Charles Laughton

Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.

In 1789, the HMS Bounty sets sail under Captain William Bligh. Bligh is the cruelest taskmaster and it becomes more than first mate Christian can bear. After the Captain causes the death of the ship's doctor, the crew stages a mutiny, with Christian in charge. Bligh is set adrift in an open boat with a handful of his loyal officers and limited supplies.

For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.

A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.

An Irish orphan girl (Mary) ... lives on the rugged coast of Cornwall with her uncle. After several vessels smash on the deadly rocks, Mary begins to suspect it's more than accidental. By the time she realizes what's going on, she is a target for the marauding smugglers and highwaymen who are ravaging the area.

Pirate Captain Kidd tricks King William III into giving him royal orders, but enemies (whom he believes to be dead) return to see him hanged.

A simple act of pity from a gypsy girl frees the emotions within the mocked, vilified and hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame. When the girl is later wrongly condemned, the bellringer rescues her from hanging, sweeping all of Paris into a fight for justice.

A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion.

An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop in England finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life.

Jamaican Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area. Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and attempts...