greatest-ever-made's - Rented List

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Spurred on by the murder of his drug-addicted sister by ruthless crime boss Frank McNally (Trevor Howard), US agent Charles Sturgis (Victor Mature) launches a transnational woman-hunt for McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger (Anita Ekberg).

His investigation takes him on a thrill-ride from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens...

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Roger Livesey brilliantly portrays a British officer, Clive Candy, through the trials and tribulations of three wars, three lovers and a lifelong friendship across enemy lines. During the Boer War, candy is sent to Berlin to trap a German spy.

There he befriends a German officer, Theo (Anton Walbrook), who marries the girl (Deborah Kerr) Candy is in love with. During the First World War, Candy marries a girl who resembles his lost love and helps Theo - now a POW - to get repatriated. Candy comes back in the Second World War as Brigadier General and once again encounters Theo. On joining a Home Guard exercise, Candy is captured, however, and the two are forced to either aid or betray each other.

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A young working mother, Lily Bates (Patricia Roc), is nursing her new-born baby in a London maternity hospital when a police inspector informs her that 'her husband' has been arrested as a bigamist.

Despite living in a society that frowns upon single mothers, Lily decides to overcome these prejudices and raise Jimmy by herself. She finds lodgings and even a job in a department store, but when Lily falls ill she has to leave Jimmy in the care of Frances (Rosamund John), a nursery worker, and her husband Robert (Patrick Holt). As Lily returns to health she begins to realise that Jimmy is happier with his new guardians and reluctantly decides to let the Normans bring up Jimmy as their own. Time passes, Lily moves away, and then falls in love and marries a shopkeeper called Bill (Bill Owen). But the memory of her son Jimmy plays on Lily's mind, and when it threatens to disrupt their newTound happiness, Bill and Lily decide to search for Jimmy and reclaim him as their own...

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Mark (Carl Boehm), a focus puller at the local film studio, supplements his wages by taking glamour photographs in a seedy studio above a newsagent.

By night he is a sadistic killer, stalking his victims with his camera forever in his hand trying to capture the look of genuine, unadulterated fear - an obsession that stems from his disturbing and terrifying childhood at the hands of his scientist father. Mark slowly becomes enamoured with Helen (Anna Massey), who lives with her blind mother (Maxine Audley) in the flat downstairs, but how long before he turns the deadly gaze of his camera towards her?

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Dan Ballard (John Payne), a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by US Marshal, Fred McCarty (Dan Duryea), an old acquaintance, who arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000.

Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence, but the townspeople's loyalty to him gradually begins to waver under McCarty's accusations.

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Berlin, 1923. Out-of-work circus performer Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine) is living in poverty.

When his brother commits suicide, he moves into the apartment of his cabaret singer sister-in-law (Liv Ullmann), but the pair soon attract the attentions of both the police and a professor with a terrifying area of research when they start to make enquiries about Abel's brother's mysterious death.

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Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoonworthy romance.

Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck's conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda's nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to a brewery fortune. But when the con artist falls for her mark, her grift becomes a game of hearts - and she is determined to win it all. One in a string of matchless comedic marvels that Sturges wrote and directed as part of a dazzling 1940s run, this gender-flipped battle-of-wits farce is perhaps his most emotionally satisfying work, tempering its sparkling humor with a streak of tender poignancy supplied by the sensational Stanwyck at her peak.

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Academy Award-Winner Humphrey Bogart stars in one of his most memorable performances as Eddie Willis, a sportswriter who joins forces with a corrupt boxing promoter named Benko (Rod Steiger).

Together, they scheme to deceive Toro Moreno (Mike Lane), a clumsy, seven-foot giant, and the public into believing Moreno has a shot at the heavyweight title. Through a carefully arranged series of fixed fights, Toro is duped into believing that he is a capable contender, only to have his dreams - and his huge body - shattered when he is brutally beaten in a genuine fight with the heavyweight champion.

Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsy girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin (David Farrar) a fox-hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her even after her marriage to the local pastor.

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Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in 'The Cameraman' - the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece.

The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop. Along the way, he goes for a swim (and winds up soaked), mimes every position of a baseball game in an empty Yankee Stadium, and teams up with a memorable monkey sidekick (the famous Josephine). The marvelously inventive film-within-a-film setup allows Keaton's imagination to run wild, yielding both sly insights into the travails of moviemaking and an emotional payoff of disarming poignancy.

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An Englishman (Rex Harrison) wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel bedroom with amnesia. A specialist at the local hospital tells him it was brought on by some kind of upset and they both set out to unearth the patient's past.

What they find is shocking - not just to themselves but also to the man's seven wives!

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Musical superstar Julie Andrews plays Lili Smith, the singing sweetheart who the troops adore. But she has a secret... she's really an enemy agent! And she's just been assigned a new mission: seduce heroic pilot Major William Larrabee (Rock Hudson). The Major can't resist her womanly wiles...

but when Lili realises that he has secrets of his own, she begins to wonder which one of them is the true deceiver.

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"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" is based on the extraordinary true story of the creator of one of the most iconic super heroes ever conceived, and the seductive secret life he kept from his fans. Harvard psychologist Dr.

William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans) was roundly criticized for the creation of his feminist superhero, but it was his personal life, with his polyamorous relationship with his wife, Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall) and their lover, Olive (Bella Heathcote), that was more provocative than any adventure he had ever written.

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Doris Day plays Patricia Fowler, a spy hired to work undercover at a cosmetics company to discover a new formula that the firm is planning to market. But it soon transpires make up is not the only product they're selling.

The company is involved in an international drug-smuggling ring and Patricia finds herself doing battle with ruthless agents. Joining forces with fellow spy Christopher White, the pair take on evil genius Stuart Clancy.

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Shot in glorious Technicolor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gives a dashing performance as the romantic treasure seeker and adventurer, Sinbad.

Ably assisted by his comic sidekick Abbu (George Tobias) and the inscrutable Chinese sage Milek (Walter Slezak), Sinbad learns that he is a prince and goes in search of his birthright: the lost treasure of Alexander the Great. But as he prepares to set sail, the evil Emir (Anthony Quinn) enlists the help of the beautiful but calculating Shireen (Maureen O'Hara) to lure Sinbad into believing that she loves him, and thereby leading the Emir to Alexander's buried treasure...