This spellbinding production of Stephen Sondheim's ""Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"" a musical thriller of revenge and romance set in Victorian London features Broadway diva Patty LuPone as Mrs. Lovett and veteran stage actor George Hearn in the title role. This concert version of the Broadway masterpiece was recorded in 2001 at San Francisco's famous Davies Symphony Hall with the world-class San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
In a late night bar Henry is approached by a mysterious woman who offers to sell him the severed manhood of Wales' greatest vocal entertainer... Believing he can make a fortune by selling the infamous appendage he teams up with his slightly dodgy best friend Teddy and takes a journey deep into the celebrity world of celebrity body trading in the wildest funniest comedy of the decade!! With a cast reading like a who's who of British comedy talent - Eve Myles (Torchwood) John Henshaw (Early Doors Cops Emmerdale) Jonathan Owen (Shameless) Roger Evans (Atonement) Margaret John (Gavin & Stacey) Matt Berry (Mighty Boosh) Geno Washington and Denise Welch (Waterloo Rd Loose Women).
One shot is all it takes..... Dick a loner living in a poor US mining town happens upon a small antique handgun and finds himself strangely drawn to it. He convinces other young outcasts to join him in a secret club he calls 'The Dandies'. It's a club based on the conflicting ideals of pacifism and guns; with the most important rule: 'never draw your weapon'. But they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken...
Blade: A blood chilling action-packed thriller about modern day vampires unlike any previously encountered. Wesley Snipes is Blade the ultimate vampire hunter and immortal warrior who possesses the superhuman strength and cunning of a vampire but shares none of their weakness. Able to walk by day and stalk by night Blade must confront his ultimate adversary the omnipotent vampire overlord Deacon Frost Stephen Dorff who is intent on leading an underground legion of va
This DVD will take you through basic kicks ippon gumite combination techniques and useful self-defence exercises associated with Shotokan Karate.Also included with Bunkai examples are seven advanced Shotokan katas - bassai dai kanku dai kanku sho enpi shochin niju shiho and jion.Karate master John Richards is a 7th Dan Black Belt chairman and chief instructor of the Zen-Shin Karate Association and is highly regarded as one of Britain's top professional Shotok
An African-American baby abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. When the mother struggles through rehab to kick her habit she then seeks to reclaim her lost son...
Re-live every great moment knockout submission and fights with the UFC Best of 2012: Year in Review. All the UFC superstars are featured in their most spectacular bouts.
Electronics expert Wiley (Ryan O'Neal) flees responsibility and New York city for Mexican adventure in this spectacular action romance. On the way he meets the beautiful Holbrook (Anne Archer) and joins up with her south of the border. But a meeting with the sinister Argenti (Omar Sharif) and the discovery of a sparkling collection of Green Ice in his hotel room lead to Wiley and Holbrook becoming embroiled in the deadly world of emerald smuggling...
This Thames sitcom from the creators of The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles chronicles the adventures of a widower who runs a riverside boatyard with his two grown-up sons - and the ructions that ensue when he decides to remarry. Running for two series Don't Rock the Boat stars Nigel Davenport as handsome young-at-heart Jack Hoxton and Sheila White as Dixie - the glamorous girl who puts the zing back into his life! Until the marriage of Jack and Dixie Jack and his sons Les and Billy had run a perfectly well-ordered resoundingly all-male establishment. But the arrival of Dixie a former conjurer's assistant and chorus girl has changed all that. And that fact that the boys now have a stepmother who's barely older than they are can only further complicate the situation...
Husband and wife doctors Paul and Kim Jordan need a drastic change. Distraught by the inexplicable death of their baby, Paul (C. Thomas Howell) convinces Kim to abandon their American lives and join a medical mission in Thailand. It seems to be just the distraction they need, until the day Paul is kidnapped by human traffickers who need a surgeon to operate on their wounded leader. Kim is left alone in a strange country, trying desperately to find her husband with no proof of what happened. While captive on the gang's secluded island, Paul is caged with Malcolm Andrews (John Rhys-Davies), an Englishman being held for ransom. With nothing to do but talk, the two men quickly clash over philosophy, as Malcolm relies on a bold faith in God and Paul believes no god would allow these evils to happen in the world. Paul takes another hit when he finds his patient's condition much worse than he can handle on his own in such primitive conditions...
Sound Of Music (Dir. Robert Wise 1965): Share the magical heartwarming true-life story that has become the most popular family film of all time - Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'The Sound Of Music'. Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture this timeless classic features some of the worlds best-loved songs. South Pacific (Dir. Joshua Logan 1958): Blessed with a treasure of timeless songs South Pacific combines the passionate heartwarming romance of a naive young Navy nurse (Mitzi Gaynor) and an older French plantation owner (Rossano Brazzi) with South Seas splendour and a world at war while the breathtaking score is highlighted by some of the most romantic songs ever written. West Side Story (Dir. Robert Wise Jerome Robbins 1961): Garnering a total of ten Academy Awards - including Best Picture of 1961 - West Side Story set a brilliant standard for movie musicals that remains unsurpassed to this day. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins from Ernest Lehman's spectacular screenplay the film combines the unforgettable score of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim with Robbins' exuberant choreography to create a transcendent fusion of realism and fantasy that will forever be a feast for the eye the ear and ultimately the heart. A triumph on every level this electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in the slums of 1950's New York.
Incredible catches and impeccable coaching from the guru of fishing himself... John Wilson.
This is one of the first American martial arts movies and features some gripping action with James Cagney doing his own stunts for which he trained intensively with Ken Kuniyuki a fifth degree judo master before shooting. This is Cagney at his best.
She awoke him from the grave to love again...
Based freely on the classic novels by CS Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series' greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. For television films the production values are very good, though as Titanic, Waterworld and The Perfect Storm demonstrated, filming an aquatic adventure is a very expensive business, and it is clear that the Hornblower dramas simply make the best of comparatively small budgets. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easygoing than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher. --Gary S Dalkin
51 chronicles what happens after political pressure from the American public forces the Air Force to provide a few well-known reporters with limited access to the most secretive base on the planet: Area 51. When one of the base's hidden 'long term visitors' exploits this unprecedented visit as a chance to liberate himself and his fellow alien captives Area 51 turns from a secure government base to a horrifying destination of terror.
There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence.Every detail is perfect--Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry--and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release.) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. --Jeff Shannon
Join television's popular angler and experience the fever-pitch anticipation and excitement of catching predatory species on a variety of artificial lures. These include spoons diving and surface-popping plugs spinners deer hair bugs and flies from lakes The broads and weedy summer rivers.This is both an entertaining and instructional DVD with super-clear underwater footage of how a large selection of varying artificial differ in their actions. John catches pike and chub from
Substitute teacher Mr Walmsley (John S. Davies) has just started his first day at a new school and it's been a baptism of fire. His class of unruly rude arrogant and spoilt students have turned the school into a place of fear and intimidation. But Mr Walmsley has a few unusual teaching techniques and his pupils are about to learn the hard way that not listening to teacher has very serious consequences.
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