Featuring an illustrious cast headed by Ian Holm this dramatised account of the life and loves of Napoleon Bonaparte is a much sought-after classic series from Thames Television. Billie Whitelaw stars as Napoloeon's first wife Josephine with mistresses Desiree Clary and Marie Walewska played by Karen Dotrice and Catherine Schell. Featuring high calibre actors Ronald Hines Peter Bowles Gary Waldhorn and Stephanie Beacham this complete series features all nine hour-long episodes originally transmitted in 1974. At 25 Napoleon is already a general in the French army although on the unemployed list. In Marseilles he woos Desiree Clary the daughter of a rich merchant; but her family refuse a marriage until he has position and money. Napoleon leaves for Paris where he is put in charge of the Tuilleries and is soon made Commander of the Army of the Interior. There he meets and falls passionately in love with Jos''phine Beauharnais...
After Henry: The Complete Series (6 Discs)
Honeymooning in Bavaria, Gerald and Marianne Harcourt experience car trouble and are forced to spend a few days in a small remote village. Soon Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner and the couple are persuaded to go.Their association with Ravna and his charming beautiful family is to prove disastrous as they become unwittingly embroiled with this company of vampires who seek to initiate them into thier diabolical creed. When the pair attend a masked ball at the chateau a few days later things start to go eerily wrong when Gerald begins to feel faint and Marianne disappears only to later return in front of a ceremony of gowned vampires and announced as their new disciple.
Honeymooning in Bavaria Gerald and Marianne Harcourt experience car trouble and are forced to spend a few days in a small remote village. Soon Doctor Ravna owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village invites them to dinner and the couple are persuaded to go. Their association with Ravna and his charming beautiful family is to prove disastrous as they become unwittingly embroiled with this company of vampires who seek to initiate them into their diabolical creed. When the pair attend a masked ball at the chateau a few days later things start to go eerily wrong when Gerald begins to feel faint and Marianne disappears only to later return in front of a ceremony of gowned vampires and announced as their new disciple. Special Features: Commentary with Edward De Souza and Jennifer Daniel - Moderated by Peter Irving Original Trailer Stills Gallery
Inspired by the writings of Jules Verne this hugely entertaining comedy boasts an all-star cast headed by Burl Ives Terry-Thomas Lionel Jeffries and Gert Frobe. In 1875 showman extraordinaire Phineas T Barnum (Ives) flees his native America ahead of a hoard of clamouring creditors to set up shop in unsuspecting England. He immediately decides to form a syndicate headed by the wealthy but somewhat stupid Lord Barset (Dennis Price) to finance the first flight to the moon. The
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