A superb box set featuring 4 golden Ealing classics. Includes: 1. The Lavender Hill Mob (Dir. Charles Crichton 1951) 2. Titfield Thunderbolt (Dir. Charles Crichton 1953) 3. Hue & Cry (Dir. Charles Crichton 1947) 4. Dead of Night (Dirs. Alberto Cavalcanti & Charles Crichton 1945)
A group of criminals use a boy's paper as a means of messages and information. This ploy is discovered by a group of East End boys who take exception to the crooks use of their favourite read! This film the first Ealing Comedy features a strong cast and a memorable climax with the criminals being chased by thousands of young boys through the London Docklands.
The second film in the St Trinians series takes the anarchic schoolgirls to Rome having won a UNESCO prize trip. There they become involved with a jewel thief...
Bruce (Malcolm McDowell, If, A Clockwork Orange) is a lively young man with an irrepressible sense of fun and a sharp eye for a pretty girl. Returning home slightly the worse for wear after a wedding, he suddenly collapses. When he wakes the next day he finds himself in hospital unable to walk and the Doctors cannot diagnose his condition. When his family is unable to house him, Bruce is forced to move to a convalescence home. Here he becomes bitter about his situation and resents the intrusion of the other inmates upon his melancholy state. After a while Bruce strikes up a friendship with fellow inmate Jill (Nanette Newman) and under her influence, he begins to enjoy life again. Falling deeply in love, Bruce and Jill decide to get married against the wishes of the home's owners. Faced with the prospect of having to move out of the home and seek work, will Bruce's and Jill's love survive? Sensitively directed by Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind, The Stepford Wives), THE RAGING MOON is a tender love story featuring strong performances from Newman and McDowell
Gina Lollobrigida and James Mason conspire in this superb comedy/western to con the Mexican governmen out of a million dollars. Along the way they employ the services of an apparently hapless gang led by Lee Van Cleef but the Mexican army and assorted revolutionaries have their own ideas about how events will unfold...
A young doctor in search of a life-prolonging drug drinks his own potion and turns into a beautiful woman. He needs female hormones for his experiments so a number of London women are soon meeting bloody deaths.
***WARNING***ALL DVD TITLES CONTAIN ENGLISH SUBTITLES EXCEPT FOR THE DVD TITLE - A CANTERBURY TALE*** Never in the history of British film have two figures become as iconic as those of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Reigning throughout the 40s and 50s these two magnificent filmmakers brought to life British films and continue to radiate immense critical acclaim and inspiration for all contemporary film making. Includes: 1. A Matter of Life & Death (1946) 2. The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 3. A Canterbury Tale (1944) 4. I Know Where I am Going (1945) 5. 49th Parallel (1941) 6. The Battle of the River Plate (1956) 7. Ill Met By Moonlight (1957) 8. They're A Weird Mob (1966) 9. The Red Shoes (1948)
Stalked by fear and terror - night and day! Based on an episode from TV's 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' The Man Who Haunted Himself was written and directed by Basil Dearden. After a horrific car crash where he almost dies Harold Pelham returns home to find his life has been overturned. People have seen him places where he cannot have possibly been and his business has been taken over a move which he had opposed before the accident. It soon becomes clear that there is another ""Ha
Franco Nero stars as Django the mysterious lone drifter who dragging a coffin behind him arrives at a bleak mud-drenched town. He saves the life of a prostitute Maria who is being abused by both a group of Mexican bandits and by Ku Klux Klan-like fanatics under the command of a corrupt mayor. Loyal to none Django is caught in the middle of the violent feud between the two groups and armed with his devastating revolving machine gun Django will endure mutilative violence as he fi
Three John Mills films on one fantastic box set. History Of Mr. Polly: John Mills stars in this celebrated adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. Mr Polly is a sensitive soul idling away his days as a humble drapers assistant until one day he is abruptly sacked for daydreaming at work. His well-ordered life is plunged into chaos until his fathers death suddenly brings him a large inheritance. Mr Polly splashes out on a brand new bicycle and sets off to explore the world and seek out grand adventure. A doomed love affair quickly destroys his newfound dreams. The bicycle is stored away and Mr Polly opens up his own drapers shop in a dismal little town. Fifteen years later finds him unhappily married and almost bankrupt. His thoughts drift towards suicide - but there may yet be another avenue of escape for the hapless Mr Polly. Great Expectations: David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor and of the consequences for the young man as he establishes himself in the world. Waterloo Road: As World War Two rages Jim Colter (John Mills) finds himself called up to serve in the Army - but hes soon to find himself at war on two fronts. While hes away his lovely wife Tillie attracts (Joy Shelton) attracts the amorous attention of Ted Purvis (Stewart Granger) a vicious local spiv and self-acclaimed ladies man. When Jims sister write to him informing him of what is happening Jim decides that the Nazis can wait and that an even more insidious enemy needs to be dealt with first. He breaks out of camp goes AWOL and sets off to find his wife. With the military hot on his tail Jim must make his way through war-torn London to settle things once and for all.
Originally released in 1951, PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN is iconoclastic director Albert Lewin's deliriously romantic and contemporary Technicolor visualisation of the often told legend of the sea.
More episodes from the cult television series starring Lewis Collins Martin Shaw and Gordon Jackson. Episodes include: 'The Purging of CI5' 'Backtrack' 'Stopover' 'Dead Reckoning' 'The Madness of Mickey Hamilton' 'A Hiding to Nothing' 'Runner' 'Servant of Two Masters'.
With special effects by the legendary monster maker Stan Winston 'She Creature' is a winning combination of eye-popping visuals mixed with good old-fashioned storytelling to create a terrifying tale of mermaids and mayhem. Angus (Rufus Sewell) and Lily (Carla Gugino) are travelling the Irish countryside with their carnival sideshow when they befriend a wealthy old sailor. After giving him a ride to his castle he shows them his deadly prize: a real live mermaid held captive in a
Further adventures of the oh so dapper John Steed and his sidekick Tara King. Episodes include: You'll Catch Your Death: In which Steed catches a villain and Tara catches a cold. All Done With Mirrors: In which Steed stays at home and Tara finds her mission illuminating. Legacy Of Death: In which Steed receives a deadly present and Tara gets tickle torture. They Keep Killing Steed: In which Steed makes many appearances and Tara gains a curt ally. Wish You Were Here: In which Steed holds the baby and Tara books in. Killer: In which Steed tracks an assassin and Tara books in. The Rotters: In which Steed knocks on wood and Tara gets the chop. The Interrogators: In which Steed travels by helicopter and Tara has to train.
The hilarious sketch-based show which lampooned the new satellite television companies which had begun to operate in the UK! Each week a different aspect of 'cheap' television production and broadcasting provided the 'theme' for the sketches in the programme; no target was left untouched! Episodes Comprise: 1. Launch Night 2. Big Fight Special 3. The Green Green Show 4. Those Fabulous War Years 5. It's A Royal Wedding 6. Challenge Anna
Anthony Quayle stars as criminologist Adam Strange solving cases that are out of the ordinary sometimes bizarre always intriguing in this classic ITC crime adventure series from 1969.
Revel in 150 minutes of pure comic brilliance with this six-part series featuring some of Britain's greatest comedy icons!Digging deep into the archives, Make 'Em Laugh features many of British film's favourite comic moments from hilarious horror spoofs to farcical crime capers! Arranged thematically, this series features excerpts from an array of classics and showcases the comedy genius of Alastair Sim, Frankie Howerd, Terry-Thomas, John Cleese, Benny Hill, Will Hay, Kenneth Williams, Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Mollie Sugden, Leslie Phillips, Marty Feldman, Warren Mitchell, Dick Emery and Sid James.The films covered in this series include:Up Pompeii!Steptoe and SonThe RebelTill Death Us Do PartHoliday on the BusesClockwiseThe Great St. Trinian's Train RobberyAre You Being Served?Every Home Should Have OneRhubarbOoh, You Are AwfulThe Ghost of St. Michael'sand numerous Carry Ons!
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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
Once Upon A Time In A Dark, Dark Forest...A dark and gripping modern age fairy tale for adults, spinning the original Grimm fairytale on its head. Following a car crash on a country road, Eun-soo (Chun Jeong-Myeong) is led to safety by a girl in a red cloak (Shim Eun-kyoung), to her house, deep in the forest. Accepting her family's hospitality for the night, he gradually learns that he is trapped in the woods with this strange picture perfect family and of the sinister story behind the seemingly innocent smiles of the children... Sumptuous production design by Ryu Seong-hee (The Host; Oldboy) and outstanding cinematography by Kim Ji-yong (Forbidden Quest; A Bittersweet Life).
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