Chief of detectives Robert T. Ironside is shot down by a sniper's bullet whilst vacationing at a remote cabin. Surviving the assassination attempt, Ironside is left paralysed from the waist down. Confined to a wheelchair, he becomes the head of his own special police unit, fighting crime with intelligence and action, aided by a crack team of investigators on the streets of San Francisco. From 1967-1975, Ironside confronted the hottest issues of its time - civil rights, drugs, sexual assault and terrorism - many of which are still relevant to this day, giving television its first disabled hero. Raymond Burr, fresh from 9 years as TV's most famous lawyer, Perry Mason, shook the typecasting from his previous role and made Ironside an instant hit with audiences, running an incredible 8 years.
Nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award 1995, this boldly inventive and expertly orchestrated crime saga is now available as a two disc DVD set that includes such extras as deleted scenes, interviews and a documentary.
All 26 episodes from the second season of the classic US cop show, following the cases of wheelchair-bound chief of detectives Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr). Paralysed by a sniper's bullet, the San Francisco Police Department's top detective is now head of his own special unit, ably assisted by sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway), policewoman Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson), and African-American ex-con Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell). The episodes are: 'Shell Game', 'Split Second to an Epitaph: Part 1', 'Split Second to an Epitaph: Part 2', 'The Sacrifice', 'Robert Phillips Vs the Man', 'Desperate Encounter', 'I, the People', 'Price Tag: Death', 'An Obvious Case of Guilt', 'Reprise', 'The Macabre Mr. Micawber', 'Side Pocket', 'Sergeant Mike', 'In Search of an Artist', 'Up, Down and Even', 'Why the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club Met On Thursday', 'Rundown On a Bum Rap', 'The Prophecy', 'A World of Jackals', 'And Be My Love', 'Moonlight Means Money', 'A Drug On the Market', 'Puzzlelock', 'The Tormentor', 'A Matter of Love and Death' and 'Not With a Whimper, But a Bang'.
Directed by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window is an edge-of-your-seat classic starring two of Hollywood's most popular stars. When a professional photographer (James Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbours play out across the courtyard. When he suspects his neighbour of murdering his nagging wife, he enlists his socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to help investigate the suspicious chain of events, leading to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in all of film history. Honoured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies for excellence in film, Rear Window has also been hailed as one of Alfred Hitchcock's most stylish thrillers (Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide). Bonus features: REAR WINDOW ETHICS: AN ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY A CONVERSATION WITH SCREENWRITER JOHN MICHAEL HAYES PURE CINEMA: THROUGH THE EYES OF THE MASTER BREAKING BARRIERS: THE SOUND OF HITCHCOCK HITCHCOCK-TRUFFAUT INTERVIEW EXCERPTS MASTERS OF CINEMA FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH JOHN FAWELL, AUTHOR OF HITCHCOCK'S REAR WINDOW: THE WELL-MADE FILM PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS THEATRICAL TRAILER RE-RELEASE TRAILER NARRATED BY JAMES STEWART
Jim Wilson (Reed) is a police lieutenant in a corrupt resort town. Revolted by the brutality of modern police work he decides to leave and take up duties in his quiet home town. But on his final day a violent drama explodes. A deadly confrontation breaks out between Frank (McHattie) the abandoned lover of singer Janie (George) and her new boyfriend Lyne (Osborne). The police are called and Frank shoots a young officer. Within minutes a full siege is underway in full view of the tou
Oh Vunderbar! This is the perfect drive-in flick (if there were any drive-ins left) as astronaut Alex Rebar returns to Earth from a botched space mission only to have contracted a strange disease that makes him slowly melt. This leads to a bloody killing spree. The first fifteen minutes of this trots out all the B-movie standards (gore campy moments and breasts!) which will leave any low-budget Vipco fan grinning! Packed full of great over-the-top moments fantastic make-up effects (
This tremendous box set features a quartet of Jimmy Stewart's classic performances. Harvey (Dir. Henry Koster 1950): James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd a wealthy alcoholic whose sunny disposition and drunken antics are tolerated by most of the citizens of his community. That is until Elwood begins to claim that he has a friend named Harvey who is an invisible six foot rabbit. Elwood's snooty socialite sister Veta determined to marry off her daughter Myrtle to a respec
Nora is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier overseas. On her birthday she gets a Dear John letter from him. Feeling despondent she agrees to a date with a wolf from her office. He gets her drunk and leads her back to his apartment where she resists his advances and bludgeons him in self-defense. She flees leaving behind the blue gardenia he bought her. The next morning she's can't remember the details of what happened.
Cornel Wilde produced directed and starred in this sincere hard-edged look at World War II that doesn't flinch from the horrors of battle. As a US marine unit fight against the defenders of a Japanese-held island both sides are haunted by their own thoughts and memories. The action takes place during a single American campaign to take an island held by the Japanese. Brief flashbacks to civilian life are the only escape from the gritty dreary setting. The usual cliché characters are replaced by new ones such as the captain (Wilde) who loves his wife but hates the war the sergeant (Rip Torn) who gets sadistic pleasure out of battle the minister's son (Patrick Wolfe) who keeps remembering the girl he left back home and the Southern illiterate (Burr DeBenning) who finds a place for himself in the Marines. The screenplay (from a 1945 novel by Peter Bowman) avoids stereotypes yet doesn't make any of these men into fleshed-out characters. Still the acting is solid and Wilde deserves commendation for taking a harsh unromanticised look at the Big One over thirty years before Steven Spielberg did it with Saving Private Ryan.
Raymond Burr stars as the defense attorney who never lost a case in the landmark series Perry Mason. In every episode Mason matches wits with his courtroom adversary D.A. Hamilton Burger (William Talman). Every time Mason - aided by devoted secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) and loyal private eye Paul Drake (William Hopper) - uncovers evidence that clears his client of murder.
A Seriously Sexy Comedy Nola Darling has three different men in her life. All three men want her to commit solely to them forcing her to make a choice. But is the choice she makes what she really wants?
Starring Cornel Wilde as a young rancher (Juan Obreón) seeking vengeance for the murders of his wife Yvonne de Carlo and his parents. The guilty parties are a group of terrorists, headed by Rodolpho Acosta, whom Jaun, now a fugitive from justice himself, intends to kill one by one.
War veteran Burt Roth and his sons battle against a Japanese mobster and his sadistic sidekicks who are masters of torture in the China-town area of Los Angeles.
Commercial vehicles may not be as sleek or exotic as some of their counterparts but the interest and passion for them is no less in evidence as we take a walk around a commercial vehicle rally. Featuring the knowledgeable and always informative Gerry Burr we spend time looking at and discussing the characteristics of these workhorses of the road with their proud owners and restorers.
Raymond Burr stars as the defense attorney who never lost a case in the landmark series Perry Mason. In every episode Mason matches wits with his courtroom adversary D.A. Hamilton Burger (William Talman). Every time Mason - aided by devoted secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) and loyal private eye Paul Drake (William Hopper) - uncovers evidence that clears his client of murder.
Frank Sinatra shines as a gifted but quick tempered up and coming lounge singer Danny Wilson who makes a meagre living singing in dive bars and hustling pool with best friend Mike Ryan (Alex Nicol). Even with a set of golden tonsils Easy Street isn't so easy for Danny to find. One night by chance they meet entertainer Joy Carroll (Shelley Winters) who gets them a job at gangster Nick Driscoll's well-to-do nightclub. But Nick (Raymond Burr) seeing the future potential in Danny's career wants a high price - 50% of all Danny's future earnings! Soon Danny's career takes off and with success comes love money and... complications! A messy love triangle emerges with Danny falling head over heels for Joy the club's star singer who in turn is smitten with his pianist and best friend Mike. Directed by Joseph Pevney (Flesh and Fury Man of a Thousand Faces) and starring Frank Sinatra (Ocean's Eleven The Manchurian Candidate) OSCAR'' winning actress Shelley Winters (Lolita The Night of the Hunter) and the Emmy'' award winning Raymond Burr (Rear Window Perry Mason) the film also includes cameo appearances from Tony Curtis and Jeff Chandler. Meet Danny Wilson is a classic musical drama containing a wonderful range of Sinatra standards such as (I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way That Old Black Magic When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) All of Me I've Got a Crush on You How Deep is the Ocean? and more.
Part of the gritty, punk-inspired wave of US independent cinema of the early 1980s, Out of the Blue is a bleak, harrowing drama. Essentially the vision of actor and director Dennis Hopper, the film finds the man behind the sepia-tinged soul searching of Easy Rider at a far lower ebb, in terms of the tone of the film and his own character, Donny. The undoubted star of the movie, however, is Linda Manz, who plays the troubled 15-year-old CB, a troubled teenage girl on the brink of adulthood. Waiting for Donny to return from a jail sentence for manslaughter, CB is living with her drug-addicted mother and seeking solace in the Sex Pistols and Elvis Presley. The events that unfold on Donny's return are often unbearably grim (the final scenes are practically unwatchable) but produce a movie that is worthy of its hallowed status. Hopper in particular is an uncomfortable sight, made all the more unsettling by the knowledge that it is hard to tell where his character ends and he begins. It's hard work, but more than worth the effort. On the DVD: for its first release on DVD much effort has been made to give Out of the Blue the treatment it deserves. The enhanced visuals are excellent, focusing on Hopper's inspired direction. The audio soundtrack is available in Dolby Digital sound, particularly effective on the recurring use of Neil Young's fragile "Hey, Hey, My, My (Out of the Blue)", the song which gave the movie its title. Hopper's audio commentary is fascinating and reflects his dedication to the project, a film that he practically rewrote on set after stepping in to replace the original director. The movie's place in both Hopper's career and alongside works such as Repo Man and Driller Killer is also examined in an excellent 12-page booklet. --Phil Udell
Enjoy a fascinating day out as we visit car fairs and motorcycle rallies up and down the country. Enthusiast and commentator Gerry Burr imparts some of his interesting and extensive knowledge as he talks to drivers and riders about their passions for vintage vehicles.
The wheelchair bound Robert T. Ironside. Raymond Burr is reunited with stars of the original series: Don Galloway Barbara Anderson Elizabeth Baur and Don Mitchell. Ironside is about to retire as head of the San-Francisco Police Department to finally fulfill his dream - running his own vineyard. However when Ed Brown his former chief aid now Deputy Chief asks him to take over the Denver Police Department because of the murder of the former Chief of Police Ironside agrees to do so.
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