A young woman inherits a family curse that turns her into a murderous feline when she is angered. Read More »
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River Beat (1954) Guy Green, Phyllis Kirk, John Bentley, Robert Ayres
A London police inspector is patrolling the river looking for smugglers, when he becomes attracted to a woman working as a ship’s radio operator. Read More »
A Night to Remember (1958) Roy Ward Baker, Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Action, Drama, History
On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord’s book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the ship’s last hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night to Remember is cinema’s subtlest and best dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
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