When childhood friends and army comrades Dave Robinson (Bill Rowbotham) and Ted Peters (Richard Attenborough) return home from WWII, they make very different choices for their new civvy lives. Ted gets an honest job as a taxi driver, and saves for his wedding to childhood sweetheart Joy (Sheila Sim). Dave however, wants easy cash and soon becomes involved with a gang. When Dave runs into money troubles with the mob boss, a henchman is sent to finish him off. Stumbling from his gun wounds, he seeks shelter ..
This 1970s Children’s’ drama series was filmed on the beautiful West Somerset Steam Railway. When the Carter family lose their garage business, they decide to run their local steam preservation railway and set up home in the derelict Flockton Station. Series one and two.
NEW VENTURE:When the proprietor of a posh London hotel mysteriously decides to take a break, he promotes Old Mother Riley straight from kitchen dishwasher to the head of the hotel! So it's goodbye Ration Row and hello swanky Penthouse living for Old Mother Riley and daughter Kitty. First stop is the beauty parlour - a real challenge - and then it's off to a feast with Arab royalty for a lesson in appalling table manners! However, there are sinister goings on at the hotel. The royal Hula Diamond goes missing..
A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of - guilty due to insanity-, he does not plan to let his sister and her husband forgets that they were responsible for the murder of a farmhand and for his cruel imprisonment in the asylum.
From the director of KNIGHT AND DAY, WALK THE LINE, COPLAND and GIRL INTERRUPTED, James Mangold presents a tale of human life and drama in small town america. Starring Pruitt Taylor Vince, Liv Tyler, Deborah Harry and Shelley Winters. Special Jury Award Sundance, Best Film & Best Director, Quinzaine Cannes, Toronto, Taipai, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Jerusalem, Istanbul, St Petersburg.
By 1944, the Germans on the French Coast knew the allies were set to invade. What they didn't know was where. If they could anticipate where the Allies would land, they could mass their forces and destroy the fragile beach-head before it was even established...It was vital for the Allies to mislead the waiting Nazis about their true plans for D-Day - and so Operation Fortitude, the biggest deception of all time, was initiated. Fortitude was designed to convince the waiting Germans that the invasion would co..
Favourite Hy Hazell plays Judy James, a performer with ENTA, the British equivalent of USO. Three goofy soldiers played by Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Freddie Frinton, vie for the affections of the lovely Judy.
George Cole (Minder) and Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers) star in this cracker of a Christmas ghost story for all the family!When young orphan James (Jon Newman) is invited to spend Christmas at Greville Lodge with his mysterious Great Uncle (George Cole), he expects an uneventful Yuletide spent with just the old man and his faithful housekeeper Mrs Robinson (Prunella Scales) for company.Instead he becomes enmeshed in a chilling ghost mystery as the stately home and its wooded grounds start to give up their ..
Fred Astaire stars with Paulette Goddard in this 1940 musical romantic comedy. The plot features rival trumpet players vying for the attentions of the same girl. The classic jazz soundtrack is provided by Artie Shaw and his band, who play themselves in the film.
The two series of Liverpool 1 follow DI Isobel de Pauli who has transferred from the Metropolitan police to work in Liverpool with the CID. She is partnered with Cally who has relatives in the local underground. We go through the trials and tribulations of fitting in her new job and the regional prejudices she suffers. The story lines are varied and involve drugs, sex, paedophilia, and murder. The gritty streets of inner city Liverpool are excellently depicted and the growth of relationships in the squad ..
To be a royal Marines Commando takes something special. Recruits have to pass the longest infantry training course in the Western world.Royal Marines Commandos takes you inside the world of this elite fighting force as seldom before following Marines through training and on both Arctic and Jungle exercises including anti-sniper and ambush manoeuvres.This DVD also tells the story of the Royal Marines from their earliest days stationed abroad the British Fleet as sharpshooters and landing parties through t..
