2024-07-08
A British soldier goes behind enemy lines during the American Revolution to visit his wife, a friend of Betsy Ross.
Grigori Chukhrai's moving account of the efforts of a war hero (Vladimir Ivashov) to get home on a brief furlough. Beautifully acted and photographed. Shura: Shanna Prokhorenko. Wounded Soldier: Evgeni Urbanski.
The chronicle of a Japanese family's military legacy focuses on a sickly son who fears he'll disgrace his clan if he doesn't measure up and become a soldier during World War II.
Walter Pidgeon takes a turn as the retired military officer turned ace sleuth, who is recruited by Scotland Yard to help break up a dangerous criminal gang.
Margaret Rutherford plays Agatha Christie's eccentric elderly sleuth, Miss Marple, who auditions for a small-town, theatrical repertory company to investigate the murder of one of its actresses.
Moody tale of greed, illicit love and murder at an early 19th-century English estate. Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson. Simon: Walter Fitzgerald. Laurence: Michael Gough. Beautiful visuals. Directed by Marc Allegret.
Tale of the search for a girl's brother who visits the 1889 Paris Exposition---and disappears. Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Andre Morell, Honor Blackman, Cathleen Nesbitt.
Classic Hitchcock about a Canadian visitor to London who becomes a murder suspect and tries to elude police while tracking down a spy ring that leads him to Scotland with an innocent young woman in tow.
Basil Dearden directed this whodunit about the victim of an unknown killer. Nigel Patrick. Learoyd: Michael Craig. Mildred: Yvonne Mitchell. David: Paul Massie. Harris: Bernard Miles. Mrs. Harris: Olga Lindo. Paul: Gordon Heath. Dr. Robbins: Earl Cameron. Johnnie: Harry Baird. Hint: race figures into it.
During World War II, an unorthodox Scotland Yard detective investigates a double murder in a hospital operating room, where five members of the surgical team are the prime suspects.
Original version of Patrick Hamilton's Victorian melodrama about a fortune hunter's efforts to drive his wife mad. Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell. Nancy: Cathleen Cordell. Vincent: Robert Newton. Cobb: Jimmy Hanley. Alice: Marie Wright. Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
A thinly disguised biography of Al Capone follows the scarred life of an Italian immigrant who muscles his way to the top of the Chicago mob during the Depression.
Soldiers who fought together in World War I try their hand at making a living as bootleggers during the Prohibition Era, with mixed and sometimes violent results.
A gentleman (C. Aubrey Smith) arranges a reunion with his illegitimate offspring. Marion Davies, Ralph Forbes, Ray Milland, Guinn Williams, David Torrence, Doris Lloyd. Risqué in its day. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard.