Certainly one of Hitchcock’s most satisfying thrillers, mostly thanks to Wright and Cotten’s believable relationship.

No mere creature feature, this 1940s classic offers more subtle chills.

Dated and a little clunky but with a few moving performances from the leads.

A light and lively showcase for a very under-rated double act, Road To Morocco was also unusual for its time in constantly drawing attention to itself as a movie.

A classic of the weepy genre so have some toilet roll handy.

C'mon, it's Fred and Bing! Depending on your disposition, you can take that as a recommendation or a warning.

The fun and fear, the silliness and heartbreak, are taken to vivid extremes by Walt's entwining of high art and what snobs will always deride as Disney-kitsch.

It's a tragedy that someone else' happy ending is tacked onto his tale, but the film retains enough brilliance to make us glad it's been re-released.

Winning WW II story of british pluck that manages to side-step the propaganda trap.

Not one of Hitchcock's best, but with a few creative sequences and some sharp writing from Dorothy Parker.

Enjoyable Hitchcock spoof with much chemistry between the leads and some cracking one-liners.

Comedy doesn't come much more classic. If you haven't seen it, it's about time you did.

An unusual epic, the first half is a knockabout comedy, but thoroughly entertaining.

Still the definitive werewolf movie.

With its genuinely cute hero and appealing storyline, Dumbo's exactly right for younger children but not too milk-soppy for anyone over eight. Indispensible.

Winning Best Film at that year's Oscars, this John Huston film typically epic with a faithful screenplay to Richard Llewellyn's famous novel. Strong performances from Crisp and O'Hara although McDowall as the young lead, gives a particularly memorable performance while the setting shows Wales at its most beautiful.

The Maltese Falcon is an unassailable triumph of script, casting, direction and editing.

The sheer audacity and delight Welles takes in flouting conventions and inventing new ones is what keeps it fresh.

With Pendleton inhabiting three different bodies in the course of 93 minutes, this was quite an intricate storyline for a Hollywood comedy. But Alexander Hall (an unsung journeyman whose credits included Shirley Temple's Little Miss Marker) kept the action briskly accessible, even where Death was involved.

A bit theatrical in places, which is not surprising when you consider its provenence but it suffers for it.

Vividly staged but sentimental extravaganza.

A wonderful picture set in a world of silly heirs and sharp-eyed dolls as remote from reality and yet wholly credible as that of P. G. Wodehouse.

Excellent casting, a great storyline and a shrp script mean that this remains a classic of the genre and one of Katherine Hepburn's best roles.

This is a very patchy affair - while some of the animated pieces work, others come across as downright insane.

Heavy-handed but still poignant patriotism in this Hitchcock thriller.

Perhaps without the shock and suspense of subsequent work, this is nevertheless another undoubted masterpiece from the atmospheric film maker, and just as essential.

This pleasant 1940 comedy-drama hit on the successful double-act teaming of crooner Bing Crosby and patter comic Bob Hope, throwing in sarong-clad Dorothy Lamour for glamour and working through a trivial plot about fleeing responsibility for a South Seas idyll.

Gregg Toland captures the open spaces and big skies of rural America, while the normally conservative Ford puts forward a sympathetic but radical plea for workers' rights and freedom for the people.