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What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The true story of John Reginald Christie who turned his backyard into a burial groundSpecial Features 4K Restoration, Audio Commentary With Actress Judy Geeson And Film Historians Lem Dobbs And Nick Redman, Audio Commentary With Acclaimed Actor Sir John Hurt, Introduction By Sir Richard Attenborough (2004, 2 Mins): An Appreciation By The Great Actor, Interview With Sir Richard Attenbo..
After the international firestorm of Last Tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci went on to create one of the grandest and most legendary epics in modern cinema, 1900 (Novecento). A stunning five-hour saga following the intertwined fates of two childhood friends born on the same day in 1900 at opposite ends of the social scale through five decades of class struggle. Described by Pauline Kael as making most other films “look like something ..
All 16 episodes of the 1970s drama looking at life in the future year of 1990. Led by a corrupt government, Great Britain is in turmoil, with free speech and basic human rights completely abolished and replaced with strict laws on rationing, censorship and personal surveillance. As journalist and rebel Jim Kyle (Edward Woodward) frequently goes against the establishment to get his message heard, Public Control Department head Herbert Sk..
Argent Films presents the definitive collection of Tinto Brass' art-house Erotica. Acknowledged by film critics and fans worldwide as the "Maestro of European Erotica". Brass is at his most kinky abd the girls spectacularly gorgeous in these - his most controversial - films on the very edge of hard-core! This classic must-have collector's set brings together for the first time these three pivotal cinematographic works of this unique fil..
Rainer Werner Fassbinder had been making feature films for three years and already amassed a filmography that would satisfy most careers - when he decided to take on a bigger challenge. Teaming up with West German television channel WDR, he conceived of Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, a series that would extend to five feature-length episodes to be broadcast at monthly intervals. Centring on the Kruger family, as well as their lovers, in-..
The Great Escape: In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history - brilliantly portrayed here by Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson and James Coburn - who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. One of the most ingen..
Painstkingly recreated on actual World War II Battlefield locations, and boasting a remarkable cast that includes Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford and Laurence Olivier, A Bridge Too Far accurately recaptures the monumental scope, excitement and danger behind Operation Market Garden - one of the biggest military gambles in history.Special Features A Bridge Too Far Trailer, Platoon Trailer..
An epic film that re-creates in stunning detail one of the most disastrous battles of World War II, A Bridge Too Far is a spectacular war picture. Painstakingly recreated on actual battlefield locations and boasting a remarkable cast that includes Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Sir Laurence Olivier and Robert Redford, A Bridge Too Far accurately recaptures the monumental scope, excitement and danger behind one of the biggest military ga..
Richard Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault. Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Robert Redford and Sean Connery are among those battling against insurmountable odds - foul weather, bad luck, negligence on the part of intelligence officers - to secure one of the bridges essential to the Allied advance into Germany. Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins also star. The screenplay is by William Goldman ('..
Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anothony Burgess' novel. Controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director awards and earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Its..
Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director awards and..
LIMITED EDITION SLIPCASE + POSTER (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (SLIPCASE + POSTER) ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGStomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms th..
The old ultra-violence is back, as ultra-brilliant as anything Stanley Kubrick ever directed. Demonic gang-leader Alex -Malcolm McDowell's defining performance - goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". Then he finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing experiment designed to take violence off the stre..
A Doll's House was the first of Henrik Ibsen's plays to create a sensation within society and Joseph Losey's film adaptation transcends thegenerations from when it was first seen on stage . Nora (Jane Fonda), who appears to be the model wife and mother, committed a forgery in order to save the life of her overbearing husband, Torvald (David Warner). Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out and the sha..
From Sergio Leone, the acclaimed director of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West comes his final Western, A Fistful of Dynamite (aka Duck, You Sucker! and released in some territories as Once Upon A Time... the Revolution). Starring acting giants Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night) as Juan Miranda, an amoral peasant-turned-outlaw, and James Coburn (Pat Garret..
Richard Harris stars in this carefully documented epic that attempted to realistically portray the life of the American Sioux in the early 19th century. When an English Lord (Harris) is captured by a Sioux Indian tribe, he is given to the chief’s aging mother (Dame Judith Anderson) as a servant. Gradually, he embraces the tribe’s way of life and falls in love with the chief’s sister. But before he can be accepted with honour, as an equa..
Richard Harris stars in this carefully documented epic that attempted to realistically portray the life of the American Sioux in the early 19th Century. When an English Lord is captured by a Sioux Indian tribe, he is given to the Chief's ageing mother (Dame Judith Anderson) as a servant. Gradually, he embraces the tribe's way of life and falls in love with the Chief's sister. But before he can be accepted with honour as an equal member ..
When barely into his twenties, Jimmy Boyle was Scotland’s most feared gangster – a Gorbals ‘hard man’ notorious for his extreme violence. Then he got a taste of his own medicine when he was sentenced to life in a Scottish prison where the regime, with its punishment beatings and solitary confinement, was every bit as brutal as that on the street. Yet out of this bleak and seemingly dead-end system of crime and punishment came an extraor..
A severed head is not a horror story...It's something else!Special Features High Definition Remaster, Original Mono Audio, Audio Commentary With Director Dick Clement And Film Historian Sam Dunn (2018), Guise And Dolls (2019, 8 Mins): Artist And Sculptor Saskia de Boer Discusses The Figurines She Created For The Film’s Arresting Title Sequence, Slightly Saucy (2019, 7 Mins): Production Manager Timothy Burrill Recalls The Making Of A S..
Starring sitcom legends David Jason and Richard Wilson, this sharply scripted series details the multifarious difficulties involved in 'Getting Things Done' – as experienced by young married couple Peter and Sheila Barnes. From trying to book a holiday to being a best man, life seems to hand Peter Barnes more than his fair share of frustration. The only certainty is that whatever it is he's trying to arrange, it will entail an encounter..
Released originally in France as L'Evenement le plus Important depuis que l'Homme a Marche sur la Lune (The Most Important Event Since Man Walked On The Moon), this robust farce demonstrates director Demy's (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) ability to make a workable comedy out of the least likely of source. Marcello Mastroinni (La Dolce Vita) plays Marco, a male Parisian driving school owner who goes to see his doctor and complains of feeli..
Italian cinema's most iconic screen couple, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - here cast against glamorous type - deliver the finest and most nuanced performances of their career in this rarely seen masterpiece finally presented, restored and remastered in 4K - with striking desaturated colours - as originally created by its multi-awarded director Ettore Scola. On this special day in 1938, all of facist Rome has been mustered to a ..
Musical drama starring Barbra Streisand as Esther Hoffman, an unknown bar singer. John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is a fading rock star who drowns his sorrows in booze and self-pity. One evening, he chances upon Esther singing in a bar and gives her the opportunity to audition for a recording contract. She is a huge success, and romance between the two blossoms into marriage. However, as Esther's star eclipses John's he grows in..
Musical drama starring Barbra Streisand as Esther Hoffman, an unknown bar singer. John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is a fading rock star who drowns his sorrows in booze and self-pity. One evening, he chances upon Esther singing in a bar and gives her the opportunity to audition for a recording contract. She is a huge success, and romance between the two blossoms into marriage. However, as Esther's star eclipses John's he grows in..
Taiwanese martial arts feature. The film follows the painter Ku (Shih Jun) as he tries to protect a female fugitive, Yang (Hsu Feng), from being captured by an evil eunuch. After the eunuch arrives with an army of East Chamber guards, the artist and the warrior fortify Ku's mother's supposedly haunted mansion and set ghostly traps in preparation for the soldiers' arrival. Will the pair survive the inevitable battles?..
Sophie Thompson stars in this five-part children's fantasy series based on the novel by Alison Uttley. When teenager Penelope Taberner (Thompson) goes to stay with her aunt and uncle (Elizabeth Bradley and Gerald James) on their secluded farm in Derbyshire, she suddenly finds herself being transported back to Tudor times where she discovers her ancestors are responsible for a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I…..
Arguably John Cassavetes' most successful and influential film, A Woman Under the Influence stars Gena Rowlands (Gloria, Faces) and the legendary Peter Falk (Columbo) as Mabel and Nick Longhetti, a blue-collar couple struggling to cope with Mabel's slide into mental illness. Featuring a central performance of awe-inspiring conviction from Gena Rowlands, this critically acclaimed film is as powerful today as it was upon its original rele..
Arguably John Cassavetes' most successful and influential film, A Woman Under the Influence stars Gena Rowlands (Gloria, Faces) and the legendary Peter Falk (Columbo) as Mabel and Nick Longhetti, a blue-collar couple struggling to cope with Mabel's slide into mental illness. Featuring a central performance of awe-inspiring conviction from Gena Rowlands, this critically acclaimed film is as powerful today as it was upon its original rele..
Hilarious, cringe-inducing and shocking - Mike Leigh takes aim at suburban life in the 1970s. Shown on Play for Today in 1977, this "cocktail party from hell" wickedly took apart the tastlessness, pretensions and pomposity of England's aspiring suburban classes. As a get-together of neighbours turns from social embarrassment, to personal antagonism to crisis, the audience is manipulated into squirming and laughing but is ultimately shoo..
Thou shalt not kill...Special Features 2K Restoration, Original Mono Audio, Alternative Presentations Of The Main Feature: The Original 1978 Theatrical Version And The 2018 Director's Cut, Audio Commentary With Kevin Lyons, Editor Of The Encyclopedia Of Fantastic Film And Television, On The Original Theatrical Version, The Devil To Pay (2018, 12 Mins): New And Exclusive Interview With Director Anthony Page In Which He Relects On The P..
All surviving episodes - comprising the entire third and final season - of the 1970s ITV family drama series following the exploits of Tarot the Magician (Michael MacKenzie) and his assistant Lulli (Judy Loe), as they solve a series of mysteries, both natural and supernatural. Assisting them is Mr. Sweet, an antiquarian bookseller with a remarkable store of scientific knowledge. Episodes are: 'The Meddlers (Part 1)', 'The Meddlers (Part..
Márta Mészáros is without doubt one of the most significant female directors from Central Europe, with the majority of her outspoken work dealing frankly with issues of gender, politics and society.Adoption, one of her best-known works, is a story about the hushed rebellion of two strong women, one in her forties and one in her teens.43-year-old Kata longs to have a child of her own. Rejected by her married lover, Kata looks into ad..
Little Bo Peep, Old King Cole, Little Tommy Tucker, Snow White, and many others, have all grown up and are ready for action! These enchanting characters from beloved nursery rhymes sing, dance, lust, and romance their way through this hilarious, naughty, and twisted tale where music, mirth, and merriment are the rule of the day. In a clothing optional land of make believe where everything is possible. See “Scream Queen” Linnea Quigley s..
Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has his little grey cells put to the test in this classic tale of murder and deceit. Aboard a luxury cruise ship, a beautiful and wealthy heiress is murdered. As secrets from the victims past unfold, Poirot faces a surfeit of suspects armed with heavy motives, including her charming but feckless husband, his jilted ex-lover, a corrupt lawyer and an embittered servant. Featuring an all-s..
Elegant, all-star production introducing Albert Finney as the first screen Hercule Poirot. A no-good American Tycoon lies dead with twelve dagger wounds, but which of the passengers is the guilty party? Includes an Oscar winning performance from Ingrid Bergman.Special Features Making Of, Interview With Producer Richard Goodwin, Behind The Scenes Stills Gallery..
Agatha Christies - Murder On The Orient Express DVD..
Werner Herzog directs this study of megalomania, set in 16th Century Peru. In the year 1560, a Spanish expedition crosses the Peruvian Sierras in search of the legendary Inca city of El Dorado. A power struggle within the group leads to its deputy (Klaus Kinski) seizing control in bloody fashion, his desire to set up his own kingdom threatening to destroy them all. Cast and crew apparently endured hardships comparable to those suffered ..
Based on Ronald Blythe's acclaimed oral-history book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, Peter Hall's extraordinary, long-unseen film offers a lyrical yet authentic depiction of British pastoral life. Akenfield tells the story of a farming family who have lived for generations in the bucolic Suffolk village of the film's title. Real-life local farmer Garrow Shand gives a compelling naturalistic central performance, in three roles..
Triple bill of Japanese dramas directed by Akio JissôjiThis Transient Life (1970): The film concerns a brother and sister from a rich family who defy the expectations placed on them: he has little interest in further education or his father's business, instead obsessing over Buddhist statues; she continually refuses a string of suitors and the prospect of marriage. Their closeness, and isolation, gives way to an incestuous relationshi..
Alan Bennett is one of Britain’s most popular and prolific authors and playwrights. He initially wrote for the stage, but found that with his observant eye for the absurdities of modern life and sharp ear for dialogue, his work transferred easily and effectively to the small screen. This collection brings together many of Alan Bennett’s previously unreleased BBC productions dating from 1972 through to 1994. It includes his first televis..
Ken Hughes writes and directs this sequel which follows on from events in the 1966 film 'Alfie'. Alfie (Alan Price) is now a lorry driver picking up women all across Europe and falling for a magazine editor named Abby (Jill Townsend). While trying to win her affections, a mishap causes Alfie a great deal of embarrassment and forces him to revisit his past conquests. The cast also includes Joan Collins, Annie Ross and Paul Copley...
Ken Hughes writes and directs this sequel which follows on from events in the 1966 film 'Alfie'. Alfie (Alan Price) is now a lorry driver picking up women all across Europe and falling for a magazine editor named Abby (Jill Townsend). While trying to win her affections, a mishap causes Alfie a great deal of embarrassment and forces him to revisit his past conquests. The cast also includes Joan Collins, Annie Ross and Paul Copley...
All 50 episodes of the '70s Western TV series following the adventures of outlaws Kid Curry (Ben Murphy) and Hannibal Heyes (Pete Duel) as they try to go straight with the help of the local governor. Having to stay out of trouble to achieve amnesty, the two men change identity to avoid detection but can't seem to kick the habit. Season 1 episodes are: 'Alias Smith and Jones', 'The McCreedy Bust', 'Exit from Wickenburg', 'Wrong Train to ..
One of the key films of the New German Cinema, Alice In The Cities marked the emergence of Wim Wenders as one of the most distinctive European filmmakers of the 1970s. The first in Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy (followed by Wrong Move and Kings Of The Road) it is also widely accepted to be one of the director's most poignant films. Philip Winter, a journalist with writers' block, becomes the guardian of eight year-old Alice (Yella Rottlan..
Wim Wenders co-writes and directs this German drama.After failing to finish an assignment in the United States, German journalist Philip Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) leaves New York to return to Germany.At the airport he meets fellow German Lisa (Lisa Kreuzer) and agrees to watch her nine-year-old daughter Alice (Yella Rottländer) for her.But when Lisa fails to return as planned, Philip finds himself reluctantly escorting the independe..
When ten-year-old Karen (Brooke Shields – in her first screen appearance) is killed in church on the occasion of her first communion, her seemingly innocent older sister Alice (Paula Sheppard) becomes the prime suspect. Matters become complicated as more of Alice’s family members are attacked, along with residents of her apartment building. Can a twelve-year-old girl be capable of such mayhem, or is someone else with a vicious plan dest..
Alien - The terror begins as the crew of the space-tug Nostromo responds to a distress signal from a desolate planet, only to discover a deadly life form that breeds within human hosts.Aliens - After drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years, the only survivor from the first Alien encounter accompanies a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426... and this time it's war.Alien 3 - Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak w..
The one that started it all! Experience the terror - from the beginning - with the first chilling chapter of the Alien saga, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver in her breakout performance as Ripley. When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo responds to a distress signal from a barren planet, they discover a mysterious life form that breeds within human hosts. The acid-blooded extraterrestrial proves to be the ultimate ..
The time is the future. The crew aboard a massive commercial space vehicle is enroute to earth with a load of extraterrestrial ore when they are sidetracked by mysterious signals from a nearby planet. The signals seem to be calls for help and when the space ship arrives they find a ruined, moldering spacecraft and within it egg-like living organisms...
Ridley Scott directs this sci-fi horror starring Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt. When Kane (Hurt) and the crew of the spaceship Nostromo investigate a transmission from a deserted planet, he is attacked by an unknown organism which attaches itself to his face. The crew cut the creature off, but not before it has made Kane the host of a monstrous alien killer, one which will hatch out through his stomach and proceed to hunt down the crew..
Two friends – one a policeman and one a criminal – come into conflict in this tense, early '70s crime thriller starring Martin Potter, Julia Foster and Nicky Henson. With taut, gritty direction from Sidney Hayers and a hard-edged script from Z-Cars writer Allan Prior, All Coppers Are... is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Joe, Sue, and Barry meet a..
Two friends – one a policeman and one a criminal – come into conflict in this tense, early '70s crime thriller starring Martin Potter, Julia Foster and Nicky Henson. With taut, gritty direction from Sidney Hayers and a hard-edged script from Z-Cars writer Allan Prior, All Coppers Are... is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Joe, Sue, and Barry meet a..
All eleven surviving episodes (of the thirty-three episodes made) from classic 1960/70s BBC sitcom. Episodes featured include the critically acclaimed Comedy Playhouse pilot, 'The Bishop Rides Again', and the first episode of the series proper, 'The Bishop Gets the Sack'...
A second film version (the first was made in 1930) of Erich Maria Remarque's story about a group of idealistic young Germans recruited to fight on the Western Front in 1914. Amongst their number is the patriotic Paul Baumer (Richard Thomas), whose preconceptions are rapidly shattered upon witnessing the horror of life at the front...
All That Jazz is actually a semi-autobiographical account of the life of its celebrated writer/director/choreographer, Bob Fosse. The multi-talented performer was an Oscar, Tony and Emmy Award winner who brought home a combined total of eight trophies.Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane is the Academy Award winning musical about Bob Fosse's excessive life in show business, played by Roy Scheider. Dazzl..
Italian celluloid icon Edwige Fenech (The Strange Vice Of Mrs Wardh, Top Sensation) is at her most beguiling as Jane, the housewife plagued by nightmarish visions of her own bloody murder! To cure her hellish fantasies her bewitching neighbour Mary initiates Jane into a Satanic coven, but there, the price for this brand of diabolical cure is murder - committed as a ritual sacrifice during an orgiastic black mass! Jane’s chilling repulsi..
1970s Italian horror directed by Sergio Martino. After losing her unborn child in a car accident, Jane (Edwige Fenech) slowly begins to lose her grip on reality and becomes convinced she's being stalked by a knife-wielding killer. Her sister Barbara (Susan Scott) suggests she seek professional help but when that fails Jane's neighbour introduces her to a satanic cult that practices black magic and proposes that its Black Mass ritual can..
In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that drove a U.S. President from office. Washington reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) grabbed the story and stayed with it through doubts, denials, and discouragement. All the President's Men is their story. Directed by Alan J. Pakula and based on the Woodward/Bernstein book, the fil..
Originally sold with the provocative tagline 'Is 15 and a half too young for a girl? Is one wife enough for one man?', this time-capsule of a film is the story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl. Starring Olivia Hussey, in her first post-Romeo and Juliet role, and the inimitable Tom Bell (The L-Shaped Room), this is one of only a handful of feature films directed by Gerry O'Hara, better known for his assistant-..
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Coming SoonPRE-ORDERS WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH CONFIRMED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTSLIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGWhen Dante, a dealer of rare books on noble families arrives at castle Zanotti to relate a strange prophecy that states that a hidden treasure will be revealed, only when all nine members of the family a..
Maestro of mayhem Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox, Oasis Of Fear) takes you on a tour of Italy's mean streets in this hyper-violent 1970s crime classic. For the first time ever on Blu-ray, Shameless proudly presents Almost Human…restored, uncut and unhinged! Tomas Milian gives a career-topping, barnstorming performances as Sacchi, a mains, violently sadistic hoodlum who aspires to criminal greatness. With his gang of impressionable weirdo..
Collection of short films and documentaries directed by Martin Scorsese. The films ar: Italian American (1974) American Boy (1978) The Big Shave (1967) It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964) What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963)..
This Academy Award nominated classic, directed by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, features the coming of age of four teenagers on their last summer night before college. Rediscover drag racing, drive-ins and Inspiration Point in this nostalgic look back at the early 60's that also brings you an incredible soundtrack with the most memorable rock'n'roll tracks of the era. Starring Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Ho..
Triple bill of obscure American horrors. In 'Malatesta's Carnival of Blood' (1973) the Norris family take-up work at a carnival in the hope of finding their missing son.But they soon find themselves at the mercy of the fairground's vampiric manager and the cannibalistic ghouls that rest beneath the park.In 'The Witch Who Came from the Sea' (1976) Mollie (Millie Perkins) takes revenge for the child abuse she suffered at the hands of ..
Triple bill of obscure American horrors. In 'Dark August' (1976), when a young girl is run over and killed by a careless driver, her mysterious grandfather places a curse on the accused.In 'Dream No Evil' (1970) a preacher's assistant starts to lose her mind.Finally, in 'The Child' (1977), a young girl's father hires a governess to look after her after she starts to withdraw from daily life.When governess Alicianne (Laurel Barnett..
Continuing its mission to unearth the very best in weird and wonderful horror obscura from the golden age of US independent genre moviemaking, Arrow Video is proud to present the long-awaited second volume in its American Horror Project series co-curated by author Stephen Thrower (Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents). Starting off with a little-seen 1970 offering from underrated cult auteur John Hayes (Grave..
LIMITED EDITION BOOKLET (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (BOOKLET) ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGBetween 1970 and 1988 Richard Woolley created a body of exciting and challenging work that has remained almost impossible to see until now.Tackling controversial themes, such as class, race, sexuality and the human instinct for violence, Woolley directed a numb..
This duo of sparkling Thames comedies provided an early hit for BAFTA-winning comedienne Wendy Craig, showcasing her talents as a harassed, well-meaning but scatterbrained young widow doing her best to bring up two rambunctious sons. ...And Mother Makes Three sees Sally Harrison not only keeping an eye on sons Simon and Peter but also conducting an on-off romance with antiquarian bookseller David Redway; ...And Mother Makes Five hilario..
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust? Extras: Interview with Kim Newman..
The groundbreaking realistic portrayal of the lives of NHS nurses. Created by Paula Milne, the series chronicled the personal and professional lives of six student nurses, and controversially, tackled issues such as contraception, alcoholism and promiscuity as part of the nurses' lives. Grittily authentic each actress taking part was required to work on a real hospital ward to gain experience and thus contribute to the realism of the pr..
The hard-working nurses of St Angela's Hospital are back, in the second series of Paula Milne's ground-breaking medical drama. After the huge success of the first series, the student nurses return to face a new set of challenges, both in their working hospital lives and at home. The show continues to tackle the real-life issues that face the medical profession, and is not afraid to deal with the hard-hitting aspects of hospital care or ..
Animerama is a series of thematically-related adult anime feature films originally conceived and initiated by Osamu Tezuka and made at his Mushi Production animation studio from the late 1960s to early 1970s, perhaps intended as animated counterparts to the then-emergent pink films. As well as the erotic themes, they are also defined by mixing more typical traditional animation with sequences of UPA and Yoji Kuri-influenced experimental..
A sweeping tale of ill-fated romance and cross-channel relationships, Anne & Muriel is the second Truffaut adaptation of a Pierre Roche novel (after Jules & Jim). Jean-Pierre Leeaud plays Claude, a young Parisian who meets two English girls – Anne, a sculptress, and Muriel, a schoolteacher – on a turn-of-the-century trip to Wales. This meeting will spark a menage-a-trois spanning over 20 years, during which time alliances will be formed..
Considered to be "Woody Allen's breakthrough movie" (Time), Annie Hall won four Oscars, including Best Picture and established Allen as the premier auteur filmmaker. Thought by many critics to be Allen's magnum opus, Annie Hall confirmed that Allen had, "completed the journey from comic to humourist, from comedy writer to wit (and) from inventive moviemaker to creative artist" (Saturday Review). Alvy Singer (Allen), is one of Manhattan'..
Antony and Cleopatra is the 1972 film adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, directed by and starring Charlton Heston.After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius...
Jon Scoffield directs this television adaptation of William Shakespeare's epic drama starring Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman as the titular characters...
Following the failure on yet another peace treaty between the Apache nation and the United States government, a troop of cavalrymen attacked and massacred a sleeping camp of Indian men, women and children. Unbeknown the them, they left several survivors, including a women and an Indian leader who were some of the few who had upheld the treaty. A once peaceful man has now become a feared and hated warrior, the scourge of the white-man kn..
A never-before-seen and newly restored cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s spectacular cinematic masterpiece in a way which the director believes “looks better than it has ever looked and sounds better than it has ever sounded”.Apocalypse Now was nominated for 8 Academy Awards® (including Best Picture) and won 2 Academy Award® for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, 2 BAFTAs for Best Direction and Best Supporting Actor and the Palme d’Or i..
A never-before-seen and newly restored cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s spectacular cinematic masterpiece in a way which the director believes “looks better than it has ever looked and sounds better than it has ever sounded”. Apocalypse Now was nominated for 8 Academy Awards® (including Best Picture) and won 2 Academy Award® for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, 2 BAFTAs for Best Direction and Best Supporting Actor and the Palme d’Or i..
Collection of 1970s horror films. In 'Death Line' (1972) an underground tunnel collapses in London in 1892, and those trapped under its rubble survive only by eating each other's flesh. Subsequent generations live on via similar means, but eventually only one remains. Forced out of hiding, the disease-ridden cannibal begins to look for his nutrition on the platform of the Russell Square Tube line. In 'Countess Dracula' (1971) Ingrid Pit..
Italian drama directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Featuring a selection of stories concerning love, fate and destiny, the film follows the quest of Nur Ed Din (Franco Merli) as he travels in search of a slave girl named Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini) with whom he has fallen in love. While he does so, he meets many other travellers who share their own stories of romance and heartbreak with him...
Eight episodes from the hugely popular TV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 -1973. This selection of plays, broadcast between 1970 and 1973, features scripts by, among others, Fay Weldon and Colin Welland, and includes performances from Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw, Richard Beckinsale, Peter Barkworth, Rita Tushingham and Beryl Reid. Episodes comprise: 'Say Goodnight to Your Grandma', 'Office Party', 'Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and ..
Eight more plays from the hugely popular ITV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 -1973. The series was broadcast on Sunday nights and featured original scripts dealing with issues of the day from a number of esteemed contemporary writers. This selection of plays features actors including John Thaw, Anton Rodgers, Kenneth Haigh, Bill Maynard and Susannah York. The episodes are: 'Wednesday's Child', 'Competition', 'The Left Overs', ..
All 24 episodes of the fondly remembered 1970s series set in Britain 100 years after the departure of the Romans. Oliver Tobias stars as Arthur, chieftain of a Celtic tribe, fighting to unite other tribes against the Saxon invaders. Episodes comprise: 'Arthur is Dead', 'The Gift of Life', 'The Challenge', 'The Penitent Invader', 'People of the Plough', 'The Duel', 'The People', 'Rolf the Preacher', 'Enemies and Lovers', 'The Slave', 'Th..
In 1969 Jacob Bronowski was commisioned by David Attenborough, then Controller of BBC2, to write and present this 13-part documentary series that examines in great depth and with great erudition the intellectual and technological history of the human race from prehistoric times to the present day. Broadcast in 1973 and designed to complement Kenneth Clarke's earlier BBC documentary series 'Civilisation', Bronowski concentrates on the gr..
A hard-hitting psychological thriller, Assault stars Frank Finlay as a career policeman willing to employ unorthodox methods to catch a sleazy murderer and Suzy Kendall as a plucky teacher willing to put her life in jeopardy to help him do so. Tautly directed by Sidney Hayers, this controversial drama is remastered from original film elements and presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer in its original 35mm camera negative..
The particularly brutal rape assault of a sixteen year-old schoolgirl in a wooded common provokes Det. Chief Supt. Velyan (Frank Finlay - Casanova) into employing unorthodox measures to catch the maniac. He listens intently to Doctor Greg Lomax's (James Laurenson - Spooks) rudimentary profiling technique in the hope that it will give him insight into the man's behaviour, which is obviously intensifying and escalating when a second schoo..
John Carpenter directs this tense remake of the classic Howard Hawks western 'Rio Bravo'. Set in modern-day Los Angeles, it concerns a mob of crazy guerilla gunmen who lay siege to a soon-to-be-closed police station, trapping a single cop (Austin Stoker) and a couple of secretaries (Laurie Zimmer and Nancy Loomis) inside. The gunmen unleash wave upon wave of attacks on the beleaguered station, but the cop proves himself a resourceful fo..
An LA gang’s revenge-fuelled killing spree leads them to a half-abandoned police station in the throes of closing down. Under siege with power and phone lines cut, a lone cop and his skeleton staff enlist the help of a 'death row' prisoner in a desperate battle to survive the night. As the gang close in the tension escalates to boiling point in John Carpenter’s brutal and unrelenting cult classic.Special Features Return To Precinct 13..
Classic British horror anthology. Dr Martin (Robert Powell) is sent to Dunsmore Manor, a home for the horifically insane, with the task of locating the asylum's former administrator. Rounding up some of the most demented inmates the hospital has to offer, Martin interviews each of them one at a time, hearing tales of killer dolls, rampaging body parts, depraved posh girls and unholy resurrections. He listens to each of the stories in tu..
The Best of British Collection: Screenbound Pictures are proud to release some of the forgotten classics from the Golden Age of British Cinema. We endeavour to deliver the highest picture and sound quality possible and all remastering work is carried out by BBC Studios and Post production. Au Pair Girls: These sexy au pairs only came to make the beds... but they end up doing everything! Four Continental dolly-birds arrive in London to w..
Complete first and second series of the military television series. Robert Conrad stars as Greg 'Pappy' Boyington, commanding officer of the VMF-214, a fighter pilot unit stationed on the Solomon Islands during WWII. Season 1 episodes are: 'Flying Misfits', 'Best Three Out of Five', 'Small War', 'High Jinx', 'Prisoners of War', 'Presumed Dead', 'The Meatball Circus', 'Up for Grabs', 'Anyone for Suicide?', 'New Georgia On My Mind', 'The ..
European erotic horror directed by Corrado Farina and starring Carroll Baker as the mysterious Baba Yaga. When young photographer Valentina Rosselli (Isabelle De Funes) encounters Baba Yaga following a minor car incident she finds herself suffering from strange dreams and nightmares. Convinced that Baba Yaga is the source of her unrest Valentina visits the woman's old mansion to confront her.However, once there she discovers that Baba..
Limited To 3000 Copies.Inspired by the real-life exploits of New York cop Eddie Egan (who was also the basis for Gene Hackman’s ‘Popeye’ Doyle character in The French Connection), Badge 373 is a tough detective thriller, comparable to William Friedkin’s more celebrated feature. Duvall (The Godfather, Breakout) delivers a powerfully authentic performance as a brutal New York detective, ruthlessly hunting for the killer of his partner a..
Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. The film introduced many of the elements that would earn Malick his passionate following: the enigmatic approach to narrative..
In 1959, Kit (Martin Sheen), who has killed several people, and his new girlfriend Holly (Sissy Spacek), who watched him do it, are adrift in a double fantasy of crime and punishment across South Dakota and Montana. They’re playing make-believe but the bullets and bloodshed are very real. The first of writer/director Terrence Malick’s three landmark films (1978’s Days of Heaven and 1998’s The Thin Red Line are the others) was inspired b..
Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, Old fat furry cat-puss, Wake up, and look at this thing that I bring, wake up, be bright, be golden and light, Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing. Join Emily and friends as she wakes Bagpuss up in all 13 adventures that have delighted viewers of children's television for a generation. The classic series, voted in a BBC poll as the most popular children's TV programme of all time, features all the favourite characters in..
Six-part BBC drama based on the children's novel by Noel Streatfeild. The show tells the tale of Pauline (Elizabeth Morgan), Petrova (Jane Slaughter) and Posy Fossil (Sarah Prince), who are adopted by an eccentric explorer and sent to live with his great-niece Sylvia Brown (Angela Thorne). When Sylvia also welcomes a dance teacher into her home the girls are accepted into her school where they try to fulfil their dreams; Pauline longs t..
The complete first series of the 1970s US detective drama starring George Peppard as the eponymous Boston private eye. Thomas Banacek (Peppard) prides himself on his Polish heritage and ability to get to the bottom of even the most complex cases. But with his occasional lover and perennial rival Carlie Kirkland (Christine Belford) also vying for cases, Banacek will have to be on his toes if he is to remain the go-to P.I. in the city. Th..
