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Directed by Steve Sekely (Day of the Triffids), Hollow Triumph stars Paul Henreid as Johnny Muller, a thief whose casino raid has gone wrong. Only he and Marcy, (Herbert Rudley) escape. Soon Marcy ends up shot in the street and Johnny needs to escape.

He is being pursued by the police and the casino owners. Out on the street, Johnny is mistaken for a psychiatrist. Dr. Bartok. He visits his office where the secretary (Joan Bennett) also mistakes Johnny for her boss, until she notices that the scar on her "boss's" cheek is missing Johnny decides to replicate the scar but manages to put it on the wrong side of his face. Do people really look at other people's faces? Will the scar give him away? Is he marked for death?

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Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) and his friends are starting to notice girls - particularly Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), not least because she's on the football team and is a better player than all the boys.

With counselling from his younger sister, can Gregory finally work up the courage to ask Dorothy out?

A treasure trove of fun awaits when a Caribbean beauty (Judy Garland) with a mad crush on a legendary pirate meets a vagabond actor (Gene Kelly) who poses as the scoundrel. Vincente Minnelli directs, bringing his uncanny skill with color and design to this joyous romp set to Cole Porter tunes.

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When the Government decides to build the Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything appears to be going to plan.

All except for the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site are blocked by the House of Lords, a corner shop owned by Henry Lord (Stanley Holloway) and his wife Lillian (Kathleen Harrison). When the Lords' decline the compensation offered by government civil servant Mr Filch (Naughton Wayne) they barricade themselves in to avoid the demolition of their beloved home. And when they are joined by an ambitious BBC sports broadcaster the outside world gets to hear a running commentary of the hilarious events from inside the House of Lords'.

James Caan is Frank, a jewel thief and former convict looking to settle down with his girlfriend (Tuesday Weld) and begin a family. But when his 'fence' is thrown from a window and the Chicago mafia begin to flex their muscles, his hopes of a quiet life become anything but...

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Linda Fiorentino stars as Bridget Gregory, the most memorably evil and sexy of all cinema femmes fatales; the woman who "makes Stanwyck in Double Indemnity look like Snow White!" (Leonard Maltin) Beautiful, intelligent and ambitious, Bridget Gregory persuades her doctor husband Clay (Bill Pullman)

to enter a $700,000 cocaine deal so they can pay off a loan shark. She then takes off with the money and hides out in a small town where she becomes involved with young , dumb Swale (Peter Berg). Clay hires Harlan (Bill Nunn), a tenacious private investigator, to track down his wife and the money. As the pair close in, Bridget embroils Swale in an elaborate and deadly scheme to be rid of them once and for all.

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His job is saving lives, but he needs to learn how to live one... Hollywood great Robert Mitchum is Dr. Lucas Marsh, a student doctor blinded by unrelenting ambition.

Having married an affluent older woman (Olivia de Havilland) in order to pay his medical school bills, the doctor finds himself indifferent towards his wife and passionate only about his work. Marsh climbs his way to the top, systematically exploiting others to further his career. Will this medical man redeem himself, when the fate of his best friend lies in his hands? Based on the bestselling Morton Thompson novel, this 1955 adaptation was the debut for maverick director Stanley Kramer, who Stephen Spielberg described as an "incredibly talented visionary".

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The first feature that Buster Keaton wrote, directed, and starred in, 'Three Ages' spoofs D.W. Griffith's historical epic 'Intolerance'.

Like that film, 'Three Ages' follows multiple narratives across different historical eras, which Keaton packs to the brim with incredible stunts and hilarious visual gags. Across three eras - the Stone Age, Ancient Rome, and 'modern times' - Keaton competes for the love of a woman (Margaret Leahy) whilst having to defend himself from a nasty bully (Wallace Beery).

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When their buddy turns up murdered, two commercial pilots (Alan Ladd and William Bendix) working the China-to-lndia route search for the culprit, uncovering a smuggling operation in the process.

As the investigation gets closer to the truth, the smugglers continue to kill to protect their illicit business. Does their dead friend's fiancee (Gail Russell) hold the key to his murder, or is she an innocent target herself?

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Judith Wynter (Margaret Leighton) is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers.

When Carlo (Carlo Giustini), a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion...and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!

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Adela (Judy Davis) arrives in India to marry her fiance Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers), a provincial magistrate. Chafing under the suburban constraints of British society and anxious to see "the real India", she is delighted to be introduced to a young Indian doctor, Aziz (Victor Banerjee).

Although fascinated by Aziz, Adela fails to understand his motivation or her own feelings and their awkward relationship provokes the tragic enigma of the Marabar caves.

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During the nineteenth century, a young woman named Madeleine embarks on a secret affair with a penniless Frenchman. Being from a respectable family, their affair is carried out in secret whilst her father parades various suitors in front of her.

The frenchman is keen to marry, and while Madeleine suggests an elopement, he wishes to gain her father's concent. This is not part of her plans, but he blackmails her with threats of revealing their affair. A few weeks later, he dies of arsenic poisoning . Madeleineis the prime suspect...

John Wayne and Sophia Loren ignite the screen in this action-packed Hollywood Classic. Guide Joe January (Wayne) and treasure hunter Paul Bonnard (Rossano Brazzi) seek Ophir's treasure in the Sahara desert. Tension rises as Dita (Loren) falls for both men, testing their bond.

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Tensions rise in a love triangle involving a fading older movie star, Vanessa Windsor (Hedy Lamarr), her alcoholic daughter Penny (Jane Powell), and Chris (George Nader), the handsome young movie extra who rescues each from separate dangers.

Desperate to cling to his love, Vanessa sets Chris up in a life of luxury, but he struggles against the humiliation and limited future of life as a kept man. His ambivalence drives him into the arms of Penny - a double betrayal that pushes Vanessa over the edge.

When clairvoyant John (Edward G. Robinson) tells wealthy heiress Jean (Gail Russell) that she will die within a week, her lover, Elliot (John Lund), is sceptical, believing John to be a con artist who is only after money. But, as the foretold night arrives, Jean waits in fear for her life...