Colin Blakely
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire, commands the eastern Mediterranean. Despite his infatuation with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, he has to return...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
It never occurs to Trevor that dishy blondes don't usually sell jazz records door-to-door. He orders a set of Bix Beiderbecke LPs but receives the wrong items. While trying to locate the missing music, he and his girlfriend, Jill, stumble upon black market goods in a church basement, secret meetings in a parking lot. They find corruption at the highest levels. Helping them out are a couple of friends, an overzealous police officer, an elderly snoop,...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) : Sherlock Holmes is confronted with the mystery of a supernatural hound that supposedly takes revenge upon the Baskerville family. Private life of Sherlock Holmes (1970): When a beautiful woman claims her husband has disappeared, the investigation takes Sherlock Holmes and Watson to Scotland, where they uncover a shocking plot involving a clandestine society. Without a clue (1988): Dr. John Watson is secretly a crime-solving...
Series
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Shakespeare's famous play which explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion by telling the story of Antony, the once-heralded leader who becomes stupified with passion and degenerates into a fool, and the multi-faceted Cleopatra.
11) Equus
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged psychiatrist tries to find out why a young man has blinded six horses entrusted to his care.
Series
Criterion collection volume 417
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
[Special edition].
Language
English
Description
Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs. Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation....
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