Elizabeth Montgomery puts in an inspiring and emotional performance as Alexandra McKay a woman who has been blind for 20 years. Fiercely independent Alex has learnt to live with her disability living as normal a life has possible but at the cost of letting few people into her sheltered and private world. One such person trying to get in is Richard Chapman (Barry Newman) an art dealer. Her world is shattered when she is assaulted by a burglar - a frightening and unnerving experience that leaves her a shell of the confident person she once was. Alex seeks help for the first time in her life and it arrives in the form of Emma a seeing-eye dog. With Emma's help Alex can start to rebuild her life and begin to let love into her heart.
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis.
Regan is classic TV drama that will have you saying, "they don't make 'em like that any more". This is the feature-length pilot to what became the long-running TV series The Sweeney, starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman as the hard-as-nails Flying Squad double act. The story opens in a south London pub decorated in shades of brown so manifold that it forms a patina on the screen more normally associated with a painterly artist. It's the early 1970s, and Thaw's Inspector Regan is a lone ranger fighting on several fronts including the imminent modernisation of the police force, which he describes as a vision of "hundreds of little grey men working on top of each other, pots of tea and committees". The dialogue is clever, rich and funny. When Regan tries to persuade Carter to work with him on the case he growls: "Mary darling, I'm not trying to start an affair with you." The heroes have thinning hair and bad habits: Regan drinks whiskey in the middle of the day and constantly smokes, he's lost his wife, let down his daughter, and then loses his girlfriend (Maureen Lipman). The filming is wonderfully crafted--shots taken from odd angles, action that surprises and gritty London locations. "You're a copper. You belong like me out in the cold," Regan says to Carter in the last scene as they go off to get a drink out of licensed hours. Not the end, but the start of a beautiful relationship. --Joan Byrne
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It was the knight of their lives... A tough street gang and rock band with determination and musical ambition are aware of the struggle they face to succeed as a band whilst surviving an ongoing feud with a rival gang....
At first glance, René Clair might seem an odd match for Agatha Christie's mystery thriller And Then There Were None, but his buoyant touch is exactly what is missing from so many overly solemn remakes. Ten strangers gather for a mysterious gathering on a secluded island. It turns out to be a farewell party, for they have all been sentenced to die for crimes in their past by a self-appointed judge, jury and executioner who could be one of them. One by one, the guests are systematically dispatched as described in the lyrics of the children's rhyme "Ten Little Indians", while the survivors nervously eye one another, splintering into tenuous alliances until the next murder throws suspicion on someone new. A terrific cast of character actors have a ball with Dudley Nichols's witty script. The flamboyant sparring of Barry Fitzgerald (whose paternal Irish lilt takes a sinister dimension) and Walter Huston is almost upstaged by Roland Young's deadpan drollery. Romantic leads Louis Hayward and June Duprez come off as arch and stiff in a company that includes a sinisterly detached Judith Anderson, a dotty and distracted C Aubrey Smith, and a hilariously flippant Mischa Auer. The story has been remade numerous times under the title of Christie's novel, Ten Little Indians, but never as well as this 1945 version. Clair's effervescent, lively little gem is a fatal drawing-room comedy with a body count and a surreal mood of doom. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
Producer-turned-director Irwin Winkler crafted this 1992 remake of Jules Dassin's 1950 film noir Night and the City, the tale of a small-time hustler in London who gets in over his head. Winkler's version is set in New York and stars Robert De Niro as a shyster lawyer who decides to get even with a boxing promoter (Alan King) who bests him in court. A couple of innocents are talked into helping the cause, notably the brother (Jack Warden) of De Niro's enemy and a barmaid (Jessica Lange) who agrees to finance the operation. Everything goes south, plunging the hero into prospects of real disaster. The film is far from an exemplary, contemporary noir, but its outstanding cast, with no shortage of charisma and dynamics, keeps things terribly interesting. So does the funny but terse script by Richard Price (Clockers), who also has a cameo as a doctor. Winkler's sensibilities as a tasteful and intelligent producer still get in the way of his daring as a director, but he does leave us with much to be satisfied about.--Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
With two workaholics for parents 12 year-old Jason can't remember the last time all the family had dinner together. To make matters worse Jason constantly hears how his friends' parents are divorcing. It's no wonder he mistakenly suspects his parents are splitting up when his dad announces he's leaving for a job interview in Chicago. In a hilariously misguided attempt to save his family Jason and his 14 year-old sister Celina follow dad to Chicago convinced that if Dad gets the job the family will split up. Their mission is clear: ruin Dad's day! Before the kids are finished their Dad finds himself in handcuffs! Now Jason and Celina must use even more creative means to undo their mischief. Some quick thinking and family teamwork are required to save the day in this hilarious comedy in the tradition of 'Home Alone'.
Featuring some of the most influential artists of today, "Beautiful Losers" tells the inspiring story of likeminded outsiders who subvert convention and inadvertently become leaders of popular culture.
As the world awaited what should have been a routine lift-off for the space shuttle CHALLENGER unattended complications with equipment turned the mission into a ticking time-bomb. Adding to the excitement of the mission was the presence of Christa McAuliffe a small-town school teacher chosen from hundreds of candidates to teach the first lesson in space.This compelling account based on the true story of the tragic space shuttle disaster offers a poignant look into the lives of each of the seven Challenger crew members during the months leading up to the launch. Not only devoted astronauts these heroic seven were also devoted mothers fathers husbands and wives. But during these moments we witness bewildering corporate inability to resolve an issue before it becomes a catastrophe of the highest order in the loss of human life... the entire Challenger crew. Excitement frustration and grief unfold as the true story of the space shuttle disaster is revealed.
Mark Blankfield stars as Navin Johnson, an orphan raised by a kindly family who found him in their mailbox. Leaving home for the very first time, Navin is a natural victim, preyed upon by people around him and life s circumstances. But Navin is also gifted- he s so intensely good that only good things happen to him. In the midst of all the chaos, Navin always lands feet first, sometimes leaving a trail of destruction behind him.
Mad Max: On a remote stretch of deserted highway a band of violent bikers has taken over attacking anyone unlucky enough to cross their savage path. Racing up and down the seemingly endless miles of asphalt the crazed outlaws blaze through small towns plowing into vehicles and pedestrians alike with reckless abandon. Bringing a sense of law to this lawlessness are the mobile police force led by Max and Goose who are as fast and mean as their adversaries and are willing to
Van der Valk - Series 1 (Part 3)
Auguste Rodin is acknowledged as a colossus that bestrode 19th and early 20th century sculpture. His iconic works 'The Thinker' 'The Kiss' and 'The Burghers of Calais' are so compelling that they've become part of the visual vocabulary. When he dies in 1917 he had become a popular hero of the French and British nations but has his extraordinary fame cloaked his real power? Eight of Britain's leading contemporary scupltors agreed to look afresh at Rodin's work and gauge its influence almost a century after his demise.
Dorzak: A spaceship lands on the moon. A beautiful young woman emerges from inside seeking medical attention for a colleague who was injured by a criminal that they had captured. The criminal turns out to be a man from Maya's home planet Psychon named Dorzac and persuades Maya that he was not responsible for the injury signalling the start of the troubles to come. Devil's Planet: Answering a distress signal Koenig and Blake Maine go to Entra. The first thing they see is a man being chased by three beautiful girls carrying long electric whips! Maine is killed and then Koenig imprisoned. Can he escape? The Immunity Syndrome: On a seemingly inhabitable planet a series of misfortunes befall Alpha's advance party. Tony Verdeschi is rendered insane by a piercing sound. The metal in the Eagle corrodes and the craft starts to fall apart. Two Alphans die after drinking spring water. Then a skeleton is found inside a geodetic structure with a video beside it explaining how any future visitors might survive. The Dorcons: A huge alien Dorcon ship materialises nearby. When the three leaders demand Maya be sent to them Koenig refuses. A leader comes aboard the spaceship and takes Maya and Alpha by force. But Koenig manages to come along too and using the power struggle between the three leaders tries to rescue Maya.
An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbara...
Here's the story...of America's grooviest TV sitcom family! It's the story of The Brady Bunch and in Season Two of this best-loved comedy series there are plenty of high jinks underfoot in split-level suburbia. Greg? He's got a far-out new bachelor pad to impress all the chicks. Marcia? She's embracing Woman's Lib. Peter? He's headed for the doghouse after breaking Carol's favorite vase. Jan? She's gone from ""hair of gold"" to hair of black-via a brand new wig. Bobby's pet parakeet may help him overcome his fear of heights and Cindy's plagued by a schoolyard bully who's been making fun of her lisp. On the adult front Mike's architectural firm plans to build right on top of a beloved neighborhood park; Carol tries her creative hand at writing for a woman's magazine...and Alice the housekeeper has called the exterminator on ""Myron""- Greg's science project! There are 24 episodes in The Brady Bunch: The Complete Second Season...all featuring laughter tears and Day-Glo colors. It's the way they all became The Brady Bunch!
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call...The Twilight Zone! All the episodes from Season 5!
Bernard Haitink conducts Maria Ewing and Barry McCauley in an interpretation of Bizet's Carmen. Maria Ewing's electric portrayal of the gypsy Carmen is one of the finest in recent memory. Her dark alluring looks and feline grace are exactly suited to playing the hot-blooded Spanish temptress who charms men with her sensuous wild spirit. Peter Hall's production filmed in 1985 reveals Bizet's opera as a torid drama of passion blood and squalor with sets by John Bury that capture the earthy warmth of Spain in an unglamorised view of the factory girls of Seville. Barry McCauley is a thrilling Don Jose Micaela is sung by Marie McLaughlin with Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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