greatest-ever-made's - Rented List
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The Mob (1951)Remember That Face / Waterfront
Police detective Damico (Broderick Crawford), outwitted by mob killer Blackie Clay, is nominally suspended; actually he goes undercover (as Tim Flynn, ex-con longshoreman) to find Clay and expose the waterfront rackets. In character, Damico throws his weight around so much that the mobsters try to get rid of him; surviving this, he begins to realise that few of those around him are what they seem. - Director:
- Robert Parrish
- Cast:
- Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley
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A mysterious meteor shower occurs above a field in Cornwall, and a team of scientists led by Dr. Curtis Temple (Robert Hutton) is sent in to investigate. The scientists and local bystanders soon find themselves possessed by an alien force which wants to use them as slaves. No one is immune from the invasion except for Dr. Temple, who is shielded from the meteor's influence by a metal plate protecting his skull after a recent accident. He discovers that an alien race on the moon seeks to use the manipulated scientists for secret purposes. But, as Temple learns more about the invaders, he realises that they may not be as evil as he thought... - Director:
- Freddie Francis
- Cast:
- Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin
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Karen (Audrey Hepburn) and Martha (Shirley MacLaine) are the headmistresses of an exclusive school for girls. When they discipline a malicious little girl, the vindictive child twists an overhead comment into slander and accuses her teachers of questionable behavior. Soon the scandalous gossip engulfs the school's community, with repercussions that are swift, crushing...and tragic. - Director:
- William Wyler
- Cast:
- Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
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Framed (1947)They Walk Alone / Paula
Mike Lambert (Glenn Ford), unemployed mining engineer, arrives in a small town with a bang when the brakes fail on the truck he's driving. After meeting seductive Paula (Janis Carter) at the La Paloma Cafe, he finds himself in trouble with the law. On the basis of a few burning glances, Paula pays his fine and finds him a room, but her motives are not what they seem. Mike lucks into a job with miner Jeff Cunningham (Edgar Buchanan), but against his will he's drawn ever deeper into Paula's schemes. - Director:
- Richard Wallace
- Cast:
- Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan
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At the beginning of the Napoleonic wars; Phoebe Throssel waits patiently for Dr Valentine Brown (Franchot Tone, Phantom Lady) to propose marriage. She's devastated when he chooses to fight for king and country instead. Ten long years later, he returns to find Phoebe is - apparently - an old maid. Annoyed, she dresses in her prettiest clothes to prove him wrong; when Valentine doesn't recognise her in this glamorous disguise, Phoebe pretends to be her own niece, the flirtatious Livvy. Phoebe enjoys playing the tease but when 'Livvy' becomes the subject of scandalised gossip, it's clear she's gone too far. - Director:
- George Stevens
- Cast:
- Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore
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Burgess Meredith plays a roving "man on the street" reporter asking the question "What influence has a baby had on your life"? Classic comedy follows when the screens finest stars James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour and Fred McMurray answer the question in their own way. Paulette Goddard also shines as Meredith's sharp and sexy wife. - Director:
- Leslie Fenton
- Cast:
- Paulette Goddard, James Stewart, Henry Fonda
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Double bill of American classic.
Gunga Din (1939)In 19th century India, Sgt. Archibald Cutter (Cary Grant) with his group of soldiers and a native waterbearer, must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land in this epic war adventure.
The Toast of New York (1937)
Just before the Civil War, Nick Boyd (Cary Grant) and his chums decide to con the Southern townsfolk into buying bars of soap that might have a $10 gold piece inside. However, they soon get found out and are chased out of town and escape across the border just as the war starts in this riotous comedy.- Director:
- George Stevens
- Cast:
- Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen
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One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, 'Funny Girl' follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice - a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney's Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a roller-skating chorus girl gets her hired as a comedienne. A year later Fanny is working for Florenz Ziegfeld in his famous Follies and brings down the house with an outrageous and unplanned number. Fanny becomes a star, falls in love and marries Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), a handsome gambler whose luck doesn't hold up. The film's many memorable songs include 'Don't Rain on My Parade' and the Streisand classic 'People'. - Director:
- William Wyler
- Cast:
- Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
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John Wayne teams with William Holden and eminent westerner John Ford for this frontier action packed with laughter, romance and thrills. Written by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin, this faithful representation of one of the most daring cavalry exploits in history, is both a moving tribute to the men who fought and died in that bloody war, and a powerful, action-packed drama. Based on an actual Civil War incident, The Horse Soldiers tells the rousing tale of a troop of Union soldiers who force their way deep into Southern territory to destroy a rebel stronghold at Newton Station. In command is hard-bitten Colonel Marlowe (Wayne), a man who is strikingly contrasted by the company's gentle surgeon (Holden) and the beautiful but crafty Southern Belle (Constance Towers) who's forced to accompany the Union raiders on perhaps the most harrowing mission in the war. - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
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Cole Harden (Gary Cooper) just doesn't look like a horse thief, Jane-Ellen Matthews (Doris Davenport) tells Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan) as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar to buy drinks for the jury. He notices two big pictures of Lily Langtry (Lilian Bond) behind the bar. Sure, Cole has met the Jersey Lily, whom the hanging judge adores, even has a lock of her hair. Hanging is delayed for two weeks, giving Cole time to get in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders and to still be around when Lily Langtry, former mistress of Edward VII who became an international actress, arrives in Texas. - Director:
- William Wyler
- Cast:
- Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport
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Carrie (1952)Sefahat Kurbanı
George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier) is a respectable family man of comfortable means. But he throws it all away for the love of Carrie. Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral", William Wyler's 'Carrie' is a powerhouse of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie (Jennifer Jones), the smalltown girl come to Chicago. - Director:
- William Wyler
- Cast:
- Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins
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Gideon's Day (1958)Gideon of Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon (Jack Hawkins) starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day' consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of a payroll robbery and, then, helps break up a bank robbery. His long day ends when he arrives at home and finds that his daughter has a date with the policeman who gave him a ticket that morning. - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee, Anna Massey
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The Long Gray Line (1955)John Ford's The Long Gray Line
Based on a true story, 'The Long Gray Line' was largely filmed on location at West Point itself. Tyrone Power stars as Marty Maher, an Irish immigrant fresh off the boat who takes a menial job as a servant at the elite West Point Academy. West Point, however, has a way of recognising the best in a man and Maher finds himself joining the army and becoming one of the best-loved instructors ever to serve at the Academy. Along the way, he meets and romances fellow immigrant Mary O'Donnell (Maureen O'Hara). The loving couple find themselves acting as surrogate parents to generations of raw young men destined to become America's finest leaders - including a teenage Dwight D. Eisenhower (Harry Carey Jr.). It is a career that Maher will cherish for 50 years, but one that will ultimately end in heartbreak... - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis
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One of Hollywood's greatest directors teams with a cast of incredible screen legends for this bold, sweeping tale of a ship's captain who ventures west to find a hotbed of jealousy, hatred and dangerous rivalries. As the reluctant hero is thrust into the maelstrom, he must summon all of his resolve to save not only his own life, but also the life of the woman he loves. - Director:
- William Wyler
- Cast:
- Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker
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National Velvet (1944)Fuego de juventud
As long as young hearts endure, so will National Velvet and movies like it. In her starmaking role, Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, a wide-eyed adolescent who, assisted by her jockey pal (Mickey Rooney), trains Pie, a horse she won in a raffle, for the Grand National Steeplechase. Of course, no girl can ride in the National, can she? Yet Velvet, posing as a boy, assuredly does. - Director:
- Clarence Brown
- Cast:
- Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp
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