Classic Cinema
St. Trinians: The Belles of St Trinian's / Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1954)
Director: Frank Launder
Starring: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Joyce Grenfell
The Belles of St Trinian's: A wonderful flimization of Ronald Searle's cartoons about a completely crazy school for girls, run by a dotty Headmistress... Read more
State of the Union (1948)
7.4/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou
Based on a hit Broadway play, this insightful Frank Capra film stars Spencer Tracy as a would-be presidential candidate and Katharine Hepburn as his e... Read more
Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
8/10
Director: Charles Riesner
Starring: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron
Buster Keaton plays the city-bred boy who returns to his steamboat captain father and reluctantly joins him in fighting off a rival trying to take ove... Read more
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
7.3/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: Will Rogers, Ann Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette
John Ford directs Will Rogers in his final film. A fast-paced comedy and slice of Americana, Rogers stars as Dr. John, the proprietor of a travelling... Read more
Story of a Love Affair (1950)
7.1/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Gino Cervi, Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bose
An early masterpiece from then documentary-maker director Michelangelo Antonioni, said to be one of Martin Scorsese's favourite films. Setting the to... Read more
Strike (1924)
7.6/10
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Starring: Maxim Shtraukh, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
In 1922, Lenin also had said that, "...of all of the arts, for us the cinema was the most important." In 1924, the Proletkult offered Eisenstein, then... Read more
Sudden Fear (1952)
7.5/10
Director: David Miller
Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
Joan Crawford and Jack Palance star in this tightly-wound thriller, oozing with noir style and a jazzy Elmer Bernstein score. As the actor fired by hi... Read more
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
7.6/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Albert Dekker
The gripping drama of a fierce matriarch (Katharine Hepburn), her institutionalised niece (Elizabeth Taylor) and the neuro-surgeon (Montgomery Clift)... Read more
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
8.1/10
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Joel McCrea plays successful Hollywood director John L Sullivan, an idealist who believes you can't accurately direct a screen tragedy unless you live... Read more
Summer Holiday (1963)
6.1/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Cliff Richard, David Kossoff, Ron Moody, The Shadows, Una Stubbs, Melvyn Hayes,...
Borrowing a double-decker bus for a mobile home, four young mechanics search for fun in the sun from London to Athens. Bachelor boy Cliff Richard dons... Read more