Prunella Gee and John Nolan star in Granada Television's triumphant 1973 adaptation of the classic novel by Howard Spring, set in the poverty-stricken Manchester of the 1920s. Free spirited young Irish girl Anna (Prunella Gee) leaves her job as a servant and falls in with up-and-coming Manchester artist Nick Faunt (John Nolan). As they take up the bohemian lifestyle favoured by artists in the city, Nick is unwilling to make commitments - and Anna is a girl who comes with a lot of baggage. She has a four-year-old son, Brian, who is living with his 'Uncle Jacob' (Howard Southern). Now Anna dreams of taking him back into her life and away from Jacob, while Nick finds himself more and more captivated by Jacob's aloof sister Rachel (Sharon Mughan). In a world where everyone wants to be free, some commitments can't be ignored...
The sub-zero heroes from Ice Age are back on an a new incredible adventure. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth; Diego wonders if he is going too soft hanging with his pals and Sid gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have so...
Sequel to Westworld where the robots have rebuilt the theme park. Not content with the simple aims of capitalism the robots led by the indomitable Duffy (Hill) are bent on complete global domination. When powerful leaders are invited to the park they uncover a sinister cloning plan to carry out the mission.
The story of a wacky librarian who impersonates a New York city policeman during a dance contest. When he unexpectedly wins the competition the fast paced comedy begins.
When Ruth Matthews finds that her young daughter has withdrawn from reality she and a well-meaning doctor struggle to come to the aid of the child. But when conventional science appears unable to reach the little girl Ruth embarks on a journey within herself to unlock the mysteries that hold her daughter captive in this passionate and heartrending tale of a mother's love - and a family's determination to heal.
Budgie stars the late British pop star Adam Faith as petty crook Ronald ""Budgie"" Bird. Budgie has just been released from prison however this doesn't stop him delving into questionable scams and get rich quick schemes; which seemingly always end in failure. This constantly gets him into trouble with both the police and his underworld boss Charlie Endell played by Iain Cuthbertson. This boxed set features every episode from the second series. Episodes Comprise: 1. Dreaming Of Thee 2. And The Lord Taketh away 3. Louie The Ring Is Dead & Buried In Kensal Green Cemetery 4. The Jump-Up Boys 5. Our Story So Far 6. Do Me A Favour 7. Glory Of Fulham 8. 24 000 Ball Point Pens 9. King For A Day 10. The Outside Man 11. The Man Outside 12. Brief Encounter 13. Run Rabbit Run Rabbit Run Run Run
Originally created for in 1919 Zorro (the name is Spanish for fox) has become one of the endearing characters of the West with a mission to 'avenge the helpless to punish cruel politicians ' and 'to aid the oppressed.' This collection features the first three film series made of the Zorro legend - Zorro Rides Again with John Carroll Zorro's Fighting Legion with Reed Hadley and Zorro's Black Whip in which Linda Sterling plays an 1880s female descendant The Black Whip. Films Comprise: Disc 1: Black Whip - Vol. 1 Disc 2: Black Whip - Vol. 2 Disc 3: Fighting Legion - Vol. 1 Disc 4: Fighting Legion - Vol. 2 Disc 5: Rides Again - Vol. 1 Disc 6: Rides Again - Vol. 2
Death Of A Salesman is the outstanding adaptation of Arthur Miller's stage masterpiece about Willie Loman - the emotionally broken-down salesman coming to terms with his life and his family after being fired from his life-long job. This drama remains one of the most poignant and powerful stories in modern theatre...
Into the idyllic town of Brewster comes Whiley Pritcher an intense and enigmatic stranger who begins a public access show that asks the question 'What's wrong with Brewster?' The question soon has neighbour turning on neighbour and before long there are some that are ready to confide in Whiley and reveal the town's darker secrets. But is it wise to talk to strangers?
The Dawn Rider: John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for; the man who gunned down his father... Texas Terror: Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in a shoot-out with robbers...
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984): From modern horror master Wes Craven comes the classic shocker that remains the standard bearer for terror. Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is having grisly nightmares. Meanwhile her high-school friends who are having the very same dreams are being slaughtered in their sleep by the hideous fiend of their shared nightmares. When the police ignore her explanation she herself must confront the killer in his shadowy realm. Featuring John Saxon with Johnny Depp in his first starring role and mind-bending special effects this horror classic gave birth to one of the most infamous undead villains in cinematic history: Freddy Krueger... A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010): Five teenage friends living on one street all dream of a sinister man with a disfigured face a frightening voice and a gardener's glove with knives for fingers. One by one he terrorizes them within their dreams - where the rules are his and the only way out is to wake up. But when one among them dies they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Buried in their past is a debt that has just come due. To save themselves they must plunge into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all: Freddy Krueger. Jackie Earle Haley plays the legendary evildoer in this contemporary reimagining of the seminal horror classic.
Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is a bold, colourful, ambitious failure. Severely truncated, this two-hour version tackles only about half the story, climaxing with the battle of Helm's Deep and leaving poor Frodo and Sam still stuck on the borders of Mordor with Gollum. Allegedly, the director ran out of money and was unable to complete the project. As far as the film does go, however, it is a generally successful attempt at rendering Tolkien's landscapes of the imagination. Bakshi's animation uses a blend of conventional drawing and rotoscoped (traced) animated movements from live-action footage. The latter is at least in part a money-saving device, but it does succeed in lending some depth and a sense of otherworldly menace to the Black Riders and hordes of Orcs: Frodo's encounter at the ford of Rivendell, for example, is one of the film's best scenes thanks to this mixture of animation techniques. Backdrops are detailed and well conceived, and all the main characters are strongly drawn. Among a good cast, John Hurt (Aragorn) and C3PO himself, Anthony Daniels (Legolas), provide sterling voice characterisation, while Peter Woodthorpe gives what is surely the definitive Gollum (he revived his portrayal a couple of years later for BBC Radio's exhaustive 13-hour dramatisation). The film's other outstanding virtue is avant-garde composer Leonard Rosenman's magnificent score in which chaotic musical fragments gradually coalesce to produce the triumphant march theme that closes the picture. None of which makes up for the incompleteness of the movie, nor the severe abridging of the story actually filmed. Add to that some oddities--such as intermittently referring to Saruman as "Aruman"--and the final verdict must be that this is a brave yet ultimately unsatisfying work, noteworthy as the first attempt at transferring Tolkien to the big screen but one whose virtues are overshadowed by incompleteness. --Mark Walker
In STEP ACROSS THE BORDER two forms of artistic expression improvised music and cinema direct are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment not from the transformation of a preordained plan. In improvisation the plan is revealed only at the end. One finds it. The other connection concerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musicians communicate via the music our work too was realized within a very small and flexible team of equals. What mattered was exchange. And movement. Sometimes we started filming in the middle of the night responding to a new idea that had arisen only minutes before. We had a fundamental feeling for what we wanted to do for what kind of film this should be. And we followed that feeling. It was all very instinctive.
Don't camp in the woods... Just Don't! Despite the local Ranger's ominous warning a party of three boys and two girls take a camping trip to the mountain. In the steamy backwoods they sense an atmosphere of mounting tension. Soon they realise there is some deadly horror lurking in the woods. The Ranger had been right! They meet a strange girl and her equally strange family. Then one of them is murdered... then another... and another... Will any of them survive those dark hour
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Two more cases for Holmes and Watson to solve. The Naval Treaty: Dr Watson's old school colleague 'Tadpole' Phelps needs help with a mysterious problem at the Foreign Office. A top secret treaty has vanished and its disappearance imperils the cause of world peace. Only Holmes can track it down in time. The Solitary Cyclist: For a while Miss Violet Smith's life is quite perfect. However the young heiress soon finds herself being followed by a sinister stranger and Holmes and Watson are engaged in a frantic race against time to prevent her from being kidnapped.
Gladiator Winner of five Academy Awards® Gladiator revived the sword and sandal epic while becoming one of the acclaimed and popular historical dramas of the decade! Russell Crowe won an Oscar® for his star-making turn as a general whose family is murdered by a corrupt prince (Academy Award®-nominee Joaquin Phoenix). He embarks on a desperate quest for revenge that sees him fighting in front of thousands of Romans in the Coliseum. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ridley Scott Gladiator re-creates the glory of Ancient Rome with Academy Award®-winning special effects. A modern classic. Immortals From the producers of ‘300’ Immortals is a visually stunning and bloody retelling of the epic Greek legend of Theseus. The ruthless King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) leads his bloodthirsty army on a murderous rampage across Greece to find a deadly weapon that can kill the Gods themselves. Only Theseus (Henry Cavill) a mortal chosen by Zeus King of the Gods can lead the fight against Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at stake. Gladiator Bonus Features: Theatrical Feature Commentary Extended Feature Commentary Visions from Elysium: Topic Marker Intro by Ridley Scott Deleted Scenes Deleted Scenes with commentary Scrolls of Knowledge Are You Not Entertained? Behind the Scenes Immortals Bonus Features: It's No Myth Carravaggio Meets Fight Club Deleted Scenes Alternate Opening Scene - Young Theseus Alternate Endings Excerpt from Immortals: Gods & Heroes Comic Book.
Martial arts expert Jason Blade (Stazak) sets to get the gangland boss and his right-hand man responsible for the death of his partner.
Frederick Forsyth: Death Has A Bad Reputation
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