Classic Drama
Classic Drama is where you will find most of those great films you either grew up with or have heard of but never got round to seeing. Generally dramatic productions made between 1928 and 1965 fill this section. "Silents" and contempory "Drama" (post 1965) can be found under their respective headings..
Right: Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd gaze into one another's eyes in "Ben Hur"
Canyon Passage (1946)
7/10
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Ward Bond, Hoagy Carmichael, Fay Hol...
Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) is the proprietor of a general store in an Oregon mining town. His best friend, George Camrose (Brian Donlevy), is a greed... Read more
Captain Blood (1935)
7.8/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Lionel Atwill, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn is the young physician, sentenced to slavery, who's rescued by Olivia de Havilland and begins a life of piracy on the high seas. Superb sw... Read more
Captain from Castile (1947)
6.9/10
Director: Henry King
Starring: Cesar Romero, Jean Peters, Lee J Cobb, Tyrone Power, John Sutton
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire is the backdrop for this lush costume drama starring Tyrone Power as a 16th-century Castilian nobleman who he... Read more
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Captain Horatio Hornblower (1950)
7.4/10
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
This thrilling adventure saga stars Gregory Peck as a British naval officer caught in the crossfire between the Spanish, the French and a Central Amer... Read more
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
4.7/10
Director: Lew Landers
Starring: James Seay, Robert Clarke, Jody Lawrance, Phillip Van Zandt, Alan Hale Jr, Stuar...
Whether true or not, the legend of Captain John Smith (Anthony Dexter) and Pochahontas (Jody Lawrance) is one of history's great romantic stories. Cap... Read more
Captain Kidd (1945)
6.4/10
Director: Rowland V Lee
Starring: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, John Carradine, Barbara Britton
Charles Laughton stars as the cruel, ruthless pirate, Captain Kidd. Despite his reputation, King William III enlists Kidd and his men to safeguard pas... Read more
Captains Courageous (1937)
8/10
Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, John Carrad...
Spencer Tracy won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Manuel, the Portuguese fisherman who teaches a millionaire's spoiled son human values in t... Read more
Cary Grant Collection - Arsenic and Old Lace / North by Northwest / Night and Day / Destination Tokyo / Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Delmer Daves, Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, Robert Trachtenberg
Starring: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Eva Marie Saint, James Mas...
'Arsenic & Old Lace' - Two lovable sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society until their nephew discovers they are poisoning male callers with... Read more
Cast A Giant Shadow (1966)
6.4/10
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Angie Dickinson, Yul Bryn...
This star-studded epic focuses on the life of Mickey Marcus; the American war hero recruited by Israel to help strengthen their army against warring A... Read more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
8.1/10
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burl Ives, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Paul Newman, Madelein...
Adapted from the Tennesse Williams' Pulitzer-winning play which lifts the lid on the emotional tangles of a rich southern family. Some of the more con... Read more