Carlton Cinema

In a bid to make up for losing a high-school football game years ago, a middle-aged bank manager attempts to get all the players back on the field for a rematch

Chilling horror film in which a renegade plastic surgeon on the run from the police hides out in a run-down circus. He offers his services to female fugitives who repay him by joining the circus and catering to his twisted demands

In-depth look at how horror films have developed over the years, from silent classics such as ‘Nosferatu’ to the Hammer horrors of the 60s. Narrated by actor Jose Ferrer

Comical farce about a wealthy dowager who recruits an inept band of amateur thieves to recover some stolen furs, specifying that any profits that happen to be accrued by the undertaking are to be given to charity

Gangster melodrama about a the son of a crooked stockbroker who turns to crime in a bid to raise enough money to help his jailed father. Changing his name to Johnny Apollo, he joins a leading underworld gang but gets dangerously involved with his crime boss’s girlfriend and, thanks to an informer, winds up in jail alongside his father

A naive American aid worker arrives in war-torn Indo-China with his own plan for solving the country’s problems. There he meets a cynical journalist who, despite his worldliness, is drawn into a communist plot with tragic repercussions. Adapted from the novel by Graham Greene

Series of documentaries taking an overview of British cinema. This programme looks at British thrillers, including ‘The Medusa Touch’ and ‘The Boys from Brazil’

A Norwegian exile, enraged at the Nazi invasion of his quiet fishing village, guides some British commandos on a raid against the German oppressors. Starring Paul Muni, Anna Lee and Lillian Gish

Sentimental melodrama looking at West Point, its cadets and, in particular, athletic trainer Marty Maher, an Irish immigrant who found a home in the army. Based on a true story

Musical comedy in which a husband and wife leave Australia for the gold fields of South Africa, only for the mine they have banked on to yield no gold at all. Needing to make ends meet, the wife gets a job in a local saloon as a singer, and soon starts to fall in love with the landlord

Crime thriller. A young man, obsessed by the fact that his father was a hangman, embarks on a murder spree. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he struggles to control his deadly impulses

A World War Two veteran suffering from amnesia attempts to discover his true identity. Delving deeper, his findings take him to Los Angeles, where he learns that he may have been in league with the mob

Compelling courtroom drama in which a high-class prostitute facing a manslaughter charge persuades her lawyer to help her in a battle to prove her sanity and secure her right to a trial. Both the prosecution and the woman’s mother and stepfather are keen to have her committed to an institution, so all her hopes lie with her solicitor. Adapted by Tom Topor from his own play

Action adventure in which the young son of an American engineer is kidnapped in the Amazonian rainforest by a tribe of Indians known as the ‘Invisible People’. His father searches for him for ten years and eventually finds a transformed young man, fully integrated into the tribe that has adopted him. However, the survival of the tribe is under threat from ‘civilised’ man’s continual destruction of the forest