A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
A fast paced 1950’s Noir thriller starring screen siren Adrienne Corri. How many people live as they want? Not Bill Anderson (William Russell) he has a mundane job as a clerk in a travel agency. Trapped in his loveless marriage Bill dreamt of a more exciting existence. His opportunity comes quite by chance. A client at the travel agency changes his travel plans and returns tickets to Panama just before a bank holiday. Bill figures he can steal the tickets be on a faraway beach before he is discovered. His plan is working he arrives at the airport with passport money and tickets. However his gaze is drawn to a beautiful woman (Adrienne Corri). They strike up a conversation. He quickly falls under her spell and when their flight is postponed for 24 hours she entices him away from the airport but all is not as it seems. Will Bill eventually escape the monotony of his existence or will he realise he is not cut out for life on the run?
The twist of private-eye show Randall & Hopkirk Deceased is that in the first episode, gumshoe Marty Hopkirk (Kenneth Cope) is killed off by the villains, only to pop up in an immaculate white suit as a ghost visible only to his hardboiled partner Jeff Randall (Mike Pratt). In theory, the supernatural streak--which meant a complex set of rules about Marty's appearances and effects on the physical world--should lead the show into wilder territory, but most episodes squander the team's unique abilities on ordinary cases about blackmail and murder-for-profit. A persistent subplot has the living Jeff getting cosy with the dead Marty's widow Jean (Annette Andre) to the discomfort of her late husband. The elementary effects and the nice underplaying of the leads have a certain period charm, and the show could afford a high calibre of special guest villains and dolly birds. A 1990s remake with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer hasn't obliterated memories of the original. --Kim Newman
In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic to which he gradually becomes addicted. In order to provide a continual supply of chemicals to continue his experiments and support his addiction he falls in with a den of murderers who use his signature to sell corpses to the local hospital.
Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time. So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be?
The final film by veteran director Maurice Elvey takes a wry look at gender politics in the 1950s workplace casting Adrienne Corri as a high-flying advertising executive whose career is in jeopardy after the announcement of her forthcoming marriage. A sharply intelligent long sought-after comedy that was thought lost for many years Second Fiddle is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. Deborah and Charles young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries she must resign!
The night before a notorious haunted house is opened for a Halloween party six teenage friends break in for a few hours of spooky fun. But before the night is over they will not only discover the meaning of fear but the meaning of hell itself.
A newspaper reporter hears of strange goings-on on a remote island. He travels there and finds a mad scientist creating zombies...
Gerry Anderson's classic sci-fi series. The operatives of the secret Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation (S.H.A.D.O.) defend the earth from extra-terrestrials who are abducting humans to obtain their organs which can be transplanted into their own bodies... Episodes include: The Sqyare Triangle Court Martial Close Up
Stomping whomping stealing singing tap-dancing violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex has his own way of having a good time. He has it at the tragic expense of others. Alex's journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Unforgettable images startling musical counterpoints the fascinating language used by Alex and his pals - Kubrick shapes them into a shattering whole. Hugely controversial when first released A Clockwork Orange won the New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director honors and earned four Academy Award nominations including best picture. The power of its art is such that it still entices shocks and holds us in its grasp.
Countess Dracula (1970); The erotic horror tale of a countess who discovers that the blood of young virgin girls will restore her to the passionate beauty she was 25 years before...; ; Twins Of Evil (1971); Both look exactly alike: which one was the twin of evil? Victims of a vampire curse lead to a witch-hunt headed by Gustav Weil (Peter Cushing), a fanatical Puritan leader of a bizarre religious sect. Only a vampire hunter can save the innocent!; ; Monster; A supernatur...
A Family At War is a powerful wartime story which follows the dramatic events in the life of the Ashtons a middle class Liverpudlian family during the turbulent period of the Second World War. The epic series dramatises the hardship pain and tragedy that was often inflicted on ordinary families as sons were sent abroad to fight children were evacuated and those who remained at home lived in constant fear of being bombed. Written by the highly acclaimed writer John Finch (Coronation Street Spoils Of War and Sam) the series was originally broadcast on ITV on 1970. It ran for a total of 50 hour long episodes throughout the early 1970's and we are proud to present every episode on this monolith of a boxed set. 1. The Facts of Life 2. To Die For Spain 3. Lines of Battle 4. The Summer Before the War 5. The Gate of the Year 6. The Breach in the Dyke 7. The War Office Regrets 8. For Strategic Reasons 9. The Night They Hit No. 8 10. One of Ours 11. Brothers in War 12. If It's Got Your Number On It 13. The End of the Beginning 14. The Other Side of the Hill 15. I Can Be Happy Can't I? 16. A Lesson in War 17. Is Your Journey Really Necessary? 18. 48 Hour Pass 19. Hope Against Hope 20. A Time To Be Born 21. A Heros' Welcome 22. We Could Be a Lot Worse Off 23. Lend Your Loving Arms 24. Hazard 25. Giving and Taking 26. Believed Killed 27. Into the Dark 28. The Straight and Narrow 29. Clash By Night 30. Salute the Happy Morn 31. I Wanted to be with You 32. A Seperate Peace 33. The Lucky Ones 34. For the Duration 35. Happy Duration 36. The Things You Never Told Me 37. You Can Choose Your Friends 38. Flesh and Blood 39. Spread a Little Happiness 40. Take It On Trust 41. This Year Next Year 42. The Fundamental Things Apply 43. Thicker Than Water 44. Breaking Point 45. The Lost Ones 46. The Sensible Thing 47. Under New Management 48. Coming Home 49. A Faint Refrain 50. Two Fathers 51. The Old Order Changeth 52. Yielding Place to New
Director Jean Renoir's entrancing first colour film shot entirely on location in India is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir's subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its peoples The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.
Typically British comedy with three London gentlemen taking holiday rowing down the Thames encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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