True Stories Box Set. Includes:KING OF THE WORLD:Climaxing in his crucial 1964 world title fight against Sonny Liston this film traces Ali's meteoric rise to fame. This is a must for all boxing fans and lovers of true-life drama.RETURN FROM THE RIVER KWAI:One of the last untold stories of World War II in the Far East. Starving British and Australian POWs make an attempt to escape Japanese brutality.JOAN OF ARC: A LEGEND A SAINT:The story of a passionate peasant girl who united the French nation only to be betrayed & burned at the stake.JAMES DEAN: RACE WITH DESTINY: The gripping story of James Dean's rise to fame his romantic entanglements and his fatal desire for fast cars that led to his untimely death.
The Village: (Dir. M. Night Shyamalan) (2004): A small community are plagued by fear of the unknown forest that surrounds them. For years they have kept a truce with mysterious creatures in the woods by vowing never to breach a clearly defined border. However when a young man (Joaquin Phoenix) becomes determined to explore the nearby towns his actions are met with menacing consequences. The Sixth Sense (Dir. M. Night Shyamalan) (1999): After the assault and suicide of one of his ex-patients award-winning child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is left determined to help a young boy named Cole who suffers from the same diagnosis as the ex-patient - they both see dead people. Malcolm cannot rest until he makes amends for his feelings of failure created by the mental breakdown of the first patient. Cole is a young boy who is paralyzed by fear from his visions of dead people. His mother is at her wits end trying to cope with Cole's eccentricities. With the help of Dr. Crowe Cole goes on a journey of self as he learns to overcome his fears all the while discovering the purpose of his gift.
Director David Lean follows the heroic true-life odyssey of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in this magnificent portrait of the famed British officer's journey to the Middle East. Assigned to Arabia during World War I Lawrence courageously unites the warring Arab factions into a strong guerrilla front. He leads them into brilliant victories in treacherous desert battlefields where they eventually defeat the ruling Turkish Empire. Restored to its full glory in 1989.
This is Marlon Brando's screen debut; he plays a paraplegic World War II veteran who sinks into depression until his former girlfriend (Teresa Wright) manages to bring him out of it. Controversial at the time for it's vivid semi-documentary style and it's no-holds barred treatment of sexual problems.
Mae West's reputation for tweaking the noses of film censors was well-established by the time she made I'm No Angel generally considered her most successful picture. The frank-speaking blonde bombshell delivered some of her most classic double entendres in this 1933 film her second consecutive outing opposite the luminous Cary Grant. The two had made She Done Him Wrong earlier that year and in I'm No Angel West does Grant wrong again to hilarious effect. West
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A Jewish journalist infiltrates a neo-Nazi group to shed light on their organised racist atrocities. Based on a true story.
The story involves a white supremesist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly who shoot kick and karate chop their way to final victory.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello set off on a trip to Africa when Lou claims to know the whereabouts of a cache of diamonds. The zany comics are at peak form in this nonsensical foray into the jungle.
When their beloved foster mother is killed in a holdup Four Brothers reunite in their old Detroit neighbourhood with revenge on their minds. Mark Wahlberg plays the brawl-hungry leader Bobby. His brother Angel (Tyrese Gibson) is a rowdy sailor with a high-strung Latina girlfriend (Sofia Vergara). Garrett Hedlun plays the young rock and roller of the clan. And Outkast's Andre - 3000 - Benjamin is the family man whose tenuous mob connection may link him to the killers. Terrence Howard (Hustle And Flow) is the well-meaning but ineffectual detective who tries to put a lid on the boys' rebelliousness. Director John Singleton ably blends his action skills (Shaft 2 Fast 2 Furious) and his gift for capturing the warm heart at the centre of violent urban masculinity (Boyz In The Hood) to create a cooked-to-perfection gangster stew.
In this memorable adaptation of Somerset Maugham's classic novel Leslie Howard plays Philip Carey a student of medicine in London who becomes besotted with Mildred (Bette Davis) a waitress. Phillip falls in love with her and pursues her only to have her break a date with him to go out with a salesman and subsequently run off. She returns to him pregnant and he takes her back only for her to run off again with another medical student. Once again he takes her back but with her n
This classic 1942 war movie tells the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Jeffrey Quill - developed the aeroplane whose technological superiority helped Britain to win the vital battle of the skies. It features two of Britain's best-loved stars: Leslie Howard (who also directs, and who tragically went missing in action shortly after the film was made) as Mitchell and David Niven as Quill. Scripted by two oth...
This is a spectacular retelling of a true story that shows courage at its inspiring best. Few defining moments can change the outcome of war . But when the outnumbered Royal Air Force defied unsurmountable odds in engaging the German Luftwaffe they may well have altered the course of history!
Of Human Bondage: The love that lifted a man to paradise and hurled him back to earth again! This film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel of a young medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress (Bette Davis). The infatuation turns into a mutually destructive affair. This is the film that brought Bette Davis to fame and secured her future roles as a tough domineering woman. Fine acting by the entire cast with Davis an absolu
Justine is one of the most lavish and bizarre erotic shockers ever made by the notorious Jess Franco bursting with wanton nudity sexual perversion and an all star cast... Romina Power (18 year old daughter of Tyrone power) stars as Justine a nubile young Virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of Prostitution predatory lesbians a fugitive murderess (Mercedes McCambridge) bondage branding and one supremely sadistic monk (an outrageous performance
Devil's Island Lovers (1974): A love-sick man is determined to woo his deceased wife's sister and get his hands on the family fortune... Night Of The Assassins (1976): A castle's residents are stalked by a masked killer who is intent on seeing each is on the receiving end of an exceedingly grisly death...
Go WestA fascinating alternative to the manic stunt work and elaborate sight gags that distinguish the films of Buster Keaton Go West offers a rare and satisfying glimpse of his talent for more expressive comedy: charming moments of intimate humor flavoured with rich pathos.Hard LuckSight gags a galore Hard Luck (which Keaton named as his favourite short work) follows a suicidal Buster as he makes a final effort at fitting in with society at a swank country club.
Danny DeVito's adaptation of the Roald Dahl book for children is mostly just fine, helped along quite a bit by the charming performance of Mara Wilson (Mrs Doubtfire) as the eponymous young Matilda, a brilliant girl neglected by her stupid, self-involved parents (DeVito and Rhea Perlman). Ignored at home, Matilda escapes into a world of reading, exercising her mind so much she develops telekinetic powers. Good thing, too: sent off to a school headed by a cruel principal, Matilda needs all the help she can get. DeVito takes a highly stylized approach that is sometimes reminiscent of Barry Sonnenfeld (director of Get Shorty, a DeVito production), and his judgement is not the best in some matters, such as letting the comic-scary sequences involving the principal go on too long. But much of the film is delightful and funny.--Tom Keogh
Howard Marks is famed for being the man responsible for importing most of the marijuana sold in the UK during the 70s and 80s. His exploits are the stuff of folk legend and here he reveals yet more previously untold tales of his scams and exploits.As we journey with Howard from Jamaica to Switzerland, from Edinburgh to Amsterdam and various other places in between, it is obvious why he has been described as someone who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric with sleeping sickness - and how he has made the unusual transformation from being the UK's most wanted man to the world's most popular drug smuggler. Anyone who has read his book will testify that Howard is a fascinating story teller, he is also hugely charismatic and cannot fail to entertain. On our travels we meet a variety of characters who all have something to say about the subject closest to Howard's heart. It does not shy away from telling the true facts about cannabis and provides an informative and fascinating guide to ganja and hashish.
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