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Penniless husband, Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) looks like he is losing his scatterbrained wife, Gerry (Claudette Colbert) to multi-millionaire John D. Hackensacker (Rudy Vallee) when she walks out on him and heads for fun and sun in Palm Beach, Florida.

They become involved with any number of outrageous characters, played by many of the Sturges regulars in hilarious cameos. The witty, sparkling dialogue, poking merciless fun at, amongst other targets, money and sex, is unforgettable.

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'Scarlet Thread' was one of his earliest works and he displays his obvious talent in this production. Laurence Harvey stars as a small time crook looking for the high life and Sydney Tafler as an educated gang boss living the high life - both take part in a robbery that goes wrong.

Good scenes of Cambridge and supporting cast Harry Fowler, Kathleen Bryon and "good time girl" Dora Bryan make for an enjoyable British crime drama.

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An archaeologist forsakes his fiancee for a passionate affair with a beautiful young German woman. But lla has more than love on her mind... While the film's star, Nadja Tiller, was unknown in Britain, she had starred in many German films and was Miss Austria in 1949.

Ha's foreignness is key and Margaret's slightly prim glamour is no match for her continental seductiveness. But the promise of sex masks something more dangerous and giving her body so freely signals lla's emotional deadness. Mike learns his lesson the hard way.

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Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt, and as a parting shot at the paper's new editor, the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the Bulletin's readers and the wider American public.

Its real author, Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) who has fabricated the letter in her final column, is rehired, and now needs to find someone to play the part of the fictional "John Doe." Gary Cooper is perfectly cast as Long John Willoughby, an injured and penniless former baseball pitcher lured into impersonating "John Doe" with the promise of medical treatment. In what would have undoubtedly been an Oscar winning performance, were it not for his own success that same year in Howard Hawks' "Sergeant York," Cooper excels himself here as Willoughby's initial indifference to his undertaking turns to genuine concern at his role. But, as he becomes an increasingly culpable pawn in an ever more treacherous game, just how can "John Doe" redeem himself?

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Helen Capel (Dorothy McGuire) is a beautiful young girl who has not uttered a word since childhood. She works as a servant for old, ailing Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) in the Warren family mansion.

When a sinister spate of murders involving 'women with afflictions' hits the neighbourhood, Helen believes she's the next victim. One night, a storm breaks and Helen realises the killer is in the house with her. Unable to scream for help, what can she do to save herself? And just who is the psychotic killer?

In this Romantic British comedy, newly wed couple Gay and Pel Butterworth are forced to take in some strange paying guests when their inheritance proves troublesome, but all is not as straight forward as it seems, when they discover they may have to divorce to get their hands on half the money...

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Will Hay is one of the greatest British comedians of all time and his misanthropic antics have inspired many great funny men. A major star of the 1930s, he relished playing pompous, incompetent authority figures.

Solicitor Hay is the black sheep of his rich, snobbish family and Graham Moffatt is his indolent clerk. With no clients to speak of, the pair instead get caught up with American gangsters and their plans for robbery.

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This hilarious 1950s romantic comedy fallows the life and loves of a Yorkshire miser who is forced to broaden his outlook on life after he takes a trip to London.

Despite inheriting his Father's factory, Yorkshire rag merchant Chayley Broadbend (John Gregson) is haunted by the spirit of his miserly father and still counts every penny. So much so that fiancee Ethel (Susan Stephen) turns down his marriage proposal rather than become his unpaid housekeeper. Rejection encourages the moneybags skinflint to depart Barfield and drown his sorrows down in London. The Rugby League Cup Final night throws him together with voluptuous chorus girl Ruth West (Diana Dors) who knows a good thing when she sees it. When Chayley returns to Barfield, Ethel breaks off their engagement. In order to prove his worth, Chayley gets elected as a local councillor and invites Ruth to open a new childrens playground, and then the shenanigans really begin!!

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Barbara Stanwyck plays a nightclub singer whose snappy street slang attracts the attention of bookish encyclopaedia editor Gary Cooper and his aged bachelor colleagues who devote their lives to compiling the perfect encyclopeadia.

At first, their interest in her is strictly professional, but she soon charms the old men into letting her hide from the police (and her gangster boyfriend) in their mansion, Initially, she resents her forced stay, but after a while she falls for the charm of bookworm Cooper, and makes him realise there is more to life than books.

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Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is drowning his sorrows after yet another fight with his wife. At a local bar, he meets a woman and they strike up a conversation. Sensing the woman is also feeling down and not wishing to be alone, he invites her to the theatre.

She agrees under one condition; she does not wish to divulge her name, preferring to remain anonymous. When Henderson returns home he finds police officers waiting for him. His wife has been murdered, strangled with one of his neckties, and he is the main suspect. Maintaining his innocence he suggests they go back and speak with someone who might provide an alibi. But no one seems to remember the mysterious lady. Charged with the murder of his wife, it seems Scott Henderson will face the electric chair if he cannot prove his innocence. His only hope just might be his loyal secretary Carol "Kansas" Richman (Ella Raines). Can she find the phantom lady before it's too late?

At a dinner party, the thirteenth guest failed to show. Thirteen years later, the remaining twelve guests are being killed off one by one and sat in their original seat around the table. Is it all linked to the fact the mysterious thirteenth guest has been left the bulk of an estate?

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Gulliver Shiels (Robert Beatty) lies abed in Dublin, loafing to the best of his ability. He whiles away his time dreaming of a South Sea island that, he believes, will be bequeathed to him for an act of selfless charity.

When he bumps into ace toper Alastair McNeil (Stanley Holloway), Shiels believes that McNeil could be the benefactor of his daydreams.

Much rested on the slender shoulders of Little Women. Hollywood wanted to see if an adapted literary classic could strike box-office gold. Jo March and her sisters nimbly shouldered the load.

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In the distant future, Earth faces a new Ice Age. While a dedicated team of scientists battle to hold the approaching glaciers at bay, a startling discovery is made deep within the ice... an alien warrior, frozen for millennia.

When the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive they soon discover Earth is under threat from the Ice Warriors - fearsome Martians intent on conquering our planet for themselves...

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The once-feared Cybermen have disappeared from the universe without trace. An expedition from Earth arrives on Telos - homeworld of the Cybermen - to try and discover exactly what has become of the silver giants.

Soon after the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria join the archaeological party, the first mysterious death occurs. With the group now stranded on Telos, it becomes clear that the Cybermen may not be as 'dead' as it was first thought... Beneath the planet's surface, giant ice-tombs hold the last remains of the Cybermen in a frozen sleep. And someone is working to re-activate them from their slumber...