![]() | Pride and Prejudice [All Region] [import][DVD][1940]
Typical Hollywooded version of Jane Austen's novel, the only saving graces are the two strong leads. Olivier made a good Darcy and Greer Garson a superb feisty Elizabeth. Edna May Oliver co stars
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![]() | The Philadelphia Story [DVD] [1941] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £7.93 The dream team of Grant, Hepburn and Stewart made this film a must see, Stewart won the Oscar for his performance. Hepburn's wedding plans are interupted with the arrival of her x husband
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![]() | Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator [1940] [DVD]
Buy used from: £32.99 Chaplin's first talkie and most successful. A film satirizing Nazi Germany, Hitler, Fascism and Antisemitism, it managed to stir the conscience of America as far back as 1940. Written & Directed by CC
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![]() | Pinocchio : Special Edition [DVD] [1940]
Buy used from: £6.30 Widely regarded as one of the best animated films ever made, Disney's 2nd full length feature about a wooden puppet wanting to become a real boy is a delight. 'When You Wish Upon A Star' a great tune.
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![]() | Dumbo (Special Edition) [1941] [DVD]
Buy used from: £14.75 One of my fave Disney films of all time and Walt Disney's personal favourite also, cannot believe that it was criticised for being racist at the time for the crow characters being stereotypicaly black
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![]() | Citizen Kane [DVD] [1941] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £7.99 Generally regarded in film circles as the greatest film ever made, Orson Welles debut about an idealistic businessman that turns to ruthless power is semiautobiographical. Won the Oscar for screenplay
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![]() | Blossoms In The Dust (1941)
Buy used from: £28.99 Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon star as the Gladney's who set up the first adoption agency in America, orphan's were frowned upon and she manages to change the law and the public's way of thinking.
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![]() | Mrs. Miniver [DVD] [1942] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £38.00 Churchill even agreed that this did more for the war effort than any form of polotics. Greer Garson is superb as a housewife trying to keep her family together whilst conducting herself with dignity
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![]() | Random Harvest [All Region] [import][1942]
Fourth box office success in a row for Greer Garson making her the biggest star in Hollywood. Ronald Colman is also superb in this story of found love, amnesia, lost love and a happy ending?!
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![]() | Casablanca [1942] [DVD]
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.69 Probably the most famous romantic film of all time with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Quite topical at the time as it dealt with the French resistance against the Nazi's as America joined WW2.
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![]() | The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp [DVD] [1943]
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £1.95 Set in 1943 this film cleverly transports the viewer back 40 years to 1903 with the use of a turkish bath! We travel through the Boer War, WWI and how our character got to WW2. Roger Livesey stars.
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![]() | Meet Me In St. Louis [DVD] [1944]
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.00 Great musical starring Judy Garland, her version of 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' brings a lump to the throat even now. Leon Ames is brilliant as the Father surrounded by women!
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![]() | Das Bildnis Des Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray) [DVD]
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £16.19 Superb horror movie of Oscar Wilde's only novel starring George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield. The use of colour to show how the picture has aged truly scared me to death when I first watched it!
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![]() | Brief Encounter [DVD] [1945]
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £7.99 Total classic from David Lean about a repressed and bored housewife Celia Johnson who is tied to her husband through duty finds love in the form of Trevor Howard who's also married. Very British.
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![]() | The Yearling [1946] (Region 2 compatible)
Buy used from: £8.99 Claude Jarman Jr gives an extraordinary performance as a young boy yearning for a pet. He gets a yearling that continues to grow and ruin crops and cause problems until something has to be done.
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![]() | It's A Wonderful Life [DVD] [1946]
My favourite film of the 1940's, Frank Capra's original film of the life of George Bailey and his endless quest to move away is an absolute classic. Donna Reed plays his wife. A Feel Good Film.
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![]() | The Winslow Boy [DVD] [1948]
Buy new: £5.78 Robert Donat my favourite actor from this period gives another stunning performance in Terrence Rattigan's play. A story of fighting injustice at all costs no matter how small the crime.
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![]() | Adam's Rib [DVD] [1949]
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.48 Classic romantic comedy and one of many Hepburn & Tracey films. A husband and wife team of lawyers defend opposing sides with hilarious results as the case spills over into the're home life.
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![]() | Kind Hearts And Coronets [DVD] [1949]
Buy used from: £6.45 The superb Alec Guiness plays no less than 8 characters, The Duke, The Banker, The Parson, The General, The Admiral, Young Ascoyne, Young Henry and Lady Agatha. This is the reason this film is class.
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![]() | Passport To Pimlico [DVD] [1949]
Buy used from: £4.35 Based on a true story where Canada had to pass a law to make a hospital room part of the Netherlands. Sterling Holloway and Margaret Rutherford star in a very British comedy.
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![]() | Samson & Delilah [DVD] [US Import] by Heddy Lemar
Cecil B Demille's spectacular epic with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr. A firm childhood favourite especially the finale, he soon wipes the smiles off their faces in this ultimate "told you so" movie!
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![]() | The Third Man [DVD] [1949]
Buy used from: £5.99 Carol Reed's classic with Trevor Howard, Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton. His use of distorted camera angles and a distinctive soundtrack made this movie memorable.
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![]() | Bambi (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1942]
Buy used from: £17.49 The third classic Disney tale of a young fawn and his adventures still manages to enchant even now, the unseen enemy of man is a menace, provoked early animal rights activists to form and protest.
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![]() | Hue And Cry [DVD] [1947]
Buy used from: £6.66 Alastair Sim is undoubtably one of the funniest comedy actors we have produced, this is generally regarded as the first Ealing comedy. The film is historic and makes good use of London after the blitz
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![]() | Oliver Twist -- Special Edition [DVD] [1948]
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £1.48 David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens novel is widely regarded as the best, Alec Guiness is inspired as Fagin. Shot in black & white, it enhances the view of the daker side of London's past.
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![Pride and Prejudice [All Region] [import][DVD][1940]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31A3oIOsxDL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Philadelphia Story [DVD] [1941] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DYT54SR4L._SL75_.jpg)
![Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator [1940] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DD3PSYQML._SL75_.jpg)
![Pinocchio : Special Edition [DVD] [1940]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51075BM15EL._SL75_.jpg)
![Dumbo (Special Edition) [1941] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SzfAwFZJL._SL75_.jpg)
![Citizen Kane [DVD] [1941] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5127p1LK%2BnL._SL75_.jpg)

![Mrs. Miniver [DVD] [1942] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411KWpvFHqL._SL75_.jpg)
![Random Harvest [All Region] [import][1942]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31Hit4zvK3L._SL75_.jpg)
![Casablanca [1942] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AQPJFPPKL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp [DVD] [1943]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X6NWBAGXL._SL75_.jpg)
![Meet Me In St. Louis [DVD] [1944]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GmLkiC5UL._SL75_.jpg)
![Das Bildnis Des Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray) [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HyRItFKGL._SL75_.jpg)
![Brief Encounter [DVD] [1945]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZB9I-sdDL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Yearling [1946] (Region 2 compatible)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Dc9f-8ZwL._SL75_.jpg)
![It's A Wonderful Life [DVD] [1946]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51a%2B%2BkyStLL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Winslow Boy [DVD] [1948]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519NV8BKkoL._SL75_.jpg)
![Adam's Rib [DVD] [1949]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515TJRY20EL._SL75_.jpg)
![Kind Hearts And Coronets [DVD] [1949]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C37GHKQHL._SL75_.jpg)
![Passport To Pimlico [DVD] [1949]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MP6842ZGL._SL75_.jpg)
![Samson & Delilah [DVD] [US Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VgsiRvjpL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Third Man [DVD] [1949]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519TM352K1L._SL75_.jpg)
![Bambi (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1942]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510E2F583HL._SL75_.jpg)
![Hue And Cry [DVD] [1947]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517V76976AL._SL75_.jpg)
![Oliver Twist -- Special Edition [DVD] [1948]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SRSBGNMRL._SL75_.jpg)
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