The Still Of The Night: Documentary on the life and times of Bing Crosby. Road To Bali: Bob Hope Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour team up in their sixth ""Road"" picture Road To Bali which was the only film in the series to be shot in colour. Hope and Crosby star as two out-of-work vaudeville performers who are on the lam. The two are hired by a South Seas prince as deep-sea divers in order to recover a buried treasure. They meet beautiful Princess Lala (Lamour) and vie
Join Colonel Jack O'Neill and the SG-1 team as they return for the latest exciting season of stargate SG-1. Continuing it's blend of sharp wit and cool adventure with award winning special effects Stargate delivers all the action adventure you desire as the crew battle against old foes and face new dangers in amazing but ever more hostile worlds. Episodes comprise: Gemini: The Replicator Carter that Fifth created contacts the SGC and tells them that she wants to be destroyed. She also tells them that Fifth has made all Replicators immune to the disrupter. But does she have an ulterior motive? It's Good To Be King: Hoping to warn Harry Maybourne of Goa'uld attacks SG-1 arrives at his last known whereaboutto find that he as been appointed king of a primitive people and that he believes he possesses writings by a time-travelling Ancient predicting these events. The team is skeptical that is until they discover what appears to be a time machine... Full Alert: Amidst allegations that the American administration has been compromised the Russian miliary goes on high alert. When Jackson visits the Russian defence headquarters he learns that they have recently apprehended an American assassin whom Jackson recognises as former US Vice-President Robert Kinsey...speaking like a Goa'uld!
Wow! Sharon's got skinny! Ex Eastenders actress Letitia Dean looks completely different from when she played Angie & Den's daughter - and she's thrilled! At last i've got a waist Letitia's shed 2 stone in weight and lost an amazing 7 inches off her tum and 7 inches off her bust. I've battled with my weight for years - as anyone who saw in Eastenders or more recently in Strictly Come Dancing will know I tried all kinds of diet but none worked. Then celebrity fitness trainer Dee Thresher came up with a routine that combined fat busting interval training with exercises to zone in on the stomach. I've gone from 10 stone 4lbs to 8 stone 4lbs and finally can show off my waist after years of hiding it. The barrel belly has disappeared - and it's not coming back! This is the only thing that's ever worked for me - so give it a go - you'll love the routine and you'll definitely get lean!
Five best friends from college (Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer and Zoë Kravitz) reunite 10 years later for a wild weekend getaway in Miami. Their outrageous antics and hard partying result in hilarious unexpected consequences which land them in a seemingly impossible situation to escape. Special Features: Gag Reel Deleted Scenes Naughty Neighbour Diaries Improv-O-Rama Scandalous Sing-Along Killer Cast Featurette The Dynamic Duo: Lucia and Paul And More!
Christina Carver finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband who is visiting a Latin American country by a military dictator. After a car accident one day Chritina brings the helpful Col. Kostik home and then kills him in self defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified she covers up her act and hides the body yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her a local police detective starts to figure o
Disc 1: The Colgate Comedy Hour Volume 1 1950 - 1952 Show 1 Original broadcast date 17th September 1950. Guest Stars Marilyn Maxwell Barr & Estes The Honeydreamers. Songs Include Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter Talk Of The Town La Vie En Rose Frankie & Johnny. Show 2 Original broadcast date 21st September 1952. Guest Stars Rosemary Clooney Danny Arnold. Songs Include You Belong To Me Hominy Girls. Sketches Include The Wedding Detective Cranky Little Boy. Disc 2: The Colgate Comedy Hour Volume 2 1953 - 1954 Show 1 Original broadcast date 4th October 1953. Guest Stars Burt Lancaster Sidney Sillman The Skylarks. Songs Include Great To Be Home Youre The Right One Thats Amore Theres No Tomorrow. Sketches Include The Escaped Lunatic. Show 2 Original broadcast date 19th December 1954. Guest Stars Vera Miles Milton Frome Jack Benny. Songs Include Long Face Without A Word Of Warning Mambo Italiano Every Streets A Boulevard. Sketches Include At Deans Dinner Jerry Is Adopted. Disc 3: At War With The Army Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis star in their first film together a hilarious slapstick comedy about two buddies mishaps at an army training camp during World War II. Dean Martin is Vic Puccinelli a newly promoted sergeant who finds himself head over heels in love with pretty Polly Bernen. Desperate Martin enlists the aid of his bumbling pal Private Alvin Corwin (Jerry Lewis) to help him win her over.
Rock had arrived - and in 1964 and 1965 thirteen of the world's top teenage recording artists were assembled for two spectacular shows. The TAMI and TNT shows were the greatet dance concerts ever filmed. Now they are together in one rock 'n' roll extravaganza featuring 37 of the sixties red hot chart toppers. Rock legend Chuch Berry introdcues all 13 artists whose exceptional vintage performances make it clear why these groups influenced an entire generation and are still making the
A double bill of vintage horrors from Hammer Studio: Val Guest directs Nigel Kneale's script of The Abominable Snowman (1957) while Leslie Norman directs Jimmy Sangster's Quatermass-inspired X The Unknown (1956).
Take A Series Of Short Trips with Mark Dean Darius and Soni - and get to know them. This release features a never before seen video: Be The One shot on location in Asia. Also included is behind the scenes footage and interviews with the band - completely uncensored - and 14 of the bands favourite tunes.
In some ways, calling this collection James Dean: The Rare Movies is a little misleading. After all, the "all-purpose delinquent"--as described in David Dalton's fascinating booklet notes--made only three feature films and, in true iconic style, died a youthful, violent death. Yet the collection works somewhat on an ironic level. The 1950s was a decade in which television established itself as the biggest threat to the cinematic medium, and this is a selection of some of the television dramas and commercials that Dean made on his way up to Hollywood stardom, presented with the same introductions and sponsors' messages of the original transmissions. So how good was he at the beginning? All the raw material was there: the restless misfit, the damaged juvenile and the complex punk. In 1954's "I am a Fool" he stars with Natalie Wood in what turned out to be a rehearsal for Rebel Without a Cause on the big screen. At times he moves with an almost balletic grace, at others he twitches with that awkwardness that still leaves new generations of fans totally enthralled. Television was never going to contain him. This is like watching history in the making and is all the more compelling because we know the tragedy that lay but a short way ahead. On the DVD: It scarcely matters that these television dramas and commercials are presented in 4:3 format. The picture quality is inevitably poor and the sound rough, sometimes to the point of inaudibility. Made in television's explosive adolescence, they were never intended to be monuments to technological brilliance. We're just lucky they've survived at all. The track selection offers a maze-like array of choices for you to skip between films, introductions and commercial breaks and occasionally this can be confusing. A chronology on the DVD itself would have helped.--Piers Ford
Kung Fu superstars Lee Yi Min and Mark ""Ghost Face Killer"" Long team up to fight a merciless gang of bandits in a classic battle of good versus evil.
On September 30th 1955 James Dean Was only 24 years of age when he was killed in an automobile accident. Today he is still revered as an icon of fifties style. This film traces his life from the early years in Indiana up to his finest hour in the movie 'Rebel Without A Cause'.
Dean is joined by one of his heroes Carp expert extraordinaire Terry Hearn in a hunt for a 20lb+ Carp. Terry recommends the Blue Pool on the Burghfield Complex near Reading - an excellent day ticket venue. Dean and Terry bait their swims hook up a barrel boilie and PVA bag and wait for the buzzer. With his characteristic ""Get in there"" Dean soon gets the bites but will he hit the magic20 pounder? It's off to the River Frome in Dorset where Dean is given a master class on how to catch the beautiful Grayling - a fish Dean has never caught before - by the legendary Pete Reading. Pete sets Dean up with a simple Avon float rig with a bulk shot grouped together at the bottom to make sure the bait gets down and a small dropper shot six inches from the small hook.
A summer vacation turns into a nightmare as rising executive Tom Williams (John Ritter) takes his beautiful wife Gina (Rachel Hunter) and his children on a long-awaited break. Tom and his family are thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse when they are kidnapped by a vicious gang led by the psychotic Mr Eddie (Eric Roberts) the last in a line of white trash criminals lured to the west coast by the promise of easy pickings. Tom is given an ultimatum find $1.2 million or his family will die! But all is not what it seems as it becomes clear to Tom that the sadistic Eddie has no intention of turning his family free. Unable to ask for help Tom must summon up every ounce of moral and physical courage to save his family from almost certain death!
The Sorcerers, the second film directed by the lost "wunderkind" of British cinema Michael Reeves, may not have the scope and visceral impact of his masterpiece, Witchfinder General (1968), but there's enough fierce originality here to show what a tragic loss it was when he died from a drugs overdose aged only 24. The film also shows the effective use he made of minimal resources, working here on a derisory budget of less than £50,000--of which £11,000 went to the film's sole "named" star, Boris Karloff. Karloff plays an elderly scientist living with his devoted wife in shabby poverty in London, dreaming of the brilliant breakthrough in hypnotic technique that will restore him to fame and fortune. Seeking a guinea-pig, he hits on Mike, a disaffected young man-about-town (Ian Ogilvy, who starred in all three of Reeves' films). But the technique has an unlooked-for side effect--not only can he and his wife make Mike do their bidding, they can vicariously experience everything that he feels. At which point, it turns out that the wife has urges and desires that her husband never suspected. Karloff, then almost at the end of his long career, brings a melancholy dignity to his role; but the revelation is the veteran actress Catherine Lacey as the seemingly sweet old lady, turning terrifyingly avid and venomous as she realises her power. The portrayal of Swinging London, with its mini-skirted dollybirds thronging nightclubs where the strongest stimulant seems to be Coke rather than coke, has an almost touching innocence, but Reeves invests it with a dream-like quality, extending it into scenes of violent death in labyrinthine dark alleys. By this stage, some ten years after it started, the British horror cycle was winding down in lazy self-parody. Reeves had the exceptional talent and vision to revive it, had he only lived. On the DVD: The Sorcerers DVD has original trailers for both this film and Witchfinder General (both woefully clumsy); filmographies for Reeves, Karloff and Ogilvy; an "image gallery" (a grab-bag of posters, stills and lobby cards); detailed written production notes by horror-movie expert Kim Newman; and an excellent 25-minute documentary on Reeves, "Blood Beast", dating from 1999. The transfer is letterboxed full-width, with acceptable sound. --Philip Kemp
The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. Since neither Kurt Russell nor James Spader would be able to commit, it gave the producers licence to tinker with the cast and the universe they'd explore. Replacing the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr. Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" pharaohnic Goa'uld--the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father literally joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld, and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative look-a-likes, Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. Concluding the cliff-hanger from the end of Season One, "The Serpent's Lair" is a rollercoaster of wit, plot twists, and cutting-edge special effects as the SG-1 team resign themselves to a suicide mission. Then it's a case of ignorance of the law being no excuse in "Prisoners", as the team winds up in a penal colony striking a deal with someone who will have far-reaching influence on their future. Sam is stalked by an assassin after a rescue mission all "In the Line of Duty". She saves someone in the most unique of ways--by taking over as host of their Goa'uld symbiont. This introduction of Jolinar is key to much of the continuing storyline. Dwight Schultz guest stars as "The Gamekeeper" in a garden that forces the team to puzzle their way out of re-living secrets of the past. But all is not what it seems. --Paul Tonks
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