The prequel to ATV's famous boardroom drama The Power Game, The Plane Makers follows the fortunes of the Scott Furlong airplane development company and its managing director, the ruthless John Wilder (Patrick Wymark). This set contains all 42 surviving episodes. After months of work, a new passenger airliner, the Sovereign, is almost ready for its first flight. When John Wilder discovers that the Sovereign's French rival is due for its maiden flight he gives orders to get the plane off the ground in two days - a decision that he may come to regret... Special Features: The only surviving episode from series one (disc 1) Image galleries (discs 4, 5 and 9) PDF material (discs 4, 5)
The musical biopic of jazz great Red Nichols features a healthy dose of melodrama along with the melodies. As the famed Dixieland cornetist he runs into opposition to his sound but breaks through to success. He marries a warm patient woman (Bel Geddes) and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio. The jazzman puts down his horn to stand by her. Among the musical cameos is a hot turn by Armstrong in a duet with Kaye.
London- The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-travelling voyage to the heart of his hometown. From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous thinkers, political radicals and above all ordinary people, this is the story of London's immigrants and bohemians and how together they changed the city forever. Reaching back to London at the start of the 20th century, the story unfolds through film archive and the voices of Londoners past and present, powered by the popular music from across the century. It ends in 2012, as London prepares to welcome the world as it hosts the Olympics. Special Features: Audio commentary by director Julien Temple. Interview with Julien Temple. Original trailer. Fully illustrated booklet with newly commissioned essays and comprehensive credits.
It's all in the name of science. Weird Science. The Frankenstein legend takes an uproarious twist in this outrageous special effects - laden comedy from the writer/director of Sixteen Candles and the Breakfast Club. Critically acclaimed filmmaker John Hughes is at it again giving nerdy computer whiz Ilan Mitchell - Smith and best friend Anthony Michael Hall power to create the ""perfect woman"" (the tantalizing Kelly Le Brock). Like a computer gene
An archaic document found in a bombsite reveals that the London district of Pimlico has for centuries technically been part of France. The local residents embrace their new found continental status seeing it as a way to avoid the drabness austerity and rationing of post-war England. The authorities do not however share their enthusiasm... A whimsical and charming British film 'Passport To Pimlico' is one of the finest examples of the classic Ealing comedies.
Titles Comprise: Hostel: A trio of teenagers two American one Icelandic backpack around Europe looking for a good time. While in Amsterdam they are told of a youth hostel in Slovakia where all their wildest dreams will come true. Jumping onto the first train there the three stumble into a hedonistic travellers' paradise. Soon however one of the three boys goes missing and slowly but surely the holiday from hell begins to unfold... Hostel 2: Director Eli Roth (Hostel Cabin Fever) and producer Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs) up the ante in the brutal and terrifying sequel to the smash hit Hostel. Starring Bijou Phillips (Almost Famous Venom) Heather Matarazzo (The Princess Diaries Scream 3) and Roger Bart (The Producers TV's Desperate Housewives) Hostel Part II takes place directly after the events of the first film and once again also features Jay Hernandez (Hostel Ladder 49) as the revenge-seeking but ultimately hapless Paxton. After the outrageous events of Hostel Hostel Part II follows a group of female backpackers as they are lured to the apparently perfect youth hostel for a holiday packed with hedonistic fun. However the truth once again turns out to be far more terrifying as the girls are subjected to a brutal ordeal at the hands of the sick tourists who pay to exercise their darkest desires. Hatchet: It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Ben (Joel David Moore) has reached booze and boobs overload. Recently dumped and pining after his girlfriend he enlists his pal Marcus (Deon Richmond) to accompany him on a swamp tour in a boat that travels the spooky murk surrounding the city. Marcus is less than enthused until the crew of the low low low (low) budget movie Bayou Beavers signs on including amateur cameraman Shapiro (Joel Murray) pneumatic Misty (Mercedes McNab) and ditzy Jenna (Joleigh Fioreavanti). Joining them on the rickety cruiser are the painfully wholesome couple Mr. and Mrs. Permatteo (Richard Riehle and Patrika Darbo) and the beautiful-but-sullen Marybeth (Tamara Feldman). Led by the P.T. Barnum of the swamp tour industry fast-talking but slow-thinking showboater Shawn (Parry Shen) the tourists are decidedly underwhelmed by the fog low-hanging branches and aggressively quiet sounds that Shawn tries to pass off as frightening. He launches into the story of Victor Crowley - yup a legend in these parts - who is known to haunt the swamp. The boaters wave off the story as part of Shawn's continuing nonsense - except for Marybeth who is notably discomforted.
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One of the most celebrated outrageous and original horror films of all time Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator is a darkly comic tale that 'upped the 80's gore ante at a time when blood was already flowing freely' (Total Film). Brilliant if somewhat deranged medical student Herbert West arrives at Miskatonic Medical school and immediately sneers at his professor's outdated views of death. West has his own outlandish theories and has concocted a serum that will bring the dead back to life. Roping in fellow student Dan Cain their shocking experiments work all too well with horrific and very messy results.
Exclusive Shameless limited metal tin edition specially design by top British artist graham Humphreys. With his epoch-making Cannibal Holocaust director Ruggero Deodato single-handedly invented the found-footage film genre (later imitated by Blair Witch et al). With The Washing Machine Deodato reboots the Giallo genre stretching its boundaries into this utterly extreme surreal erotic thriller. Originally called Mortal Vortex this long-lost Giallo is now revived in this Exclusive Shameless Limited Metal Tin Edition. By the time Police Inspector Stacev arrived at the eerie Budapest flat of three beguiling sisters to investigate one of the girls' claim to have found a butchered body in their washing machine the corpse had disappeared. Piqued as much by the potential foul play as by the mischievous saucy sisters our detective becomes entangled in their web of sexual obsession and deadly treachery: Each sister spins a different versions of events - including warped stories of cannibalism (what else!) - Whilst seducing the non-too-reluctant officer! Deodato cycles through truly inventive stylish and very hot sex scenes... until an arresting climax! Will it all come out in the wash?
The Last Temptation of Christ, by Martin Scorsese is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly personal work of faith that it is. This fifteenyear labour of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances by Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton and David Bowie; bold cinematography by the great Michael Ballhaus; and a transcendent score by Peter Gabriel. Special Edition Features: Restored highdefinition digital transfer, supervised and approved by cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, with a 5.1 DTSHD Master Audio soundtrack by supervising sound editor Skip Lievsay Audio commentary featuring director Martin Scorsese, actor Willem Dafoe, and writers Paul Schrader and Jay Cocks Galleries of production stills, research materials, and costume designs Location production footage shot by Scorsese Interview with composer Peter Gabriel, with a stills gallery of traditional instruments used in the score PLUS: An essay by film critic David Ehrenstein.
Lady & The TrampExperience the thrilling adventure of Lady, a lovingly pampered cocker spaniel, and Tramp a freewheeling mutt with a heart of gold. This heart-warming tale charms a new generation with one of the greatest love stories of all time. This is the night to share a special Bella Notte with your family!Lady & The Tramp IIDisney's classic adventure continues with a new generation of hilarious canine characters! Lady and Tramp's mischievous pup Scamp is always in the doghouse, and an itch for freedom is sending him on the ultimate adventure! Scamp joins the Junkyard dogs, a notorious pack that includes his idol, streetwise Buster, and a sweet and sensible stray named Angel. Will Scamp choose the collar-free life with his new pals or embrace the pampered life he had at home?
Fathers and sons. Husbands and wives. Lovers and liars. What a difference a school year makes. At first half-brothers Nathan and Lucas Scott were bitter rivals on and off the basketball court. Now they bond as brothers. But there's drama trauma devotion betrayal twists and turns to come. To protect those he loves Lucas moves in with Dan. Brooke and Peyton mend their friendship - and beginia year of romantic turmoil for both. Nathan and Haley's marriage frays. Newcomers t
2009 marks the 30th anniversary of Nottingham Forest's first European Cup triumph masterminded by Brian Clough. A provincial football club broke and slipping towards Football League Division Three when he took charge had conquered England and Europe inside three years.
Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have a happy family with their three young children. When tragedy strikes their young son, Josh, Renai begins to experience things that science cannot explain.
Lauded short film director Nacho Vigalondo makes his feature debut with this tense, unstoppable vision of science and natural law gone awry.
Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles star as two senior citizens who fall in love in this gentle sitcom written by Vince Powell and Harry Driver (Nearest and Dearest Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width). Produced by Ronnie Baxter and boasting theme music by Ron Grainer this release contains the complete second series originally transmitted in 1970. Londoner Ada Cresswell and Yorkshireman Walter Bingley - the gravedigger who buried Ada's husband - return as a newly engaged couple. But saving enough to get married on an old-age pension isn't easy particularly when Walter gets his cards and Ada has to give up her new part-time job. And when Ada gregariously invites all 48 members of the Over Sixties' Club it looks as though the happy day will have to be indefinitely postponed...
mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.
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