DRAMA/ROMANCE USA
About Mrs Leslie - 1954
A boarding house Landlady recalls her past tenants in a series of flashbacks, in this stylish romantic drama
Stars: Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar
Quality: 9/10
All Mine To Give - 1957
An immigrant family in 1850's Wisconsin prospers until tragedy strikes
Quality: 9/10, US Drama
Stars: Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, Rex Thompson
Dir: Allen Reisner
And One Was Beautiful - 1940
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Jean Muir
Autumn Leaves - 1956
Quality: 8.5/10 (region free dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene, Ruth Donnelly
Bedtime Story - 1941
A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play
Quality: 7/10, US romantic comedy
Stars: Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley
Dir: Alexander Hall
The Bishop's Wife - 1947
An Angel appears to try to help an obsessed Bishop and his beautiful wife to rekindle their love
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young
Come Next Spring - 1956
Quality: 8.5/10 (region free dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan, Sherry Jackson
The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs - 1960
In Oklahoma in the 1920's, Ruben Flood loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt, which leads to all manner of family difficulties
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury
Dear Heart - 1964
Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to adjust to having become engaged. When his path crosses Evie's, she wonders if this is finally the man for her, while her ways just seem to annoy him. At least to start with
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury
The Enchanted Cottage - 1945
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. Gradually they find happiness together
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick
Finishing School - 1934
Quality: 8.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers
Invitation - 1952
Believing her marriage to be solid, Ellen's trust in her husband is shaken when she learns that her father had paid him to marry her because she may be dying. Also, her husband's ex girlfriend is determined to get her man back at any cost. Top-notch romantic melodrama
Quality: 9/10 (playback in 16:9 or zoom aspect for best picture)
Stars: Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman
Lady In The Dark - 1944
Quality: 9/10 (logo/region free dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Ray Milland, Ginger Rogers, Warner Baxter, John Hall
The Little Hut - 1957
Three people are washed ashore on a desert island after their ship is wrecked
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven
Lizzie - 1957
A Psychiatrist uses hypnosis to treat a 25 year old woman who is suffering from multiple personality disorder
Quality: 8.5/10, nb: won't play on Panasonic machines
Stars: Eleanor Parker, Richard Boone, Joan Blondel, Hugo Haas
Lonely Wives - 1931
Romantic Pre-code comedy about a lonely husband who hires a look-a-like to take his place and fool his mother-in-law, while he plays around with a pretty coquette during his wife's absence
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante
The Lost Moment - 1947 (US Drama)
A publisher visits the crumbling mansion belonging to the lover of a renowned but long-dead poet, in order to find lost love letters
Quality: 7.5/10, US
Stars: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Mooorehead, Joan Lorring
Dir: Martin Gabel
Love Letters - 1945
Allen Quinton writes a fellow soldier's love letters which can only end in tragedy
Quality: 7.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format, disc only)
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Ann Richards
National Velvet - 1944
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes
Quality: 8.5/10, US
Stars: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp
The North Star - 1943
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Farley Granger, Ann Harding
Not Wanted - 1949
Quality: 7.5/10 (region free EURO PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Sally Forrest, Keefe, Braselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Outcast Lady - 1934
A woman's trials and tribulations over a romance since childhood, protecting her husband's secret past, and the trouble it causes with her brother
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Mrs Patrick Campbell
Random Harvest - 1942
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Remember The Night - 1940
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday
Quality: 9/10, US
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
Romance On The High Seas - 1948
Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day
San Diego, I Love You - 1944
A stressed daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft. Super fun!
Quality: 8/10, US
Stars: Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton, Edward Everett Horton
Tender Comrade - 1943
Quality: 9/10 (region free EURO PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Kim Hunter, Patricia Collinge
Waterloo Bridge - 1940
Myra and Roy meet and fall in love on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Their love will be one of the wars unspoken casualties
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor
Wild Is The Wind - 1957
An immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife, but when he neglects her she becomes involved with his trusted assistant. *David Bowie covered the theme song on his 1976 album Station To Station
Quality: 8/10, US
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Anthony Franciosa