Grant is in uncharacteristic mode as a skiving, drunken bum seeing out WW2 on a South Sea island. Bribed into coast watching for the Aussie Navy, he takes to his task quite happily until the arrival of a shapely French schoolteacher and her seven small charges. A light-hearted saccharine romance. find out more...

Yes it's our boy Grant again in an early remake of an even earlier film "The Front Page". When reluctant divorcee Grant is told that his ex-wife intends to quit his newspaper and re-marry, he gets her to work on one last story in a desperate attempt to win her back. Will he succeed? Hmm. Top stuff. find out more...

Two witches in colonial Salem, Jennifer and her father Daniel, are burned at the stake after being denounced by Puritan Jonathan Wooley and their ashes buried beneath a tree to imprison their evil spirits. In revenge, Jennifer curses Wooley and all his male descendants - they are doomed to always marry the wrong person. In the 20th Century lightning hits the tree freeing the two witches, who now seek to avenge themselves on one of Wooley's descendants who is running for governor. find out more...

A suave business man unable to obtain a divorce enters into an affair with an actress in search of the "real thing". The vivacity of the performances, see Grant's improvised dance at a London club or the "phone sex' scene, lift this above the pack. A diamond. find out more...

Hudson and Day are two rival advertising executives. When Day tries to steal one of Hudson's key accounts mystery clients little does she realise that it is Hudson himself that she's met and who has a ball on her account with his deception. find out more...

Rip Smith (Stewart) discovers a town statistically identical to the entire country so he and his assistants go there to steal a march on his rivals and run polls easily and cheaply. When he meets local civic crusader Mary Peterman (Wyman) romantic involvement follows and things start to change rapidly. find out more...

A great twist on a classic theme. A lady explorer returns after many years away to find that her husband, thinking her gone for ever, has taken another wife. A film from the great years of Hollywood. find out more...

Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life find out more...

Frothy romantic comedy with a seemingly bottomless wardrobe budget. Mitchum is the brash American who takes a shine to very married countess Deborah Kerr and whisks her off for a night on the tiles, getting her home just in time for a duel at dawn with an understandably miffed Cary Grant.

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Under Sturges's microscope, the collision between the gold-digging Harrington and the rich, hapless brewery-heir-turned-herpetologist Charles Pike gives plenty of oppurtunity for the auteur to skewer issues of class and sex. As always, Sturges is bold in pushing the censors' envelope, capturing a palpable erotic heat between the canny Jean and the literally feverish Charlie, who, after a year up the Amazon, is instantly smitten by the mere sight of her shapely ankles. To give away the plot machi find out more...