![To Catch A Thief [1955] Video](http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CLJB.02._AA80_PE10_)
To Catch A Thief
Classic Films onVideo - available from Amazon.co.uk
Films at booksmusicfilmstv.com - Reviews, Articles, Filmographies, DVDs, Videos, etc.
Classic Films Page 1 Classic Films Page 2 Classic Films Page 3 Classic Films Page 4 Classic Films Page 5 Classic Films Page 6 Classic Films Page 7
Classic
Films on DVD from Amazon.co.uk
The American Film Institute's
100 Greatest American Films
The Thing [1951] Things To Come [1936]
The Third Man [1949] The Third Man [1949]
Amazon.co.uk Review
The fractured Europe post-World War II is perfectly captured in
Carol Reed's masterpiece thriller, set in a Vienna still shell-shocked
from battle. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) is an alcoholic pulp
writer come to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles).
But when Cotton first arrives in Vienna, Lime's funeral is under
way. From Lime's girlfriend and an occupying British officer,
Martins learns of allegations of Lime's involvement in
racketeering, which Martins vows to clear from his friend's
reputation. As he is drawn deeper into post-war intrigue, Martins
finds layer upon layer of deception, which he desperately tries
to sort out. Welles' long-delayed entrance in the film has become
one of the hallmarks of modern cinematography and it is just one
of dozens of cockeyed camera angles that seem to mirror the off-kilter
post-war society. Cotten and Welles give career-making
performances and the Anton Karas zither theme will haunt you. --Anne
Hurley
Synopsis
A writer of westerns arrives in post war Vienna after an
invitation from an old school friend. But he finds that his
friend has been killed in a strange accident. A film case which
includes three original trailers.
This Happy Breed [1944] This Island Earth [1955] This Sporting Life [1963] The Thomas Crown Affair [1968] Thoroughly Modern Millie [1967] Those Were The Days [1933] The Three Caballeros [1950] Three Coins In The Fountain [1955] Three Faces West [1940] Three Stooges, The - Three Classic Shorts [1947] The Threepenny Opera [1931] The Thrill Of It All [1963] Through A Glass Darkly [1961] Thunder Mountain [1947] Tight Spot [1955] Till Death Us Do Part [1969] Till The Clouds Roll By [1946] Tillie's Punctured Romance [1914] The Time Machine [1960] The Time Of Your Life [1948] Titanic [1953] The Titfield Thunderbolt [1952]
Amazon.co.uk Review
This minor 1955 work by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the lighter
entries of his creative peak in the 1950s, is still imbued with
the master's stock themes of shared guilt and romantic
ambivalence. It is also hardly lacking in Hitchcockian cinematic
inventiveness, such as a famous, often-imitated sequence in which
some smooching between stars Cary Grant and Grace Kelly is
intercut with a fireworks show that just happens to be going on
outside in a Riviera setting. Grant plays a reformed cat burglar
who is suspected of reviving his trade, though he knows someone
else is using his old methods. A very enjoyable experience, but
don't get this confused with Hitchcock's other Cary Grant film of
that decade, a true masterpiece: North
by Northwest. --Tom
Keogh
Synopsis
A reformed cat burglar, retired to the Riviera, encounters a
'copy-cat' who is framing him for the thefts at a number of
luxury hotels in the area. He sets out to clear his name and to
catch the culprit.
To Hell And Back [1955] To Sir With Love [1967] Tobruk [1967] The Tommy Steele Story [1957] Too Hot To Handle [1959] Too Late The Hero [1969] Too Many Crooks [1958] Top Hat [1935] Topaz [1969] Topkapi [1964] Torment [1944] Torn Curtain [1966] Touch Of Evil [1958] A Town Like Alice [1956] Town Without Pity [1961] The Train [1964] The Trap [1966]
Amazon.co.uk Review
Strap on your pantaloons and prepare to travel with Jim Hawkins
and Blind Pew to one of the most famous fictional islands in
history, Treasure Island.
Walt Disney's 1950 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's
swashbuckling masterpiece has held up extremely well, with action
and characterisations that feel freshly minted (although it's
unlikely that the Mouse of today would sanction the high level of
booze flowing throughout the picture). Great fun, with nary a
wasted frame and, in the character of Robert Newton's much-imitated
Long John, one of cinema's most boisterously crowd-pleasing
villains ever. (Proving that you can't keep a good--er, bad man
down, Newton would return with director Byron Haskins for the
enjoyable sequel, Long John Silver.)
Watching this classic is like having a flashback to some perfect
Technicolor childhood. --Andrew Wright
--This text refers to the DVD
edition.
Synopsis
The great Robert Louis Stevenson tale brought to life in the
Disney tradition.
Tribute To A Bad Man [1956] Trouble Brewing [1939] Trouble In Store / One Good Turn [1953] Trouble In Store [1953] The Trouble With Harry [1955] True Grit [1969] Turned Out Nice Again [1941]
Amazon.co.uk Review
The war-time memories of surviving World War II bomber squadrons
were still crystal clear when this acclaimed drama was released
in 1949--one of the first post-war films out of Hollywood to
treat the war on emotionally complex terms. Framed by a post-war
prologue and epilogue and told as a flashback appreciation of war-time
valour and teamwork, the film stars Gregory Peck in one of his
finest performances as a callous general who assumes command of a
bomber squadron based in England. At first, the new commander has
little rapport with the 918th Bomber Group, whose loyalties still
belong with their previous commander. As they continue to fly
dangerous mission over Germany, however, the group and their new
leader develop mutual respect and admiration, until the once-alienated
commander feels that his men are part of a family--men whose
bravery transcends the rigours of rigid discipline and by-the-book
leadership. The film's now-classic climax, in which the general
waits patiently for his squad to return to base--painfully aware
that they may not return at all--is one of the most subtle yet
emotionally intense scenes of any World War II drama. With Peck
in the lead and Dean Jagger doing Oscar-winning work in a crucial
supporting role, this was one of veteran director Henry King's
proudest achievements, and it still packs a strong dramatic punch.
--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Synopsis
A group of American bomber pilots stationed in Britain during the
War have cracked under the ever increasing pressure. A bigadier
sent to take command is mistrusted at first, but soon earns their
respect.
Twentieth Century [1934] Twenty-One Days [1937] Twice Round The Daffodils / Nurse On Wheels [1962] Two A Penny [1967] Two Left Feet [1963] Two Way Stretch / Only Two Can Play - Peter Sellers Double Feature [1960] Tycoon [1947]
Amazon.co.uk Review
Dreamlike and nightmarishly surreal, Vertigo
is Hitchcock's most personal film because it confronts many of
the convoluted psychological issues that haunted and fascinated
the director. The psychological complexity and the stark
truthfulness of their rampant emotions keeps these strangely
obsessive characters alive on screen, and Hitchcock understood
better than most their barely repressed sexual compulsions, their
fascination with death and their almost overwhelming desire for
transcendent love. James Stewart finds profound and disturbing
new depths in his psyche as Scotty, the tortured acrophobic
detective on the trail of a suicidal woman apparently possessed
by the ghost of someone long dead. Kim Novak is the classical
Hitchcockian blonde whose icy exterior conceals a churning,
volcanic emotional core. The agonised romance of Bernard
Herrmann's score accompanies the two actors as a third and
vitally important character, moving the film along to its
culmination in an ecstasy of Wagnerian tragedy. Of course Hitch
lavished especial care on every aspect of the production, from
designer Edith Head's costumes (he, like Scotty, was most
insistent on the grey dress), to the specific colour scheme of
each location, to the famous reverse zoom "Vertigo"
effect (much imitated, never bettered). The result is Hitch's
greatest work and an undisputed landmark of cinema history.
On the DVD: This disc presents the superb restored print of this film in a wonderful widescreen (1.85:1) anamorphic transfer, with remastered Dolby digital soundtrack. There's a half-hour documentary made in 1996 about the painstaking two-year restoration process, plus an informative commentary from the restorers Robert Harris and James Katz, who are joined by original producer Herbert Coleman. There are also text features on the production, cast and crew, plus a trailer for the theatrical release of the restoration. This is an undeniably essential requirement for every DVD collection. --Mark Walker --This text refers to the DVD edition.
Synopsis
Bizarre psychological drama about a detective who is led through
a complicated series of frauds. He falls in love with the woman
he is assigned to follow, only to see her commit suicide... or so
he thinks...
Victim [1961] Victoria The Great [1937] Vintage Westerns - Angel And The Badman / Santa Fe Trail / Vengeance Valley [1947] The Virgin Queen [1955] The Virgin Spring [1960] Viva Las Vegas [1963] Von Ryan's Express [1965] Wages Of Fear [1952] Wait Until Dark [1967] Wake Of The Red Witch [1948] War And Peace [1956] War And Peace [1967] The War Game [1965]
Amazon.co.uk Top Sellers
Amazon.co.uk Hot 100 DVDs Amazon.co.uk Used DVD Science Fiction & Fantasy Videos Science Fiction & Fantasy DVDs DVD Classics Children's DVD Children's Videos Music, Stage & Screen Books
The War Of The Worlds [1954] The War Wagon [1967] The Way Ahead [1944] The Way To The Stars [1945] Wayne - The Searchers, 3 Godfathers, Rio Bravo - Video Triple Pack [1956] We Dive At Dawn [1943] The Wedding Party [1963] West Of The Divide [1933] West Side Story [1961] What's Good For The Goose [1969] What's Up Tiger Lily ? [1966] Whatever Happened To Baby Jane [1962] Wheel Of Fortune [1942] Where Eagles Dare (Collector's Edition) [1969] Where Eagles Dare [1969]
Where The Hot Wind Blows [1958] Whisky Galore [1949] Whistle Down The Wind [1961] White Christmas [1954]
Amazon.co.uk Review
This superb 1949 crime drama takes elements of plot, character
and theme familiar from 30s melodramas and orchestrates them as
an existential tragedy noir.
James Cagney, in a towering performance, is Cody Jarrett, a
transparently psychotic robber with a molten temper, feral
cunning, and mercurial charm that are finely calibrated
extensions of the doomed gangsters he played a decade before,
this time coiled not around a Depression-era impetus of greed or
class rivalry, but an Oedipal bond. Cody's beloved, calculating
"Ma" (Margaret Wycherly) is the compass for his every
move, her iron will and long shadow acknowledged not only by Cody
but by his gang, his bored, restless wife (Virginia Mayo,
radiating sensuality and guile), and the undercover cop (Edmond
O'Brien) planted in Jarrett's path.
Director Raoul Walsh propels the story from a rolling start, a tautly paced train robbery that goes awry, culminating in the leader's capture. An ambitious henchman (Steve Cochran) plots a behind-bars hit foiled by O'Brien, who's infiltrated the prison to befriend Jarrett, a goal handily accomplished with the rescue. Jarrett's paranoia, murderous anger, and longing for his mother are interwoven with intermittent, incapacitating headaches that underline and amplify his core of inner rage; Cagney makes these seizures harrowing, revealing purely animal pain and terror at once frightening and pathetic.
Jarrett's escape, the gang's reunion with fellow escapee O'Brien aboard, trusted by Jarrett but not his partners, and the big score that unravels in a climactic gun battle in an oil refinery are conducted with a gritty economy, and Walsh and his cast evoke a criminal life devoid of glamour, noteworthy for the undercurrents of distrust that keep tempers flaring. The final showdown, and Jarrett's crazed, taunting battle cry in the face of death ("Top of the world, Ma!"), achieve a sense of tragic inevitability that deservedly make this a defining moment in Cagney's screen career. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com
Synopsis
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring
break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant
payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a
crazy turn....
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? [1966] The Wild Bunch [1969] Wild In The Country [1961] The Wild One [1954] Wild Strawberries [1957] Will Hay - Boys Will Be Boys [1935] Will Hay - Where There's A Will [1936] Will Hay - Windbag The Sailor [1936] Winchester 73 [1950] The Wind Cannot Read [1958] The Winslow Boy [1948] Without Reservations [1946] Witness For The Prosecution [1957] The Wizard Of Oz (1939) Wizard Of Oz / Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory [1939] Woman Of The Dunes [1964] Wonderful Life / Take Me High [1964] The Wooden Horse [1950] World of Apu [1959] The Wrong Arm Of The Law [1962] The Wrong Man [1956] Yankee Doodle Dandy [1942] Yellow Submarine [1968] You Can't Take It With You [1938] Young And Innocent [1938] Young At Heart [1954] The Young Lions [1958] Z [1969] Zane Grey - Box Set 1 [1944] Zane Grey - Box Set 2 [1946] Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo [1965] Zorba The Greek [1964]
This website is designed by booksmusicfilmstv.com.
