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"
Classic Action: The Planter's Wife / Robbery Under Arms / The Long Duel (1957)
Director: D W Griffith, Donald Crombie, Ken Annakin
Starring: Claudette Colbert, David McCallum, Jack Hawkins, Peter Finch, Yul Brynner
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Classic Adventure Collection: North West Frontier (1959) / Ferry To Hong Kong (1959) / King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Director: J Lee Thompson, Lewis Gilbert, Robert Stevenson
Starring: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Orson Welles, Curt Jurgens, Sylvia Sym...
'North West Frontier' - It's got good guys and bad guys, Indians and a wild frontier, but this is no cowboy flick. Moslems have attacked a British co... Read more
Classic Alec Guinness: Great Expectations / To Paris with Love / The Quiller Memorandum (1946)
Director: David Lean, Michael Anderson, Robert Hamer
Starring: Alec Guinness, George Segal, Jean Simmons, John Mills, Max von Sydow, Vernon Gra...
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Classic Dirk Bogarde: So Long at the Fair / A Tale of Two Cities / The High Bright Sun (1958)
Director: Ralph Thomas, Terence Fisher
Starring: David Tomlinson, Denholm Elliott, Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Jean Simmons, Sus...
Dirk Bogarde is remembered as one of the most accomplished stars of his generation, his eye for detailed characterization and intensity of performance... Read more
Classic Drama: Boys in Brown / The Spanish Gardener / All Night Long (1956)
Director: Basil Dearden, Philip Leacock, Montgomery Tully
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Patrick McGoohan, Rich...
For many decades Rank produced dramatic masterpieces that filled cinemas the world over. Quite simply, they had the writers, they had the directors a... Read more
Classic James Mason: Odd Man Out / The Man in Grey / A Place of Ones Own (1944)
Director: Carol Reed, Leslie Arliss
Starring: James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Robert Newton, Stewart Granger
One of the finest actors of the twentieth century. Leading man, menacing villain or brooding anti-hero, James Mason brought an intensity to each role... Read more
Classic John Mills: O.H.M.S. / The History of Mr Polly / The Singer Not the Song (1937)
Director: Raoul Walsh, Roy Ward Baker, Anthony Pelissier
Starring: Anna Lee, Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylene Demongeot, Sally Ann Howes, Wallace F...
The career of John Mills spanned an amazing seven decades. He was the quintessential English hero and gentleman, exuding strength and authority but wi... Read more
Classic Romance: The Astonished Heart / The Seekers / The Beachcomber (1954)
Director: Ken Annakin, Muriel Box, Terence Fisher
Starring: Celia Johnson, Donald Pleasence, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Margaret Leighton,...
When it came to matters of the heart no one sizzled like Rank. Brilliant romantic tales of the joys and ordeals that come with our endless search for... Read more
Classic Stewart Granger: Love Story / Caesar and Cleopatra / Blanche Fury (1944)
Director: Marc Allegret, Leslie Arliss
Starring: Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Gough, Stewart Granger, V...
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Classic Thriller: Green For Danger / Venetian Bird / Nothing But the Night (1952)
Director: Peter Sasdy, Ralph Thomas, Sidney Gilliat
Starring: Alastair Sim, Christopher Lee, Eva Bartok, Peter Cushing, Richard Todd, Trevor H...
'Green for Danger' (1946) Mysterious goings on in a war-time emergency hospital. A postman dies on the operating table. A theatre sister is then vicio... Read more