This 3 DVD box set celebrates the golden era of Hollywood musicals in the 1940s 1950s and 1960s. Using movie trailers and interviews with stars such as Ann Miller and Shirley Jones these programmes pay tribute to the heyday of song and dance on celluloid. Hollywood Musicals Of The 1940's:In the 1940s America was just emerging from The Great Depression. War engulfed half the world and the future looked uncertain. The Hollywood musical had the recipe to make things better. With the Hollywood musical people still believed that dreams really do come true. Glamour spread across the screen. In glorious colour and even in black and white the screen glittered. Join the biggest stars as we celebrate the great musicals of the 1940s when Hollywood put its best feet forward - dancing feet. In the 1940's from nostalgia to contemporary jazz the Hollywood musical had it all. Hollywood Musicals Of The 1950's:Relive the excitement of Opening Night as the curtain is raised on the Hollywood Musicals of the 1950s. All the music dancing the exotic locales the comedy and the drama are included in a salute to the greatest musicals ever to grace the motion picture screen. From the artistry of the ballet in An American In Paris to the Arabian Nights fantasy of Kismet there are stars shining in all their glory. Gene Kelly Howard Keel Fred Astaire Donald O'Connor and Cyd Charisse are but a few of the luminaries included. Enjoy again the depiction of the early days of talking pictures in Singin' In The Rain. Clap your hands to the songs and dances aboard the Show Boat. Watch as Shakespeare comes alive again in the musical comedy Kiss Me Kate. Thrill once more to the enchantment of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers The Band Wagon and Damn Yankees. Fall in love again with the romance of Royal Wedding Oklahoma! and Silk Stockings. Hollywood Musicals Of The 1960's:The 60's were the last great decade for the American movie musical but it was also probably its best. With blockbusters like The Sound of Music West Side Story My fair Lady Mary Poppins Oliver! and Funny girl the artform reached its peak. Join us on a singing and dancing tour from the Austrian Alps to the vauderville halls of Brooklyn... from dancing in the streets of Spanish Harlem to the shores of River City... from the chimneys of Old London to the sound stages of Hollywood. These are the best and biggest extravaganzas ever!
Hollywood journeyman par excellence Michael Curtiz directs this historical Western which tells the stories of confederate soldier Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and General George Armstrong Custer (Ronald Reagan) as they fight abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey).
New York City detectives Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover The French Connection. But when one of the criminals tries to kill Doyle, he begins a deadly pursuit that takes him far outside the city limits. Based on a true story, this action-filled thriller, with its renowned chase scene, won five Academy Award in 1971, including Best Picture, Best Director (William Friedkin) and Best Actor for Hackman.
Titles Comprise: Great Guy:Great Guy was the first Jimmy Cagney produced film from Grand National Pictures and brings to the screen the reality of widespread corruption in the 1930's during FDR's New Deals. The movie does a good job of shedding light on that intriguing era and uncovers various plots and schemes that go all the way up to the highest offices. Directed by John G. Blystone. Something To Sing About: Something To Sing About wittily mirrors Cagney's frustrations with the Hollywood rat race and pokes fun at the studio system as a whole. Production methods acting styles pompous executives overzealous agents and the era's intense fandemonium all provide choice fodder for the film's writers. Directed by Victor Schertzinger. Blood On The Sun:Blood On The Sun is one of the most powerful films to try to explain exactly how the Japanese 'Co-Prosperity Sphere' came into mortal conflict with the United States. Based on historical fact this riveting brutal action-packed motion picture has a tremendous supporting cast typical of a Cagney Production never lets up on the great Jimmy Cagney-style action. Directed by Frank Lloyd.
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Rare '60's soul footage.
Will and Grace continue their hilarity littered journey through series 5. Featuring episodes 17-20: 17. Fagmalion Part Three: Bye Bye Beardy 18. Fagmalion Part Four: The Guy Who Loved Me 19. Sex Losers & Videotape 20. Leo Unwrapped
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This DVD documentary focusses' on wild dogs and the powerful bonds that unite each member of the pack. They are efficient lethal and for tens of thousands of years they have been both competitors and companions of our kind. Opportunistic and adaptable the wild dogs owe their prowess as hunters to the bonds that unite each member of the pack. No other predators boast such elaborate hunting societies and none are more adept at the heart of the ambush the chase or the kill.
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A collection of high-octane action films from uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer! Featured titles: 1.Pirates Of The Caribbean 2.King Arthur - Director's Cut 3.National Treasure 4.Pearl Harbor 5.Con Air 6.The Rock 7.Enemy Of The State 8.Crimson Tide 9.Gone In 60 Seconds - Director's Cut 10.Armageddon Please refer to individual titles for individual castings and synopses'.
A member of the jury for an explosive trial against a gun manufacturer joins forces with a beautiful woman to manipulate the panel.
From the soundless depth of the ocean emerged life's first predators animals that had to kill to stay alive. It is this struggle for survival that forced undersea animals to evolve a dazzling arsenal of defenses from armored shells to stinging cells from camouflage to chemical screens and electric charges. Yet for every innovation in defense nature has devised a counter ploy a strategy that ensures that neither predator nor prey will ever win the deadly game. From corals and ane
Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarised everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalised a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colourful role for Richard Harris, Unforgiven is arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. --Jeff Shannon
Tracklisting: 1. Haunted By You 2. This Is Not My Crime 3. We Could Be Kings 4. Stop 5. Yours For The Taking 6. Where Are They Now? 7. In Love With Love 8. Baby I'm Sorry 9. Walking In The Shallows 10. Fighting Fit 11. Speak To Me Someone 12. Olympian 13. You'll Never Walk Again 14. Sick Sober And Sorry 15. Be My Light Be My Guide 16. Let Me Move On 17. I Can't Help Myself 18. For The Dead
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