Cast a Dark Shadow 1957  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison, Robert Flemyng, Mona Washbourne, Walter Hudd, Myrtle Reed, Lita Roza, Philip Stainton
Charming Edward (Dirk Bogarde) marries and murders rich older women for their money. But Freda (Margaret Lockwood) may be a match for his wit. This version of the Bluebeard story is a good "suspenser."
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I Know Where I'm Going 1945  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, Petula Clark, John Laurie, Walter Hudd, Catherine Lacey, Valentine Dyall, Jean Cadell
Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is determined to marry her fiance, a wealthy industrialist, when she embarks on her trip to the Scottish Hebrides. However, along the way she falls in love with Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey) and decides on marriage for love rather than for money. A Scottish delight.
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The Importance of Being Earnest 1952 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin, Richard Wattis, Edith Evans, Margaret Rutherford, Miles Malleson, Aubrey Mather, Walter Hudd
This is a delightful (and faithful) rendition of Oscar Wilde's amusing satire on 1890s' social scene. Jack Worthing (Michael Redgrave) and Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison) are bachelors of means. Each has a girlfriend, and each goes by the pseudonym of Ernest since the women like that name. When the men become enamored with each others' girlfriends, the fun gets even better.
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Look Back in Anger 1958 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Richard Burton, Mary Ure, Claire Bloom, Gary Raymond, Donald Pleasence, Edith Evans, Nigel Davenport, Michael Balfour, Walter Hudd, Alfred Lynch
Contemporary British life is criticized by Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) who constantly attacks its middle class values. This leads to the break up of his marriage to Allison (Mary Ure) and an affair with Allison's friend Helena (Claire Bloom). Based on John Osborne's 1956 play.
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Major Barbara 1941 N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, Stanley Holloway, Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Torin Thatcher, Miles Malleson, Marie Lohr, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Walter Hudd, David Tree, Donald Calthrop
This film rendition of the intuitive play by George Bernard Shaw features Salvation Army officer Major Barbara (Wendy Hiller) as the young woman who rebels against her wealthy upbringing and opts to help those less fortunate. Barbara's main opponent is her father Andrew (Robert Morley) who is a weapons manufacturer, and, to show up his daughter and her dislike of money, he donates a vast sum to the Salvation Army. Meanwhile, love enters the picture in the person of an intellectual, Adolphus Cusins (Rex Harrison), who Barbara ignores because she is too busy with her cause–until Adolphus takes her on a tour of her father's company and shows her that capitalism is good.
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Moscow Nights 1936  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: I Stand Condemned
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Harry Baur, Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Robert Cochran, Morton Selten, Athene Seyler, Walter Hudd, Charles Carson, Morland Graham, Hay Petrie
When a jealous suitor, Brioukov (Harry Baur), frames his rival, Ignatoff (Laurence Olivier), the result is a trial for treason.
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Rembrandt 1936 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alexander Korda
Cast: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Edward Chapman, Walter Hudd, Roger Livesey, John Bryning, Allan Jeayes, Raymond Huntley, John Clements, Sam Livesey, Austin Trevor, Abraham Sofaer, Laurence Hanray
Charles Laughton is excellent in his role of the famed Dutch painter, Rembrandt. The film covers the last three decades of the painter's life during which he had three wives. After his first wife dies, Rembrandt marries his housekeeper Geertje (Gertrude Lawrence) but that doesn't work when he turns to his maid Hendrickje (Elsa Lanchester), and Geertje leaves him. Hendrickje becomes pregnant, and they marry, but she dies. However, during the decades covered in the story, Rembrandt paints some of his most creative work.
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| 1. Cast a Dark Shadow (1957)
2. I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
3. The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
4. Look Back in Anger (1958)
5. Major Barbara (1941)
6. Moscow Nights (1936)
aka: I Stand Condemned
7. Rembrandt (1936)
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