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SILVER SCREEN in 2013
Silver Screen in 2013
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (M)
17th & 20th February Genre: Adventure / Drama
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Jack Hawkins
Digitally remastered, this is the story of T.E. Lawrence, a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during his World War I service in the Middle East. |
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The Quiet Man (1952) (G)
17th & 20th March Genre: Comedy Drama
Starring: John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
Sean Thornton has returned from America to reclaim his homestead and escape his past. Sean's eye is caught by Mary Kate Danaher, a beautiful but poor maiden, and younger sister of ill-tempered "Red" Will Danaher. The riotous relationship that forms between Sean and Mary Kate, punctuated by Will's pugnacious attempts to keep them apart, form the main plot, with Sean's past as the dark undercurrent. |
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Crackerjack (2002) (M)
7th & 10th April Genre: Aussie Comedy Drama
Starring: Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter and Frank Wilson
When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club and prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.
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Oklahoma (1955) (G)
12th & 15th May Genre: Musical / Romance
Starring: Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Rod Steiger and Charlotte Greenwood
Based on Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway musical, Oklahoma is the story of two young cowboys at the turn of the last century, who vie with an evil ranch hand and a travelling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
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Gone With the Wind (1939) (PG)
26th & 29th May Genre: Epic Drama
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Cable, Leslie Howard, Olivia De Havilland and Hattie McDaniel
The quintessential American epic, Gone With the Wind sweeps across the Old South, the Civil War and Reconstruction. The tale of a selfish, headstrong Southern belle who draws her strength from the land, this is a sumptuous costume drama and a richly entertaining movie, winning 10 Academy Awards in 1939. |
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Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955) (G)
23rd & 26th June Genre: Musical Drama
Starring: William Holden, Jennifer Jones and Torin Thatcher
Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent in Hong Kong, separated from his wife. During the closing days of the Chinese Civil War, he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian doctor, the widow of a Nationalist general. But when they begin to fall in love, their friends and her Chinese family pressure them to stop the cross-cultural relationship. |
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Ghost (1990) (M)
28th & 31st July Genre: Romantic Thriller
Starring: Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, Whoopi Goldberg
Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, and so he tries to communicate with Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who didn't even realise that her powers were real! |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) (PG)
8th & 11th September Genre: Drama
Starring: Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens and Pamela Franklin
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view. |
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Singin' in the Rain (1959) (NR)
13th & 16th October Genre: Musical Romance
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagan and Cyd Charisse
One of the greatest Hollywood musicals ever made... A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. |
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Dirty Dancing (1987) (M)
10th & 13th November Genre: Romantic Drama
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Jerry Orbach
Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor Johnny Castle. |
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Chariots of Fire (1974) (G)
24th & 27th November Genre: Drama
Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell and Nigel Havers
The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish student at Cambridge who runs for fame and to escape prejudice. |
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1974) (G)
8th & 11th December Genre: Musical Romance
Starring: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, George Winslow and Taylor Holmes
Two singers, best friends Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris pursued by a private detective hired by Lorelei's fiancé's disapproving father to keep an eye on her, a rich, enamoured old man and many other doting admirers. |
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