""I'm trying to make an intelligent film about murder whilst actually doing the murders...."" Julian Richards' independent slasher horror film is a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry a mild-mannered wedding photographer with a rapacious hunger for human flesh...
One of the major success stories of ITV children's programming, this BAFTA Award-winning show ran for over a decade and detailed the trials and tribulations of staff and patients at a children's ward in a busy Manchester hospital. Co-written by award-winning writers Paul Abbott (Shameless) and Kay Mellor (The Chase), the series pulled no punches and was loved by adults and children alike for its realistic portrayal of mature themes in a sensitive manner. Among the new arrivals on South Park's children s ward are football hopeful Lee Jones, a dialysis patient who struggles to accept the fact that he will never play football again, and ex-visitor and Trivial Pursuits champion Cal, who is diagnosed with epilepsy. Keely gives birth to a baby girl, and a quip by Mags prompts the formation of the ward's very own team of ghost-busters...
Charles Dickens is the UK's most prominent writer since Shakespeare and the literary voice of Victorian England. His characters are universally well known while his style of writing came to define the episodic cliff-hanger. Over 250 different film and television adaptations have been made of these stories - 34 in the last 10 years. In Charles Dickens' England Derek Jacobi takes the viewer around the most important places towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature. The film features Cooling Church in Kent used by the author in the opening chapter of Great Expectations; Miss Havisham's house in Rochester; the almost forgotten London Roman Baths used by David Copperfield; Joe Gargey's cottage in Chalk the notorious Bowes Academy the harshest of the Yorkshire schools and now known to the world as Dotheboys Hall. From Portsmouth to Isle of Wight to numerous London locations to Bury St Edmonds from Rochester and Chatham to Broadstairs to Folkestone to Barnard Castle to St George's Hall in Liverpool well over 100 locations are featured. Many of the locations such as 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields where Dickens first read in public the All The Year Round offices in Covent Garden where he lived and worked and Gad''s Hill in Kent the last in a very long list of his homes are not open to the public and their interiors have rarely been filmed.
Welsh reporter Frazer Truick (Craig Fairbrass) returns home after losing his job in London. He investigates animal sacrifices taking place at local churches, and becomes involved with his colleague Rachel (Rowena King), whose brother has recently died in an industrial accident. Truick comes to suspect local businessman David Keller of involvement, but soon discovers that all is not as it seems.
John Drake is a special agent in the deadly world of international espionage. A master in his field he is free to go wherever duty calls. Danger Man does not simply attract danger he thrives on it. Episode 13 - The Prisoner: John Drake has to find a double for an American who has been accused of espionage and is kept prisoner in the American Embassy in a Caribbean City. Episode 14 - The Traitor: What makes a traitor? John Drake finds out when his latest assignment takes him to Kashmir in Northern India and to drama high up a mountain. Episode 15 - Deadline: Disguised as a gun runner Danger Man plunges into the African jungle in an attempt to penetrate a deadly terrorist group. Episode 16 - Colonel Rodriguez: John Drake flies to the Caribbean and masquerades as a reporter in a bid to aid an American jounalist who has been arrested on a spy charge. Episode 17 - The Island: Two assassins escape from Drake's custody in a mid aor struggle forcing the plane to crash. They survive and make it to a remote island where the real struggle begins. Episode 18 Find and Return: Drake finds himself in certain danger in the Middle East when he is assigned to find a woman wanted for espionage and possibly treason. He is not alone in his search. Episode 19 - The Girls Who Liked GI's: Drake investigates the death of a solider in Munich who worked on a top security missile section in Munich. The only clues are a roll of film and a girl who like Gls and the head of West German Intelligence. Episode 20 - Name Date and Place: A series of successive similar style murders in France Ireland Italy and London lead Drake to expose the possible link of a Murder Incorporated organisation.
The fine line between fiction and reality is blurred when a serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a dark and disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry a charismatic wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh. Special Features: Behind The Scenes Auditions Deleted Scenes Directors Commentary
This confrontational coming-of-age thriller is a haunting look into the destruction of innocence and the depths of fear. When a gang of raucous teens play hooky in the woods, they cross paths with a mysterious drifter. Preying on their adolescent curiosity and naivet, the sadistic vagabond easily wins them over only to inflict humiliating and torturous mind games with a rusty switchblade and a gun. Trembling and desperate these kids realize that their only chance at survival is to embrace the darkness within and fight back with some wicked games of their own.
""I'm trying to make an intelligent film about murder whilst actually doing the murders...."" Julian Richards' independent slasher horror film is a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry a mild-mannered wedding photographer with a rapacious hunger for human flesh...
Patrick McGoohan stars as John Drake who's up to his neck in drug-smuggling kidnapping and espionage in these eight cult adventures. Episode 5 - The Lovers: Drake provides security for the visiting President of Boravia. Episode 6 - The Girl In Pink Pyjamas: Drake is assigned to look after a confused young woman. Episode 7 - Position of Trust: Drake and an American agent team up to break up a Middle East opium ring. Episode 8 - The Lonely Chair: The daughter of a designer is kidnapped and Drake impersonates her father. Episode 9 - The Sanctury: Drake mimics a newly released prisoner and lands himself into a web of danger. Episode 10 - An Affair of State: Drake investigates an apparent suicide but discovers the body is missing. Episode 11 - The Key: Information is being leaked from the US embassy in Vienna. Drake is called in to help. Episode 12 - The Sisters: A beautiful refugee's claim for political asylum gives Drake an awkward case.
Features the next 8 superb episodes of international espionage featuring super-spy John Drake (Patrick McGoohan). Episode 21 - Vacation: Drake takes an assassin into custody then assumes his identity in order to uncover the intended victim. Episode 22 - The Conspirators: Drake is assigned as a bodyguard to protect the wife of a murdered diplomat. Episode 23 - The Honeymooners: Drake investigates when a groom is accused of murder on his honeymoon in the Far East. Episode 24 - The Gallows Tree: The fingerprints of a terrorist spy believed dead ten years earlier are discovered. Drake is brought in to uncover the mystery. Episode 25 - The Relaxed Informer: In order to unravel a security leak Drake carries out a daring hold-up which leads him into more trouble. Episode 26 - The Brothers: Two bandits kill one of the occupants of a crashed plane and steel a valuable diplomatic satchel. Drake is brought in to retrieve these documents at any cost. Episode 27 - The Journey Ends Half Way: Drake travels to China to investigate the disappearance of an eminent doctor who had bee trying to escape the Communist regime. Episode 28 - Bury The Dead: Drake takes over a dangerous mission when he receives an encoded ticket containing a message that a NATO agent has been killed.
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