Everyone thought the RMS Titanic was the safest ship in the world - a leading shipbuilding journal proclaimed it 'unsinkable' because of its watertight compartment design. On its first trip from England to New York City, it collided with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. The much-publicized 'unsinkable' watertight compartment design was never designed to cope with such extensive damage, and the 'unsinkable' ship starts to go down. Even worse, more than half the 2200+ passengers & crew on board are already doomed, as the Titanic is only carrying lifeboats for about 1200. This is the frightening and untold story of the passengers & crew's struggles to stay alive on the ill-fated liner’s maiden voyage. Isabella Paradine (Catherine Zeta Jones) is a wealthy woman mourning the loss of her aunt, who reignites a romance with old flame, Wynn Park (Peter Gallagher). Meanwhile, a charming ne'er do well named Jamie Perse (Mike Doyle) steals a ticket for the ship, and falls for a sweet innocent Irish girl on board. But their romance is threatened by the villainous Simon Doonan (Tim Curry), who has discovered about the ticket and makes Jamie his unwilling accomplice, as well as having sinister plans for the girl. Director Robert Lieberman and scripter’s Ross Lamanna and Joyce Eliason easily convey tension as the great ocean liner approaches what we know to be certain doom. This box set also contains replicated memorabilia of the original documents and information for The Titanic including: Letter of Condolence Distress Call Large Poster Transcript Identity Card 2nd Class Menu Illustration of the ship Dear Brother letter Advert Small Poster Black and White photographs Music Sheet
The Police Academy adopts a completely open admissions policy hence a large number of unemployable social misfits promptly enrol. This hilarious motley crew are the last people you would want as upholders of the law.
The First Lesson: When Jeremy Brown arrives at the Southbank College of Further Education little does he realise how stressful teaching can be - until he meets the students! An Inspector Calls: Jeremy causes confusion whilst mistaking the school inspector for a new student. Worse still after expounding his theory on the old-fashioned teaching practices of inspectors he then insults the inspector's wife! A Fate Worse Than Death: Wedding bells are in the air when Ranjeet asks Jeremy for help in ditching his bride to be. Jeremy could be walking up the aisle sooner than he thinks! All Through The Night: Working late takes on a whole new meaning when Jeremy and his class are locked in the classroom. Songs and gags ensue but the night can only get worse when Miss Courtney turns up.
Having made the heartrending decision to break away from her one true love and father of her child ambitious and married politician Adam Warner Jennifer (Jaclyn Smith) sets about rebuilding her career and finding happiness again. Dangerous ghosts from her past come back to haunt her though in the shape of ruthless mobster James Moretti. His brother Michael had been obsessed with Jennifer and had died because of it. Now the vengeful James is out to blackmail both Jennifer and Adam over their illicit love - and ultimately wants Jennifer dead. But hell hath no fury like the 'Rage of Angels'... based on the Sidney Sheldon novel.
Disguised as a harmless horoscope this number is the vehicle for evil. When a caller named Gruber phones in he is hooked by devilish forces that send his spirit on murderous sprees while his body sleeps...
Following on from his student misadventures in Doctor In The House we catch up with Michael Upton's equally disaster prone solo career in Doctor At Large. Features the complete series. Episodes Comprise: 1. Now Dr. Upton 2. You've Really Manded Me In It This Time 3. You Make Me Feel So Young 4. Doctor Dish 5. Modernising Major 6. Congratulations - It's A Toad 7. Change Your Partners 8. Trains And Notes And Veins 9. Lock Stock And Beryl 10. Upton Sells Out? 11. Saturday Matinee 12. Where There's A Will 13. Students At Heart 14. No Ill Feeling 15. Let's Start At The Beginning 16. It's All In The Mind 17. Cynthia Darling 18. A Little Help From My Friends 19. Devon Is Lovely This Time Of Year 20. Operation Loftus 21. Mother And Father Doig Well 22. A Joke's A Joke 23. Pull The Other One! 24. It's The Rich Wot Gets The Pleasure 25. Thingsd That Go Mumps In The Night 26. Mr. Moon 27. The Viva 28. Bewigged Bothered and Bewildered 29. A Situation Full Of Promise
The Flying Doctors: The Complete Collection (47 Discs)
Series 5 of Minder continues the comic adventures of Arthur Daley (George Cole) and Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman). Strong support is provided as ever by Dave The Barman (Glynn Edwards) Inspector Chisholm (Patrick Malahide) and guest star appearances from the likes of Robbie Coltrane Ray Winstone Beryl Reid and others. All together - ""I could be so good for you!"" Episode titles: 'Goodbye Sailor' 'What Makes Shamy Run?' and 'A Number of Old Wives' Tales'.
The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival was a true musical watershed, as Jazz on a Summer's Day reveals. This 75-minute film captures an event poised on the cusp of a new era, as the cool jazz of Jimmy Guiffre and the effortless scat of Anita O'Day intermingle with the hard bop of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and the smouldering fusion overtones of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. There's a crisp contribution from Chuck Berry, a typically feel-good set from Louis Armstrong--including a hilarious duo with Jack Teagarden--and, as evening shades into night, a heartfelt performance from Mahalia Jackson, closing with a melting rendition of "The Lord's Prayer". Bert Stern has assembled all these and more into a satisfying sequence, complete with footage of an enthusiastic and informal audience. Shots of the yachting line-up from the America's Cup round out a blissful and what now seems blissfully naïve occasion. On the DVD: Colour picture quality has worn well, whereas sound has deteriorated notably at times: Thelonius Monk's quarter-tones could easily be a semitone flat! Even so, it's worth putting up with this to enjoy a tour through music-making whose relaxed spontaneity would be impossible to emulate today. --Richard Whitehouse
What the - ?!Someone is kidnapping parachutists - while they're still in the air! The army are baffled and call in ace air investigator Bob Megan (Patrick Allen) to solve the mystery and find the missing men.Bob has a more personal mystery to solve too: he meets a strange and beautiful woman who fascinates him, then vanishes. He soon realises that both his cases are connected - and that aliens are involved!Starring Academy Award winner George Sanders (All About Eve), Broadway legend Maurice Evans (Planet of the Apes) and Neil Connery (brother of Sir Sean), The Body Stealers is an enormously entertaining slice of groovy sixties sci-fi.
The voice of Country Music live in Tennessee in 1992. Contains 18 tracks including - No Show Jones The Race Is On He Stopped Loving Her Today Fire On The Mountain Once You Have Had The Best The Corvette Song I'm A One Woman Man.
Versailles, 1672-1678. The Franco-Dutch war wages on, Louis XIV (George Blagden) confronts his bitter rival, Guillaume d'Orange. But danger threatens even inside the kingdom, within the court of Versailles itself with the Poison scandal. Between mysticism and obscurity, a dive into the dark side of power, with the king's downward spiral, and his return towards the light.Louis has completed the first stage of his plan: to build the most beautiful palace in Europe, far away from Paris...And to lock the nobility inside it so as to exercise absolute control over it. But his plan backfires. Louis has created a new civilisation where the courtiers are ready to do anything to get to the Sun. Behind the veneer of etiquette, they dream of money, power, and climbing the social ladder. They will do whatever they have to: morality is waning, and poison spreads...Versailles is rotting. Blinded by his affection for Madame de Montespan, Louis is deaf to the Church's injunctions. The greatest enemy standing before him is no longer the nobility, nor is it Guillaume d'Orange: the palace that he himself designed could end up becoming his worst enemy.
Chuck Norris is a Vietnam veteran searching the country for his lost brother. When he and his fellow truckers have to pass through a corrupt town where everyone is on the take they decide to take things into their own hands by plotting revenge against the local bullies. Filled with martial arts action adventure and plenty of 18 wheelers the truckers teach the town a lesson they won't soon forget.
The wild west is about to get wilder! In this stylish sassy comedy a New Orleans gambler with a poker face no man could resist unknowingly wins a high stakes card game and things start moving like a runaway stagecoach.
The granddaddy of giant monster movies, The Lost World was one of the most expensive movies ever made in 1925, costing more than a million dollars, and has remained one of the most influential. Every larger-than-life creature feature since--from King Kong to Godzilla and Jurassic Park--owes a debt to this original adventure fantasy based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. It's the story of a maverick scientist (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard) who finds a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles and comes back to London with a captured brontosaurus to prove it. His expedition includes Bessie Love, the daughter of an explorer who disappeared on the previous expedition, and big game hunter Lewis Stone. The ostensible stars of the picture are all upstaged by Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs, simple models brought to life with primitive stop-motion animation (the technique was soon to be perfected by O'Brien for King Kong). Hardly realistic by any measure, these pioneering special effects are still a sight to behold, especially the lumbering brontosaurus which receives the most care from O'Brien, both foraging in his jungle and rampaging through the streets of London. With the coming of talkies, The Lost World became obsolete: all known American prints were destroyed in favour of a sound remake (which became King Kong) and the film only survived in a severely truncated form (even the original negative was lost). For this release David Shepard meticulously "rebuilt" the film using material from eight different surviving prints from all over the world, cleaning and restoring along the way. The result is 50% longer than previously extant prints, still not complete but closer than any version since its 1925 debut. The difference is not merely in restored scenes but in a rediscovered sense of grace in scenes filled out to their original detail and pace. The film moves and breathes once again like a silent film. On the DVD: From the attractive solid slipcase to the wonderful "period" menu interface, this is a delightful DVD package. The film itself looks surprisingly good--a real tribute to the restoration team's efforts--with careful tinting in the style of the period (blues for evening, reds for dawn etc.). The disc features the choice of either an original score by The Alloy Orchestra or a classical orchestral score compiled and conducted by Robert Israel (both enjoyable and effective), 13 minutes of O'Brien's animation outtakes (including a couple of isolated frames that capture O'Brien manipulating his models) and a well-meaning but basic commentary by Arthur Conan Doyle historian Roy Pilot. There's also a text biography of Conan Doyle and a display of original postcards, posters and other promotional items. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
Craig Sterling (Damon) Sharron Macready (Bastedo) and Richard Barrett (Gaunt) are agents for an international intelligence organisation called NEMESIS. After a plane crash and being rescued by an unknown civilisation the trio make their way back Geneva to continue their work only to discover they have mysteriously developed super-human abilities like telepathy amazing memories and abnormal strengths. Instead of telling anyone about these developments they keep their secret quiet but use their new powers to help complete a range of dangerous assignments... This 8 DVD box set features all 30 episodes from the ITC series The Champions. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Beginning 2. The Invisible Man 3. Reply Box No. 666 4. The Experiment 5. Happening 6. Operation Deep-Freeze 7. The Survivors 8. To Trap A Rat 9. The Iron Man 10. The Ghost Plane 11. The Dark Island 12. The Fanatics 13. Twelve Hours 14. The Search 15. The Gilded Cage 16. Shadow of the Panther 17. A Case of Lemmings 18. The Interrogation 19. The Mission 20. The Silent Enemy 21. The Body Snatchers 22. Get Me Out Of Here! 23. The Night People 24. Project Zero 25. Desert Journey 26. Full Circle 27. Nutcracker 28. The Final Countdown 29. The Gun-Runners 30. Autokill
An all-action martial arts movie which focusses on an undercover agent's fight against corruption in Hong Kong. Flash Legs Tan stars in this dark spaghetti western style kung fu flick that has become a cult classic.
John Lennon: Rare And Unseen
Based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story this romantic epic stars Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson as two strangers who meet fall in love and marry in post-war Paris. Taylor represents the Ellswirth family: eccentric and free spending but seemingly always on the brink of bankruptcy. When she is unable to change her ways when married life becomes more difficult...
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