Coast: Series 4 (BBC)
This Fun Packed 5 DVD box set contains the following feature length and classic short movies of probably the greatest comedy duo ever to hit the silver screen. UTOPIA FLYING DEUCES MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS THE SLEUTH WEST OF HOT DOG KID SPEED MUD & SAND KILL OR CURE TREE IN A TEST TUBE SHOULD TALL MEN MARRY? SCORCHING SANDS WANDERING PAPAS MUMS THE WORD MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE
Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: The Laurel/Hardy Murder Case (b/w) The Laurel/Hardy Murder Case (colourised) The Laurel/Hardy Murder Case (Spanish version) Berth Marks (b/w) Berth Marks (colourised) Oliver The Eighth (b/w) Oliver The Eighth (colourised) A collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts with the overall theme of murder including one of their few surviving foreign-language editions plus the English version of a film incorporated into it. 'The Laurel/Hardy Murder Case' is a spoof of the kind of thriller prevalent at that time complete with hysterical relatives grim policemen and disappearing bodies. 'Noche De Duendes' is the Spanish-language version of this film extended in length by reworked material from an earlier short 'Berth Marks' which is also included in this compilation. In 'Oliver The Eighth' regular foil Mae Busch is at her best as a homicidal maniac!
The high tech Kingdom of Knighton is in trouble. The King's Jester has stolen the strange talking Book of Monsters. Using its evil magic, he summons an army of dangerous Lava Monsters and attacks. It is up to the brave but inexperienced NEXO Knights to come to the rescue.
Escaping from a maximum security research facility D.A.R.Y.L. (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform) is rescued and adopted by the Richardsons. All is happy until D.A.R.Y.L.'s actual parents two scientists come to claim him. The Richardson's soon realize that their adopted son is a lot more than mere flesh and blood...
Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Blockheads (b/w) Blockheads (colourised) Unaccustomed (b/w) Unaccustomed (colourised) With Love And Hisses (b/w silent with music score) Should Married Men Go Home? 'Blockheads is one of the most popular Laurel & Hardy feature films. In World War One Stan is left to guard a trench only to be discovered - still at his post - twenty years after the war! Ollie now married sees Stan's picture in the newspaper and visiting his friend at the Old Soldiers' Home invites him home for a meal ... from which point Ollie's peacetime existence seems more like another battlefield. Also included is L&H's very first talkie 'Unaccustomed As We Are' a 1929 two-reeler from which Blockheads drew much of its inspiration. Another take on military life is presented in the early silent 'With Love and Hisses' while another classic silent 'Should Married Men Go Home?' demonstrates once again how Mr. Laurel could disrupt the home life of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy!
Welcome to Full English, on the surface it's about a quintessentially English family. But at its heart it's a satirical look at our popular culture, our celebrities, our monarchy, our economy, our country today. It's unashamedly rude, puerile and silly, in the tradition of British comedy but it also tells hilarious stories around identifiable characters. Meet the Johnson family - the Dad, Edgar (voiced by Richard Ayoade) his long suffering wife Wendy (voiced by Rosie Caveliero) and their ...
Starring Jack Davenport, Breathless follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital, a world in which everything and everyone has their place. But underneath the shiny veneer simmers a cauldron of lies, deception and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex. Also starring Joanna Page (The Syndicate, Gavin & Stacey), Shaun Dingwall (Vera, Above Suspicion, Rock & Chips), Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey, Sons of Anarchy), Oliver Chris (Bluestone 42, One Man Two.
Ellie is a rock journalist who is a shadow of her former self. Her editor gives her the job of tracking down reclusive rock star Matthew Smith who some think committed suicide after one great album who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. She enlists eccentric millionaire Charlie to help her and film the journey which will take them on a funny and heart-warming journey of discovery.
Great Guns (Dir. Monty Banks 1941): Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy join the army to protect their country...but who will protect the army from them? In Great Guns the comic team play a chauffeur and a gardener whose hypochondriac employer (Dick Nelson) a wealthy young man with little experience is drafted. Convinced that he needs them in order to survive in the service they join up as well. Of course the Texas cavalry post to which they're all assigned is made far worse for the wear by the presence of these well-meaning troublemakers and there is never a dull moment in this classic featuring two of the cinema's most revered comic actors! Jitterbugs (Dir. Malcolm St. Clair 1943): Considered the best of the Laurel and Hardy projects filmed at Twentieth Century Fox this energetic musical comedy also introduces singer Vivian Blaine. Stan and Oliver star as a traveling two-man jitterbug band who operate out of a dilapidated jalopy and form an unlikely partnership with a likable con man (Bob Bailey). When the trio joins a carnival they meet Susan a naive young singer (Vivian Blaine) whose mother has been swindled by grifters. Suddenly chivalrous the three orchestrate a sting operation using disguises - with Laurel dressed as Susan's disheveled aunt and Hardy as a rich Texan - to get the woman's money back. Although things don't go as planned the inimitable comedy duo provide nonstop laughs from start to finish in this delightful caper. The Big Noise (Dir. Malcolm St. Clair 1944): The zany antics of legendary comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy come to life in this romp about two phony private detectives. The duo play janitors accidentally hired as sleuths to protect a new super-bomb destined for the War Department in Washington D.C. However the bomb's inventor has loaded his house with crazy contraptions that entrap and confuse the protectors. Meanwhile next door is the biggest threat of all - a gang of crooks determined to get their hands on the inventor's deadly creation. Through a series of crazy misadventures our heroes end up in a remote-controlled airplane along with the bomb and head straight for trouble.
A poor young English boy named Heathcliff is taken in by the wealthy Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.
Cleopatra one of history's greatest characters and Queen of Egypt, renowned for her beauty, her love affairs with Julius Caesar then Mark Anthony and for her sheer cunning. This remarkable film presented by Neil Oliver reveals the dark and ruthless side of history's great queen.In a story that is part epic historical drama, part CSI investigation we reveal's Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer'. It's a tale of sibling rivalry, of lust, incest, murder and power that destroyed an empire: an incredible true story about one of history's fascinating icons and a fight to the death with her sister that no Hollywood fiction could hope to match. Mythologised as the greatest love affair in history new evidence shows Cleopatra and Mark Anthony's passion would spill into cold-blooded murder. Through taut, stylish drama, and fascinating investigative documentary, this landmark event will reveal the darker side of love and power in the ancient world. The groundbreaking discovery of a mysterious tomb and skeleton of a teenage girl who was the last pharaoh of Egypt tell an incredible tale of intrigue, incest, female rivalry and murder in the last days of Ancient Egypt.
After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again.
Fresh out of jail motor-mouth con man Gabriel Cane (Woods) sets up a bet with local gangster John Gillon (Dern) in which ageing prize fighter 'Honey' Roy Palmer must knock out 10 opponents within 24 hours. The con is on but exactly who is scamming who?
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world in Sony Pictures' comedy "Year One".
Julia is a society lady jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm, when she fails to meet the items on his list of requirements for a bride. Feeling shunned and humiliated, she enlists her friend Selina to help her take revenge on Mr. Malcolm by tricking him into thinking he has found his perfect match. The plan appears to be working when Henry (James) threatens Julia's scheme by courting Selina as well. After the bumbling Lord Cassidy (Jackson-Cohen) begins meddling in the foursome's affairs, the course of true love, which never does run smooth, becomes rocky indeed. Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman...or the perfect hoax.
Jim Wilson (Reed) is a police lieutenant in a corrupt resort town. Revolted by the brutality of modern police work he decides to leave and take up duties in his quiet home town. But on his final day a violent drama explodes. A deadly confrontation breaks out between Frank (McHattie) the abandoned lover of singer Janie (George) and her new boyfriend Lyne (Osborne). The police are called and Frank shoots a young officer. Within minutes a full siege is underway in full view of the tou
Annie: A plucky red-haired girl dreams of a life away outside her orphanage and its gin-soaked tyrant Miss Hannigan (played to perfection by Carol Burnett). One day Annie meets the famous billionaire Daddy Warbucks and the pair share spectacular times in 1930's New York City. But Miss Hannigan and her zany villainous colleagues are determined to spoil the fun for America's favourite orphan... Annie 2: The little red-head orphan is back in this film based on the classic Harold Gray comic strip. This time she and her faithful canine Sandy visit England after Daddy Warbucks is called over to be knighted by the Queen. Oliver!: Young Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. He's immediately taken in by a band of street urchins headed by the lovable villain Fagin (Ron Moody) his fiendish henchman Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) and his loyal apprentice The Artful Dodger (Jack Wild). Through his education in the fine points of pick-pocketing Oliver makes away with an unexpected treasure... a home and a family of his own.
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