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A Matter Of Life And Death (DVD)
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Marius Goring, …
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One night over Europe, a crippled Lancaster Bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead except for the young pilot (David Niven) desperately scanning the radio for signs of life. A young radio operator picks up his signal, and in the final moments of the young flyer's life, a special bond is formed. The next morning, washed up on an English beach, the pilot is alive and somehow he survived. It's a miracle...or is it?
Collection of eleven classic films from influential filmmakers
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. 'The Battle of the River
Plate' (1956) 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. In 'A Canterbury Tale' (1944), a British
sergeant, a land girl and a United States Army officer arrive at a
Kent village on the same train. The newcomers are brought face to
face with the bizarre menace causing bewilderment in the tight-knit
community: someone is pouring glue onto the hair of girls who dare
to venture out at night with visiting servicemen. Powell and
Pressburger offered this 'propaganda' piece as their contribution
to the war effort, but the authorities were unsure how its oddball
tone would go down with the Allies. In '49th Parallel' (1941),
Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard are among the stars who try to
prevent Nazi sailors, from a sunken U-Boat, reaching neutral USA
through Canada in this classic war film, which was intended to
persuade America to join World War II. Pressburger won an Academy
Award for the story and the film was directed by Powell. In 'I Know
Where I'm Going!' (1945), a woman (Wendy Hiller) has always known
what she wanted in life, and now she is about to marry a
millionaire. But when she ends up stranded on a Hebredian island
due to a storm, she begins to see things a little differently. 'Ill
Met By Moonlight' (1957) was the final film created by Powell and
Pressburger together. Set on the island of Crete during the Nazi
occupation, the film stars Dirk Bogarde and David Oxley as British
officers assigned to kidnap the German commander-in-chief General
Kreipe (Marius Goring) and spirit him back to Cairo. If successful,
the morale of the Germans would be weakened and the resistance
would be stronger. But once he is captured, the British officers
have to get him past German patrols at almost every turning. In
'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' (1943), stuffy ex-soldier
Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) recalls his career which began as a
dashing officer in the Boer War. As a young man he lost the woman
he loved (Deborah Kerr, who plays three roles) to a Prussian
officer (Anton Walbrook), whom he fought in a duel only to become
lifelong friends with. Candy cannot help but feel that his notions
of honour and chivalry are out of place in modern warfare. The
film's title comes from 'Evening Standard' cartoonist David Low's
satirical comic creation, Colonel Blimp. In 'The Red Shoes' (1948),
ballet impressario Boris Lermontov (Walbrook) hires up-and-coming
ballerina Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) and talented young composer
Julian Craster (Goring) to work with him on a new ballet, an
adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story 'The Red Shoes'.
The show is a great success and Victoria and Julian fall in love,
but Boris is jealous and makes moves to spoil their happiness. 'A
Matter of Life and Death' (1946) is a classic wartime propaganda
movie, commissioned by the Ministry of Information, but turned into
a fantastical allegory by the Archers, aka Powell and Pressburger.
David Niven plays an RAF pilot who is ready to be picked up by the
angels after bailing out of his plane. But an administrative error
in Heaven leads to a temporary reprieve, during which he must prove
his right to stay on Earth. A tribunal in heaven ensues to decide
the case. In 'They're a Weird Mob' (1966), Nino Culotta (Walter
Chiari) is an Italian immigrant who arrives in Australia with the
promise of a job as a journalist on his cousin's magazine, only to
find that when he gets there the magazine has folded, the cousin
has done a runner and the money his cousin sent for the fare was
borrowed from the daughter of the boss of a local construction
firm. 'The Tales of Hoffman' (1951) is an adaptation of Jacques
Offenbach's opera and follows Hoffman's (Robert Rounseville) tales
of his love for the doll Olympia, the courtesan Giuletta (Ludmilla
Tcherina) and the frail diva Antonia (Anne Ayars), and of how his
quest for the eternal woman was always thwarted by evil. Finally,
in 'Black Narcissus' (1946), a group of British nuns are sent into
the Himalayas to set up a mission in what was once the harem's
quarters of an ancient palace. The clear mountain air, the
unfamiliar culture and the unbridled sensuality of a young prince
(Sabu) and his beggar-girl lover (Jean Simmons) begin to play havoc
with the nuns' long-suppressed emotions. Whilst the young Mother
Superior, Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr), fights a losing battle for
order, the jaunty David Farrar falls in love with her, sparking
uncontrollable jealousy in another nun, Sister Ruth (Kathleen
Byron).
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Private Road (Blu-ray disc)
Bruce Robinson, Susan Penhaligon, Michael Feast, Robert Brown, George Fenton, …
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British drama which follows the relationship of a young couple.
Author Peter (Bruce Robinson) takes time out from working to move
in with his receptionist girlfriend, Ann (Susan Penhaligon),
against the wishes of her parents. When Ann falls pregnant, Peter
is torn between pursuing his artistic passion of writing and
committing to the domestic lifestyle.
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Blake's 7: Season 2 (Box Set) (DVD)
Gareth Thomas, Jan Chappell, David Jackson, Michael Keating, Jacqueline Pearce, …
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The entire second season of the 1970s BBC sci-fi series.
'Redemption' sees Orac's prediction of the Liberator's destruction
looking likely to be fulfilled when the ship's original owners
arrive and take the rebels prisoner. In 'Shadow', Blake becomes
involved with an interplanetary crime syndicate. 'Weapon' sees
Blake and crew set out to steal a deadly 'delayed-effect' gun,
which Servalan also wishes to possess. In 'Horizon', the Liberator
heads for the edge of the Galaxy, only to be taken prisoner on the
planet Horizon. 'Pressure Point' sees Blake attempting to destroy
the Federation's control centre, only to walk into a trap set by
Travis. In 'Trial', Travis is made a scapegoat by Servalan for
their failure to capture Blake. 'Killer' sees Blake and his crew
stumbling upon a derelict spaceship whilst on a mission to crack
the Federation's new transmission code. The craft houses a deadly
plague which could threaten the existence of the entire universe.
In 'Hostage', Travis tries to trap Blake by kidnapping his cousin,
Inga. 'Countdown' sees Blake and crew coming to the aid of the
planet Albian, whose population are dying from radiation poisoning.
In 'Voice from the Past', a telepathic signal forces Blake to
reroute the Liberator to an asteroid where Travis lies in wait.
Whilst 'Gambit' sees Blake, Cally and Jenna visit a gambling world
to find the man who knows the location of the Federation's Star
One. Avon and Villa, meanwhile, choose to take Orac on an illicit
gambling spree. In 'The Keeper', Blake tries to obtain the key to
Star One from a tribal chief on the planet Goth. However, Travis
has beaten him to it. Finally, 'Star One' sees Blake at last launch
his attack on the Federation's headquarters, unaware that an alien
fleet is poised to invade.
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The Silver Fleet (DVD)
Willem Akkerman, Charles Victor, Margaret Emden, Googie Withers, Frederick Burtwell, …
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Wartime drama co-written and directed by Vernon Sewell and Gordon
Wellesley. During the Nazi's early occupation of Holland, they
seize the country's largest shipyard hoping to turn it into a
production line for their U-boats. The shipyard's owner, Jaap Van
Leyden (Ralph Richardson), is ordered by German enforcer Von
Schiffer (Esmond Knight) to collaborate and help with U-boat
production. But unbeknown to the Gestapo, Van Leyden is in fact a
hero of the local resistance, and sets in motion a covert plan to
strike back against the Nazi's production line. Googie Withers
co-stars as Jaap's wife Helène.
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