A comedy based on the rag trade where new designs are fair game for ruthless competitors. A fashion millionaire's wife is kidnapped but when the kidnappers try to extort money they find that he has gone out celebrating with his mistress.
Available for the first time on DVD! New Year's Eve New York City 1928. The streets of Broadway are swinging. High society dame Harriet Mackyle (Julie Hagarty) is throwing a party and everyone who is anyne will be there. Among New York's most fashionable socialites are the luckless but handsome pony player Regret (Matt Dillon) powerful gambling operator The Brain (Rutger Hauer) the honourable but penniless Feet Samuels (Randy Quaid) and Broadway's most desirable showgirl Horte
From the novel by John Irving comes this darkly comic tale of an eccentric New England family. As the father moves them from one place to the next setting up a new hotel each time the assortment of oddball characters seem to become involved in ever more bizarre situations. Frannie becomes obsessed with the boy who attacks her John becomes obsessed with Frannie his sister and both of them fall for a girl who is so insecure she hides in a bear outfit Frank is coming to terms with his homosexuality and the youngest Lilly is convinced she isn't growing. The family pet is a flatulent dog that ends up stuffed and causes more trouble than when it was alive...
Three more rollicking good tales starring Michael Palin in various guises. Written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones. 'The Testing Of Eric Olthwaite' 'Whinfrey's Last Case' and 'The Curse of The Claw'. The Testing of Eric Olthwaite: A Ripping Northern Yarn set in the dark days of the depression before Last of the Summer Wine started bringing jobs to the area. Eric's tough mining parents find their son so boring that they run away from home. Eric torn between love for his parents and lack of brain cells becomes involved with a hardened criminal. The rest is history. Whinfrey's Last Case: Dashing Gerald Whinfrey saves his country twice a week but in 1913 a German plot to start the First World War without telling anybody coincides with his holiday. Where do Whinfrey's priorities lie? Has he got any? A knockout tale of international intrigue. If only Dickens could write like this - Mrs Reg Dickens Eltham. The Curse of the Claw: Gothic terror comes to Maidenhead. A timely reminder of what happens when men dabble in the dark world of oriental superstition. Michael Palin aided by inexpensive plastic surgery plays old and young Kevin as well as Kevin's childhood hero Uncle Jack - an enormously cheerful physical disaster area who has every disease known to man usually at the same time.
An introverted TV songwriter inadvertently attracts millions of joke-loving Martians to Earth when his music is accidentally broadcast to the galaxies.
Desired By All But Loved By Only One. When her teenage sweetheart Ivan (Savage) returns home from WWII Maria (Kinski) eagerly accepts his marriage proposal looking forward to a lifetime of happiness. But her joy is short-lived when Ivan's dark past shrouds their wedding night in misery driving a wedge between them that neither knows how to remove. Confused and depressed Maria attempts to mend her true love's heart despite the advances of other suitors. But when a traveling musician (Carradine) hits the right note Maria struggles to justify her unfulfilling life. Is her passion too powerful to be contained within the sanctity of marriage?
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