Academy Award® winner Jack Palance stars in this terrifying adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire legend with screenplay by sci-fi/horror master Richard Matheson and produced by the legendary Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows). Palance is Count Dracula whose existence is threatened after he attacks Lucy (Fiona Lewis) and her fiancé (Simon Ward); and they call in vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing (Nigel Davenport).Transferred and restored from the original 35mm camera negative. Features: First ever UK release on DVD of this critically acclaimed Dracula film Remastered and restored to HD Directed by renowned horror film director Dan Curtis “More faithful to the novel than any of the cinematic variations” - dailymotion.com
Starring two icons of the movie world - Tony Curtis as a Bronx boy made good and Roger Moore as an upper crust peer of the realm. Together they are The Persuaders seekers of justice in an unjust world.... Features the final two episodes of this super action/adventure series. Eps. 23: To The Death Baby - Brett & Danny are conned out of some money while trying to break up a relationship. Eps. 24: Someone Waiting - Brett recieves chilling threats to his life after entering his new car for a race.
Between heroic spells as the Saint and James Bond, Roger Moore was teamed with Tony Curtis in The Persuaders, a derivative but fun series about a couple of millionaire dilettante adventurers who swan around the world competing for the attention of beautiful women and getting involved in perplexing mysteries. Moore is Lord Brett Sinclair, an upper crust Brit of impeccable breeding, while Curtis is Danny Wilde, an up-from-the-streets self-made man whose trademark is a pair of brown gloves. The allegedly tasteful Brett and the crasser Danny both model a succession of garish early 70s fashions while their pursuits of duplicitous crumpet usually wind up with the women getting away and the heroes stuck with each other. Given all that, this may well be the most blatantly homoerotic of all the buddy television pairings (see the eponymous stars of Starsky and Hutch, Regan and Carter in The Sweeney, Bodie and Doyle of The Professionals) that ran ove! r the screen in the 70s, in which the male leads sublimated their feelings for each other by pulling out their guns and shooting at baddies. --Kim Newman
Guy Green's film represented the beginning of a lack of solidarity in unions as Tom Curtis (Richard Attenborough) with wife Anna (Pier Angeli) expecting a child refuses to join an unofficial strike in his machine shop and becomes the victim of assaults both mental and physical. Acclaimed as one of the most moving and powerful films ever made in Britain The Angry Silence won unprecedented acclaim. Within a week of its opening it had become the most talked-about film in the country
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