Silver Screen Favourites

Films from RKO Pictures, one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.

40 programmes available

Film - Drama
Angel Face
Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in a film noir classic
A family chauffeur becomes embroiled in the murderous schemes of his employer.
87 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Drama
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles' movie masterpiece
One of the most famous, most acclaimed - and most parodied - films ever made.
119 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Thriller
Suspicion
Hitchcock classic with Joan Fontaine
Hitchcock classic with Joan Fontaine. An heiress is sure her husband's trying to kill her
95 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Musical
Top Hat
It’s the tops! Fred and Ginger cheek to cheek
An American dancer in London falls for a girl – but she thinks he’s already married.
95 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Musical
The Sky's the Limit
Fred Astaire stars in a wartime romance
Tired of being a hero, a World War II pilot (Fred Astaire) pretends to be a civilian.
86 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Comedy
Bringing Up Baby
Stars Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star. A madcap heiress crashes into the life of a doctor
98 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Drama
The Magnificent Ambersons
Orson Welles’ classic drama
The acclaimed story of a wilful son who destroys his mother's hopes of happiness.
84 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Musical
The Gay Divorce
Starring Fred and Ginger at their finest
Guy Holden comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress. Are they meant to be together?
100 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Comedy
My Favourite Wife
Comedy as a missing shipwreck survivor returns to her spouse
Screwball fun. The enigmatic woman's husband has remarried, but she too has secrets...
84 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Horror
King Kong
Hollywood's most famous monster movie
The original tale of beauty and the beast – with one of cinema’s most iconic scenes.
96 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Comedy
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
Classic Cary Grant
A family long for domestic bliss – but their new home is anything but.
90 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Comedy
Vivacious Lady
Vintage comedy with Ginger Rogers and James Stewart
A professor marries a club singer but regrets it when he has to face the music back home.
87 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Romance
Love Affair
Romantic drama. Love blossoms on a cross Atlantic journey
En route to New York from Naples, a couple find love despite being engaged to others.
87 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Western
Wagon Master
John Ford's western classic
A Mormon group go on a risky journey, meeting outlaws and Native Americans on the way.
82 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Romance
Kitty Foyle
With an Oscar-winning performance from Ginger Rogers
A woman from an impoverished background falls in love with the son of a society family.
102 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Family
Anne of Green Gables
She'll leap into your heart and live there forever
Adaptation of LM Montgomery's classic novel about a young orphan girl adopted by farmers.
74 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Sci-Fi
The Thing from Another World
Natural or supernatural?
Scientists at a lonely Arctic outpost dig up an alien in a classic 50s chiller.
83 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Western
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
John Wayne stars in John Ford’s classic Western
A US cavalry officer suffers a setback on his last mission – and is forced to act alone.
99 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Thriller
Second Chance
Robert Mitchum and Jack Palance in a tense thriller
A disillusioned boxer and a fugitive find romance in Mexico – shadowed by a killer.
78 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Drama
The Miracle of the Bells
Can a young women’s dying wish be fulfilled?
All she wanted was for the bells to ring. Can her heartbroken lover make it happen?
115 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Musical
Carefree
A screwball comedy with Fred and Ginger
A lawyer is worried his fiancee keeps postponing their wedding. Will a psychiatrist help?
83 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Western
Fort Apache
The classic western with John Wayne
A commanding officer, bitter after his demotion, takes charge at a remote fort in Arizona.
122 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Romance
Bachelor Knight
A man agrees to romance a woman who has a crush on him until her infatuation wears off.
91 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Romance
Holiday Affair
A heartwarming yuletide tale starring Robert Mitchum
Christmas in New York, and two very different men court a widow with a young son.
83 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Musical
A Damsel in Distress
Starring Fred Astaire and Joan Fontaine
The lovely Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry, but who? The much-loved Gershwin musical.
96 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Thriller
Hotel Reserve
An innocent man faces espionage charges. With James Mason
An atmospheric thriller based in the south of France prior to the outbreak of WWII.
85 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Drama
The Velvet Touch
An actress longs for tragedy – but she didn’t mean her own
The action of a heated moment is a turning point in the life of a frustrated actress.
93 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - War
Yellow Canary
Wartime thriller set aboard a Canada-bound ship. Starring Richard Greene and Anna Neagle.
94 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Romance
Primrose Path
With Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea
A woman from the wrong side of town tries to hide her immoral family from her husband.
89 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Period
I Remember Mama
Sentimental drama starring Irene Dunne
The everyday life and struggles of a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco.
129 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Adventure
Blackbeard the Pirate
Swashbuckling adventure on the high seas
Can the monarch stop the infamous buccaneer Blackbeard and his crew of cut-throats?
99 minsAvailable for over a year
Comedy Drama
Sylvia Scarlett
Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn are partners in crime
Classic comedy drama about a father and daughter on the run from the law.
86 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Family
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne Shirley's most famous role of all
An ambitious teacher arrives in town, charming everyone except the school's founders.
82 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Comedy
Beautiful but Dangerous
Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons star in an RKO classic
An heiress returns to her childhood town distributing gifts to those who helped her.
85 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Adventure
The Spanish Main
Classic swashbuckling adventure with Maureen O’Hara
A crew of enslaved Dutch sailors escape and plot revenge against their Spanish governor.
96 minsAvailable for over a year
Film - Horror
Cat People
Classic RKO horror
Classic RKO horror. Irena is haunted by a past that threatens those near her with death
70 minsAvailable for over a year