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Air Marshall Hardie is a guest at a society dinner party in Hong Kong on the eve of his flight to Tokyo. During the course of the night, another guest is persuaded to share the details of a strange dream he had, which involved a plane crash in the mountains of Japan. Hardie takes little notice of the story until the following day, when he discovers the plane he had been intending to fly has been swapped for a Dakota, the very plane that featured in the mysterious dream. Stranger still, two last minute passengers arrive, taking the number of passengers up to match with that which the dream foretold. Hardie begins to wonder if it was indeed merely a dream — or a premonition which is about to become a deadly reality. - Director:
- Leslie Norman
- Cast:
- Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox
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A jockey who threw a race is murdered in the locker room. "My, they're strict at this track!" Nora Charles exclaims. With that, she (Myrna Loy) and hubby Nick (William Powell) are off to the races on another case of murder, mirth and perfect martinis. Highlights of this fourth Thin Man include a visit to the arena for the evening's wrasslin' and dinner at Mario's Grotto where, no matter what anyone wants, the waiter insists upon the sea bass. As in all films in the series, the supporting cast is extraordinary, with Sam Levene, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Henry O'Neill and Stella Adler among Shadow's heroes and possible villains. Red herrings abound. But we still recommend the sea bass. - Director:
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Cast:
- William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
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'I See a Dark Stranger' is a suspense-filled, highly entertaining spy drama about a highly-strung Irish girl, Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) whose father delights in spinning tall tales about his role in the 1916 uprising against the English. When Bridie comes of age she decides to leave her rural home and seek out the IRA, but she unwittingly falls in with a German spy called Miller (Raymond Huntley), believing that he is part of the IRA. Miller recruits Bridie and finds her a job working in a sleepy village pub near a British military prison. Aware of her stunning good looks, Miller asks Bridie to use her sex appeal in order to gather information from the servicemen that will allow him to spring a dangerous Nazi from prison. But when British Army Officer David Byrne (Trevor Howard) arrives in the village to recuperate, he falls in love with the quarrelsome Bridie. Suspicious that Byrne is an intelligence officer Miller decides that Byrne needs to be eliminated and asks Bridie to help him... - Director:
- Frank Launder
- Cast:
- Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
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One of Britain's leading psychiatrists has committed suicide. His teenage daughter (Pamela Franklin) is convinced that her father was murdered - and enlists the help of one of her father's patients, news reporter Alex Stedman (Stephen Boyd) to uncover the truth. As Stedman delves into the lives of his three suspects - a tormented art dealer (Richard Attenborough), a beautiful, lonely woman (Diane Cilento) and one of Britain's most respected judges (Jack Hawkins) - he has to battle with his own, re-emerging psychological terrors - and unravel 'The Third Secret'... - Director:
- Charles Crichton
- Cast:
- Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough
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An architect visits a country house only to get trapped in a recurring nightmare involving tales of the occult told by fellow guests at the manor.
- Director:
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Cast:
- Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver
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Humphrey Bogart reunites with director Michael Curtiz and other key Casablanca personnel (including co-stars Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet) for a tension-swept 'Passage to Marseille'. Bogart plays Jean Matrac, a World War II French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a dangerous freighter voyage and becomes a gunner in the Free French Air Corps. Passage sailed into theatres on stormy seas. Controversy surrounded the scene in which Matrac machine-guns the helpless survivors of a downed plane that attacked the freighter. That a soldier of freedom would act ignobly brought protests from religious and censorship groups. But, like Matrac facing a strafing dive-bomber, the studio held its ground. War could even dehumanise a hero. Domestic prints remained uncut. - Director:
- Michael Curtiz
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan
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Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series (2017)Twin Peaks: Series 3
A quarter century after revolutionizing television, 'Twin Peaks' returns. Expanding the world you thought you knew, this limited event series takes you places wonderful, strange and farther out. This collection includes all 18 parts of the Showtime series, plus a wealth of exclusive, behind-the-scenes special features that will show you what's behind the "red curtain" and the making of this extraordinary television event. - Director:
- David Lynch
- Cast:
- Kyle MacLachlan, Kimmy Robertson, Sheryl Lee
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The Lady from Shanghai (1947)Take This Woman / Black Irish
Hired to work on a yacht belonging to the disabled husband of femme fatale Rita Hayworth, Welles plays an innocent man drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue and murder.- Director:
- Orson Welles
- Cast:
- Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
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While away on business, Harry Graham (Edmond O'Brien) hops a Hollywood tour bus. Sitting next to him is a tough-talking waitress, Phyllis Martin (Ida Lupino). He lights her cigarette and, a few more trips to Los Angeles later, Harry and Phyllis are wed. Back home in San Francisco, he and his wife, Eve (Joan Fontaine), are trying to adopt a child. Harry hesitates before granting the adoption agency permission to investigate their lives. - Director:
- Ida Lupino
- Cast:
- Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn
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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
- Cast:
- 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
- Cast:
- 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
- Cast:
- 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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