War drama starring Richard Attenborough, John Gregson and Michael Craig. Captain Williams (Gregson) is a martinet mine expert who undertakes to whip the hitherto lackadaisacal British Long Range Desert Group patrol into shape. This brings him into conflict with patrol leader Captain Cotton (Craig), but earns him the respect of hard-bitten trooper Brody (Attenborough). The wisdom of Williams' no-nonsense approach is demonstrated when the patrol is besieged by the highly-disciplined members of the German Afrika Korps.

Classic British war film based on the novel by Pierre Boulle in which a group of POWs are forced to build a bridge in Burma for the Japanese. Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) is the appointed leader of the men interned in the camp. When the Japanese commander, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), orders his captives to build a bridge across the river Kwai, Nicholson agrees on the basis that the project will keep his men occupied and give them an opportunity to prove, through the quality of their work, the superiority of British engineering. However, as the bridge progresses and the POWs strive to show their craftsmanship, Nicholson appears to lose sight of the fact that the ultimate object of the bridge is to help the Japanese win the war. The impending arrival of a British commando team, sent to destroy the bridge, looks set to provide a stern test of where the true loyalties of the increasingly obsessive Nicholson lie.

Sci-fi horror film based on the novel by John Lymington, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. When a freak heatwave sends the temperature soaring on the remote island of Fara, the locals, including Dr Vernon Stone (Cushing) and novelist Jeffrey Callum (Patrick Allen), are left dazed by the rising temperature. When Callum is reunited with his former mistress Angela Roberts (Jane Merrow), the atmosphere becomes even more tense. It is left to Godfrey Hanson (Lee), a visitor to the island, to solve the mystery of the deadly soaring temperatures.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. EDMUND SPENSER; GILES AND PHINEAS FLETCHER. AMONG the mystical poets of the English Church place must be found for EDMUND SPENSER, not as the writer of The Faerie Queene, but as the hymnodist of Heavenly Love and Beauty. The Paerie Queene is an allegory, which we read for the noble ethical qualities there personified with an unfailing opulence of music and colour. But allegory and personification are not mysticism: they are not, strictly speaking, Platonism, and it is as a Platonic idealist that Spenser must be considered here. The Renaissance had, as its most important result, the re-introduction of Plato to the intellectual world, and Spenser was the first of our poets to expound that philosopher's views on Love and Beauty.1 Platonic Idealism, though not in a strict sense mysticism, is closely akin to it; indeed, Dr. Inge has told us that Plato is " the father of European mysticism." Platonism may be described briefly as the love of the invisible and eternal inspired, sustained, and heightened by contemplating the beauty of the visible and the temporal. The locus classicus of the doctrine of Platonic love is the passage in the Symposium (203A, seq in which the Man- tinean prophetess is represented as explaining the origin and meaning of Love. It is there urged that " the right procedure in the matter of Love is to begin with earthly beautiesand to ascend towards that which is Beauty itself, using the former as steps, and from the love of one form to go on to that of two, from two to all beautiful forms, from beautiful forms to beautiful practices, from beautiful practices to beautiful notions, until from beautiful notions the notion of Absolute Beauty is reached, in the knowledge and contemplation of which final satisfaction may be found ." 1 Some of the ...

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Tenth entry in the 'Carry On' series. Able seaman Poop-Decker (Bernard Cribbins) signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless (Kenneth Williams). Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be entitled 'Up the Armada', but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.

Another feature-length episode of the 1960s Western series set in the town of Cimarron. In this instalment, a ruthless prison convict arrives in Cimarron with more on his mind than just sweeping the floors at the Wayfarers Inn. Knowing that a prison train loaded with convicts will be passing through an abandoned ghost town outside Cimarron, he devises a plan to free his prison buddies.

Feature-length episode of the 1960s Western series set in the town of Cimarron. In this instalment, Marshal Crown (Stuart Whitman) finds himself looking at almost everyone in the town as a potential suspect after a string of Cimarron dance hall girls are found brutally murdered. Suspecting that the pattern of murders may be similar to that of the Jack the Ripper slayings in England, Crown must now do all he can to find the killer before he claims his next victim.

Episode 14 of the 1960s feature-length American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). When some bandits bushwhack an army payroll wagon, one of their band, Bo (J D Cannon), is injured by a dynamite charge. Leaving him for dead, the rest escape with the money and Bo is arrested and jailed for several years. Desperate to get even, Bo kills a Texas deputy, steals his papers and arrives in Cimarron where he gets a job working for Crown who is unaware of his true identity. Now, with the law on his side, Bo starts hunting down each member of his former gang who are living the good life that should have been his. It's not long before Angus MacGregor (Percy Herbert) realises that there is something suspicious about the new deputy and Crown must put a stop to his ruthless killings before he gets even further out of control.

Episode 15 of the 1960s feature-length American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). After the Hardesty bank refuses to cash trail boss Joe Bravo (James Stacy)'s $500 cheque, he takes over the bank with the help of his men, discovering the $100,000 in the vault. Much to his men's dismay, Bravo refuses to steal the money and merely takes the $500 he came for. They then travel to Cimarron where they are immediately arrested by Crown. Realising it's his old pal Bravo (and with a full knowledge of his friend's wayward past) Crown sentences him to 90 days working as a Deputy in Hardesty in the hopes that he can turn him straight. However, when crooked Judge Samuel Gilroy (Leonard Stone) finds out, he releases Bravo's men in the hope that they will cause trouble for him. It is up to Bravo to now prove that he can be a man of the law and that Crown was right to believe in him.

Episode six of the 1960s American western series, following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). Trouble erupts in Cimarron after Wildcat Gallagher's Wild West Show arrives in town and puts on a re-enactment of The Battle of Bloody Stones, which depicts Indians being massacred by cavalry. The show upsets the local Indian population and when the son of the Indian Chief Ghost Wolf (Henry Wilcoxon) is killed, Marshal Crown must intervene before more people get hurt.

Episode six of the 1960s American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). After capturing unsuccessful robber Whitey, Marshal Crown manages to find out where his gang are due to strike next, but when he turns up to catch them in the act they are nowhere to be seen. Having realised his gang had tricked him, Whitey escapes from Cimarron jail taking Dulcey as his hostage and only agreeing to return her if Crown captures and hangs his old gang leader, Tinker (Michael T Mikler).

Episode eight of the 1960s feature-length American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). In this episode a drunk cavalry veteran burns down the Cimarron funeral parlour. The veteran, Sergeant Bill Disher (Richard Boone), is upset after the death of his friend and comrade, Little Tom, and believes his death came as a result of the growth and changes taking place in the West. When the people of Cimarron react angrily to what he has done, Crown is forced to deal with Disher.

Episode nine of the 1960s American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). In this episode the loyalty of the Cimarron townspeople towards their Marshal is put to the test. Dickie Vardeman (Bud George) has been arrested for murder, but his notorious criminal family are thought to be planning a rescue. Marshal Crown decides to send Dickie for trial in another town, but while trying to move him clashes with the Vardeman family. During the altercation Crown shoots and kills Dickie's brother and gets shot himself. The people of Cimarron initially rush to search for their missing Marshal but when a reward is put out on his head by Dickie's father, nobody is sure what Crown's fate will be.

Episode ten of the 1960s feature-length American western series following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). In this episode Deputy MacGregor (Percy Herbert) is in charge while Marshal Crown is out of town, but things don't run smoothly. After a prisoner, Luther Happ (Harry Dean Stanton), escapes from Cimarron jail, MacGregor pursues him and kills him, but ends up getting shot too. MacGregor is then arrested for the prisoner's murder as it comes to light that Happ was also a Deputy. Under the authority of dishonest Sheriff Hawkes (Clifton James), MacGregor is sentenced to be hanged, that is until he escapes from jail along with his cellmate who is chained to him. When Marshal Crown gets word of what has happened, he returns to try and find MacGregor before Sheriff Hawkes does.

Episode three of the 1960s American western series, 'Cimarron Strip', following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). This episode sees Marshal Crown having to deal with the rising anger of the people of Cimarron after the local preacher is shot by the drunken son of a cattle rancher.

Episode two of the 1960s American western series, 'Cimarron Strip', following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). When Cimarron is terrorised by notorious outlaw Jud Starr and his gang, Marshal Crown is faced with the task of trying to seek them out and restore law.

Episode four of the 1960s American western series, following the adventures of Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman). Crown is sent to Cimarron Territory to keep law and order in the area after disputes between cattlemen and incoming settlers. He must also deal with the return of his old friend, Bear, and his gang, when their behaviour becomes out of hand in Cimarron.

Eleventh entry in the 'Carry On' series. Marshall P. Knutt (Jim Dale), a former sanitary engineer, becomes the sheriff of Stodge City in the Wild West and must help a young woman beat the Rumpo Kid (Sid James), the outlaw who shot her father. Those getting off their horses and drinking their milk include Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw (making his 'Carry On' debut).

Collection of western films and feature-length TV episodes. In 'Cry Blood, Apache' (1970) five wandering prospectors discover gold at an Apache camp, and quickly despatch the resident Indians bar one woman (Marie Gahua), who they hope can lead them to more riches. A brave who was absent at the time of the killings returns to discover the massacre and quickly sets out to track the murderers down, meting out justice the Apache way. In 'Mohawk' (1956) Boston artist Jonathan Adams (Scott Brady) travels to Mohawk Valley to paint portraits of the Native Americans, and while there falls in love with the local Indian chief's daughter, Onida (Rita Gam). But when a resentful local landowner, Butler (John Hoyt), tries to instigate a war with the Indians, Adams is forced to step in to stop the bloodshed. In 'The Battle of Bloody Stones' (1967), an episode from the 'Cimarron Strip' TV series, John Wolf (Tom Nardini), the son of Indian Chief Ghost Wolf (Henry Wilcoxon), is killed as a result of a re-enactment show put on by Wildcat Gallagher (Gene Evans). It is up to Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman) to suppress the outbreak of war between the Indian tribe and Gallagher's posse. In 'Heller' (1968), another episode from 'Cimarron Strip', Marshal Crown is badly injured when chasing thief Logan Purcell (Morgan Woodward) and his fellow outlaws. When Heller (Tuesday Weld), a young woman with connections to Purcell's gang, helps Crown to recover, the two decide to run away to Cimarron but are chased by the crooks who are determined to punish Heller for her betrayal. In 'Sitting Bull' (1954), set in the lead-up to the Battle of Little Bighorn, Major Robert Parrish (Dale Robertson) is disgusted with the US Army's treatment of the Sioux Indians in the Black Hills of Dakota. Parrish attempts to make peace between the warring sides, but when he fails, a final brutal battle ensues. J. Carrol Naish co-stars in the title role. Finally, 'Kentucky Rifle' (1956) follows a group of travellers whose wagon breaks down in Comanche territory. Concealed in the travellers' wagon are Kentucky rifles, made for settlers to defend themselves against the natives. Aware these weapons are in the group's possession, the Comanche tribe deliver an ultimatum - if they do not hand over the rifles, they will not be allowed to pass safely through the Indians' land.