This box set features the entire fifth series of the classic British Television drama Inspector Morse. Episodes comprise: 1. Second Time Around: Morse becomes concerned when an ex-Deputy Police Commissioner is murdered. He also discovers that there exists a connection between a missing chapter from the murdered man's memoirs and himself... 2. Fat Chance: A woman deacon dies in suspicious circumstances and Morse is called in... 3. Who Killed Harry Field?:
Hell's Angels on Wheels takes you back to an era of drug and gasoline fuelled rebellion. Photographed by Lazlo Kovacs (Paper Moon Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and starring Jack Nicholson in one of his finest roles this movie goes hog wild! The director Richard Rush worked alongside the notorious Sonny Barger and the Oakland Hells Angels as a major background source. Adam Rourke plays Buddy the head of the Angels and Nicholson plays Poet a gas jockey who joins the brotherhood. Nicholson soon comes to realise that there are a lot of slaves in Buddy's hell and he doesn't want to be one of them. Until that realisation however he delights in the violence and the orgies - which allows Nicholson to give his baby-faced killer grin a thorough work-out.
Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders.
From a northern working-class background James Kavanagh has climbed to the top of an elite profession through hard work and a love of the law. But his dedication to work the long hours and difficult cases have taken their toll on lfe at home with his wife and two teenage children. Episodes comprise: Mute Of Malice Blood Money Ancient History Diplomatic Baggage The Ties We Bind In God We Trust.
Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin star in this supernatural thriller about Satanic plans to bring the devil to earth.
Coming from a working class northern background Kavanagh has risen to the top of an elite profession. However his dedication to justice has taken its toll on his private life... Episode comprise: 1. Previous Convictions 2. The More Loving One 3. Time Of Need 4. Endgames 5. The End Of Law (2 hour special episode)
The story of the most notorious paedophile priest in the modern history is told in this Oscar-nominated documentary.
John Thaw is Kavanagh Q.C. one of the most respected criminal advocates in London. From a northern working-class background James Kavanagh has climbed to the top of an elite profession through hard work and a love of the law. But his dedication to work the long hours and difficult cases have taken their toll on life at home with his wife and two teenage children. This double DVD release features Series Four of Kavanagh Q.C.. Episode titles: 1. Memento Mori 2. Care In The Com
A forgotten gem from the legendary Hammer Studios available for the first time on home video in the UK this sinister classic spins a gruesome web of unhappy families. It is three weeks before the Ashby siblings Simon (Oliver Reed) a brutish alcoholic and Eleanor (Janette Scott) a nervous wreck are to come into their late parents' inheritance. While Simon plans to have his sister certified insane and locked away Eleanor keeps seeing the lurking figure of their long-dead brother Tony around the estate. Who or what is this apparition and does he threaten to reveal skeletons in the closet (and elsewhere)? A massively entertaining horror treat in the best English Gothic tradition Paranoiac features a superbly oily lead performance from a young Oliver Reed stunning black & white Cinemascope photography an ingenious script by Jimmy Sangster and gripping direction by the great Freddie Francis. Featuring legendary actor Oliver Reed (Gladiator The Devils Women in Love) Paranoiac is classic British gothic horror of the same era as The Innocents Repulsion The Haunting Dracula These Are The Damned.
From Terry Gilliam director of Time Bandits and Brazil comes The Adventures of Baron Munchausen a spectacular epic fantasy quite unlike any other film ever made. Just who is Baron Munchausen? Liar? Rogue? Madman? Or the greatest superhero ever to battle and triumph against unbeatable odds? Did he really ride through the air on a cannonball slay a three-headed griffin journey to the moon and all before breakfast...? Helped and hindered by a supporting cast of literally thousands including Vulcan (Oliver Reed) Bertholdt (Eric Idle) and many more the indomitable Baron (John Neville) succeeds in overcoming every obstacle to face his final greatest challenge... Death itself.
Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria - Recorded At The Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1973.
During a bloody coup, a ruthless Greek general seizes the bride of an officer in his army. When the officer, Arias, turns to legendary Hercules for help, he discovers the fallen hero has been living in exile, banished for killing his family. Initially Hercules refuses, but when he sees this as a chance for salvation, he agrees to help Arius. Together they must battle the general s army, as well as the demi-god s demons, in order to rescue the bride and reclaim the honor of Hercules.
The horrors of war take on a whole new meaning for Vietnam vet Norman Hopper (John Saxon) whose quiet domestic life in Atlanta is shattered by the return of Charlie Bukowski a combat buddy who dredges up terrifying flashbacks of flesh eating and bloodshed in the war-torn jungles. Now on the run from the law Charlie begs Norman to help him get out of town with another fellow veteran Tom (Tony King). Soon the ragtag team of cannibals are fighting for their lives spreading a deadl
'The Duke' is a lighthearted family comedy that proves once and for all it is a dog's life! The fun begins when Hubert the faithful canine companion to the late Duke of Dingwall inherits the Duke's estate the magnificent jewels and the official title of Duke. To assure Hubert's well-being Charlotte the butler's niece and Hubert's best friend is made his legal guardian. An unlikely duo Hubert and Charlotte turn the world of high society upside down. But as the two try to
Eleni tells the real life story of Nicholas Gage and his search for the truth behind his mother's untimely death. Her torment at the hands of rebel guerrillas has forever plagued her son Nick (Malkovich). Now an adult and a journalist for the New York Times Nick travels back to his small village in Greece to uncover the truth and exact revenge against those responsible. With only childhood recollections of the tragic incident to guide him in a series of haunting flashbacks Nick
Problem ChildBen Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior - a fun, loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is he really just a little angel trying to get out? Find out in this hilarious satire on modern-day family life. Problem Child 2junior the monster is now back as him and Ben, his adoptive father, move to Mortville, the world's capital of divorce. There, Ben falls in love with a beautiful but mean-minded rich woman, Lawanda Dumore, who wants to marry him and eliminate Junior. As Junior and his new friend Trixie, (She's another monster, the daughter of Annie, another woman) try to avoid this disaster and get their parents in love, they get into a lot of trouble, as we notice that one monster was already a headache, two of them is really the apocalypse! Problem Child 3That little devil Junior is back once more and he's just as naughty as ever! In this, the third edition in the hilarious Problem Child series, Junior is persuaded to join in with other children in various fun activities - including dancing. His father's plan appears to work when, yes - Junior falls in love! - with the beautiful and even popular Tiffany. But this only incites Junior to greater heights of mayhem-making as he sets about getting rid of the competition for Tiffany's affection.
The high-flying action-packed world of undercover Customs and Excise investigators and their fight against international crime comes together in the 1990s ITV drama The Knock. The Investigations Unit of HM Customs and Excise comprises a crack team of young detectives. They are civil servants with a difference - when they 'knock' - people jump! From their top security head-quarters they lead cases which are frequently undercover often life-threatening and involve everything from arms trading to illegal gold and drug smuggling. Features the complete 13 episodes from series 2.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger family film than this chaotic comedy starring Lucille Ball and Academy Award-winner Henry Fonda as the parents of eighteen (Yes eighteen!) children. Based on a true story and co-starring Van Johnson and Tom Bosley Yours Mine And Ours keeps the laughs coming thick and fast! This population explosion occurs when widowed Navy nurse Helen North (Ball) meets handsome Naval officer and widower Frank Beardsley (Fonda). They have much in commo
Even though this violent indie film has "exploitation" stamped all over it--with its gratuitous car chases, shootouts, and anarchistic characters--it is a guilty pleasure. Unfolding in the future--well, at least at the time of its release it was a decade ahead of schedule--this movie shows how US urban schools have deteriorated to the point that gangs run the classroom and the police, scared to even go near these educational wastelands, use hired goons to keep law and order there. (In fact, the US government now has a Department of Educational Defence.) In Class of 1999, a corporate representative (Stacy Keach), eager to rake in potential billions in government contracts, convinces a Seattle-area school principal (Malcolm McDowell) to test out three lifelike android teachers (including Pam Grier). This technological trio possesses intelligence and superhuman strength, which offer to both educate and discipline the bad apples at school. Unfortunately, the androids quickly move from harsh discipline such as spankings and beatings to murder, and Keach's corporate scumbag convinces McDowell's educator that despite this, the program needs to stay its course. Thus it is up to a newly paroled ex-gang member (Bradley Gregg) and the principal's daughter (Traci Lind) to uncover the teachers' identities and alert students and rival gangs to the impending danger. Despite its formulaic approach and some plot implausibilities, Mark Lester's film is entertaining to watch, especially with such exchanges as this: "So they've been waging war with my students." "Well, isn't that what all teachers do?" --Bryan Reesman, Amazon.com
The connection between National Geographic and The Lord of the Rings may seem tentative, but the illuminating TV special Beyond the Movie proves otherwise. While incorporating cast and crew interviews and film clips from director Peter Jackson's 2001 blockbuster The Fellowship of the Ring, this hour-long documentary transcends timely opportunism to explore the myriad inspirations for JRR Tolkien's Middle-Earth fantasy classic, beginning with the influence of Tolkien's idyllic childhood in rural England, which served as the model for his threatened Hobbit paradise. Equally fascinating are the influences of Tolkien's experience in World War I and the "evil" of industrial development on his work, and more directly those of Anglo-Saxon poetry (notably Beowulf) and the mythology of the Finnish Kalevala, which formed the basis of Tolkien's elvish culture. The author's passion for nature conservancy and cultural preservation are what ultimately serve the National Geographic agenda, but eloquent testimonials by archaeologists, anthropologists, and filmmakers make this a most agreeable hour of justified propaganda. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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