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Silver Screen Classics
Films from RKO Pictures, one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
27 programmes available
Film
Bringing Up Baby
The screwball classic with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn
A madcap heiress – and her leopard – crash into the life of a mild-mannered doctor.
98 mins
Available for over a year
Film
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
Classic Cary Grant
A family long for domestic bliss – but their new home is anything but.
90 mins
Available for over a year
Film
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles' movie masterpiece
One of the most famous, most acclaimed - and most parodied - films ever made.
119 mins
Available for over a year
Film
Wagon Master
John Ford's western classic
A Mormon group go on a risky journey, meeting outlaws and Native Americans on the way.
82 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
Carefree
A screwball comedy with Fred and Ginger
A lawyer is worried his fiancee keeps postponing their wedding. Will a psychiatrist help?
83 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
The Magnificent Ambersons
Orson Welles’ classic drama
The acclaimed story of a wilful son who destroys his mother's hopes of happiness.
84 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
Suspicion
The classic Hitchcock thriller starring Joan Fontaine
A timid heiress becomes convinced her husband is trying to kill her.
95 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
Fort Apache
The classic western with John Wayne
A commanding officer, bitter after his demotion, takes charge at remote fort in Arizona.
122 mins
Available for over a year
Film
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 mins
Available for over a year
Film
Blackbeard the Pirate
Swashbuckling adventure on the high seas
Can the monarch stop the infamous buccaneer Blackbeard and his crew of cut-throats?
99 mins
Available for over a year
Film
Cat People
A woman's mysterious origins hide a curse which threatens to destroy those close to her.
70 mins
Available for over a year
Film
The Curse of the Cat People
Film sequel. A lonely young girl conjures up the spirit of her father's first wife.
67 mins
Available for over a year
Film
I Walked With a Zombie
A Canadian nurse arrives on a Caribbean island to tend an invalid woman.
66 mins
Available for over a year
Music
Astaire and Rogers Sing the Great American
Songbook
...
Let's face the music and dance
A compilation of songs from the Golden Age of Hollywood, performed by the dance icons.
29 mins
Available for over a year
