Carlton Cinema

Glowering fantasy about an eccentric scientist who has discovered a radioactive meteorite which produces mutations. Based on H P Lovecraft’s ‘The Colour Out of Space’. Remade in 1987 as ‘The Curse’

Crime drama in which an unemployed wastrel, who sees himself as an emotional leper, decides that he needs a violent shock to shake himself back into life. He has his chance when he makes the acquaintance of an ex-soldier and agrees to murder the man’s aunt

Touching tale of a young husband and father who is reincarnated as a dog called Fluke following a fatal car crash. Once he realises what has happened, Fluke decides to search out his family, helped along the way by Rumbo, a streetwise canine who acts as a guide in this strange new world. With the voice of Samuel L Jackson. Adapted from the James Herbert bestseller

Signed and subtitled programme previewing forthcoming films that have subtitles

Tense thriller about a bank teller turned criminal who vows revenge on the policeman he blames for his wife’s death. While in prison, he turns psychotic and conceives an escape plan so that he can kill the policeman’s wife in retaliation

Romantic adventure set in Southeast Asia. Two pilots agree to fly a crooked banker from Shanghai to Saigon for a price, unaware that the banker is on the run from the police, and end up crash-landing in the jungle with the banker’s secretary and a briefcase full of cash

Another rollicking yarn with the suave adventurer. On the verge of marrying his sweetheart, Bulldog is dragged away from the ceremony to pursue the villains behind cases of murder and robbery

Documentary looking at the history of Hollywood child stars

An expertly-produced epic telling the tale of a family suffering through World War II, adapted from a story by Margaret Buell Wilder. The storyline focuses on a family at home, awaiting news of their enlisted father. The score by Max Steiner won an Oscar

Classic black comedy about a hotshot newsman who writes a sob story about the imminent death of a Vermont girl longing to visit New York. In exhange for the rights to her story, the girl is given a free trip to the city, where she and the reporter fall in love. The girl later confesses she was misdiagnosed and that she has a clean bill of health, but the public interest in her case means she must go on the run

Family drama about an impoverished New York boy who discovers that he is the heir to his grandfather’s estate in England. Adapted from the story by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Classic portrait of an alienated middle-class American teenager in the 1950s, misunderstood by his parents and rejected by society. The rebellious son of an overbearing mother and a withdrawn father, he copes with the world through violence and alcohol. Together with his neighbour, an angry girl whose own problems stem from an unloving father, he gets into all kinds of trouble until tragedy finally takes over

Contemporary update of the 1937 tearjerker Stella Dallas, following the shifting relationship between a brassy bartender and her daughter. Rejecting an offer of marriage from her daughter's father, Stella soon finds that being a single working mother has its disadvantages. Aware of the benefits that life with the other parent might bring her child, Stella prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice

Oscar-winning romantic comedy about the affair between a married American insurance executive and a British divorcee. Although the course of their love does not run entirely smoothly - his back problems rather cramp his style - they continue with the relationship and rent a flat for their liaisons. But he finds that combining parenthood, marriage and career with an affair can takes its toll