UK/US 40's (105 titles)

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Citizen Kane

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• Citizen Kane on DVD (1941)
  Starring: Orson Welles,  Joseph Cotten,  Agnes Moorehead
  Director: Orson Welles
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  CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard ..read more »
  
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Mr Skeffington

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• Mr Skeffington on DVD (1944)
  Starring: Bette Davis,  Bette Davis,  Claude Rains
  Director: Vincent Sherman
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  When her brother is found to have embezzeld the Skeffington Bank, Fanny Trellis (Davis) finds herself marrying the owner to save her brother...
  
  Rate this: 71% from 509 members

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His Girl Friday

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• His Girl Friday on DVD (1940)
  Starring: Cary Grant,  Rosalind Russell,  Ralph Bellamy
  Director: Howard Hawks
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  In Howard Hawks's screwball masterpiece adapted from the stage play THE FRONT PAGE by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, star reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), once married to suave editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant), plans to leave the stressful newspaper world behind and marry a boring ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 71% from 3,517 members

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The Maltese Falcon

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• The Maltese Falcon on DVD (1941)
  Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Mary Astor,  Sidney Greenstreet
  Director: John Huston
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  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 »
  
  Rate this: 73% from 10,409 members

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Odd Man Out

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• Odd Man Out on DVD (1946)
  Starring: James Mason,  Robert Newton,  Kathleen Ryan
  Director: Carol Reed
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  James Mason stars in this powerful suspense drama as Johnny McQueen, the leader of a quasi-IRA group. When he's wounded in a botched robbery, he becomes the object of an intense police manhunt and must scramble desperately about Belfast in an attempt to escape. Kathleen (Kathleen Ryan), the woman ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 69% from 523 members

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Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator

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• Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator on DVD (1940)
  Starring: Charlie Chaplin,  Chester Conklin,  Henry Daniell
  Director: Charlie Chaplin
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  Charlie Chaplin has a dual role in this film, his first with dialogue. He plays a sweet-natured Jewish barber and a murderous Hitler-type dictator with such satirical impact that it counterbalanced the oratory of Adolf Hitler. Particularly delectable comic scenes are Hynkel's balletic "pas de deux" ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 68% from 3,448 members

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Hue and Cry

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• Hue and Cry on DVD (1947)
  Starring: Alastair Sim,  Harry Fowler,  Douglas Barr
  Director: Charles Crichton
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  A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
  
  Rate this: 67% from 936 members

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The Blue Dahlia

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• The Blue Dahlia on DVD (1946)
  Starring: Alan Ladd,  Veronica Lake,  Veronica lake
  Director: George Marshall
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  When a former pilot discovers that his unfaithful wife has been murdered, he is pursued by the police. In addition, a mysterious blonde woman has taken an interest in him.
  
  Rate this: 69% from 481 members

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The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock

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• The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock on DVD (1947)
  Starring: Harold Lloyd,  Jimmy Conlin,  Raymond Walburn
  Director: Preston Sturges
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  Harold Diddlebock is a banker who dreams only of getting his fellow cashier down the aisle. His dream, and heart, are shattered, however, when he is fired...
  
  Rate this: 55% from 141 members

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The Killers

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• The Killers (1946)
  Starring: Angie Dickinson,  Ava Gardner,  Burt Lancaster
  Director: Don Siegel,  Robert Siodmak
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  A former fighter awaits the arrival of his executioners. When they arrive they shoot him dead without a fight. An insurance investigator must decide why it is that a man gave up his life so easily...
  
  Rate this: 75% from 205 members
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