Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch). Their mission: assassinate Professor John Huxley, famed atheist writer.
Brilliant musician Petra Nachtmanova will travel for weeks on the roads from Berlin, through Anatolia, to Iran. Always asking one question: "Can you teach me a song that I can bring back home?" On her back, the powerful legendary instrument: The Saz.
Kim is a small-time scam artist whose talent lies in confidence scams and swindles. Mathew her new partner: a shy and naive wannabe criminal. Together they attempt to break into the seedy underbelly of Melbourne's crime scene. A mix of John Woo style action and a fast-paced comedy Scam is the kind of film not often made in Australia, a funny, subversive, violent, action-comedy about the lives of criminals and cops. Filmed in 2001 over 12 days with a production budget of AUD $5000. Scam was to...
Legendary Hollywood screen pair Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon team for the ninth and last time in Scandal at Scourie, a heart-tugging Technicolor drama that has the duo facing obstacles with the kind of unbreakable love that saw them through aerial bombardments in Mrs. Miniver or the challenges of the medical unknown in Madame Curie. Set in Ontario, Canada, the story centers on Victoria and Patrick McChesney, whose decision to adopt an orphaned Catholic girl ignites controversy in their...
Alec Guinness has double trouble in this stylish mystery thriller costarring Bette Davis, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca). When John Barratt (Guinness) meets Count Jacques De Gue (Guinness again) while vacationing in the South of France, the lonely university professor can't believe his eyes the Count is his exact double! But when Barratt awakens after a night of heavy drinking, he finds De Gue has vanished, leaving the professor in his place. Unable to convince anyone that...
"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." Thus opens Rafael Sabatini's historical novel on which this fanciful film is based, following the sensational exploits of a young lawyer thrown into the tumult of the French Revolution. There he becomes an actor portraying the celebrated character Scaramouche, a chameleon who plays both rogue and fool. First published in 1921, it became an instant bestseller, flying onto the stage and then to film in just over two years....
Let danger befall him. Let the winds of fate blow where they may. Andre Moreau will strike a blow for vengeance and the French Revolution. First, he must hone his skill with the blade. By day Andre secretly perfects his parries and lunges - and hides his true identity at night behind the mask of stage clown Scaramouche. A climactic duel that's one of the greatest sequences ever to lay steel to foe caps this bravura adaptation of the Rafael Sabatini (Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk) novel. George...
In a once glamorous Scarborough hotel, two couples laugh, quarrel, and make love as they come to terms with the impossibility of their forbidden love. At barely 16 years old, two of them are still in school and the others, their teachers. Part love story and probing social commentary, Scarborough explores the impulsive nature of forbidden love and its unpredictable consequences.
Just out of jail after serving time on an assault rap, Max (Gene Hackman) is headed for Pittsburgh to open a deluxe car wash. Back from five years at sea, Lion (Al Pacino) wants to hit Detroit and visit the child he's never seen. The dreams may not be glorious but you'll want Max and Lion to fulfill them, because Scarecrow, cowinner of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize, has a heart as big as its cross-country journey. Its hard-luck drifters drift permanently into our souls. This is due...
Just out of jail after serving time on an assault rap, Max (Gene Hackman) is headed for Pittsburgh to open a deluxe car wash. Back from five years at sea, Lion (Al Pacino) wants to hit Detroit and visit the child he's never seen. The dreams may not be glorious, but you'll want Max and Lion to fulfill them, because Scarecrow, cowinner of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize, has a heart as big as its cross-country journey. Its hard-luck drifters drift permanently into our souls. This is...
Goodbye, PTA hello, foreign intrigue! Single mom Amanda King leads a quiet suburban life in Washington, D.C., until the day a dashing stranger shoves a package in her hands with instructions to give it to the man in the red hat. In no time, Amanda is dodging bullets, foiling assassination plots -- and finding herself drawn to the dashing stranger, Agent Lee Stetson, aka Scarecrow. Of course, Scarecrow has no interest in a ditsy amateur spy, no matter how pretty. But she certainly is handy in a...
The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers.
Bumbling reporter Larry Elliot (Jack Haley) is trapped in a conspiracy of theft and murder, and held at the mercy of the most wanted criminal in the state. Elliot's routine article about a county fair is forgotten when he stumbles onto a battle for a priceless chess set. When a man is killed in pursuit of the treasure, the suspects are locked in their hotel rooms until the sheriff arrives. The inn's guests include a pestering child prodigy, an underhanded femme fatale, and the beautiful...
A decapitated head arrives at the sanitarium of Dr. Von Ee and his daughter-in-law collapses in a spasm of terror. The woman is driven insane with fear by haunting memories and villainous strangers. A ghastly green mask materializes in the windows of the manor and a hypnotist (Bela Lugosi) arrives with his sadistic henchman, a mute dwarf. The doctor and his family fall victim to violent attacks and the household is rocked by a shocking and bizarre revelation that is both surreal and...
Scared to Death is a 1947 Gothic film starring Bela Lugosi. This is the only color film in which Bela Lugosi had a starring role, and is based on an actual 1933 murder case. The film begins with a disclosure by morgue examiners of how a beautiful woman literally died of fright and the plot reveals how she reached that fatal stage of terror. A woman is married to the son of a doctor who is the proprietor of a private sanatorium where the woman is undergoing unwilling treatment. Both son and...
A dead young woman, in a morgue, tells the bizarre story of how she got there. It involves, murder, a hypnotist, a midget and a mysterious figure in a blue mask.
The only color film to star Bela Lugosi was this mystery thriller from director Christy Cabanne (The Mummy's Hand) made for the short -lived Golden Gate Pictures during the early months of 1946. Lugosi plays Professor Leonide, a cagey character who may have had something to do with the death of a young woman (who happens to be telling her tale from a slab at the morgue!) George Zucco, Molly Lamont, and Joyce Compton also star, as well as Angelo Rossitto (Freaks) as a menacing dwarf with a...
Scaredy Squirrel never leaves his nut tree until one day, his worst nightmares come true! Scaredy Squirrel suddenly finds himself out of his tree. As he leaps into the unknown, he discovers something really uplifting and surprising about himself.
One of the most influential movies of all time, the original Scarface is an exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition era. Academy Award winner Paul Muni gives an electrifying performance as Tony Camonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. Produced by the legendary Howard Hughes and directed by Howard Hawks, this compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that...
Screen legend Rock Hudson stars with Yvonne De Carlo in the sweeping adventure, Scarlet Angel, filmed in glorious Technicolor.After saloon queen Roxy McClanahan (De Carlo) swipes money from the handsome Captain Frank Truscott (Hudson), she quickly leaves town with a Civil War widow, Linda Caldwell (Bodil Miller). When the fragile Caldwell dies, Roxy seizes her chance at a new life by taking on the dead woman's identity. She journeys to Caldwell's family's lavish San Francisco estate and soon...
It takes a spy to catch a spy in this rousing Revolutionary War adventure directed by John Sturges and starring Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, Anne Francis and George Sanders. When top-secret military information is recovered from the body of a spy, American counter-intelligence officer Major John Bolton (Wilde) realizes there's a highly placed turncoat in the ranks. Posing as a deserter, Bolton plays a dangerous game as he pretends to work for the British while attempting to ferret out the...
When a woman has an illegitimate baby she must wear a scarlet letter round her neck in a public chastising and demonstration of her shame for an adulterous liaison and the resulting child. She will not name the father and has to rebuild her life. Nathaniel Hawthorne's book of 17th century America is a literary classic.