Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made the Stepford Wives a compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semi-classic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Monarchy: The Royal Family At Work (2 Discs)
With spies like these who needs enemies? They're double agents without a sneaking suspicion of their assignment. But if it has anything to do with comedy it's sure to be ""mission accomplished"" for Saturday Night Live alumni Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd romping through their first movie together. As two government desk jockeys who cheat their way through a civil-service entry exam and (incredibly) become globetrotting undercover operatives Aykroyd and Chase generate the verv
Clint Eastwood is a down-and-out cop who is sent on a routine mission to pick up a witness and deliver her to the Phoenix courthouse. Sounds easy until he realises he's been set up by the man who gave him this simple assignment. The interplay between Eastwood and the witness, a clever prostitute played by the actor's former girlfriend, Sondra Locke, is tough and playful. They obviously had strong chemistry. The story is highly implausible at times, but the action sequences are satisfying. Eastwood directs The Gauntlet very much in the style of his Academy Award-winning Western Unforgiven. Although the body count is surprisingly low for an Eastwood action film, a house, several cars and a large bus get shot through with more holes than a big wheel of Swiss cheese. For Eastwood fans, this is the laconic hero at his prime. --Richard Natale
Somewhere on Superstition Mountain there lies a treasure as big as the West. Silver screen legend Glenn Ford stars as Jacob "Dutch" Walz, the man behind the myth of Arizona's infamous Lost Dutchman gold mine. LUST FOR GOLD is the quintessential gold-rush tale, chronicling one man's quest for the mother lode and the complications that come with his passions.
Alfred Hitchcock's final film Family Plot is understated comic fun that mixes suspense with deft humour, thanks to a solid cast. The plot centres on the kidnapping of an heir and a diamond theft by a pair of bad guys led by Karen Black and William Devane. The cops seem befuddled, but that doesn't stop a questionable psychic (Barbara Harris) and her not overly bright boyfriend (Bruce Dern, in a rare good-guy role) from picking up the trail and actually solving the crime. Did she do it with actual psychic powers? That's part of the fun of Harris's enjoyably ditsy performance. --Marshall Fine
Rip Murdock (Bogart) and Johnny Drake (Prince) are en route to Washington when Johnny disappears and then turns up dead. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to resolve the mystery surrounding his death...
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station.
It was the day that captured the Nation's heart. Relive the events 'as they happened' from the arrival of the guests at Westminster Abbey through to the bride and groom driving back to Clarence House. The beautiful Catherine THE dress the arrival of the family a grandmother's pride the future Heir the reverence of Westminster Abbey the joy of the crowds all the pomp and circumstance of the Royal Wedding the TWO kisses and the open topped car drive. A day we will never forget recorded for posterity and to hand down the generations. Relive William and Catherine's Royal Wedding - yours to own forever.
A police officer and his wife enjoy a trouble-free existence with their two children Teddy and Sandy. However their idyll is shattered when a friend of Teddy's is the apparent victim of molestation at the local day care centre...
Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made the Stepford Wives a compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semi-classic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Marshall Seymour is a divorced stressed-out workaholic executive vice-president with little time for his young son Charlie. But they become much closer when a mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son and vice versa!
1955 The Nevada Desert. A young couple Brian and Peggy become known as America's First Nuclear Family after miraculously surviving an atomic weapons experiment. Soon after the test Peggy gives birth to a baby boy with a small red perfectly circular birthmark on his hand. Only a few days later Brian and Peggy spontaneously erupt in flames - melting plastic but leaving everything else in the room untouched. Thirty four years later Sam Kramer - his red circular birthmark now more pronounced is finding out that the results have had some unexpected effects on him....
Roger Dollison his wife Kendra and their two children Teddy and Sandy are living the American dream. But their idyllic existence is irreparably changed when a classmate of Teddys is the apparent victim of sexual abuse at the respected neighbourhood daycare centre. But their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story - one he promised his abusers that he never would tell.
Princes of the Palace charts the lives of the princes within the House of Windsor. Profi ling Princes Phillip, Charles, William, Harry and the new arrival Prince George, this HD programme features exclusive interviews with royal biographers, correspondents and exclusive access to those who have worked with the royal family to give an inside view of how the royal Princes will shape the British monarchy, Contributors include Penny Junor, Nicholas Owen, Robert Lacy, Jenny Bond, Gyles Brandreth, Tim Heald, Arthur Edwards, Ingrid Seward and many more.
This box set features a collection of some of Bogie's finest efforts in the 'film noir' genre. Sirocco (Dir. Curtis Bernhardt 1951): In 1925 Damascus Harry Smith (Bogart) runs guns to the rebels under Emir Hassan. The French arrest him along with others and force him to sell weapons to them where hHe develops an dangerous interest in French intelligence officer Feroud's mistress Violette... Dead Reckoning (Dir. John Cromwell 1947): Rip Murdock (Bogart) and Johnny
Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made for this compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semi-classic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. The DVD release presents the film in its original widescreen dimensions. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
They're Royal superstars and the world's most eligible bachelors princely brothers whose private lives are now very much public property. But with their every move both positive and negative subject to relentless media scrutiny have William and Harry like their mother Diana become prisoners of their own celebrity? This provocative documentary draws on exclusive Royal facts and footage as well as the authoritative views of royal experts to present a fresh look at the Princes
Soviet spies disguised as Middle Eastern terrorists hold the entire world hostage by threatening to annihilate a large portion of the planet's oil supply. With no-one else to turn to the US government enlists its best intelligence officer simply known as 'The Soldier'...
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