A taut crime melodrama, Chain of Events features noted actor and film-maker Kenneth Griffith as a bank clerk whose attempt to dodge a fare has devastating consequences; a powerful cast includes Rank Charm School starlet Susan Shaw and future Richard the Lionheart lead Dermot Walsh. Adapted from a radio play written by inimitable character actor Leo McKern and directed by Carry On legend Gerald Thomas, Chain of Events is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. John Clarke, an uninspiring sort of fellow, one day boards a bus on his way home from work and foolishly forgetsĀ to pay his fare. He is caught by an inspector, but instead of owning up to it, gives the name and address of one of the bank's clients, setting in motion a violent chain of events involving blackmail, robbery and death... SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF
One of legendary director Douglas Sirk's most cherished passion projects this spectacular adaptation of William Faulkner's Pylon has risen in stature to become one of his most acclaimed films. Reuniting with his core creative team from oil tycoon saga Written on the Wind Sirk this time examined the marginal lives and lost souls living one rung from the bottom with surpassing delicacy and artistry. Rock Hudson stars as journalist Burke Devlin fascinated by the sordid lives of a trio eking out a living in carnival circuit daredevil air shows - Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) former WWI fighter pilot forced into races and parachute routines with the help of his wife LaVerne (Dorothy Malone) and faithful mechanic Jiggs (Jack Carson). Evoking Depression-era New Orleans with glorious black-and-white CinemaScope photography Sirk's spellbinding chronicle of personal obsession romantic longing and irreconcilable desires now appears as one of the most extraordinary films to come out of 1950s Hollywood. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Tarnished Angels on Blu-ray for the first time. Special Features: Beautiful new 1080p high-definition master Feature-length audio commentary by film critic Adrian Martin Talk About the Business an interview with supporting actor William Schallert Infernal Circle an interview with critic Bill Krohn Acting with Douglas Sirk a collection of archival interviews with Douglas Sirk producer Albert Zugsmith and actors Rock Hudson Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone Original theatrical trailer Isolated music and effects track Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired on the feature 40 Page Booklet featuring the words of Douglas Sirk vintage reportage from the film set rare imagery and more!
This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well) but it retains its original power, sense of daring and epochal impact. -- Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
All 29 episodes of the second season of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking series, now presented in pristine high-definition for the first time ever, along with hours of new and exclusive bonus features not available anywhere else! Episodes Comprise:King Nine Will Not ReturnThe Man in the BottleNervous Man in a Four Dollar RoomA Thing About MachinesThe Howling ManEye of the BeholderNick of TimeThe Lateness of the HourThe Trouble With TempletonA Most Unusual CameraThe Night of the MeekDustBack ThereThe Whole TruthThe InvadersA Penny For Your ThoughtsTwenty TwoThe Odyssey of Flight 33Mr. Dingle, The StrongStaticThe Prime MoverLong Distance CallA Hundred Yards Over the RimThe Rip Van Winkle CaperThe SilenceShadow PlayThe Mind and the MatterWill the Real Martian Please Stand Up?The Obsolete Man
Bachelorhood is bliss for cartoonist Stanley Ford (Lemmon) - complete with an English butler (Terry Thomas) delectable dames and extra-dry martinis. But when he attends a bachelor party and meets an Italian beauty (Lisi) who pops out of a cake his fate is sealed. The next morning he discovers he's married to her even though she can barely speak English - and now the consummate bachelor will go to any lengths to untie the knot!
In Season One, as they discover their new found talents, the superheroes have to come to terms with the impact the discovery has on their lives. Season Two introduces a number of new characters, including Honduran twins Maya (Dania Ramirez) and Alejandro (Shalim Ortez), the devious and lethal Elle (Kristen Bell), and Hiro's (Masi Oka) idol, Takezo Kensei (David Anders). Season Three opens with an assassination attempt on Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), and traces the consequences of this event far into the future. Meanwhile, the slippery Sylar (Zachary Quinto) accidentally frees a dozen super-criminals who were held by the Company, giving Claire (Hayden Panettiere), Peter (Milo Ventimiglia), Matt (Greg Grunberg), Hiro and the other heroes a whole new line-up of powerful evil-doers to contend with. Finally, in Season Four, Claire attends college but has difficulty adjusting to her new life, Hiro's powers are no longer in his control which leaves him thinking he may be dying, and Peter goes back to work as a Paramedic using Mohinder's (Sendhil Ramamurthy) powers to help others. Heroes Reborn Included Experience the epic 13-episode event series, Heroes Reborn, from the creator, Tim Kring, who imagined the global phenomenon, Heroes series. Heroes Reborn begins a year ago, in Odessa, Texas after a terrorist attack leaves the city decimated. Those with extraordinary abilities are blamed for this tragic event forcing them into hiding or on the run from those with evil motives. For better or for worse, some are fated to cross paths with the original heroes from the past. Bonus Features Deleted Scenes, Heroes Reborn: Reliving The Legacy, Dark Matters Webisodes Heroes Complete Series- Including Heroes Reborn The complete seasons One to Four of the US TV drama series about ordinary people across the globe who discover they have extraordinary powers. Over 14 hours of bonus features including: Never-before-aired 71 minute episode Audio commentaries Special effects Extended scenes The super powers of Heroes Alternate stories Deleted scenes Subtitles
David Mamet's 1987 directorial debut House of Games is mesmerising study of control and seduction between two kinds of detached observers: a gambler who is also a con artist and a psychotherapist who is also an emerging pop-psych guru in the book market. The latter (played by Lindsay Crouse) meets the former (Joe Mantegna) when one of her clients is driven to despair from his debts to the card shark. Mantegna's character agrees to drop the IOUs in exchange for Crouse's attention at the seedy House of Games in Seattle, a mecca for conmen to talk shop and hustle unsuspecting customers. The shrink gets so caught up in the arcane rules and world view of her guide over subsequent days that she observes--with no false rapture--various stings in progress inside and outside the club. Mamet's story finally becomes a fascinating study of two people protecting and extending their respective cosmologies the way rival predators fight for the same piece of turf. The psychological challenge is compelling; so is the stylised dialogue, with its pattern of pauses and hiccups and humming meter. Mostly shooting at night, Mamet also gave Seattle a different look from previous filmmakers, turning its familiar puddles into concentrations of liquid neon and poisonous noir. --Tom Keogh
Filmed at the world famous O2 Channel 4's Comedy Gala sees the cream of the UK's comedy crop come together for one rip roaring comedy night all in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. This Comedy Spectacle of 2013 includes 22 of the biggest names in TV and Comedy along with an alternative dance performance from the amazing Diversity and their new recruits all guaranteeing your biggest laughs of the year. Starring: Adam Hills Alan Carr Diversity Jack Dee Jason Byrne Jo Brand Jon Richardson Jonathan Ross Josh Widdicombe Kevin Bridges Lee Evans Michael McIntyre Miranda Hart Nina Conti Paddy McGuiness Paul Chowdhry Rhod Gilbert Rich Hall Russell Brand Seann Walsh Tom Stade Warwick Davis
This underrated comedy-drama by Andrew Fleming may one day be seen as a reflection of the muddled sexual politics of the 1990s. Three dissimilar college students played by Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and Josh Charles become unlikely best friends, forging a relationship so exclusive it actually troubles onlookers. From the inside, however, the trio are enjoying the safety of their own bond and exploring varying needs of love and sexual adventurousness. Erotic, bawdy, sensuous, mysterious, and nostalgic, Threesome can make a viewer envy the state of grace these characters have found with each other. All three actors have never been better. --Tom Keogh
This Box Set contains the following films: Intolerable Cruelty: Divorce attorney Miles Massey has got it all. Serial gold-digger Marilyn Rexroth wants it all. A hilarious battle of deceit and cunning ensues when Miles falls for Marilyn with each one trying to outsmart the other. Underhand tactics deceptions and an undeniable attraction escalate as Marilyn and Miles square off in this classic battle of the sexes... The Holiday: Iris is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe Amanda realizes the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women who have never met and live 6000 miles apart find themselves in the exact same place. They meet online at a home exchange website and impulsively switch homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda's L.A. house in sunny California as Amanda arrives in the snow covered English countryside. Shortly after arriving at their destinations both women find the last thing either wants or expects: a new romance. Along Came Polly: When risk-averse Reuben Feffer's new bride dumps him on their honeymoon for a muscle-bound scuba instructor his plans for love and life are thrown wildly off track. A chance encounter with an adventure craving childhood friend named Polly shoots him into a whirlwind of extreme sports spicy foods ferrets and salsa dancing. Can Reuben the ultimate control freak really change and live in the moment. Maid In Manhattan: Marisa Ventura is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City. She works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity Marisa meets Christopher Marshall a handsome heir to a political dynasty who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa's true identity is revealed the two find that they are worlds apart even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx. 13 Going On 30: It is 1987 and Jenna is a 13-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood. The problem is that adulthood is just not arriving fast enough! She's suffocated by her dorky parents ignored by the hip kids in school and the cute guy she has a crush on barely knows her name. No longer content to spend time only with her best friend and neighbour Matt Flamhaff Jenna invites the cool kids to her 13th birthday party which turns into a disaster. Jenna is humiliated when she's locked in the closet for a game of 'Seven Minutes In Heaven' and everyone deserts her. Alone in the closet Jenna makes an earnest wish. If only she could be all grown up she'd have the life she's always wanted...
Meet the most unconventional investigative duo of any time - JEFF SLADE and HOLLY TURNER in the mystery adventure series Crime Traveller. Sleuths come and go working on intuition luck and clues but Slade and his science officer colleague Holly are armed with something extra in their fight against crime - their very own Time Machine. High speed chases and intriguing puzzles are solved with the aid of their unreliable Time Machine in this stylish fast-paced drama.
When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their adopted children - Holly Ariadne and the twins - start their own little community along a strip of the roadside. The fishing is good and the living is easy until the mob sets up a gambling operation and the state supervisor sets a sexy social worker on the Kwimpers in an effort to take away Ariadne and the twins.
A young girl's love for a tiny puppy named Clifford makes the dog grow to an enormous size.
Series 4 sees the 'finals countdown' on and the end of university life drawing ever closer. JP worries about his future following a visit from his brother, Vod (Zawe Ashton) is fixed in the present as she grapples with debt. Oregon (Charlotte Ritchie) is Student Union President and busy planning her legacy, whilst Kinglsey (Joe Thomas) finds himself in an unconventional relationship. Josie is still languishing in second year and facing up to the prospect of a final twelve months in Manchester without her delightfully odd housemates. Howard (Greg McHugh), who had been on course for a first class degree, gets some unexpected news which sends him spiralling.
3 Swashbuckling Robin Hood Adventures: Sword Of Sherwood Forest: Another rendition of the Robin Hood legend, in which Greene goes undercover to infiltrate a group headed by Cushing and the evil earl, Pasco. He discovers their plan to murder the Archbishop of Canterbury and to take over Bawtry Castle. But Greene organizes his band of men and quells the insurrection. Bandits Of Sherwood Forest: The son of Robin Hood, Robert of Nottingham (Cornel Wilde), returns to Sherwood Forest. With the aid of his father's merry men, he saved England's young king and the Magna Carta from the evilness of the wayward regent Daniel and wins the hand of a beautiful maiden. Rogues Of Sherwood Forest: King John is back on the throne of England, taxing the people most cruelly and plotting bloody murder. Side by side with Will Scarlet, Friar Tuck and Alan A-Sale, young Robin must once more battle the Kings men and win the heart of the lady Marianne. As war rages throughout the kingdom, King John schemes to murder his most powerful barons and have their deaths blamed on the outlaws!
TV drama following the turmoil of football club Manchester United through the Munich air disaster that killed a number of its staff and star players. In February 1958 a flight leaving Munich-Riem Airport crashed on its third attempt to take off. On board were the famous 'Busby Babes', a team of gifted young players led by the famous manager Matt Busby, returning to Manchester after successful qualification to the European cup semi-finals. A number of players, including Duncan Edwards, were killed in the crash, and still more injured. This BBC dramatisation of events follows star player Bobby Charlton (Jack O'Connell) and coach Jimmy Murphy (David Tennant) as they attempt to recover from the crash. With Busby (Dougray Scott) still hospitalised with his injuries and so many of their players gone, stand-in coach Murphy and the still-grieving Charlton will be crucial to the success on the field that would honour those so tragically lost.
The unending battle of the city streets. When PC George Dixon is shot whilst on duty the Paddington Green police investigate the West London underworld to bring the culprit to justice...
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