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Double bill of action adventures set during World War Two, directed
by Brian G. Hutton and starring Clint Eastwood. In 'Kelly's Heroes'
(1970), a group of soldiers led by Kelly (Eastwood) capture a
German general in occupied France. He reveals the location of a
bank housing 14,000 bars of Nazi gold, which Kelly and his men set
out to steal. The only problem is that the bank lies 30 miles
behind enemy lines. In 'Where Eagles Dare' (1968) seven Allied
agents are selected to rescue an American general from the
impenetrable German fortress Schloss Adler. In charge of the team
is British Major Smith (Richard Burton), with American Lieutenant
Schaffer (Eastwood) as second in command. Parachuting into the
enemy territory in German uniforms, the squad discover one of their
number dead on arrival and Smith suspects that he may have a
traitor amongst his unit.
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Where Eagles Dare (Blu-ray disc)
Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Michael Hordern, Patrick Wymark, …
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During World War II, seven Allied agents are selected to rescue an
American general from the impenetrable German fortress Schloss
Adler. In charge of the team is British Major Smith (Richard
Burton), with American Lieutenant Schaffer (Clint Eastwood) as
second in command. Parachuting into the enemy territory in German
uniforms, the squad discover one of their number dead on arrival,
and Smith suspects that he may have a traitor amongst his unit.
Alistair Maclean wrote the screenplay and the film is reported to
be amongst director Quentin Tarantino's favourites.
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Norman Wisdom Collection (DVD)
Edward Chapman, Brian Worth, Campbell Singer, Terence Alexander, Fenella Fielding, …
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R529
Discovery Miles 5 290
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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.
Box set containing two classic horror movies. In 'Village of the
Damned' (1960), the sudden and temporary paralysis of a small
English hamlet, which is followed by the town's women becoming
mysteriously pregnant. The spawn of this occurrence are a dozen
eerie, blonde-haired children, who are either gifted, evil, or 'the
world's new people'. In 'Children of the Damned' (1963), scientists
discover that there are five children who each have enormous
intelligence. The children are flown to London to be studied, but
they escape the laboratory and gather in a church.
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Man With a Gun (DVD)
John Le Mesurier, Rona Anderson, Glen Mason, Cyril Chamberlain, Lee Patterson, …
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Lee Patterson stars in this 1958 noir thriller directed by
Montgomery Tully. Insurance claim investigator Mike Davies
(Patterson) has been assigned to assess the claim of a local
nightclub owner whose premises has been destroyed by fire. But when
Mike discovers that the claim might be fraudulent, he'll have to
watch his back as he gathers the evidence...
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Battle of Britain (DVD)
Laurence Olivier, Robert Shaw, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, …
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Guy Hamilton's classic war film looks at how England defended
itself from the German aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940.
Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding, the air chief marshal
whose fleet outmanouevre the Luftwaffe, despite a numerical
disadvantage; and those few to whom so many owed so much are
portrayed by an all-star cast including Michael Caine, Kenneth More
and Ralph Richardson. Despite its pro-British slant, the
authenticity of the film's impressive flying sequences was
guaranteed by the technical advice of Adolf Galland, one of the
Nazi's most celebrated World War 2 pilots.
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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I'm All Right Jack (DVD)
Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Miles Malleson, Irene Handl, …
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Peter Sellers plays both Sir John Kennaway and the tragic-comic trade union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then-burning issue of industrial relations.
Bertram Tracepurcel plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme that involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labour dispute, from which the socialist Mr. Kite is only too keen to make capital.
In black & white.
Classic comic espionage caper from Disney studios starring Peter
Ustinov and Derek Nimmo. Lord Southmere (Nimmo) hides a top-secret
microfilm containing the formula for the mysterious 'Lotus X' in a
dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum in London after
narrowly escaping from a gang of ruthless Chinese spies. When he
realises that the spies are following him, he instructs his former
nanny Hettie (Helen Hayes) to retrieve the microfilm. Southmere is
then promptly recaptured by the head spy, Hnup Wan (Peter Ustinov),
while the resourceful Hettie assembles a group of fellow nannies to
help her search for the microfilm. But the nannies are up against
the cunning of the evil spy gang, who will stop at nothing to get
to the prized Lotus X before Hettie and her helpers.
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