Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson (David Soul) are plainclothes cops patrolling the streets of an unnamed American city (portrayed by Los Angeles) in a 1973 red Grand Torino. Dark-haired Starsky, who has an unflagging appetite and a quick quip for any situation, and tall, blond, Hutch, who is more soulful and serious, are not just partners on the job, they are also close friends. But their unorthodox methods are endlessly frustrating for their boss, Captain Dobey (Bernie Hamilton). The duo has a powerful ally on the street, however, in Huggy Bear (Antonio Fargas), a shady character who proves Starsky and Hutch with plenty of inside information.
'Witty, insightful, beautifully observed and heartbreakingly accurate' Time Out Newly restored from the original camera negative the BFI are excited to announce a new Blu-ray release of Bill Forsyth's much-loved coming-of-age comedy Gregory's Girl. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) and his friends are starting to notice girls particularly Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), not least because she's on the football team and is a better player than all the boys. With counselling from his younger sister, Gregory finally asks Dorothy out, but turns up to the date only to discover that the girls at school have other plans for him. A huge breakout hit on its original release in 1981, Gregory's Girl was nominated for four Bafta's, winning for Best Original Screenplay. Bill Forsyth's classic comedy remains to this day the ultimate depiction of coming-of-age awkwardness and an enduring favourite of Scottish cinema. Product Features Newly restored by the BFI and presented in High Definition Limited edition with slipcase Newly recorded audio commentary with Robert Buchanan, Alan Love, Douglas Sannachan and Caroline Guthrie Audio commentary with Bill Forsyth and Mark Kermode Bill Forsyth: The Early Years - an interview with the director Gregory's Girl Memories - an interview with Clare Grogan Dee Hepburn, Clare Grogan and John Gordon Sinclair in Conversation (2015, 31 mins): the stars of Gregory's Girl are interviewed on stage by Sue Harris to mark the film's 25th anniversary Isolated Score Colin Tully's never previously released score to Gregory's Girl Alternative US audio soundtrack Original trailer Illustrated booklet with new essays on the film and its director All extras are TBC and subject to change
It appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 horror movie Frankenstein, that the monster had perished in a burning windmill. But that was before the runaway success of the movie dictated a sequel. In Bride of Frankenstein, we see that the monster (once again played by Boris Karloff) survived the conflagration, as did his half-mad creator (Colin Clive). This remarkable sequel, universally considered superior to the original, reunites other key players from the first film: director James Whale (whose life would later be chronicled in Gods and Monsters) and, of course, the inimitable Dwight Frye, as Frankenstein's bent-over assistant. Whale brought campy humour to the project, yet Bride is also somehow haunting, due in part to Karloff's nuanced performance. The monster, on the loose in the European countryside, learns to talk and his encounter with a blind hermit is both comic and touching. (The episode was later spoofed in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein.) A prologue depicts the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, being urged to produce a sequel by her husband Percy and Lord Byron. She's played by Elsa Lanchester, who reappears in the climactic scene as the man-made bride of the monster. Her lightning-bolt hair and reptilian movements put her into the horror-movie pantheon, despite being onscreen for only a few moments. But in many ways the film is stolen by Ernest Thesiger, as the fey Dr. Pretorious, who toasts the darker possibilities of science: "To a new world of gods and monsters!" --Robert Horton
Richard Conte – best known for his role in The Godfather – stars with Russell Napier (Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duggan) and noted Scottish actress Rona Anderson in this stylish Cold War thriller. Little Red Monkey was a global box-office success for Anglo-Amalgamated made at the company's famous Merton Park Studios and provided an early showcase for future Primetime Emmy-winning director Ken Hughes; it is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. A mysterious assassin is targeting eminent British atomic scientists leading to fears for the safety of Leon Dushenko – a Russian defector and guided-missile expert who is passing through London en route to the United States. Can Special Branch and the US State Department stop Dushenko from becoming the assassin's next victim? Bonus Features: Alternative Beginning Rough edit UK and Overseas Trailers Image Gallery Original Script PDF
Generally regarded to be the best - and most brutal - of the classic gangster films Scarface tells the story of orginised crime's pinch on the city of Chicago during prohibition. Paul Muni plays Tony Carmonte an ambitious hood with a Napoleonic urge to fight his way to number one gang boss. When the last of the old-style crime bosses is brutally slain down the finger is pointed at Tony and Johnny Loro a rival gangster. However Tony's desire to move up the ladder i
The Bus of the title is the world's first nuclear-powered coach and this fabulous parody of early 70's disaster movies hits the mark with misfit stereotyped passengers rediscovering God sex and the will to live a saboteur from the oil companies and a cannibalistic driver all coming together for the maiden voyage of the block-long super-coach. The passengers on this fun-filled ride from New York to Denver including ensure that the one-liners come thick and fast in this very funn
To condemn Dressed to Kill as a Hitchcock rip-off is to miss the sheer enjoyment of Brian De Palma's delirious thriller. Homages to Hitchcock run rampant through most of De Palma's earlier films, and this one's chock-full of visual quotes, mostly cribbed from Vertigo and Psycho. But De Palma's indulgent depravity transcends simple mimicry to assume a vitality all its own. It's smothered in thickly atmospheric obsessions with sex, dread, paranoia, and voyeurism, not to mention a heavy dose of Psycho-like psychobabble about a wannabe transsexual who is compelled to slash up any attractive female who reminds him--the horror--that he's still very much a man. Angie Dickinson plays the sexually unsatisfied, forty-something wife who's the killer's first target, relaying her sexual fantasies to her psychiatrist (Michael Caine) before actually living one of them out after the film's celebrated cat-and-mouse sequence in a Manhattan art museum. The focus then switches to a murder witness (De Palma's then-girlfriend Nancy Allen) and Dickinson's grieving whiz-kid son (Keith Gordon), who attempt to solve the murder while staying one step ahead (or so they think) of the crude detective (Dennis Franz) assigned to the case. Propelled by Pino Donaggio's lush and stimulating score, De Palma's visuals provide seductive counterpoint to his brashly candid dialogue, and the plot conceals its own implausibility with morbid thrills and intoxicating suspense. If you're not laughing at De Palma's shameless audacity, you're sure to be on the edge of your seat. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
When shy working-class girl Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service during World War Two, she dreams of a glamorous job in one of the services. But as a young unmarried woman, she is given a position in a local factory manufacturing aircraft parts. There she makes friends with other girls from very different social backgrounds, and begins a tentative relationship with a young airman, Fred Blake (Gordon Jackson).
The true story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974.
Arthur Bishop (Bronson) is a mob hit man who operates in a world of his own an uncompromising world where conventional rules of morality don't apply and where one wrong move could cost him his life! He's always worked alone but as age catches up with him Bishop takes on a competent and ruthless apprentice (Jan-Michael Vincent) and teaches him everything he knows. Together they become an unmatchable team of globetrotting killers until the pupil's ruthlessness puts him on a colli
Jake Wilkinson (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) a wheeling dealing self-centered college student has one thing on his mind: get home for Christmas dinner or forfeit the vintage Porsche his father promised him. Just days before his deadline Jake awakens in the California desert - stranded and penniless wearing a Santa suit and a white beard glued to his face! Desperate to claim his gift he flies crawls cons races bullies and even sleighs his way east. But his non-stop mission turn
The miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world is based on the remarkable true story of one of the greatest comebacks of all time and the transformational power of second chances. Fuelled by an impoverished childhood, Foreman channels his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that takes him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring br/and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker George Tillman Jr. from a story by Dan Gordon and Frank Baldwin & George Tillman Jr, and a screenplay by Baldwin & Tillman, the film stars Khris Davis (Judas and the Black Messiah) as Foreman and also stars Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (Best Actor, Last King of Scotland, 2006) as Foreman's trainer and mentor Doc Broadus.
G.I. Joe The Rise of the CobraWhen all else fails... they don't! They are G.I. Joe a top-secret elite strike force featuring the best operatives from around the globe. After a high-tech secret weapon is stolen by the mysterious and evil Cobra organisation the G.I. Joes must race against time to stop Cobra from using the weapon and plunging the world into chaos. Starring Channing Tatum Marlon Wayans Sienna Miller and Dennis Quaid G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is the ultimate action-thrill ride! G.I. Joe: RetaliationThe Joes are back and they've been set up to take the fall for a terrible crime they didn't commit. Now the G.I. Joes must once again face their mortal enemy Cobra as well as dangerous new threats operating within the government. When all else fails one option remains: Retaliation. Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) leads a new team (including Channing Tatum and Bruce Willis) on this explosive adventure that's 'packed with military mayhem!'
Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have been friends since childhood, and for a decade, their yearly Christmas Eve reunion has been an annual night of debauchery and hilarity.
A witty, spooky and fabulously atmospheric comedy-thriller, The Phantom Light was an early feature from British film legend Michael Powell. With leading roles for the multi-talented Binnie Hale and endlessly popular character player Gordon Harker, this classic Gainsborough feature is presented here in a transfer from original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Standing on a lonely stretch of the Welsh coast, the North Stack Lighthouse has an unhappy notoriety: its light sometimes fails and more than one ship has been wrecked on the treacherous coastline. When new keeper Sam Higgins arrives, he scoffs at the locals' tales of a 'haunted' light until he finds out that a former keeper was murdered and another driven insane... SPECIAL FEATURES: Image gallery Original pressbook PDF
Season five returns with two officers having been shot in the line of duty and their lives are hanging in the balance – but life at 15 Division must go on. As the shell-shocked officers struggle to pull the pieces of their lives back together they realise that even making the right choices can sometimes lead to serious consequences.
To the disappointment of his wife Carol Ray decides to spend a relaxing week at home and soon gets into trouble with his neighbours - a hefty busybody a freaked-out ex-soldier and a spacey teenager - as they observe the strange happenings next door at the Klopek's bizarre residence. When the neighborhood grouch suddenly disappears the men are convinced the ramshackle house hides some hideous clues. Armed with assault rifles high-powered binoculars and a shovel they decide to see for themselves exactly what is going on in the Klopek place... Tom Hanks portrays suburbanite Ray Peterson whose plans for a peaceful vacation are disturbed by a creepy new family on the block in this outrageous suspense-comedy directed by Joe Dante. Set in an average neighborhood that is anything but average The Burbs blends slapstick comedy and spine-tingling mystery with the type of witty humour that has made Tom Hanks a star.
TRUTH: A group of university friends celebrate the end of term with the party to end all parties. Drink, drugs and sex flow in equal measure as everyone lets loose. As the party winds down, the focus shifts to a seemingly innocuous game of Truth or Dare. The party's socially awkward geek - Felix - has a crush on one of the most popular girls there, and this truth is brutally exposed to everyone, and he leaves the party humiliated.DARE: A year later the five friends are reunited when they are invited to Felix's birthday party at a grand stately home. They soon realise that they are the only people attending, and that this is going to be a very different party from their last one. In a bid for vengeance all are forced to play a sickening and gruesome game of Truth or Dare, where a Dare may well equal death. Sex, lies and murder are all unravelled as the game hurls the group toward the final, fatal twist.
Diminutive variety star Jimmy Clitheroe was the perpetual schoolboy whose abundant Northern humour charmed and entertained a generation of British audiences. Employing his four-foot three-inch stature and mischievous persona to brilliant comic effect he proved phenomenally popular in every medium from theatre to film and records with The Clitheroe Kid one of Britain's longest-running radio sitcoms drawing a peak audience of 10 million and spawning numerous catchphrases! In 1963 Clitheroe's roguish creation hit television screens causing further mischief for his fictional family in this ABC sitcom co-starring ITMA veteran (and future Please Sir! star) Deryck Guyler and airing in the Midlands and northern England only. Presenting all seven half-hour episodes of That's My Boy along with the last remaining episode of sequel series Just Jimmy (also starring Mollie Sugden) this set celebrates a uniquely talented yet now largely forgotten star and introduces The Kid Himself to a new generation of classic comedy fans.
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