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Father Came Too!
I novelli sposi Dexter e Juliet Munro (Stanley Baxter e Sally Smith) acquistano un cottage fatiscente e sgangherato per fuggire dal padre di lei, il prepotente attore-manager shakespeariano Sir Beverly Grant (James Robertson Justice). Il cottage ha un disperato bisogno di essere ristrutturato e Sir Beverly è determinato a partecipare all'azione! Quando si presenta alla porta di casa, con la valigia in mano, Dexter e sua moglie si rendono conto che non c'è modo di sfuggire ai suoi modi invadenti.Aggiungete al mix un costruttore incompetente (Ronnie Barker), i suoi compagni di lavoro che fanno la cresta, gli Scrubber, e l'ingraziante attore dilettante Roddy Chipfield (Leslie Phillips), e il palco è pronto per una commedia tumultuosa che farà letteralmente cadere la casa!Questo colorato seguito di THE FAST LADY presenta anche una moltitudine di camei di veterani della commedia britannica tra cui Peter Jones, Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, Arthur Mullard, James Villiers e Patrick Newell.Caratteristiche speciali:Trailer teatrale originaleGalleria di immagini -
The Sandbaggers - Complete Series 1
Roy Marsden stars as Neil Burnside, director of The Sandbaggers - a small elite team inside the British Secret Service who take on anything from assassination to defections. Their work is often dangerous, sometimes mundane, but always delicate and interwoven with the gritty realities of today's global politics; Burnside's struggles with his superiors are just as bloody as any his men face in the field.Episodes include:First PrinciplesA Proper Function of GovernmentIs Your Journey Really Necessary?The Most Suitable PersonAlways Glad To HelpA Feasible SolutionSpecial Relationship -
Pipkins - Volume 2
Hello, everybody and welcome to yet another Pipkins DVD! As you obviously enjoyed the first volume so much, I've selected a further batch of classic episodes for you, including my first ever television appearance in Inigo Pipkin from 1973. Good heavens, was it really that long ago? Doesn't time fly when you're having fun...Disc One;- Bertha and Hartley Clean Up- Hartley's Teeth- Topov and the Bananas- Catching the Mood- Hartley and the Lamp.Disc Two;- Let's Make an Opera- Mrs. Muddle's Puppet Show- The Plant Growers- Hartley the Conjuror- Cheering Up Tortoise., Hello, everybody and welcome to yet another Pipkins DVD! As you obviously enjoyed the first volume so much, I've selected a further batch of classic episodes for you, including my first ever television appearance in Inigo Pipkin from 1973. Good heavens, was it really that long ago? Doesn't time fly when you're having fun...Disc One;- Bertha and Hartley Clean Up- Hartley's Teeth- Topov and the Bananas- Catching the Mood- Hartley and the Lamp.Disc Two;- Let's Make an Opera- Mrs. Muddle's Puppet Show- The Plant Growers- Hartley the Conjuror- Cheering Up Tortoise.Special Features:'21st Century Pipkins' - brand new mini-episode.A Writer's Tale - In Conversation with Susan Pleat.Hartley Hare in Conversation - interviews with Jonathan Kydd & Elizabeth LindsayInigo Pipkin Script PDF.Mrs. Muddle Remembers - In Conversation with Sue Nicholls.On the Canal - incomplete episode recording, first aired on 28 February 1975. -
Whicker's World - Volume 1
Papa Doc - The Black SheepHatti was the world's first black republic, ruled from 1957 to 1971 by 'President For Life' Dr Francis Duvalier - Papa Doc. Whicker meets Papa Doc in his Presidential Palace at Port au Prince in the company of his Tontons Macoutes - murderous civilian thugs. This show won the Dumont International Journalism Award at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1971.Whicker In Stroessner's Paraguay - The Last DictatorAlan Whicker comes face-to-face with the last of South America's old style dictators - Don Alfredo Stroessner who has been absolute ruler of Paraguay for 19 years. One Paraguayan in ten is sold to be a paid informer and the Minister of Information has admitted there are so many informers that they run out of information and have to make it up.Harold Robbins - I'm The World's Best WriterHarold Robbins, 56 and five times married, is the orphan who became the world's best paid writer. In New York he takes Alan Whicker round the Devil's Kitchen district of his youth. This won the Best Interview Programme Award at 1973's Hollywood Festival of World Television.I'd Like To Think I'm Nearer To God Than FrankensteinIn California they change faces as casually as we change clothes and cosmetic surgery is no longer only for the rich and famous. Whicker meets plastic surgeon Kurt Wagner and his wife Kathy, a walking example of his surgery skills.I Haven't Taken My Own Shoes Off For 45 YearsWhicker arrives in Penang for the island's spectacular Thalpusam festival, where entranced pilgrims pierce themselves with giant spikes. He also meets a Scottish doctor still living in the style of the British Raj.He's Been Hunted All His Life - Now He's Going To Rest In PeaceButch Cassidy's sister Lula is alive and well and living in Utah, aged 94 and with a fund of fascinating stories. In Salt Lake City Whicker drives the hydrogen car, learns from Dinosaur Jim why these monsters face a new extinction, and sees the world's biggest man-made hole. (There are slight edits for clearance reasons. No Whicker footage has been removed).I Wear A Uniform And Pack A Gun But I'm Still A Woman (Part 1)Whicker undertakes a risky assignment, hurtling around San Francisco in the back of a police car. The cops are women, fully armed and determined to prove they are worthy of the blue uniform. Please Note, this episode contains some strong language.If A Cop Wiggled Around With Pink Hair And A Limp Wrist, It Would Discredit The Department (Part 2)San Francisco's 150,000 homosexuals are the city's largest unofficial minority. The Police Department has become the first in the US to knowingly recruit gay officers. Whicker gives an exclusive view of the first gay officers training and going on patrol., Papa Doc - The Black SheepHatti was the world's first black republic, ruled from 1957 to 1971 by 'President For Life' Dr Francis Duvalier - Papa Doc. Whicker meets Papa Doc in his Presidential Palace at Port au Prince in... -
Tiswas: The Best Of
Saturday is TISWAS Day!For nearly ten years TISWAS reigned supreme as THE Saturday morning kids programme. Nothing even came close to it - cages full of celebrities and non-entities covered with gunge, custard pies and buckets of water thrown in joyous abandon and Sally James in thigh-length boots... As Chris Tarrant, ringleader of this particular circus, was known to shout regularly: This is what they want! . And it was. And we loved it.So join Chris Tarrant, Sally James, Lenny Henry (doing his now-legendary impressions of David Bellamy and Trevor McDoughnut), Bob Carolgees, Spit the Dog, John Gorman and The Phantom Flan Flinger, who manages to claim celebrity victims including Frank Carson, slade and Spike Milligan and you have all the ingredients for the mayhem and anarchic fun that was TISWAS!Special Features:None Listed. -
Man About The House - The Complete First Series
Created and written by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke (George and Mildred, Robin's Nest), Man About The House was a phenomenally successful comedy for ITV1, running for six series in total, spinning off two further series and making household names of its stars Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett.Features the following episodes:Three's A CrowdAnd Mother Makes FourSome Enchanted EveningAnd Then There Were TwoIt's Only MoneyMatch of the DayNo Children, No Dogs -
George And Mildred - Series 1
Zavvi - La casa della cultura popSpinning off from Man About The House, George And Mildred presenta gli ex padroni di casa George e Mildred Roper che si trasferiscono in periferia al 46 Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick. Mildred è nel suo elemento e gioca con i suoi vicini snob, ma George non è affatto impressionato dall'intera faccenda ed è determinato a ignorarne il più possibile, anche se ha il suo bel da fare sia con i vicini che con i terribili parenti di Mildred...Include i seguenti episodi:Andare avantiIl penny cattivo...e le donne devono piangereParlare del bambinoI tuoi soldi o la tua vitaDove ha riposato la mia carovanaIl cagnolino ridevaIl miglior piede in avantiIl mio marito della porta accantoFamily Planning, che si stacca da Man About The House, George And Mildred presenta gli ex padroni di casa George e Mildred Roper che si trasferiscono in periferia al 46 di Peacock Crescent, Hampton Wick. Mildred è nel suo elemento e gioca con i suoi vicini snob, ma George non è affatto impressionato dall'intera faccenda ed è determinato a ignorarne il più possibile, anche se ha il suo bel da fare sia con i vicini che con i terribili parenti di Mildred...Include i seguenti episodi:Andare avantiIl penny cattivo...e le donne devono piangereParlare del bambinoI tuoi soldi o la tua vitaDove ha riposato la mia carovanaIl cagnolino ridevaIl miglior piede in avantiIl mio marito della porta accantoPianificazione familiareCaratteristiche speciali: Nessuno elencato -
World In Action
WORLD IN ACTION was undoubtedly ITV's flagship current affairs programme. Lasting four decades (from the 60s to the 90s) this Granada-produced show was fearless, trailblazing and hard-hitting. choosing subjects other programmes would not dare touch and regularly getting into trouble with ITV regulators and the Government. To mark ITV's 50th anniversary, Network are proud to present 12 of the best editions of WORLD IN ACTION:31/07/1967 - Mick Jagger11/12/1967 - End Of Revolution?18/03//1968 - The Demonstration28/09/1970 - The Quiet Mutiny05/04/1971 - The Man Who Stole Uganda27/09/1971 - Death Of A Revolutionary05/06/1972 - The Life And Death Of Steve Biko10/07/1978 - Prisoner Of Terrorism02/04/1979 - Banged Up16/02/1981 - Killing For A Cure18/03/1991 - The Birmingham 6 - Their Own Story, WORLD IN ACTION was undoubtedly ITV's flagship current affairs programme. Lasting four decades (from the 60s to the 90s) this Granada-produced show was fearless, trailblazing and hard-hitting. choosing subjects other programmes would not dare touch and regularly getting into trouble with ITV regulators and the Government. To mark ITV's 50th anniversary, Network are proud to present 12 of the best editions of WORLD IN ACTION:31/07/1967 - Mick Jagger11/12/1967 - End Of Revolution?18/03//1968 - The Demonstration28/09/1970 - The Quiet Mutiny05/04/1971 - The Man Who Stole Uganda27/09/1971 - Death Of A Revolutionary05/06/1972 - The Life And Death Of Steve Biko10/07/1978 - Prisoner Of Terrorism02/04/1979 - Banged Up16/02/1981 - Killing For A Cure18/03/1991 - The Birmingham 6 - Their Own StorySpecial Features:None Listed -
Marc - Complete Series
Get It On with Marc! Made in the Summer of '77 just before his tragically early death at the age of 29, MARC showcased the songs of Marc Bolan and T-Rex, sung live by Bolan in the Granada Television studios. These rarely-seen and much sought after performances have now been compiled into this brand-new edition. With the sound remixed in Dolby 5.1, these renditions of Bolan classics such as 'Get It On', 'Dandy in the Underworld' and 'Jeepster' have never sounded so good. Bolan was a feature player on many music programmes in the early 1970s and this new presentation of MARC is accompanied by some of his and T-Rex's most outstanding performances from Supersonic and Shangalang. -
Ipcress File
Il plurivincitore di Oscar Sir Michael Caine è il protagonista del primo ruolo da protagonista della sua carriera nei panni di Harry Palmer, un sergente ostinatamente insolente che lavora per il Ministero della Difesa e che viene trasferito in un'unità di controspionaggio d'elite. Palmer è meno che entusiasta quando scopre che sta sostituendo un agente assassinato, ma non ha altra scelta che accettare il lavoro quando il suo capo lo ricatta efficacemente con la conoscenza delle sue precedenti indiscrezioni a Berlino. Un colpo di scena segue l'altro mentre Palmer e il resto dell'unità seguono le tracce dello scienziato scomparso, e quando trova un pezzo di nastro adesivo con la scritta Ipcress in un magazzino abbandonato, diventa improvvisamente un uomo segnato...Caratteristiche speciali: Michael Caine è Harry Palmer Nuova intervista esclusiva con Sir Michael Caine. The Ipcress File - Michael Caine Goes Stella Esclusivo Nuovo Sketch Comico Starr1969 Documentario Candid Caine con Sir Michael Caine che parla francamente diCommento del regista Sidney Furie e del montatore Peter Hunt.Nuova intervista esclusiva con lo scenografo Sir Ken Adam.Trailer teatrale originale.Spot radiofonici originali degli Stati Uniti.Galleria di immagini. -
One Summer
Zavvi - La casa della cultura popDalla penna dell'acclamato scrittore di Liverpool Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine) arriva un coinvolgente dramma sulla classe e la felicità. Billy (David Morrissey - Basic Instinct II, The Deal, Blackpool) e Icky (Spencer Leigh - Strapless, The Garden) sono due ragazzi disagiati e senza prospettive che cercano di riscoprire un breve periodo di soddisfazione in Galles. One Summer è stato trasmesso per la prima volta su Channel 4 nel 1983 e racconta come due giovani dal carattere duro siano influenzati dalle persone, dall'ambiente e dagli atteggiamenti che incontrano.Disco unoEpisodio unoDue quindicenni di Liverpool riscoprono la scuola e ripongono le loro speranze in un viaggio al campo estivo della scuola. Le loro speranze sono deluse, ma il destino, la libertà condizionata rotta e una piccola vincita al bingo fanno presto salire Billy e Icky su un treno e si dirigono verso un territorio sconosciuto.Episodio dueIl loro viaggio illustra a Billy e Icky la differenza tra Liverpool e il Galles, se non altro in senso geografico. Scoprono però che anche nella distesa della campagna gallese, il territorio non può essere loro e non sono ancora desiderati.Terzo episodioBilly e Icky trovano un cottage adeguatamente malandato che possono adottare come casa, ma prima devono convincere il proprietario che sono degni di fiducia. Non sono aiutati dai giovani locali che tentano di distruggere il cottage, e il lavoro manuale sembra il loro.Disco dueEpisodio QuattroBilly sta facendo i conti con il rilassato stile di vita gallese. Icky non è troppo sicuro. Alcuni della banda di Liverpool visitano - mostrando quanto sia precario il nuovo stile di vita. Billy scopre il romanticismo.Quinto episodioIcky è più convinto che Billy non tornerà mai a Liverpool e decide di fare il viaggio da solo. Billy preferisce rimanere con la sua nuova storia d'amore, ma l'estate idilliaca sembra essere finita.Caratteristiche speciali:- Commento all'episodio 1 con David Morrissey, Spencer Leigh e Ian Hart.- Commento all'episodio 3 con David Morrissey e Spencer Leigh.- Traccia di sola musica nell'episodio 1 e 5 che comprende l'intera musica originale di Alan Parker- La featurette One Summer con nuove interviste a David Morrissey, Spencer -
At Home With The Braithwaites - Complete Series 1
Zavvi - La casa della cultura popEpisodio 1:È il 40° compleanno di Alison Braithwaite e la figlia più giovane, Charlotte, le regala un biglietto per la prima lotteria europea. Alison vince il jackpot: 38 milioni di sterline! Decide di fare qualcosa di utile con il denaro e chiede alla sua contabile Pauline e all'amica Marion di aiutarla a creare un'associazione di beneficenza. Ma dirà alla sua famiglia della sua vittoria?Episodio 2:L'ente di beneficenza di Alison è attivo e funzionante ed è sommerso da lettere di accattonaggio. Pauline convince Alison che deve espandersi. Ma possono proteggere l'identità di Alison come vincitrice della lotteria? Alison decide che deve dirlo alla sua famiglia.Episodio 3:David ha accettato di passare la notte con Elaine, ma ora è in preda all'ansia. Sarah dà al suo insegnante di teatro una poesia che rivela i suoi sentimenti per lui - poi scopre che ha una ragazza. Virginia, già depressa per il rifiuto di Megan, viene rapinata ad un bancomat. Lei confida tutto ad Alison al pronto soccorso. Ma Alison ha anche un segreto da raccontare...Episodio 4:Virginia ora lavora per l'ente di beneficenza di Alison e guida una Lotus. Quando David dice ad Alison che odia il suo lavoro, lei gli suggerisce che potrebbe trovare un lavoro al Trust. David decide di porre fine alla sua relazione. Suggerisce anche a Sarah che Phil non è giusto per lei. Ma Phil sa che David non ha il diritto di predicare e le racconta della relazione...Episodio 5:David è felice del suo nuovo lavoro al Trust, finché non scopre che Sarah ha lasciato casa per trasferirsi in un monolocale con Phil. Lui va a supplicarla di non dire ad Alison della sua relazione. McGuire, un giornalista locale, entra nel palazzo di Jane Crowther per affrontare Alison, Pauline, Marion e Virginia. Sa che uno ha vinto la lotteria e pensa che sia Virginia.Episodio 6:Sarah decide che vuole interrompere la sua gravidanza. Quando Denise lo scopre, si precipita nell'ufficio di Alison e le lascia un messaggio che David ha una relazione. Alison torna in ufficio con la notizia che Sarah avrà il bambino. McGuire telefona ad alcuni giornalisti londinesi: ha la storia del vincitore della lotteria. I segreti sono svelati: Alison è la vincitrice della lotteria e David ha avuto una relazione. Il loro matrimonio può sopravvivere? -
Weekend At Bernies
Il leggendario Bratpacker Andrew McCarthy (Pretty In Pink, St Elmo's Fire) e Jonathan Silverman (Made) interpretano Larry e Richard, due intraprendenti impiegati di una compagnia di assicurazioni che si imbattono nelle prove dei loschi traffici della loro azienda. Nel tentativo di mettere a tacere la coppia, sono invitati a fare un viaggio nella casa di lusso del loro capo a Long Island - dove possono essere trattati in modo permanente. I due sono più che disposti a vivere la bella vita a spese del loro capo Bernie. Finché, naturalmente, non scoprono che è stato assassinato e si rendono conto che potrebbero essere i prossimi nomi sulla lista dei bersagli. Riusciranno a convincere tutti che Bernie è ancora vivo abbastanza a lungo da salvarsi la pelle?, Il leggendario Bratpacker Andrew McCarthy (Pretty In Pink, St Elmo's Fire) e Jonathan Silverman (Made) interpretano Larry e Richard, due intraprendenti impiegati della compagnia di assicurazioni che si imbattono nelle prove dei loschi traffici della loro azienda. Nel tentativo di mettere a tacere la coppia, sono invitati a fare un viaggio nella casa di lusso del loro capo a Long Island - dove possono essere trattati in modo permanente. I due sono più che disposti a vivere la bella vita a spese del loro capo Bernie. Finché, naturalmente, non scoprono che è stato assassinato e si rendono conto che potrebbero essere i prossimi nomi sulla lista dei bersagli. Riusciranno a convincere tutti che Bernie è ancora vivo abbastanza a lungo da salvarsi la pelle?Caratteristiche speciali:Trailer.Spot televisivi. -
King Solomon's Mines
Rugged handsome adventurer Allan Quartermain is hired by the gorgeous Kathleen O'Brien to find her missing father, who has ventured into the African Interior seeking the fabled treasure of King Solomon's Mines. Accompanied by her dauntless, and strangely regal, African guide Umbopa they sally forth across the treacherous desert, surviving it only to be waylaid by the scurrilous native chief Twala and his abominable tribal witch doctor - the loathsome Gagool.Will Quartermain's stiff upper lip stand him in good stead or will he have to resort to fisticuffs and give the savages a damned good thrashing ...Starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke and black singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, this Gainsborough FIlms production was the first movie adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's best selling novel. Produced in 1937 it is generally recognised as being the best of the movie adaptations, with solid performances throughout, set design by Oscar-winner and Powell & Pressburger stalwart Alfred Junge and assured and exciting direction by the Oscar-nominated Robert Stevenson., Rugged handsome adventurer Allan Quartermain is hired by the gorgeous Kathleen O'Brien to find her missing father, who has ventured into the African Interior seeking the fabled treasure of King Solomon's Mines. Accompanied by her dauntless, and strangely regal, African guide Umbopa they sally forth across the treacherous desert, surviving it only to be waylaid by the scurrilous native chief Twala and his abominable tribal witch doctor - the loathsome Gagool.Will Quartermain's stiff upper lip stand him in good stead or will he have to resort to fisticuffs and give the savages a damned good thrashing ...Starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke and black singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, this Gainsborough FIlms production was the first movie adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's best selling novel. Produced in 1937 it is generally recognised as being the best of the movie adaptations, with solid performances throughout, set design by Oscar-winner and Powell & Pressburger stalwart Alfred Junge and assured and exciting direction by the Oscar-nominated Robert Stevenson.Special Features:None Listed -
Deathline
When Students Alex and Patricia (David Ladd and Sharon Gurney) discover a dying man in their local underground station, they spark off an investigation that reveals a sinister and macabre plot that even turns the stomachs of hardened police officers Calhoun and Rogers (Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington).Prominent people, it seems, have been disappearing from London tube stations, and an MI5 agent (Christopher Lee) is called to help solve the deepening mystery. What is the terrible secret of the capital's underground system? And who - or what - is turning tube tunnel into a Death Line?, When Students Alex and Patricia (David Ladd and Sharon Gurney) discover a dying man in their local underground station, they spark off an investigation that reveals a sinister and macabre plot that even turns the stomachs of hardened police officers Calhoun and Rogers (Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington).Prominent people, it seems, have been disappearing from London tube stations, and an MI5 agent (Christopher Lee) is called to help solve the deepening mystery. What is the terrible secret of the capital's underground system? And who - or what - is turning tube tunnel into a Death Line?Special Features:None Listed -
The Caesars (Two Discs)
After a century of being wrecked by dissension and ruinous civil wars the Romans were willing to pay any price for peace and internal security. The price they paid was the Pax Romana - the absolute rule of an Emperor-dictator - Augustus. After ruthlessly disposing of all possible rivals and enemies, Augustus' later years were bedevilled by the question of his successor. He firmly believed that for the good of Rome, the dictatorship must continue, but he hadn't bargained on those who followed him ...Made in 1968 and broadcast to tremendous critical acclaim, THE CAESARS was one of the last great drama productions made in black and white. featuring outstanding performances from Andre Morell, Ralph Bates and Freddie Jones, THE CAESARS is a tale of murder, gangsterism and villainy that is not to be missed., After a century of being wrecked by dissension and ruinous civil wars the Romans were willing to pay any price for peace and internal security. The price they paid was the Pax Romana - the absolute rule of an Emperor-dictator - Augustus. After ruthlessly disposing of all possible rivals and enemies, Augustus' later years were bedevilled by the question of his successor. He firmly believed that for the good of Rome, the dictatorship must continue, but he hadn't bargained on those who followed him ...Made in 1968 and broadcast to tremendous critical acclaim, THE CAESARS was one of the last great drama productions made in black and white. featuring outstanding performances from Andre Morell, Ralph Bates and Freddie Jones, THE CAESARS is a tale of murder, gangsterism and villainy that is not to be missed.Special Features:None Listed -
The One That Got Away
The true, dramatic story of Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner-of-war in Britain to escape and return to his homeland. The BAttle of Britain is at its height. Out of the vapour-traced sky a Messerschmitt spins and plunges onto British soil. Even though the pilot is captured, he is extremely confident and an official interrogation does not deter him from his one objective - to escape and return home against all the odds. His bid for freedom takes him from England to Canada and into the still neutral United States - before making his way back to Germany.The One That Got Away stars Hardy Kruger (Barry Lyndon, Flight of the Phoenix) - a real-life prisoner of war, who escaped from the Americans on three occasions - as the cocky and charismatic von Werra, who is supported by numerous British screen legends including Michael Goodliffe (The Battle of the River Plate, The 39 Steps), Colin Gordon (The Baron, The Pink Panther) and Alec McGowan (Gangs of New York, The Importance of Being Earnest). It is directed by Roy Ward Baker - a stalwart of British films and filmed series (A Night To Remember, The Saint) since the late 1940s., The true, dramatic story of Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner-of-war in Britain to escape and return to his homeland. The BAttle of Britain is at its height. Out of the vapour-traced sky a Messerschmitt spins and plunges onto British soil. Even though the pilot is captured, he is extremely confident and an official interrogation does not deter him from his one objective - to escape and return home against all the odds. His bid for freedom takes him from England to Canada and into the still neutral United States - before making his way back to Germany.The One That Got Away stars Hardy Kruger (Barry Lyndon, Flight of the Phoenix) - a real-life prisoner of war, who escaped from the Americans on three occasions - as the cocky and charismatic von Werra, who is supported by numerous British screen legends including Michael Goodliffe (The Battle of the River Plate, The 39 Steps), Colin Gordon (The Baron, The Pink Panther) and Alec McGowan (Gangs of New York, The Importance of Being Earnest). It is directed by Roy Ward Baker - a stalwart of British films and filmed series (A Night To Remember, The Saint) since the late 1940s.Special Features:None Listed -
The Victim
The police are after Jack Barrett. He has stolen several thousand pounds to pay off a blackmailer and is now on the run. He tries desperately to get in touch with Melville Farr, a prosperous young barrister with a beautiful wife but, cornered and arrested by the police he commits suicide in his prison cell rather than answer the probing questions that are put to him. Mel's wife Laura presses him about Barrett's death and is appalled to learn that the men were both lovers. She leaves Mel, not because of his infidelity but because she knows that Mel still loves the dead man. He, in turn, is relieved as he knows that by going away, Laura will be spared the humiliation of the scandal that must come when he has exposed the blackmailers and his past is, in turn, exposed...Banned on its original theatrical release in the United States, this BAFTA-nominated story of deception, blackmail and revenge stars Dirk Bogarde (Death in Venice, Accident, The Servant) in one of his career best performances. Ably supported by Sylvia Syms (Ice Cold in Alex, At Home with the Braithwaites) and Denis Price (The Naked Truth, I'm All Right Jack), Victim is one of the crown jewels of the Rank stable of films., The police are after Jack Barrett. He has stolen several thousand pounds to pay off a blackmailer and is now on the run. He tries desperately to get in touch with Melville Farr, a prosperous young barrister with a beautiful wife but, cornered and arrested by the police he commits suicide in his prison cell rather than answer the probing questions that are put to him. Mel's wife Laura presses him about Barrett's death and is appalled to learn that the men were both lovers. She leaves Mel, not because of his infidelity but because she knows that Mel still loves the dead man. He, in turn, is relieved as he knows that by going away, Laura will be spared the humiliation of the scandal that must come when he has exposed the blackmailers and his past is, in turn, exposed...Banned on its original theatrical release in the United States, this BAFTA-nominated story of deception, blackmail and revenge stars Dirk Bogarde (Death in Venice, Accident, The Servant) in one of his career best performances. Ably supported by Sylvia Syms (Ice Cold in Alex, At Home with the Braithwaites) and Denis Price (The Naked Truth, I'm All Right Jack), Victim is one of the crown jewels of the Rank stable of films.Special Features:'Dirk Bogarde in Conversation' - an extensive interview with Bogarde where he taImage gallery - including some behind the scenes stillsOriginal theatrical trailer -
Well Meet Again (Four Discs)
For three-and-a-half years, the small Suffolk town of Market Wetherby has been doggedly getting on with the war - a time of ration books, shortages and 'making do', of war office telegrams and barrage balloons, or Digging for Victory and identity cards, and of BBC news on the 'wireless'. A time, in fact, of all our yesterdays. Into this quiet corner of England arrives the 525th Bomb Group of the US Eights Air Group, with its Flying Fortress bombers and its 2,000 officers and men, full of confidence, generosity, instant friendliness and casual violence - over-paid, over-sexed and over here.Episode listing:Disc One:- All Day and Every Day.- Hands Across the Sea.- The Milk Run.Disc Two:- One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back.- The Big One.- Up the Smoke.Disc Three:- Fighting Men.- A Wing and a Prayer.- You'll Never Know.Disc Four:- Old Enough to Fight.- One Day at a Time.- Exceptional Circumstances.- The End of the Beginning., For three-and-a-half years, the small Suffolk town of Market Wetherby has been doggedly getting on with the war - a time of ration books, shortages and 'making do', of war office telegrams and barrage balloons, or Digging for Victory and identity cards, and of BBC news on the 'wireless'. A time, in fact, of all our yesterdays. Into this quiet corner of England arrives the 525th Bomb Group of the US Eights Air Group, with its Flying Fortress bombers and its 2,000 officers and men, full of confidence, generosity, instant friendliness and casual violence - over-paid, over-sexed and over here.Episode listing:Disc One:- All Day and Every Day.- Hands Across the Sea.- The Milk Run.Disc Two:- One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back.- The Big One.- Up the Smoke.Disc Three:- Fighting Men.- A Wing and a Prayer.- You'll Never Know.Disc Four:- Old Enough to Fight.- One Day at a Time.- Exceptional Circumstances.- The End of the Beginning.Special Features:None listed. -
The Quiller Memorandum
Quiller (George Segal - The Bridge at Remagen, Just Shoot Me), an unorthodox secret agent, is assigned by the head of Berlin Control (Alec Guinness - Great Expectations, The Ladykillers) to uncover the operations of a neo-Nazi organisation. During his enquires he meets the beautiful Inge (Senta Berger - Cross of Iron, Cast a Giant Shadow), but is she as innocent as she first appears? Sentenced to death by the menacing 'Oktober' Reichsfuhrer of the new Nazis, Quiller finds himself on the run and trapped in a web of intrigue, lies and deceit...Filmed on location in West Berlin by Michael Anderson (Around the World in Eighty Days, Logan's Run), this multiple BAFTA-nominated film (with a script by the legendary Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party, The French Lieutenant's Woman) has long been regarded as one of the greatest spy films ever committed to celluloid. George Segal gives an arguably career-best performance as Quiller and is ably supported by Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow and the gorgeous Senta Berger.Special Features:Contemporary interviews recorded on location in Berlin with George Segal, Alec GImage gallery including some rare and behind the scenes materialOriginal theatrical trailerTextless material