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The Major and the Minor
Academy Award® winners Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland sparkle in this debut comedy from Academy Award®-winning writer-director Billy Wilder. A frustrated city girl (Rogers) decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby (Milland) and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled. This "memorable...
The Front Page
Ruthless newspaper editor Walter Burns (Walter Matthau) and his crack ace reporter Hildy (Jack Lemmon) believe together they can cover any story. The only problem is their team is being broken up as Hildy has decided to get married and leave the newspaper business altogether. As Hildy grooms his replacement, his retirement is derailed when the story of the century breaks. As all of Chicago is in hot pursuit, Hildy's instincts tell him something is rotten. Carol Burnett and Susan Sarandon co-...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / The Emperor Waltz Double Feature
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: Bing Crosby stars in this light and lively musical version of Mark Twain's timeless comedy. Der Bingle is a turn-of-the-century blacksmith who is knocked unconscious only to awaken in sixth-century Camelot. But thanks to some American know-how, the crooner is quickly hailed as a wiz of a wizard and granted the right to teach Rhonda Fleming, the King's fetching niece, some decidedly contemporary romantic tricks. Alas, there's trouble afoot when Bing...
The Lost Weekend
The Best Picture of 1945 has lost none of its bite or power in this uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism. Ironically, this brilliant Billy Wilder film was almost never released because of poor reaction by preview audiences unaccustomed to such stark realism from Hollywood, but the film has since gone on to be regarded as one of the all-time great dramas in movie history. Ray Milland's haunting portrayal of a would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a...
Double Indemnity
Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in this gripping film noir from Academy Award®-winning director Billy Wilder. A calculating wife encourages her wealthy husband to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by smitten insurance agent Walter Neff. As the would-be lovers plot the unsuspecting husband's murder, they are pursued by a suspicious claims manager (Edward G. Robinson). It's a race against time to get away with the perfect crime in this heart-racing Academy Award®-nominated...
Bing Crosby: The Silver Screen Collection - The 1940s
One of the most popular entertainers of all time, Bing Crosby was a superstar of movies, music, radio and television during a spectacular career that lasted over 50 years. Bing Crosby: The Silver Screen Collection – The 1940s includes 11 of his best films from the second decade of his film career alongside co-stars Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, Barry Fitzgerald, Betty Hutton and Marjorie Reynolds. Featuring Bing in top form singing some of his most memorable songs such as "Blue Skies," "Swinging...
Film Noir 10-Movie Spotlight Collection
Film Noir - the dark, suspenseful style of filmmaking from the 1940s and 1950s - has left an indelible imprint on the world of cinema as we know it. Whether it is the driven private eye, the flawed hero or the hapless schemer, these artistic films and unforgettable characters have come to define a genre laced with murder, jealousy, intrigue, corruption, forbidden romance and double-crosses. The Film Noir: 10-Movie Spotlight Collection showcases a selection of defining movies including Double...