Australia released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A musical comedy based on the characters of P.G. Wodehouse written by Alan Ayckbourn and featuring the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Bertie Wooster finds himself in all sorts of adventures...
Taste the Blood of Dracula is one of the best of Christopher Lee's Dracula series for Hammer. A group of businessmen who, out of sight of their families, like nothing more than to frequent brothels and generally behave in sensation-seeking ways, are persuaded by Dracula's servant (a splendidly manic Ralph Bates) that summoning up the orthodontically-challenged aristocrat would be the ultimate thrill. They warily agree, purchasing relics for the necessary ritual from a shifty dealer (Roy Kinnear--who else?), but panic halfway through the proceedings and decide to kick their initiator to death instead. Unfortunately, it's too late, and Dracula materialises as they make good their escape, swearing to avenge the murder of his servant. While the subsequent descent into paranoia by the three villains-Dracula himself hardly counts in comparison with this odious bunch--isn't exactly the stuff of Rosemary's Baby, it still infuses the plot with an element of psychodrama that is unusual for a Hammer fang-fest. There are strong performances pretty much all round, but Peter "Clegg" Sallis quakes exceptionally nicely as one of the trio of miscreants. The sets, props and costumes are of an unusually high order, too. --Roger Thomas
Singer Phil Collins makes his screen debut as Buster Edwards one of the notorious Great Train Robbers who skipped to South America but who eventually came back to face the music. Julie Walters is excellent as his wife and the soundtrack features Collins' Top 10 hits 'Two Hearts' and 'Groovy Kind of Love'.
BBC adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott. In New England during the American Civil War, the womenfolk struggle to enjoy life while their men are away fighting. The March family consists of aspiring author Jo (Angela Down), the wilful Amy (Janina Faye), Meg (Jo Rowbottom), who loves all the fine things in life, and Beth (Sarah Craze), who seeks solace in her music. Despite the usual sibling rivalry they provide comfort for each other through the difficult times without their father.
Golden Globe winner Ian McShane stars as a lovable rogue antiques dealer Lovejoy in this final series of the popular BBC TV drama. The curtain finally comes down on Lovejoy's dodgy dealings with stories set across ten episodes. Includes appearances from guest stars such as Christopher Fairbanks John Bardon Martin Jarvis Frank Finlay Gavin Richards Phil Cornwell and Julia Sawalha. Episodes comprise: 1. Fair Exchange 2. Day of Reckoning 3. Somewhere Over the Rainbow 4. Do
In 1987, Buster was as much an experiment in film as its subject matter was in robbery. Could audiences ignore the rock singer status of Phil Collins in the lead role? Would audiences still be interested in a 25-year-old cash grab that had been considerably devalued by a currency gone metric? By and large the answer to both was "yes", helped considerably by a high budget (for a British film) it perfectly remade the 1960s experience. Collins as Buster Edwards is only one of a gang who all seem doomed to be captured after their £2.5 million train heist. The caper is over within 30 minutes. However, the film is really about the love story between Buster and his doting yet long-suffering wife June (an excellent Julie Walters). When the action switches to sun-drenched Mexico, you just know her loyalty is going to be tested to extremes because that's when Collins' award-winning songs kick in! "Two Hearts" and "Groovy Kind of Love" may not be 60s-styled, but the message is that love always conquers time and place.On the DVD: The transfer is rather average, as are the talent profiles of Collins, Walters, Ralph Brown (the legendary Ronnie Biggs), and director David Green. Making up for them is a 50-minute "Making of" featurette that interviews everyone involved, including the real-life Buster. There's lots of on-set tomfoolery, and some first attempts at the hit songs that hardly flatter Collins' live singing voice! --Paul Tonks
A passionate love story charting the young John Ridd's search for revenge in seventeenth century rural England. John's father is killed by the feared Doones who weave an evil spell of murder and theft over the Devon countryside and he determines to avenge his father's death. John falls desparately in love with Lorna the daughter of the head of the Doone clan and he rescues her from them when it transpires that she was stolen as a child. Lorna's true lineage is revealed to be that
After the death of her bullying husband the not-so aged and downtrodden housewife Thelma Caldicot (Pauline Collins) is shipped off to the Twilight Years Rest Home by her money-grabbing son and manipulative daughter in-law. Appalled by the conditions Mrs Caldicot decides to taker matters into her own hands...
This charming imaginative series follows Huxley as his imagination takes him from his bedroom to the magical places of his dreams. Accompanied by his faithful friend Sam Seagull Huxley can do anything go anywhere and meet anyone he likes! The DVD contains the first 5 episodes from the original series: 1. The Circus 2. Haunted House 3. Desert Island 4. The Beach 5. The Clown
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
Taking The Flak (2 Disc)
Ewan McGregor Alice Krige and Rachel Weisz head a top-class cast in this stylish adaptation of Stendhal's classic novel Le Rouge et Le Noir filmed on location in the Jura mountains and aristocratic châteaux around Lyon. It tells the story of Julien Sorel son a provincial carpenter with ambitions far above his station in life. He is inspired by Napoleon Bonaparte the humble soldier who rose through the ranks to become Emperor. But young Julien feels that the road to power no longer lies in the army (the scarlet) but in the church (the black) and applies himself to scholarship.
Featuring the voice of great British Actor Martin Jarvis this charming series follows the adventures of Huxley Pig and his faithful friend Sam Seagull. With his suitcase full of dress-up clothes Huxley's imagination takes him to the magical places within his dreams where he can do anything go anywhere and meet anyone he likes! Episodes 1. Something Cooking Huxley Pig 2. Huxley Pig and the Sea Monster 3. Huxley Pig Goes Flying 4. Huxley Pig Goes Camping 5. Huxley Pig and the Abominable Snowpig
Originally broadcast in 1971 the intriguing detective drama The Moonstone is a series based on the hugely popular novel by Wilkie Collins. Starring Robin Ellis (The Negotiator) and Colin Baker (Doctor Who) the plot centres around The Moonstone an Indian treasure given to Rachel Verrinder as an 18th birthday present. It has been stolen from a temple in colonial India and a number of misfortunes have followed it into the hands of Rachel. The Moonstone goes missing and the plot
A double bill of animated Shakespeare plays abridged and adapted by Leon Garfield. Set in Denmark Hamlet is the story of a young man's revenge of his father's murder. The Tempest is tells the story of Prospero the Duke of Milan who is overthrown by his wicked brother and together with his baby daughter cast adrift in the ocean. The pair come upon a strange enchanted island - and with the aid of his magic books Prospero becomes the chief of the island.
A family man... A dreamer... A thief.... On the 8th August 1963 the Royal Mail train on it's night time run from London to Glasgow was robbed by 15 men who got away with 2.6 million. Buster tells the story of one of the junior robbers Buster Edwards in a crime that came to be known as 'The Great Train Robbery'. This film details the planning of the famous heist but its main concern is Buster's relationship with his family and his devotion to his wife June. The Edwards a
Take a step back in time to 1970s England. The full force of Women's Lib hadn't quite filtered through to suburbia; Margaret Thatcher had yet to take over Number 10; and while living together wasn't the sin it once was - and women were free to both work and run the home - a girl still wanted a ring on her finger. At least this girl did.Sandy has started dropping hints to Oliver that she would rather be married than go on living together, and thus begins a hit comedy series that would run for three hilarious series.With Oliver convinced that he must marry Sandy or lose her, the couple soon find themselves embroiled in a world of wedding plans, wedding gifts, honeymoons and coming home to realise that... they're married! Nothing is as simple as it should be when a couple happily living together suddenly find themselves with Rings on their Fingers.This release features the complete first series and the 1978 Christmas Special.
Following hot on the heels of the hilarious first series, where the hurdle between living together and marriage had to be overcome, the second series of Rings on their Fingers finds Sandy and Oliver facing the kinds of problems that many a married couple must face – but dealing with those problems in the way only Sandy and Oliver can, usually veering dangerously close to disaster. Rings on their Fingers, The Complete Series Two finds Sandy and Oliver for better or worse, in sickness and in health, building a life together – when they’re not accidentally knocking it down.
Take a step back in time to 1970s England. The full force of Women's Lib hadn't quite filtered through to suburbia; Margaret Thatcher had yet to take over Number 10; and while living together wasn't the sin it once was - and women were free to both work and run the home - a girl still wanted a ring on her finger. At least this girl did.Sandy has started dropping hints to Oliver that she would rather be married than go on living together, and thus begins a hit comedy series that would run for three hilarious series.From birthdays and anniversaries, through wedding plans - both on or off - old flats that need repair, new flats that need furnishing, holidays away and dinners at home; for Sandy and Oliver nothing is as simple as it should be when a couple living happily together suddenly find themselves with Rings on their Fingers.This release features the Complete Series One to Three and the 1978 Christmas Special.
Sandy and Oliver, happily married and moved into their new flat, nevertheless find themselves grappling with a whole new world of challenges in Series Three of Rings on their Fingers.Not only the personal challenges of remembering birthdays and finding just the right gift; nor the fact that Sandy is now a stayat- home housewife and Oliver is trying to avoid temptations at the office; and not even the perils of the new apartment with its rules and regulations and tenants association. There's an even bigger challenge about to enter their relationship and it starts with a little innocent morning sickness.But one thing you can be sure of - as soon as you put Rings on their Fingers, life takes a turn for the hilariously unpredictable.
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