When James Cagney starred in the movie adaptation of The Time of Your Life in 1948, it was hotly been debated whether William Saroyans stage play was really filmable at all. Because of its small cast, because all the action takes place on a single claustrophobic set, because the "plot" consists entirely of sub-plots, and because Saroyans "dirty sentimentality" isnt to everyones taste, such doubts are still understandable today. However, accept the movie for what it is--a play in a box--and youll be captivated. The story revolves around a slightly down-at-heel bar-restaurant, where a group of disparate characters come and go as their stories gradually unfold. They include an ex-prostitute desperately seeking a new life, a dancer looking for a break into showbusiness, a down-and-out who discovers a vocation as a pianist, a beer-sodden cowboy and a villainous "stoolie" who, needless to say, gets his comeuppance. This gaggle of misfits is presided over by an enigmatic, champagne-drinking philanthropist (brilliantly played by Cagney) who gently nudges them towards their goals while indulging his own fascination with the minutiae of daily life. Throughout this quietly delightful picture the audience are not told why hes this way, but it is possible to make an educated guess. On the DVD: The Time of Your Life might be a classic, but it apparently warrants no extra features. The black and white picture is 4:3. --Roger Thomas
This monolith of a box set comprises the first four seasons of C.S.I. C. S.I. is an acclaimed edgy fast-paced drama series about a passionate team of forensic investigators (among them William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger) who work the graveyard shift at the Las Vegas Criminalistics Bureau. Their job - to find the missing pieces at the scene that will help to solve the crime and vindicate those who often cannot speak for themselves - the victims. Between the hidden clues and the
A film of stockbrokers who have no morals prey on their clients for more money. But what is it that also lurks behind the seemingly successful company image?
The series evolves around the life and times of Newt Call the young cowhand who started out as a boy in Lonesome Dove and now goes on to make his way in the world. Episodes Comprise: 19. The List 20. Ties That Bind 21. Snowbound
The series evolves around the life and times of Newt Call the young cowhand who started out as a boy in Lonesome Dove and now goes on to make his way in the world. Episodes Comprise: 13. Law And Order 14. The Road Home 15. Blood Money
The series evolves around the life and times of Newt Call the young cowhand who started out as a boy in Lonesome Dove and now goes on to make his way in the world. Episodes Comprise: 16. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show 17. Traveller 18. Rebellion
Wagner - Dawn And Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Leinsdorf)
When He's Not A Stranger: An estimated one out of every three women will be sexually assaulted at some time in their life. Annabeth Gish portrays a shocked and violated victim who is lured into a false security and raped by her best friend's boyfriend. Little Girl Lost: Tess Harper and Frederic Forrest star in this inspiring story based on a real-life drama of the Brady family fighting to adopt a little girl who first came into their lives as a foster child.
The series evolves around the life and times of Newt Call the young cowhand who started out as a boy in Lonesome Dove and now goes on to make his way in the world. Episodes Comprise: 1. Where The Heart Is 2. Firebrand 3. High Lonesome
Ricochet: 'Cape Fear' meets its match as uber-producer Joel Silver turns on the terror in the fast and furious no-frills thriller 'Ricochet'. Denzel Washington is crack cop turned deputy DA Nick Styles. LA's hottest hero he's on a roll and a rocket ride to the top. John Lithgow is vindictive sadistic psycho Earl Blake sent down by Styles and he's out for revenge. For Blake taking Styles' life will not be enough - tearing it apart will be much more fun! The ultimate in screen suspense Ricochet takes the pace to breaking point as one man's pain becomes another man's very twisted pleasure. Once In The Life: A powerful urban crime thriller. Estranged half-brothers Torch and Mike 20/20 are re-united in a prison cell. Both are involved in the citys underground crime scene - Torch to raise cash to feed his drug habit and Mike wanting to raise enough to to enable him to leave crime behind. Mike is planning to intercerpt a heroin deal and persuades Torch to help. When the manic junkie-brother shoots one the young drug couriers the pair take refuge in an abandoned building. Mike seeks help from his friend and old cell-mate Tony not realising that the dope they have stolen is his. Based on Fisburne's play 'Riff Raff'. Murder Of Crows: Lawson Russell is a prominent New Orleans attorney whose legal savvy and unbeatable charm have gained him the reputation of being a man who can get even the most guilty suspects off the hook. That is until Russell can no longer bear to defend the guilty and drops his wealthy client Truman Banks. Disbarred and disgraced Russell leaves for Key West to write a novel and attempt to pull the pieces of his life back together. A chance meeting and moment of indiscretion put Russell into a dangerous web of murder treachery and deceit. Time is running out as Russell battles to prove that he is an innocent man...
A mysterious very old solicitor Mr. Blunden (Naismith) visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitor. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years previously and start to look into the mystery surrounding a fire that destroyed the house and claimed the lives of the two children...
Cult director Jean Rollin's first feature mixes existentialism and vampirism with the added ingredient of chaos. Originally made as a short it was expanded to a feature length with the dead cast inexplicably returning to life half-way through (having been killed off at the end of the original). That said 'Le Viol du Vampire' is a masterpiece of the bizarre mixing blood a naked woman in a convertable coffins and some fencing semi-naked nymphs in a fragmented melee. When originally screened in Paris in 1968 the film caused a riot due to its' audacious imagery...
Fame: Season 1 & 2 Box Set
On the last night of summer camp the story is told of Madman Marz - a berserk local farmer who butchered his entire family before disappearing into the woods forever. You must not say his name above a whisper the legend says because if he hears you he will come for you. But when a cocky young teen ridicules the tale and calls the madman's name out loud the maniacal evil is unleashed. Summer may be over but the ferocious bloodshed has just begun! A long-time favourite of hardcore horror fans Madman stood out from the pack of '80s body count' films by delivering scary suspense gruesome effects and sheer nastiness including its infamous 'head under the car hood' scene!
Saddle up for thrills! When the going gets tough, the tough gets going in the Golden Globe-nominated series, Rawhide, starring Eric Fleming as trail boss Gil Favor and Clint Eastwood in his breakout role as Rowdy Yates. Don t miss the fire and thrills packed into every adventure of this 217 episode, 58-disc set that proves again and again that Rawhide is one of television s most legendary westerns.
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