Carlton Cinema

Lavish, romantic comedy in which a Las Vegas couple fall out on their anniversary and go off with other partners, he with a glamorous high-wire artiste and she with a smooth-talking waiter. Can true love find a way? Now something of a cult item, this dazzling and innovative film bankrupted Coppola and sank his Zoetrope studios. Tom Waits' score, performed by himself and Crystal Gayle, was nominated for an Oscar

Farce in which a holidaying couple from New York get caught up in a draconian justice system after being arrested for speeding through a small town en route to Atlantic City. Brought before the town’s aged, merciless judge, they are subjected to a range of unusual and cruel punishments which leave them desperate to escape. Dan Aykroyd’s directorial debut

A profile of the rugged leading man whose career spanned four decades

Western about a man who is mistaken for a member of a gang of mercenaries and is sent to a brutal prison, where he struggles to escape

Comic melodrama in which a jealous husband’s scheme to compromise his wife and blackmail her into dropping her divorce petition only drives her into the arms of another man. In a bid to dispose of his new rival, the husband tries to frame him for murder

Musical drama about the rise and fall of a nightclub performer who abandons his family and friends when he hits the big time. As his showbusiness stature grows, so does his arrogance and his desire to mix in higher social circles. He casts aside his former companions, starts drinking heavily and enters a self-destructive downward spiral

Classic film noir in which a man finds himself blackmailing a woman after her daughter accidentally kills her lover. This film was seen as a subtle critique of American morals and class culture

Christmas drama in which an architect is sent to a small Colorado town to survey it as a possible real-estate development. But he is soon fighting against his boss in a bid to preserve the town’s old-fashioned charm

A strong cast of children feature in this convincingly played story about a murderer on the run who takes refuge in a barn on a lonely Lancashire farm and inadvertently leads the farmer’s three children to believe that he is Jesus Christ

A holiday romance turns into something more when a lonely American secretary on her first trip to Europe falls head-over-heels for a married man in the romantic setting of Venice. Based on the play ‘The Time of the Cuckoo’ by Arthur Laurent

Profile of the veteran Oscar-winning star, with contributions from Sylvia Syms and Stephen Fry, anecdotes about the beer-drinking scene in ‘Ice Cold in Alex’, and how he won the war for Britain - on film

A swashbuckling tale of treachery and tragedy. An aristocratic woman, disillusioned with her country squire husband, turns to highway robbery in her search for excitement. She soon finds herself embarking on a dangerous affair with a fellow highwayman

A Viking warrior and a Moorish sheik race each other to find a mythical golden bell that legend claims was forged by monks and is as tall as three men, but they must also fight against a king and a whirlpool in the ocean that protects the treasure.

When a desk clerk in a Calcutta hotel is fired, he steals enough money from his father for his passage to England, hoping to seek his fortune in London. Initially he is treated with intolerance, but after he saves a girl’s life his fortunes change, and a combination of mistaken identity and an act of deception leads him into acting as a Harley Street doctor

Action thriller about a disfigured petty criminal who is given plastic surgery in prison and, unrecognisable as his former self, plans his revenge on the ruthless associates who betrayed him. The doctor hopes the painful operations which give Johnny a new look will help him to reform, but he is bent on settling the score with the gang who killed his only friend and left him to carry the can for their last heist