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Great Literature on Film
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Mutiny On The Bounty
(1935) [G]
HMS Bounty sails for Tahiti by way of Cape Horn...and into movie lore as an American Film Institute Top-100 American Films selection. Grandly filmed, Mutiny on the Bounty captured the 1935 Best Picture Academy Award and eight nominations total. Charles Laughton portrays Captain Bligh, a seafaring... More
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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
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The Diary Of Anne Frank
(1959) [G]
An extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods, The Diary Of Anne Frank features Millie Perkins as the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two year hiding in an Amsterdam attic. At first, the strong-willed teenager embraces her fugitive... More
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Excalibur
(1981) [M]
The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table receives its most impressive screen treatment in Excalibur, from visionary moviemaker John Boorman. All the elements of Sir Thomas Malory's classic Le Morte D'Arthur are here: Arthur removing the sword Excalibur from the stone; the... More
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Phantom Of The Opera, The (1925)
(1925) [PG]
The original and best version of Gaston Leroux's legendary book The Phantom Of The Opera is an awesome monument to the Golden Age of Hollywood starring "The Man of a Thousand Faces", Lon Chaney. In the film, Chaney is Erik, the horribly disfigured Phantom who leads a menacing existence in the... More
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The Bride Of Frankenstein
(1935) [PG]
One of the most popular horror classics of all time, and an acclaimed sequel to the original FRANKENSTEIN. The legendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most misunderstood monster who now longs for a mate of his own. Colin Clive is back as the overly ambitious Dr.Frankenstein, who... More
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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
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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
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In Cold Blood
(1967) [M]
In Cold Blood is the powerful, true story of a callous muder, based on the best-selling classic by Truman Capote. A prosperous and respected Kansas famer, his wife and his two teenage children are wantonly and brutally sluaghtered. The murderers are two mindless ex-convict drifters: Perry Smith... More
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The African Queen
(1951) [G]
Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Aunt - the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called The African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn... More
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Dead Poets Society
(1989) [PG]
When charismatic English professor John Keating (Robin Williams) arrives at a strict boys academy, his unconventional teaching methods breathe new life into the curriculum steeped in tradition. With his wit and wisdom, Keating inspires his students to pursue individual passions and make their... More
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Goodbye Mr Chips
(1939) [G]
An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life. Beloved classic based on the novel by James Hilton. More
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Whistle Down The Wind
(1961) [G]
Bryan Forbes' enchanting film, based on the novel by Mary Hayley Bell, is a family classic. Three children (Hayely Mills, Diane Holgate and Alan Barnes) living on their widowed father's farm in the north of England discover a wanted man (Alan Bates) hiding out in a barn. They come to the... More
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The Purple Plain
(1954) [PG]
Set during the Burma Campaign, Peck stars as a pilot whose life has already been shattered by the loss of his wife during an air raid on London. Shot down after a dogfight with a Japanese fighter, he finds himself marooned in the Burmese jungle with a badly-injured navigator and a traumatised... More
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The Comfort Of Strangers
(1990) [M]
Paul Schrader directs this stylish adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel scripted by Harold Pinter. Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) first fell in love on a romantic holiday in Venice. Now, four years later, they have returned to rekindle their romance and determine where their... More
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The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952)
(1952) [G]
This star-studded version of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy is full of charm and remains the definitive version of his work. Jack Worthing (Michael Redgrave) and Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison) are two wealthy bachelors in love. Jack is in love with Gwendelon Fairfax (Joan Greenwood) and... More
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To Have And Have Not
(1944) [PG]
Help the Free French? Not world-weary Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren named Marie asks, "Anybody got a match?" That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall in her acting debut. Full of intrigue and racy banter (certain whistling... More
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The Go-Between
(1970) [PG]
Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a... More
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The Godfather Part 2 (2 disc set)
(1975) [R]
Upon its release The Godafther: Part II was hailed as the best sequel to a movie ever made, however this film is much more than that. Coppolla utilised a quite brilliant screenplay and turned it into a visually captivating treat, as well as using his directorial skills to make the audience view... More
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Out Of Africa
(1985) [M]
The most acclaimed motion picture of 1985 stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in one of the screen's great epic romances. Directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack, Out Of Africa is the fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband (Klaus Maria... More
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Oliver Twist
(1948) [G]
David Lean's atmospheric production remains the definitive version of the Charles Dickens' masterpiece. Orphan Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) is expelled from the work house where he lives by the miserly Mr.Bumble (Francis L.Sullivan) for daring to ask for more. After an unhappy apprenticeship... More
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A Passage To India
(1984) [PG]
Oscar-winning story of the social friction between the British and Indian communities, which clash dramatically when an Indian befriended by two visiting English women is accused of raping one during a trip to the remote Marabar caves. More
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Rebecca
(1940) [PG]
"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderlay again." Rebecca’s haunting opening line conjures the entirety of Hitchcock’s romantic, suspenseful, elegant film. A young woman (Joan Fontaine) believes her every dream has come true when her whirlwind romance with the dashing Maxim de Winter (Sir... More
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
(1990) [PG]
From Tom Stoppard the Oscar Winning Writer/Director of "Shakespeare in Love" comes another unique twist on the work of William Shakespeare. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Gary Oldman & Tim Roth) are two incidental characters in "Hamlet", summoned to the court of the King of Denmark. This story is... More
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A Room With A View
(1985) [PG]
A Room With A View features an incomparable cast which includes Denholm Elliott, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Daniel Day – Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands. A Room With A View tells of Lucy Honeychurch, a beautiful young English girl abroad, whose emotions are rocked when she witnesses... More
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The Four Feathers (1939)
(1939) [G]
A British army officer who resigns his commission on the eve of his unit's embarkation to a mission against Egyptian rebels seeks to redeem his cowardice by secretly aiding his former comrades disguised as an Arab. When his unit is overwhelmed and captured by the rebels, the hero finds an... More
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Postcards From The Edge
(1990) [M]
Suzanne Yale (Meryl Streep) struggles with her drug addictions as she attempts to build an acting career that doesn't lie in the shadow of a famous show-business mother (Shirley MacLaine) in this wicked comedy adapted by Carrie Fisher from her semi-autobiographical novel. More
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Reversal Of Fortune
(1990) [M]
Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow (Jeremy Irons) try to murder his wife Sunny (Glenn Close) at their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? Tabloids of the day had their opinions. "You have one thing in your favour," defence attorney Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) told von Bulow. "Everybody hates... More
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King Creole
(1958) [PG]
The year was 1958. Everybody's datin' at the drive-in. America launches its first satellite. The novel Lolita stirs up controversy. And Elvis Presley gives Bourbon Street a new beat in King Creole. He plays a troubled youth whose singing sets the French Quarter rockin'. With a sweet girl to love... More
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