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This comedy, by director Clive Donner, features Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, and Harry Andrews.

Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way; they try to suppress it. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures.

A classic war film starring acting legend John Mills. Ice Cold in Alex refers to the beer that an army ambulance Captain has promised himself as a reward when he, two nurses, a mechanic and a mysterious South African officer complete their arduous and perilous trek across the deserts of North Africa to Alexandria. As immortalised in a certain television advert for lager, the iconic bar scene is just one of the film's classic moments.

The Birling family are rich, pampered and complacent. It is 1912, and the shadow of the impending war has yet to fall across their lives. As they sit down to dinner one night, celebrating the engagement of the eldest child, Sheila, to prosperous business man Gerald, a knock at the door announces the arrival of a visitor who will change their lives forever. Based on the classic stage play by J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls stars the incomparable...

A taut British thriller centring on a child's first glimpse into adult hypocrisy, The Fallen Idol was the first collaboration between director Carol Reed and author Graham Greene. The Fallen Idol is told entirely from the perspective of a young boy, Phillipe, who tries to help the man he idolizes when he is implicated in a murder.

In the closing days of WWII a British ship is attacked. Following the massacre at the hands of a German U-Boat, just one survivor remains -- Murphy. A tough, indomitable sailor, Murphy escapes to a nearby island and plots his revenge. He intends to sink the U-boat that killed his crew by any means possible, and with the help of Louis, a friend he meets on the island, he plots his vengeance. Stars Peter O'Toole (How to Steal a Million, Under Milk Wood)....

Stephen (Dirk Bogarde -- The Servant) is a middle-aged professor at Oxford University. Stifled by his life of marriage and academia, he yearns for an affair with his beautiful and enigmatic student Anna (Jacqueline Sassard -- Les Biches). He is locked into a battle for Anna's affection against her fiancé, William (Michael York -- Logan's Run), whose youthful vitality he envies, and with his friend and academic rival Charley (Stanley Baker - Zulu),...

This film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, stars Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, and Gordon Harker.

John Hurt starts as the elephant man, John Merrick, in this moving and unforgettable true story of cruelty, humanity and survival. Merrick, a man affected with a terrible disability, is shunned by Victorian Society. An ambitious young doctor (Hopkins) sets out to help him, and discovers a man of sensibility and kindness beneath the surface.