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...

Elwood's sanity is brought into question when he starts seeng a six-foot rabbit. His family however are more concerned with the effect it is having on their social standing, and make moves to have him committed. A brilliant farce and deservedly famous film. Puts the C in classic. Charming. find out more...

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 Frank Capra's classic bittersweet drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), a small town businessman who has long considered himself a failure. Things come to a head one Christmas Eve in 1946, when facing financial ruin and arrest he contemplates suicide. Standing on a bridge and ready to jump George's fate now rests in the hands of an Angel eager to earn his wings. It's a Wonderful Life is widely considered to be one of the finest films ever made, it is certainly one of the greatest f find out more...

Wilma Kotcher tells her husband, Gerald, that his father is no longer welcome in their home, but the feisty dad, Joseph P Kotcher, won't allow himself to be locked up with a bunch of other senior citizens. Instead he decides to move in with a troubled teenage babysitter who has become pregnant. Joseph finds new meaning in his life by lending the girl, Erica, a hand. At the same time, the teenager learns a lot about life from her new roommate. Kotch is a touching tale directed by Jack Lemmon. find out more...

In letters to her Spanish raised daughter, Apple Annie, a cantankerous New York City fruit peddler, has been pretending that she's a high-society matron. When the now grown up daughter and her aristocratic fiancée plan to visit, Annie panics and turns to her best customer, Dave the Dude, a racketeering gangster who sets about transforming her into the grandest of dames. Based on ‘Guys and Dolls' this 1930s fairytale was Capra's first major success, a charming comedy drama with a razor sharp scri 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...

Early screwball comedy from the director of 'It's a Wonderful Life'. Longfellow Deeds (the charismatic Gary Cooper) inherits his uncle's vast fortune and sets off to New York to move into his enormous mansion. But Deeds is a simple kind of fellow who doesn't really want $20 million, much to the delight of the public. But one man, news editor George Bancroft, is determined to prove that Deeds's innocent sincerity is false, and sends aggressive reporter Jean Arthur to try to discredit him. Excelle find out more...

Stewart is superb as the young Wisconsin senator put up to the job, who then exposes the corruption in the Senate and upholds true American values. Popular wish fulfilment served up with such fast talking comic panache that you don't have time to question its cornball idealism. A great film! find out more...

Based on Howard Lindsay's Pulitzer winning play, State Of The Union revolves around an idealistic industrial magnate's decision to enter politics and run for the presidency. Little does he realise the pressure he is about to put himself under, or the effect it will have on his estranged wife. A classic tale, beautifully performed by the two leads mixing satire and drama with perfectly judged light comedy. find out more...