Doctor Helder (Briant) is sent to an asylum for experimenting on cadavers. There he is rescued by Doctor Carl Victor (Cushing) the original Doctor Frankenstein now living under a new identity who learns that a new monster is set to walk the earth...
Based on David Percival's acclaimed play Girlfriend, Girl Stroke Boy is a one-of-a-kind comedy which tells of two everyday, middle-class parents who are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian (actor and pop star Peter Straker in a pioneering performance). Directed with an affectionate, light touch by Bob Kellet (Up Pompeii, Space: 1999) and featuring a superb cast, including Joan Greenwood (Mysterious Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets), Michael Hordern (The Missionary, Barry Lyndon), Patricia Routledge (To Sir, with Love), and Clive Francis (A Clockwork Orange), Girl Stroke Boy still packs a punch today thanks to Straker's flamboyant performance (British cinema's first gay leading role to be played by a black actor) and the prescient subject matter. Long out of circulation, this new, restored edition marks the film's worldwide Blu-ray premiere.
A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this crackling mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston. This nominee for 3 Academy Awards - Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Greenstreet) and Screenplay (Huston) - catapulted Bogart to stardom and launched Huston's directorial career. All with a bird and a bang! Special Features: Commentary by Eric Lax Sergeant York Theatrical Trailer - Warner Night at the Movies Newsreel - Warner Night at the Movies The Gay Parisian - Warner Night at the Movies Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt - Warner Night at the Movies Meet John Doughboy - Warner Night at the Movies The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey The Trailer of Humphrey Bogart - 1997 TCM Documentary Breakdowns of 1941 Make-up Tests 2/8/1943 Lux Radio Broadcast - Audio Vault 9/20/1943 Screen Guild Theater Broadcast - Audio Vault 7/3/1946 Academy Award Theater Broadcast - Audio Vault Satan Met a Lady (1936) - Theatrical Trailers
From the Merchant of Menace Vincent Price and the King of the Bs Roger Corman come six Gothic tales inspired by the pen of Edgar Allan Poe. In The Fall of the House of Usher a young man learns of a family curse that threatens his happiness with his bride-to-be. In The Pit and the Pendulum a brother investigates the untimely death of sister played by Barbara Steele. Tales of Terror adapts three Poe classics Morella The Black Cat and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar each starring a horror icon. The Raven is a comic take on the famous poem concerning three rival magicians. In The Haunted Palace a newcomer in a New England town is suspected of being a warlock. And in The Tomb of Ligeia filmed in Norfolk and at Stonehenge a widower's upcoming marriage plans are thwarted by his dead first wife. The six films boast a remarkable cast list: not just Price and Steele (Black Sunday) but also Boris Karloff (Frankenstein) Peter Lorre (M The Beast with Five Fingers) Lon Chaney Jr (The Wolf Man Spider Baby) Basil Rathbone (The Black Cat) and a very young Jack Nicholson. Adapted for the screen by Richard Matheson (The Twilight Zone I Am Legend) and Robert Towne (Chinatown) these Six Gothic Tales now rank as classic examples of sixties horror cinema. Special Features: Limited Edition boxed-set High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of all six features presented across six Blu-rays Original uncompressed mono PCM Audio for all films Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for all films Numerous new and archive commentaries interviews and featurettes for each film! The Directors: Roger Corman an hour-long documentary on the filmmaker featuring contributions from James Cameron Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard Original Theatrical Trailers Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork for all six films Limited edition 200-page collector's book containing new writing on all films plus reprints and reproductions to be announced soon!
The first four episodes of the BBC drama series set in 1920's London. When the philandering Eliott dies penniless there is no inheritance for his daughters Beatrice and Evangeline to survive on. Forced to go into business their London dressmakiing enterprise grows into an industrial force to be reckoned with...
The largest lake in California becomes a symbol of a lost idyll in DJ Caruso's excellent noir-ish thriller The Salton Sea. Val Kilmer is superb as lowlife Danny Parker, or perhaps trumpeter Thomas Van Allen; a man so far over the edge in tragedy, duplicity and drugs he no longer knows or cares who he is. A warped revenge drama occupying similar territory to Memento, The Salton Sea is not as ingenious as that instant classic, but is more elegantly stylised, boasting superb production design, cinematography and music, the latter by Thomas Newman. Along for the ride is Deborah Kara Unger, and those who remember her from The Game will do well to take Kilmer's narration to heart when he says nothing is as it seems. Distinguishing what could have been simply a good thriller are elements not just of humour, but of laugh-out-loud hilarity funnier than most recent comedies; indeed, The Salton Sea is the most striking fusion of laughter and darkness since the admittedly very different An American Werewolf in London (1981). In this respect, Vincent D'Onofrio delivers a side-splitting and audacious performance as drug baron Pooh Bear. Watch out for the rabid badger. On the DVD: The Salton Sea is presented anamorphically enhanced at 1.77:1, with a flawless picture that captures the rich tones and extreme visual contrasts to perfection. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is crystal clear and deeply atmospheric. Extras are the theatrical trailer, plus features on the production design (eight minutes) and cast and crew (nine minutes). More intelligent than the expected Electronic Press Kit material, the running length means they are still fairly perfunctory. --Gary S Dalkin
Balto: Based on a true story Balto will touch your heart. Part husky/part wolf Balto doesn't know where he belongs. He's an outcast in Alaska except to his true friends - Boris the Russian snow goose; polar bear cubs Muk and Luk; and the beautiful husky Jenna. Even though he's different all of Balto's friends recognise what he still can't see himself: his noble spirit. One day a serious diphtheria epidemic spreads fast among the children of Nome. When a fierce bizarre blizzard closes all routes of transport there's no way to obtain life-saving medicine... unless a team of sled dogs can race six-hundred miles through the blinding Arctic storm and bring back antitoxin. But the dogs are lost in the frozen wilderness. Now only Balto can rescue the team and save the children. Starring the voices of Kevin Bacon Bridget Fonda Bob Hoskins and Phil Collins Balto is the remarkable tale of a hero who inspired a nation - and became a legend! (Dir. Simon Wells 1995) Balto 2 - Wolf Quest: BALTO II picks up where the first ended. After settling down with Jenna and having 6 pups it soon becomes time for Balto to give his children up for adoption to human families. However no one wants Aleu his daughter because she looks so much like a wolf. When Aleu figures this out she runs away forcing Balto to go after her and sending her on a journey that reveals quite a bit about herself. (Dir. Phil Weinstein 2001)
A grisly homicide... a sensational trial... a forbidden affair. It's Jagged Edge a razor-sharp suspense-thriller about crime punishment and passion. Jeff Bridges is the prime suspect and Glenn Close plays the attorney who falls in love with him. When a San Francisco socialite is viciously murdered her publisher husband Jack Forrester (Bridges) is accused of committing the crime. Teddy Barnes (Close) decides to defend the charming manipulative Jack only to disregard legal ethics by having an affair with him. With the help of private eye Sam Ransom (Robert Loggia) she takes on a ruthless D.A. (Peter Coyote) who's using the case as a political steppingstone. However a startling revelation puts Teddy in jeopardy of becoming the next victim of the 'Jagged Edge'.
A woman called Meg Harris finds herself cast into the spotlight when she is the victim of a female rape. Meg is threatened by her husband when she decides to go to court. Meanwhile the accused two regulars from a local bar are protected when the bar owner Jack chooses to lie under oath. This taut thriller was nominated for best feature at the International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning. Wisdom's own brand of Jerry Lewis-inspired clowning, with mugging and pratfalls aplenty, is all good clean fun with little or none of the smutty innuendo that characterised the contemporary Carry On series. He carries this film, as he does all his others, solely on the strength of his winningly naïve charm: this is innocent comedy from the days before supermarkets really did wreck all the local businesses, not to mention from the days before The Godfather gave a whole new spin on the comedy value of going to bed with your horse. On the DVD: There are no extra features on this disc at all. Given Wisdom's household-name status and the longevity of these much-loved movies, this seems like a sadly missed opportunity. The 4:3 picture has not been digitally remastered and shows its age, as does the muddy mono soundtrack. Only Ron Goodwin's wonderfully tongue-in-cheek music score comes across reasonably well. --Mark Walker
For over a quarter of a century Kiss has shaped the face of popular music and rock culture. The Kiss Alive Worldwide record-breaking tour saw the rebirth of rock's most incredible band. Witness firsthand the amazing story of how after 17 years Gene Simmons Paul Stanley Ace Frehley and Peter Criss's paths finally-crossed reuniting one of rock and roll's biggest success stories ever. This bombastic behind-the-scenes documentary details the events that led up to KISS's record-breaking Alive Worldwide tour of 1996-97. Come witness the story of how Gene Paul Ace and Peter reunited and strove to write a new chapter in the history of rock & roll. This is KISS - The Second Coming.
Originally released in 1969 Easy Rider is widely regarded as the original road movie and based on the cult following it developed it was soon copied by other Hollywood studios. Written by Dennis Hopper Peter Fonda and Terry Southern (Dr Strangelove) Fonda produced the low-budget production whilst Hopper took on directing duties receiving an award at Cannes for his first work. Since its release Easy Rider has been regarded as a symbol of free-spirited reaction against society and even for those too young to remember its original release it maintains its status as a classic film which characterises the attitude of a decade. Now after 30 years Easy Rider has been remastered and is presented here in High Definition with both clearer picture and sound quality.
Inspired by the true story of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her devoted Irish butler Bernard Lafferty the touching HBO Films drama Bernard and Doris stars Oscar'' winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) and Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient). After failed relationships with her previous waitstaff Doris meets Lafferty fresh out of rehab and without a penny to his name. She takes him on as her butler and he is put in the unenviable position of having to convince the notoriously demanding Duke to keep him in her employ. Directed by Bob Balaban (Gosford Park) the film effectively captures the elegance of a bygone era and is scored with countless musical standards such as Peggy Lee's The Best Is Yet To Come. Bernard and Doris tells the witty and endearing tale of an unconventional bond between a society princess and her flawed pauper of a butler.
Fans of the evergreen Mickey Rooney need look no further! This compilation features three relatively obscure films fronted by ""the Mickster""! Quicksand (Dir. Irving Pichel 1950): Dan Brady (Mickey Rooney) is a skirt-chasing auto mechanic who meets brassy blond temptress Vera Novak (Jeanne Cagney - James Cagney's sister) and falls all over himself trying to please her which includes lying cheating and stealing. The problem is Nick Dramoshag (Peter Lorre) the owner of a seedy San Francisco carnival has the hots for her too! Dan's girlfriend Helen Calder (Barbara Bates) watches helplessly as Dan slides deeper and deeper into a quagmire of deception and desire. My Outlaw Brother (Dir. Elliott Nugent 1951): Mickey Rooney stars as a New York city slicker who goes out west to find the big brother he so looks up to. On his journey he hooks up with a lawman intent on bagging a big time criminal. Little do they know that they're after the same man! Mickey The Great (Dir. Jesse Duffy 1937): An anthology of Mickey McGuire (Mickey Rooney) comedies.
The setting is a working-class neighbourhood of New York in the 1950s. Among the characters are prostitute Tralala her brutal pimp Vinnie an effiminate homosexual and a corrupt union official. Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr. (author of 'Requiem For A Dream') this is an extremely disturbing and effective adaption of his once-banned novel.
Chris Kattan Peter Falk Peter Berg and Chris Penn star in this hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy caper from two of the producers of 'The Waterboy'. The world's most dysfunctional Mafia family has a new weapon against the FBI. Nave bumbling Corky Romano (Kattan) the outcast son of a Mafia boss (Falk) is recruited by his family to infiltrate the FBI and steal any and all evidence that will put his cranky father in jail. But he's in way over his head when he's made out to be a
Margaret Lockwood, one of British cinema s greatest stars, takes on the role of a no-nonsense female barrister in this outstanding series from the makers of Yorkshire Television s classic legal drama The Main Chance. Intuitive, adept and deeply conscientious, Harriet Peterson possesses a steely determination and the necessary tenacity to fight for her clients. But she is not infallible and a turbulent personal life occasionally spills over into her professional life as she takes on a range of cases, from child custody battles to murder, medical negligence to treason. This first series sees Harriet making the move from the north of England to London. Executive producer Peter Willes marshalled key members of the Main Chance team, including legal consultant John Batt and writer Edmund Ward, to create a rigorously researched and compelling courtroom drama. This set comprises both Justice and the single Screenplay drama which preceded it, Justice Is a Woman also starring Lockwood as Julia Stanford, a barrister who, convinced of her client s innocence, defends a young man accused of rape and murder
In the sleepy little town of Fairwater, a monstrous evil has awakened - an evil so powerful, its reach extends beyond the grave.
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