Richard Widmark accompanies a group of US military meteorologists, sent to Inner Mongolia during World War II, serving as a weather station monitoring conditions for the Navy. When their commanding officer is killed during a Japanese attack, Chief Petty Officer Sam McHale (Widmark) takes the reins and leads the men on an 800-mile trek in the intense arid Gobi Desert to safety. When their convoy comes under attack from the Japanese, they are forced to seek the help of a group of Mongol tribe.
The story of a Las Vegas showgirl whose lack of sophistication worries her boyfriend. He fears her ignorance will ruin his business opportunities. He hires an intelligent journalist to educate her in the ways of the world but she soon learns there is more to life than mink coats and diamond rings.
Frank's lover Johnny gets sent to prison. Offering to help out Frank begins to visit Johnny's mum and soon sees that his beautiful dog Evie is being neglected. Frank's longing for Johnny mutates into love for the dog. He cares with increasing desperation. His war of nerves with Johnny's wife intensifies. He can give poor Evie a good life! Can't Johnny see that? Can't his family see that? Hilarious yet touching the film carefully preserves the stifling discretion of the era.
It's summer vacation and like all good frat house boys Bruce Tucker and Joe Gillespie are off to Palm Springs to sample the local delicacies and view the native wildlife. Their only problem comes in the form of travelling partner and nerd-extraordinaire Wendell Tvedt. In return for teaching his astronomy major son 'the ways of the world' Wendell's father has agreed to let the boys use his summer apartment. The fun starts when two members of a rival fraternity Charles Lawlor III an
The Magic School Bus is a four DVD box set of the complete series one of the animated version of the famous children’s stories. The Magic School Bus is one of the most successful series of books for children ever written. Intended to teach scientific concepts to children, the books were written between 1986 and 2006 by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen.The books were turned into this animated TV series which is has been shown on POP TV in the UK, starring the vocal talents of Lily Tomlin and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Cosby Show).They feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Frizzle, an elementary school teacher, and her class, who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations such as the solar system, clouds, the past, and the human body.This release includes all 16 episodes of the first series of Magic School Bus, each featuring fascinating scientific facts to entertain and educate young viewers.The DVD also features an interactive educational quiz with questions based on answers found in the episodes.
Jon Cold is a freelance secret agent who's as cunning as he is deadly. When Cold is hired to deliver a mysterious package from France to Germany some very dangerous people will stop at nothing to stop him. But getting in his way is a decision they might not live to regret... With exotic locations and blistering action The Foreigner is heart-pounding entertainment that'll keep you on the edge of your seat!
Legendary auteur Ingmar Bergman emerged in the late '40s as an art-house icon and remained one for more than four decades.This set includes four early masterpieces on DVDIt Rains On Our Love (1946)A Ship Bound For India (1947)Sawdust And Tinsel (1953)Dreams (1955)So Close To Life (1958)
Charles Tuttle (Daniels) is a mild-mannered big-city attorney sent to a small desert town days before his wedding to defend a cry-baby con artist (Rip Torn). He arrives to find his high-strung best friend Richard (Richards) an out-of-work-actor brewing up a bachelor party blast that soon turns Charles' brilliant legal mind into jelly. Trying to do the groom-to-be a favor Richard pretends he's Charles and goes to trial giving the performance of his career while turning the co
Financed by Marcel Pagnol's production company Jean Renoir's Toni is a landmark in French filmmaking. Based on a police dossier concerning a provincial crime of passion it was lensed by Claude Renoir on location (unusually for the time) in the small town of Les Martigues where the actual events occurred. The use of directly-recorded sound authentic patois lack of make-up a large ensemble cast of local citizens in supporting roles and Renoir's steadfast desire to avoid m
It was the year that changed it all for Douglas ‘Doogie’ Howser. In this season, Doogie (Neil Patrick Harris) deals with his virginity, moves into an apartment with best friend Vinnie (Max Casella) and confronts the changing relationship with girlfriend Wanda (Lisa Dean Ryan). There's still more life lessons to be learned as Doogie hits Palm Springs for Spring Break, accepts the challenge to work a 'mindless' fast food job, becomes part of a Civil War screenplay, makes an unexpected detour during a father/son trip to Honduras and much more... Special Features: Interviews with James Sikking: The Other Doctor Howser and Neil Patrick Harris: Growing Up on the Set
Interrogated by a customs officer a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Four episodes from the Beverly Hillbillies television comedy are featured on this DVD. The episodes included are: The Clampets Strike Oil Getting Settled Meanwhile Back at the Cabin and The Servants.
UP JUMPED A SWAGMAN A talented young Australian singer moves to London in search of his big break. On the way he tries to woo a top model while seemingly overlooking the beautiful publican's daughter who truly loves him and gets tangled up with a gang of thieves! CHARLEY MOON A new career beckons for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he becomes part of a comic double act in a unit concert. Though lucky breaks are few and far between, they end up getting enough experience to try their luck in London. WHAT A CRAZY WORLD Alf Hitchins is an unemployed chap whose life revolves around dance halls, amusements arcades and cafés any place to escape from the family home! His cheerful acceptance of life expresses itself in the song he casually composes one night and the results take everyone by surprise! BALLAD IN BLUE During a performance Ray Charles befriends David, a young boy who has recently lost his sight, and helps him come to terms with his condition. Then, during a world tour, Charles finds himself in Paris where a surgeon is pioneering a radical procedure that could restore David's sight.
Policemen Simon and Franck are celebrating the end of an assignment, when they cause a fatal car crash. Whilst Franck is uninjured, Simon, who was drink-driving, is seriously wounded and loses his job. Six years later and now divorced, Simon struggles to be a father to his son Theo. Out of loyalty to his old friend, Franck watches over the boy from afar. After Theo witnesses a Mafia killing, Simon and Franck must reunite to do whatever it takes to protect Theo from his pursuers.
Maurice Sendak's classic book "Where the Wild Things Are" comes to the big screen in an adventure tale for every generation.
Four episodes from the Beverly Hillbillies television comedy are featured on this DVD. The episodes included are: Home For Christmas No Place Like Home Jed Rescues Pearl Back To California.
Jackie Chan in his first American film takes on heavy-hitting 1930's mobsters in the ultimate street-fighting competition. A young Chinese American takes part in 'The Brawl' - a gigantic knock-down drag-out street fight in which the toughest roughest and meanest fighters gather to pound each other into the dust for a huge cash prize.
The unquiet twin spirits of Fritz Lang and Franz Kafka preside over Europa, Lars von Trier's sardonic, saturnine vision of just-post-WWII Germany. In 1945 Leo Kessler, a young American of German descent, returns to the shattered land of his forebears to help in its reconstruction. Through his uncle, who works for the huge railway network Zentropa, he gets a job as a trainee sleeping-car conductor and also meets the seductive Katharina Hartmann, daughter of Zentropa's owner Max. But acts of sabotage and murder are being planned by unregenerate young Nazis calling themselves Werewolves, and very soon Leo's hapless innocent abroad starts finding out that, in this time and place of shifting loyalties, nothing and no one are what they seem. As if to accentuate this mood of nervous ambiguity, von Trier constantly switches from black and white to colour, and from English to (subtitled) German dialogue, often right in the middle of a scene. The cast boasts several iconic figures of European cinema, including Barbara Sukowa (a Fassbinder favourite) as femme fatale Katharina, and Eddie Constantine (from Godard's Alphaville) as a manipulative American colonel, while a literally hypnotic voice-over is spoken by the great Bergman actor Max von Sydow. There's more than a hint that von Trier intends a mischievous side-glance at today's Europe, and today's European film industry, in resentful thrall to the might of Hollywood. And while Europa is gripping and richly atmospheric, it's never without humour. The long, final episode is a tour de force of tragicomedy, with poor Leo juggling the competing demands of love and loyalty, life and death, while being harassed by his uncle who, horrified that Leo has lost his official peaked cap, forces him to wear a knotted handkerchief on his head, as well as by a pair of punctilious railroad inspectors demanding to know how long it takes him to make up a sleeping-car bunk. Lang and Kafka, sure, but maybe a touch of the Marx Brothers, too. --Philip Kemp
Mad Dogs combines the rich characters and subversive black humour of a Fargo type thriller with the emotional pressure cooker atmosphere of Sexy Beast.
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