Classic

Collection of four classic films directed by John Ford for Columbia Pictures. In 'The Whole Town's Talking' (1935) Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson) is mistaken for infamous bank robber Killer Mannion, and the criminal decides to use the...

1950s British comedy starring Alastair Sim. Seemingly mild-mannered watchmaker Hawkins (Sim) is in fact a skilled assassin. His latest target is leading politician Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley), who is due to stay the weekend at the Green Man...

Film noir crime drama directed by and starring Orson Welles. When unemployed Irishman Michael O'Hara (Welles) saves Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) from a group of thugs, she repays him by getting him a position on her husband Arthur (Everett Sloane)'s...

1950s British comedy. When it's time for the reading of Henry Russell (Hugh Griffith)'s will, his relatives gather in eager anticipation of the wealth that could be theirs. But they are surprised to discover that their inheritance is conditional upon...

Set during Blitz-torn wartime England, Ray Milland (Dial M for Murder, The Lost Weekend) stars as a man just released from a sanatorium who stumbles into an elaborate and murderous Nazi plot. Reminiscent of Lang's early expressionist films (The Spiders,...

The daring and provocative films of maverick American filmmaker Samuel Fuller were some of the most hard-hitting, outspoken, politically progressive, and visually audacious works of the Hollywood studio era. Taking apart the crime and gangster thriller,...

Samuel Fuller re-worked and reinvented popular film genres as lenses through which to examine American history, ideals, and topical events. His detective thriller The Crimson Kimono, with its frank and unsentimental interracial romance twist, attacked...

Two Columbia noirs from the pen of Samuel Fuller. Directed by the great Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession) and based on an original screenplay by Fuller, Shockproof is a story of forbidden love between a parole officer and a young woman recently...

Journalist, screenwriter, novelist, soldier, filmmaker - Samuel Fuller was one of American cinema's most prolific and multi-faceted talents. However, the films based on Fuller's early work as a screenwriter remain under appreciated. It Happened in...

When Mae West went to Hollywood in the early 1930s, she was already a major star. Having sensationalised Broadway, it was time for the movies to receive the same. Her fame allowed her control, picking her co-stars (including a young Cary Grant),...