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The Sound Barrier
(1952) [G]

The true story of the jet plane's early days and the committed men who risked all to test the danger levels. An air-craft manufacturer is driven to design the first supersonic aeroplane even if his obsession to break the sound barrier costs him his humanity, the love of his family and the...  More

A Town Like Alice
(1956) [G]

Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna star in this award-winning adaptation of Nevil Shute’s moving novel. Jean, a prisoner in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, meets a captive Australian, Joe, and the two form a mutually affectionate relationship. He tells her of his home town and how he hopes to...  More

Great Expectations
(1946) [G]

David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor, and of the young man trials as he establishes himself in the world.  More

The Ladykillers (1955)
(1955) [PG]

Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best for which William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem. The Villains plot to kill the old lady who...  More

Hound Of The Baskervilles, The (1959)
(1959) [PG]

Peter Cushing is a spendid Holmes and Andre Morell is the perfect Dr. Watson in this adaptation of the Conan Doyle classic from Hammer Studios and co-starring Christopher Lee. A fiendish evil lurks beneath the mist-shrouded cliffs of the fabled moors. In the form of a hellish hound, it feeds upon...  More

Ill Met By Moonlight
(1957) [G]

The final film from the creative team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. On Nazi-occupied Crete, British officers Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) and Moss (David Oxley), aided by local patriots, are assigned the job of kidnapping the German commander-in-chief General Kreipe (Marius Goring). The...  More

In Which We Serve
(1942) [G]

This is the story of a Royal Navy destroyer - based on Lord Louis Mountbatten's sailing career during the war - which is dive-bombed in the battle of Crete. As survivors cling to the life rafts, the story of the ship and its crew unfolds from the perspective of the Captain (Noel Coward), Petty...  More

Carve Her Name With Pride
(1958) [PG]

Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II, Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a secret agent to aid a Resistance group. Her mission successful, she joins the Resistance, where she stays until captured by the...  More

Lady Vanishes, The (1979)
(1979) [PG]

On an express train travelling through pre-World War II Germany, American heiress Amanda Kelly (Cybill Shepherd) befriends a cute old nanny, Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury). But when Miss Froy disappears, everyone Amanda questions denies having ever seen her. Eventually Amanda persuades American...  More

The Shout
(1978) [M]

During a cricket match at a lunatic asylum, patient Crossley (Alan Bates) relates a strange story to a composer Anthony Fielding (John Hurt) and his wife Rachel (Suzannah York). Crossley once lived with Australian aborigines, who taught him the secret of a deadly shout which has the power to kill...  More