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A Hole in the Head
(1959) [G]

A Hole in the Head is a "genuinely entertaining" (Newsweek), Oscar®-winning comedy, directed by the legendary Frank Capra at his uproarious best! Meet Tony (Frank Sinatra), a wannabe big shot who's constantly broke. And while the carefree widower may not have money, he is rich in one respect:...  More

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(1936) [G]

One of Frank Capra masterworks which garnered the director his second Academy Award ® win, Mr Deeds Goes To Town is an unforgettable ‘Capraesque’ comedy about a village innocent who inherits a fortune, only to discover it’s all more trouble than it’s worth! Starring Gary Cooper and Jean...  More

Lost in the Stars
(1974) [PG]

Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical Lost in the Stars is based on Alan Paton's classic novel Cry, The Beloved Country. This film, like the stage musical and the book it was based on, is a moving indictment of racial hatred, made at the height of apartheid. Lost in the Stars tells the story...  More

Carmen Jones
(1954) [PG]

Otto Preminger's sizzling screen version of Bizet's opera Carmen, updated for an all-black cast, stars an Oscar-nominated Dorothy Dandridge. She stars in the title role as a passionate woman who lures handsome GI Joe (Harry Belafonte) away from his sweetheart (Olga James). Following a brawl with...  More

Return of a Man Called Horse
(1976) [PG]

In the 1840s, trappers with government backing push the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land; they retreat into an apocalyptic spirituality, passively waiting for supernatural wrath to descend on their usurpers. Meanwhile, in England, Lord John Morgan feels his spirit weaken, so he returns to...  More

The Roaring Twenties
(1939) [PG]

The speakeasy era never roared louder than in this gangland chronicle that packs a wallop under action master Raoul Walsh's direction. Against a backdrop of newsreel-like montages and narration, it follows the life of jobless war veteran Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) who turns bootlegger, dealing...  More

Never So Few
(1959) [PG]

Frank Sinatra told the director to give the newcomer a break. John Sturges (The Great Escape) obliged, providing favorable camera angles for Sinatra's young co-star. In his first big-budget film, Steve McQueen was ready to grab the movie world's attention. McQueen plays Bill Ringa, one of the...  More

McQ
(1974) [M]

Two slain officers lie in pools of blood on the street. There's no pattern to the killings and police are confused and scared. Only after gunshots splatter his partner across a back alley and Detective Lon McQ himself narrowly escapes death does the bloody rampage make sense. Now McQ knows whom...  More

Too Late the Hero
(1970) [M]

Lawson (Cliff Robertson), an American naval officer specialising in Asiatic languages, is sent to the Pacific to assist a group of British soldiers (Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, and Harry Andrews) in a seemingly simple mission to knock out the enemy’s key transmitter. The allied soldiers...  More

Blood Alley
(1955) [PG]

The mettle of a merchant marine captain is tested when he is persuaded to take a boatload of oppressed Chinese villagers from an internal province through the formosa straits to Hong Kong and freedom.  More