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Under Capricorn (DVD)
Joseph Cotten, Ingrid Bergman, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, …
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R398
Discovery Miles 3 980
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Classic drama from Alfred Hitchcock. In 1831, Irishman Charles
Adare (Michael Widling) travels to Australia to start a new life
with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor.
When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam
Flusky (Joseph Cotten), who wants to do a business deal with him.
Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house, Charles meets
Flusky's wife Henrietta (Ingird Bergman) who he had known as a
child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on
the verge of madness.
Sid James triple. In 'The Big Job' (1965), a gang of hapless crooks
successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact.
Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving
their stolen loot - and discover that a police station has been
built over its hiding place. Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery, Jim Dale and
Joan Sims co-star. In 'Make Mine a Milluion' (1959), an ad-man
teams up with a make-up artist in a cunning plot to advertise Bonko
detergent on non-commercial television. Despite the trouble it
causes, the plan proves a great success and the two chaps soon set
up a pirate television station with the intention of beaming their
advertisements into other company's TV shows. Again the idea proves
successful - but just how long can these two go on avoiding their
come-uppance? 'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951) is a classic Ealing
comedy. Nobody would ever suspect gold bullion delivery man Henry
Holland (Alec Guinness) of anything other than total devotion to
his job. However, with the aid of fellow lodger Pendlebury (Stanley
Holloway), he gathers together a gang to carry out a heist,
intending to smuggle the gold out of the country by melting it down
into miniature models of the Eiffel Tower. All goes well until the
consignment of models becomes muddled up with another, non-golden
batch. Watch out for an early cameo by Audrey Hepburn.
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The Million Pound Note (DVD)
Gregory Peck, Jane Griffith, Joyce Grenfell, Ronald Squire, A.E. Matthews, …
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R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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Gregory Peck stars in this classic adaptation of Mark Twain's short
story of the same name. When American sailor Henry Adams (Peck)
comes across two wealthy brothers who have, with the help of the
Bank of England, developed a single note with a value of one
million pounds, he finds himself part of an unusual wager.
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Seven Days to Noon (DVD)
Barry Jones, Andre Morell, Hugh Cross, Sheila Manahan, Olive Sloane, …
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R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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Oscar-winning thriller from the Boulting Brothers. When a
scientist, Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones), sends a letter to 10
Downing Street threatening to blow up the Houses of Parliament
within a week unless the Prime Minister agrees to his demands, it
is dismissed as a hoax. But when Willingdon disappears, alarm bells
start to ring, and soon the whole of London is out looking for him.
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The Best of Ealing Collection (DVD)
Joan Greenwood, John Penrose, Cecil Rampage, Jack Warner, Fred Griffiths, …
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R712
R570
Discovery Miles 5 700
Save R142 (20%)
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A collection of five classic Ealing comedies. 'Kind Hearts and
Coronets' (1949) is a period comedy set in the early 20th century.
Young Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) vows to take revenge on his
family, the D'Ascoynes, when he learns how they disinherited his
mother. Working his way into their trust, Louis begins to bump off
his distant relatives (all played by Alec Guinness) one by one, but
complications set in when Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson), the
widow of his first victim, falls in love with him. In 'The
Ladykillers' (1955), eccentric landlady Mrs Wilberforce (Katie
Johnson) believes her new lodger Professor Marcus (Guinness) and
his associates the Major (Cecil Parker), Louis (Herbert Lom), Harry
(Peter Sellers) and One-Round (Danny Green) to be amateur
musicians. They are in fact, however, the perpetrators of a bank
heist, looking to whisk their ill-gotten gains out of London. All
goes well until Mrs Wilberforce is persuaded by Marcus to claim his
'trunk' from the station; it is only then that the criminal
genius's carefully laid plans begin to go awry. In 'The Man in The
White Suit' (1951), Sidney Stratton (Guiness) is a laboratory
cleaner in a textile factory who invents a material that will
neither wear out nor become dirty. Initially hailed as a great
discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the
management when they realise that if it never wears out, people
will only ever have to purchase one suit of clothing. In 'Passport
to Pimlico' (1949), an unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico,
uncovering documents which reveal that this part of London in fact
belongs to Burgundy in France. An automonous state is set up in a
spirit of optimism, but the petty squabbles of everyday life soon
shatter the Utopian vision of a non-restrictive nation. Finally, in
'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951), nobody would ever suspect gold
bullion delivery man Henry Holland (Guinness) of anything other
than total devotion to his job. However, with the aid of fellow
lodger Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), he gathers together a gang to
carry out a heist, intending to smuggle the gold out of the country
by melting it down into miniature models of the Eiffel Tower. All
goes well until the consignment of models becomes muddled up with
another, non-golden batch. Watch out for an early cameo by Audrey
Hepburn.
Triple bill of British movies produced by the Children's Film
Foundation. In 'The Man from Nowhere' (1976), a young girl goes to
stay at her wealthy uncle's home where she encounters a mysterious
stranger who seems keen for her to leave. In 'Haunters of the Deep'
(1984), a businessman causes trouble when he reopens an old mine
with a dark history. In 'Out of the Darkness' (1985), two siblings
and their young friend try to free the spirit of a child who died
during the Great Plague.
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