Classic Cinema
The Adventures of Francis the Talking Mule (1949)
Director: Arthur Lubin
Starring: Patricia Medina, Donald O'Connor, Chill Wills
While on a mission behind enemy lines in Burma, G.I. Donald O'Connor is rescued by "Francis the Talking Mule" (1949) in the debut entry in the articul... Read more
The Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle: The Egg and I / Ma and Pa Kettle / Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Town / Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
Director: Charles Lamont, Chester Erskine, Edward Sedgwick
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Percy Kilbride, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Richard Long
First, the hillbilly husband and wife played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride are introduced in the all-time favourite barnyard comedy 'The Egg and... Read more
The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)
8/10
Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Eugene Pallette
One of cinema's greatest adventure films sees Errol Flynn at his swashbuckling best in a role originally slated for James Cagney. Claude Rains is the... Read more
The African Queen (1951)
7.9/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Peter Bull, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel
One of the all-time greats, "The African Queen" stars Humphrey Bogart (in his Oscar-winning role) and Katharine Hepburn as unlikely lovebirds who enco... Read more
The African Queen ( Blu-ray ) (1951)
7.9/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Peter Bull, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel
One of the all-time greats, "The African Queen" stars Humphrey Bogart (in his Oscar-winning role) and Katharine Hepburn as unlikely lovebirds who enco... Read more
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
7.2/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento
The battle of wills between Michelangelo and Pope Julius II over the artist's painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling is turned into a sumptuous histor... Read more
The Amazing Adventure (1936)
7.6/10
Director: Alfred Zeisler
Starring: Cary Grant, Mary Brian
Based on the novel by E. Philips Oppenheim, Cary Grant stars as Ernest Bliss, an unhappy playboy who bets his cynical doctor he can live for a year on... Read more
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
3.8/10
Director: Edgar G Ulmer
Starring: Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith
This sci-fi schlocko concerns a crazed scientist who, hoping to create the perfect henchman, renders a crook invisible. Unfotunately, the unseen under... Read more
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
7.4/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell
In one of the first films to satirize America's gung-ho attitude to war, James Garner (in his favourite role) plays Charley Madison, a soldier who's n... Read more
The Angry Silence (1960)
7.7/10
Director: Guy Green
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee
Screenwriter Bryan Forbes won a BAFTA and was nominated for an Oscar for this gritty union story about a man who stands up to coercive union officials... Read more