Ava Gardner is superb in this glitzy Hollywood reprise of the Cinderella story. She is Maria, the Hollywood starlet who rises from poverty and spends all her time trying to deny and forget her past, much to her own unhappiness. Touching glamorous and superbly directed by Mankiewicz.
find out more...A Regency romp following the lives of two friends from schoolgirl innocence to bitter betrayal. James Mason is on top form as the blue-blooded bounder who marries Phyllis Calvert, while Margaret Lockwood is hot stuff as the treacherous seductress who sets out to steal her best friend's husband. One of Gainsbrough's best and considered to be rather indecent in its day, it's something of a bawdy bodice-ripper.
find out more...Walter has been imprisoned for 12 years after a heinous crime. Finally released he is determined that his future will not reflect his past, but when the small town, where he has started his life anew, discovers his guilty secret, even Walter himself begins to doubt whether he has truly been ‘cured'. 'The Woodsman' is a dark thought provoking drama that handles with painful honesty the tortured world of a paedophile and the righteous anger of the community into which he has been released find out more...