In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription. **Academy Award** nominee.

Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as a brother and sister dance team that is invited to England to perform at the same time as the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth.

Shot almost entirely in 'Kelly Country', near the country town of Benalla, The Glenrowan Affair takes us back to the era of Victoria's most notorious bushranger, showcasing thrilling action sequences and horsemanship as time and again the Kelly Gang outwit the law. The film begins with old timer, Dinny (some say he knows too much for an outsider) telling the story of the Kelly Gang to a visiting sketch artist.. His tale unfolds as Ned Kelly and Joe Byrne surprise the constabulary in the bar of the Glenrowan Hotel and Ned shoots a constable in the hand. The Glenrowan Affair includes the ambush at Eleven Mile Creek, the hold up at the Jerilderie Bank and the siege at the Glenrowan Hotel where Ned, dressed in a suit of homemade armour, taunts the 'traps' in a hail of gunfire before he is shot and captured..

Starring screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, THE AFRICAN QUEEN tells the timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause - and finding love along the way. The story chronicles the burgeoning romance between Bogie's river rat Charlie Allnut and Hepburn's missionary Rose Sayer, as they reluctantly join forces to torpedo a German gunboat in war-torn East Africa. Directed by **Academy Award** winner John Huston, and filmed on location in the Belgian Congo, THE AFRICAN QUEEN is arguably one of the finest films ever made - with one of the most legendary star pairings ever to appear on the screen. Humphrey Bogart won an **Academy Award** for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his work in this film.

Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), but he forgets all about her when he falls for dazzling socialite Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor). Alice can't forget about him, though: she is pregnant with his child. Just when George's personal and professional futures seem assured, Alice demands that he marry her or she'll expose him to his society friends. This predicament sets in motion a chain of events that will ultimately include George's arrest and numerous other tragedies, including a vicious cross-examination by a D.A. played by future Perry Mason Raymond Burr. Winner of Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards, USA**. Winner of Best Picture at the **Golden Globes, USA**. *"Gripping from first to last." - Peter Bradshaw, **Guardian***

Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many trials, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who invests money and facilities to develop it. However, when the news of Stratton's invention breaks, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves in an artificial alliance, both determined that the fabric must never go on the market. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Screenplay. Nominated for a **BAFTA** for Best British Film.

A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy ... including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort ... while feeding stories to the nation's reporters clamoring to cover the event. He's become the self-anointed mastermind behind what soon becomes a national media sensation - and he's desperately determined to milk it for all it is work. Celebrated director Billy Wilder (*Sunset Boulevard*) mixes gritty cynicism with a superb cast in this powerful, fascinating study of the dark side of the human soul. Nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. *"ACE IN THE HOLE is a revelation, as timely now as when it was made." - Ruthe Stein, **The San Francisco Chronicle***

Peter Sellers debut film. Madcap comedy about a pools winner on holiday at the seaside. Sellers plays 2 parts. The pools winner - Harry Secombe - and his friend - Spike Milligan - are beset by gold digging girls and con men trying to part him from his money.

Alec Guinness stars as a mild-mannered transporter of gold bullion who has spent 20 years moving gold bars to banks in an armored truck. One day he simply decides to help himself to a million British pounds' worth of the gold, but to pull off the heist he enlists an old friend who sculpts and manufactures paperweights. Once the gold is hijacked, it's molded into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped off to Paris. Panic ensues when six of the gold miniatures are mistakenly sold to a group of English schoolgirls, and just when the amateur thieves think they've finally pulled off their heist without a hitch... Winner of Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards** and at the **Venice Film Festival**. Winner of Best British Film at the **BAFTA Awards**. "*Charles Crichton's direction is subtle but inventive - check out the snaking, near-single-take opening in a Rio cabana - and the performances, writing and plotting are faultless.*" - Tom Huddleston, ***Time Out***

One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright's Native Son (first published in 1940) exposed the injustices of urban African-American life, witnessed through the eyes of Bigger Thomas, whose violent tendencies and moral confusion were the natural result of a lifetime of deprivation. In prison for murder and sentenced to death, Thomas reflects on the circumstances that led to his fate. Kino Lorber presents a new restoration of the 1951 film version of the novel, directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Richard Wright as Bigger Thomas. It is presented in association with the Library of Congress, Fernando Martin Peña and Argentina Sono Film. Special thanks to Edgardo Krebs for his years of research into the making of NATIVE SON, and for being a tireless champion of its restoration and re-release.

In this influential crime drama, an embittered cop, Det. James McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim battle with the city's lowlife. But while McLeod fights crime on the streets, his wife suffers from neglect at home. Based on Sydney Kingsley's Broadway play, this seminal movie was a prototype for everything from *Hill Street Blues* to *NYPD Blue*. Nominated for Best Actress (Eleanor Parker), Best Supporting Actress (Lee Grant), Best Director, and Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Actor (Kirk Douglas), and Best Supporting Actress (Lee Grant) at the **Golden Globes**. Nominated for Best Film at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of Best Actress (Lee Grant) and nominated for the Grand Prize at the **Cannes Film Festival**. *"A brisk, absorbing film by Producer-Director William Wyler, with the help of a fine, responsive cast ... - Bosley Crowther, **The New York Times***

Dan, a sailor and small-time smuggler, is caught trying to take some nylons from his girlfriend through customs at the POOL OF LONDON. Later he meets a man called Vernon who persuades him to smuggle stolen diamonds to Rotterdam. But Vernon does not mention that a watchman has been murdered during the theft of these gems. "*The heist element is well crafted and suspenseful, but the most striking aspect is Dearden's tentative venture into racial politics, with the first interracial relationship in a British film.*" - Carl Daniels, **BFI Screenonline**