The Sound Barrier / Hobson's Choice
(1953) [PG]

Hobson's Choice: Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a tyrannical, drunken widowed bootmaker responsible for the wellbeing of his three unruly daughters. His rule is challenged by eldest daughter Maggie (Brenda de Banzie) who marries his star bootmaker and sets up a rival shop. But will...  More

The Man Who Knew Too Much
(1955) [PG]

James Stewart and Doris Day, in a rare dramatic role, are superb in this brilliant suspense thriller from the undisputed master. Stewart and Day play Ben and Jo MacKenna, innocent Americans vacationing in Morocco with their son, Hank. After a French spy dies in Ben's arms in the Marrakech market,...  More

The Entertainer
(1960) [PG]

Career first. Everything else second. According to vaudevillian Archie Rice (an Oscar nominated Laurence Olivier), the show must go on - even if it means stringing along his fellow performers, exploiting the hopes and money of a starlet and neglecting his own family. This is Archie's world, but...  More

The Purple Plain
(1954) [PG]

Set during the Burma Campaign, Peck stars as a pilot whose life has already been shattered by the loss of his wife during an air raid on London. Shot down after a dogfight with a Japanese fighter, he finds himself marooned in the Burmese jungle with a badly-injured navigator and a traumatised...  More

The Pink Panther (2 Disc Set)
(1964) [PG]

The first in Blake Edwards's series of enormously successful Pink Panther films, it introduced Peter Sellers in the role of epic bumbler Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Ultrasuave jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven), aka the Phantom, is in hot pursuit of the Pink Panther, one of the world's...  More

39 Steps, The (1959)
(1959) [PG]

Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) meets up with a young nanny (Faith Brook) he'd come across earlier during the day. At the theatre that evening they attend a vaudeville performance by Mr. Memory (James Hayter), and afterwards Hannay takes her back to his London flat. There he discovers that she is...  More

Doctor At Sea
(1955) [PG]

Dr. Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) tires of practising medicine on dry land so sets off to sea. Aboard a steamship, he encounters various eccentric characters whilst blundering his way through a series of comedy scrapes. Love interest comes in the delectable form of Brigitte Bardot in her first role for...  More

Too Many Crooks
(1959) [G]

Fingers and his gang of criminals have the reputation for being the most dim-witted crooks London has ever seen. Although depressed by yet another failure, Fingers hatches a new plan: to rob a loose-living millionaire of his tax-dodging hoard of banknotes. When the incompetent gang meet one...  More