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Accountant Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) needs to get away for a few days fun and freedom before committing to fiancee Paula Gibson (Pamela Britton). After a night on the town in San Francisco he wakes up not feeling so good, doctors confirm that he has been poisoned. With only a few days left to live Frank Bigelow sets out on a frenzied quest to find who has murdered him and why. A film noir classic.

Rudyard Kipling's classic jungle adventure tells the story of Mowgli (Sabu), a boy raised in the jungle by wolves. One day after being chased by his enemy shere khan the tiger, Mowgli comes across an Indian village and is curious to explore. Eventually he is accepted but when three greedy villagers discover that he knows where there is hidden treasure in a ruined temple the men try to turn the rest of the village against him whilst they go after the treasure. Korda's lavish production with...

Gulliver's Travels is based on Jonathan Swift's classic story about Lemuel Gulliver, a sailor shipwrecked in Lilliput, the land of tiny people. The Fleischer studio produced the film in 1939. Hundreds of artists worked on the production, which was considered to be a landmark in the art of animation; being only the second full-length color animated feature ever produced. This engaging family film features the singing talents of Jessica Dragonette (Princess Glory) and Lanny Ross (Prince David)...

London in the 1840s is the setting for this British horror film starring Boris Karloff as Dr.Thomas Bolton, an eminent surgeon determined to discover an effective anaesthetic to relieve his patients suffering. Unusual for its time, the film deals with the consequences of drug addiction, Boris Karloff gives one of his finest performances as the Doctor experimenting on himself who becomes addicted and finally destroys his own career in his relentless pursuit of the elusive anaesthetic gas. Much...

Van Johnson stars as Lt. Michael Grayson in this WWII action drama tribute to the U.S. 442nd. Regimental Combat Team, which was formed in 1943 with Japanese-American volunteers. The prejudiced Lt. Grayson reluctantly takes command of the platoon through training and into battle in Italy and France. As the men distinguish themselves in combat Grayson soon realises that his prejudices were unfounded as he grows to respect their courage and loyalty.

Classic comedy from Abbott and Costello in Africa Screams (1949) where the pair are working as booksellers in a department store. They are mistakenly thought to be experts on Africa and have a map showing the whereabouts of treasure. The pair pass themselves off as big game hunters and are taken to darkest Africa to search for the treasure but the villains have other ideas.

Made in 1936, Things to Come speculates on the future of society in the aftermath of a global war in 1940. A war which continues for decades reducing what is left of society to small isolated groups struggling to survive. One such community is visited by a stranger determined to impress his vision of a new, better and progressive civilisation.

James Cagney is Nick Condon, a journalist working on the Tokyo Chronicle just prior to World War Two. He is a newspaperman determined to expose the truth at the risk of offending the Japanese government. When Condon finds the wife of a colleague murdered he suspects the military government is trying to suppress secret information about plans to conquer the world. He sets out to find the documents and make them public to the free world but first he must deal with the Japanese secret police....

Hysterical 1940's classic comedy starring Jimmy Stewart, Paulette Goddard and Horace Heidt. Based on the radio show of the period, 'Pot O' Gold' is an amusing look at a failed music store owner, Jimmy Stewart and his uncle Horace Heidt, owner of a food factory who wants Stewart to come to work for him. Before Stewart goes to work for his uncle, he befriends an Irish family who are his uncle's worst nightmare, as they are in-house musicians and always practicing. Stewart finds himself helping...

Vintage, classic horror from William Castle, the master of budget B-movies. Five strangers are invited to stay the night at a haunted house with each receiving $10,000 if they can live through the night. This 1950's horror movie stars Vincent Price as Frederick Loren, Carol Ohmart as Annabelle Loren (Loren's wife), Alan Marshal as Dr. Trent, Richard Long as Lance and Carolyn Craig as Nora. The five strangers are brought to Haunted Hill in funeral cars, a foreboding of things to come. With...

Otto Preminger extracts a powerful performance from Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine, a former drug addicted card dealer just out of detox and trying to establish a new career as a jazz drummer. Back in his old neighbourhood Frankie finds it difficult to stay clean faced with the pressures of his emotionally distressed wife played by Eleanor Parker, his need to earn a living and the fear of his past addiction.

Rosalinda Amendola (Terry Moore) is the poor but happy daughter of former acrobat, Louie Amendola (Jimmy Durante). She is in love with aspiring composer Pete Dingle (Tom Drake), who lives next door. Pete?s parents are wealthy, but his miserly father Frank Dingle (Frank Orth), hides his money in a wall of their family home. When vaudeville performer Joe Mahoney (Jimmy Conlin) falls on hard times, he must leave his friend and companion, Rupert a dancing squirrel to fend for himself with other...

Upon graduating from West Point in 1854, classmates Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan) are posted to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, an assignment they are both relishing. On their way to Kansas, Custer and Stuart meet the man in charge of building the railroad and his daughter Kit (Olivia de Havilland), with whom they both fall in love. The state of Kansas is bloodstained and war-torn, a victim of John Brown's relentless crusade against slavery. Stuart goes after Brown, but...

Successful businessman Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is about to be murdered by his wife (Helen Walker) and her lover, but their plan goes badly wrong. Suspense and excitement beautifully filmed on location in San Francisco.

Government agent Tom Kaylor (Peter Graves) is assigned the task of investigating the illegal use of amphetamines by long haul truck drivers. He goes under cover as a trucker to find the suppliers and crack the drug ring. Directed by Joseph Newman, this slice of fifties action was based on an article published in the Saturday Evening Post.

The Archive of World War Two is a series of original archive documentaries filmed under actual battle conditions by service and newsreel cameramen attached to American, British, French, Russian and enemy forces. The True Glory is the stirring story of the Allied Invasion of Europe and their victory over Nazi Germany during WWII. The film is introduced by General Dwight D. Eisenhower and covers the key European engagements beginning just before D-Day through to the fall of Berlin. The...

In the tranquil small town of Suddenly, peace and quiet is disrupted one day by the news that the President's train will be arriving and that there might also be a possible assassination attempt. Frank Sinatra gives and electrifying performance as the psychotic killer hired to do the job.

A classic 1956 jukebox musical featuring performances by rock and roll singers of the 1950's, including Chuck Berry, Lavern Baker, The Moonglows, The Flamingos and performing as himself, the famed disc jockey Alan Freed alongside other rock and roll singers of the time. Teenager, Dori Graham, played by then 13-year-old Tuesday Weld can't get her father to pay for a strapless gown for her prom and has to get together the money herself in time for the big event. After much scheming and antics,...

Borderline is an American 1950 film noir crime film starring Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor. Pete Ritchie (Raymond Burr) runs a narcotic drug smuggling operation from Mexico to the United States, which the Los Angeles Police Department and the US federal government have tried to unsuccessfully stop. Since Ritchie's operating procedures are so good, the US authorities haven't even been able to find out the identities of his sources and need a breakthrough. Madeleine Haley (Claire Trevor), and...

This classic movie is a 1947 American film directed by George Marshall and is a fictionalized account of silent film star Pearl White's rise to fame, starring Betty Hutton. The original 1914 melodrama film serial, shown in weekly instalments, featured Pearl White as the title character. Pearl (Betty Hutton) is a frustrated factory worker who aspires to become an actress. She joins a theatrical troupe managed by Mike (John Lund), but fame and fortune elude her. In desperation, Pearl takes a job...

This classic 1946 American film noir stars Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles. It was the first Hollywood film to depict footage of the Holocaust. Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) is hunting a Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a war criminal who has erased all evidence of his identity except his hobby which is a mania about clocks. Wilson releases Kindler's former associate hoping the man will lead him to Kindler, but Wilson loses Kindler's associate. Meanwhile,...

Classic 1950 crime film noir starring Ann Sheridan and Dennis O'Keefe and filmed on location in San Francisco. A man tries to blackmail 'Danny Boy', but is shot. The killer then spots unsuccessful painter, Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott) and shoots at him before missing. Since Frank saw the shooter the police inspector wants to place him in protective custody, but Frank runs away. Eleanor (Ann Sheridan and Frank's wife) encounters reporter Danny Leggert (Dennis O'Keefe). He offers her $1,000 for...

The Fabulous Dorseys is a 1947 fictionalized biography which tells the story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through their rise, breakup and personal reunion. The rise and fall of the Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical stroll down memory lane. From a father who insisted that the brothers learn music, to the highs and lows of the Dorsey brothers' musical careers, the everlasting music they created is certain to entertain. The film is a musical...

Nothing Sacred is a classic screwball comedy produced in 1937 by David O. Selznick and stars Carole Lombard and Fredric March with a great supporting cast. A New York newspaper reporter played by Fredric March mistakenly reports on a story which leads to his demotion at the newspaper where he is now required to write obituaries. Begging his boss for another chance, March points out a story about a woman dying from radium poisoning in the fictional town of Warsaw, Vermont. Hazel Flagg, played...