Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her.
Leave Her to Heaven is one of the most unblinkingly perverse movies ever offered up as a prestige picture by a major studio in the golden age of Hollywood. Gene Tierney, whose lambent eyes, porcelain features, and sweep of healthy-American-girl hair customarily made her a 20th Century Fox icon of purity, scored an Oscar nomination playing a demonically obsessive daughter of privilege with her own monstrous notion of love. By the time she crosses eyebeams with popular novelist Cornel Wilde on a New Mexico-bound train, her jealous manipulations have driven her parents apart and her father to his grave. Well, no, not grave: Wilde soon gets to watch her gallop a glorious palomino across a red-rock horizon as she metronomically sows Dad's ashes to the winds. Mere screen moments later, she's jettisoned rising-politico fiancé Vincent Price and accepted a marriage proposal the besotted/bewildered Wilde hasn't quite made. Can the wrecking of his and several other lives be far behind? Not to mention a murder or two. Fox gave Ben Ames Williams's bestselling novel (probably just the sort of book Wilde's character writes) the Class-A treatment. Alfred Newman's tympani-heavy music score signals both grandeur and pervasive psychosis, while spectacular, dust-jacket-worthy locations and Oscar-destined Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy ensure our fixed gaze. Impeccably directed by the veteran John M. Stahl (who'd made the original Back Street, Imitation of Life, and Magnificent Obsession a decade earlier), the result is at once cuckoo and hieratic, and weirdly mesmerizing. Bet Luis Buñuel loved it. --Richard T. Jameson
When the usually ranting and raving Sir Lancelot Spratt becomes gentle and considerate the hospital inhabitants become positively alarmed until Dr Simon Sparrow diagnoses the trouble: love!
Punch & Judy Man: Tony Hancock is a melancholy Punch and Judy man trying to establish himself as an important citizen in the seaside town where he works. When his snobbish wife is taught a lesson at an important social event it looks like the British comic genius may just get the new lease of life of which he's always dreamed... (Dir. Jeremy Summers 1963) The Rebel: Tony Hancock portrays a bored city clerk who has ambitions of becoming an artist in France. (Dir. Robert Day 1961)
Massively successful comedians Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball return in this hilarious third series. Years on the Northern cabaret circuit enabled them to hone their act for this ratings-winning show, making them household names and beloved by millions. A mixture of sketches, spectacular variety entertainment and a wealth of guest stars ensured this highly popular series ran for many years.Enjoy more good-natured comedy capers with the dynamic double act and their guests - including Lulu, Canadian singing star Anne Murray, former Animals band member Alan Price, and pop group Ritz.
A young Fiona Fullerton heads an all-star British cast in this double BAFTA-winning musical comedy; widely regarded as the most lavish and faithful adaptations of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel. Filmed to mark the centenary of the completion of the Alice novels this extravagant British spectacle which brings to life Sir Tenniel's famous illustrations with a bewitching score from James Bond composer John Barry and BAFTA-winning cinematography by Geoffrey unsworth (2001: A Sp
A totally original - and at the time extremely daring - blend of music drama comedy satire fantasy and dance Rock Follies owes as much to the American musicals of the thirties and forties as it does to glam rock and women's lib. A huge success both critically and commercially it won a BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series and spawned a Number One album. First transmitted in 1976 this release features all 6 episodes that made up the first series of Rock Follies.
It is 1934 and Sam Wilson is ten years old when his mother Dora leaves her husband and brings Sam to Skellerton the Yorkshire mining village where she grew up. Her father jack has been unemployed for more than eight years and her family has little enough money to support themselves. Will they manage with another two mouths to feed and how will Sam's boyhood change? Episodes Featured The Cost of Living Out of the Blue United We Stand The Beginning Of Winter
It is 1934 and Sam Wilson is ten years old when his mother Dora leaves her husband and brings Sam to Skellerton the Yorkshire mining village where she grew up. Her father jack has been unemployed for more than eight years and her family has little enough money to support themselves. Will they manage with another two mouths to feed and how will Sam's boyhood change? Episodes Featured Where The Heart Is Home From Home No Going Back Breadwinners
Eccentric hotel porter Bill Darling (Frankie Howerd) inherits a small fortune and jets off to the French Riviera for a quiet life. But a man can get tired of a life of luxury - and when Bill decides the beach life isn't for him he returns to find the hotel up for sale. Plunging the last of his money into buying the property Bill Darling finds he has just days to convince sceptical investors that the now dilapidated (and empty) hotel is a potential goldmine. Frankie Howard and Denn
It is 1934 and Sam Wilson is ten years old when his mother Dora leaves her husband and brings Sam to Skellerton the Yorkshire mining village where she grew up. Her father jack has been unemployed for more than eight years and her family has little enough money to support themselves. Will they manage with another two mouths to feed and how will Sam's boyhood change? Episodes Featured A Way of Life Poor Law Leaving Home For Ever and Ever and Ever and Ever A Day To Reme
The war is over and Sam is a young man. He is unhappy working in the pit and has no respect for Alan Dakin his mother's ex-lover whose house he lives in. When his Grandfather dies he leaves Sam some property and appoints him trustee for his father. Nobody knows Sam's father Harry's whereabouts or even if he is still alive. Episodes comprise: A New World / Legacy / Shape Yourself Round It / Under A Cloud / Head And Heart
Stay Single And Live Forever.... Series Two of Sam adapted from the book by John Finch. Mark McManus stars as Sam in this fondly remembered TV series.... Episodes comprise: Stay Single And Live Forever / Credit / Sins Of The Father / The World As It Is
Sam returns from the sea and finds many things in Skellerton have changed. He is upset about the loss of his grandfather. His mind strays back to his boyhood and he relives the actual day his father left and his last words. Arthur Corby in desperation asks Sam for help. Episode titles include: Land Half A Loaf Tow Steps Forward One Step Back Moving On
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
In 'Hell Town' a carefree cowhand gets involved with rustlers. Based on a story by Zane Grey. In 'Frontier Horizons' some ranchers are cheated out of their land by three men who in turn have also been misled by others.
The manipulative Ellen (Tierney) lures the handsome Richard (Wilde) into marriage despite knowing him just a few days and while she is engaged to a politician. Richard soon learns that Ellen's selfish possessive love has previously ruined other people's lives so when his brother drowns while in Ellen's care Richard grows increasingly suspicious of her insatiable devotion...
Track Listing: 1. San Antonio Rose 2. Crazy 3. Crazy Arms 4. Heartaches By The Number 5. City Lights 6. Spanish Eyes 7. Burning Memories 8. Forty And Fading 9. Help Me Make It Through The Night 10. Night Life 11. What Am I Gonna Do Without You 12. For The Good Times 13. For The Good Times (Instrumental)
Known to many as 'The Cherokee Cowboy' Ray Price delivers a memorable evening in this up-close and personal performance from a legend of country music. Filmed at Doc Severinsen's during the mid-80s this rare footage shows an unguarded performance in front of an appreciative audience as he performs hits including San Antonio Rose City Lights and Crazy Arms. Tracklisting: 1. San Antonio Rose 2. Crazy 3. Crazy Arms 4. Heartaches By The Number 5. City Lights 6. Spanish Eyes 7. Burning Memories 8. Forty And Fading 9. Help Me Make It Through The Night 10. Night Life 11. What Am I Gonna Do Without You 12. For The Good Times
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