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In deze klassieke komedie doen Laurel en Hardy waar ze goed in zijn... in dit geval, ravage aanrichten in het Franse Vreemdelingenlegioen!The Flying Deuces, uitgebracht in 1939, geschreven door de ster uit het stille tijdperk Harry Langdon en met een gast

Jill Gascoine stars as tough, no-nonsense female cop Maggie Forbes. Made at a time when there were very few ranking female officers in the police force, The Gentle Touch not only showed police procedure within a Metropolitan Police CID unit but also allow

Uit de pen van de befaamde Liverpoolse schrijver Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine) komt een innemend drama over klasse en geluk. Billy (David Morrissey - Basic Instinct II, The Deal, Blackpool) en Icky (Spencer Leigh - Strapless, The Garde

Get It On with Marc! Made in the Summer of '77 just before his tragically early death at the age of 29, MARC showcased the songs of Marc Bolan and T-Rex, sung live by Bolan in the Granada Television studios. These rarely-seen and much sought after perfor

Released on DVD for the first time and personally chosen by John Pilger, this set brings together twelve of the acclaimed Australian film-maker and journalist's most hard-hitting and inspirational films.Recipient of multiple awards, including the UN Media

A gorgeous debutante, Clarissa Richmond, is under obligation to enter into marriage with the wealthy Marquis of Rohan. Rohan is not love with Clarissa, but he wants an heir to his title - an ambition which is fulfilled when Clarissa presents him with a so

George (Laurence Harvey), Harris (Jimmy Edwards) and J (David Tomlinson) decide to have a holiday on the Thames. George cancels engagements with his many girlfriends, Harris informs all restaurants that he will be out of town and J explains to his wife th

Nominated for the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952, Encore consists of three engaging portrayals of everyday life that rise above the merely ordinary through the evergreen writing talents of W. Somerset Maugham, the master of the short story

The story of a disturbed busboy who becomes obsessed with a co-worker, a detective who specialises in sexual perversity becomes involved in the case when the co-worker reports the strange behaviour. Banned from British cinemas, the controversial film sti

THE BILL is een langlopende dramaserie over het dagelijks leven en de strubbelingen van agenten op het fictieve Londense East End politiebureau Sun Hill.

This TV drama is set in 1957, where miner’s son Vic Brown (Clive Wood) meets Ingrid Rothwell (Joanne Whalley), an attractive young typist, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. They begin an relationship, then marry when Ingrid discovers she is pregnant, a

Simon Grant is an undercover agent following glamorous fashion editor Louise Henderson and her entourage to Morocco. He suspects that their trip for a fashion shoot is in fact a cover for an international fraud operation. Grant is proved right, and after

Filmed amid the breathtaking scenery of the Peak District, Peak Practice was one of ITV’s most popular shows, with regular viewing figures of around 15 million and frequent appearances in ITV’s Top Ten. This sixth series of the hit drama once again featur

What do you do when you're hit by a quarter-life crisis ? At first fancying himself an enigmatic poet , twentysomething Art gradually realises that he must take action if he's going to escape his life as a struggling musician. The answer comes within t

In deze grimmige, duister authentieke detective thriller die zich afspeelt in Zuid Wales, is Philip Madoc(The Life and Times of David Lloyd George) de gedenkwaardige charismatische Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain - een man met een passie voor het verd

Clive Dunn (Bootsie and Snudge, Dad's Army) is Sam Cobbett, the geriatric hero of this hilarious sitcom from Yorkshire Television. Based on a BBC pilot that originally starred Ronnie Barker, My Old Man takes a look at the generation gap - in particular,

William and Hester Field have been very happily married for twenty years. Their children have flown the nest, and Hester thinks there are a few things left to do between now and the pension book. With a renewed zest for life and a fresh dynamism in the

Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV’s biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the world of a

Developed from a pilot screening in ITV’s 1995 Comedy Firsts season, this acclaimed sitcom cast Gwen Taylor as Barbara Liversidge, a blunt-talking, heftily opinionated, advice-giving, occasionally ranting Yorkshirewoman. Sam Kelly (Porridge) stars as Ted,

In commemoration of Bob Marley’s 60th birthday, the Marley family made their first ever trip together to Ethiopia in 2005. There in the capital city of Addis Ababa, three generations of Marleys took part in a 12-hour concert attended by more than 300,000

De favoriete meiden van Essex keren terug met de negende en laatste serie van Birds of a Feather - een van de meest succesvolle, langlopende en gedenkwaardige sitcoms uit de jaren negentig. Deze set bevat alle zes afleveringen. De serie werd gecreëerd doo

These three films by Dutch auteur Theo Van Gogh were all recently remade with Hollywood actors following his shocking murder, and this box set presents the original works. Blind Date chronicles several encounters in a bar between a bereaved couple, Inter

This poignant television film tells the true story of Peg and Gene Mullen, the parents of an Iowa farm boy killed in the Vietnam War in 1970, charting their painful battle to uncover the truth about how their son died and their increasing engagement in th

A huge success for ITV throughout the 1970s, General Hospital carried on in the tradition of Emergency - Ward 10 and other medical shows of the 1960s. This highly popular series offers a dramatic insight into life at a busy hospital, featuring both compel

A forerunner to Heartbeat, Parkin’s Patch chronicles the work of a police constable and his colleagues in a fictional village in the North Yorkshire Moors during the late 1960s. Available for the first time this set contains all 26 episodes, boasting earl

A lively musical tale of teen rebellion, Some People stars BAFTA winner Kenneth More alongside a group of young actors on the cusp of bursting onto the Swinging London film scene. Ray Brooks, Annika (Anneke) Wills and David Hemmings play the young, bored

John Hurt speelt de hoofdrol in deze studie over de reis van een man naar zelfontdekking in het bevroren isolement van Antarctica. Met Hayley Mills en Dudley Sutton in de hoofdrollen, een script van de bekroonde schrijver Anthony Shaffer en wildlife-scène

Made in 1970, this remarkable study of the human body is neither scientific nor medical; it is, rather, a deeply intimate feature-length film exploring the physical experience of being human.Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave and Frank Finlay with a commentary

This touching drama series charts the fortunes of three young women who, having returned from their voluntary service as ambulance drivers during the First World War, decide to set up a 'universal aunts' agency to help those less fortunate than themselves

Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Thora Hird and Jack Watling star in Herbert Wilcox's masterly drama of love across the social divide. A phenomenal box-office success whose themes resonated among cinema audiences amid the upheavals of post-war Britain, The C

Featuring the big-screen debut of Liverpudlian pop idol Billy Fury - 'Britain's Elvis Presley' - this charming, pre-Beatles-era musical feature was among Michael Winner's earliest films. A 1962 box-office hit spawning a Top-Ten single and EP, Play It Cool

Hitchcock hero Robert Cummings stars in this exotic British feature from 1967, adapting one of Edgar Wallace's celebrated Commissioner Sanders stories. Directed by ITC stalwart Jeremy Summers and produced by B-movie legend Harry Alan Towers, Five Golden D

Richard Basehart, Simone Simon, George Baker, Sid James and Joan Hickson are among the stars of this engaging 'portmanteau' feature that takes a comical look at the usually obscure but oddly complicated lives of a group of film extras. Also featuring pop

Dambusters legend Richard Todd turned his talents to comedy to play a philandering travel agent with too many girlfriends for his own safety in this delightful romantic romp of 1961. Executive-produced by Todd and co-written by Oscar winner Frederic Rapha

A riotously funny crime caper in the classic tradition of Two-Way Stretch and The Lavender Hill Mob, Rotten to the Core boasts a top-notch cast with early roles for Anton Rodgers and Charlotte Rampling; produced, directed and co-scripted by the legendary

One of several features pairing British screen sweetheart Anna Neagle with the ever-popular Michael Wilding, this jaunty 'upstairs-downstairs' romantic comedy could hardly have failed to triumph at the box-office, and Spring in Park Lane would indeed prov