Prince the Artist formerly known as 'The Artist Formally Known As Prince' has filmed a special live show at his home Paisley Park featuring special guests Lenny Kravitz George Clinton and more. Amongst others the DVD features classic tracks such as Kiss 1999 Purple Rain and the last two years' Top 20 single 'The Greatest Romance Ever Sold'. Track Listing : Let's Go Crazy U Got The Look Kiss The Greatest Romance Ever Sold 1999 Raspberry Beret Nothing Compares 2 U Purple Rain Time American Woman It's Alright Everyday People The Christ Baby I'm A Star Jungle Love She Is Always In My Hair Baby Knows
Doris Day one of the greatest box-office names in motion picture history made her television debut in The Doris Day Show. This heart-warming comedy series originally ran for five successful years on CBS-TV from 1968-1973. Featuring Doris as Doris Martin a widowed mother who has left the city to raise her two young sons on the Mill Valley California farm of her father Buck (Denver Pyle from Dukes of Hazzard). Also amongst the motley crew is the hired hand Leroy B.
Introduced by Darren Day this is a magical collection of 60 perennial nursery rhymes play songs and learning chants brought to life through songs verse and beautiful illustrations to captivate children and parents alike. A delight to watch sing along with a return to time and tim again...
This is the story of one of the most daring and dazzling robberies in modern history. There are few people who like a flutter who will not be familiar with the phrase 'The Great Bookie Robbery'. In the way that the Great Train Robbery caught the imagination of the public in the UK this headline grabbing heist entered immediately into Australian crime folklore alongside Ned Kelly; this is the story of the day the bookies got fleeced! The story began in Parkhurst Prison England. Here Mike Power (John Bach) a convicted felon conceived a plan for a robbery that would take place on the other side of the world in Australia. His well organized gang stole between $6 million and $12 million from the Victorian Club. An intricately planned and perfectly executed crime that was all over in the space of just 11minutes. The men Raymond Bennett Ian Carroll Laurence Prendergast Brian and LeslieKane and Norman Lee rented an office in the same building and hid the money there while making a fake getaway in a van. The only member of the gang to be charged was Norman Lee; he was subsequently acquitted. Later Lee was killed by police while taking part in a heist at Melbourne Airport. The story came out and the true identities of those involved were exposed when Lee's lawyer revealed the details of the crime.
The Broadway musical Pajama Game was based on Seven and a Half Cents a comic novel about labour relations written by Richard Bissell. Doris Day stars as an employee at a pajama factory who becomes the spokesperson for her fellow workers when management refuses to give them a 7 '' cent pay rise. Complicating matters is the fact that Management is represented by handsome John Raitt who happens to be in love with Doris. A subplot involves Day''s freewheeling co-worker Carol Haney and her insanely jealous boyfriend factory-manager Eddie Foy Jr. Many of the cast members from the original Broadway production (Raitt Haney Foy Reta Shaw Peter Gennaro etc.) are here in this film version as are most of the Richard Adler / Jerry Ross songs: highlights include''Hey There'' ''Steam Heat'' ''Hernando''s Hideaway'' ''There Once Was a Man'' and the title song. The choreography was carried out by the world famous Bob Fosse and Pajama Game became a terrific success at the box-office.
Happy Go Lovely (Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone 1951): David Niven plays a rich bachelor the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Niven's character meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they come to think that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly to the surprise of his employees... Pajama Game (Dir. Stanley Donen and George Abbott 1957): A truly joyous tale starring Doris Day as the union leader in a clothing factory. From the novel 'Seven And A Half Cents' by Richard Bissell and adapted into a successful musical which the french director Jean Luc Goddard called the first left wing operetta! The Inspector General (Dir. Henry Koster 1949): In this delightful period farce set in Russia in the 1800's Danny Kaye plays an illiterate buffoon who is mistaken by the villagers for their feared Inspector General.Hilarious situations ensue as Danny is caught up in court intrigue without having a clue of what is going on. Made For Each Other (Dir. John Cromwell 1939): This highly appealing comedy drama stars James Stewart and Carole Lombard as a young couple battling illness lack of money inept servants and interfering in-laws... The Little Shop Of Horrors (Dir. Roger Corman 1960): The original movie of this classic black comedy/horror about a rather dim-witted young man Seymour (Jonathan Haze) working for a week in Mushnick's flower shop on skid row who develops an intelligent bloodthirsty plant. He names the plant Audrey Jr and as it grows it demands human meat for sustenance and Seymour is forced to kill in order to feed it. Jack Nicholson has a notable cameo part as an undertaker Wilbur Force who is a masochistic dental patient and the film also features the writer Charles Griffith as the hold-up man and the voice of Audrey Jr. Sources differ but it was reputed that the film was shot in just two or three days and in 1961 it was billed as The Funniest Picture This Year. The film inspired the well-known off-Broadway hit musical and musical/comedy movie remake starring Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene was made in 1986.
If Charles Martin's wisecracking 1948 period-piece My Dear Secretary hasn't quite endured as a classic of its kind, it still commands attention as an appealing and often very funny curiosity. Kirk Douglas rightly earned his status as one of the titans of big-screen epic drama, so it's a surprise to encounter him in this romantic comedy as a feckless writer who can always find something to do rather than get down to work, leaving a string of outraged, frustrated or compromised secretaries in his wake. Douglas has a reasonably light comic touch and spars well with Laraine Day, in determined form as the secretary whom finally tames him and, in a notable strike for women's liberation, becomes a successful author herself in the process. But this is a film in which the supporting cast steal the best lines and scenes. Keenan Wynn is delightful as Ronnie, Douglas' neighbour and partner in the pursuit of pleasure. Some splendid high campery offers ample evidence that in a more enlightened age, Ronnie would surely have been openly gay. How else to explain his hilarious last reel marriage of convenience to the wealthy dragon of a landlady, played by the irrepressible Florence Bates? It isn't vintage screwball by any means, but My Dear Secretary is witty and literate enough to make you long for a revival in sophisticated cinema comedy. Truly, they don't make 'em like they used to. On the DVD: As the rush to release long-forgotten gems on DVD turns into a deluge, we will probably have to get used to the sort of disappointment on offer here: unrestored prints with no digital remastering and lousy sound quality, simply slammed onto the disc. The film could hardly be served less adequately. There isn't even any static background information on the production or the actors, making the package rather poor. --Piers Ford
Jeff is an ordinary guy that is stuck at a dead end job with a boring life but when a strange old man gives him an Ancient relic and tells him that he is the last bloodline of H.P. Lovecraft he and his friend Charlie embark on an adventure to protect the relic piece from falling into the hands of the Starspawn and his minions that wish to reunite the relic and release Cthulhu back into the world.
39 Steps: Alfred Hitchcock considered The 39 Steps to be one of his favourite films partly because it launched his classic theme of the innocent man on the run from villains and lawmen. Robert Donat stars as Richard Hannay in this freely adapted version of John Buchan's story. Despite repeated remakes Hitchcock's riveting original remains unequalled. The Man Who Knew Too Much: A husband and wife's holiday in Switzerland goes horribly wrong when their daughter is kidnapped leading them into a web of mystery and intrigue...
The Birdman Of Wormwood Scrubs ""I've just done fourteen years. I tried to escape three times. I was in solitary for years... they never broke me. Ernie Dodds is back and there's a few old scores to be settled."" Terry and Arthur have to mind Ernie when he comes out of jail. Guest Stars: Rula Lenska Maurice Denham and Max Wall. The Son Also Rises Reluctantly Terry has to do the ""school run"" when property developer Standen's son is threatened. Guest Stars: Alfie Bass a
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Swiss Toni - Season 1 & 2: Played by Charlie Higson and developed from The Fast Show character who claimed ""Buying a car is like making love to a beautiful woman"" Swiss Toni will no doubt entertain enthral evoke laughter and most of all make you feel evolved. With his blonde quiff standing to attention and his grey shot-silk suit sparkling under the showroom lights Swiss Toni is the emperor of his car emporium. However Toni is being taught to drive by his long-suffering wife Ruth and is consistently out-performed by his alcoholic employee Geoff. Swiss Toni is cheesy out-of-date and chauvinistic - which is why everyone loves him. Episodes Comprise: 1. Cars Don't Make You Fat 2. Taxed and Tested 3. Power Assisted Steering 4. Part Exchange 5. Left Hand Drive 6. One Previous Owner 7. Troubleshooter 8. Speed Date 9. Depression 10. Gellward 11. Cable 12. Pangolin 13. Mumble Jackets 14. Fothergill 2000 15. Listening 16. On Top of Old Smokey 17. Swiss Toni's Beautiful Adventure Grass: Grass marks a welcome return for The Fast Show's overzealous know-it-all Billy Bleach. Written by (along with Andrew Collins) and starring Simon Day he actually created the character of Billy almost ten years ago for use in his stand up routines. After witnessing a gangland murder self-made loser Billy Bleach is forced to grass on villain Harry Taylor and is given a new identity. How will he cope in the village of Little Mockwell in deepest rural Norfolk and will he get on with the locals? Featuring all the episodes from the first series. Ted & Ralph: This hilarious spin-off from BBC's award-winning sketch-based comedy The Fast Show concludes Ted and Ralph's painfully repressed relationship as wealthy landowner Ralph continues his uncomfortable attempts at forging an intimate union with working class Irish estate manager Ted. However Ralph has to save his estate as he slips into bankruptcy and believes that a wife would help him out of the mire... Enter Wendy a lady who might not be all she appears. As Ralph's fondness for his new female companion grows his relationship to Ted suffers. Will Ralph go through with the marriage and save the estate?
A collection of action films starring the legendary John Wayne. Films comprise: 1. The Spoilers 2. Tycoon 3. Wake of the Red Witch 4. The Conqueror 5. The Magnificent Showman 6. Hellfighters
Daniel Day-Lewis won a much-deserved Oscar for My Left Foot, with a wily and passionate performance as Irish artist and writer Christy Brown, whose cerebral palsy kept him confined to a wheelchair. Filmmaker Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) adapts Brown's own autobiography for this spirited piece, focusing on the, sometimes difficult, fellow's formative years in his large family and in love with sundry women. Day-Lewis is inspired, and Brenda Fricker (also a recipient of an Oscar for her part in this movie) is almost luminous as Christy's dedicated mother. So, too, are Ray McAnally as the hero's stormy father, and Hugh O'Conor (The Young Poisoner's Handbook) as the child Christy. All in all, this is a complete pleasure for viewers. --Tom Keogh , Amazon.com
Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento bring you The Gonzo Horror movie of the 1980s with Demons, a frenzied slice of gore heavy shock cinema that gives up on logic and instead assaults the screen with a riot of X-Rated violence, face chewing Zombies and pounding Heavy Metal. In a mysterious cinema, an audience are watching a brutal horror flick when the horror rips out of the screen, unleashing a swarm of slathering Demons who are intent on spreading their evil plague across the globe. Time to tool up and take no prisoners... The Demons are coming!
Film and recording superstar Doris Day stars in her first tv music special featuring a collection of her greatest hits (It's Magic' 'Sentimental Journey' 'Secret love') showtunes and other pop classics including the Beatles' 'Ob-la-di Ob-la-da' special guest Perry Como duets with Doris for a nostalgic medley including 'Everybody Loves A Lover' 'Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars' 'When You Were Sweet Sixteen' and 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart'. In addition Doris's motion picture partner Rock Hudson makes a special appearance! Track List: 1. Opening Medley 2. Hurry It's Lovely Up Here 3. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby 4. Didn't We 5. Fashion Sequence 6. The Gypsy in My Soul 7. Them Was the Good Old Days 8. Doris Day & Perry Como Medley 9. You Oughta Be in Pictures 10. Rock Hudson Special Appearance 11. Both Sides Now 12. It's Magic 13. Sentimental Journey
The Fast Show: Farewell Tour
When Rob Greene uncovers information on an undercover terrorist team inside the CIA he is ordered to stay undercover by his supervisor. Luckily Rob has time to warn his son Danny that he may also be in danger and to contact his old military platoon. However when the terrorists kidnap Danny and his friend Lisa Rob can no longer stay in hiding! He takes matters into his own hands and recruits a group of former Green Berets to help. Packing more gun power than the CIA they must penetrate the terrorist headquarters in order to save Greene's son!
Broomfield brings a humorous and revealing look into the political and private worlds of former British Prime Minister Lady Margaret Thatcher to the screen. Both Lady Thatcher and those responsible for her day-to-day affairs refuse to cooperate and grant Bloomfield an interview. Bloomfield is drawn into a complex web of intrigue surrounding not only Lady Thatcher but also members of her family. However by consistently refusing to grant Bloomfield an interview Lady Thatcher inadvert
27 Classic tracks from the queens of swing including performances by Anita O'Day with the Gene Krupa Orchestra Thelma White Peggy Lee with the Benny Goodman Orchestra Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears June Christy and Helen O'Connell
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