Waverley Film Society
7.40pm in Wadham House, 52 Wadham Parade, Mt. Waverley, Victoria
Year Programme:
Wed, 12/02/2025
Babe
1995 1 hr 31 min James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh.
A farmer wins a piglet at the fair. The piglet narrowly escapes becoming dinner. He becomes friendly with a sheep dog, and learns to herd sheep.
Wed, 12/03/2025
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 1 hr 18 min Alec Guinness, Sid James, Stanley Holloway.
A meek bank clerk organises the theft of gold bars for export as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Wed, 09/04/2025
Dial M for Murder
1954 Dial M for Murder.
1 hr 45 min Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
A former tennis star arranges the murder of his unfaithful wife.
Wed, 14/05/2025
Calendar Girls
2003 1 hr 48 min Julie Waters, Helen Miriam, Penelope Wilton.
A group of friends decide to pose nude in a calendar to raise funds for medical research, after a husband dies of cancer.
Wed, 11/06/2025
Casablanca
1942 1 hr 42 min Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid.
A cynical American cafe owner struggles to decide whether to help a former lover and her husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco during the war.
Wed, 09/07/2025
The Castle
1997 1 hr 25 min Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry.
A Melbourne family, living near the airport are forced save their home, when authorities try to evict them.
Wed, 13/08/2025
The Greatest Showman
2017 1 hr 45 min Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron.
P.T. Barnham is a poor orphan who achieved fame and fortune with the birth of show business.
Wed, 10/09/2025
Shine
1996 1 hr 45 min Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine.
David Helfgott, a gifted pianist, struggles through childhood as his dysfunctional father
abuses him and his siblings. Years later, he suffers a mental breakdown but manages to
return as a legend.
Wed, 08/10/2025
The Glen Miller Story
1954 1 hr 55 min James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan.
Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.
Wed, 12/11/2025
Brassed Off
1996 1 hr 48 min Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor.
The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.
Wed, 10/12/2025
Whisky Galore
2016 1 hr 38 min Naomi Battrick, Sean Biggerstaff, James Cosmo.
Some Scottish highlanders plunder a wrecked ship of whisky during WW2.
