A brand-new restoration of I Am a Camera, a 1955 British comedy-drama film based on the 1945 book The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood (also the inspiration for the hit stage and film sensation Cabaret) and the 1951 eponymous play by John Van Druten.The story is based on a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in Berlin between the World Wars. Directed by Henry Cornelius, from a script by John Collier, I Am a Camera stars Laurence Harvey as Isherwood and Julie Harris recreating her Tony Award-winning performance as Sally Bowles. Product Features Peter Parker on Christopher Isherwood Interview with journalist and film critic Anna Smith Stills galleryTrailer
Major And The Minor (Dir. Billy Wilder 1942): A woman disguises herself as a child to save on a train fare and is taken in charge by an army man who doesn't notice the truth. Bachelor Mother (Dir. Garson Kanin 1939): Ginger Rogers stars as a department store salesclerk about to be laid off after the Christmas holiday who happens to be passing an orphanage when a woman leaves a baby on the doorstep. The orphanage assumes that Rogers is the mother despite her protests; when they contact the department store the owner's son (David Niven) decides to restore her job so that she can take care of the child. Before long rumors are flying that Niven is the child's father... Top Hat (Mark Sandrich 1935): Following a case of mistaken identity dancer Jerry (Astaire) follows Dale (Rogers) the girl of his dreams to Europe and tries to win her heart through song and dance routines... This most lavish of musicals from Hollywood's golden era features lyrics and music by Irving Berlin. Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich 1934): In one of their best loved most charming song-and-dance comedies Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers demonstrate just how they became best known as America's greatest dance team. It Had To Be You (Dir. Don Hartman Rudloph Mate 1947): Victoria Stafford (Ginger Rogers) is a wealthy young woman who has been engaged three times and who has changed her mind at the last second at all three weddings. She is engaged again and is determined to wed her fourth fiance Oliver H.P. Harrington (Ron Randell) when she has a dream in which a man dressed like an Indian (Cornel Wilde) breaks up her fourth wedding. Upon awakening she is startled to find that the ""Indian"" from her dream is real... Tight Spot (Dir. Phil Karson 1955): Sherry Conley a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background is taken from prison to a hotel where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. Sherry is reluctant because the last witness was murdered before he made it to the stand and why should she stick her neck out? At the hotel several attempts are made on her life and she falls for Vince the policemen guarding her...
Detectives and master criminals come together for the first time in a DVD box set as Pegasus Entertainment Ltd presents The Best Of Classic British TV - Crime Series featuring episodes from four nostalgic TV shows of the early 60s. Saber Of London The long running TV series proved a hit with audience on both sides of the Atlantic under various titles including Detective's Diary and The Vise. Whatever the title the hit show featured the crime-solving exploits of the gallant and charming one-armed private investigator who greeted his viewers with the famous words I'm Mark Saber - and this is London. Man From Interpol Crime is international but so is the law. The series plotted the globetrotting adventures of Anthony Smith the man from Interpol as he sort to bring master criminals from all corners of the world to justice. Special attach'' to Scotland Yard Agent Smith proved a charismatic and adaptable crime fighter as no one knew where in the world evil would strike next. Tales Of Edgar Wallace Based on the works of English crime writer Edgar Wallace the series was updated adaptations of his stories with each episode providing an unusual mystery to be solved. A celluloid penny dreadful the stories twisted and turned at a fabulous pace keeping the armchair detectives guessing until the very end. Scotland Yard Introduced by novelist and broadcaster Edgar Lustgarten the series focused on cases from the records room of the most famous police force in the world Scotland Yard. Regular viewers were drawn into a murky world of mystery murder and mayhem as each episode explained or helped to solve a hideous crime.
A brand-new restoration of I Am a Camera, a 1955 British comedy-drama film based on the 1945 book The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood (also the inspiration for the hit stage and film sensation Cabaret) and the 1951 eponymous play by John Van Druten. The story is based on a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in Berlin between the World Wars. Directed by Henry Cornelius, from a script by John Collier, I Am a Camera stars Laurence Harvey as Isherwood and Julie Harris recreating her Tony Award-winning performance as Sally Bowles. Product Features Peter Parker on Christopher Isherwood Interview with journalist and film critic Anna Smith Stills gallery Trailer
In the early thirties Christopher Isherwood is a young aspiring writer living in pre World War II Berlin. Christopher meets the vivacious peniless singer Sally Bowles a young English woman who is performing in a cabaret and they soon develop a platonic relationship. Then Sally meets wealthy American Clive at a party who helps Sally and Christopher finacially and socially for a while and they have the time of their lives. Things begin to change as the increasing Nazism in the country
Don Jose (Glen Ford), a handsome young Dragoon, is newly arrived in the Spanish city of Seville. Exploring its streets, he comes across the beautiful Carmen (Rita Hayworth), a fiery gypsy girl. Within moments she has picked his pockets - and stolen his heart. Others in the regiment are quick to warn him of Carmen's wayward spirit - but Don Jose is already completely enchanted. In Desperate pursuit of the gypsy temptress, Don Jose finds himself on the road to ruin... and murder. The Loves Of Carmen reunited the director and stars of Gilda and is presented here in a beautifully restored digital transfer that does full justice to the film's breathtaking Oscar - nominated Technicolor cinematography.
Ginger Rogers stars as a complicated young woman who has left three grooms standing at the altar and is ready to do it again! That is until handsome Johnny (Cornel Wilde) appears just in time hoping to change her ways forever....
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