Franco Zeffirelli's epic TV retelling of Jesus' life was filmed in Morocco and Tunisia with an all-star cast, including Robert Powell in the lead role. The script, co-written by renowned author Anthony Burgess, attempts to remain faithful to its source by using material from all four Gospels.
When beautiful heiress Juliet attends a dance, she's smitten with Romeo, the young man of her dreams. But with feuding families, their love is forbidden, so they meet secretly to declare their passion. When their deceit results in tragedy, they must separate and go into hiding. Will they risk their very lives for one more blissful embrace? Shakespeare's stunning testament to undying love is brilliantly visualized by Italian director Franco Zeffirelli in a classic motion picture that won four ...
A visually sumptuous and quintessentially British production, Death on the Nile won an Oscar® for Anthony Powell's costume design and introduced Peter Ustinov in his first portrayal as the Belgian detective Poirot. Abroad a luxury Nile steamer a mystery assassin takes the life of an heiress. EXTRAS Making Of Interview with costume designer Anthony Powell Interview with Dame Angela Lansbury Interview with producer Richard Goodwin Behind the scenes stills gallery Costume designs stills gallery
101 Films presents Black Christmas, director Bob Clark's final foray into the world of horror. Taking the babysitter and the man upstairs urban legend, Bob Clark manages to redefine the genre, in the process creating one of the earliest examples of the slasher that went on to inspire so many great films that came in its wake. As Christmas break begins, a group of sorority sisters make plans for the holiday. Jess (Olivia Hussey) and Barb (Margot Kidder) begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls that put them on edge. Initially, Barb encourages the mysterious caller, but stops when he responds threateningly. Soon, Barb's friend Claire (Lynne Griffin) goes missing from the sorority house and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. The police finally begin to get concerned when a teenage girl is found dead in the park - they set up a wiretap to the sorority house, but no one realizes just how near the killer really is! Product Features Audio Commentary with Director Bob Clark Audio Commentary with actors John Saxon and Keir Dullea Audio Commentary with actor Nick Mancuso Film and Furs: Remembering Black Christmas with Art Hindle Victims and Virgins: Remembering Black Christmas with Lynne Griffin Black Christmas Legacy 40th Anniversary reunion panel: Fan Expo Canada 2014 TV and Radio Spots 12 Days of Black Christmas Featurette Black Christmas Revisited Featurette Midnight Screening Q&A with Bob Clark, John Saxon, and Carl Zittrer
A visually sumptuous and quintessentially British production, Death on the Nile won an Oscar® for Anthony Powell's costume design and introduced Peter Ustinov in his first portrayal as the Belgian detective Poirot. Abroad a luxury Nile steamer a mystery assassin takes the life of an heiress. EXTRAS Making Of Interview with costume designer Anthony Powell Interview with Dame Angela Lansbury Interview with producer Richard Goodwin Behind the scenes stills gallery Costume designs stills gallery
The few remaining residents of a Canadian sorority house are celebrating the onset of Christmas vacation when a thirteen year-old girl is found dead in the park. Soon it is discovered that one of the sorority sisters is missing which triggers a terrifying chain of murders within the house... Director Bob Clark's tense effective film is a precursor to the 'slasher' films Friday 13th and Halloween that would come a half decade later.
A group of eight sorority sisters find themselves being harassed by threatening and intimidating mystery phone-calls during Christmas break.
Is there anything scarier than clowns? Of course not. And who knows scary better than Stephen King? You see where we're going. It puts a malevolent clown (given demented life by a powdered, red-nosed Tim Curry) front and center, as King's fat novel gets the TV-movie treatment. Even at three hours plus, the action is condensed, but an engaging Stand by Me vibe prevails for much of the running time. The seven main characters, as adolescents, conquered a force of pure evil in their Maine hometown. Now, the cackling Pennywise is back, and they must come home to fight him--or, should we say, It--again. Admitting the TV-movie trappings and sometimes hysterical performances, this is a genuinely gripping thriller. As so often with King, the basic idea (the bond formed during a childhood trauma) is clean and powerful, a lifeline anchored in reality that leads us to the supernatural. --Robert Horton
Children's Film Foundation Bumper Box (3-Disc DVD set) A wizard weekend for all the family is guaranteed with his carefully curated assortment of tasty cinematic treats from the Children's Film Foundation: Britain's best-loved and longest running producer of quality cinema entertainment for kids of all ages. It's fun and adventure all the way from the feisty Fifties to the electric Eighties with this bumper box set, lovingly loaded with nine fab, fast, furious full-fat vintage features and a brand-new documentary. Switch off your phone, grab the duvet and hit the sofa-'cos it's time to bed down for a binge-watch bonanza! Stand well back for 1960s bonfire-night fun in Peril For the Guy, have a classic kick-about with George Best and Bobby Charlton at Manchester United in Cup Fever and share your orange squash with an incredible invisible rabbit in Mr Horatio Knibbles. Take your seats in the Big Top for circus hi-jinx with Anoop and the Elephant, befriend the world's only ice-lolly-loving Yeti in The Zoo Robbery and become a young 1970s eco-warrior for The Battle of Billy s Pond. Attempt the avert nuclear disaster in the nail-biting One Hour to Zero, chase cockney crooks down London's canals as you join 4D Special Agents and enlist The Who's Roger Daltrey to back your 1980s reggae band on Brighton Pier in Pop Pirates! Take doggie delight in Rover Makes Good, Juno helps Out and To The Rescue three 1950s canine crackers from the CFF vaults, guaranteed to make you roll over, woof and wag your tail. Do your film-history revision fun-style with a new interview with veteran CFF writer John Tully (16 mins) and The Children's Film Foundation Story (84 mins) a fabulous new feature-length documentary telling the true tale of the Foundation and the talents who worked there. Featuring interviews with CFF luminaries including John Krish, Harley Cokeliss and a cast of thousands!
Poirot (Peter Ustinov) has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port?
On a dark, wet and thundery night in 1934, a family of chancers and greedy money-grabbers gathers at Glencliff Manor for the reading of the will of their deceased uncle - twenty years after his death! It's a perfect weather for the reading of a will that will set every member of the family squabbling - and it also happens to be the same night that a murderous inmate escapes from the local asylum... With a penchant for all things feline, the escapee descends upon the rain-washed manor with his claws sharpened. But is the unwanted visitor behind the series of murders that take place or is the culprit closer to home?
Italian director Franco Zeffirelli stunned the world when he cast two young unknowns to portray the star crossed lovers in 'Romeo and Juliet' but it was a gamble that resulted in one of the most popular motion pictures of the time winning international acclaim and two Academy Awards. Shakespeare's classic romance comes to stunning visual life in a modern young person's interpretation bringing new vitality and a fresh insight to the most durable love story ever written.
This is the UK region 2 DVD release by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It is catalogue number CDR 18280.
From before the nativity to the Crucifixion and Resurrection Jesus Of Nazareth brings to life all the majesty and sweeping drama of the Gospels. This extended version features an additional 2 hours of footage not seen before! Robert Powell plays Jesus and a star-studded international cast adds depth and humanity to the roles of the saints sinners and ordinary people who walked in the footsteps of the Lord. The film shows the setting and background for the birth childhood and many miracles of the Messiah culminating in the Divine Resurrection. Directed by Oscar nominee Franco Zeffirelli and acclaimed by critics and religious leaders worldwide Jesus Of Nazareth tells the greatest of all stories with tremendous emotion and splendour.
Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other landmark events of this famous story either. Director Franco Zeffirelli gives ample screen time each to the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Passages of the Bible are quoted verbatim, the locations have a Palestine-like authenticity, and, aside from some of the principals (Robert Powell as Jesus, Olivia Hussey as Mary, and Stacy Keach as Barabbas), many of the non-Roman characters are actually played by Semitic-looking actors. Zeffirelli diligently provides the socio-political background that gave rise to Jesus' following and the crisis in belief it caused for the people of Israel (and one or two Romans). --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com
Titles Comprise:Cherry Tree Lane: is a tense urban thriller in which a couple are taken hostage by a gang planning revenge on their son. Christine and Mike (Rachael Blake and Tom Butcher) arrive home from work as usual to prepare dinner for themselves and their teenage son, Sebastian (Tom Kane). They are disturbed by a knock at the front door, which leads to a group of aggressive teenagers barging into the house. The teenagers want to have a word or two with the absent Sebastian, who they believe to be guilty of grassing up one of their friends, and are plenty happy to hold hostage and terrorise his parents until he returns.House of the Devil: (2009) follows cash-strapped college student Samantha Hughes (Jocelin Donahue), who takes a babysitting job in a remote country mansion. Fairly soon, Samantha senses that something isn't quite right and that she was naive to believe she could land such a well-paid job without a catch. As a lunar eclipse darkens the sky overhead, Samantha begins to get the uncomfortable feeling that her employers (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) intend to use her for something rather more sinister than childcare.Bathory: Countess of Blood: (2008) is based on the legend of 16th-century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who was said to bathe in the blood of virgins in a bid to preserve her youth and beauty. This feature, directed by Juraj Jakubisko, portrays Bathory (Anna Friel) in a somewhat different light - a woman born ahead of her time, who was betrayed by the men in her life. These include a talented young painter with whom she begins an affair, Merisi Caravaggio (Hans Matheson), and conniving rival land owner Juraj Thurzo (Karel Roden).
Salem's Lot (1979) - Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul), a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) and the dealer's mysterious, pale-skinned partner (Reggie Nalder) in this bloodcurdling shocker. The Shining (1980) - Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a writer acting as off-season caretaker for the Overlook Hotel with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd), in this ghostly time warp of madness and murder. Stephen King's IT (1990) - Seven children face an unthinkable horror which appears in various forms, including murderous clown Pennywise (Tim Curry). Years later, those who survived vow to stop a new killing spree, this time for good. Extras: Salem's Lot - Commentary and Trailer The Shining - Commentary, Making-of Documentary with Optional Commentary, Three Featurettes and a Trailer. Stephen King's IT - Commentary
Psycho: The classic Hitchcock thriller involving a series of murders at a lonely motel where the deaths are attributed to the mother of the young owner. Psycho 2: Norman Bates is coming home after spending 22 years in a mental institution. He plans to renovate the old Bates Motel the place where his first murders occurred... Psycho 3: The Bates Motel is again the site of some nasty doings as the rehabilitated Norman who has installed a new ice machine att
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