Best of British Crime/Drama - Double Film Bill.
This box set features the following films: The Fugitive Kind (Dir. Sidney Lumet) (1959): Oscar winners Marlon Brando Anna Magnani Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton lead the stellar cast of this Southern Gothic ""sizzler"" (Los Angeles Times) based on the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending. Thanks to ""brilliant"" (The Film Daily) performances The Fugitive Kind ""sets one's senses to throbbing"" (The New York Times). Valentine ""Snakeskin"" Xavier (Brando) is a handsome drifter with a guitar and a past. Taking a job as a store clerk in Two Rivers Mississippi his strong and silent demeanor attracts not only the local party girl (Woodward) but also the shopkeeper's exotic wife (Magnani). Soon this explosive love triangle will ignite a powder keg of fury that could rock this small town to its very core. The Young Lions (Dir. Edward Dmytryk) (1958): Academy Award-winning actor Marlon Brando captures the extraordinary contradictions and complexity of a decent man who winds up as a Nazi officer. The Young Lions tells the story of World War II from both sides. The American represented by Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin. And the German made tragically vivid by Brando. Based on the novel by Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions is a provocative insightful movie. It is also one of Brando's all-time best. Morituri (Dir.Bernhard Wicki) (1965): World War II espionage adventure and human lives have never before been combined so explosively... Forced to pose as a SS officer German war deserter Robert Crain (Brando) must seize a German freighter booby-trapped to explode upon capture. Complicating the situation is the fact that sixteen prisoners of war are also brought on board including a beautiful young concentration camp survivor (Janet Margolin)... A captivating espionage thriller fronted by outstanding performances from Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner this criminally little-seen World War II film also features a devastating appearance by veteran British hand Trevor Howard and will keep you riveted until the very final scene... Viva Zapata (Dir. Elia Kazan) (1952): The life and times of legendary Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata are brought to the screen in Darryl F. Zanuck's powerful production of John Steinbeck's screenplay. Marlon Brando fresh from his success in A Streetcar Named Desire gives a stunning portrayal of the outlaw turned revolutionary leader. The film also boasts Anthony Quinn's (Best Supporting Actor 1952) Academy Award winning performance as Zapata's brother.
After witnessing the murder of her first and only boyfriend young Justice decides to forget about college and become a South Central Los Angeles hairdresser. Avoiding friends the only way for her to cope with her depression is by composing beautiful poetry...
Director-producer Perry Henzel's all-Jamaican 1973 classic The Harder They Come--one of the most beloved of all international cult favourites--fiercely expresses the live-wire Jamaican spirit when an impoverished Africa tuned to American radio. Ivan, a country boy who dreams of fame as a singer, rides into Kingston on a rickety country bus in the opening scenes, only to meet with disaster heaped on disaster at the hands of those masked as friends. In a breathless defining climax, Ivan finally breaks from his passivity and begins to wreak his revenge. Soon Kingston's music Mafia and the equally corrupt authorities are after him, but like the real-life people's hero (a man named Rhygin) on whom this character is partially based, Ivan leads them on a maddening chase eluding capture until the movie's shocking final moments. ,p. The film incorporates an archetypal passion for "outlaw" justice common to American Westerns, which were a staple of the Caribbean theatre circuit at the time. Released just 12 years after Jamaica achieved independence, The Harder They Come also reflects the disenchantment that soon followed a massive post-independence exodus from the island's country hamlets to the tropical ghettos of Kingston, where a more grinding urban poverty awaited. Brilliantly shot, directed, written, and acted; singer Jimmy Cliff excels in the leading role and Carl Bradshaw shines as his arch-enemy, the film tells an anthemic Jamaican story to seductive rhythms of a soundtrack that became a reggae bestseller.--Elena Oumano
The nightmare terror of the slithering eye that unleashed agonizing horror on a screaming world! A science fiction terror thriller about a weird creature from outer space that survives in the rarefied atmosphere of the Swiss Alps and terrorizes scientists in a remote high altitude research station. This hideous monster hides in the fog-shrouded cloud of mist and kills its victims by decapitation. Written by screenwriter Jimmy Sangster based on the TV play The Trollenberg
Johann Strauss - Der Zigeunerbaron.
The series is based around the central characters of Koala Brothers Frank and Buster Ned the little wombat and Mitzi the feisty little possum and is set in the middle of the Australian outback. Flying out on daily patrol in their yellow plane the Koala Brothers are always on the look out for anyone in need of help and in the outback it's never too long before someone needs a little help even if that someone doesn't know it yet! Episodes comprise: Ned The Pilot Mitzi's
The Governor was written by Lynda La Plante and tells the story of a female governor who is put in charge of a high-security male prison. Facing various problems including hostage situations and escape attempts the new Governor is challenged not only to overcome the difficulties with in the prison but also the attitude of her fellow male prison guards. Is she up to the task? Features all 6 episodes of Series 1.
The first time that the opening episode of Slim Shady Version II was shown to the public as a prelude to Eminem's live set on the Anger Management tour in America, it received critical acclaim. The point was clear, ran the consensus: by juxtaposing cartoon images of his split personality alongside South Park characters, Marshall Mathers was querying why their anti-social behaviour is satire and his is offensive. More episodes then turned up on the Web leading MTV to commission these nine five-minute shorts in which Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers run around taking drugs, swearing, attempting to have sex and beating up pop stars such as N'Stink and Pristina Gagulera. Sadly, those kind of lame puns are about as funny as it gets. A typical scene runs like this: the boys spot Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and they beat them up. That's it. Worse still, any sense of characterisation that places in context the anger and prejudice of Eminem's recorded work is lost here, leaving dumb and rather ugly misogyny to stand alone. A brief documentary about the making of the shorts is equally as grim and proves that cartoons really shouldn't be made by people with no sense of humour.--Ian Watson
World War II espionage adventure and human lives have never before been combined so explosively... Forced to pose as a SS officer German war deserter Robert Crain (Brando) must seize a German freighter booby-trapped to explode upon capture. Complicating the situation is the fact that sixteen prisoners of war are also brought on board including a beautiful young concentration camp survivor (Janet Margolin)... A captivating espionage thriller fronted by outstanding perfor
Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria - Recorded At The Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1973.
Bob Hoskins and Denzel Washington star in this high-spirited comedy from the producer of Forrest Gump. Hoskins is Moony an overweight out-of-shape narrow minded vice cop who's in love with a hooker named Crystal (Chloe Webb). Washington is Stone a slick urban lawyer who's defending Crystal. Moony hates Stone. But Moony suffers a heart attack and Stone dies suddenly in a car accident - The two become closer than they ever dreamed possible as Stone's heart is transplanted into Moony's body! And if that wasn't bad enough Stone comes back from the dead to haunt Moony with a story about how he was really murdered by drug dealers and now they're after Crystal. Stone will keep on haunting Moony until they solve his murder together!
The TARDIS arrives in the 26th Century in a cave system containing numerous dinosaur fossils. The ""So we meet again Doctor..."" Doctor's Party comes under suspicion from a military force led by Lieutenant Scott who are investigating the disappearance of a group of palaeontologists and geologists. They are all then attacked by androids - the true culprits - under the control of the Cybermen. The Doctor manages to deactivate a bomb intended by the Cybermen to destroy an imminent
Ask a true horror fan to name the greatest zombie films of all time and City of the Living Dead is usually there but never before in the UK have fans been able to enjoy a properly presented quality uncut release. After the triumph of their Dawn of the Dead Blu Ray Arrow Video are proud to bring their unique presentation of this zombie classic to the hordes of UK horror fans that are every bit as rabid for this release as the zombies in the film! Directed by horror maestro Lucio Fulci (New York Ripper Don't Torture A Duckling).
America's funniest family is back for seconds! Eddie Murphy is hilarious when he stars as the entire Klump family in this enormous comedy blockbuster. The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines (Janet Jackson), and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses ageing. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty. Now, it's up to Mama, Papa, Ernie and Granny Klump to throw their weight around and save the day in this whopping, gut busting comedy Good Morning America calls an incredible piece of film making.
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination. Special Features: Getting Gilliam Documentary Bonus and Extended Scenes
Features the episodes: Attack Of Space Terrapin Rescue Of The Astronauts The Space Mummy The Space Serpent Ghost Ship Of Planet Mira Robot Gold Crab Ace From Outer Space The Fearful Sea Anemonie The Jupiter Moon Menace Swarm Robot Ants Space Rocket Express Beast With Sweet Tooth.
This famous production of Donizetti's Mary Stuart was one of English National Opera's most memorable from the 1980's. Dame Janet Baker chose the title role of Donizetti's Scottish queen for her farewell to the London operatic stage in 1982. It was a triumph for Dame Janet in one of the most rewarding of operatic roles. As Mary she displays her full range as a great singing actress at times imperious and confrontational yet during the quieter reflective moments intensely moving. H
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