A great twist on a classic theme. A lady explorer returns after many years away to find that her husband, thinking her gone for ever, has taken another wife. A film from the great years of Hollywood. find out more...

Brad and Jan share a phone line and as a result develop a hatred for one another. But when Jan falls in love with a handsome Texan she has no idea it could be the same man. The combination of Technicolor and fifties kitsch makes this a dazzling comedy. The premise of the film is a reversal on 'You've Got Mail' although the technology is rather dated here! It's a simple but lovely comedy that is perfect for a rainy afternoon. Party phone lines may be a thing of the past but the split screen effec find out more...

Mixing silent film techniques with the new element of sound - only one-fifth of the film offers dialogue - Rich And Strange tells the charming story of Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) and his wife, Emily (Joan Barry), a small-town British couple who inherit some money from a rich uncle and suddenly decide to take a world cruise. Their newfound sophistication having backfired, the couple will have to try to return to good old England, but their journey will be full of mishaps and unexpected disaster. R find out more...

Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life find out more...

When he overhears a doctor discussing the imminent death of a patient, hypochondriac George (Hudson) believes the doc is referring to him. Convinced he's living on borrowed time, George enlists the aid of his best friend Arnold (Randall) to find a new husband for his soon-to-be-widowed wife Judy (Day). Already alarmed by her husband's increasingly strange behaviour, Judy is even more bewildered when an old flame shows up and George bends over backwards to encourage his advances! find out more...

Based on Howard Lindsay's Pulitzer winning play, State Of The Union revolves around an idealistic industrial magnate's decision to enter politics and run for the presidency. Little does he realise the pressure he is about to put himself under, or the effect it will have on his estranged wife. A classic tale, beautifully performed by the two leads mixing satire and drama with perfectly judged light comedy. find out more...

Wholesome Doris Day is at her virginal best in this story of a girl who is both chaste and chased. When she meets a dashing millionaire (Cary Grant) he sweeps her off her feet with his exuberant generosity. But he soon finds out that just because she's poor doesn't mean she's cheap. Mind you, she's mighty tempted by the idea of getting wrapped up in the bloody skins of the needlessly slaughtered animal of the title to help her feel beautiful and, y'know, classy. Cheery romance. find out more...

Frothy romantic comedy with a seemingly bottomless wardrobe budget. Mitchum is the brash American who takes a shine to very married countess Deborah Kerr and whisks her off for a night on the tiles, getting her home just in time for a duel at dawn with an understandably miffed Cary Grant.

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Under Sturges's microscope, the collision between the gold-digging Harrington and the rich, hapless brewery-heir-turned-herpetologist Charles Pike gives plenty of oppurtunity for the auteur to skewer issues of class and sex. As always, Sturges is bold in pushing the censors' envelope, capturing a palpable erotic heat between the canny Jean and the literally feverish Charlie, who, after a year up the Amazon, is instantly smitten by the mere sight of her shapely ankles. To give away the plot machi find out more...

Palm Beach Story stars Claudette Colbert as an antsy wife who's tired of waiting for her husband to earn some cash, so dumps him and goes in search of a rich bachelor. Voted number 77 on the American Institute's list of America's 100 funniest movies… is that good? find out more...