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Norman Wisdom Collection (DVD)
Edward Chapman, Brian Worth, Campbell Singer, Terence Alexander, Fenella Fielding, …
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A box set of 12 Norman Wisdom classics. In 'On the Beat' Wisdom
stars as a bumbling Scotland Yard car park attendant who gets his
chance to be a real policeman after he accidentally catches some
crooks. His advantage lies in the fact that he physically resembles
one of the ringleaders. In 'Man of the Moment' the bumbling Norman
(Wisdom) accidentally becomes the British delegate to an important
international conference in Geneva. Hilarious chaos and amusing
misunderstandings ensue. In 'Trouble in Store' Wisdom is taken on
as a shop assistant in a department store. His ambition is to
become a window dresser, and he falls in love at first sight with
his dream-girl, Sally. After a disastrous start (chasing a bus on
roller skates, entering a shop girl's hostel, the usual sort of
thing), events conspire to make Norman an unlikely hero. In 'Up in
the World' Wisdom stars as the bumbling window cleaner to Lady
Banderville. He has to cope with the pranks of her son, Sir Reggie,
but cleans up when he confounds a gang of kidnappers. In 'The
Square Peg' Norman Pitkin (Wisdom) is keen to help the war effort,
and turns out to be a dead ringer for an enemy general. Joining up
with his colleague, Mr Grimsdale, he is posted to France as part of
a team repairing the damaged roads. Captured by the enemy, he turns
his uncanny resemblance to his own advantage and comes home a hero.
In 'Follow a Star' Wisdom plays a shop worker (imaginatively also
named Norman, as indeed is every character he has ever portrayed)
who dreams of becoming a famous singer. His attempts are, of
course, disastrous, until he is encouraged by music teacher Miss
Dobson, and a crippled girl named Judy. In 'The Bulldog Breed'
Norman Puckle (Wisdom) is a grocer who joins the Navy and finds
himself chosen to man a rocket flight into outer space. After
Norman brings his own brand of madcap mayhem to the training
process, his superiors begin to suspect that they might have picked
the wrong person for the mission. Also starring Ian Hunter and
Edward Chapman. Whilst in 'One Good Turn' Norman (Wisdom) works at
the orphanage, and promises that he will buy one of its charges a
model car. But how can he get the money? Proving himself equally
incompetent at all jobs, he manages to raise a few laughs along the
way in his attempts to earn the cash and not disappoint the little
sprite. In 'A Stitch in Time' Star Wisdom plays an apprentice
butcher trying to help a sick child. His bumbling efforts end up
with him being banned from visiting little orphan Lindy, but Norman
will go to any lengths to keep in touch with his young charge.
Whilst in 'Just My Tuck', determined to win the heart of his
beautiful neighbour, Norman (Wisdom) decides he wants to buy her a
diamond necklace - but how can he possibly afford it? A solution
offers itself when he goes to a bookmaker's, learns the intricacies
of the accumulator bet, and sets out on a major winning streak.
However, whenever Norman is involved things are never quite that
simple, and soon enough our hapless hero finds himself in deep
trouble, creating havoc at the local racetrack. In 'The Early Bird'
Wisdom plays a milkman caught up in a feud between the small,
traditional company that employs him and a large, modern dairy
planning a hostile takeover. Will Norman, in his typically inept
fashion, manage to save his company from the onset of modernity?
Finally in 'Press For Time' Norman Shields (Wisdom) is an
accident-prone young reporter, who only got the job because his
grandfather (also played by Wisdom) happens to be the Prime
Minister. Hilarious chaos ensues when Norman is sent to cover a
beauty contest. Wisdom also appears in drag as a Suffragette called
Emily.
Dr Phibes (Vincent Price), horribly disfigured from the car crash
which killed his wife, decides to take revenge on the surgeons who
failed to save her. He and his mute assistant (Virginia North) set
about killing each surgeon using one of the biblical Seven Curses
of the Pharoah.
One of the world's greatest fairy tales is re-told in a
graphic-novel format. In a far-away kingdom, there lives an Emperor
who prizes fancy clothes above all else. He buys suit after suit
made of the most expensive materials instead of tending to his
threadbare kingdom. Then, one day, two travelling merchants offer
to make the Emperor a special suit that has magical powers. The
merchants, however, are not who they claim to be, and the suit has
one major flaw, no one can see it!
The Pink Panther diamond has been stolen again and Inspector
Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is called in to find the thief.
Christopher Plummer has taken over David Niven's role as number one
suspect, but this time he is innocent and decides he'll have to
find the culprit himself if he wants to avoid a life behind bars.
Clouseau, meanwhile, conducts the police investigation in his
idosyncratic style.
Belived to be dead for a very long time, Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price)
rises in search of the means to bring his wife back from the dead.
With the help of Vulnavia (Valli Kemp), Phibes catches up with an
Egyptian expedition who are searching for the ancient elexir of
life. Anyone who stands in his way will be killed.
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Middlemarch (DVD)
Robert Hardy, Patrick Malahide, Rufus Sewell, Michael Hordern, Douglas Hodge, …
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A BBC dramatisation of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives
and loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial
Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young
Doctor Lydgate (Douglas Hodge), who arrives at Middlemarch hospital
full of idealism and determined to do good works; Dorothea Brooke
(Juliet Aubrey), who becomes attracted to the scholarly Edward
Casaubon (Patrick Malahide) and then finds herself trapped in an
ill-fated marriage; and Will Ladislaw (Rufus Sewell), a young lad
who awakens Dorothea's repressed passion and thereby changes the
course of her life.
The entire 16th season of the long-running cult classic. Tom Baker,
the popular fourth Doctor, is joined by the beautiful Romana (Mary
Tamm) in this 26-episode intergalactic treasure hunt for the
all-powerful Key to Time. Includes six storylines: 'The Ribos
Operation', 'The Pirate Planet', 'The Stones of Blood', 'The
Androids of Tara', 'The Power of Kroll' and 'The Armageddon
Factor'.
All three seasons of Terry Nation's acclaimed BBC science fiction
drama in which 95% of the population have been wiped out by a freak
plague, leaving the remaining survivors to rebuild civilisation.
Episodes are: 'The Fourth Horseman', 'Genesis', 'Gone Away', 'Corn
Dolly', 'Gone to the Angels', 'Garland's War', 'Starvation', 'Law
and Order', 'The Future Hour', 'Revenge', 'Something of Value', 'A
Beginning', 'Birth of Hope', 'Greater Love', 'Lights of London
(Parts 1 and 2)', 'The Face of the Tiger', 'The Witch', 'A Friend
in Need', 'By Bread Alone', 'The Chosen', 'Parasites', 'New
Arrivals', 'Over the Hills', 'New World', 'Manhunt', 'A Little
Learning', 'Law of the Jungle', 'Mad Dog', 'Bridgehead', 'Reunion',
'The Peacemaker', 'Sparks', 'The Enemy', 'The Last Laugh', 'Long
Live the King' and 'Power'.
Former 'Monty Python' animator Terry Gilliam directs this epic
fantasy adventure. In the seventeenth century, a theatrical troupe
are acting out the legendary adventures of mythical hero Baron
Munchausen for the visiting Minister of War (Jonathan Pryce) when
their performance is interrupted by an eccentric old man (John
Neville) who claims to be the Baron himself. Protesting that the
version of his life being presented is all wrong, the Baron
proceeds to regale the audience with his own fantastic tale...
Box set featuring all three of Eric and Ernie's big screen
adventures. In 'The Intelligence Men' (1965) Eric helps secret
agent Ernie to protect Russian ballerina Madame Petrovna when her
life is placed in danger. In 'That Riviera Touch' (1966) the pair
travel to the Riviera, where they become mixed up with jewel
thieves while attempting to romance the beautiful Claudette. In
'The Magnificent Two' (1967) the boys visit Latin America, where
Eric is persuaded by a latin beauty to impersonate a dead rebel
leader.
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