Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen Director: Fred McLeod Wilcox A starship crew, lead by Commander Adams (Nielsen), head to a colony far out in space where only two survivors remain, Dr Morbius (Walters) and his daughter Altaira (Francis). They have mysteriously survived a monsterous creature that killed off everyone else, with the help… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Forbidden Planet (1956)
Starring: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H Reiniger Director: George A Romero A follow up to Romero's directorial debut Night Of The Living Dead (though made a decade later), this film sees two members of a SWAT team with two TV executives and their helicopter escape the plague of zombies in the city and hide… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
Starring: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Caerthan Banks Director: Atom Egoyan A bus crash in a small town takes the lives of many of the community's school children, while the driver and one girl survive. A lawyer (Holm) descends on the town to try and make money off a class action suit but finds things are… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Starring: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento Director: Martin Ritt John Russell (Newman) inherits some property and heads out to claim it. He's a quiet man, rough and direct, and he's disliked and distrusted because he was raised by Native Americans. But when the stage coach he's travelling back on comes under threat… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Hombre (1967)
Starring: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman Director: Mel Brooks The grandson of Dr Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) tires to be taken seriously in America as a scientist, but finds it hard to escape the legacy of having a mad scientist in the family. When he's informed that he's inherited the family… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Young Frankenstein (1975)
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino Director: Ida Lupino When a man tries to adopt a child with his wife, the agency looks into his life and finds that he has actually been living two lives with two different wives. When confronted, he tells is his story about how is all happened in flashback.… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: The Bigamist (1953)
Starring: William Petersen, Tom Noonan, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang Director: Michael Mann When a horrific killer called the "Tooth Fairy" (Noonan) is on the loose, the FBI calls in former profiler Will Graham (Petersen) who might be the only person who can stop the murders. But Graham is still… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Manhunter (1986)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Director: James Whale Picking up where the previous film left off, and also starring Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster, this film opens with Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley sitting before a fire and letting the audience know that there's more to the story. Believed dead at the end… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
Starring: Alec Guiness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass Director: Charles Crichton A bank clerk (Guiness) who dreams of a better life enlists a souvenir maker (Holloway) to help him steal his bank's gold and smuggle it out of the country as Eiffel Towers. But things go hilariously wrong when some of the statues are… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz A famous mystery writer (Olivier) obsessed with games and automatons invites his wife's lover (Caine) to his home to discuss his impending divorce, but what transpires is a deadly game of cat and mouse... Based on a successful stage play, the film takes place only on… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Sleuth (1972)
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