The story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply.
Titles Featured: 'Bad Man's River' 'Blood Money' and 'Captain Apache'.
Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other landmark events of this famous story either. Director Franco Zeffirelli gives ample screen time each to the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Passages of the Bible are quoted verbatim, the locations have a Palestine-like authenticity, and, aside from some of the principals (Robert Powell as Jesus, Olivia Hussey as Mary, and Stacy Keach as Barabbas), many of the non-Roman characters are actually played by Semitic-looking actors. Zeffirelli diligently provides the socio-political background that gave rise to Jesus' following and the crisis in belief it caused for the people of Israel (and one or two Romans). --Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon.com
Starring: Tony Vogel, James Cosmo, Anthony Heaton Available for the first time on DVD all 32 programmes telling 4 separate stories. The classic British hero who doesnt drink, doesnt smoke and thinks guns are for cowards. Radios most popular detective makes the successful transition to TV.
Nigel Kneale's prescient 1968 play which features a vision of the future where Big Brother-style reality TV shows are used to sedate the libidos and appetites of the masses...
Lee Van Cleef stars as an Apache Captain in the Union army trying to discover the significance of an agents dying words 'April Morning'. Soon he is up to his neck in trouble and bodies as anyone who knows anything about 'April Morning' is quickly shot before they can pass on the secret. With nowhere to turn he forms an uneasy alliance with Griffin a gun runner a gambler and land owner but Griffin is also not to be trusted as the Captain soon finds out.
Silk (Dir. Fran''ois Girard) (2007): Based on Alessandro Baricco's novel Silk is the story of a silkworm smuggler and his adventures in Japan. When the p''brine epidemic - the spotted silkworm disease that ravaged eggs from European hatcheries in the 1860's - spreads overseas the entire European silk trade seemed doomed. In order to continue his lucrative trade Baldabiou (Molina) a roguish French silk trader decides to send a young military officer Herve Joncour (Pitt) on a perilous mission to Japan. Thus separating him for months on end from Helene (Knightley) his lovely and devoted schoolteacher wife. Japan the island that produced the finest silk in the world for thousands of years prior to the opening of the Suez Canal was considered a dominion forbidden to foreigners quite literally the opposite end of the world. It is here that Herve encounters the powerful and feared local baron Hara Jubei (Yakusho) with whom he will trade for the precious silkworm eggs. And it is here in a world unlike anything that Herve has experienced before that he becomes entranced by the baron's concubine a deeply mysterious girl of intoxicating beauty. Safe Harbour (Dir. Bill Corcoran) (2007): Escape to Safe Harbour the gripping story of love loss and the powerful bonds that can heal a wounded heart. Ofelia is a grieving young widow. Matt is a heartbroken artist. Both feel as though they have lost everything until on a remote fog-shrouded California beach they find each other. But as their passion grows into something far more than either dares to dream the darkness of their pasts will threaten to destroy what could be their last chance for true love. Laws Of Attraction (Dir. Peter Howitt) (2004): A romantic comedy in which two jaded New York divorce lawyers (Brosnan Moore) are often competing against each other in court actions. After romance blossoms between them they decide to get married. However once wed will they be able to avoid the same difficulties at home that provide them with business at work?
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