Glasgow Film Festival 2016

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Libeled Lady and The Adventures Of Robin Hood
The Adventures Of Robin Hood (Country: US; Year: 1938; Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; Writer: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I Miller; Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper, Ian Hunter, Trigger)
Classic version of the outlaw tale.
The Awful Truth (Country: US; Year: 1937; Director: Leo McCarey; Writer: Viña Delmar, Arthur Richman; Stars: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Molly Lamont)
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
The Big Sleep (À Beira Do Abismo) (Country: US; Year: 1946; Director: Howard Hawks; Writer: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett; Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers)
Hired by a dying millionaire, detective Philip Marlowe finds himself embroiled in successive mysteries relating to a beautiful but dangerous woman.
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: George Roy Hill; Writer: William Goldman; Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth)
The witty exploits of two lovable outlaws who go on the lam in South America.
Double Indemnity (Country: US; Year: 1944; Director: Billy Wilder; Writer: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, based on the novel by James M Cain; Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Porter Hall, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, Fortunio Bonanova)
An insurance salesman falls for a beautiful woman and concocts the "perfect crime".
Double Indemnity Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Libeled Lady (Country: US; Year: 1936; Director: Jack Conway; Writer: Maurine Dallas Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer, Wallace Sullivan; Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy)
An editor facing a lawsuit for his comments on the behaviour of an heiress hires a man to seduce her and ruin her case, but the seducer falls in love.
Pillow Talk (Country: US; Year: 1959; Director: Michael Gordon; Writer: Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin; Stars: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Marcel Dalio, Allen Jenkins, Lee Patrick)
The first of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex lite rom-coms.
Swing Time (Country: US; Year: 1936; Director: George Stevens; Writer: Howard Lindsay, Allan Scott; Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa)
A gambler trying to win the money to marry his fiancee inadvertently falls for a dancer.
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Country: US; Year: 1966; Director: Mike Nichols; Writer: Ernest Lehman, based on the play by Edward Albee; Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal)
A young couple fall foul of an older couple whose marriage is falling apart.
Woman Of The Year (Country: US; Year: 1942; Director: George Stevens; Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Fay Bainter)
A feminist political columnist and an old fashioned sportswriter trade blows and fall in love.
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