Classic Movies

Singing in the Rain
Saturday 31 March 2012
Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds star as a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. Don has worked hard to get where he is today, with his former partner Cosmo. When Don and Lina's latest film is transformed into a musical, Don has the perfect voice for the songs. But Lina - well, even with the best efforts of a diction coach, they still decide to dub over her voice. Kathy Selden is brought in, an aspiring actress, and while she is working on the movie, Don falls in love with her. Will Kathy continue to "aspire", or will she get the break she deserves?

High Society
Sunday 1 April 2012
C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate. She is on the verge of marrying a man blander and safer than Dex, who tries to win Tracy's heart again. Mike Connor, an undercover tabloid reporter, also falls for Tracy while covering the nuptials for Spy magazine. Tracy must choose between the three men as she discovers that "safe" can mean "deadly dull" when it comes to husbands and life

Casablanca
Monday 2 April 2012
Classic movie, set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. Bogart and Bergman star.

North by Northwest
Tuesday 3 April 2012
Cary grant stars as a hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

Day at the Races
Wednesday 4 April 2012
Classic Marx Brothers movie, a vet posing as a doctor, a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit racehorse.

The Band Wagon
Friday 6 April 2012
Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse star as a pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.

Viva las Vegas
Sunday 8 April 2012
Elvis Presley stars as Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser. Perhaps some singing will help.

Bringing up Baby
Monday 9 April 2012
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard "Baby." Starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.