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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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On Moonlight Bay
(1951) [G]
Tomboy Marjorie falls in love with college boy Bill but her father doesn't approve. When Marjorie's younger brother gets himself into trouble at school, Bill takes steps to help... This classic musical features memorable songs such as I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Pack All Your Troubles In Your... More
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Barefoot In The Park
(1967) [PG]
Master of Broadway laughter Neil Simon adapted his hit play about a conservative young lawyer and his off-the-wall bride for this warm film classic. Robert Redford is Mister Straight. Jane Fonda is his new wife, who dedicates her life to the pursuit of fun. As the ecstasy of the honeymoon gives... More
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A Stitch In Time
(1963) [G]
Butcher's assistant Norman is banned from entering a hospital to visit little orphaned Lindy. But he must get in somehow... More
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Make Mine Mink
(1960) [G]
Retired major Terry-Thomas, ex-con Billie Whitelaw, eccentric dowager Athene Seyler and disgruntled teacher of etiquette Hattie Jacques are among the peculiar residents of a boarding house who turn into modern day Robin Hoods, stealing furs for charity. This film version of the hilarious farce... More
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Shame Of The Jungle
(1975) [R]
Shame, the ape man of the jungle, is aghast when his woman, June, is kidnapped by a gang of giant penises. They take her to their queen, Bazunga, a bald woman with fourteen breasts. After tangling with a gang of great white hunters, a marauding lion and the Molar Men, Shame sets off to rescue her... More
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An American In Paris
(1951) [G]
In Vincente Minnelli's gloriously stylish An American In Paris, Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an American GI who decides to stay in Paris after the Second World War. Keen to sample some of the city's legendary romantic lifestyle, he becomes an art student and joins a colony of painters living in... More
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It Happened One Night
(1934) [PG]
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly), who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York, Ellie gets... More
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Kind Hearts And Coronets
(1949) [PG]
Set in the stately Edwardian era, Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims standing between a... More
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The Lavender Hill Mob
(1951) [PG]
Sir Alec Guinness received his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor for his delightful performance as Henry Holland, a meek clerk who devises an ingenious plan to rob a fortune in gold bullion from his own bank. But when Henry and his odd accomplice (Stanley Holloway) melt the gold into souvenir... More
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Carry On Nurse
(1958) [G]
The men's surgical ward of the Haven Hospital is staffed by efficient and hardworking nurses. The patients are full of practical jokes and visiting hours provide the only time for a semblance of law and order. But one evening a visitor brings some champagne into the ward, culminating in a riotous... More
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Carry On Sergeant
(1959) [G]
Drill Instructor Sergeant Grimshawe is retiring. Before he does, he is determined to lead the Star Squad of recruits. But with soldiers consisting of a hypochondriac, a girl-mad private and a rock 'n' roll singer, things aren't really as simple as one would expect. With the day drawing near,... More
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The Firemen's Ball (The Fireman's Ball)
(1967) [PG]
Milos Forman, celebrated director of 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Amadeus,' began life as the defining director of Czech New Wave cinema in the 1960's. His first colour film, 'The Firemen's Ball' (Hori, ma panenko), was arguable his best, drawing the ire of the censors for its... More
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Monty Python's The Life Of Brian
(1979) [M]
Monty Python delivered a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their third film The Life of Brian. The setting is Judea 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and... More
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Tootsie
(1982) [M]
Dustin Hoffman stars as Michael Dorsey, a dedicated actor with a reputation for being difficult. Having antagonised every producer in New York nobody will hire him. But Michael is desperate for work, so desperate he's willing to pretend to be a woman. Passing himself off as 'Dorothy Michaels' he... More
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As You Like It (BBC)
(1978) [G]
This is one of Shakespeare's great comic triumphs; an exhilarating and joyful tale of love and harmony set in a mythical forest - the perfect romantic comedy. Filmed on location at Glamis Castle. More
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Captain January
(1936) [G]
Shirley lives with a lighthouse keeper (Kibbee) who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer (Haden) decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives. More
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Cinderfella
(1960) [G]
The Cinderella story in form of a farce and with a guy in the leading role: Fowler is a clumsy simpleton, who has to care for his stepmother and her two stuck-up sons Maximilian and Rupert. Only in the realms of fantasy he can find comfort. One day a good spirit appears to him and helps him to... More
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The Errand Boy
(1961) [G]
When Mr. T.P., president of Paramutual Studios, hires clumsy Morty Tashman to be The Errand Boy and to spy on his fellow employees in an efficiency "sting" operation, he never realized that he was developing the recipe for disaster. It seems that wherever Morty goes some hilarious mishap occurs.... More
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The Bellboy
(1960) [G]
Jerry Lewis is The Bellboy in this wacky series of comedy sketches. Stanley is one of a select group of bellboys who work at the Fountainebleau in Miami Beach, but whenever he performs one of his duties, the results are disastrous... but hilarious. And the harder he tries, the worse it gets.... More
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The Patsy
(1964) [G]
When a popular entertainer meets with an untimely death, his shocked showbiz associates scramble desperately to find a quick replacement. That replacement is Stanley Belt (Jerry Lewis), a meek hotel employee who suddenly finds himself plucked from obscurity and hilariously groomed for stardom.... More
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Doctor At Sea
(1955) [PG]
Dr. Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) tires of practising medicine on dry land so sets off to sea. Aboard a steamship, he encounters various eccentric characters whilst blundering his way through a series of comedy scrapes. Love interest comes in the delectable form of Brigitte Bardot in her first role for... More
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