Gary Cooper (Morocco) and Ann Harding (Holiday) play star-crossed lovers in Peter Ibbetson, an otherworldly fantasy-romance from celebrated director Henry Hathaway (The Shepherd of the Hills). Decades after they were separated, architect Peter Ibbetson (Cooper) and his childhood sweetheart, Mary (Harding), are reconnected when her husband hires Ibbetson to design a building . The relationship between the pair is rekindled until Ibbetson accidentally kills a man in self-defence and is sent to prison. Soon, he is visited by Mary in his dreams... A favourite of the Surrealists, including André Breton and Luis Buñuel, Peter Ibbetson boasts stunning photography from the great Charles Lang (The Big Heat) and acting support from John Halliday (Desire) and Ida Lupino (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).
Maurice Elvey the most prolific British director of all time, directed this 1933 Twickenham Studios production. The director is a story himself, having run away from his home in Stockton to work on the streets of London aged....nine. Co Written and starring Ivor Novello writer of over three hundred songs including, Keep the home fires burning. It's a story of a pennyless russian prince in London befriended by Ada (Ida Lupino). Ada takes the prince home to live with her middle class family.
Somewhere on Superstition Mountain there lies a treasure as big as the West. Silver screen legend Glenn Ford stars as Jacob "Dutch" Walz, the man behind the myth of Arizona's infamous Lost Dutchman gold mine. LUST FOR GOLD is the quintessential gold-rush tale, chronicling one man's quest for the mother lode and the complications that come with his passions.
One of director Sam Peckinpah's lesser-known and little-seen outings, Junior Bonner is actually one of his most interesting for being so relaxed. Yet it deals with the themes that always interested him: the man who has watched the world pass him by and realises that his time is gone. In this case, it's rodeo rider Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to try to win top prize in the bull-riding competition to raise money to stake his father (Robert Preston) to a future. As easy-going and good-natured as you'd like, with a delicious chemistry between Preston and a feisty Ida Lupino as Junior's estranged parents, who are still able to strike romantic sparks. Great rodeo footage captures both the violence and beauty of the sport. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
Mere months after delivering one of the definitive examples of film noir with Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich brought a noir flavour to Hollywood with his classic adaptation of Clifford Odets stage play, The Big Knife. Charles Castle, one of Hollywood s biggest stars, looks like he has it all. But his marriage is falling apart and his wife is threatening to leave him if he renews his contract. Studio boss Stanley Shriner Hoff isn t taking the news too well, and he ll do anything he can to get his man to sign on the dotted line even if means exposing dark secrets... Winner of the Silver Lion at the 1955 Venice Film Festival, The Big Knife also boasts a remarkable cast list including Jack Palance (Shane) as Castle and Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront) as Hoff, plus Shelley Winters (The Night of the Hunter), Ida Lupino (On Dangerous Ground), Jean Hagen (Singin in the Rain) and Everett Sloane (Citizen Kane). SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Brand-new 2K restoration from original film elements produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed LPCM mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Commentary by film critics Glenn Kenny and Nick Pinkerton, recorded exclusively for this release Bass on Titles Saul Bass, responsible for The Big Knife s credit sequence, discusses some of his classic work in this self-directed documentary from 1972 Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Nathalie Morris
1940s drama made by the collaborative efforts of seven directors and 21 writers. Gates Trimble Pomfret (Ken Smith) travels from America to England during the Blitz in order to sell his family's home in London. When he gets to the house he discovers that Leslie Trimble (Ruth Warrick) has been living there and refuses to move. As Leslie tries to persuade Gates not to sell up, she recounts the house's 140-year history hoping to appeal to his romantic side.
Still recovering after his throw from a bull named Sunshine Junior Bonner (McQueen) a drifting rodeo star is on his way to Prescott Arizona to join his family for the Frontier Days Celebration. When he arrives however he finds his house abandoned and learns that his father Ace (Preston) is hospitalized. Despite medical orders Ace joins the rest of his family at the Frontier Days Parade and rodeo festivities to watch Junior challenge Sunshine once again but this time Bonner is determined to beat the bull so that his father’s dream of building a ranch in Australia can become a reality.
Casablanca - Special Edition: Easy to enter but much harder to leave especially if your name is on the Nazis' most wanted list. Atop that list is Czech resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country the b
While a police-eluding serial killer prowls the New York streets newspaper publisher Walter Kyne (Vincent Price) pits his three top newsmen against each other to catch the maniac and scoop the story but in the ensuing chase the hounds become entangled in professional rivalry and romantic complications - with deadly consequences. Fritz Lang's tense fast-paced Hollywood thriller features an all-star cast and cinematography by noir maestro Ernest Laszlo (Kiss Me Deadly).
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The Bigamist goes where no movie has gone before; it gives us a bigamist as the central character and manages to make us sympathise with his plight. Harry Graham is a salesman who longs to spend time with his wife played by Joan Fontaine but she's a workaholic businesswoman who rarely finds time in her schedule for her husband. While on a sales trip Graham befriends a waitress played by Ida Lupino and as friendship turns to love Graham calls and teases wife about meeting another woman; we see a quick flash of fear in her eyes but then she immediately changes the conversation in a fake chirpy tone and pretends nothing bothers her. The well-detailed characters bring the drama of The Bigamist to life. The waitress is a tough but compassionate character much more full of life than Fontaine's Eisenhower era wife. Significantly we also discover that the waitress is much more fertile than Fontaine - who cannot bear children. This subtle critique of '50s families and the sterility of home life when business becomes more important than family communication makes The Bigamist just as relevant today as when it was made in 1953.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call...The Twilight Zone! This fantastic 6 DVD boxed set contains all 36 episodes from Rod Serling's classic groundbreaking series. Episodes comprise: 1. Where Is Everybody? 2. One For The Angels 3. Mr. Denton On Doomsday 4. Sixteen Millimeter Shrine 5. Walking Distance 6. Escape Clause 7. The Lonely 8. Time Enough At Last 9. Perchance To Dream 10. Judgment Night 11. And When The Sky Was Opened 12. What You Need 13. The Four Of Us Are Dying 14. Third From The Sun 15. I Shot An Arrow Into The Air 16. The Hitch-Hiker 17. The Fever 18. The Last Flight 19. The Purple Testament 20. Elegy 21. Mirror Image 22. The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street 23. A World Of Difference 24. Long Live Walter Jameson 25. People Are Alike All Over 26. Execution 27. The Big Tall Wish 28. A Nice Place To Visit 29. Nightmare As A Child 30. A Stop At Willoughby 31. The Chaser 32. A Passage For Trumpet 33. Mr. Bevis 34. The After Hours 35. The Mighty Casey 36. A World Of His Own
A box set of films featuring some of Hollywood's leading ladies. Films Comprise: 1. Father's Little Dividend (Dir. Vincente Minnelli 1951) 2. Nothing Sacred (Dir. William A. Wellman 1937) 3. Ghosts On The Loose (Dir. William Beaudine 1943) 4. Of Human Bondage (Dir. John Cromwell 1934) 5. Behave Yourself (Dir. George Beck 1951) 6. Home Town Story (Dir. Arthur Pierson 1951) 7. Hell's House (Dir. Howard Higgin 1932) 8. The Bigamist (Dir. Ida Lupino 1953) 9. High Voltage
A building superintendent and his wife are held hostage in their apartment by a would-be bank robber and his accomplices.
For many people Basil Rathbone's portrayal of the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes is the definitive screen version of Arthur Conan Doyle's much-loved character. Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night (1946): Holmes is hired to protect the Star of Rhodesia an enormous diamond that it's pursuers are willing to kill for. Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill (1946): The location of stolen Bank of England printing plates are hidden inside three music boxes by an inmate of Dart
Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate a series of stranglings which are slowly wiping out the Brandon family and to find out the secret of the 'Star Of Delhi'. He once again does battle with his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty.
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