This hard-hitting portmanteau drama from Michael Relph and Basil Dearden depicts the emotion, excitement and broad humour of one night's boxing at a downmarket London stadium. Starring Jack Warner as the dressing-room attendant who links the stories together and co-starring Robert Beatty, Maxwell Reed, Joan Collins and Kay Kendall Ealing Studios' The Square Ring is presented here as a transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Danny Felton, Adam's Stadium's dressing-room handler has seen many fighters come and ago, rise and fall and tonight's line-up is no exception. Up-and-comers, would-be contenders, comeback kids , champions-in-waiting out into the ring they go, and back to his dressing-room they return bruised, batter, chastened or triumphant.
This feelgood musical drama tells the story of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's early career as a Russian Naval Academy cadet and an imaginary meeting with an exotic dancer who might have inspired one of his great works. It's 1865, and the young Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont) is a sailor on a two-year world tour with the Russian Navy. When the ship docks in Tangiers, his search for a piano on which to play his latest work brings him into the fold of a family of down-at-heel Spanish aristocrats. The daughter Cara (Yvonne de Carlo) works secretly as a veiled dancer with the stage name Scheherazade in order to support her mother Madame de Talavera (Eve Arden)'s spendthrift habits. Rimsky-Korsakov is captivated by Cara, and her tales from the mysterious East begin to infiltrate his compositions. As the week's furlough flies by, young Nikolai's musical and amorous aspirations come under threat from Brian Donlevy's severe Captain Vladimir Gregorovitch and dashing shipmate Prince Mischetsky (Phillip Reed) but a harmonious ending is on the horizon. Written and directed by Walter Reisch (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Niagara), the film also stars Charles Kullmann, a leading tenor with the Metropolitan Opera, who is smuggled aboard as the ship's doctor to perform many of Rimsky-Korsakov's enduring melodies.
From Terry Gilliam director of Time Bandits and Brazil comes The Adventures of Baron Munchausen a spectacular epic fantasy quite unlike any other film ever made. Just who is Baron Munchausen? Liar? Rogue? Madman? Or the greatest superhero ever to battle and triumph against unbeatable odds? Did he really ride through the air on a cannonball slay a three-headed griffin journey to the moon and all before breakfast...? Helped and hindered by a supporting cast of literally thousands including Vulcan (Oliver Reed) Bertholdt (Eric Idle) and many more the indomitable Baron (John Neville) succeeds in overcoming every obstacle to face his final greatest challenge... Death itself.
In this unique and outrageous period comedy adapted from George MacDonald Fraser's novel, Malcolm McDowell stars as a comic character come to life. It is 19th Century Europe and Captain Harry Flashman (McDowell) is a gutless bully who seeks admission into European high society. Seeing a chance to promote their own menacing political schemes devious Otto von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) and Rudi Von Sternberg (Alan Bates) convince Flashman to disguise himself as a Prussian noble so that he can marry a gorgeous duchess (Britt Ekland). However, the hoax is discovered, and Flashman flees the continent, experiencing one calamity after another - as well as some of history's most significant events - in this hilarious romp that might just make you laugh instead of marvel at the next comic book hero you encounter! Special Features: Commentary with Actor Malcolm McDowell and Film Historian Nick Redman Inside Royal Flash Featurette Meet Harry Flashman Featurette Original Theatrical Trailer
A maniac murders teens when they refuse to forward chain mail.
Destined to remain a dubious footnote in books of movie trivia, Lion of the Desert--an occasionally impressive epic from 1981--was financed with a budget of $35 million by Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, who previously attempted the role of movie producer with the critically roasted Mohammad: Messenger of God. This effort didn't fare much better (it grossed approximately $1 million worldwide), and although some of its wartime action sequences are intelligently filmed, it's not likely to gain much more of a reputation on home video. Under a shaggy Muslim beard, Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, the Arab hero and guerrilla fighter who defended Libya against Benito Mussolini and Italy's attempted conquests during World War II. As straightforward biography, the movie's got an admirable epic sweep, but a cliché-ridden script and uniformly bad performances (from a cast that includes John Gielgud, Oliver Reed and Rod Steiger) make this little more than a curiosity for those wanting to learn more about Libyan history. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
A forgotten gem from the legendary Hammer Studios available for the first time on home video in the UK this sinister classic spins a gruesome web of unhappy families. It is three weeks before the Ashby siblings Simon (Oliver Reed) a brutish alcoholic and Eleanor (Janette Scott) a nervous wreck are to come into their late parents' inheritance. While Simon plans to have his sister certified insane and locked away Eleanor keeps seeing the lurking figure of their long-dead brother Tony around the estate. Who or what is this apparition and does he threaten to reveal skeletons in the closet (and elsewhere)? A massively entertaining horror treat in the best English Gothic tradition Paranoiac features a superbly oily lead performance from a young Oliver Reed stunning black & white Cinemascope photography an ingenious script by Jimmy Sangster and gripping direction by the great Freddie Francis. Featuring legendary actor Oliver Reed (Gladiator The Devils Women in Love) Paranoiac is classic British gothic horror of the same era as The Innocents Repulsion The Haunting Dracula These Are The Damned.
College students at a Boston college become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.
GladiatorTravel to the time of the Romans in this third title in the Dream Master series from a Carnegie Medal-winning author.ImmortalsFrom the producers of '300' Immortals is a visually stunning and bloody retelling of the epic Greek legend of Theseus in awesome 3D. The ruthless King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) leads his bloodthirsty army on a murderous rampage across Greece to find a deadly weapon that can kill the Gods themselves. Only Theseus (Henry Cavill) a mortal chosen by Zeus King of the Gods can lead the fight against Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at stake. Special Features: It's No Myth Alternative Opening Scene - Young Theseus Alternative Endings - This Is Our Last Embrace and Theseus Kills Hyperion Deleted Scenes Theatrical Trailer Click Image To Play Game Poseidon's Flight Epirus Bow The Eagle
The dramatised true story of the rise and fall of the Chipendales nightclub the last true bastion of Sodom and Gomorrah fuelled by a lethal cocktail of sex booze and money. Soundtrack includes music by Kool And The Gang The Weather Girls and Ultravox.
Lady And The Tramp: Embark on a thrilling adventure with Lady, a lovingly pampered cocker spaniel; Tramp, a mutt from across the tracks with a heart of gold; Jock and Trusty, Lady's best friends; and Si and Am, two of the most devious cats to prowl across the screen. The happiest of endings takes place on a lovely bella notte as Lady learns what it means to be footloose and leash-free.Lady And The Tramp II: The adventure continues as Lady and Tramp have their paws full raising mischievous Scamp - who's always in the doghouse. When Scamp ventures far from home and joins the Junkyard Dogs, he is faced with the ultimate test of a collar-free life: choosing between a world of adventure and his love for the family he has left behind.
Zorro Rides Again - Volume 1
Tough action story in which a group of renegade mercenaries are called upon to enter Angolan territory to rescue a CIA agent who captured by some bad guys involved in the African Civil War.
Twilight: Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks Washington she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) a boy unlike any she's ever met. Edward is a vampire but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty Edward sees straight into Bella's soul. Soon they are swept up in a passionate thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward Bella is what he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires - James (Cam Gigandet) Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) - come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life? New Moon: If 'Twilight' was about finding true love then New Moon is about losing it. The real question is which team is Bella on: Team Edward or Team Jacob? Robert Pattinson Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner light the darkness in this supernaturally good take on Stephenie Meyer's fantasy novel. This next instalment of The Twilight Saga sees Bella Swan devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love Edward Cullen but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of werewolves the ancestral enemies of the vampires and finds her loyalties tested. With more of the passion action and suspense that made Twilight a smash hit The Twilight Saga: New Moon is a spellbinding follow-up to the international box office phenomenon. Eclipse: Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching Bella has one more decision to make: life or death.
Zorro Rides Again - Volume 2
Powerful lawyer Eddie Brannigan is delighted to have his son back in his life and the feelings are reciprocated. The younger Eddie's friend Rebecca however accuses Eddie Senior of date-rape and he could end up sending his own father to jail.
A great value triple fillm collection of great British horrror films that includes The Silver Darlings, The System and The Quare Fellow. Stars Oliver Reed, David Hemmings, Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Sym and Hugh Griffith.
'My Sister's Keeper' is a startling portrayal of one woman's fight for survival against all the odds. Set in Appalachia in 1943 the film depicts Maggie's three day deadly struggle with her husband's killer. Maggie found her husband's body beaten and bloody hanging in the smokehouse. With no help to hand she returns home to avoid the vicious pack of wild dogs that roam around killing at their own will. Tension and danger mount as a stranger appears and Maggie submits to being raped
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