This collection features four classic British films from the Ealing studio. Whisky Galore: The Scottish islanders of Todday by-pass war time rationing and delight in smuggling cases of their favourite tipple from a wrecked ship. Basil Radford stars as the teetotal English official who is totally unable to comprehend the significance of whisky to the islanders. Marvellously detailed and well played it firmly established the richest Ealing vein with the common theme of a small group triumphing over a more powerful opponent. Champagne Charlie: Tommy Trinder gives one of the very best performances of his career in this lively musical comedy about the career of music hall star George Leybourne - better known to one and all as Champagne Charlie. It Always Rains on Sunday: Rose Sandigate used to be engaged to local bad-boy Tommy Swann but he found himself locked up and thrown in Dartmoor prison. Rose eventually marries George a sedate but gentle man. However Tommy has escaped from Dartmoor and needs Rose's help... The Maggie: It looks as if the 'Maggie' an old and decrepit puffer boat is destined for the scrap-yard. That is until an American shipping company accidentally awards the puffer boat a valuable contract. When the mistake is discovered the head of the company himself decides to put things right. Calvin B. Marshall is a first rate hustler but the puffer crew outsmart him at every turn to keep their contract.
Way Out West, Laurel and Hardy's sole foray into cowboy country, benefits from their rousing rendition of "The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" (a song which made it into the British charts a few years ago) and some inspired villainy from James Finlayson, the Scottish actor who was frequently cast as Stan and Ollie's nemesis (here, he plays villainous bartender Mickey Finn). The plot is some hokum about Stan and Ollie's attempts to deliver deeds to a gold mine to the daughter of an old pal. What matters is the clowning--most of which is inspired. --Geoffrey Macnab
Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS (James Robertson Justice) is a cantankerous and crotchety old professor. Testing one of his new radar inventions (and travelling incognito as Lt. Farrow RN) the plane he is travelling is shot down and he is incarcerated as a POW. His overbearing and abrasive manner leads his fellow inmates into believing he is a German spy but when they discover who he actually is they realise that his escape is vital to the war effort. Written by Henry Blyth (The Bul
A star-studded stage adaptation of Arthur Miller's classic play about hope failure family and ambition.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the book by Bond creator Ian Fleming and adapted for the screen by Roald Dahl is the wonderful family film starring Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts an eccentric inventor who designs an extraordinary car that not only drives but flies and floats. Along with his two children Jemima (Heather Ripley) and Jeremy (Adrian Hall) and the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes) Caractacus and Chitty lead everyone into a magical world of pirates castles and endless adventure. With a fantastic cast including Benny Hill Gert Frobe Barbara Windsor Lionel Jeffries and Anna Quayle and timeless tunes such as the Oscar nominated title song ""Truly Scrumptious "" ""Toot Sweets "" Me Ol' Bamboo "" ""Posh"" and ""Chu-Chi Face "" 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' sounds and looks better than ever!
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A thrilling wartime espionage drama in which the respected naval commander Richard Heritage (James Mason) is duped by Mary an attractive enemy agent who plants false naval movement orders on him. As a consequence of these false plans a merchant ship is lost to enemy submarines and Heritage is court-martialled for disobeying orders before being found guilty and summarily dismissed from the Navy. Following his return to civilian life Heritage endeavours to prove his innocence by tracking down the beautiful agent who double crossed him. Working on a tip-off that she is at a remote house on the coast called Orchard Cottage Heritage visits the house during a stormy night only to discover Mary's dead body in one of the bedrooms. When Laura Verity (Joyce Howard) enters the house a few moments later she presumes that Heritage is the murderer and flees to call the police. But when the dead body disappears Laura and Heritage begin to realise that they are just pawns in a dangerous chess game played by Christopher Child (Tom Walls) the head of a Nazi spy ring.
Rich and successful with two lovely children Robert and Linda Edelman seem to have the perfect marriage. But beneath the surface gloss lies another story; for years Linda has suffered violent physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband. Finally she summons the courage to file for divorce. But with her marriage nearly over the real nightmares begin. Enraged Robert vows revenge on the wife who has dared to stand up to him. Determined to keep both his reputation and his children Robert plans his own 'special' divorce; he hires a hit man. But only by becoming the live bait to trap her murderous husband can Linda have any hope of staying alive. Based on a true story this suspensful terrifying story stars Cheryl Ladd as the woman whose efforts to reclaim her own life mark her for murder. A rich husband. A beautiful home. Two lovely children. It could cost her her life.
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Doctor In Trouble: The madcap doctor team are at it again! This time Dr. Burke stows away on a cruise ship when his girlfriend is assigned a modelling job aboard the vessel and ends up as a ship's doctor. Very Important Person: A happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits POWs in a German camp find out their new acerbic fellow prisoner rather unpopular with the rest of the chaps is a key officer who must be spirited to freedom at all cost. Don't Just Lie There Say Something Based on the stage play this is an all-star fast paced political farce as a Whitehall secretary bares all in a bid to save her boss and his assistant...
An intensely claustrophobic nail-biter to rival prime Hitchcock, 1964's Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a classic British thriller written and directed by Bryan Forbes. Set largely in an imposing Gothic house in north London, the film stars Richard Attenborough as Bill Savage, a man struggling to maintain his marriage to his increasingly unbalanced wife, Myra, played in an Oscar-nominated performance by the little-known but brilliant Broadway actress Kim Stanley. Myra, who believes she is a medium, plans a scheme that will make her famous, involving kidnapping then "psychically" locating a little girl. Attenborough (who won a BAFTA) and Stanley are both superb in what is part riveting battle of wills, part nerve-wracking kidnap thriller with, just possibly, a touch of the supernatural. Gerry Turpin's precise b/w cinematography and John Barry's chilling score add significantly to the atmosphere of dread, and if the plot has one or two gaping holes, Forbes's direction covers them deftly. Forbes explored female delusion again in The Whispers (1967) and The Mad Woman of Chaillot (1969); the film also marked a major entry in his long-term collaboration with John Barry and with his wife, the actress Nanette Newman. Séance clearly had an influence on Attenborough's own directorial contribution to the genre, the highly unsettling Anthony Hopkins vehicle, Magic (1978). On the DVD: Séance on a Wet Afternoon is presented in an excellent 16:9 transfer, anamorphically enhanced for widescreen televisions, that effectively captures the brooding look of Gerry Tupin's BAFTA-nominated cinematography. Unfortunately the print used, though generally very good, does show some damage, including some instances that appear to run through the best part of a reel. Though noticeable and sometimes distracting, they barely mar this gripping film. The mono soundtrack is fine, though there is the very occasional touch of distortion. The disc comes with optional English subtitles, the excellent original trailer and a new and first-rate 33-minute interview with Bryan Forbes in which he engagingly explains every aspect of the making of the film. --Gary S Dalkin
Something To Talk AboutIn one of her best-ever roles Julia Roberts is Grace whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall Gena Rowlands Kyra Sedgwick and others in the year's best ensemble of characters (Jack Matthews Newsday) co-star in this juicy truthful story written by Callie Khouri (Thelma And Louise) and directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Pelican BriefTwo Supreme Court Justices have been murdered and a lone law student (Julia Roberts) turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She and a determined investigative reporter (Denzel Washington) want to tell the world what they have uncovered - if they live to tell it. The race in on and these two are more than runners they're moving targets. Conspiracy TheoryNew York cab driver and conspiracy buff Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) knows about the secret movers shakers and assassins who really control things. Trying to put Justice Department attorney Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts) in the know he's run out of her office. Soon both will run for their lives.
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Owen Daybright has taken the rap for his boyhood pal Les Strobie all his life. Now the foreman on Strobie's ranch he is even willing to accept paternity of Strobie's illegitimate child. Daybright continues to make life easy for his friend partly from high motives - to protect Strobie's wife - and partly from habit. He even dodges bullets and doesn't give his friend up for the heel he is until Strobie negotiates to make off with his father's cattle. An unusual adult Western for its
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In Disney's latest full length animated feature Milo Thatcher comes across a book of ancient maps and writings in a mysterious lost language. He puts together a team and sets off in search of the lost underwater continent of Atlantis.
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