A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision
A team set off for the summit of Makalu in Nepal the world's fifth highest mountain. A gruelling record of astonishing triumph over relentless adversity. Guy Cotter is an expert high-altitude mountaineer with two Everest climbs under his belt. Takashi Ozaki is a veteran mountaineer with a successful Everest summit but he hasn't climbed at altitude for 15 years. Although Bryan Moore is an expert alpine climber he has never been above 22 000 feet (6705 metres) - experiencing the t
The League of Gentlemen is a sardonic crime drama in which Jack Hawkins plays an embittered retired army officer who recruits seven fellow ex-soldiers to carry out a bank raid with military precision. The film presents an England between post-war austerity and the more liberated 1960s where traditional moral certainties were rapidly being discarded; a London where ex-officers left on the scrapheap at war's end could justify turning their military experience to armed robbery. Unfortunately the tale is neither particularly amusing or thrilling, with an overlong central detour via an army camp prefacing the exciting heist and a largely anti-climactic ending. Nevertheless Hawkins effectively subverts his heroic officer type from The Cruel Sea (1953) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and there's excellent support from a great cast including Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough and Roger Livesey. Bryan Forbes not only wrote the cynical screenplay but costarred with wife Nanette Newman in her first significant screen role. More influential than truly classic, The League of Gentlemen has lent its name to a modern BBC comedy, an "Extraordinary" comic strip-turned-movie, and proved the template for heist films ever since, including both versions of The Italian Job (1969 and 2003). On the DVD:The League of Gentlemen is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer from an excellent condition print and mostly looks and sounds fine. There's minimal print damage, though sadly Philip Green's ironically patriotic main title music suffers from significant distortion. The only extra is the original trailer, which is now something of a period piece itself. --Gary S Dalkin
The League of Gentlemen is a sardonic crime drama in which Jack Hawkins plays an embittered retired army officer who recruits seven fellow ex-soldiers to carry out a bank raid with military precision. The film presents an England between post-war austerity and the more liberated 1960s where traditional moral certainties were rapidly being discarded; a London where ex-officers left on the scrapheap at war's end could justify turning their military experience to armed robbery. Unfortunately the tale is neither particularly amusing or thrilling, with an overlong central detour via an army camp prefacing the exciting heist and a largely anti-climactic ending. Nevertheless Hawkins effectively subverts his heroic officer type from The Cruel Sea (1953) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and there's excellent support from a great cast including Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough and Roger Livesey. Bryan Forbes not only wrote the cynical screenplay but costarred with wife Nanette Newman in her first significant screen role. More influential than truly classic, The League of Gentlemen has lent its name to a modern BBC comedy, an "Extraordinary" comic strip-turned-movie, and proved the template for heist films ever since, including both versions of The Italian Job (1969 and 2003). On the DVD:The League of Gentlemen is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer from an excellent condition print and mostly looks and sounds fine. There's minimal print damage, though sadly Philip Green's ironically patriotic main title music suffers from significant distortion. The only extra is the original trailer, which is now something of a period piece itself. --Gary S Dalkin
'Strange Things Happen At Sundown' is the story of vampires run amuck in New York City. There's a group of low level mobsters with fangs there's an old-age vampire who does mob hits for money there's a pair of vampire lovers on the run. Throw in a born again Christian trying to bring one of the vampires over to her side an Italian girl from Brooklyn bitten by vampires and left to endure an agonising three-day turn and a psychotic four-hundred year old blood sucking housewife with
Disc 1 Track Listing: 1.Bryan Hyland - The Joker Went Wild 2.The Dixie Cups - Chapel Of Love 3.Del Shannon - Runaway 4.The Shirelles - Soldier Boy 5.The Coasters - Yakety Yak 6.The Crickets - Peggy Sue 7.The Platters - Only You 8.The Crystals - He's A Rebel 9.Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her 10.The Diamonds - Little Darlin' 11.Joey Dee & The Starliters - Shout 12.Freddy Cannon - Palisades Park 13.Del Shannon - Keep Searchin' (Follow The Sun) 14.Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire 15.The Coasters - Charlie Brown 16.The Comets - Rock Around The Clock 17.The Platters - Harbour Lights 18.Bobby Vee - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes 19.The Shirelles - Baby It's You 20.The Original Juniors - Twistin' USA 21.Frankie Ford - Roberta 22.Jack Scott - Goodbye Baby Disc 2 Track Listing: 1.Tommy Roe - Sheila 2.Del Shannon - Handy Man 3.Joey Dee & The Starliters - What Kind Of Love Is This 4.Brian Hyland - Sealed With A Kiss 5.Bobby Vee - Devil Or Angel 6.Troy Shondell - This Time 7.Freddy Cannon - Tallahassee Lassie 8.Tommy Sands - Teenage Crush 9.Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine 10.Buddy Knox - Party Doll 11.Johnny Tillotson - Poetry In Motion 12.Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave 13.The Coasters - Young Blood 14.The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko 15.Mary Wells - Two Lovers 16.Lenny Welch - Since I Fell For You 17.The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron 18.The Jive Five - My True Story 19.The Contours - Do You Love Me 20.The Shirelles - Mama Said 21.Johnnie & Joe - Over The Mountain Across The Sea 22.Sam Moore - Soul Man Disc 3 Track Listing: 1.The Coasters - That Is Rock 'n' Roll 2.Martha & The Vandellas - Jimmy Mack 3.Del Shannon - Little Town Flirt 4.The Tokens - Tonight I Feel Love 5.The Angels - 'Til 6.Lou Christie - Rhapsody In The Rain 7.Mary Wells - What's Easy For Two Is So Hard For One 8.Brian Hyland - I'm Afraid To Go Home Tonight 9.The Platters - The Great Pretender 10.Frankie Ford - Alimony 11.Sam Moore - When Something Is Wrong 12.Tommy Roe - Dizzy 13.Roger McGuinn - Mr. Tambourine Man 14.Joey Dee & The Starliters - The Peppermint Twist 15.The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight 16.Bobby Lewis - Tossin' & Turnin' 17.Brian Hyland - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 18.The Angels - My Boyfriend's Back 19.The Platters - My Prayer 20.The Crickets - That'll Be The Day 21.Bobby Vee - Take Good Care Of My Baby 22.The Shirelles - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
A record-breaking free flight over one of the most challenging terrains in the world. The fierce ambition of expert Bryan Moore is to paraglide from Wanaka to the base of Mount Cook New Zealand's highest mountain. This feat has never been achieved by any paraglider. New Zealander Bryan is joined by pilot Rob Darby from England and by two Swiss pilots Remo Stussi and Nicole Nussbaum. Fellow enthusiast Gavin Wills accompanies them in his sailplane Hawkwing. In the go-it-alone spiri
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