A band of ruthless outlaws try to force out the townsfolk in a small community after gold is discovered there. But one brave man stands in their way in this tense film one of John Wayne's best early works...
Classic adaptations of P G Wodehouse's short stories. Each story is introduced by the author in one of his last recordings. The stories are based around three general themes: The Mulliners relating to the rather bizarre extended family of Mr. Mulliner; The Oldest Member stories which take place in and around the golf club; and The Drones Club an all male society whose members include Freddy Fitch-Fitch and Adolhus Stiffham. This double feature contains seven half hour long stories
This indispensable DVD offers one of the most interesting films ever made about a modern experimental jazz pioneering. The star is Steve Lacy the soprano sax innovator talking about his musical concepts and his major influences from Sidney Bechet to John Coltrane Cecil Taylor Gil Evans and Thelonious Monk who showed him the way to 'lift the bandstand'.The documentary film directed by Peter Bull presents clips of all these artists who underpin the human inspirations behind Lacy's processing of sly wit precise abstraction and mystical method. He's revealed as a sort of post-modern modernist whose music can sing it's laughing at itself crying.
Ryan Reynolds lights up the screen as the charismatic Mr D A teacher whose lessons extend far beyond the classroom in this heart-warming tale of learning to appreciate every moment we're given. At Fallbrook Middle School a Warner has won the coveted Student-Elected Teacher of the Year award 43 years in a row. Unfortunately it was ""Stormin"" Norman Warner each time and now that he's passed away the burden of maintaining the family legacy falls to Matt Warner (David Paymer) who's
Seven instructors cover the steady bass/syncopated melody of the Piedmont blues players; the muffled bass and swingy chords of Travis-style pickers; the strumming and pounding of Delta blues stylists; and the banjo-like rolls and single-string approach of bluegrass-oriented pickers. Taught by Happy Traum Thom Bresh Doc Watson John Jackson Eddie Adcock Roy Book Binder and Rory Block.
In 'Neath The Arizona Skies' Nina the daughter of a rich Indian is due to inherit her father's oil field but needs his signature to claim the land. Several outlaws have realised her worth and abduct her. In 'Paradise Canyon' an undercover federal agent is on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters.
This Western adapted from a serial follows a young man in search of his father's killer known as 'The Wrecker'...
Great Pianists Of The Bell Telephone Hour (1959 - 1967)
I Married Wyatt Earp is based on a true story and stars Marie Osmond as Josephine Marcus Earp a young opera singer who tells the story of how she became the wife of legendary law man.
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family - a bold and brassy embodiment of Wilder's vision of the American people. This eloquent comedy serves up an allegorical tale of one American family whose members must come to grips with their destinies. Having survived fire, flood pestilence, seven-year locusts, the Ice Age and a dozen wars, the Antrobuses are as durable as radiators, and remain as optimistic as a spring day. ...
Four very different friends - an aspiring writer a very smart boy with an abusive father a drug addicted musician and a loose cannon - grow up togther and stay best friends until the end of college where each must face his personal demons...
Scorched (Dir. Gavin Grazer 2003): Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. Each has their own idea. Sheila (Silverstone) wants to break into the ATM. Stuart plans to ""borrow"" some money for the weekend and head to Vegas. And Woods (Harrelson) has a scheme involving a duck a dog and a safety deposit box. The ultimate inside jobs plotted by three people with nothing to lose. If only they were aware of each others plans! Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (Dir. Terry Jones 1983): Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! These naughty lads offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favorite bodily parts and functions the wonders of war the miracle of birth and a special preview of what's waiting for us in Heaven. Nothing is too sacred for the probing Python crew. After seeing them in action you'll never look at life in quite the same way again. It's far-out frank and jolly good fun!
Frank Sinatra stars with Kim Novak and Eleanor Parker in this riveting drama about a poker dealer/jazz musician who descends to skid row after becoming addicted to heroin. Will he make it back into the spotlight -- or even survive? Based upon the classic American novel by Nelson Algren The Man With The Golden Arm was far ahead of its time with its depiction of what drugs can do to even an ambitious person. Its cautionary tale still holds up today as heroin has come back to haunt not
The outstanding tenors of the 78 era: comprising thirteen episodes each with a biographical and a musical focus this two-volume edition features bel canto singers captured on black and white sound film. Backed up with footage much of which is shown here for the very first time the individual artists are profiled and their exceptional talents demonstrated in representative recordings.
Pocahontas:An epic adventure story of courage and friendship set against the magical backdrop of the New World. The arrival in New England of a mysterious shipload of English settlers led by Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson) alarms the local Indian tribe. For Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) the Indian Chief's beautiful daughter Smith's arrival marks the beginning of an emotional journey which changes both their lives forever... Mulan:Embraced for her loveable spirited nature Mulan is a young girl who doesn't quite fit into her tradition bound society. When the invading Hun army comes charging over China's Great Wall Mulan's ageing father is ordered into battle! To spare him from harm Mulan disguises herself as a soldier and secretly takes his place in the Imperial army training with a comical ragtag troop led by the courageous Captain Shang. Never far away are Mulan's hilarious guardian dragon Mushu and lucky cricket Cri-Kee. But Mulan will need more than Mushu's razor-sharp wit to defeat the ruthless Hun leader Shan-Yu. Only by staying true to herself will she bring victory to her country and honour to her family.
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers! In 1969 the brilliant scientist Professor Jones (Saxon - toupee present) has been beavering way on a new drug to increase the powers of psychic's. While successful for some the results for others were horrific; turning people into drooling demons desperate for one more fix of the drug. An accident forces the school to close after many of the stu
FARMER IAN COUTES is found burned to death in a suspicious house fire. The Taggart team is called to the small village of Fenmore to investigate. It quickly becomes apparent that Fenmore is a divided community. Foot and mouth disease has destroyed generations of farming and heightened animosity between locals and incomers, in particular against Mark Andrews who works for a land development company which is buying up local farm land. The investigation team discovers that the dean man had been in serious debt and had sold most of his land to the company. A second farmer is murdered and when DCI Burke discovers that Andrews has a criminal record for intimidation, it puts him at the top of the suspect list. However, when a third farmer is murdered it becomes clear that something more sinister is going on in Fenmore. The city of Glasgow backdrop with its characteristic wit, combines with the menacing nature of the cases, make Taggart unique in style, and it is now the longest running detective drama on UK television
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