Get on board for one of the very best hard-boiled thrillers ever to hurtle out of Hollywood. Charles McGraw (His Kind Of Woman) stars as Detective Walter Brown a cop with a simple mission - get mobster's wife Frankie Neale (Marie Windsor Force of Evil) on the train and take her to the grand jury in Los Angeles where she's going to testify against her late husband's colleagues. But the mob don't want her to spill the beans and they'll stop at nothing to stop her taking the stand; Brown realises they've planted assassins on the train with them and it's up to him to keep her safe. It's going to be one hell of a journey...
The granddaddy of giant monster movies, The Lost World was one of the most expensive movies ever made in 1925, costing more than a million dollars, and has remained one of the most influential. Every larger-than-life creature feature since--from King Kong to Godzilla and Jurassic Park--owes a debt to this original adventure fantasy based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. It's the story of a maverick scientist (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard) who finds a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles and comes back to London with a captured brontosaurus to prove it. His expedition includes Bessie Love, the daughter of an explorer who disappeared on the previous expedition, and big game hunter Lewis Stone. The ostensible stars of the picture are all upstaged by Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs, simple models brought to life with primitive stop-motion animation (the technique was soon to be perfected by O'Brien for King Kong). Hardly realistic by any measure, these pioneering special effects are still a sight to behold, especially the lumbering brontosaurus which receives the most care from O'Brien, both foraging in his jungle and rampaging through the streets of London. With the coming of talkies, The Lost World became obsolete: all known American prints were destroyed in favour of a sound remake (which became King Kong) and the film only survived in a severely truncated form (even the original negative was lost). For this release David Shepard meticulously "rebuilt" the film using material from eight different surviving prints from all over the world, cleaning and restoring along the way. The result is 50% longer than previously extant prints, still not complete but closer than any version since its 1925 debut. The difference is not merely in restored scenes but in a rediscovered sense of grace in scenes filled out to their original detail and pace. The film moves and breathes once again like a silent film. On the DVD: From the attractive solid slipcase to the wonderful "period" menu interface, this is a delightful DVD package. The film itself looks surprisingly good--a real tribute to the restoration team's efforts--with careful tinting in the style of the period (blues for evening, reds for dawn etc.). The disc features the choice of either an original score by The Alloy Orchestra or a classical orchestral score compiled and conducted by Robert Israel (both enjoyable and effective), 13 minutes of O'Brien's animation outtakes (including a couple of isolated frames that capture O'Brien manipulating his models) and a well-meaning but basic commentary by Arthur Conan Doyle historian Roy Pilot. There's also a text biography of Conan Doyle and a display of original postcards, posters and other promotional items. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
The series that launched the UFC explosion is back for season 13! The Ultimate Fighter is hitting harder than ever as a group of rising mixed martial arts stars compete for a UFC contract and the opportunity to jump start their careers. Coached by heavyweight superstars Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos, these fighters will find out the hard way whether they've got what it takes to earn a spot on the UFC roster alongside the best athletes in the sport. Cast: Brock Lesnar, Junior dos Santos, Dana White, Chris Cope, Tony Ferguson, Shamar Bailey, Ramsey Nijem, and many more.Episode 1 - Something To ProveEpisode 2 - Suck It UpEpisode 3 - Chicken SaladEpisode 4 - A Bad DreamEpisode 5 - Wow MeEpisode 6 - Mean StreakEpisode 7 - Its Just Good To WinEpisode 8 - Shut Him UpEpisode 9 - Then It Turned UglyEpisode 10 - The Biggest Test
After 10 years of devastating warfare on Planet Sirius 6B a distant mining planet Commander Joseph Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is assigned to protect his outpost from the New Economic Block. His scientists have created a perfect weapon designed to destroy all enemy life - a blade wielding self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers. But something has gone wrong - the Screamers continue to evolve without any human guidance cloning themselves into human form and obliterating all forms of human life. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of the endless war Hendricksson decides he must negotiate peace with the enemy. But to do so he must first destroy the very weapon he helped to create - the Screamers!
Darling: (FS 4:3) Everyone calls Diana Scott (Julie Christie) 'Darling'. She is that kind of girl. As an ambitious model searching for new experiences she breathes in the sweet smell of success yet forget to exhale. Using a stream of famous and infamous men to sexaully manipulate her way to the top she becomes a prisoner of the jet-set lifestyle she herself conquered. Julie Christie won an Oscar for best Actress. Oscars also went to both Fredric Raphael for Best Original Story & Screenplay and to Julie Harris for her Costume Design The L-Shaped Room: (WS 1.66:1) In a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the 1960s sexual revolution a woman faces life in a shabby suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours they help her to decide whether to have an abortion...
A performance of Gounod's opera 'Romeo Et Juliette' in five acts recorded live at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
Nothing ever happens in Suddenly. It's a just small town with small concerns. That is until the President decides to show up... In this intelligent 1954 film noir thriller Frank Sinatra delivers an electrifying lead performance as psychotic undercover assassin John Baron. Alleged to have been viewed by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 only days prior to the shooting of President Kennedy 'Suddenly' was subsequently withdrawn from circulation by United Artists at Sinatra's personal request. Chillingly prophetic in it's subject matter 'Suddenly' is a killer addition to any noir collection.
At a house in an unspecified London location six twenty-something friends gather for a dinner party. What should be a relaxing and pleasant evening for all concerned slowly turns into a night where each participant's self-perception trust and knowledge of his/her partner is challenged to the extreme limits of durability. As the night unfolds it turns out that everyone is lying to each other. The question is can the different relationship survive these lies and the night?
Breakout is a 1975 jailbreak vehicle for Charles Bronson and wife Jill Ireland. It also stars Robert Duvall as Jay Wagner, framed by his wealthy but scheming grandfather (John Huston) and sentenced to 28 years in a Mexican jail. Ireland plays his concerned wife who enlists the help of small-time pilot Nick Colton (Bronson) to get Duvall out of jail in an audacious escape plot. While supporting actors such as Randy Quaid as Bronson's sidekick bring a little enthusiasm to their parts, the major players do not. Bronson and Ireland deliver their parts with the stiltedness of a first run-through, while Robert Duvall's mind seems entirely elsewhere, as if he's unable to believe he's involved in such an inauspicious project. His character seems strangely indifferent to his fate, an indifference which spreads swiftly to the audience. The escape sequence takes an eternity to arrive and when it does is almost breathtakingly underwhelming. Only the gruesomely depicted death of a bad guy, slashed to pieces by a propeller on a runaway, strikes a pleasingly jarring note. Otherwise, you almost feel sorry for this film, so manifestly unloved is it by those who conceived and participated in it. On the DVD: Breakout on disc is presented in anamorphic widescreen format. There are no extras other than subtitles. --David Stubbs
Charlie Chaplin: Collection 5
Live concert footage from Nine Inch Nails' 2005 Winter and Summer Tours of North America. Including tracks from their entire repertoire including songs from the new album to be released this year. Tracklist: 1. Love Is Not Enough - Live (winter tour) 2. You Know What You Are? - Live (winter tour) 3. Terrible Lie - Live (winter tour) 4. The Line Begins To Blur - Live (winter tour) 5. March Of The Pigs - Live (winter tour) 6. Something I Can Never Have - Live (winter tour) 7. Closer - Live (winter tour) 8. Burn - Live (winter tour) 9. Gave Up - Live (winter tour) 10. Eraser - Live (winter tour) 11. Right Where It Belongs - Live (winter tour) 12. Beside You In Time - Live (winter tour) 13. With Teeth - Live (winter tour) 14. Wish - Live (winter tour) 15. Only - Live (winter tour) 16. The Big Come Down - Live (winter tour) 17. Hurt - Live (winter tour) 18. The Hand That Feeds - Live (winter tour) 19. Head Like A Hole - Live (winter tour) 20. Credits 21. Somewhat Damaged - Live summer tour) 22. Closer - Live (summer tour) 23. Help Me I Am In Hell - Live (summer tour) 24. Non-Entity - Live (summer tour) 25. Only - Live (summer tour) 26. The Collector - Live at rehearsals 2005 27. Every Day Is Exactly The Same - Live at rehearsals 2005 28. The Hand That Feeds - Album Version Closed Captioned 29. Love Is Not Enough - Live at rehearsals 2005 30. Only - Dirty Version Closed Captioned 31. Body of Work 32. Stills Gallery
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