John Cusack stars as Danny an all round nice guy who plans to spend some quality time in the Caribbean with his girlfriend Lori (Wendy Gazelle). But although they've been planning their trip for months it only takes a few minutes for it all to go wrong! To start Danny misses his plane. Then for all his attempts to catch up with Lori he finds himself in ever more bizarre situations. From jailbreaks and jungles to hurricanes and hijacking his only companion is roguish old sea dog Captain MacLaren (Robert Loggia). She promised him ten days together in paradise. He never dreamed how far he'd have to go!
Tracklisting: Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death performed by Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) Mstislav Rostropovich (piano). Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante in E minor for cello & orchestra Op 125 performed by Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) and the Orchestre National de l'Opra de Monte-Carlo Okko Kamu. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major Op 107 performed by Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) and the London Symphony Orchestra Charles Groves.
The one film in John Cusack's filmography he'd probably like us all to forget, this 80s-style preppy-in-peril film (compare and contrast with After Hours and Something Wild) casts him as a college student who gets mixed up with pirates and drug runners around the Caribbean. The wannabe screwball comedy falls flatter with each gag but Cusack's hang-dog sweetness and knack with one-liners carries it through and at the very least it's worth catching if only for a glimpse of Ben Stiller in his pre-There's Something About Mary fame days, in a double act here with his real-life father Jerry Stiller. --Leslie Felperin
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Classic Western from 1952 starring Mala Powers and Jack Buetel, directed by Harry Keller. After a wagon train is attacked by Comanche Indians, a young Cherokee finds a lone survivor. He takes the baby girl to his parents, who name her Rose, and rear her lovingly as one of their own. Years later, Rose's foster parents are murdered while trying to stop outlaws on the run from stealing their horses. A devastated Rose (Mala Powers) vows revenge. She tracks the killers to Dodge City, where she enlists the aid of Marshal Hollister (Jack Beutel), known as one of the best lawmen in the West. Although the Marshal insists she abide by the white man's law, Rose takes matters into er own hands... ...Rose of Cimarron
Second Chorus: Trumpet players Danny (Fred Astaire) and Hank (Burgess Meredith) have been avoiding graduation for seven years so that they can continue playing with their college band. They hire pretty Ellen Miller (Paulette Goddard) as the band's agent and as she quickly increases their earning power the boys find themselves with flourishing musical careers. Ellen is one day hired as Artie Shaw's band manager and makes plans for Danny and Hank to audition for Shaw. Both ho
Hocus-Pocus: Steve Austin teams up with a pretty ESP expert in a magic act in order to gain access to a nightclub owner's gang-land organization that has stolen a top secret code book. The Price of Liberty: Plans for the Liberty Bell to be toured around the nation to celebrate the Bicentennial are thwarted when it is stolen by a disgruntled scientist who threatens to blow it up. The Bionic Criminal: Barney a race driver is re-activated as the second bionic man over Steve's protest. Steve has reason to doubt Barney's mental stability and soon his fears are justified when he turns his bionic powers to a life of crime...
Aging horror film star Orlok (Karloff) announces his retirement as an apparently average young man (O'Kelly) goes on a shooting spree eventually showing up at a drive-in theater where Orlok is making his final personal appearance...
The all-male dance company entertain with a number of familiar works performed in their unique style and filmed live at La Maison De La Danse Lyon. The programme includes: 'Swan Lake - Act II' 'The Dying Swan' 'Raymonda's Wedding' 'Go For Barocco' and 'Le Corsaire (Pas De Deux)'.
Episodes Comprise: 1. A Nice Place to Visit 2. The Picture Frame 3. Everywhere a Shiek Shiek 4. Monkee Mayor 5. Art for Monkees' Sake 6. I Was a 99-Pound Weakling 7. Hillbilly Honeymoon 8. Monkees Marooned 9. The Card Carrying Red Shoes 10. Wild Monkees 11. A Coffin Too Frequent 12. Hitting the High Seas 13. Monkees in Texas 14. Monkees on the Wheel 15. The Christmas Show 16. Fairy Tale 17. Monkees Watch Their Feet 18. Monstrous Monkee Mash 19. Monkees Paw 20. The Devil and Peter Tork 21. Monkees Race Again 22. The Monkees in Paris 23. Monkees Mind Their Manor 24. Some Like It Lukewarm 25. Monkees Blow Their Minds 26. Mijacogeo
When this Salzburg Festival production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress hit the stage in 1996, the reviews in the British press were red hot. Unfortunately Peter Mussbach's staging, though it has moments of theatrical flair, doesn't translate smoothly to the small screen in this live recording: his grand visual metaphors--an aeroplane that never takes off and stage-hands in anti-Enlightenment monkey costumes--look somewhat pinched. But Sylvain Cambreling's pacy conducting and the central performances come across with 1,000-watt energy. Dawn Upshaw is outstanding as Anne Trulove, bringing as much careful detail to her acting as she does brilliance to her vocal technique; and her performance of the Act I aria and cabaletta, "No word from Tom ... I go, I go to him", must rank among the best ever recorded. Jerry Hadley, dressed as a mullet-haired "yoof" in heavy-metal T-shirt and jeans, doesn't quite have the clarity and vocal agility of, say, Philip Langridge as Tom Rakewell, but the amusing yobbishness of his acting suits his louder redder-blooded performance beautifully. Rich-voiced Jane Henschel is hilarious as Baba the Turk, and uses her large frame with dainty, tippy-toe comic effect. On the DVD: the production is judiciously directed by Brian Large: there are plenty of carefully placed reaction shots, unobtrusive camera movements and there's an overall sense of a highly charged live performance. The recording levels, though generally excellent, occasionally offer a muffled phrase or two. There are subtitles in English, German, French and Spanish but no other special features. --Warwick Thompson
A New York City magazine journalist decides to investigate the city's prostitution industry in order to ascertain who is making all of the money. What she discovers causes widespread controversy.
William De Vital directs this action drama starring Sally Kirkland, Natasha Alam and Eric Roberts. Sara Ogden (Alam) is a journalist with an international reputation. She has stumbled onto perhaps the greatest story she could have hoped for: a worldwide conspiracy involving something called the 'Stamp of Cain' which seems an omen of chaos and death wherever it is found. Connecting the dots from around the globe, Sara is led to Belarus where she may find who is truly pulling the strings behind it all.
Born Marion Morrison in 1907 John Wayne would become one of the greatest and most enduring screen legends in the history of cinema. It was in these early westerns that he developed his famous screen image. When director John Ford spotted this emerging talent and cast him as the Ringo Kid in 'Stagecoach' 'The Duke's' future was sealed. Rainbow Valley: John Martin is a government agent working undercover. Leading citizen Morgan calls in gunman Galt who blows Martin's cover..
Contains the titles: 'Riders Of Destiny' 'West Of The Divide' and 'The Sagebrush Trail'. In Riders Of Destiny a secret agent is sent in to restore the water supply to a group of ranchers. In West Of The Divide a man pretends to be a killer and in Sagebrush Trail a wrongly convicted cowboy searches for a murderer.
When the DEAD walk the earth there's no place for a man of peace.
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