In the Year of the City 2274, humans live in a vast, bubbled metropolis, where computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs so everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday, when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. The screen's first use of laser holography highlights this post-apocalyptic winner of a Special Achievement Academy Award® for Visual Effects. Michael York plays Logan 5, a Sandman authorized to terminate Runners fleeing Carousel. Logan is almost 30. Catch him if you can.
'Duty Free' is a pure British sit-com following David Pearce and his wife Amy on a package holiday in sunny Spain where they meet another unsuspecting couple. The cocktail of comedy antics take their course when David sets his eyes on Linda Cochrane. They pursue each other's every move in order to prolong their steamy affair in privacy. It is far from sunshine all the way and by the end they have bags to declare! Season 1 Episodes: 1. Viva Espana 2. El Macho 3. Praying Mantis 4. Spanish Lace 5. Bedroom Farce 6. Forty Love 7. Hastsa La Vista Season 2 Episodes: 1. Manana 2. Casino 3. Couples 4. El Astro 5. Pepe 6. Snap 7. Adios Season 3 Episodes: 1. Winter Break 2. Deja Vu 3. Close Up 4. The Go BEtween 5. Costa Del Crime 6. Cause Celebre 7. Party Night
He was smart, handsome and single. When her biological clock was running out, he was... the next best thing
John Mills stars as the eponymous Professor in 1979s Quatermass, the fourth, final and best of the celebrated television science fiction serials. The Professors early adventures were 1950s TV productions, all made into cult Hammer films, including the excellent Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Here Quatermass, now an elderly scientist searching for his missing grand-daughter, finds himself facing a new alien nightmare in a convincingly bleak near-future Britain of urban decay, social collapse and unchecked violence. Written by Nigel Kneale, as were all the Quatermass stories, this was an intelligent extrapolation of 1970s industrial-strife-ridden Britain, a continuation of the apocalyptic British SF tradition of John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids was serialised by the BBC two years later). Thanks to a generous budget sufficient to allow for an international theatrical version, the production values are impressively large-scale, and the naturalistic performances from a cast including Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman and Brenda Fricker add greatly to the sense of reality. Best of all, John Mills brings tremendous class to an adventure which remains a rare example of serious, ideas-based adult TV SF. Director Piers Haggard (Pennies from Heaven) packs considerable tension and not a few scares into Kneales epic canvas. On the DVD: Quatermass is presented on three DVDs with two 50-minute episodes and perfunctory production notes on each of the first two discs. The 4:3 picture is good for a 1970s TV series, though there is some minor print damage. Sound is adequate two-channel mono. Disc 3 offers the 101-minute international theatrical version, called The Quatermass Conclusion. This version contains some slightly stronger, 15-rated material, and different credits. The disc also features an oddly presented but interesting 18-minute interview with Nigel Kneale which is centred on the original three Quatermass BBC serials. A 16-page booklet is informative and the packaging is among the most attractive to grace a DVD set thus far. --Gary S Dalkin
A pair of widowed grandparents are forced to cohabit in their children's basement. Daphne (Angela Thorne) is a snobby Cheltenham-bred lady while Sam (Michael Elphick) is the cockney wide boy who has designs on Daphne. First broadcast in 1985 this release includes all the episodes from Series One and Two of Three Up Two Down. Episode titles: Your Place Or Mine? Widower's Mite Ill Wind From Cheltenham Epping's Not Far Just Desserts Two Down One To Go Major Inconvenience Sweet
Invalided out of the army during the First World War David Powlett-Jones attends an interview for a position at a large public school in Devon. He has serious doubts about his ability to cope with the rigors of teaching but the affable headmaster Algy Herries has other ideas. This 13 part series adapted from RF Delderfield's novel by Andrew Davies unveils the heartache and joy of life at Bamfylde School - its masters boys and their lives.
John Duttine stars as David Powlett-Jones who has been invalided out of the First World War and sent to work in a large public school in Devon. Utterly unconvinced of his teaching abilities he is persuaded to stay and so begins his long relationship with Bamfylde school...
A man who has been invalided out of the Army takes a teaching position at the Bamfylde School during the First World War. Drama based on the novel by R.F. Delderfield.
Duty Free' is a pure British sit-com following David Pearce and his wife Amy on a package holiday in sunny Spain where they meet another unsuspecting couple. The cocktail of comedy antics take their course when David sets his eyes on Linda Cochrane. They pursue each other's every move in order to prolong their steamy affair in privacy. It is far from sunshine all the way and by the end they have bags to declare! This 3 DVD box set includes all three series of Duty Free plus the christmas special A Duty Free Christmas.
John Duttine stars as David Powlett-Jones who has been invalided out of the First World War and sent to work in a large public school in Devon. Utterly unconvinced of his teaching abilities he is persuaded to stay and so begins his long relationship with Bamfylde school...
John Duttine stars as David Powlett-Jones who has been invalided out of the army during the First World War and is sent to work in a large public school in Devon....
Duty Free is a pure British sit-com following David Pearce (Keith Barron) and his wife Amy (Gwen Taylor) on a package holiday in sunny Spain where they meet another unsuspecting couple. The cocktail of comedy antics take their course when David sets his eyes on Linda Cochrane (Joanna Van Gyseghem). They pursue each other's every move in order to prolong their steamy affair in privacy...
David's redundancy money allows him and his wife Amy (Gwen Taylor) the chance to have a second honeymoon in Spain. However things go off the rails when David arrives and begins an ill-fated affair with the beautiful and very sophisticated Linda Cochran (Joanna Van Gyseghem). Duty Free is the hilarious story of two English couples abroad and the effects of the summer sun and a little sangria. The second series of this hit comedy series features more side-splitting adventures following the antics of David (Keith Barron) a middle-aged man gone astray.
The continued hilarious escapades of two middle-aged couples abroad enjoying a holiday in the sun which turns out to be full of complications mix-ups and clandestine meetings as married David and Linda (Keith Barron and Joanna Van Gyseghem) still besotted with each other embark on an ill-fated affair and hatch a plot to escape their spouses by moving to another hotel! This DVD release also includes the Christmas special A Duty Free Christmas.
This box set features the following films: A History of Violence (Dir. David Cronenberg) (2005): Tom Stall is a loving family man and a well respected citizen of a small Indiana town. But when two savage criminals show up at his diner Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a hero who took the courage to stand up to crime people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all that media attention has the likes of mobsters showing up at his doorstep charging that Tom is someone else they've been looking for. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history of violence that no one knows about? American History X (Dir. Tony Kaye) (1998): Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists lands in prison for a brutal hate-driven murder. Upon his release ashamed of his past and pledging to reform Derek realises he must save his younger brother Danny (Edward Furlong) from a similar fate. Running Scared (Dir. Wayne Kramer) (2006): Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) is a low-level mafia thug who finds himself in the middle of a drug-deal gone wrong in which a hail of gunfire and some dead undercover cops are the net results. Fleeing from the scene Joey is charged with dispensing one of the steel revolvers used to kill the cops. Instead he stashes the gun in his own basement just in case he ever needs insurance against his own gang. Unfortunately Joey's 10-year old son Nicky (Alex Neuberger) and his best friend Oleg (Cameron Bright) see where the weapon is hidden. Oleg whose Russian mob-connected step-father is physically abusive towards him and his mother steals the gun to exact revenge. This forces Joey to embark on a nightmarish 18 hour journey to locate Oleg and the gun before his own gang the Russian mafia or bad cop Detective Rydell (Chazz Palminteri) finds them or the true link between the gun and the crimes....
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