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Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of its genre. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable every-man persona, in his first of many westerns, with a charming turn as a gun-abhorring deputy sheriff who uses his wits to bring law and order to the frontier town of Bottleneck. A sparkling script, a supporting cast of virtuoso character actors, and rollicking musical numbers - delivered with unmatched bravado by the magnetic Dietrich - come together to create an irresistible, oft-imitated marvel of studio-era craftsmanship. - Director:
- George Marshall
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- Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
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Prohibition era gangster Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart) walks out of prison...and into two unfamiliar worlds: the jitterbugging 1940s and the towering majesty of 'High Sierra'. This fast-paced, heist-gone-wrong manhunt movie is also a fascinating study of a man time has passed by. Earle identifies more with the era's homeless Okies than the callow punks he leads on a disastrous hotel robbery. Then the teenager he loves (Joan Leslie) rejects him and only Marie (Ida Lupino), a weary '30s survivor like himself, remains loyal when cops close in. - Director:
- Raoul Walsh
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- Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
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Meet a dewy-eyed ingenue, a gee-whiz tenor, stuck-up stars, hard-up producers, brassy blondes and "shady ladies from the 80s". They're all denizens of 42nd Street, belting out ageless Harry Warren/Al Dubin songs and tapping out Busby Berkeley's sensational Depression - lifting production numbers. The put-on-a-show plot spins merrily, full of snappy banter and new faces Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. The show-stopping numbers (Shuffle off to Buffalo, You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me and the title tune) still dazzle. Looking and sounding its best in years via this new digital transfer from the restored original camera negative and optical audio tracks, 42nd Street shows good times never go out of style. - Director:
- Lloyd Bacon
- Cast:
- Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
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Whilst on holiday, young timid ladies companion (Joan Fontaine) meets handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) whose wife Rebecca has recently died in a boating accident. The two fall in love and marry. However, her joy is short lived when she returns to the de Winter estate and soon discovers that Rebecca still has a strange, unearthly hold over everyone there. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
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- Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
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Legendary director and story-teller Alfred Hitchcock set the benchmark for all TV mystery series to come with his groundbreaking classic television series "Alfred Hitchcock Presentsr", remaining an indelible part of popular culture. No one equalled his talent for presenting viewers with stories of murder, mystery and the macabre that had an unforeseen kick in the 'tale'. Rather than progress to a eighth season of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", Hitchcock returned with an expanded format titled "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" and now for the first time, the entire deliciously murderous second series - all 32 stories presented by the master of suspense himself. Join an incredible who's who of guest stars including Christopher Lee, Martin Landau, Ray Milland, Bob Newhart, Leslie Nielsen, Anne Baxter, Robert Culp, Telly Savalas, Gloria Swanson, Darren McGavin, Roddy McDowall, George Segal, Bruce Dern, John Cassavetes, Dick York, Lillian Gish, Robert Loggia and many more as they become the puppets in Hitch's theatre. - Director:
- Herschel Daugherty
- Cast:
- Alfred Hitchcock, Ray Milland, Claire Griswold
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Crossfire (1947)Cradle of Fear / The Brick Foxhole
Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime, there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating a man's death by beating. The man was killed because he was Jewish. "Hate", Finlay says, "is like a gun". Robert Young portrays Finlay, Robert Mitchum is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.l. suspects, and Robert Ryan plays a vicious bigot in a landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet) directs, draping the genre's stylistic backdrops and flourishes around a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S. Here, Hollywood takes aim at injustice...and catches bigotry in a 'Crossfire'. - Director:
- Edward Dmytryk
- Cast:
- Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
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A U.S. naval engineer (Joseph Cotten) on assignment in Turkey is targeted for murder by Nazi agents. To save his life, the head of the Turkish secret police (Orson Welles) smuggles him out of the country on a cargo ship. But the Nazis are one step ahead. They already have at least one assassin on board the ship, disguised as one of the passengers... - Director:
- Norman Foster
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- Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio
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Miller is a middle-aged handyman on a small island off the Carolina coast. His neighbours are a 13-year-old girl, Evalyn (Key Meersman) and her grandfather. After her grandfather dies, Miller looks after the young girl, and they are the only two on the island until the arrival of Traver, a black man fleeing a lynch mob that suspects him of rape. Miller wants to turn him in and remove him from the tryst, but Evalyn likes Traver and protects him. A preacher arrives from the mainland to rescue Evalyn from her situation, and Traver's presence is discovered. Miller is now forced to decide whether to turn him over to the mob and lose standing in the girl's eyes. - Director:
- Luis Buñuel
- Cast:
- Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman
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Following an indiscretion involving the producer's wife, rep actor Chick Byrd (Kenneth More) is fired from the play in which he has had a leading role. Heading to London in search of bigger and better things, he is reunited with a number of similarly straitened thespians, as well as his spirited, kind-hearted former love, Judy (Billie Whitelaw). But it seems Byrd may be poised to find fame and even some fortune when, in desperation, he manages to land himself the starring role in a deodorant commercial... - Director:
- Alvin Rakoff
- Cast:
- Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price
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Legendary director and story-teller Alfred Hitchcock set the benchmark for all TV mystery series to come with his groundbreaking classic television series "Alfred Hitchcock Presentsr", remaining an indelible part of popular culture. No one equalled his talent for presenting viewers with stories of murder, mystery and the macabre that had an unforeseen kick in the 'tale'. Rather than progress to a eighth season of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", Hitchcock returned with an expanded format titled "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" and now for the first time, the entire deliciously murderous first series - all 32 stories presented by the master of suspense himself. Join an incredible who's who of guest stars including James Mason, Robert Redford, Vera Miles, Peter Falk, Jayne Mansfield, Angie Dickinson, Tony Randall, John Forsythe, Peter Graves, Gene Barry, William Conrad, Bob Crane, Dean Stockwell, Diana Dors, Dabney Coleman, Gig Young and many more as they become the puppets in Hitch's theatre. Voted as one of the 100 best TV shows of all-time by Time magazine, tune in once more to the master storyteller with some of the most deliciously wicked and chilling television ever aired. - Director:
- Bernard Girard
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- Alfred Hitchcock, Gig Young, Martha Hyer
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)Anatomie d'une chute
When her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra (Sandra Hüller) becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed. The trial soon becomes not just an investigation, but a gripping psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel's complicated marriage. With conflicting evidence and inconsistent testimony, words are wielded like weapons and shocking truths come to light... - Director:
- Justine Triet
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- Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner
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Guilty? Innocent? Those questions aren't for high-powered Chicago attorney Marin Vail (Richard Gere) to decide. His job is to defend - especially if a case will put his name in the headlines and further his career. When Cail hears that a penniless altar boy (Edward Norton) is accused of murdering the local archbishop, he snaps up the case, eager for the media spotlight. Little does he know that it will uncover a viper's nest of corruption, pit him against a prosecutor (Laura Linney), who's his ex-lover, and test all his skill, judgment and even his win-at-any-cost attitude. - Director:
- Gregory Hoblit
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- Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton
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Legendary producer Pandro S. Berman acquired this sell out Broadway success and turned it into a hit motion picture starring Fred Astaire and not one but two of the greatest stage and screen dancers Irene Dunne and Ginger Rogers. The magic of 1920's Paris is the backdrop as the City of Lights illuminates this film and also brings us the first great rendition of "Smoke Get's In Your Eyes". A template for future great Hollywood musicals. This is the third screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. - Director:
- William A. Seiter
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- Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
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"Patrick Melrose" is a new kind of family saga which takes a scathing and sardonic view of the upper-classes, shining an unforgiving light on the privilege, greed, cruelty and vulnerabilities that lie within their ranks. Played to perfection by Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick himself is many things: an aristocratic addict, a rakish and outrageously funny playboy, but he is also a man living as a victim of the sins of his parents (Hugo Weaving and Jennifer Jason Leigh). Based on the celebrated novels by Edward St. Aubyn, this intelligent, beautifully told series, follows Patrick as he embarks on a harrowing yet humorous decades-spanning odyssey to come to terms with the effects of childhood trauma. - Director:
- Edward Berger
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- Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Maltz
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Legendary, award-winning and suspenseful, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" set the gold standard for all TV mystery series to come and has remained an indelible part of popular cu. Join guest stars Walter Matthau, Robert Redford, Claude Rains, Charles Bronson, Lola Albright, Brian Keith. Anne Francis. Robert Duvall, Dick York, Ed Asner. Wayne Rogers. Cloris Leachman, Diana Dors, Cecil Parker, Michael Rennie, Henry Jones, George Grizzard, Billy Mumy and more as they act in stories of intrigue and murder... all under the watchful eye of the Master of Suspense himself. Tune in once more to the master storyteller as he delights viewers with some of the most deliciously wicked and chilling television ever aired. Nominated for an astounding 15 Emmys, there's no question why "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" remains one of the most beloved series ever made. - Director:
- Francis M. Cockrell
- Cast:
- Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Ford, Billy Gray
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