The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales." **Academy Award** nominee.

Calvero, once a famous Music Hall star, now a washedup old man, saves a neighbor from suicide. He nurtures the young ballerina with paralyzed legs back to health, and helps her regain her self-esteem, so that she may return to the stage.In this film Chaplin intimately and poignantly explores the twilight years of glory: what it means to be forgotten, to despair, and how to gather the strength to overcome. Chaplin also offers Buster Keaton a highly memorable appearance in their musical duet. Copyright © 1952 Roy Export S.A.S. All Rights Reserved. Renewed Copyright © 1980 Roy Export S.A.S. All Rights Reserved. Photos © Roy Export S.A.S.

A dazzling spectacle of life behind the scenes with Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus. Celebrating the extravagant three-ring circus, this classic film from Cecil B. DeMille depicts the passionate scenes of love and jealousy behind the greatest show on Earth. Winner of Best Picture and Best Writing, Motion Picture Story at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director, and Best Cinematography - Color at the **Golden Globes**. *"This is the circus with more entertainment, more thrills, more spangles and as much Big Top atmosphere as RB-B&B itself can offer." - Herb Golden, **Variety*** *"The great showman of the movies has packed everything into this one picture. It has comedy, drama, thrills, melodrama, tragedy and great heart appeal." - Kate Cameron, **New York Daily News***

Based on William Inge's classic play, COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA is the stirring tale of a life-weary couple who rescue hope from the ruins of the past. Shirley Booth stars in an **Academy Award**-winning performance as Lola, slovenly housewife to Doc Delaney (Burt Lancaster), a recovering alcoholic. The Delaneys' life is dull and unchanging, but takes a dramatic turn when the couple take in a charming boarder, Marie. Marie becomes the daughter the Delaneys never had. But when Marie takes up with a boorish boyfriend, Doc descends into a jealous tailspin and must once again face the temptations of the bottle. An unforgettable film shimmering with life-truths and dramatic intensity. Winner of Best Actress in a Leading Role and nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of Best Actress and nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes**. Nominated for Best Film and Best Actress at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner for the International Prize for Dramatic Film at the **Cannes Film Festival**.

In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.. Oscar Winner for Best Documentary, Short Subject. Nominated for a BAFTA Award.

In this rediscovered masterpiece of film noir, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright who marries a mediocre actor (Jack Palance). She soon discovers that he not only married her for money but that he plans to murder her with the help of his lover (Gloria Grahame).. SUDDEN FEAR received Academy Award Nominations in 1952 for Charles Lang Jr (Best Black & White Cinematography), Joan Crawford (Best Actress), and Jack Palance (Best Supporting Actor).. 2013 Official Selection Il Cinema Ritrovato. "...There is not a shot in this film that isn't necessary to its dramatic progression. Not a shot, either, that isn't fascinating and doesn't make us think it's a masterpiece of cinema." - François Truffaut. "Like many underrecognized treasures, David Miller's SUDDEN FEAR fits into and defies different genres, its convention-scrambling partly the result of the fact that the film looks both forward and back." - Melissa Anderson, Village Voice

Gary Cooper won the **Academy Award** for the Best Actor in this classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, Cooper stands to lose not only the town but his new wife, Grace Kelly. The film also stars one of Hollywood's most beloved and prolific actors, Lloyd Bridges, and marks the first starring role for a beautiful young actress and internationally adored screen legend Grace Kelly. HIGH NOON garnered a total of four **Academy Awards** including Best Film Editing, Score and Original Song. *"Meaningful in its implications, as well as loaded with interest and suspense, HIGH NOON is a western to challenge Stagecoach for the all-time championship."* - Bosley Crowther, ***The New York Times***

The story of aviation exploration and of the human problems which beset those on earth who can only sit and wait. John Ridgefield, pioneer airman and visionary, manufactures jet planes designed to fly faster than sound into a new world, where speeds of two thousand miles an hour may be commonplace. But his daughter, Susan, believing that human life is more important than human progress, condemns her father's aims and endeavors as senseless ambition. Nominee for Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of Best British Actor, Best British Film, and Best Film at the **BAFTA Awards** *"The excitement and beauty of early jet aviation are still irresistible." David Denby, **The New Yorker***

The theft of a jeweled treasure is within an adventurer's grasp; he is restrained by his love for a good woman.

Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in the movies when they did Wuthering Heights together, but it's in Carrie that he showed how much he had learned" (Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies).

In this noir-thriller, three convicts are contracted by a mysterious benefactor to pull a bank heist. The four men, having worn masks during the crime, are complete strangers and are anonymous to one another, but plan to meet up in Mexico to divvy up the loot. Part of their master plan is to frame the robbery on Joe Rolfe, an ex-con himself--but little do they know, Rolfe has convinced the police of his innocence and has now been hired to catch the true culprits. "*Director Phil Karlson reins his cast in a grim atmosphere that develops momentum through succeeding reels. Payne delivers an impressive portrayal of an unrelenting outsider who cracks the ring.*" ***Variety*** "*A 'perfect crime' plot*!" - ***Time***

After years in Soviet captivity, farmer Heinz Weimann returns to the village of Bärenweiler, in West Germany. His joy at returning home is clouded by news that US occupation forces intend to build an airfield on village lands, in preparation for a confrontation with the Soviet Union. The villagers are expected to move out. The villagers turn to the government and local bishop, but receive no assistance. Led by Heinz, they protest peacefully-but he is arrested and imprisoned. As the case becomes known, trade unions from all over West Germany mobilize to support and help the villagers. When American forces attempt to evict the villagers, residents of the surrounding villages march on Bärenweiler and show their solidarity. At the end, Bärenweiler is saved and the Americans are forced to leave and abandon their plans.