Down-on-their luck, upper-class family rent out a wing of their stately home to a lower-class family.
The Agatha Christie Hour is a collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by the most popular novelist in history. Some were romances some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented. Episodes Comprise: The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife: When Mrs Packington whose husband is paying more attention to his young secretary answers an ad in the papers reading ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE she soon finds herself being dazzled and swept off her feet by the handsome Claude Luttrell. In A Glass Darkly: Matthew Armitage is startled by a vision in his mirror: he sees a man with a scarred neck strangling a beautiful blonde. He later meets the woman in his vision Sylvia and notes her fiance's scarred neck. Mathew tells Sylvia of his premonition and the engagement is broken off. But is that all there is to it? The Case of the Discontented Soldier: The recently retired Major Wilbraham is bored and unhappy so he answers Parker Pyne's newspaper ad. Before long the Major finds himself rescuing Freda Clegg from two burly attackers; with Freda in tow he embarks on a daring adventure to find treasure in the wilds of Africa! Another charming love story of an autumn romance. Magnolia Blossom: Theodora Darrell is running away with her lover - and business associate of her husband - Vincent Easton when she learns her husband Richard is facing financial ruin. Old loyalties resurface and she returns home to see if she can fix the situation. The Mystery of the Blue Jar: Playing golf early one morning Jack Harrington hears a cry Murder! Help! from a nearby cottage. He runs up to find a beautiful French girl Felise placidly weeding the garden oblivious to any disturbance. When the Jack hears the same cries for many days he begins to think he might be mad. But are more sinister forces at work? The Red Signal: Dermot West is invited to dinner at the home of Jack and Claire Trent. The first is his best friend the second the woman he loves. During the evening the conversation turns to the supernatural; Dermot admits he frequently gets what he calls 'the red signal' to warn him of impending danger. He neglects to mention that he is getting the signal strongly that night! Jane in Search of a Job: Jane Cleveland lands a sought-after job as double for the Grand Duchess of Ostrova during the latter's state visit to England. An attempt is feared on the Duchess' life and when Jane is framed for a theft events become ever more complicated. Can she clear her name and who is trying to kill the Duchess? The Manhood of Edward Robinson: Prim and proper yet a romantic dreamer Edward Robinson leads a rather dull life with his domineering girlfriend and uninspiring job. His quiet dull life ends when he wins some money in a newspaper contest and he embarks on an adventure that even he never dreamed of. The Girl in The Train: George Rowland a bored playboy disowned for the seventh time by his wealthy uncle is on the train to London. When a beautiful girl bursts into his compartment frantically begging to be hidden his life changes dramatically. The Fourth Man: A canon a lawyer and a psychiatrist find themselves together on a train bound for Newcastle. There is a fourth man in the compartment who apparently pays no attention to his companions' animated conversation.
After hearing that Andre Toulon's puppets have no strings but rather seem to have a life of their own, Dr. Hess, a Gestapo henchman during WWII, sends the Gestapo to the theatre to kidnap them. During the melee, Toulon's wife Elsa is killed and Toulon is whisked away by the Nazis. However, on the way to headquarters the puppets attack the Gestapo and escape with Toulon. Now Toulon begins to plan his revenge. He creates a new puppet, SIX-SHOOTER, models BLADE after a pasty-faced Nazi, and uses Elsa's essence to create LEECH WOMAN. Now Toulon's army is ready to get even and take revenge.......
The cult classic about two unemployed actors returns ot the big screens some twenty years after it's debut.
Written by Graham Linehan (Father Ted Black Books) and produced by Ash Atalla (The Office) The IT Crowd centres on the worlds of Roy Moss and Jen who make up the IT department of Reynholm Industries. While their social betters work upstairs in fantastic surroundings the IT dept. work in a horrible dark basement underneath it all... The IT Crowd will strike a chord with everyone who dreads getting stuck in a corner with the IT boys at the office party or who's ever phoned their IT deptartment only to be asked Have you tried turning it off and on again? Filmed on location and in front of a live studio audience The IT Crowd is a surreal look at the underclass of a company.
Find out how it all began for one of the big screens most celebrated baddies in this chilling prequel.
""If this be a natural thing where do it come from where do it go? "" Tommy Gander a concert comedian; Teddy Deakin his pal; Jackie Withorp and her cousin Richard Winthrop; Miss Bourne a spinster visiting evacuees Herbert and Edna an engaged couple and Dr. Sterling travelling on a train to Cornwall miss their connections owing to a delay and have to spend a night in the waiting room of the eerie Cornish railway junction for Fal Vale. The station master tells them the s
This collection features superlative television productions of four of Shakespeare's best-loved plays. Featuring electrifying performances from some of Britain's most accomplished actors and leading RSC players, these productions bring Shakepeare's work vividly and faithfully to life. MACBETH Ian McKellen and Judi Dench lead the RSC cast in Trevor Nunn's stunning production of Shakespeare's tale of a Scottish general whose hunger for kingship leads to a reign of terror. ROMEO & JULIET Joan Kemp-Welch directs Christoper Neame and Ann Hasson in a BAFTA-nominated adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of young lovers destroyed by a feud between two families. TWELFTH NIGHT Richard Briers and Frances Barber lead the Renaissance Theatre Company in this much-loved comedy of mistaken identity and unrequited desire, staged to huge acclaim by Kenneth Branagh. KING LEAR Patrick Magee gives a tour de force performance as the elderly king who descends into madness after disposing of his estate between his treacherous daughters Regan and Goneril.
It's the most hilarious suspense ride of your life! In this wild comedy adventure rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the middle of a Hitchcockian murder plot. Leaping on and off the train in and out of roomettes bars and dining cars George teams up with an amiable small-time crook (Richard Pryor) to defy the murderer's henchmen FBI agents and a host of other outrageous characters!
The young D'Artagnan (Michael York) arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men Athos (Oliver Reed) Porthos (Frank Finlay) and Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out that they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle
Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt) is a reluctant bagman who has a score to settle with a crime kingpin and his even more dangerous girlfriend (Julia Roberts).
South America Special: The Director's Cut: What happens when you take a tall man in jeans a small man dressed as Ray Mears and a shaggy haired man with the most ridiculous tool belt you've ever seen and you drop them deep in the Amazon rain forest? Well either you don't see them again until some proper explorers find their still-screaming skeletons. Or as actually happened you let them take along a trio of temperamental 4x4s and set them off on a 1000 mile journey through forest over mountains and across deserts in what turns out to be Top Gear's most exciting dramatic and visually stunning adventure to date. Romania & Bonneville: The Director's Cut Romania: When the Top Gear team received whisper that deep within Romania lurked one of the world's best driving roads they had no option but to seek it out. And to do so they got hold of three superb convertible supercars in what became an incredible Eastern European adventure. From a noise test underneath the world's heaviest building and James's romantic encounter with the Dacia Sandero to a small accident with the locals and Jeremy in a silly hat this trip has everything. And best of all it culminates with three wonderful cars enjoying absolute petrolhead nirvana. Bonneville USA: Jeremy Richard and James head to the United States to see if the Americans still make any good cars. Unfortunately there's a small error with their visas and the US immigration authorities will only let them in if they promise not to do anything entertaining. So with serious faces on they set off on a proper old fashioned muscle car road trip to the amazing Bonneville salt flats. Along the way Richard becomes an amateur aerodynamicist Jeremy discovers a strange security problem with one of their cars and Captain Slow discovers a hitherto hidden love of fast driving in what turns out to be a dusty dirty slice of pure car lover's heaven.
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is a mesmerizing movie about earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man.
Shaun persuades Bitzer to take part in his game of cricket but Bitzer is more worried about the condition of the pitch than the game. The resident moles, unhappy at the game taking place above their head, get involved in a tit for tat with Bitzer which soon escalates to full scale war. Shaun the Sheep' is a firm family favourite with audiences all over the world and these episodes offer even more outrageous inventiveness, sheepish shenanigans and panic in the pasture. Don't miss your appointment for more fun on the farm with Shaun the Sheep. Episodes: Out of Order Karma Farmer Spoilsport Baa-d Hair Day The Farmer's Nephew Babysitter Bitzer Dodgy Lodger Timmy and the Dragon Cone of Shame Extras: Behind the Scenes: A Director Finding Shelly the Snail' An Animator A Model Maker A 3rd Assistant Director
Winston Smith (Hurt) endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. But his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the chillingly labelled ""Ministry of Love"" he is placed at the mercy of O'Brien (Burton) a coolly treacherous leader determined to control his thoughts and crush his soul...
Speed: Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrills breathtaking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD Swat team specialist who is sent to defuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles an hour - or the bomb will expl
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission... Surrender yourself to the mysterious world of 'The Outer Limits' as one of the creepiest and most provocative series in television history comes to DVD. This fantastic box set comprises every episode from the first season and a glut of eery extras. Featuring 32 original episodes on 8 discs! Episodes comprise: 1. Galaxy Being 2. Hundred Days of
Once upon a time... is now. The First Season of Beauty and The Beast one of the most romantic shows ever on television finally debuts on DVD in a glorious 6-disc set. This DVD of the Emmy Award-winning fantasy-crime drama series includes all 22 exciting first-season episodes which feature the adventures and romance between Vincent (Ron Perlman) a mythic noble man-beast and Catherine (Linda Hamilton) a savvy assistant D.A. in New York. From the moment these two cross paths they share a strong psychic bond and though they live in separate worlds their love continues to grow without measure.
The mother of all sequels! In this hilarious Hot Shots! sequel former renegade pilot Topper Harley (Charie Sheen) is once again recruited for a secret mission. This time the country's incompetent president (Lloyd Bridges) sends him to the Middle East to rescue U.S. hostages and the countless men who have already been sent in to rescue them. Pining for his former lover (Valeria Golino) in a Buddhist temple Topper manages to pull himself together and sets out on his laugh-f
Originally shown on the big screen in glorious 70 mm, Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven is an aesthetically flawless eye-catching period piece that won its cinematographer, Néstor Almendros, an Oscar. Texture and colour are the unbilled characters in this tragic tale, and are just as important as the players. Richard Gere works in a Chicago steel mill at the turn of the 19th century, but must flee the city after accidentally killing a man. Heading for the wheat fields of Texas, he packs up his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his younger sister (Linda Manz). Instead of a better life, they head straight into tragedy when a wealthy farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Adams. Believing him to be dying and expecting to inherit a fortune, she agrees to marry him. Their plans change when Shepard fails to die and Gere takes matters into his own hands. The story, sadly, fades somewhat when compared to the glory of the visuals. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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