl (1944) Rusty Parker (Hayworth), a red-headed ...
  
  
• The Sweet Smell Of Success (1957) -By:Alexander MacKendrick/Actors:Tony Curtis ; Burt Lancaster ; Jeff Donnell ; Susan Harrison ; Sam Levene ; Martin Milner ; Barbara Nichols
  Sharp-Edged [and] Merciless. One Extraordinary American Noir! -Roger Ebert.A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this "fascinating, compelling story" (The Hollywood Reporter) ...
  
  
• The Three Stooges 1 - The Early Years
  Join Curly, Larry and Moe in the early Stooges shorts 'Brideless Groom', 'Nertsery Rhymes', 'His First Flame' and 'Saltwater Daffy'.
  
  
• The Virgin Spring (Bergman) (1960) -By:Ingmar Bergman/Actors:Max Von Sydow ; Birgitta Valberg ; Gunnel Lindblom
  Ingmar Bergman won his first Oscar and the international Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960 for The Virgin Spring, a brooding medieval tale based on an old Swedish ballad, closely comparable to The Seventh Seal, which examines the conflict
  
  
• The Wolf Man -By:George Waggner/Actors:Claude Rains ; Warren William ; Ralph Bellamy ; Patric Knowles ; Bela Lugosi ; Lon Chaney Jr.
  The original horror classic that introduced one of the screen's most infamous monsters! Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where Jenny's fate is revealed by a mysterious gypsy fortune teller. The dreamlike atmosphere and elaborate settings combined with a chilling musical score make it a masterpiece not only of the genre for for all time.
  
  
• The Wrong Arm Of The Law (Peter Sellers) -By:Cliff Owen/Actors:Peter Sellers ; Lionel Jeffries ; Bernard Cribbins ; Davy Kaye ; Nanette Newman ; John Le Mesurier ; Graham Stark ; Vanda Godsell
  Peter Sellers stars as gang-leader Pearly Gates, who has a double life as Monsieur Jules, the manager of a fashion house. The criminal world of London is being reduced to chaos by an Australian 'IPO mob', who, acting on information provided by Gates' girlfriend Valerie (Nanette Newman), impersonate police officers and take the spoils of the true criminals after the crime has been safely committed. The crimes are relatively victimless, involving jewellery thefts from the rich, or robbery from institutions such as banks and post offices. Gates is instrumental in getting a deal between organised crime and Scotland Yard.

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• Von Ryan's Express (1965) -By:Mark Robson/Actors:Frank Sinatra ; Trevor Howard ; Brad Dexter ; Sergio Fantoni ; John Leyton ; Edward Mulhare ; Wolfgang Preiss
  Frank Sinatra Busts Loose And Outsmarts The Nazis!As the Allies begin to push the Nazis back toward Germany, U.S. combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Sinatra) is shot down and placed in a prison camp. Initially, he's more concerned with surviving than escaping, earning him the insulting nickname, "Von Ryan." But in time, Ryan takes over from the commanding British officer (Trevor Howard) and masterminds a daredevil race for freedom that involves commandeering a train and getting it across Italy to Switzerland with the Nazis in hot pursuit. Then it's all blazing action, hair-raising chases and spectacular Italian scenery in this Oscar-nominated adventure that runs full speed until the nail-biting finale!
  
  

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• You Can't Take It With You -By:Frank Capra/Actors:Jean Arthur ; Lionel Barrymore ; James Stewart ; Edward Arnold ; Mischa Auer
  James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold star in this screwball comedy. Arthur stars as Alice Sycamore, the stable family member of an offbeat clan of free spirits, who falls for Stewart, the down-to-earth son of a snooty, wealthy family. Amidst a backdrop of confusion, the two very different families rediscover the simple joys of life...