Disney gives families a gift full of the spirit of the season as Ed Asner plays Horace McNickle a counterfeiter who escapes prison through his extraordinary likeness to St. Nick. The Police are closing in but Christmas is near so there are redsuited ones everywhere. McNickle is desperate to recover loot from an earlier caper and can't make a move until he takes advantage of two neighborhood kids who really believe he is Santa. After the kids come through it dawns on him that he has always missed the true meaning of the holidays. rather than make good on his escape he tries to make good on his promises.
Norman Wisdom returns as his famous "Pitkin" character, but also for the first time since his appearance in 1958's The Square Peg, Edward Chapman is also back to provide Norman with the excuse to reprise his immortal catch-phrase "Mr Grimsdale". Following on from the previous year's On the Beat, this is actually Wisdom's third adventure as Norman Pitkin, and he certainly has a thing about uniforms. In the previous pictures he was in the army then the police, while here he succeeds in causing chaos in a St. John's Ambulance unit, as well as donning drag to play a blonde nurse complete with suspender belt and silk stockings. Each Norman Wisdom movie usually sees him as the accidental Lord of Misrule in one institution or another, and this time its the NHS: after being banned from his local hospital, Norman resorts to subterfuge to visit a little orphan girl. There's an autobiographical touch here, as Wisdom himself was raised in an orphanage and centred the plot of One Good Turn (1954) around such an establishment. It's all good fun and clearly shows where such later British comedy as Michael Crawford's BBC TV series Some Mothers Do 'Av 'Em (1973-78) found its inspiration. --Gary S. Dalkin
A mass murderer goes to the electric chair but something goes horribly wrong. The electrical energy transforms him into a monster able to enter and possess other's bodies at will. Now he is loose and seemingly unstoppable...
An all new original Peter Sellers DVD gifting set. The set features 4 DVDs in a slipcase and includes his 1974 comedy The Great McGonagall set in Victorian times, a story of the world s greatest poet William Topaz McGonagall, also starring Spike Milligan. The 1969 classic comedy The Magic Christian starring Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough, Christopher Lee and Spike Milligan. The film features original music by Paul McCartney. The 1973 comedy that Sellers did his utmost to prevent being released Ghost in the Noonday Sun starring Peter Boyle and Spike Milligan. And finally the 1979 adventure comedy The Prisoner of Zenda also starring Lionel Jeffries and Elke Sommer.
Under Milk Wood is the Dylan Thomas' magnum opus which carries the double legacy of the author's extensive work for radio - a medium for which he had an almost intuitive grasp - and his skill and ability as a poet. The play describes the thoughts of a stranger (Richard Burton) who whilst wandering through a small Welsh village seems to know the intimate details of the life of a selection of the town inhabitants. Described in poetic terms we learn that most of the inhabitants are very strange people indeed - we are told about their innermost desires and thoughts. Under Milk Wood is a sensitive often comic examination of Welsh life in which the people are viewed as being particularly blessed. This is a must have DVD for any Dylan Thomas fan and lover of great literature.
When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford
The Doctors: 30 Years Of Time Travel And Beyond is a hallmark documentary about the world famous BBC TV series 'Doctor Who', packed with personal insights and views from the very people who made the programme.Arranged in order of the various actors to have played the Doctor, this documentary features a host of specially recorded interviews with the programmes cast and crew. Doctors, companions and production personnel all share their unique experiences on the programme and their opinions as to what makes 'Doctor Who' so special to so many.The programme also features rare, behind the scenes home movie footage of The Smugglers, The Abominable Snowmen, The Daemons and the unfinished Tom Baker story Shada, as well as a unique collection of unpublished photographs spanning all the Doctors from the TV series.In addition to the main feature, this special DVD release comes packed with previously unseen material that could not be included in the original VHS release. Based on the bestselling book by Adrian Rigelsford, this documentary offers a comprehensive, candid and at times controversial look at a series that continues to grow in popularity.
""Everybody Out!"" Available for the very first time on DVD - all eight hilarious episodes of the BBC's top situation comedy of the early 1960s! Life in the Fenner Fashions workshop is constantly disrupted by wildcat industrial action as firebrand shop steward Paddy (Miriam Karlin) takes on penny-pinching proprietor Harold Fenner (Peter Jones) over anything and everything! It seems like every day Paddy's blowing her whistle and yelling 'everybody out!'. Poor foreman Reg (Reg V
Find Me Guilty tells the true story of mobster Jack DiNorscio and the longest mafia trial in U.S. history. Jack is shot by his cousin and survives but is later arrested for dealing drugs and sentenced to thirty years in prison. The prosecutor offers Jack a deal; if he rats on his friends he will be immediately released. Jack turns down the deal and as the trial starts he makes the unusual decision to defend himself despite having no legal experience. Can this New York wise guy convince a jury he's not the monster he's portrayed as?
Ken Annakin directs this 1950s comedy starring Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov and David Tomlinson. The Hotel Sahara, located in the middle of the desert, is run by husband and wife team Emad and Yasmin Pallas (Ustinov and De Carlo). As the devastation of World War II reaches North Africa, Yasmin takes it upon herself to figure out a way to save the hotel from destruction.
Tracklist: 1.Come Talk To Me 2.Steam 3.Across The River 4.Slow Marimbas 5.Shaking The Tree 6.Blood Of Eden 7.San Jacinto 8.Kiss That Frog 9.Washing In The Water 10.Solsbury Hill 11.Digging In The Dirt 12.Sledgehammer 13.Secret World 14.Don't Give Up 15.In Your Eyes
ICA Classics: Atanarjuat
Shocker allows Wes Craven to hang onto his title as the master of the horror genre--but only just. Centring once more on a charismatic lead character (Horace Pinker) Shocker continues Craven's penchant for combining fantasy and horror. Pinker (played with zeal by Mitch Pileggi of X-Files fame) is a serial killer--the "family slasher"--terrorising the inhabitants of the city of. Having murdered the foster family and girlfriend of all-American boy Jonathon Parker (Peter Berg), the latter finds he can foresee Pinker's actions in his dreams. The resulting supernatural developments (including ghosts, magic charms and possessed bodies) are more than a little muddled but underpinned by the continuous gruesome hack and slash action. A film with its brain most definitely disengaged, Shocker is still undemanding, wince-inducing fun. On the DVD: Not much to offer from this format. The splendidly dated 1980's American heavy metal soundtrack (including Kiss and Megadeth) comes through loud and clear and the sound effects are certainly horribly audible. Picture quality is fine but not spectacular. Extras are limited to scene selection, the trailer and a selection of storyboards and their cinematic equivalents. --Phil Udell
Philip Roath is thirty-five. An insurance salesman whose confidence is diminishing as rapidly as his hair and teeth, he's lazy, self-centred, guilt-ridden and insecure. With an overdraft to support, a boss who vainly tries to get him to work for his salary, an ex-wife who rings periodically to remind him of his inadequacies, and an analyst whose problems dwarf his own, he's altogether a bit worried...It Takes a Worried Man traces Roath's uphill struggle to come to terms with his lot. Created by Peter Tilbury - who also stars as the unfortunate Roath - the series built upon the resounding success of Tilbury's Shelly and Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, once again showcasing Tilbury's gift for adroit and keenly observed comic dialogue. This set comprises the complete first series.
In Aleksei Balabanov's powerful follow-up to his uncompromising Brother Chechen veteran Danila (Sergei Bodrov Jr) arrives in Moscow. There he meets an old army buddy Konstantin who tells him how his twin brother Dimitri has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a U.S. ice hockey team by the manager and his Russian partners. Soon after Danila finds Konstantin dead. Vowing to avenge the death of his comrade Danila sets out on a trail that leads him to Chicago and a
Victor is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor's name written all over it.
Bizarre morgue desecrations in a New York hospital finds Dr. Peter Chandler and the beautiful Dr. Laurie Miller at the head of an expedition to an island of terror. The remote tropical island is also peopled by a tribe of blood thirsty natives and soul devouring Zombies. One by one the members of the expedition die unspeakable deaths... Not for the faint-hearted...
Face: At thirty five Ray's learned the tricks and done the time. Now he's a face - a villain to be reckoned with and definitely not to be crossed - ready for the blag the big score that'll really set him and his team up. Although the job goes smooth and sweet the take doesn't scratch the three million the gang had it figured for. And when somebody starts thieving from the thieves and people start getting blown away Ray's got some serious thinking to do before the traitor -
Lord Edgware Dies finds Poirot (David Suchet) reopening his London office with the help of Miss Lemon (Pauline Moran) and Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser). As they celebrate their reunion, Japp quips that there's "only one thing missing...the body". Right on cue, a corpse turns up just moments later. Most of the suspects are actors by profession, but Poirot's "little grey cells" are able to penetrate the murderer's disguise--though only after two more victims heighten the suspense. --Larisa Lomacky Moore
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