English Movies

The Night of the Hunter (1955)(IMDB 8.0)(RobertMitchum-ShelleyWinters-LillianGish)(Dir-CharlesLaughton) Drama, Crime, Classics, Mystery, Thriller, B/W The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film with many film nolr undertones, directed by Charles Laughton, and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same title by Davis Grubb. The plot focuses on a corrupt minister-turned-serial killer who attempts to charm an unsuspecting widow and steal $10,000 hidden by her executed husband. The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers who was hanged in 1932 for the murder of two widows and three children in Clarksburg, West Virginia. In 1992, The Night of the Hunter was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma selected The Night of the Hunter in 2008 as the second-best film of all time, behind Citizen Kane.

The Ladykillers (1955)(IMDB 7.6)(AlecGuiness-PeterSellers)(Dir-AlexanderMackendrick) Five oddball criminals planning an Armored Car robbery, rent rooms on a dead end street from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians. Dir-Alexander Mackendrick Writers-William Rose-Jimmy O'Connor Stars-Alec Guinness-Peter Sellers-Herbert Lom-Cecil Parker

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)(IMDB 8.0)(DavidNiven-KimHunter)(Dir-MichaelPowell-Emeric Pressburger) AKA - Stairway to Heaven (1946) Color Cinematography by Jack Cardiff Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, pilot Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the U.S. Army Air Forces, and they are quite moved by each other's voices. Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. It was his time to die, but there was a mix-up in heaven. They couldn't find him in all that fog. By the time his "Conductor" catches up with him twenty hours later, Peter and June have met and fallen in love. This changes everything, and since it happened through no fault of his own, Peter figures that heaven owes him a second chance. Heaven agrees to a trial to decide his fate. Aspect_ratio 1.37 : 1 Directors-Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger Writers-Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger Stars-David Niven-Kim Hunter-Robert Coote Color Cinematography by Jack Cardiff

Impact (1948)(IMDB 7.0)(BDonleavy-CCoburn)(Dir-ArthurLubin) A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy. Director - Arthur Lubin Writers - Dorothy Davenport - Jay Dratler Stars - Brian Donlevy - Ella Raines - Charles Coburn

Scarlet Street Scarlet Street (1945)(IMDB 7.7)(EdwardGRobinson-JoanBennett-DanDuryea)(Dir-Fritz Lang) A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses. Director - Fritz Lang Writers - Georges de La Fouchardière - André Mouëzy-Éon - Dudley Nichols Stars - Edward G. Robinson - Joan Bennett - Dan Duryea

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)(IMDB 7.9)(CGrant-RayMassey-PLorre)(Dir-FrankCapra) A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers. Dir-Frank Capra Writers-Julius J. Epstein-Philip G. Epstein-Joseph Kesselring Stars-Cary Grant-Priscilla Lane-Raymond Massey

Baby Face (1933)(IMDB 7.5)(BarbaraStanwyck-JohnWayne-GeorgeBrent)(Dir-AlfredEGreen) Publication date 1933 - Pre Code Alfred E. Green, Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne, George Brent, Theresa Harris, A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully sleeping her way to the top.

Conflict (1945) Conflict (1945)(IMDB 7.1)(HumphreyBogart-AlexisSmith-SydneyGreenstreet)(Dir-Curtis Bernhardt) An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister. Director - Curtis Bernhardt Writers - Arthur T. Horman-Dwight Taylor-Robert Siodmak Stars - Humphrey Bogart-Alexis Smith-Sydney Greenstreet

My Man Godfrey (1936)(IMDB 7.9)(WilliamPowell-CarolLombard)(Dir-GregoryLaCava) Carole Lombard and William Powell in My Man Godfrey (1936)(IMDB 7.9) A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. Director - Gregory La Cava Writers - Morrie Ryskind - Eric Hatch - Zoe Akins Stars - William Powell - Carole Lombard - Alice Brady