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| | Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Cat No. HSC10068
Watson is discovered as the doctor in charge of a retreat for convalescent officers, Hulstone Towers Northumberland, ancestral home of the Musgraves. Haunted by ghosts, the wailing of lost souls are heard on the lime walks. The Musgraves have opened their home to these patients, but it is a grim, cheerless place. Sexton, the doctor assisting Watson is stabbed by an unknown person and the clock in the tower strikes thirteen, an event local legends say proceeds the deaths of Musgrave. Watson decides to hurry back to London and consult with Holmes. Holmes returns with Watson to Musgrave manor, and his immediate impression is one of foreboding: "Houses, like people, have definite personalities and this place is positively ghoulish!"
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Thriller
Barcode: 5024166002673
Category: U
Price: £2.93 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | Laurel & Hardy - Laughing 20's
Cat No. ORB10116
This documentary renewed an interest in Laurel and Hardy and led to a revival in television showings of their classic comedy shorts. Sit back and enjoy Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's! Robert Younson wrote, produced and directed classic compilations of the greatest comedians of yesteryear, (The Golden Age Of Comedy, When Comedy Was King, Days Of Thrills And Laughter, and The Further Perils Of Laurel And Hardy) including this one which features primarily Laurel and Hardy shorts, from Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting The Pants On Philip, The Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies and many others. This comedy compilation also features Max Davidson's Call Of The Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies and shorts featuring Jimmy Finlayson and Charlie Chase.
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Comedy
Barcode: 5013037038460
Category: U
Price: £3.21 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | Flight To Furyn
Cat No. ORB10113
Joe Gaines (Dewey Martin), becomes entangled in a dangerous web of deceit when a satchel of jewels enters his life. After meeting the outgoing Jay Wickham (Nicholson) in a casino, Joe beds a beautiful woman, only to find her murdered when he gets out of the shower. Jumping aboard a small plane headed for the Phillipines, Joe is shocked to discover that Wickham has tracked him down. Another passenger, Lorgren (Vic Diaz), and his gorgeous girlfriend, Destiny Cooper (Fay Spain), appear to have ulterior motives for getting close to Joe. When the airplane crashes in the jungle, leaving only a few survivors, everyone's true colours shine through. A battle ensues, leading to a final duel between Joe and Wickham, deciding once and for all who - if anyone - will keep the diamonds for themselves...
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Drama
Barcode: 5013037032703
Category: 12
Price: £3.87 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | Five Minutes To Live
Cat No. ORB10137
Originally released in 1961, as a crime drama. Fred (Tayback) narrates the film in flashback, detailing a suburban bank robbery that goes awry. In his simple plan, he hires a hard-up hood, Johnny Cabot (Cash) to take the wife of the bank's vice president hostage. Cabot will hold her until he gets a call alerting him that Fred has been successful in getting ransom money. Cabot waits, and watches the Wilson house as the husband (Woods) leaves for the bank and their young son (Howard) heads off to school. Posing as a door-to-door guitar instructor, he forces his way into the house and takes Nancy Wilson (Forrester) hostage. At the bank, Fred talks his way into Ken Wilson's office, and presents his personal check for $70,000, intending that Wilson will withdraw the funds to cover the check as a ransom for his wife. He has Wilson call home to prove that Nancy is being held by the unstable Cabot, and gives Wilson 5 minutes to make his decision. If Fred fails to call the house back, Cabot is to kill Nancy.
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Thriller
Barcode: 5013037072884
Category: 12
Price: £3.87 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | The Formula
Cat No. HSC10089
This intriguing thriller is based on Steve Shagan's best-selling 1979 book of the same name. It begins in Germany, 1945, as the Third Reich realize that the end is at hand. A general is sent to Switzerland with a truckful of documents containing information on the German discovery of a formula for the manufacturing of synthetic fuel. He is intercepted by an American who believes the world will become one big corporation at the end of the war. The scene cuts to present day Los Angeles and the discovery of the dead body of Thomas Neely, an ex-police officer who has recently been dealing in cocaine. His friend, Lieutenant Barney Caine, is put on the case. Shortly after he talks to Neely's ex-wife, she is shot to death. Caine follows some clues and meets Adam Steiffel, the wealthy and shrewd head of an international oil cartel. Through a computer check, he finds out that Neely was the American officer who dealt with the German general. Caine leaves for Germany where he tracks down both the chemist who developed the formula and the scientist who headed the Nazi synthetic fuel program. A stunning German model related to the chemist serves as his translator. Caine's investigations reveal a conspiracy of mammoth proportions to keep the formula for synthetic oil off the market. The Formula is a fascinating yarn that raises interesting questions about business ethics and the moral bankruptcy of the very rich. George C. Scott's portrait of Caine as a driven and principled cop is top-notch. Marlon Brando's delineation as Adam Steiffel, an "ivory tower hoodlum," makes him a powerful adversary. Also featured are Marthe Keller, John Gielgud, G. D. Spradlin, and Beatrice Straight.
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Drama
Barcode: 5013037003352
Category: 15
Price: £4.09 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | Laurel & Hardy - Utopia/Memories
Cat No. HSC0053
This release features UTOPIA, and a documentary on the great comic duo. In UTOPIA, the last film Laurel and Hardy made together, Stan and Ollie fly to London for the reading of Stan's late uncle's will. After Stan's uncle's cash is used to pay the solicitors, death duties, and tax, the only things left are a yacht--and a South Sea island. At the docks, the duo get their new boat, along with a displaced sailor and a stowaway. Together, the four set sail but are soon shipwrecked on an atoll during a storm. There they meet a French singer who is escaping her fiancée. When her annoying husband-to-be turns up unexpectedly, he discovers the area to be rich in uranium and soon everyone the land. Hilarious hijinks ensue...
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Comedy
Barcode: 5025539960538
Category: U
Price: £4.32 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | Ride In The Whirlwind (1965)
Cat No. HSC10096
Filmed alongside Monte Hellman's 1966 classic, THE SHOOTING, RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND is another startling Western that defies genre conventions to tell a deeply sympathetic story about an innocent man who is forced into committing murder. Three desperadoes--Wes (Jack Nicholson), Vern (Cameron Mitchell), and Otis (Tom Filer)--become friendly with a group of outlaws who have just robbed a stagecoach (led by Harry Dean Stanton's ‘Blind Dick’). But the friendship leads to trouble when a band of roughnecks out to capture the thieves assume that the innocent men participated in the crime. Soon, Otis is dead, and Wes and Vern are running for their lives, hoping to escape the vengeful cowboys. They hide out in the home of Evan (George Mitchell) and Catherine (Katherine Squire), who have a beautiful 18-year-old daughter, Abigail (Millie Perkins). As the law closes in on the confused innocents, they must begin to think like guilty men, forcing Wes into committing a condemnable act that he will regret for the rest of his life--however long that may be. Scripted by Nicholson, Hellman's picture is a brilliant portrayal of innocence lost, featuring a remarkably subtle performance from the author-actor, as well as Mitchell.
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Western
Barcode: 5013037021226
Category: PG
Price: £4.32 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | The Shooting (1967)
Cat No. HSC10097
Monte Hellman reinvents the Western genre with THE SHOOTING, a cryptic tale of revenge that has become an underground masterpiece of existentialism. The story follows Willett Gashade (Warren Oates), an ex-bounty hunter who returns home searching for his brother, only to discover that he has disappeared. He is met by Coley (Will Hutchins), a frazzled cowboy who is recovering from having witnessed the murder of his best friend. When a beautiful but tempestuous mystery woman (Millie Perkins) arrives, Gashade reluctantly agrees to escort her through the Utah desert. Along the way, Gashade begins to suspect that she is trailing someone, which is confirmed after Billy Spear (Jack Nicholson), a ruthless bounty hunter, joins the party. Unsure of their target, Gashade and Coley continue to inch forward, leery of Billy Spear’s menacing presence. When Gashade finally discovers the hunted victim, he is left stunned and bewildered. Hellman's subversive, enigmatic tale, shot concurrently with RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND, assures the director a place in Western history. Nicholson and Oates, who appear in almost all of Hellman’s early films, slip into their roles with the ease and smoothness that has turned them into acting legends, giving cinephiles yet another reason to call THE SHOOTING an unadulterated classic.
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Western
Barcode: 5013037021240
Category: PG
Price: £4.32 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | Hitchcock Double Bill
Cat No. HSC10088
Rich & Strange - Mixing silent film techniques with the new element of sound - only one-fifth of the film offers dialogue - Rich And Strange tells the charming story of Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) and his wife, Emily (Joan Barry), a small-town British couple who inherit some money from a rich uncle and suddenly decide to take a world cruise. Both, however, find themselves out of their element, and their attempts at extramarital adventures fail miserably. Their newfound sophistication having backfired, the couple will have to try to return to good old England, but their journey will be full of mishaps and unexpected disaster. Released under the title East Of Shanghai in the United States, the film was based on the novel by Dale Collins and was a departure for Hitchcock in both style and tone. Young & Innocent - Former child star Nova Pilbeam - the kidnapping victim in 'The Man Who Knew Too Much', reappears in this light hearted and unpretentious mystery shot on location in Cornwall. Playing the daughter of a local constable, Pilbeam shelters a suspected murderer (Derrick DeMarney) and a charming romance develops. The highlight of this rare Hitchcock film is a stunningly intricate camera crane shot of the twitching eyes of the guilt-ridden killer: a jazz drummer in blackface. It took two days to shoot and is one of a continuous move lasting one minute and ten seconds focusing down from 145 feet to 4 inches
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Thriller
Barcode: 5024166093817
Category: U
Price: £4.54 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | I Married A Witch
Cat No. HSC10129
As she burns at the stake, 17th century witch Jennifer (Veronica Lake), places a curse on her accuser, Jonathan Wooley (Fredric March - in multiple generational roles), hexing all the future men in his family with bad luck in love. When she returns three centuries later, via a lightning bolt hitting the tree she was killed on, Jennifer wishes to make the latest in the Wooley clan, Wallace, fall in love with her and torment him thus. The only problem is that she accidentally drinks the love potion intended for Jonathan and swiftly proceeds to fall in love with him! The course of true love never did run smoothly, and even less so as Jennifer's, similarly executed, father returns and Estelle, Jonathan's socialite fiancée, gets involved!
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Comedy
Barcode: 5013037048278
Category: U
Price: £5.42 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | Hollywood Comedy Collection - Volume 1
Cat No. ORB10105
Road To Rio (Dir. Norman Z. McLeod, 1947): To avoid being charged with arson after burning down a circus, Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope) and Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) stow away on an ocean bound ship. Aboard the vessel, the duo fall for Lucia Maria de Andrade (Dorothy Lamour), who is under the spell of her evil aunt (Gale Sondergaard), who has arranged a marriage for the young beauty. This film was in good hands since many of Hope's best collaborators worked on the picture. The Flying Deuces (Dir. Edward Sutherland, 1939): Stan and Ollie join the Foreign Legion so Ollie can forget an unhappy romance. Once in though the pay is so bad that they are soon trying to desert but are caught and condemned to death. They manage to escape and hide in a plane until the coast is clear whereupon they attempt to fly off with hilarious results. At War With Army (Dir. Hal Walker, 1951): Jerry Lewis plays hapless Pvt. First Class Alvin Corwin and Dean Martin is First Sgt. Vic Puccinelli in this barrack room comedy set in the U.S. around World War 2. Alvin and Vic grew up in the same neighbourhood and Vic watched out for his pal then and still is! All the military stereotypes you would expect are here - a loudmouth drill sergeant, a conniving supply Sergeant, and a bumbling company commander. The Ghost Breakers (Dir. George Marshall, 1940): Mary Carter inherits her family's ancestral home, located on a small island off Cuba, and, despite warnings and death threats, decides to take possession of the reputedly haunted castle. She is joined by radio broadcaster Larry Lawrence who, believing he has killed a mob gunsel, flees New York with his butler, Alex. Once on the island the threesome enter the eerie castle and after viewing the ghost of one of Mary's ancestors and fighting off a menacing zombie, they find the key to the castle's treasure but are interrupted by an all-too-human foe. Three Stooges Extravaganza: A colourful collection of short comic skits and madcap adventures from Uncle Mousie Gurner's colour scrapbook of Stooges memories. Africa Screams (Dir. Charles Barton, 1949): Abbott and Costello go on an African safari armed with a secret map which will lead them to hidden diamonds
Format: 6 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Comedy
Barcode: 5013037025514
Category: PG
Price: £5.42 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | Hollywood Comedy Collection - Volume 2
Cat No. ORB10104
The Burns And Allen Show: This disc contains two episodes from the first season 'The Wedding' and 'The Tax Assessor', they reflect the transition of Burns and Allen from burlesque through radio to television. Recorded in front of a live audience George Burns often interrupting a sketch to do a stand up routine, smoking that eternal cigar. Abbott And Costello Live: Rare and exciting appearances of the comedy duo before live television audiences from 1951 to 1954. Abbott and Costello appear with The Invisible Man, Frankenstein and The Creature From The Black Lagoon. See the best ever performance of the duo's classic sketch 'Who's On First'. Here's your chance to see Abbott and Costello at their best 'live'. Speak Easily: Buster Keaton stars as Proffesor Post, a clumsy scatterbrain who inherits $750,000 and goes in search of adventure and companionship. On a train he meets a theatre dance company 'The Midnight Maids' and falls in love with the head dancer, encouraged by the shadowy piano player (Jimmy Durante) he invests all his money in the show and takes it to Broadway, when he discovers that his classic drama is actually a 'girlie show' he tries to halt the performance. Laurel And Hardy's Laughing 20's: This classic compilation features many Laural and hardy shorts such as 'Soup To Nuts', 'Wrong Again', 'Putting The Pants On Philip', 'The Finishing Touch', 'Sugar Daddies' and may others. This comedy compilation also features Max Davidson's 'Call Of The Cuckoo' and 'dumb Daddies' and shorts featuring Jimmy Finlayson and Charlie Chase. A Burlesque On Carmen: In Charles Chaplin's Essanay comedies, made in 1915.A Spanish officer, Darn Hosiery, is seduced by the gypsy girl Carmen, ultimately leading to his disgrace and downfall. The Seven Little Foys: Eddie Foy, a vaudeville entertainer marries Madeleine, a ballerina and soon their family grows... Eddie realises that his children could help him out of a tight spot....
Format: 6 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Comedy
Barcode: 5013037025521
Category: U
Price: £5.42 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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| | Road To Rio
Cat No. HSC10065
To avoid being charged with arson after burning down a circus, Hot Lips Barton (Bob Hope) and Scat Sweeney (Bing Crosby) stow away on an ocean bound ship. Aboard the vessel, the duo fall for Lucia Maria de Andrade (Dorothy Lamour), who is under the spell of her evil aunt (Gale Sondergaard), who has arranged a marriage for the young beauty. This film was in good hands since many of Hope's best collaborators worked on the picture. Director Norman Z. McLeod went on to direct Hope in four more features -- Alias Jesse James, Casanova's Big Night, My Favorite Spy and The Paleface. McLeod had a remarkable career behind the cameras, working with such Hollywood greats as Danny Kaye (The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty), W.C. Fields (It's A Gift) and Cary Grant (Topper). Writer Edmund Beloin supplied the stories for both My Favorite Spy and The Lemon Drop Kid. His collaborator, Jack Rose, penned My Favorite Brunette, The Great Lover, Sorrowful Jones and The Seven Little Foys. This film also features musical guests, The Wiere Brothers and The Andrew Sisters.
Format: 1 DVD (Colour)
Label: Orbit Media
Genre: Comedy
Barcode: 5025539960651
Category: U
Price: £6.45 (Excluding VAT at 20%)
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