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The Pajama Game
(1957) [G]

Labor and management at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory aren't getting much sleep lately: a proposed 7-1/2-cent hourly wage increase is the reason - and a job action just may be the result. But negotiations here involve snappy stars, terrific tunes and dynamic dances as Doris Day, John Raitt and a...  More

Bugsy Malone
(1976) [G]

Bugsy Malone is hilarious, spoof gangster musical set in 1929, New York. A world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls, dreamers, speakeasies and a dreaded new weapon, "The Splurge Gun!". Gang warfare erupts as Fat Sam and his archrival Dandy Dan battle for Top Dog status. The Big City is turned into a...  More

Being There
(1979) [M]

Peter Sellers delivers an unforgettable performance as Chance the gardener in this adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski's book, along with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Warden. Isolated all his life in a Washington, DC townhouse, Chance knows only what he's seen on T V. Cast into the world, he stumbles into...  More

Nothing Sacred
(1937) [PG]

Starring Carole Lombard & Fredic March star in this screwball comedy classic. Lombard plays a small town girl Hazel Flagg who mistakenly thinks she is dying of radium poisoning. When reporter Wallace Cook played by Fredric March convinces his editors to bring her to New York for one last fling...  More

Meet Me In St. Louis
(1944) [G]

St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has...  More

Easter Parade
(1948) [G]

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protegee Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next...  More

Top Hat
(1935) [G]

Perhaps the best remembered of the 10 Astaire/Rogers musicals, Top Hat has it all: Art Deco elegance, a whimsical storyline, loopy support from skilled farceurs and the incomparable chemistry of the two leads cheek-to-cheeking to Irving Berlin's finest film score. It's a wake-up call for romance...  More

Swing Time
(1936) [G]

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in arguably their finest film together. Packed with exhilarating dance routines and a marvellous score, this is an indispensable musical classic. Swing Time is full of magical moments including a complex and delightful routine to Pick Yourself Up, a luminous...  More

Cat Ballou
(1965) [G]

Lee Marvin won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in his dual role as both Tim Strawn, a noseless (“I got it bit off in a fight”) gunslinger, and as Kid Shelleen, the drunken has-been who goes up against Strawn at high noon. Jane Fonda, at the height of her sex-kitten period, stars as...  More

I'm All Right Jack
(1959) [G]

The Boulting Brothers aim their satirical gaze at British trade unionism and industrial relations in this sequel to Private's Progress. Stanley Windrush (Carmichael) returns from the war determined to carve a niche for himself in the industrial world, much to the displeasure of his Aunt Dolly...  More