greatest-ever-made's - Rented List

Reformed Chicago mobster Tony Reagan (Scott Brady) is framed for the murder of his former boss, Big Jim, the uncle of his fiancée, Sally (Dorothy Hart). Forced to go on the run, he seeks to clear his name with the help of an old friend (Bruce Bennett).

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After young David McLean (Jimmy Hunt) witnesses a flying saucer crash near his home, the local townsfolk, including his parents, start acting strangely. David convinces government official Dr. Blake (Helena Carter) and astronomer Dr.

Kelston (Arthur Franz) that something is awry - but can these unlikely heroes thwart a full-blown invasion from space?

A German architect (Paul Hubschmid) is commissioned by an Indian Maharaja (Walter Reyer) to construct a temple on his palatial grounds. After saving the life of a bewitching dancer (Debra Paget), the hero is pulled ever deeper into the classic Lang motif of Man vs. His Fate.

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When she meets the handsome and wealthy Miles Rushworth (Herbert Marshall), gold-digging Ivy (Joan Fontaine) will stop at nothing to get her hands on him, including murdering her husband (Richard Ney) and framing her lover (Patric Knowles) for the crime.

But Inspector Orpington (Cedric Hardwicke) has his suspicions...

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James Stewart heads an impressive cast that includes Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch and Ernest Borgnine in this gripping tale of courage and suspense.

When their cargo plane crashes in the Sahara Desert, the only hope for a crew of oilmen and military personnel is to try to rebuild the craft before they all perish from heat and deprivation. Based on Elleston Trevor's popular novel of the same name, and artfully directed by Robert Aldrich, "The Flight of the Phoenix" is a riveting combination of finely honed character studies and an exciting story line.

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Soar into the skies on a thrilling airborne adventure in this meticulously restored John Wayne film classic. In one of his most memorable roles, Wayne plays Dan Roman, a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past.

Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments, he finds himself scheduled on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying, suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return. A "Who's Who" of Hollywood greats ate aboard for this celebrated drama bursting with conflict and excitement.

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Lawyer Hugo Bishop (Paul Henreid) is shocked when an old friend asks him to track down an escaped murderer and prove the man's innocence.

With a police dragnet closing in and the escapee's wife in a state of distress, Bishop must use all his cunning to find the real murderer and clear the man's name.

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After his brother Jesse is shot in the back by former accomplice Bob Ford (John Carradine), Frank James (Henry Fonda) retires from his life of crime to become a peaceful farmer, though he has never given up his search for the treacherous Ford.

The killer and his cohorts are eventually rounded up, but are pardoned due to political intervention. That's when Frank takes up his Colt once more to seek his own form of justice, accompanied by Clem (Jackie Cooper), a headstrong young sprout. Making her screen debut is Gene Tierney, in the role of an Eastern reporter who wants to tell Frank's true story to the world.

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One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator...

or does he? As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems...

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A young woman (Lil Dagover) confronts the personification of Death (Bernhard Goetzke), in an effort to save the life of her fiance (Walter Janssen).

Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the episodes. Thus begins three exotic scenarios of ill-fated love, in which the woman must somehow reverse the course of destiny: Persia, Quattrocento Venice, and a fancifully rendered ancient China.

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Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood star in this searing war drama that packs plenty of explosive excitement and fervent passion.

Directed by Delmer Daves from Joe David Brown's gripping post-war novel, Kings Go Forth weaves elements of romance, war and prejudice into a powerful, compelling and riveting film. In WWII France, Corporal Britt Harris is assigned to work alongside war-weary Sgt. Loggins - a man he soon rivals for the affections of the beautiful Monique Blair, an American who grew up in France. But when the men learn that Monique's parents are racially mixed, it tests the character of each ... and provides the powerful thematic framework that shapes Kings Go Forth into a hard-hitting and still timely film.

In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf (Karim Daoud Anaya) navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.

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Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist Paul Orlac (Conrad Veidt) whose hands are amputated after a train crash, and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer.

When Orlac's father is murdered by the dead man's hands, Orlac begins a steady descent towards madness.

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Meet Sam Hurley: Public Enemy Number One. The violent killer has just busted out of jail but his buddy Bart was wounded in the escape and needs a doctor fast. Sam takes four hostages to blackmail a doctor to help, taking them to a ghost town in the desert to wait for the sawbones.

But that ghost town is a dangerous place to be. The US military are testing an atom bomb at 06.00. Sam and his prisoners are sitting right at ground zero...

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Robert Shaw stars as Major Kabakov, an Israeli agent attempting to avert a terrorist atrocity on US soil. The weapon: a blimp laced with explosives and piloted by Michael Lander (Bruce Dern), a troubled Vietnam vet driven to strike back against the nation he believes has betrayed him.

The target: the Orange Bowl stadium, Miami. What follows is a nail-biting race against time culminating in a spectacular aerial climax that will determine the fate of 80,000 spectators.