The Foreman Went To France / Fiddlers Three
Murphy's Law is a thoroughly unpleasant 1986 thriller stars Charles Bronson as a cop systematically framed for one murder after another. The killings, though, turn out to be the work of a female nutcase (Carrie Snodgress) he had once sent away to prison. Everyone involved in this leans on the atrocity-and-revenge formula, particularly Bronson and director J Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone), two Hollywood guys who once upon a time made plenty of classic films. Snodgress's performance is unhinged, interesting but hard to watch, as we never really got to know her onscreen after Diary of a Mad Housewife. Just think of this movie as having come from the same creepy planet as the Death Wish series. --Tom Keogh
A young composer and pianist Olwen Trevelyan troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. As years pass Olwen's sister Julia obsessively keeps her memory alive. The young composer gains posthumous fame because of her tragic death and her haunting unfinished composition The Dream of Olwen. 25 years later still mourning the death of her composer sister Julia believes she has returned reincarnated in an amnesiac woman who chances upon her house seeking help... Contains the haunting music The Dream of Olwen composed by Charles Williams.
Kent Mackenzie's 1961 documentary study of one night in the lives of three young American Indians who have left reservations to live in metropolitan Los Angeles.
The 70's sitcom smash that explored the culture clash between black and white neighbours Bill Reynolds and Eddie Booth. In this 1973 movie the happy family hilarity comes to a head when they enter the local 'Love Thy Neighbour' competition. Each is determined to win even if they have to lie through their teeth!
In 1937's Good Morning Boys Will Hay plays the pompous but ill-qualified headmaster of St Michael's, Dr Benjamin Twist, who befuddles his class with meaningless mathematical equations while they set their wits to constructing booby traps for him. However, when his boys pass an inter-schools examination, having seen the French paper in advance, they're invited by the French educational authorities to Paris and become involved in a plot to steal the Mona Lisa. Although it is at times too silly plot-wise even for those with a high endurance for farce, Good Morning, Boys is another fine showcase for Hay to display his well-honed repertoire of tics, double-takes and blathering half-sense. In Hey! Hey! USA!, a 1938 comedy intended to boost Hay's stock in America, he again plays Dr Twist who becomes tutor to millionaire's son Bernie Schulz aboard an Atlantic liner. Predictably the boy knows more about all aspects of history than Hay, having to remind him that Britain lost in the War of Independence against America. "Yes, but we sent our second eleven," Hay reminds him, "And we were playing away." Further capers ensue when two rival gangs attempt to capture the precocious lad, with his parents dispatching Hay to pass on the ransom money. Hey! Hey! USA!has its moments, but despite the presence of old Laurel and Hardy sidekicks Edgar Kennedy (as a dim-witted gangster) and Charlie Hall, this was too leaky a comedic vessel to transport Hay's peculiarly British UK success across the Atlantic. On the DVD: Good Morning Boys and Hey! Hey! USA! are presented on disc well restored from their original 1930s film stock, give or take the odd crackle. There are no extras except scene index. --David Stubbs
Martin is a modern sort of vampire. He gains his victims cooperation with the use of a hypodermic needle instead of hypnotism and uses razors in the place of fangs. Martin claims to be 84 years old and certainly drinks human blood. The boy arrives in Pittsburgh to stay with his uncle who promises to save Martin's soul and destroy him once he is finished but Martin's loneliness finds other means of release.
The Game Is Just Getting Good! By day Robbie (Tom Jennings) and Amy (Nicole Kidman) are ordinary students. By night they are the top contenders in a highly competitive simulated war game designed to test athletic prowess and intellectual superiority. Robbie remains champion of the dame pushed to the limit of his endurance by his extreme and obsessive martial arts instructor. When Robbie realizes the extent of his instructor's fanaticism the once friendly game has become real li
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