Alfred Burke stars as Frank Marker - a down at heels private investigator - in the long-running and critically acclaimed detective series. Never far from the top ten on original broadcast Public Eye is a fondly remembered series about a charcter who takes the 'low rent' side of the PI business - divorces wards of court missing persons and so forth. This digitally restored set features all thirteen episodes of the complete 1971 series. Episodes comprise: 1. A Mug Named Frank 2. Well - There Was This Girl You See... 3. Slip Home In The Dark 4. I Always Wanted A Swimming Pool 5. The Beater And The Game 6. Come Into The Garden Rose 7. And When You've Paid The Bill You're None The Wiser 8. Who Wants To Be Told Bad News? 9. The Man Who Didn't Eat Sweets 10. Ward Of Court 11. Transatlantic Cousins 12. Shades Of White 13. John VII. Verse 24
Dublin the early 1960's: passengers on Bus Conductor Alfie Byrne's route are entertained by a daily diet of poetry pose and excerpts from Oscar Wilde. Alfie delights his 'brethren' and attempts each year to put on a play in the church community hall. This year he wants to stage 'Salome'. When he finds his 'star' in the unsuspecting form of the delightful Adele he tries to convince his driver who has affectionately nicknamed 'Bosie' to tread the boards for the first time to no avail. Alfie soon discovers that Dublin can turn quickly into 'Peyton Place' when local butcher Carney the usurped former leading man recruits Alfie's sister and the elders from the church to condemn 'Salome' as 'the work of the devil'!
Mike Leigh's superlative drama at once hysterically funny and profoundly sad examines a wounded contemporary British family. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) a young black optometrist has just buried her beloved adoptive mother. In her sorrow she embarks on a search for her birth mother who turns out to be Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) a white factory worker living a lonely life with her surly daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). No one in the family except Cynthia's brother Mauri
Written by Richard Curtis and directed by Phillip Noyce Mary and Martha stars Hilary Swank as Mary and Brenda Blethyn as Martha an American and an Englishwoman who have little in common apart from a tragedy that unexpectedly brings them together. Empowered by their friendship they form an alliance that takes them from their meeting in a remote part of Mozambique all the way to Washington - two ordinary mothers doing something extraordinary.
Home Alone-Eight-year-old Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! Written and produced by John Hughes (101 Dalmatians) this madcap slapstick adventure features an all-star supporting cast including Catherine O'Hara and John Heard as Kevin's parents Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern as the burglars and John Candy (Planes Trains and Automobiles) as the 'Polka King of the Midwest.'Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York -Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's in New York City - with enough cash and credit cards to turn the big apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) Still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin are bound for New York too plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget! Home Alone 3 -The US Air Force has a new secret weapon - and he's only eight years old! From comedy legend John Hughes comes this hilarious action packed hit. A band of international crooks has hidden a military computer chip inside a toy car but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) who's home alone with the chicken pox in a quiet Chicago suburb. When the criminals zero in on Alex's house with their high-tech gadgetry madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends himself against the bumbling bad guys - armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and booby traps!
Thanks to repeated showings on cable television and home video, this speculative thriller has built quite a loyal following since its release in 1978. The provocative "what if?" scenario still packs a punch, even if it is not always believable. James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O J Simpson star as three astronauts who agree to spare the government embarrassment by faking their historic landing on Mars after their spacecraft is determined to be unsafe for blastoff. When a scheming mission controller (Hal Holbrook) plots to kill the astronauts in a staged capsule fire, the trio embarks on a dangerous mission to expose the truth. Elliott Gould costars as the journalist determined to crack the conspiracy, and director Peter Hyams turns up the tension with an exciting chase sequence involving Telly Savalas as an eccentric barnstormer who comes to Gould's aid in his attempt rescue the hoax mission's sole survivor. --Jeff Shannon
Beasts roar, danger abounds and Johnny Weismuller swoops into the last 5 of his 12 adventures as film's definitive Tarzan. The vine swinger provedes World War 2 heroics in Tarzan Triumphs and Tarzan's Desert Mystery. Next, he welcomes Jane home and champions a secluded female tribe in Tarzan and the Amazons. A deadly cult proves no match for the jungle lord in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. And the Ape Man calls elephants to deal with poachers in Tarzan and the Huntress and rescues a pearl-diving community in Tarzan and the Mermaids. What came next? Weissmuller would return to the wilds as Jungle Jim, Johnny Sheffield (Boy) became Bomba the Jungle Boy, Joyce played Jane again in Tarzan's Magic Fountain and Cheetah became the world's oldest chimp, celebrating birthday 74 in 2006. Ungawa!
Years before Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones, Star Wars) and James Caan (The Godfather) stepped into the limelight, the Hollywood legends starred in this heartfelt film about searching for glory and discovering just how harsh reality can be along the way. In the midst of the Civil War, a ragtag band of West Texas boys set out to join the Confederate army. Led by the fearless, steadfast Buck Burnett (Caan), the Concho County Comanches ride to Shiloh with an unshakable belief in their mission. But as they experience the horrors of life in the Deep South first-hand and find their lives at risk before the fighting's even started the gang worries if their faith in the Confederate cause might be misplaced. Released in 1968, just as apprehension about the Vietnam War began to crystallize, Journey to Shiloh is a compelling coming-of-age tale about brotherhood, loyalty, and conviction, with strong parallels to the burgeoning anti-war sentiment of the 1960s and 70s. As bullets fly, blood spills, and bonds forge, the Comanches learn what it means to put their lives on the line for a shaky cause and by the time you reach the film's heart-stopping finale, you will too.
As his fragile newborn baby Emily remains in intensive care and with his wife Ellen (Katey Sagal) seriously ill Brian (Tom Irwin) is suddenly faced with the possibility of losing both of them. Emily's primary nurse Claire (Annabeth Gish) a young divorced mother with two girls of her own ends up taking care of the parents as well as the child. However Ellen continues to feel poorly until the heartbreaking moment when she is diagnosed as having an untreatable malignancy in her lungs and ribs. Devastated but with Claire's growing help and involvement Brian and Ellen begin to prepare for the worst. Seeing the warm way in which Brian and Claire comfort each other amazingly Ellen plans for little Emily to still have a mother and father.
Johnny Cash stars as Jesse Hallam an impoverished and uneducated mine worker who is forced to move to the big city of Cincinnati so that one of his children can have the surgery she so desperately needs. In order to be able to look after his family he needs to find a job in order to get a job he must first learn to read and write. This is the story of one man's personal battle against his own pride to do what's necessary to achieve the best for himself and his family against all the odds.
James Stewart and Doris Day in a rare dramatic role are superb in this brilliant suspense thriller from the undisputed master. Stewart and Day play Ben and Jo MacKenna innocent Americans vacationing in Morocco with their son Hank. After a French spy dies in Ben's arms in the Marrakech market the couple discovers their son has been kidnapped and taken to England. Not knowing who they can trust the McKennas are caught up in a nightmare of international espionage assassinations and terror. Soon all of their lives hang in the balance as they draw closer to the truth and a chilling climatic moment in London's famous Royal Albert Hall. Special Features: The Making of the Man Who Knew Too Much Production Photographs Trailers
When it becomes apparent that the recession is hitting the criminal world as hard as it is hitting Wall Street, notorious gangster and loan shark, Mr. Thigo (50 Cent) arrives in London to shake things up and make an example out of one of his late payers.
Features fifty original colour performances from 1950s American T.V Shows and the legendary names are legion: Chet Atkins Marty Robbins Jim Reeves Faron Young Moon Mullican Ernest Tubb and many many more. Tracklist: 1. Silver Lake Blues - The Cherokee Cowboys 2. That's Alright Mama - Marty Robbins 3. Teenage Boogie - Webb Pierce 4. Rock 'n' roll Mr Bullfrog - Moon Mullican 5. Car Hoppin' Mama - Hawshaw Hawkins 6. So Doggone Lonesome - Ernest Tubb 7. I Can't
Working class chancer Alf Stokes (Paul Shane) and James Twelvetrees (Jeffrey Holland) first meet as soldiers in the trenches in France during the First World War. They find the body of an officer and assuming that he's dead Alf robs him of his valuables. Then they find that the officer the Honourable Teddy Meldrum (Michael Knowles) is still alive so they carry him off to a field hospital. Ten years later James is working in the household of Teddy's brother Lord Meldrum (Donald
When ten-year-old Jess's very best friend Bobby moves away she is inconsolable in her grief. Her eccentric Aunt Millie decides the best medicine is to tell her a story about another ten year-old girl Katie from another time and place who wanted only one thing... to ice-skate. While practicing on an outdoor rink near her home Katie is befriended by Otto Brewer a former Olympic skating champion who offers to teach her proper skating and under Otto's tutelage Katie blossoms into a magnificent skater. However Katie's father loses his job and the family is forced to move to the big city Katie is devastated. Meanwhile in the North Pole Santa and his elves are celebrating the birth of Blizzard a baby reindeer born to Blitzen and Delphi. It quickly becomes apparent that Blizzard possesses all three magical reindeer gifts: the ability to fly the power to make herself invisible and the gift of empathic navigation - being able to see with her heart. Using her empathic ability Blizzard feels Katie's sadness and flies to Katie's home to investigate. Despite the rigid rules of the North Pole Blizzard helps Katie learn that the value of true friendships is that they never truly go away. However by breaking these rules Blizzard must face the possibility of banishment at the hands of Archimedes Santa's strict head elf. Only true friendship can save her now...
Joseph and Brenda have done what many only dream of and retired to the South of France to live out the rest of their days as if they were permanently on holiday. But retirement is not what Joseph imagined and when a young attractive couple Suzanne and Mark choose their favourite bistro for dinner everything Joseph thought he knew about himself and his world is turned upside down.
Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating homosexuals and Christianity too wide to cross? How can the Bible be used to justify hate? These are the questions at the heart of Daniel Karslake's FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO. Through the experiences of five very normal very Christian very American families - including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson -- we discover how people of faith handle or sometimes tragically fail to handle having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu Harvard's Peter Gomes Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO offers healing clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.
Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as Dean and Sam Winchester two brothers who travel the country looking for their missing father and battling evil spirits along the way. All the concluding episodes from Season 1.
Earth. Post-Apocalypse. 1000 years after the Neutron Wars. Lord Zirpola the dictator of Helix City captures Range Guides Kaz Oshay (David Carradine) and Deneer. Range Guides are mystical nomads who have strange powers and who choose to fight for good in the bleak wastelands. Lord Zirpola forces them to take part in his favourite entertainment; the Death Sport - an arena where they must fight to the death on special motorcycles like Roman Gladiators. But Kaz Deneer and others break out and make their escape on the strange motorcycles trying to cross the lethal desert to freedom. Ankar Moor a former Range Guide who now serves the evil Zirpola hotly pursues the fleeing group and now wants their blood!
Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of fraternal squabbling makes a more than satisfactory transition to celluloid with this 1976 made-for-television swashbuckler. Viewers familiar with the more recent Leonardo DiCaprio version may be stymied at first by the non-MTV pace and the rather unhip presence of Richard Chamberlain in the lead role(s). This well-lensed action film overcomes a somewhat poky first half to emerge as a terrific adventure, complete with plenty of derring-do, some sharply pointed dialogue, and a wonderful performance by the incomparably malevolent Patrick McGoohan. Rousing fun for burgeoning rapscallions of all ages. Director Mike Newell would later find success in a different genre with Four Weddings and a Funeral. Ian Holm, Louis Jordan, and Ralph Richardson round out the embarrassingly rich supporting cast. --Andrew Wright
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