90% from 2 members

stunning drama
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Call Northside 777
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Henry Hathaway
Certificate: 
When a cop is murdered on patrol small-time crook Frank Wiecke takes the rap and is sentenced to life. Eleven years later, hard-boiled reporter PJ O'Neal is assigned to look into the case but finds the authorities unwilling to co-operate...
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70%
from 393 members

my favourite of the big ones
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Key Largo
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Director: John Huston
Certificate: 
Frank McCloud is an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in Florida in order to meet Nora Temple, the wife of a friend of his who died in the war. He plans to stay at a hotel run by relatives of Nora's, but discovers that it has been taken over by vicious gengster Johnny Rocco. McCloud ..read more »
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71%
from 2,696 members

justice!
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Mr Smith Goes To Washington
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
Director: Frank Capra
Certificate: 
Two slimy fat-cat legislators recruit Jefferson Smith, an innocent and staunchly principled Montana scout leader, as the state's new Senator, hoping to exploit his naviete and community pride to bring home pork-barrel funds. Once he ascends to Capitol Hill, however, Mr. Smith finds nothing but deep-..read more »
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73%
from 4,895 members

epic
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The African Queen
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Director: John Huston
Certificate: 
In John Huston's AFRICAN QUEEN, the boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), saves prim and proper Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set ..read more »
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72%
from 6,997 members

simply superb
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Rear Window
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate: 
The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbours through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad ..read more »
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77%
from 21,300 members

not as great as treasures of sierra madre but great
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High Sierra
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Alan Curtis
Director: Raoul Walsh
Certificate: 
A gangster called Roy Earle assists in a hotel hold-up in return for being sprung from prison. He then attempts to go straight, but his luck quickly runs out.
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68%
from 558 members

love his vibe with dietrich so natural
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Destry Rides Again
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
Director: George Marshall
Certificate: 
James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich star in this hilarious western send-up. As Destry, a mild-mannered deputy who doesn't like guns, Stewart is called to restore order in the hopelessly corrupt frontier town of Bottle Neck. He soon meets Frenchy (Dietrich), an alluring sallon girl who belts out 'the ..read more »
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73%
from 481 members

classic
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Charles Waldron, Lauren Bacall
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate: 
Chandler's first novel introduced private detective Philip Marlowe, and THE BIG SLEEP set the standard for private detective movies. Down-at-the-heels private eye Marlowe gets the assignment to clean up after the daughters of a dying millionaire, but dead people have a nasty habit of trailing in ..read more »
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73%
from 7,385 members

like a play but better- one shot
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Rope
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate: 
Based on the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case (from which two other films, COMPULSION and SWOON, were also derived), ROPE both challenges and terrifies the audience. Alfred Hitchcock disdained the whodunit crime story, which he felt lacked emotional force, and ROPE shows the director's ..read more »
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71%
from 5,052 members

awesome plot
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The Maltese Falcon
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet
Director: John Huston
Certificate: 
Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by ..read more »
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