The Robin Hood Of Modern Crime:That was how The Saint was often promoted to entice readers, and it's a theme that his creator Leslie Charteris returns to a number of times in his books and stories. It was the publication of The Saint In New York in 1935 that made Charteris an international name. The film rights were sold even before publication and - despite some problem with the American censors over its violent content - became a hit picture for RKO in 1938. Charteris wanted Ronald Colman, Cary Grant or Douglas Fairbanks Jr for the role of Simon Templar. Instead, after Louis Hayward premiered the character, the much-respected George Sanders took on the role in four of the films, with Hugh Sinclair taking the lead in The Saint's Vacation and The Saint Meets The Tiger.The Saint Takes Over:The Saint plays a modern-day Robin Hood in order to clear his friend, Henry Fernack, who was framed by mobsters. They run into a series of murders.
On the Buses creators Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe chart the hilarious misadventures of two couples living side by side under strained circumstances. Queenie Watts and Arthur Mullard take the lead roles in this comedy of bad manners and one-upmanship amidst the mud, pennilessness and outrageous fashion sense of a run-down 1970s caravan site - their characters Wally and Lily Briggs proving so successful that they were subsequently spun off into their own series: Yus My Dear (also available ...
Anne Of Green Gables:Tony Award-winner Colleen Dewhurst and Academy Award-nominee Richard Farnsworth give unparalleled performances in this critically-acclaimed motion picture based on the international best-selling novel. Filmed amidst the spectacular scenery of Prince Edward Island Canada this Emmy Award-winning production follows the provocative life drama of orphan Anne Shirley (Follows) from her struggles as an adolescent to her triumphs as a young woman. Anne Of Green Gables - The Sequel:The enchanting sequel to the Emmy award-winning ""Anne of Green Gables"" tells the continuing story of Anne Shirley as she makes the transition from a romantic impetuous orphan to an outspoken adventurous and accomplished young teacher. Canadian actress Megan Follows returns to her role as Anne. Tony Award-winner Colleen Dewhurst stars opposite her as the aging Marilla Cuthbert and Oscar-winning British Actress Dame Wendy Hiller appears as the prickly dowager Mrs. Harris. An emotional conclusion full of wit and charm to the epic tale of the beguiling red-head. Anne Of Green Gables - The Continuing Story:Experience the enchanting conclusion to the Anne of Green Gables trilogy. Now in their twenties Anne and Gilbert move to New York to pursue Gilbert's medical career and Anne's writing career. After many unsuccessful months they move back to Avonlea and into the middle of wartime society. Gilbert feels pressure to join the army as a medical officer and is soon listed as missing in action. The indomitable Anne sets off to the battlefields of Europe in search of Gilbert and helps a young French woman and her son who are in the line of danger along the way.
The Terror (Dir. Roger Corman 1963): A lieutentant in Napoleon's army (a young Jack Nicholson) traces a mysterious woman to a castle on the Baltic coast and finds himself trapped by a mad baron (Boris Karloff). This highly enjoyable atmopsheric slice of low-budget horror from the great Roger Corman was also reportedly directed at points by future talents Francis Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich. Zombie The Hitch-hiker (Dir. Ida Lupino 1953): Brilliantly directed
Mummified dead bodies of various dignitaries from around the world are being discovered a mysterious tarot card left beside them at the scene. The world is headed towards chaos... Kiyoharu is the young head of the Genpo noble family owners of a massive toy manufacturing enterprise. He also functions as a secret watchdog for the Queen a service that his family has provided for generations. The Queen orders Kiyoharu to solve the mummification incidents and he starts to investigate. He is supported by his perfect butler Sebastian who is actually a demon. Kiyoharu has been hiding his true female identity since his parents’ tragic death 10 years earlier. In return for perfect service to his master in public and private Sebastian will receive his master’s soul after Kiyoharu achieves revenge for the murder of his parents. Who is really behind the serial mummification deaths? Will Kiyoharu finally find out who killed his/her parents? Bonus Features: Cast Interviews
Plug in the power drill and break out the socket wrenches! Tim Allen hammers home the laughs as Tim ""The Toolman"" Taylor in Home Improvement's hilarious second season. Tim and his levelheaded wife Jill undertake the challenge of raising three young mischievous boys. It's a tough project but with insightful advice from his wise (and only partially seen) next door neighbour Wilson they're able to get the job done. Now you can own all 25 episodes of the show's second season in this comprehensive DVD set. And with exclusive bonus features it's a must-have for any Home Improvement collection! Episodes comprise: 1. Read My Hips 2. Rights & Wrongs Of Passage 3. Overactive Glance 4. Groin Pulls 5. Heavy Meddle 6. The Haunting Of Taylor House 7. Roomie For Improvement 8. May The Best Man Win 9. Where There's A Will There's A Way 10. Let's Did Lunch 11. Abandoned Family 12. I'm Scheming On A White Christmas 13. Bell Bottom Blues 14. Howard's End 15. Love Is A Many Spintered Thing 16. Dances With Tools 17. You're Driving Me Crazy You're Driving Me Nuts 18. Bye Bye Birdie 19. Karate Or Not Here I Come 20. Shooting Three To Make Tutu 21. Much Ado About Nana 22. Ex Marks The Spot 23. To Build Or Not To Build 24. Birth Of A Hot Rod 25. The Great Race
With the world in financial turmoil, Kurt Wendell has been shaken to the core. His job had always been his anchor, the one place that kept him sane. But now they've taken it away from him. And his demons are finally taking over...Unable to tell his family the dreadful truth, Kurt decides to make some serious cutbacks...Granting his children a day off school and his wife a day off work, he drives the whole family to a remote spot, miles from civilisation. Little do they know what he has in store for them...One last bit of business, a final project that is both sinister and deadly, involving his wife, his children, and the savagely beaten man trapped in the attic...It's not only Kurt Wendell that's getting Axed, as his ex-boss and his horrified family are about to find out, one by one...
In a quiet small-town diner a deranged patron Millard Findlemeyer (Gary Busey) opens fire on the Leigh family killing all but the daughter Sara Leigh (Robin Sydney). During the trial Sara's testimony sends Millard to the electric chair and his ashes are sent to his mother. In a vow of revenge Millard's mother mixes her son's ashes with a secret gingerbread cookie mix which makes its way into Sara Leigh's bakery. When one of the bakery employees Brick Fields (Jonathan Chase)
Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Although Bud has never talked about his time in World War II he finds himself striking a deal with his grandson: Kyle can pick any three souvenirs, and Bud will tell him the stories behind each one. Memorial Day not only takes us on a journey into Bud's complicated wartime past, but also into Kyle's wartime future. The film shows the similarities between two generations of one family as the two men share parallel experiences in combat, Bud in war torn Europe and Kyle in modern day Iraq.
Ten episodes from the first series which follows Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally as they travel 'down under'.
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones return to save the world all over again in this eagerly awaited blockbusting sequel!
A powerhouse performance from Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones) fuels STILL, a gritty and atmospheric thriller about a photographer, reeling from the death of his teenage son. Tom Carver is a man stumbling blindly towards a crossroads in his life, thrown out of focus by the death of his teenage son a year earlier in a car accident. One day he becomes involved in a feud with a teenage gang after a seemingly harmless collision with a young kid. This feud becomes gradually more disturbing and horrifying as Carver s life starts to unravel until its painful and shattering climax.
Shopping Will Never Be The Same Again! Missing presumed dead in a fire which destroyed his home. Eric Matthews returns a year later to the site now occupied by a massive shopping mall. Demented even insane Eric is obsesed with being re-united with his childhood sweetheart Melody and destroying the mall. Eric is a tragic victim half human half monster trapped between extremes which propel this story beyond reality into fantasy relams of chilling horror and explosive action in this multi-million dollar production with special effects from the man responsible for 'The Kindred'.
An international co-production of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia's Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment, Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, Farscape takes a visual leap beyond previous shows. Admittedly, the basic premise may be borrowed from Buck Rogers (American astronaut catapulted to far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew have something of Blake's 7 about them (a motley bunch of escaped convicts pursued by a relentless foe), and ideas like the living ship are borrowed from Babylon 5, but the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it look and feel completely original. The production design is all bio-mechanical curves and the script never takes itself too seriously (fart jokes and double-entendres pop up when you least expect them). It must have been expensive to make, but it certainly looks (and sounds in Dolby Digital 5.1) like every penny made it to the screen. In true Buck Rogers style, Ben Browder plays leading man John Crichton as an all-American astronaut, although with a more believable sense of bewilderment; the supporting cast is a mixture of Australian and British actors, mostly disguised under heavy make-up.In this second box set there are five episodes spread across two discs. Although the generic Star Trek-style storylines seem a little over-familiar, the witty and fast-paced scripts help to keep things fresh. In "Exodus from Genesis" the crew of Moya are invaded by space cockroaches, who, in a suprising twist then help them fend off the Peacekeepers. "Thank God it's Friday Again" shows D'Argo finding happiness in a hippy commune where all is not what it seems; Crichton has a Matrix-style worm inserted in his navel before Rygel's bodily functions prove to be instrumental in rescuing the crew. Crichton finds love with the "PK Tech Girl", much to the consternation of Aeryn Sun, who goes into full Lt. Ripley mode and spends the episode running around with a pulse rifle under flickering strobe lighting. In "That Old Black Magic", a malevolent magician forces a confrontation between Crichton and his nemesis, Crais; Zhaan must revive her bad old ways in order to save the day. "DNA Mad Scientist" is the most original episode, with a neat twist on the Frankenstein scenario thanks to the splendid villain, Namtar; a distinctly unpleasant side to some of the characters is revealed as they bargain body parts in exchange for a map home. On the DVD: Because the first disc contains three episodes instead of the usual two, special features are limited to a trailer and some conceptual art. The second disc also has a profile of Zhaan. --Mark Walker
Academy Award-winner Burt Lancaster delivers one of the finest performances of his career as a hard-boiled major in command of a grubby Vietnam outpost in this classic film of wartime confrontation. The war was still a ""conflict"" and American soldiers were merely ""advisors "" yet the ambushes the betrayals and the brutality were all very real. While the riveting action concentrates on a single obscure incident this excellent understated and sharply intelligent film illuminates the vast landscape of an era.
BBC drama about young boxers entertaining dressed diners at a club with a bout or two. Thaw plays the manager of one of the boxers. Written by Leon Griffiths (also the writter of 'Minder').
Alban Berg's second and last opera Lulu is one of the monuments of modernism, constructed around serial technique and containing scenes conceived of as Sonata-form, Suite and so on. The bliss of Andrew Davis's conducting in this classic Glyndebourne production is that we forget all of this--Davis doesn't gloss over the music's intellectual content, but that's not what we think about as we watch and listen. Part of the production's strength is the prodigious performance by Christine Schafer as Lulu--for once we believe in the character's sexual energy and power; and Schafer makes her real enough as a person that we largely forget the work's intrinsic misogyny. The rest of the cast are admirable too: Norman Bailey brings something perversely sweet to the disreputable painter Schigolch; Kathryn Harries makes the dying words of Lulu's lesbian lover Geschwitz one of the work's lyric high points; David Kuebler is equally powerful as Alwa. The final duet between Lulu and her destroyer Jack the Ripper is one of Wolfgang Schone's great moments, but he is equally good as Dr Schon, the man Lulu marries and kills. This is a performance of energy and beauty, matched by a simple but effective production. On the DVD Lulu on disc is presented in disappointingly in NTSC format with a 4:3 picture ratio. Fortunately, the Dolby 2.0 digital sound is ideal for the fine detail of this complex score and these nuanced performances. There are subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. --Roz Kaveney
Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who once made a pact. Now in their thirties, Jenn is a hopeless single, spending her days teaching 'hot yoga' and running errands for her boss and Matt turned out to be her gay best friend. Unable to get over his ex-boyfriend, Matt has withdrawn into his comic-bookstore job. When Jenn decides to hold Matt to his promise of having a baby with her, it seems like the right idea at the right time. With Jenn untrusting of fertility doctors, and Matt boastful of being 'a guy' and able to have sex with anyone, they decide to fulfill a youthful promise... the old-fashioned way. Gayby follows the pair as they navigate the unexpected snags along the way in attempting to get their lives back on track and the trauma of preparation for parenthood.
Gremlins is a roller-coaster ride of wild originality. One minute your hair will stand on end, the next you'll hold your sides with laughter at the havoc these supposedly gentle furballs create when the rules surrounding their care and feeding are inadvertently broken one fateful Christmas. Presented by Steven Spielberg, written by Chris Columbus and directed by Joe Dante, Gremlins is hilariously funny and wickedly scary! SPECIAL FEATURES: Over 10 minutes of footage not seen in cinemas, making-of featurette, 2 commentaries: (1) Director Joe Dante, Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan, Dick Miller and Howie Mandel, (2) Director Joe Dante, Producer Michael Finnell and Special Effects Artist Chris Walas. Includes Funko Pocket Pop! Keychain of Gizmo.
You asked for on Blu-ray and you shall receive it... Recreate The Midnight Movie Experience in your living room and celebrate 35 years of absolute pleasure with this picture-perfect specimen of Richard O'Brien's cosmic cult classic starring Tim Curry Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon It's brimming with twisted humour mind-blowing music and decadent extras. So come up to the lab...See what's on the slab... The Rocky Horror Picture Show in abundance!
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