Constance Collier

Rope -- Crushed by the unbearable weight of the way things are, a young man decides to die.

The Rope -- Based on an actual story, 'The Rope' is a loving nod to peasant life and the outlandish idiosyncrasies that make bona fide characters out of many a villager. During the snow-laden winters of the Armenian highlands, villagers are mostly confined to their homes. As indoor activities are limited, the men often take to drinking by way of hushing boredom. When Setrak (Michael Poghosian in fiendish form) is denied wine by his wife, he goes berserk and storms out of the house, intent on hanging himself in the barn. As he rushes to his end, he also can't help wondering what the missus would do when she sees him dangling lifelessly from the ceiling. Some time later, when his wife has a change of heart and walks into the barn with a jug of wine in hand, she is confronted by the awful truth. Setrak is dead. Or is he? What follows is a comedy of errors involving a theft by an old woman, an actual death, the police, time in jail, and a time for self-reckoning, all performed with deadpan humor for a fun-seeking camera.

Astaire teams up with Burns & Allen to bring some good ol' American music and mayhem to stately England. There, lovely Joan Fontaine pines for a husband and finds Astaire. Naturally, A Damsel in Distress becomes a lady in love. Enjoy George Gershwin's last completed score,including the pensive "A Foggy Day" amd "Nice Work If You Can Get It" plus the famed Astaire-Burns-Allen fun house dance and other inspired stepping-out that earned dance director Hermes Pan an Academy Award. Renowned "Jeeves" humorist P.G Wodehouse writes and George Stevens (Giant, Shane) directs.

James Stewart, Farley Granger and John Dall star in this macabre spellbinder, which was inspired by a real-life case of murder. Two thrill-seeking friends (Granger and Dall) strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the 'perfect murder', their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.

High school sweethearts Tom Walker (George Montgomery) and Carol Maynard (Dorothy Lamour) meet again in their old hometown, after following very different paths in life: Carol has become a famous model, and ex-football star Tom is now a minister. While Carol tries to save her uncle's boarding house from foreclosure, she also resumes her romance with Tom -- which piques the interest of the local bishop (Charles Laughton), who's also Tom's boss.

Alfred Hitchcock directs James Stewart in this macabre spellbinder about two thrill-seeking friends who strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends.

Alfred Hitchcock directs James Stewart in this macabre spellbinder about two thrill-seeking friends who strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends.

The Perils of Pauline -- Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she 'opens' for a delayed Shakespeare play...

(1937) Edward G. Robinson, Ralph Richardson, Nigel Bruce, Luli, Deste, Arthur Wontner, Annie Esmond. Edward G plays a hard-driving American salesman visiting Great Britain where he becomes involved in a scheme to exploit Mangelite mines in the wilds of Rodesia. A very underated and too often neglected film.& Recommended for sure. From 16mm.

Fred Astaire sails across the pond to meet damsel in distress Joan Fontaine and delightful (if unlikely) dance partners George Burns and Gracie Allen in a musical co-scripted by master wit P.G. Wodehouse and directed by George Stevens (Swing Time).

Fred Astaire sails across the pond to meet damsel in distress Joan Fontaine and delightful (if unlikely) dance partners George Burns and Gracie Allen in a musical co-scripted by master wit P.G. Wodehouse and directed by George Stevens (Swing Time).

(1937) Edward G. Robinson, Ralph Richardson, Nigel Bruce, Luli, Deste, Arthur Wontner, Annie Esmond. Edward G plays a hard-driving American salesman visiting Great Britain where he becomes involved in a scheme to exploit Mangelite mines in the wilds of Rodesia. A very underated and too often neglected film.& Recommended for sure. From 16mm.