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The fourth in the James Bond series, with Sean Connery once again in the title role. Global criminal organisation SPECTRE has stolen two nuclear bombs and is threatening to blow up the world. Bond infiltrates the terrorists' underwater base off the Bahamas in order to foil their plan. 'Thunderball' was remade in 1983 when Sean Connery returned to the role of 007 in 'Never Say Never Again'.
Secret Service agent James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of one of his colleagues. It transpires that the island is being used as a base for the terrorist organisation SPECTRE, who, under the guidance of the despotic Dr No (Joseph Wiseman), have developed technology to divert rockets launched from Cape Canaveral. The first big-screen outing for 007 features original Bond Girl Ursula Andress emerging from the ocean in memorably revealing swimwear.
James Bond (Roger Moore), in his tenth screen outing, joins forces with a glamorous Russian spy (Barbara Bach) to outwit a megalomaniac shipping magnate (Curt Jurgens) who intends to achieve world domination by causing nuclear war between the superpowers. The film features the submersible Lotus Esprit, underwater battles, and 'Jaws', a seven-foot villain with steel teeth.
James Bond (this time played by George Lazenby) hands in his licence to kill after being banned from hunting down his arch-nemesis Blofeld (Telly Savalas). Continuing his investigations alone, he follows a lead to Portugal, meets and falls in love with Tracey Draco (Diana Rigg), and is told by her crimelord father that Blofeld is now in Switzerland. Pretty soon its snow, kilts, girls, secret bases and ski chases, as Bond chases down his enemy and attempts to foil a plan to unleash a deadly chemical weapon.
Roger Moore makes his 007 debut, replacing Sean Connery as Britain's most celebrated secret agent. In the eighth instalment of the franchise, Bond is tasked with cracking a voodoo-controlled drug smuggling racket in the Caribbean, and sets about the task with his customary verve, finding time for speedboat chases and crocodile encounters along the way. Admirable support is offered by Clifton James, as an irate Southern Sheriff, and Jane Seymour, as tarot expert Solitaire but they face a formidable foe in drugs baron Kananga (Yaphet Kotto).
Sean Connery returns as Secret Service agent James Bond in the second of the series, once again saving the world from the terrorist threats of the SPECTRE organisation. Bond is sent to Istanbul to steal a Russian coding machine, but comes up against two fearsome opponents also interested in the device: East German spy Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who hides a deadly switchblade in her shoe; and Red Grant (Robert Shaw), an assassin posing as a fellow British agent.
James Bond (Sean Connery) pits his wits against the power-crazed criminal mastermind Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) in the third of the long-running spy series. Mr Finger has secured most of the gold in the world and now plans to render the rest useless. Henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) helps him realise his plans, thanks to his unusually lethal bowler hat, whilst Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) is the glamorous pilot who Goldfinger hopes will execute the raid on Fort Knox that will make him the richest man in the world. Can Bond save the day again or has he finally met his match in the man with the Midas touch? Includes the famous customized Aston Martin DB5, complete with machine guns, smoke screen and ejector seat.
With Sean Connery returning to the role after sitting out one instalment, James Bond is ready for his latest mission. And what does M want of him this time? To infiltrate a worldwide diamond smuggling operation. The action - which moves between Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and the desert - sees Bond encounter Plenty O'Toole (Lana Wood), steal a moon buggy, get beaten up by a couple of female karate experts known as Bambi and Thumper, before finally bringing him face-to-face with a Howard Hughes-type recluse who is intent on nuclear blackmail and world domination.
James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Japan to keep the peace between the superpowers when a SPECTRE rocket intercepts an American space capsule carrying a nuclear warhead. In between visits to the geisha house and flights in his Little Nellie, 007 manages to track down SPECTRE's secret base and its evil mastermind Blofeld (Donald Pleasence). Will he be able to stop Blofeld's evil plans or is this really the end of Bond and the world as we know it? After this fifth entry in the series, Connery took a break from the title role, only to return in 'Diamonds Are Forever' (1971).
When a space shuttle goes missing during a test flight, James Bond (Roger Moore) is the man who must track it down. His investigations take him to Venice (where he uses his specially customized gondola), Rio de Janeiro (where he fights steel-toothed henchman Jaws on top of a cable car), and finally into outer space (where he uncovers a ruthless plot to wipe out the human race and replace it with genetically engineered humanoids). Highlights include Bond's encounters with NASA scientist Dr Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) and the climactic battle aboard villain Hugo Drax's (Michael Lonsdale) space station.
Roger Moore plays 007 for the first time, bringing a new camp sensibility to the series while presiding over the usual quota of eyebrow-raising action and unusual gadgets. The mission this time is to crack a voodoo-controlled drug smuggling racket in the Caribbean, and Bond sets about the task with his customary verve, finding time for speedboat chases and crocodile encounters along the way. Admirable support is offered by Clifton James, as an irate Southern-States Sheriff, and Jane Seymour, as a Voodoo Queen whose power disappears when she loses her virginity by sleeping with Bond. The theme tune is performed by Paul McCartney and Wings.
The penultimate film from the celebrated teaming of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ('Black Narcissus', 'A Matter of Life and Death') tells the true story of the famous 1939 naval battle. Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch) is captaining the crack German battleship Graf Spee through the South Atlantic, unaware that a small number of lightweight British battle cruisers are hot on his trail. When the British cruisers manage to trap the powerful German ship in the Uruguayan harbour of Montevideo, they attempt to trick Langsdorff into believing that an entire battle fleet is waiting to destroy his vessel at sea.
Secret Service agent James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of one of his colleagues. It transpires that the island is being used as a base for the terrorist organisation SPECTRE, who, under the guidance of the despotic Dr No (Joseph Wiseman), have developed technology to divert rockets launched from Cape Canaveral. The first big-screen outing for 007 features original Bond Girl Ursula Andress emerging from the ocean in memorably revealing swimwear.
James Bond (Roger Moore), in his tenth screen outing, joins forces with a glamorous Russian spy (Barbara Bach) to outwit a megalomaniac shipping magnate (Curt Jurgens) who intends to achieve world domination by causing nuclear war between the superpowers. The film features the submersible Lotus Esprit, underwater battles, and 'Jaws', a seven-foot villain with steel teeth.
Set in 1942 at the height of the second war, this is the story of Odette Marie Celine Churchill who, after an appeal, sends her holiday photos of the French Coast to the War office. Due to her unique qualifications, she is sent to France as a secret agent, and to join the resistance.
Sixth collection of feature-length TV dramas based on the novels of the British crime writer, Edgar Wallace. Though most famous today for contributing to the screenplay of 'King Kong' (1933), Wallace was an extremely popular writer of mystery fiction during the early 20th century. A number of his stories were adapted for TV at Merton Park Studios in the early 1960s and often featured strong casts, with the actors to appear in this volume including Peter Barkworth, Nigel Davenport, Faith Brook, Bernard Lee and Jeremy Kemp. The episodes are: 'Downfall', 'The Verdict', 'We Shall See', 'Who Was Maddox?', 'Face of a Stranger', 'Act of Murder' and 'Never Mention Murder'.
Frank Nesbitt directs this 1970s drama based on the novel by H.E. Bates. Dulcima Gaskain (Carol White) is a beautiful young woman whose life has been blighted by poverty and her unsympathetic family. Seeking a means of escape, she begins working as a cleaner for a farmer (John Mills) who lives nearby. Though the farmer is known in the area as a recluse and a drunkard, he quickly becomes attached to Dulcima and the girl, who witnesses first-hand the amount of money stashed around the house, recognises an opportunity to escape her poverty through marriage. However, a handsome young gamekeeper has also caught Dulcima's eye. Will she be able to choose between money and desire?
Classic British crime drama directed by Basil Dearden. After being called to the scene of an armed robbery, veteran PC George Dixon (Jack Warner) is shot and killed by young criminal Tom Riley (Dirk Bogarde) while new recruit Andy Mitchell (Jimmy Hanley) can only look on in horror. With word soon getting out of the popular policeman's murder, some of the West London criminal fraternity join forces with Mitchell and his colleagues and set out on a hunt to find the killer.
James Bond (Roger Moore), in his tenth screen outing, joins forces with a glamorous Russian spy (Barbara Bach) to outwit a megalomaniac shipping magnate (Curt Jurgens) who intends to achieve world domination by causing nuclear war between the superpowers. The film features the submersible Lotus Esprit, underwater battles, and 'Jaws', a seven-foot villain with steel teeth.
Second collection of feature-length TV dramas based on the novels of the British crime writer, Edgar Wallace. Though most famous today for contributing to the screenplay of 'King Kong' (1933), Wallace was an extremely popular writer of mystery fiction during the early 20th century. A number of his stories were adapted for TV at Merton Park Studios in the early 1960s and often featured strong casts, with the actors to appear in this volume including Patrick Magee, Bernard Archard and Bernard Lee. The episodes are: 'The Man at the Carlton Tower', 'The Clue of the Silver Key', 'Attempt to Kill', 'Man Detained', 'Never Back Losers', 'The Sinister Man', 'Backfire!' and 'The White Trap'.
Ralph Thomas directs this classic British sex comedy starring Leigh Lawson as Percy Edward Anthony. After exiling himself to overcome his addiction to sex, Percy becomes the only man capable of ensuring the survival of the city when the rest of the male population are rendered impotent by pollutants in the water. How will he cope?
Complete edition of the classic ITC detective drama, starring Richard Bradford as McGill, the ex-CIA agent reduced to working as a gun-for-hire and private investigator. Frequently coming into conflict with the people who hire him due to his uncompromising sense of honour and integrity, McGill finds himself tangling with crooked governments, hunting down the man who framed him, tracking down a stolen painting, and drawn back into the world of espionage with an assignment in East Germany. Includes all 30 episodes: 'Man From the Dead'; 'All That Glitters'; 'Sweet Sue'; 'The Bridge'; 'Find the Lady'; 'Brainwash'; 'The Girl Who Never Was'; 'Variation on a Million Bucks (Part 1)'; 'Variation on a Million Bucks (Part 2)'; 'Day of Execution'; 'Web With Four Spiders'; 'Blind Spot'; 'The Boston Square'; 'Jigsaw Man'; 'The Sitting Pigeon'; 'The Man Who Stood Still'; 'Somebody Loses, Somebody...Wins?'; 'Dead Man's Shoes'; 'The Whisper'; 'Essay in Evil'; 'Why They Killed Nolan'; 'Burden of Proof'; 'Who's Mad Now?'; 'Property of a Gentleman'; 'No Friend of Mine'; 'Which Way Did He Go, McGill?'; 'The Revolutionaries'; 'Three Blinks of the Eyes'; 'Castle in the Clouds' and 'Night Flight to Andorra'.
Herbert Wilcox directs this 1940s drama, based on the play by Frank Harvey, starring Anna Neagle as a woman dealing with the return of her husband from a variety of wars. Neagle plays the eponymous role of Elizabeth of Ladymead, a woman from a stately house who awaits the return of John Beresford (Hugh Williams) from World War II. As Elizabeth tries to deal with her husband's readjustment to civilian life, a series of vignettes see other versions of the central character (again played by Neagle) greeting husbands who have survived the Crimean War, the Boer War and World War II. Through a comparison of the various Elizabeths' experiences, the film aims to shed light on the changes in British society through the generations.
Romantic drama directed by Bryan Forbes. Bruce (Malcolm McDowell) is a lively young man with an eye for a pretty girl. Returning home slightly the worse for wear from drink after a wedding, he suddenly collapses in the lift of the block of flats in which he lives. When he wakes up in hospital, he finds he is unable to walk, and the doctors cannot diagnose his problem. His family refuse to house him, and Bruce is forced to move to a convalescence home where, having becoming increasingly bitter and depressed about his situation, he strikes up a friendship with fellow inmate Jill (Nanette Newman). Under her influence, he begins to enjoy life again. But can their love survive as they struggle with the prospect of moving out of the home and looking for work?
Ralph Thomas directs this classic British sex comedy starring Leigh Lawson as Percy Edward Anthony. After exiling himself to overcome his addiction to sex, Percy becomes the only man capable of ensuring the survival of the city when the rest of the male population are rendered impotent by pollutants in the water. How will he cope? |
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