Spinning off from Granada's phenomenally successful sitcom The Army Game, Bootsie and Snudge charts the Civvy Street misadventures of former National Serviceman 'Excused Boots' Bisley and his bullying sergeant, Claude Snudge, now employed within the august environs of a gentlemen's club in London. Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser reprise their Army Game roles, with Clive Dunn as decrepit dogsbody Old Johnson, and Robert Dorning as irascible Rt. Hon. Sec. Hesketh Pendleton. A much-loved series larg...
In a poor Canadian mining village after the Second World War fragile dreamer Margaret McNeil finds a kindred spirit when a tall Celtic miner serenades her one night in a diner and follows her home. Her mother a viciously misanthropic widow who has lost both a son and husband to the mines views such displays of emotion as folly - futile and soul crushing. Against her mother's wishes Margaret marries the miner who tries to avoid the harsh mining life by getting fired and taking a
40 films over 4 DVDs. Extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. These films many of which are made available here for the first time since their original release - capture the spirit and strength concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before during and after the Second World War. These diverse and compelling films are fascinating historical documents bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of the rapidly changing world. Yet they are also striking in their different approach to the form. Using poetry dramatic reconstruction modernist techniques and explicit propaganda the film-makers found fresh new ways to get their message across.
The Werewolf of Washington (Dir. Milton Moses Ginsberg 1973): A White House aide bitten by a Hungarian werewolf returns to Washington to wreak havoc in the corridors of power and get his teeth into some presidential provisions senatorial snacks and congressman canape's! Find out what happens when a vicious heartless and callous monster with no regard for human life (the President) meets a wicked and wily Whitehouse werewolf in this uproarious comedy in the tradition of Amer
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