Science or madness? Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face and a tendency to kill...
An iconoclastic young man (Cary Grant) who's engaged to a snooty heiress (Doris Nolan) discovers he's really in love with his fianc''e's down-to-earth sister (Katharine Hepburn) in director George Cukor's stylish comedy...
Titles Comprise: Java Head: The port city of Bristol England in the 1800s is home to Java Head a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One a handsome seafarer is in love with a local girl but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage he returns with a very exotic noble Chinese wife which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son a landlubber seeks to convert to steamships to the disgust of his father. Even worse he is secretly dealing in contraband. Tiger Bay: A young Englishman abroad Michael visits the local low-life spot of Tiger Bay to test his assertion that the spirit of human romance survives even in the most unpromising of circumstances. He intervenes when a local criminal protection racketeer targets a Chinese nightclub and falls in love with the owner's young English foster-sister. But Olaf's gang have only just started their campaign against Lui Chang the cultured elegant woman who owns the premises... and she is determined not to be intimidated or driven out of business under any circumstances...
Classic John Ford directed Americana based on the stories of Irvin Cobb. A small town judge in the old south stirs up the place with stinging humour and common sense observations as he tackles prejudices and civil injustices in this warm affectionate and funny look at a slice of American life.
After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a 'mild mannered' reporter a college professor her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and creating mass panic!
A 19th-century Edinburgh scientist hires a thief to provide him with corpses for his experiments. But when the supply of fresh cadavers begins to dwindle, the thief begins to taunt the doctor with the knowledge that he holds the power to expose him to the authorities.
Here in all its glory is the second volume of Crossroads including episodes released on DVD for the very first time. Meg and Sandy Richardson Benny Hawkins Adam Chance Shughie McFee - the names still strike a chord in the memories with a generation of people who sat entranched watching the latest escapades of the staff and customers of Crossroads motel. Unrepeated for many years the general perception of Crossroads is coloured by that of Acorn Antiques
Blue Tiger explores the bloody-minded determination of a mother to avenge the tragic death of her young child fatally shot in the crossfire of a Yakuza 'hit'. Her only clue to the identity of her son's killer is the ripped shirt of the hitman and a lurid Blue Tiger tattoo emblazoned across his chest. Disguising herself as a voluptuous cocktail waitress she infiltrates known Yakuza haunts seducing suspects in the hope of finding the tell tale tattoo and exacting her burning revenge. According to Samurai legend the Blue Tiger is always in search of the Red Tiger; when they finally meet someone always pays with their life!
Mike Nichols' superbly directed cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy. 'Catch 22' is the tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are frightened nervous often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. 'Catch 22' is an anti-war satire of epic proportions!
Benny Hill's World Tour
The only documented exorcism in US history (an event on which The Exorcist was based) took place in the 1950s when Americans watched the skies for nuclear missiles and Senator McCarthy was looking under beds for Communists. After the death of his Aunt Hanna several inexplicable and frightening events take place around Robbie Manheim including screaming obscenities in a voice not his own and summoning the power to throw furniture at tormenting bullies at school. When science and m
Why did 13 women willingly open their doors to the Boston Strangler? With 13 women murdered Boston is held under siege by a madman. One by one they fall each death more gruesome than the last. The actual murders that rocked Boston in the 60's are the gripping subject of this unforgettable police thriller. The Boston Strangler is one of the most powerful films in its genre with possibly Tony Curtis' finest performance.
For nearly four decades Benny Hill reigned supreme as the king of bawdy humour on British television. Of his body of work it is the shows that he did for Thames television in the 1970's for which he is best remembered with their combination of farce risque jokes and beautiful ladies. It is these shows that made him a global superstar - topping the ratings in the US also. With his 'three stooges': Henry McGee Bob Todd and Jack Wright Benny Hill produced a handful of 'specials' eve
A Powerful Western Tale of Revenge and Redemption. When a farmer's wife is raped and murdered the farmer (Gregory Peck) teams up with his old flame (Joan Collins) to trail and kill the four outlaws he believes to be responsible. Arriving in a town he discovers that the men are in jail and will be hanged the following day. When they escape driven by a blinding need for revenge the farmer gives chase kills one and has another two cornered. But then they protest their innoc
April 1945 The Third Reich are losing ground during the final months of World War II fascist dictator Mussolini (Steiger) flees the wrath of his own people and heads for Switzerland with his mistress Claretta Petacci. Hunted by both the Americans led by Jack Donati and the partisans Mussolini is swiftly captured by the freedom fighters and held prisoner on the shores of Lake Como. Mussolini and his lover must endure a night of soul searching before answering for their crimes at dawn. History comes to life in this explosively tense sprawling World War II drama also featuring ACADEMY AWARD'' Winner Henry Fonda (The Grapes Of Wrath) Lino Capolicchio (The House Of Laughing Windows) Umberto Raho (Secrets Of A Call Girl) Luciano Pigozzi (The Whip And The Body) and Franco Nero (Django) with a score composed by Ennio Morricone.
If man's best friend is a dog get ready to meet man's funniest friend: he's 4lbs of sheer delight and one of the best scene stealers to ever upstage an actor! Rascal tells a story of a boy (Bill Mumy) and his rescued pet raccoon an animal whose talent for causing loads of mischief is equalled only by his power to trigger tons of laughter!
Edward Weldon (O.P. Heggie) is a foreman of a jury finding himself in the unenviable position of having the casting vote in a case that would send a young woman to the electric chair for murder. Before long however his daughter Stella (Sidney Fox) murders a gangster (played by Humphrey Bogart)...
The Tudors: Season 1: Passion ambition and treachery collide in this compelling drama about the early years of King Henry VIII's infamous 40-year reign. With a lust for power and an appetite for love this young Monarch (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) rules his kingdom as he lives his life - with ruthless abandon. Affairs of the state carry little interest for him and official matters are left to the powerful Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (Sam Neill) while England's ruler tends to his own desires. This engaging and thrilling drama also stars Natalie Dormer Jeremy Northam and Gabrielle Anwar. The Tudors: Season 2: Passion ambition and treachery collide in this compelling drama about the early years of King Henry VIII's infamous 40-year reign. With a lust for power and an appetite for love this young Monarch (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) rules his kingdom as he lives his life - with ruthless abandon. Affairs of the state carry little interest for him as England's ruler is intent upon his own desires.
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