Mon Amour is the love-story of a Venetian girl and Frenchman in the beautiful city of Mantua. Dario is to busy to notice his wife's sexual drifting. Her adultery borne out of neglect and frustration starts on the day she meets the tall dark stranger in the museum. An intoxicating mix of lies betrayal and fantasy follow Marta into her personal diary where every emotion and passion is recorded.
A performance of Verdi's opera 'Un Ballo In Maschera' by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra And Chorus; conducted by James Levine. Singers include: Luciano Pavarotti and Aprile Millo. Directed by Brian Large.
Rowan Atkinson returns as legendary French detective Jules Maigret for two more films set in 1950s Paris. Night at the Crossroads Maigret interrogates suspected murderer Carl Andersen for hours. But despite his best efforts, Andersen's story never slips he insists he's innocent. So why was the body of a diamond dealer found on his property, in his car, killed with his gun? And why did he and his mysterious sister Else try to run away? Maigret in Montmartre Arlette, a stripper from one of the area's seedy nightclubs, reports a conversation she overheard about an imminent murder. But it's not until Arlette is found strangled that her report is taken seriously. Features: Behind the scenes
Starring Alec Guiness (Smiley's People) Leo McKern (Rumpole of the Bailey) Lauren Bacall (The Mirror Has Two Faces) and John Randolph (Sunset Strip) A Foreign Field is the story of two World War Two veterans who return to the battle fields where they fought to visit the grave of a friend. During their visit they discover much more and re-open many old wounds. Originally broadcast at peak time on BBC One in 1993 A Foreign Field was written by Roy Clarke (Last of the Summer Wine) and directed by Charles Sturridge (Brideshead Revisited).
Repeated viewings can't dispel the shock of the final scene of Suspicion, Hitchcock's classic 1941 romantic mystery--a brief but disorientating confrontation that suddenly inverts the heroine's mounting conviction that she's married a murderer, forcing us to reconsider virtually every scene and line of dialogue that's preceded it. It's a masterful coup de grĂ¢ce for the director, who has built a puzzle around the corrosive power of suspicion, threaded with deft ambiguities that toy with dramatic conventions and character archetypes in nearly every frame. As embodied by Joan Fontaine, who nabbed an Oscar in this second outing with the director, Lina McLaidlaw is a buttoned-up, bookish heiress whose prim exterior conceals longings for a more engaged emotional life. Her solution materialises in the darkly handsome Johnnie Aysgarth, a gambler, womaniser and spendthrift who flirts, then pursues, and soon marries her. As Aysgarth, Cary Grant is both irresistible and sinister, capable of deceit and petty theft, as well as grander designs on his bride's impending fortune. Lina's passion for Johnnie is clouded by each new revelation about his apparent dishonesty, from clandestine gambling to real-estate development schemes; more troubling are clues implicating him in the death of his best friend, and the prospect that Johnnie may be slowly poisoning Lina herself. By the time we see him ascending a darkened staircase with a suspicious glass of milk, an image made all the more indelible through the spectral glow the director captures in the glass, the evidence seems damning indeed. In fact, even as Hitchcock stacks the deck against Johnnie, and takes full advantage of Grant's skill at conveying such menace, the director also dots his landscape with visual clues to Lina's own neurotic (and erotic) obsessions. The final scene forces us to re-evaluate her behaviour while leaving enough of a cloud over Johnnie to rob him, and us, of a complete exoneration. It's a wicked, unsettling payoff to a brilliantly executed thriller. --Sam Sutherland
Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd) is a missionary's widow who meets Mark Bellis (Ray Milland), a charming artist and rogue in Victorian London. When Olivia opens a boarding house, Mark becomes her lodger, but quickly graduates to her lover. Soon Olivia falls completely under the spell of Mark and casts aside her religious scruples to fall in with Mark's ambitious and immoral schemes of theft and blackmail...
This double DVD contains all six episodes of the second series of Rumpole Of The Bailey that starred Leo McKern as the eccentric Old Bailey defence lawyer. Rumpole is set a wide range of challenges including in the first case 'Rumpole and the Man of God' defending a vicar who is in court on a shoplifting charge. Rumpole is also called in to defend a man who claims that his arrest was a case of mistaken identity as well as a known fascist who is facing a charge under the Race Relations Act and a naive young teacher accused of seducing one of his students. It's not an easy life for the lawyer as all the time Rumpole is also trying to stay on top of the day to day shenanigans at chambers whilst constantly endeavouring to pacify wife ""she who must be obeyed"".
Genghis Khan! The world trembled at his name! John Wayne stars as the Mongolian chieftain Temujin better known as Genghis Khan. The Mongol warlord must do battle against the rival tribe that killed his father however the battle pales in comparison with Temujin's home life. He must attempt to woo the heart of the red-haired Tartar prisoner Borlai (Susan Hayward) whom he captured in a raid...
From the legendary master of gore: Pete Walker (Frightmare, The Flesh and Blood Show) comes this pulse-pounding, nail-biting thriller where trickery, betrayal and death are around every corner. Susan George (Straw Dogs) stars as Marianne, a nightclub dancer desperately running for her life. Marianne is about to turn 21 and inherit the contents of a sizeable Swiss bank account, which also includes certain sensitive documents that would incriminate her estranged and corrupt father, The Judge (Leo Genn). Her only chance may be her new love, Eli (Barry Evans Doctor in the House) but with both of them targeted for assassination, can their love survive?
Massacre In Rome depicts one of the worst atrocities of the War which took place in Nazi occupied Rome sparking a searing political outrage: did the Vatican then led by Pope Pius XII (referred to by some as Hitler's Pope) kowtow to Nazism? After Italian Partisans killed 33 German soldiers by exploding a roadside bomb Hitler ordered the immediate execution of 10 Roman citizens for each dead soldier. When the Vatican withdrew from the matter a deadly confrontation ensued between a priest (Mastroianni) and a Nazi Officer Kapler (Burton at his best) who had been ordered to administer what would become one of the most heinous war crimes: the massacre of 335 civilians. Director Cosmatos and writer Robert Katz crank up the tension in this nerve-wracking dramatisation of Katz's own highly contentious 1967 best-seller Death in Rome in which he blamed Pope Pius XII for the massacre; and for which the author was sued upon the film's release by the Pope's heirs and sentenced to jail. The controversy continues to date as the present Pope Benedict has just declared Pius XII venerable - the first step towards Sainthood.
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive
A busy day is in progress at a bank in the heart of the city of London which happens to be holding millions of pounds in used notes that are awaiting incineration. At the same time a likable bunch of London lads are off to Germany to support their country at the World Cup...or are they? They might have checked in early for their flight but that's only to establish an alibi. With boarding passes in their hands and with military precision they quietly leave the airport and head into the City. Alex (Geoff Bell) is the mastermind behind a daring plan to break into the bank and steal the money. As the clock ticks their dynamic plan accelerates at a furious pace and the violence escalates. As the tension becomes unbearable and the stand off with the police intensifies - will the gang get away in time? Described as the 'The best British heist movie since the Italian Job' by ITV at the movies Daylight Robbery stars the best in British acting talent including Geoff Bell Vas Blackwood Robert Boulter Leo Gregory Johnny Harris Paul Nicholls Justin Salinger Del Synnott & Shaun Parkes & Shaun Williamson
ConvictionHilary Swank gives another tremendous performance--steely, determined, vulnerable--in the courtroom/family drama Conviction. The film is based on a real case, of Betty Anne Waters (Swank), who as a last resort puts herself through law school to take on the case of her brother, Kenny (Sam Rockwell, also outstanding). Kenny is convicted of murder, despite a weak prosecution case, but Betty Anne can't get any lawyer to explore a retrial or appeal. Director Tony Goldwyn (Dexter, Damages) keeps the action moving along crisply and believably, even during the almost interminable stretches of Kenny's imprisonment. The terrific script by Pamela Gray (Music of the Heart) weaves in occasional shadows of doubt about whether Kenny is actually innocent, so that a story that could be formulaic is anything but. The viewer isn't sure most of the way through Conviction if Kenny is guilty or not--but is completely swept up in Swank's incredible performance depicting Betty Anne's own conviction--that "you do anything for your family. Period." As she did in Boys Don't Cry, Swank puts her own gritty spin on a real-life character, whom she inhabits like a second skin. Her Betty Anne is a blue-collar pit bull, and her sheer determination is itself a force of nature. The supporting cast of Conviction also shines, including Minnie Driver as Betty Anne's law school pal, and an especially effective Juliette Lewis playing Kenny's broken-down ex-girlfriend, who's buried some secrets of her own. Also a standout is Melissa Leo as the policewoman whose initial arrest of Kenny might have been loaded with her own agenda. The chemistry, especially between Rockwell, a man very nearly defeated after years behind bars, and Swank, is palpable and will capture the viewer in intense dramatic territory that won't be soon forgotten. --A.T. Hurley Never Let Me GoIn adapting Kazuo Ishiguro's celebrated novel, director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) and screenwriter Alex Garland (Sunshine) transform dystopian fiction into period drama by presenting an alternate past in which people routinely live beyond 100--at a cost to those who make it possible. In the 1970s, Kathy (Isobel Meikle-Small) and Ruth (Ella Purnell) attend Hailsham, a British boarding school where Miss Emily (Charlotte Rampling) holds sway--and no one ever mentions their parents. When new teacher Miss Lucy (Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky) arrives, she reaches out to the awkward Tommy (Charlie Rowe), with whom Kathy becomes close--until jealous Ruth steals him away. Then Lucy reveals what will happen when they leave. By the 1980s, Kathy (a poignant Carey Mulligan), Ruth (Keira Knightley), and Tommy (Andrew Garfield) live in the country until they're ready to fulfill their purpose. With Ruth and Tommy an item, Kathy becomes a carer, a sort of social worker. Over the years, the three go their separate ways until the 1990s, by which point their time will run out unless they can arrange for a deferral. Throughout, Romanek never presents alternate points of view; the audience experiences this brave new world only through the eyes of its sheltered protagonists. If the story raises issues that recall Orwell, the unhurried pace echoes The Remains of the Day, Merchant Ivory's Ishiguro adaptation. Similarly, Never Let Me Go is a work of great skill and compassion, but make no mistake: it's also very, very depressing. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
The entire fourth series of the popular television show. 'Rumpole and the Old Old Story' concerns a murder at the Woodland Folk Garden Centre. 'Rumpole and the Blind Tasting' sees Rumpole (Leo McKern) defend a wine lover. 'Rumpole and the Official Secret' finds Rumpole involved when the eccentric Miss Tuttle gets in trouble with the Ministry of Defence. 'Rumpole and the Judge's Elbow' has Guthrie... Featherstone concerned about a case involving a massage parlour. 'Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim' sees Rumpole defend a soldier charged with the murder of his sergeant. Finally 'Rumpole's Last Case' finds the lawyer weighing up his future.
Ricky helps to bring Christmas magic to Wheelford when he saves SantaCycle after a crash landing! Join the Bike Buddies as they rescue Christmas and have fun on other adventures! Episode List: SantaCycle Down Shining! Steel Awesome Meets Vroomboy The Gold Ticket Rush Toot's Invisible Friend Maxwell Gets a Little Help Trike Trials Ruled by Ricky Problem at Windshield Point Super Awesome Magnet
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.
Following his blacklisting in the McCarthy witch hunts the American director Joseph Losey worked in England and fashioned this gritty noir thriller about David Graham (Michael Redgrave) an alcoholic father who has 24 hours to prove that his son is not guilty of murder and save him from the gallows. Robert Stanford (Leo McKern) is a car dealer who knows the truth but continues to keep Graham on the defensive. As the clock ticks mercilessly Graham fights a battle against both Stanford as he tries to save his sons life. Time Without Pity was Losey's first film under his own name and retains the director's striking blend of drama and social commentary. The film was also photographed by the legendary Freddie Francis of Elephant Man fame.
In a small rural town the local clique of layabout teens is pulled apart when Samson kills his girlfriend on the banks of the river and then callously shows off the dead body to his friends. The teens are so numb and ambivalent to the reality of their situation that they remain relatively unphased by the murder of one of their own...
Leo McKern stars as Horace Rumpole the eccentric London defence lawyer in the fifth series of the popular television show. Episodes Comprise: 1. Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation 2. Rumpole and the Barrow Boy 3. Rumpole and the Age of Miracles 4. Rumpole and the Tap End 5. Rumpole and Portia 6. Rumpole and the Quality of Life
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