The complete series of the 1960's police drama featuring the character Commander George Gideon based on the novels by John Creasey. This rarely seen series is presented here with all 26 episodes being complete and uncut. Episodes comprise: 1. State Visit 2. The V Men 3. The Firebug 4. The Big Fix 5. The Housekeeper 6. The Lady-Killer 7. To Catch A Tiger 8. Big Fish Little Fish 9. The White Rat 10. How To Retire Without Really Working 11. Subway To Revenge 12. The Great Pla
It's not quite as clever as it tries to be, but The Game does a tremendous job of presenting the story of a rigid control freak trapped in circumstances that are increasingly beyond his control. Michael Douglas plays a rich, divorced, and dreadful investment banker whose 48th birthday reminds him of his father's suicide at the same age. He's locked in the cage of his own misery until his rebellious younger brother (Sean Penn) presents him with a birthday invitation to play "The Game" (described as "an experiential Book of the Month Club")--a mysterious offering from a company called Consumer Recreation Services. Before he knows the game has even begun, Douglas is caught up in a series of unexplained events designed to strip him of his tenuous security and cast him into a maelstrom of chaos. How do you play a game that hasn't any rules? That's what Douglas has to figure out, and he can't always rely on his intelligence to form logic out of what's happening to him. Seemingly cast as the fall guy in a conspiracy thriller, he encounters a waitress (Deborah Unger) who may or may not be trustworthy, and nothing can be taken at face value in a world turned upside down. Douglas is great at conveying the sheer panic of his character's dilemma, and despite some lapses in credibility and an anticlimactic ending, The Game remains a thinking person's thriller that grabs and holds your attention. Thematic resonance abounds between this and Seven and Fight Club, two of the other films by The Game 's director David Fincher. -- Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
A sex symbol becomes a thing", says Marilyn Monroe, her voice being approximated by Trudi Jo Marie Keck, who also doubles as the editor of We Remember Marilyn, an historical appreciation of the life of the much-vaunted sex goddess. "I always thought symbols were things you clashed together", she continues to muse, "but if I'm going to be a symbol of anything, I'd rather it be sex than some other things there are symbols for. I know how they'll remember me: 'Here lies Marilyn Monroe, 34-24-36'. But, anyway, they'll remember me." And remember her they do, in this concoction written and directed by Ted Newsom (Ed Wood--Look Back in Angora). Newsom doesn't bother to cite the source for the above words ascribed to Ms. Monroe so it's hard to say where they came from, but they pointedly set the tone for any discussion of sex-symbol iconography. And how better to sum up a career that moved between celebrity and the highest seats of power on a vehicle of sex, and ended early and abruptly. Film clips, photos (where Marilyn the icon truly shone), and a rich array of stock footage form the backdrop for the proceedings. At one point, the voice of director John Huston enriches the soundtrack. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com
John Cusack and James Spader star in this dramatic absorbing story of two friends who move from law school to Washington's corridors of power. Cusack plays Peter a lower-class go-getter who climbs to the position of congressman by betraying everyone who ever trusted him including his idealistic blue-blood pal Tim. Tim of course would never cross a friend. Unless it was to avenge his own betrayal...
The true story of Mac: the first chimpanzee in space. Wilhelm Von Huber is a NASA scientist who moves to Florida with his son Billy after the recent death of Billy's mother. But there's a widening gap developing between father and son because Billy thinks his father is boring and yearns to be with the young astronauts. Then Billy gets his wish when Dr. Donni McGuinness enlists his help to train the chimps NASA needs for an experimental space flight. Billy's favourite Mac is chosen to be the first in space but the boy then realises the real risks involved. Can Wilhelm and Billy pull together to ensure a happy outcome for Mac's mission? Based on a true story.
Frances a wealthy woman is kidnapped by a man in broad daylight. A film is delivered with a ransom demand showing Frances being buried in a coffin underground. With only twenty four hours of oxygen to breathe the police are forced into a deadline search for the buried woman...
Detective Jones was told to play by the rules.... But playing by the rules can get you killed....
A welcome second volume of classics from the Master of Suspense, this seven-disc Hitchcock Collection box-set consists of the following: The Birds: Based on a Daphne Du Maurier short story, The Birds (1963) is Hitchcock at his most terrifying, as the residents of a small town are attacked by thousands of apparently homicidal birds. Marnie: Tippi Hedren and newly Bonded Sean Connery star in this excellent 1964 thriller, which finds a calculating thief who robs her employers pursued by a her new boss, who is desperate to unlock her secrets Torn Curtain: This 1966 spy thriller, pairing Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, finds Newman as a world-famous physicist intent on defecting to East Berlin in order to obtain funding for his latest project. Topaz: Based on the Leon Uris novel, Hitch's 51st film, made in 1969, concerns a CIA agent who learns of Russian missiles in Cuba. With the aid of a French agent, they negotiate a plethora of corruption and murder. Frenzy: This critically acclaimed 1972 film was Hitch's first British-made film for more than 20 years. A classic Hitch story of an innocent man accused of being the "necktie murderer"--a vicious sex criminal terrorising London--he eludes the authorities and seeks the real killer. Family Plot: Hitchcock's final film, made in 1976, is a blackly funny mix of murder, theft and kidnapping as a cab-driver and a psychic team up to find a dead man--not actually dead--in exchange for a $10,000 reward. Bonus Disc--Vertigo: An irreducible masterpiece, this 1958 double-identity thriller finds Hitch serving aces, as Jimmy Stewart's detective is drawn in to a complex plot when the girl he loves apparently falls to her death. On the DVD: Like the first volume, this is an equally impressive package that will satisfy the rotund fright-master's fans. Along with the standard selection of trailers, production notes and picture galleries, each disc houses an impressive "making of" documentary, each expertly detailing Hitch's meticulous work. The Birds features Tippi Hedren's screen test and--in storyboard form--deleted scenes and the alternative ending. Topaz has no less that three alternative endings, while Torn Curtain includes scenes scored by composer Bernard Herrmann before his music was rejected by Hitch. The Vertigo disc features an excellent group commentary from producer Herbert Coleman and restoration experts Robert A Harris and James Katz, as well as a documentary, "Obsessed with Vertigo". Housed in attractive fold-out packaging, this is an excellent opportunity to obtain a rich slice of Hitchcock's dark magic.--Danny Graydon
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The terror has never been so intense in the most twisted tale since Seven! When Inspector Don Morell (Mario Van Peebles Highlander III New Jack City) witnesses the state execution of serial killer Claude Whitman (James Remar Mortal Kombat: The Annihilation) he thinks he can finally close the case that has almost destroyed his marriage sanity and life. But when former jury members begin to be brutally murdered one by one Morell recognises Whitman in the cryptic Biblical messages at the crime scenes. Could he be back to fulfill his demonic agenda? Don't miss a second!
Everything that can go wrong does so when a film crew ends up in adventure far more dangerous than they were ready for.
Detective Superintendent Tennison investigates the mysterious death of a local country club manager and is led to a hidden political scandal...
Walter Woods (Rob Lowe) is an ambitious young architect on his way to Los Angeles for the assignment of a lifetime. He has been hired to design a Beverly Hills mansion for a rich client (James Belushi) and speeds unknowingly along Pacific Coast Highway towards a disastrous and violent turn of events that will change his life... or end it. Along the way Walter narrowly avoids a high speed collision with a maniacal truck driver and arrives visibly shaken to his Apartment where an oddball assortment of residents make his acquaintance. His new neighbors include a beautiful hooker an East German comedian and a cranky building manager (Dean Stockwell) who is as lazy as he is grumpy. As Walter prepares to design his masterpiece a series of strange unexplained events soon begin to unravel the normally calm and controlled designer. These minor nuisances quickly escalate into perilous and terrifying encounters with a mysterious stalker. As his wife pressures him to return home his boss pushes him to finish the job and his new client becomes increasingly unreasonable Walter starts to buckle under the pressure of his tormentor. These dangerous encounters turn deadly and Walter is pushed to the breaking point. With the police in pursuit Walter confronts his vicious attacker in a fight not only for his sanity but for his survival.
The C.I.A. inherit footage of the slaughter of a Hollywood movie crew while on location. One crew member the teenage daughter of the slain director escapes the carnage to tell the blood-thirsty tale of staying alive and a counter-revolutionary army's ruthless objectives that must be stopped!
Over the past forty plus years British film director Tony Palmer has established himself as one of the countrys foremost directors of documentary and factual films. One of Tony Palmer's first successes was the film All My Loving which was released in 1968. Some seven years later Tony had the idea encouraged by John Lennon to document the history of popular music. The result was the groundbreaking and award winning series of films made for television under the title All You Need Is Love. Volume One entitled Gods Children The Beginnings is just that and sets out the story for the rest of the series by charting the origins of popular music and traces it back to the African continent by way of Europe and America.
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Mr And Mrs Smith (Dir. Doug Liman 2005): A sexy action packed thrill ride about a bored married couple who discover that they are enemy assassins... Life Or Something like It:(Dir. Stephen Herek 2002): Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) is a beautiful blonde reporter for a Seattle news station. With a baseball-superstar boyfriend a wonderful apartment and a job opportunity with a national network in New York Lanie's life is all going according to plan. The only thorn in her side is the cameraman and ex-lover she's been teamed with called Pete (Burns). Pete is funny charming and utterly disinterested in a career much to Lanie's disbelief but the pair have an undeniable chemistry that Pete exploits at every turn. Everything changes for Lanie in an instant when she meets homeless Prophet Jack (Shalhoub) for an interview. After he gives her routine predications about the weather and football scores he breaks the ominous news that she will be dead in seven days...
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