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The acclaimed sequel to the original 'Frankenstein', one of the most popular horror classics in film history, has now been restored in stunning high definition. The legendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most misunderstood monster, now longing for a mate of his own.

The last horror film directed by James Whale features a haunting musical score that helps make 'The Bride of Frankenstein' one of the finest and most touching thrillers of its era.

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Washed-up producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler (William Holden) attempts to lure the iconic but reclusive actress Fedora (Marthe Keller) out of retirement in a bid to revive both their careers.

But her privacy is hard won, and with good reason, and opening up the secrets surrounding her could spell disaster.

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Deep in the English countryside, the tranquil village of Lipsbury Lea seems a long way from the war raging beyond. So it's the perfect spot for Battle of Britain fighter ace (and keen bird watcher) Jimmy Bancroft (Niall MacGinnis) to recover from his war-wounds. Jimmy's not the new arrival, however.

For only the second time ever, a pair of Tawny Pipits have arrived in Britain to nest. Led by the redoubtable Colonel Barton-Barrington (Bernard Miles), the good folk of Lipsbury Lea rally around to show these birds some traditional British hospitality, protecting their little guests from the might of the army, the stupidity of bureaucracy and the machinations of some very determined egg hunters...

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Cannons thunder, blades clatter and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's incomparable music swirls and flourishes in The Sea Hawk. In one of his best roles, Errol Flynn plays Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe, who commandeers a 40-gun galleon, endures captivity, then boldly escapes to warn England of Spain's armada.

Working on his 10th of 12 movies with Flynn, Michael Curtiz masterfully directs the film's blend of royal intrigue and derring-do heroics - made on a then lavish $1.7 million-scale that included construction of two full-sized ships.

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The film is Fritz Lang's seventh Hollywood feature, made in 1953 on a miniscule budget and shot in just twenty days by one of the best 'noir' cameramen Nicholas Musurca and is considered one of his best murder mystery films.

Norah (Anne Baxter) is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier posted overseas. When she receives a letter from him ending their engagement, feeling despondent, she falls for the charms of Officer Lothario and agrees to a date. They go to the Blue Gardenia Club, where he gets her drunk and then takes her back to his apartment. She is later forced to fight off his lecherous advances by bludgeoning him to death and flees, leaving behind her handkerchief, high heels and a blue gardenia at the scene. She awakes the next morning remembering nothing while a nationwide murder hunt gets underway, but journalist Casey Mayo (Richard Conte) offers his support and suggests an interview in exchange for a fair trial.

When Prince John (Claude Rains) and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.

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Set in Midwestern America, 'The Magnificent Ambersons' tells the tale of Isabel Amberson Minafer (Dolores Costello) and her son George (Tim Holt), an upper middle class family experiencing social decline at the turn of the century.

With the industrial and technological age taking full force, the chances within the family are self destructing. After the death of her husband Wilbur (Don Dillaway), Isabel is romantically linked with Eugene Morgan (Joseph Cotten) whom she knew from years previous to her marriage. George, unhappy with this courtship, proceeds to do everything in his power to destroy their relationship despite falling for Eugene's daughter Lucy (Anne Baxter). Disaster strikes for the Amberson family and events do not turn out as George expected...

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Tom Keefer is a man falsely convicted of a murder and sentenced to death by hanging. He has escaped from prison and is hiding out in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. Keefer is dedicated to finding the real killer and clearing his name.

A trapper, Ben Ragan, is out searching for his dog when he finds Keefer hiding in the swamp. Ben believes the man's tale of being falsely railroaded. The two men trap animals together and Ben sells the furs. Keefer tells Ben to give his share of the money from their pelt sale to his daughter, Julie. Ben eventually falls in love with Julie, arousing the wrath of Ben's girlfriend Mabel, who tells authorities about Keefer's secret. Ben, however, refuses to co-operate with officials' efforts to locate the escaped convict.

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Clark Gable and Robert Ryan battle outlaws, Indians, nature - and each other - in this sprawling western about a torturous cattle drive from Texas to Montana in the days following the Civil War.

The Allison Brothers, Ben (Clark Gable) and Clint (Cameron Mitchel) are ex-Confederate soldiers now trying their hands at bank robbery. But one attempt to get rich quick leads them into the company of Nathan Stark (Robert Ryan), a Texas cattle baron with a huge herd to get to market, and the beautiful Nella (Jane Russell), for whose attentions Ben and Nathan compete. A rugged and rowdy adventure where both bullets and fists fly, The Tall Men is towering entertainment.

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A guitar-picking good ol'boy. A clean-cut all-American. A Navajo. A bookworm. A lumberjack. A slum kid. All enter Marine boot camp to be trained, hardened, ready to answer their country's Battle Cry. Scripted by Leon M.

Uris from his own novel, directed by action master Raoul Walsh and starring a Who's Who of '50s movie stars, Battle Cry is an epic ode to World War II Marine heroism and home front sacrifice, a saga following recruits from boot camp to a New Zealand base of operations to the war they knew would someday come their way: the bloody invasion of Saipan. Enlist now alongside the fighting men and stalwart women of Battle Cryfor boisterous tenderness and gung-ho excitement.

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Two eligible bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison), are in trouble.

Jack's unworthy habit of representing himself as his imaginary brother Ernest (Michael Redgrave) and Algernon's adoption of an equally fictitious - and perpetually sickly -friend has allowed them both a latitude in their personal lives that they would otherwise have not enjoyed. Their respective deceptions start to unravel, however, when both chaps become mortally wounded by Cupid's arrow -setting up a series of events which will change their lives forever!

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Adapted from the controversial stage play by Jules Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge), this savage, nihilistic black comedy was the startling directorial debut of actor Alan Arkin.

When a severely depressed fashion photographer (Elliott Gould) meets an optimistic young woman (Marcia Rodd), she is determined to save him amidst the series of random muggings, sniper shootings, garbage strikes and total blackouts that are ravaging the city of New York.

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An ex-con, a corrupt cop, a reformed alcoholic, a wrestler, a sharpshooter and a pair of inside men: these seven men intent on executing the perfect robbery and taking a racetrack for two million dollars. But this is the world of film noir, a tough, sour place where nothing quite goes as planned...

For his third feature Stanley Kubrick adapted Lionel White's 'Clean Break' with a little help from hard-boiled specialist Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me), and in doing so created a heist movie classic, one to rank alongside John Huston's 'The Asphalt Jungle' and Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs'. The robbery itself is one of cinema's great set-pieces, as taut a piece of filmmaking as you'll ever find, expertly controlled by Kubrick, who called 'The Killing' his first mature work . Starring Sterling Hayden, perennial fall guy Elisha Cook Jr. and Marie Windsor as his duplicitous wife, 'The Killing' is quintessential film noir, still as brutal, thrilling and audacious as it was almost six decades ago.

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Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself.

But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance), discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Julien Duvivier's first film after his return to France from Hollywood finds the acclaimed poetic realist applying his consummate craft to darker, moodier ends. Propelled by its two deeply nuanced lead performances, the tensely noirish 'Panique' exposes the dangers of the knives-out mob mentality, delivering as well a pointed allegory for the behavior of Duvivier's countrymen during the war.

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A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder.

An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this cracking mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston.