Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson - Hammy black comedy about that ferocious, carnivorous plant named Audrey. A Corman quickie, shot in two days, still remains one of his best, plus it…
Green Man, The / School for Scoundrels (1957-1960)- Dir. Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Feat. Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas… - A double feature of comedies starring Alastair Sim. The Green Man (1957) Dir. Basil Dearden – One of Sim's best films, playing an apparently…
Naked Truth, The (Your Past is Showing) (1957)- Dir. Mario Zampi
Feat. Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Peggy Mount… - Dark comedy set in the tabloid industry with an extortionate publisher marked for death by his celebrity victims.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various
Feat. Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, John Forsythe… - Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
Ladykillers, The (1955)- Dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Feat. Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Frankie Howerd - Priceless Ealing black comedy in which bungling robbers Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers et al conspire to snuff out their rich old landlady, an…
Trouble with Harry, The (1955)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. John Forsythe, Shirley Maclaine - The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and the townspeople, including a young John Forsyth and Shirley Maclaine, don't quite know how to deal with…
Dov'e La Liberta...? (Where Is Freedom?) (1954)- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Toto, Vera Molnar, Nita Dover - Legendary Italian comic Toto plays a barber who cannot abide the hypocritical society he is thrust into after spending two decades in prison, and…
Bellissima (1951)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella… - Neo–realist dir. Visconti directs Anna Magnani in a freewheeling performance as a working–class mother obsessed with turning her young…
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness - Distinguished Ealing black comedy about a disaffected cast–off of an aristocratic family who murders his way through a series of dotty…
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Barbara Lawrence… - Rex Harrison plays an irascible, paranoid orchestra conductor who comes to suspect his devoted wife's infidelity. Anchored around a memorable…
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