Recognised as the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Boys of Company C is a high-end member of the cannon of classic battle-field movies and a frighteningly realistic critique of the pointlessness and corruption universally associated with the US/Vietnam war.Boys of Company C follows the lives of five nave young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp through a tour in Vietnam that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted, nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems.
It's 1966 and the world is changing fast....Martin Shaw plays one of the unsung heroes of detective fiction, Chief Inspector George Gently, whose passionate investigations reveal the dark underbelly of a society on the cusp of change. Lee Ingleby is his ambitious and undisciplined sidekick, Sergeant John Bacchus. Together they make the perfect police partnership, full of warmth and humour.Guest stars include Warren Clarke, Sarah Lancashire, Neil Pearson, Christine Bottomley, Mark Benton and Neil Morrissey.This eleven disc set contains all the episodes from Series One to Four and extras include a fascinating look Behind the Scenes during filming.
Thrown together to join George Cowley's new C15 organisation....Hard men no patience nor time for subtleties. Charged with combating terrorists criminals and corruption wherever they find it. Capable of using any means necessary. The only people they can trust are themselves... Features all 14 episodes from the first series broadcast in 1977 uncut and digitally remastered!
Long-awaited, long-overdue: The Professionals as you have never seen them before. Bodie and Doyle need little by way of introduction, but if the series had at all escaped you since its debut in 1977 their boss George Cowley, head of CI5, couldn't put it more succinctly than his opening gambit: anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public. To combat it I've got special men experts from the army, the police, from every service. These are The Professionals . Featuring the perfect ensemble cast of Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson (completely against type here) and the much-missed Lewis Collins, the series ran for 57 action-packed episodes and made an immediate impact on British and then international audiences which has sustained 35 years. But the series has never looked this good. Painstakingly restored from the camera-original negatives, the series could have been made yesterday. No matter how many times you have seen The Professionals, this is a new experience, like seeing it for the first time. FEATURES ON THIS NEW EDITION [] Brand-new restorations of all 13 episodes in series three from the camera-original negatives [] Brand-new 5.1 tracks from original sound elements [] Remastered original as-broadcast mono tracks [] Remastered music-only tracks featuring Laurie Johnson's original scores [] Photo galleries featuring hundreds of rare images [] All episodes are presented in their original production order [] PDF material featuring scripts and memorabilia [] English HOH subtitles
The Best Of Series 1 and Series 2.
An American widow arrives in the Mexican town of Bastard in a black hearse which contains an empty coffin. She is searching for the killer of her husband who she intends to have killed and take back to the States in the coffin. All she has to go on is the name Aguila. But she is not the only one searching for him. A Colonel in the Mexican army also intends to find him and take him to Mexico City and execute him. Only one man stands in their way a local priest who is far more tha
A must for enthusiasts or absolute beginners this three hour video based on the highly successful television series Join Us For Bridge takes player and partner from dealing and the opening bid through the intricacies of the game. Presenter Shaw Taylor and his fellow players allow you into their thoughts as they progress through the card game believed by millions to be the most fascinating in the world. Advice and useful tips take the novice who may only have seen a pack of cards once to holding their own in any reputable school. If you believe bridge is the most difficult game in the world and you'll never get the hang of it join Shaw Taylor and think again!
Bridget Gregory having successfully killed her husband and framed Mike Swale for it flees to Barcelona in Spain to avoid an investigation. Here she meets Troy Fenton who runs a phone sex line and soon lets Bridget in on his secret operation where she begins another devious plan...
Descend Into Terror. Some of the greatest mysteries are here on earth but the darkest ones are within it. With the highest death rate of any sport known to man spelunking is the most dangerous - and it is the setting of The Cavern. Kyzl Kum Desert Central Asia - Eight explorers learn of a newly discovered cave system and set out on an expedition to document it. Once inside two of their guides are mysteriously killed and when they try to escape they find their way out has been inexplicably sealed shut. They're trapped inside - and the only way to go is deeper into the cave. They embark on a fight for their lives hunted by an unknown presence and threatened by divisions from within their own ranks. Miles beneath the surface surrounded by labyrinths of rock sand mud and water they must find a way to survive. They charge away at a breakneck pace to a frightening and thoroughly startling conclusion. Some places should never be explored.
Perhaps the most easily parodied action series of its era, The Professionals was the one about the gruff but fatherly counter-terrorist top cop Cowley (Gordon Jackson) and his favourite surrogate sons, the curly haired ex-copper Ray Doyle (Martin Shaw) and taciturn-but-pouting ex-mercenary William Bodie (Lewis Collins). As set out by series creator Brian Clemens (veteran of the more fantastical Avengers), their job was to stop threats to the government, visiting dignitaries or the general public "by any means necessary". What this boiled down to was dashing about, leaping out of cars, getting into thump-happy fistfights, leering at every "bird" who passed by as if they were trying to prove something, wearing eye-abusing late-70s leisure wear well beyond the sell-by date, potting baddies with guns hauled out of their smart shoulder holsters, and occasionally choking back manly tears when another of the trio was wounded. All three leads were professionals of another stripe--the sort of actors who could soar with a good script and do their best to sell a weak one--and they were generally set against a parade of top-flight British character acting talent along with sundry sit-com/pin-up refugee disposable girlfriends and suspects. One strange, if understandable, element of the premise is that CI5 tackle all manner of Greek, Middle Eastern, Soviet and radical nutcase groups--with the odd racist Klansman, corrupt civil servant and dubious big business tycoon thrown in to prove they're not fascists--but almost never have anything to do with the Irish terrorist groups who were the main focus of the organisation's real-life counterparts from 1977 to 1983. --Kim Newman
Thrown together to join George Cowley's new CI5 organisation....Hard men no patience nor time for subtleties. Charged with combating terrorists criminals and corruption wherever they find it. Capable of using any means necessary. The only people they can trust are themselves... Features all 14 episodes from the second series broadcast in 1979 uncut and digitally remastered!
Recognised as the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket Boys of Company C is a high-end member of the cannon of classic battle-field movies and a frighteningly realistic critique of the pointlessness and corruption universally associated with the US/Vietnam war. Boys of Company C follows the lives of five nave young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp through a tour in Vietnam that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems.
Royal Wedding (Dir. Stanley Donen 1951): Brother and sister dance act Tom and Ellen Bowen finish an engagement in New York and journey to London at around the same time as a Royal wedding. On board the cruise ship Ellen meets and falls in love with Lord John Brindale with the result she pays less attention to her dancing. Upon arrival in London Tom auditions for a new partner and meets Anne Ashmond but romance starts to threaten the act... Second Chorus (Dir. H.C. Potte
Thrown together to join George Cowley's new C15 organisation....Hard men no patience nor time for subtleties. Charged with combating terrorists criminals and corruption wherever they find it. Capable of using any means necessary. The only people they can trust are themselves... Includes the following four uncut and digitally remastered episodes: 1. Kickback 2. Discovered In A Graveyard 3. Foxhole On The Roof 4. Operation Susie
Four guys on a bachelor party get off the subway at a station that shut down in the 70's and after watching a transit cop get brutally murdered find themselves running for their lives beneath the streets of New York.
This DVD collection features volumes 1 2 and 3 of the animated series based on Richard Adams' novel.
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
Paul Jensen has taken a job as society-pages editor of Moscow Match. Whilst Investigating a story, Paul witnesses the murder of a respected reporter critical of the Russian regime - and when the magazine kills his colleagues story on the suspicious circumstances surrounding the journalist's death, Paul suggests that the piece run as part of his celebrity coverage never suspecting this will land him in the middle of a terrorist plot.
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