The title of Carry On Again Doctor (1969) says it all; almost the same cast playing similar characters to their previous year's outing in Carry On Doctor. This one rejoices in the alternative title "Bowels are Ringing". But the enduring popularity of these films owes almost everything to their basic formula and if this one occasionally seems a bit cobbled together, all the old favourites are still there, working away. This time, the setting moves from the National Health Service to the private sector and even stretches as far as the "Beatific Islands" when Jim Dale is exiled to a missionary clinic for his overzealous attention to the female patients, who include Barbara Windsor of course. There, orderly Sid James rules the roost of the clinic with his harem of local women. Trivia addicts can spot Mrs Michael Caine in a brief role as a token dusky maiden. The second half of the Talbot Rothwell script picks up nicely as the characters converge on the private hospital back in England where Dale rakes in the money with a bogus weight loss treatment. Hattie Jacques is in fine form as Matron, Kenneth Williams fascinates with his usual mass of mannerisms and Joan Sims is stately as the Lady Bountiful figure financing most of the shenanigans. It's a tribute to their professionalism that we can still lose ourselves in some of the creakiest old jokes around. On the DVD: Bog standard 4:3 picture format and mono soundtrack provide an adequate viewing experience, especially as today most people will be more familiar with these films from television transmissions than from their cinema release. However, the lack of extras is a shame. Apart from the scene index, there is nothing to distinguish the DVD from its video equivalent. At the very least, a cast list or star biographies would add a little value. --Piers Ford
There is only loyalty or betrayal: nothing in between... When Emery Simms betrays his beautiful wife Constance for one night of passion with a seductive stranger he is convinced he can keep the fling a secret and move on. But in the high stakes world of upper society and shady business someone is always watching and Simms learns quickly that no matter what kind of vows you take nothing is sacred and no one is ever really safe.
Set in the deep American south Claude Montgomery (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Dern) head back to their roots in Little Rock Arkansas to reunite with their family and lend support to their Uncle Hazel (Varney) who has been arrested for attempted murder. Here they meet with Ruby's eccentric mother Jewel (Ladd) her sultry sister Rose (Preston) and other members of their outrageous family in an amusing yet poignant story of family feuds mixed with sweeter emotions.
One of Powell and Pressburger's most famous films, "The Red Shoes" is the tragic and romantic story of Vicky Page, the brilliant young dancer who must give up everything if she is to become a great ballerina.
Flashback to the days of full length sideburns beehives & bell-bottoms! The sensational Soul sounds that defined an era. Ike & Tina Turner belt their signature smash ""Proud Mary "" Gladys Knight at her vocal height and much much more! Track Listing includes: Ike & Tina Turner - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - Get Back - Proud Mary Gladys Knight & The Pips - I Dont Wanna Do Wrong - Youre All I Need To Get By Bo Diddley - Hey Bo Diddley - Jam Session Lou Rawls & Freda Payne - Oh Happy Day
Amazing things happen when you believe....A quiet neighbourhood is reeling with the shock of Santa Claus moving into town. The children are in seventh heaven but the traffic jams reindeers and popping snow machines prove too much for Santa's neighbours and they call in local mayoral candidate (Shelley Long) to shut down Santa's Dream World.Reporter Frank Mallory (Barry Bostwick) is intrigued by Elizabeth's lack of Christmas spirit and interested in what makes Santa tick.Santa has used his magic to light up other lives but is it too late to reunite his own family?
Reality bites! High school sweethearts Brady Claire and six of their college friends board a houseboat for a fun-filled sun-soaked spring break vacation. But when they discover a nest of large eggs in the marshlands -- and one of them can't resist taking one back to the party -- their weekend of fun-in-the-sun will turn into a weekend of terror!
With this Santa it's Christmas every single day of the year - but his mid-summer arrival in a small town causes as much heartache as joy in the delightful family film.
Disc 1 - Dionne Warwick Live in Concert 2005: 1. Heartbreaker 2. Do You Know the Way to San Jose 3. I'll Never Fall in Love Again 4. Look of Love 5. Arthur's Theme 6. I'll Never Love This Way Again 7. All the Love in the World 8. Alfie's Theme 9. Don't Make Me Over 10. Walk On By 11. That's What Friends Are For 12. Don't Think It's Over 13. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head 14. What the World Needs now 15. Anyone Who Needs a Heart 16. Say a Little Prayer 17. Deja Vu Disc 2 - Don't Make Me Over: This 90 minute documentary is a music profile of Dionne Warwick featuring performance clips interviews and contributions from a star-studded line-up of her friends family and collaborators including Quincy Jones Tom Jones Burt Bacharach Stevie Wonder Gladys Knight Gloria Estefan and many more!
Twenty Bucks is the story of a $20 bill from its birth at an ATM to its final shredding at the bank and the lives it touches along the way. Among those passing the buck are a prophetic bag lady (Linda Hung The Year of Living Dangerously) an about-to-marry-rich working stiff (Brendan Fraser TheMummy) a New Age witch (Gladys Knight) a struggling writer (Elisabeth Shue Leaving Las Vegas) adistracted cop (William H. Macy The Cooler) a well-mannered stick-up artist (Christopher Lloyd The Addams Family) and a hot-headed conman (Steve Buscemi Big Fish). And while they may be strangersto each other they do have one thing in common. When they passed the buck they never expected change
Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Mothers. Daughters. The never-ending story of good vs. evil... After years of mother-daughter tension Siddalee (Bullock) receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the 'Ya-Yas' her mother's girlhood friends... (Dir. Callie Khouri 2002 Cert. 12) Two Weeks' Notice: Attorney Lucy Kelson wants to save the world. Instead she's choosing ties and interviewing prospective girlfriends for her handsome and hapless billion
A selection of the comedy duo's films.... Lucky Dog (1921) Be Big (1931) March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) Flying Deuces (1939) Utopia (1950) their appearance on This Is Your Life (1952) and Laurel and Hardy at the Movies.
When Bernardo Bertolucci went to the Himalayas to film Little Buddha, so the anecdote runs, he was disappointed by the scenery. Somehow, the real thing didn't quite live up to what he'd been led to expect by Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. It's not hard to see why he felt let down. Their film is almost ridiculously gorgeous--a procession of saturated Technicolor, Expressionist angles, theatrical lighting and overwrought design. It has a good claim to being the high watermark of lushness in the British cinema (and, incidentally, every original foot of it was actually shot in Britain). No wonder it took the Oscar for colour cinematography (shot by Jack Cardiff) as well as for art direction and set decoration (created by Alfred Junge).Audiences loved it on its first release, but the critics were cooler: hadn't the story been upstaged by the baroque images? Well, probably, but that's not altogether a bad thing, since the plot--quite faithful to Rumer Godden's popular novel --isn't wholly free of corn. A group of five Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) establish a school and hospital in a former harem among the Himalayan peaks. The wind blows, the drums pound, the Old Gods stir, and one by one the celibate sisters succumb to unchaste thoughts, above all Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron, terrific in the role), so consumed by erotic yearning for the one Englishman in sight (David Farraar) she puts on crimson lipstick, wears her wimple-free tresses like an early Goth and takes a downward turn. (Black Narcissus features the greatest scene involving a nun and a high place this side of Hitchcock's Vertigo and Jacques Rivette's La Religieuse.) Silly, to be sure, but also sublime at times and as curiously entertaining as it is picturesque. --Kevin Jackson
Set during the swinging sixties in San Francisco Richard Lester's landmark romantic drama tells of the charmingly kooky socialite Petulia (Julie Christie) who has been recently married to David (Richard Chamberlain). Unhappy with her marriage she embarks on a love affair with a melancholy recently-divorced doctor (George C. Scott) as they try to make sense of their dispassionate lives. Through Nicolas Roeg's cinematography the non-linear fragmented love story loops back and forth and the dark reality emerges from the idyllic fa''ade of sixties opulence. As the story of Petulia's abuse at the hands of her husband unfolds the lovers try to find the courage to change the course of their lives in the face of their respective demons.
A low-rent horror flick from the early 1980s, Of Unknown Origin completely misses the mark in the scare stakes and instead comes across like a grisly, live-action version of Tom and Jerry. Our inept hero is the ambitious, house-proud executive Bart Hughes (Peter Weller), who is left alone by his wife and son to complete a business proposal only to discover that he is sharing his apartment with a mischievous giant rat. Unable to trap or poison his foe, Hughes quickly descends into nightmare-haunted madness and thus the stage is set for a suspenseless battle of wits that is less cat-and-mouse and more idiot-versus-rat. Finding an angry rodent swimming in your toilet might be a pretty unpleasant prospect, but cinematically speaking it's far from terrifying. Created using jerky point-of-view shots and creature effects that range from incongruous real-life footage to button-eyed glove puppets, the rat is an unthreatening villain, despite Weller's best efforts to react in abject horror when he finds the corners of his mail nibbled or his dry groceries spoiled. There are some unsuccessful attempts to make Hughes' plight more immediate to the audience by references to real-life rat problems--he visits a library to research his enemy and finds some disturbing photographs of rat-attack victims and subsequently ruins a dinner party with a genuinely unsettling rant about infestation and plagues--but it's difficult to feel sorry for him when he can't even muster the tenacity to track down a professional exterminator. By the time Weller gets caught in one of his own traps, you will probably be rooting for the rat anyway, and might take some pleasure from a ridiculous denouement in which, dressed in full battle-gear, he completely destroys his beloved apartment by clumsily chasing the elusive vermin with a nail-studded baseball bat. Gore Verbinski's genuinely hilarious Mousehunt did it with a lot more charm. On the DVD: Of Unknown Origin comes to DVD with a basic selection of extras. An entertaining commentary from Peter Weller and the likeable George P Cosmatos III does the film a lot of favours, even if their efforts to talk up its importance as an allegory for man's struggle against nature using comparisons with The Old Man and the Sea, Moby Dick, Alien and Jaws fail to convince. Added to this is the theatrical trailer ("If it doesn't scare you to death, it WILL find another way!"), a choice of languages and scene selection. --Paul Philpott
See Tom Jones perform with some of the leading ladies of the music and movie world including Tina Turner Gladys Knight Brooke Shields and more. Track list: Gladys Knight - Guilty Gladys Knight Solo - Love On The Rocks Dionne Warwick - Endless Love Dionne Warwick Solo - Long Road Ahead Of Us Marie Osmond - The Way You Do The Things You Do Marie Osmond Solo - I'll Take you Back Chaka Khan - We Can Work It Out Chaka Khan Solo - See You In The Morning Tina Turner - Hot Legs Tina Turner Solo - Pain Rita Coolidge - Somethin' Bout You Baby I like Rita Coolidge Solo - Words Cybil Shepherd - Our Day Will Come Cybil Shepherd Solo - Stardust Dusty Springfield - Upside Down Dusty Springfield Solo - Quiet Please There's A Lady On Stage Deniece Williams - Too Much Too Little Too Late Deniece Williams Solo - What Two Can Do Brooke Shields - Little Quennie Brooke Shields Solo - You're The Only One Lola Falana - I Love The Night Life Lola Falana Solo - Come In From The Rain Susan Anton - Somethin's Burnin' Susan Anton Solo - Dream' My Dreams Sondra Locke - Again Sondra Locke Solo - Wheel Of Fortune Audrey Landers - Reunited Audrey Landers Solo - Love Me tonight Juliet Prowse - I Get A Kick Out Of You Juliet Prowse Solo - Satin Doll Stephanie Mills - The Closer I get To You Stephanie Mills Solo - I Never Knew Love Like This Before Lynn Anderson - Whenever I Call You Friend Lynn Anderson Solo - Queen Of Hearts Marisa Berenson - He's So Shy Marisa Berenson Solo - They Can't Take That Away From Me Tanya Tucker - I'm Leaving It Up To You Tanya Tucker Solo - Love Knows We Tried
Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver hardy) are well-meaning but brainless toymakers in Toyland. They misinterpret an order from Santa Claus for 600 one foot high toy soldiers and come up instead with 100 6 foot high soldiers. But their toy army comes in handy when the evil Barnaby (Henry Brandon) and his furry Bogeymen invade Toyland and the boys end up as heroes when they save the Widow Peep's daughter Bo (Charlotte Henry) from his clutches. This priceless nine inch r
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