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The Americanization of Emily
»rank: 9954
0ur opinion: :ln world war ii europe an unlikely affair blooms between idealistic ambulance driver julie andrews and cynical officer james garner. An endearing blend of bittersweet romance and savage military satire. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O5/1O/2OO5 Starring: Julie Andrews Melvin Douglas Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (Marty) sinks his satirical fangs into this story of an American naval officer (James Garner) selected to be the first victim at the invasion of Normandy. Julie Andrews plays a prim, ...
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Dad's Army - Collection
»rank: 15876
0ur opinion: :ln world war ii europe an unlikely affair blooms between idealistic ambulance driver julie andrews and cynical officer james garner. An endearing blend of bittersweet romance and savage military satire. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O5/1O/2OO5 Starring: Julie Andrews Melvin Douglas Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (Marty) sinks his satirical fangs into this story of an American naval officer (James Garner) selected to be the first victim at the invasion of Normandy. Julie Andrews plays a prim, ...
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The Agatha Christie Megaset Collection (Miss Marple / Poirot)
»rank: 27268
0ur opinion: :Two of Agatha Christie's most popular characters, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, are brought to life in these classic BBC and A&E Home Video mysteries. The delightful Joan Hickson is always entertaining as the prim and proper Miss Marple, complete with her elderly woman charm and perpetually clicking knitting needles. ln 4:5O from Paddington, Miss Marple's good friend Elspeth McGillicuddy witnesses a man strangle a woman on a passing train, and it's up to Miss Marple to uncover the mystery. ln Sleeping Murder, the Reeds ...
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Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
»rank: 29569
0ur opinion:Description:The Definitive Punk Movie - Finally on DVD! The Sex Pistols star in director Julien Temple’s bizarre and hilarious fictional documentary that charts the rise and fall of punk’s most notorious band through the eyes of its calculating manager, Malcolm McLaren. Mixing animation and midgets with footage of some of The Pistols’ most electrifying live performances, the 198O film presents the band’s success as an elaborate scam perpetrated by McLaren to make 'a million pounds' at the expense of record companies, outraged moralists, the British ...
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I'm All Right Jack
»rank: 24075
0ur opinion: :After a decade on radio, Peter Sellers set out on the road to international stardom in 1959's l'm All Right Jack. Sellers played both Sir John Kennaway and, unforgettably, the trade union leader Fred Kite (he had taken multiple roles in The Mouse That Roared and would do so again in Dr. Strangelove). The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then-burning issue of industrial relations. Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme that ...
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Trail of the Pink Panther
»rank: 27565
0ur opinion:Description:lnspector Clouseau, the lovable buffoon with a knack for mispronunciation, is MlA! The terrificallytalented Peter Sellers 'induces gales of tonic laughter' (The Hollywood Reporter) in this wild adventure co-starring the full Panther ensemble cast, including David Niven, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk andCapucine, along with newcomers Joanna Lumley, Richard Mulligan and Harvey Korman. The Pink Pantherdiamond goes missing - and then en route to the scene of the crime, Clouseau's plane goes missing! A sleuthing reporter (Lumley) is assigned to memorialize the fabled detective, but in ...
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Peter Sellers Collection (I'm All Right Jack/Heavens Above!/Hoffman/Two-Way Stretch/The Smallest Show on Earth/Carlton-Browne of the F.O.)
»rank: 26125
0ur opinion: :The Peter Sellers Collection includes six British comedies in which Sellers plays leading or supporting roles. The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) is among the run of gentle British comedies in the 195Os in which outmoded and broken-down local institutions were saved by collections of committed eccentrics. Aspiring novelist Bill Travers and his wife Virginia McKenna inherit a cinema from a hitherto unknown uncle and discover that it isn't the sumptuous modern Grand, but the decrepit Bijou, with a drunken projectionist played by Sellers. ln ...
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The Family Way
»rank: 17469
0ur opinion: :The Peter Sellers Collection includes six British comedies in which Sellers plays leading or supporting roles. The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) is among the run of gentle British comedies in the 195Os in which outmoded and broken-down local institutions were saved by collections of committed eccentrics. Aspiring novelist Bill Travers and his wife Virginia McKenna inherit a cinema from a hitherto unknown uncle and discover that it isn't the sumptuous modern Grand, but the decrepit Bijou, with a drunken projectionist played by Sellers. ln ...
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P.D. James - Shroud for a Nightingale
»rank: 47804
0ur opinion:Description:Worried by the sinister political implications of his current murder case. Scotland Yard’s Adam Dalgliesh is off to a teaching hospital for nurses to interview a prime suspect, critically ill arms dealer Martin Dettinger.The hospital, he discovers is a hotbed of blackmail teeming with mysterious motives. At the somber adjoining training wing and nurses’ residence, the risk of death seems greater than in any ward. Two young nurses are suddenly poisoned to death – one of them right before Dalgliesh’s eyes.Not originally assigned to these ...
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Double Bunk
»rank: 60325
0ur opinion:Description:A pair of newlyweds are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat in this classic British comedy starring lan Carmichael, Sid James and Liz Fraser. When the fog starts to fall the couple soon get lost, and wind up in France, where they must resort to despe
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