Peter Falk stars as the iconic crumpled trenchcoat-clad detective Columbo. Features a collection of classic episodes from Season One.
Combine a Warrant Officer and two Sergeants with a bigoted town leader a fat sour sheriff and the luscious Ramona and you end up with an hilarious comedy of untold disasters.
Rear Window (1954): Alfred Hitchcock amply demonstrates why he's been called ""The Master of Suspense"" with this both witty and macabre tale of voyeurism and murder starring two of cinema's all-time favourites James Stewart and Grace Kelly. L.B. Jeffries (Stewart) a photographer with a broken leg takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbours during a summer heat wave. But things really hot up when he suspects one neighbour of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden. The Birds (1963): Wealthy reformed party girl Melanie Daniels enjoys a brief flirtation with lawyer Mitch Brenner in a San Francisco pet shop and decides to follow him to his Bodega Bay home. Bearing a gift of two lovebirds Melanie quickly strikes up a romance with Mitch while contending with his possessive mother and boarding at his ex-girlfriend's house.One day during a birthday party for Mitch's younger sister a flock of birds attacks the children in what seems to be a random incident. In fact it signals the beginning of a massive and organized avian assault on the residents of the town--a mysterious assault that no one can explain...and from which no one might come out alive. Vertigo (1958): Set in San Francisco James Stewart portrays and acrophobic detective hired to trail a friend's suicidal wife (Novak). After he successfully rescues her from a leap into the bay he finds himself becoming obsessed with the beautiful and troubled woman...
Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes". From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the coastal town of Bodega Bay to hook up with a rugged fellow (Rod Taylor) she's only just met. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds, and Hitchcock's skill at staging action is brought to the fore. Beyond the superb effects, however, The Birds is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of violence, loneliness, and complacency. What really gets under your skin are not the bird skirmishes but the anxiety and the eerie quiet between attacks. The director elevated an unknown model, Tippi Hedren (mother of Melanie Griffith), to being his latest cool, blond leading lady, an experience that was not always easy on the much-pecked Ms. Hedren. Still, she returned for the next Hitchcock picture, the underrated Marnie. Treated with scant attention by serious critics in 1963, The Birds has grown into a classic and--despite the sci-fi trappings--one of Hitchcock's most serious films. --Robert Horton
Battling For Baby stars Suzanne Pleshette and Debbie Reynolds in the humourous and poignant story of two childhood friends who are fierce rivals. A nursery turns into a battleground when they both become grandmother to the same baby. As children Marie and Helen were inseperable friends. Now as adults they are bitter rivals but must see each other because Marie's daughter Katherine and Helen's son Phillip fell in love and got married. When Katherine announces she's pregnant both mo
There has never been a decade quite like the 60s! An era of change, conflict and hope, it will be fondly remembered for its revolutionary thinking, the fight for freedom of expression and its definitive slogan to Make Love Not War'. Here we celebrate the 60s by bringing together four of the greatest films of the decade; Alfred Hitchcock's iconic thriller The Birds; the historic epic Spartacus; literary classic To Kill a Mockingbird; and timeless Western The War Wagon starring the legendary John Wayne.
Rudolph Valentino was the first male sexual icon of the modern media world. For 5 years from 1921 until 1926 other men watched with envy as Valentino the quintessential Latin screen lover made women swoon over the mere thought of his embrace. This romanticised film covers the career of Valentino from his arrival in Hollywood in 1917 and his emergence in 1921 as American cinema's first great lover.
Combine a Warrant Officer and two Sergeants with a bigoted town leader a fat sour sheriff and the luscious Ramona and you end up with an hilarious comedy of untold disasters.
Freelance pilot Harry Black (Vic Morrow) finds both the Monte Carlo police and the underworld hot on his trail when he becomes caught up in the plans of one of his passengers - to break the Bank of England using forged currency. The tension mounts as Harry struggles to find the plates used to forge the notes and thus prove his innocence....
Battling For Baby: Battling For Baby stars Suzanne Pleshette and Debbie Reynolds in the humourous and poignant story of two childhood friends who are fierce rivals. A nursery turns into a battleground when they both become grandmother to the same baby. As children Marie and Helen were inseperable friends. Now as adults they are bitter rivals but must see each other because Marie's daughter Katherine and Helen's son Phillip fell in love and got married. When Katherine announces she's pregnant both mothers seize upon the opporunity to outdo each other in attention affection and financial support. When the baby is born the grandmothers' rivalry intensifies. Katherine and Philip are overwhelmed by the pressures of parenthood and work the feuding grandmothers don't help the situation. Angry words turn into a heated argument and Phillip walks out. Both grandmothers are terribly upset about the rift between their two children and they are sure the other one is the cause. The grandmothers fight bitterly unearthing some long-buried secrets in the process and forcing them to confront the foolishness of their rivalry. Having set aside their own differences the granmothers are ready to join forces to save Katherine and Phillip's marriage. Mesmerized: This psychodrama is set in New Zealand during the 1880's and is based on the true story of an orphaned 18 year old who marries a cruel much older man. He constantly abuses her and keeps her under his thumb until she finally snaps and kills him. Later she is tried in court for murder... Welcome To Paradise: Three long term girlfriends out for a carefree adult fling end up ""where the boys are"" when they return to the beach resort famous as a vacation destination for young people. When the trio decide to dive into the amorous action too unexpected romance make waves in this sexy comedy!!!
Blackbeard's Ghost (Dir. Robert Stevenson 1968): Award-winning actor Peter Ustinov stars in this hilarious fantasy as the ghost of the legendary pirate Blackbeard. The once blackhearted scoundrel materializes in a small New England town cursed to wander in limbo until he performs a good deed. He gets his chance when he decides to help a local college track team... that hasn't a ghost of a chance of winning! Blackbeard finds himself full of team spirit and dispensing his own brand of invisible coaching... in this warmhearted comedy that will have you laughing from his first fade-in to his final fade-out! Treasure Island (Dir. Byron Haskin 1950): In this swashbuckling high-seas adventure Walt Disney has vividly brought to life Robert Louis Stevenson's thrilling tale of buccaneers and buried gold - presented for the first time in it's original uncut theatrical version! Authentic locales and musket-roaring action set the stage for the stouthearted heroics of young Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll) and the skullduggery of that wily one-legged pirate Long John Silver.
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