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Shadows And Fog
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack
Director: Woody Allen
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A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town--a mysterious stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of ..read more »
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56%
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Buried Alive
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, John Carradine, Robert Vaughn
Director: Gerard Kikoine
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Janet Pendleton arrives at Ravens-croft Reform School to teach Science, but discovers macabre goings-on, especially to wayward girls. Suffering hallucinations of someone being bricked-up behind a wall, she seeks the help of the School Doctor, only to discover he was once a patient at the School ..read more »
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39%
from 159 members
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Specters
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, John Pepper, Katrine Michelsen
Director: Marcello Avallone
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A group of archeologists enter a secret catacomb which has been sealed for centuries. But in their ignorance they have disturbed an evil force, not seen on the face of the earth for nineteen thousand years. The race is on to re-seal the tomb... a head-on clash with the power of evil.
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40%
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Django Strikes Again
(1987)
Starring: Franco Nero, Donald Pleasence, Christopher Connelly
Director: Ted Archer
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Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped by rogue Hungarian soldiers using slave labor to run a silver mine. Django casts off his habit and digs up his machine gun to practise a little liberation theology.
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38%
from 7 members
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Prince Of Darkness
(1987)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong
Director: John Carpenter
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Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinely scary with PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Graduate students are confronted with pure evil when they go to study a container of strange ooze discovered in the basement of an abandoned church. The ooze is released and all hell, quite literally, breaks ..read more »
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Scoop
(1987)
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern, Herbert Lom
Director: Gavin Millar
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A young man who writes a weekly newspaper column about British rural life from his family estate, is mistaken for a war correspondent by confused subeditor and is sent to the suspected action site of Ishmaelia. On his journey he meets an elusive man of mystery (Herbert Lom), a stunning German ..read more »
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from 9 members
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Phantom Of Death
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Michael York, Donald Pleasence, Edwige Fenech
Director: Ruggero Deodato
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From the writing team behind the vicious 'n' delicious NEW YORK RIPPER and Ruggero Deodato, the director of the hunger-inducing CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, comes this star filled frenzy of brutal vengeance.Michael York (AUSTIN POWERS) stars as piano virtuoso Robert Dominici who suddenly contracts a ..read more »
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from 87 members
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Phenomena
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Director: Dario Argento
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Released in the US in heavily edited form as CREEPERS in 1986 (though this is the loger, European cut), Italian horror master Dario Argento's masterpiece manages to be involving and interesting while providing a steady stream of funhouse style shocks. Jennifer Corvino (Connelly) is attending a ..read more »
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Arch Of Triumph
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Lesley-Anne Down, Anthony Hopkins, Donald Pleasence
Director: Waris Hussein
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With a glittering cast which includes Anthony Hopkins (THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) and Donald Pleasance (HALLOWEEN), ARCH OF TRIUMPH is the tale of a Parisian romance unfolding on the cusp of World War II. Dr. Ravic (Hopkins) is a German citizen who has escaped the clutches of the Nazi's by fleeing ..read more »
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from 32 members
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The Devonsville Terror
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr., Donald Pleasence
Director: Ulli Lommel
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A witch hunt in Devonsville 300 years ago purges three young ladies, one of which screams a curse as she disappears into the nether world. Now it's The Present, and things come to a head when a man kills his wife, thus activating the curse. A new school teacher comes to town, and finds the town ..read more »
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from 16 members
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Halloween 2
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Lance Guest
Director: Rick Rosenthal
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Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) pumps evil Mike Myers full of lead, then watches helplessly as the maniac killer stands up again and runs away. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the teenager last terrorized by Myers, is taken to a ..read more »
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Escape From New York
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Carpenter
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Another John Carpenter cult classic, 'Escape From New York' was one of the best entries in the once popular post-apocalyptic genre which included 'Road Warrior' and 'The Terminator'. In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been turned into the world's largest maximum-security prison, a place where the ..read more »
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The Monster Club
(1980)
Starring: Vincent Price, John Carradine, Anthony Steel
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman...
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All Quiet On The Western Front
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence
Director: Delbert Mann
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In 1914 a group of fresh-faced and idealistic German schoolboys are goaded by their chauvinistic schoolmaster to troop off to the 'Glorious War'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up, however, their disenchantment begins during the brutal basic training. Later, as they board the train ..read more »
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Halloween
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Carpenter
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Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his ..read more »
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Halloween - BLU-RAY Version
(1978)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
Director: John Carpenter
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Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, Halloween is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, Halloween takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his ..read more »
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73%
from 584 members
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Glory Days
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Donald Pleasence, Gloria Carlin
Director: Harvey Hart
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A modern-day rodeo cowboy travels from town to town taking on anyone who will compete. But one day he is crushed by a horse and unable to compete anymore. Hitting rock bottom he is saved by the intervention of J.T. Jones who offers him hope for the future.
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Oh God!
(1977)
Starring: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr
Director: Carl Reiner
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When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
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48%
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The Last Tycoon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Elia Kazan
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The seedy underbelly of the Hollywood film industry is brought to light in Elia Kazan's powerful adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last, unfinished novel. Robert DeNiro anchors the film with his commanding portrayal of 1930s movie mogul Monroe Stahr (modelled after MGM's studio head Irving ..read more »
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from 309 members
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Escape To Witch Mountain
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Eddie Albert
Director: John Hough
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The ever present versatility of Walt Disney motion pictures is demonstrated in this film about two psychic orphans who head for Witch Mountain to escape evil and find their own identities. When their unusual psychic abilities attract the attention of a greedy industrialist, he tries to capture them ..read more »
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The Count Of Monte Cristo
(1975)
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan
Director: David Greene
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Richard Chamberlain leads an all-star cast in this film rendition of Alexandre Dumas' stirring tale of injustice, revenge and retribution.
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from 39 members
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Deathline
(1973)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence
Director: Gary Sherman
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There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there ..read more »
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Kidnapped
(1971)
Starring: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins
Director: Delbert Mann
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This period drama is set during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland. A young man David Balfour arrives to claim his inheritance but his wicked uncle attempts to kill him and then ..read more »
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THX 1138
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
Director: George Lucas
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In George Lucas's fascinating feature debut (based on his short student film), the young director creates a futuristic, underground world in which bald, dronelike workers are forced to take drugs to regulate their moods and stifle their libidos. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his mate, LUH 3417 (..read more »
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Soldier Blue
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence
Director: Ralph Nelson
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This violent drama is based on an allegedly historic encounter between white settlers and the Cheyenne Indians, of the west. Based on Theodore V. Olsen's novel ARROW IN THE SUN, the account enacts the struggle of a U.S. soldier named Honus Gant (Peter Strauss) and a white woman named Cresta (..read more »
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from 1,216 member
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Cul-De-Sac
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stander
Director: Roman Polanski
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A somewhat surreal black comedy directed and co-scripted by Roman Polanski, CUL-DE-SAC is the tale of a mismatched married couple, George and Teresa (Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac), living in an 11th-century castle on an isolated island whose home is invaded by two gangsters on the run ..read more »
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Will Penny
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence
Director: Tom Gries
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Cowboy, Will Penny, stops over at the home of Catherine, wife of an Oregon farmer. Catherine is attracted to Will and although Will is attracted to Catherine, he behaves like a perfect gentleman...
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from 239 members
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You Only Live Twice
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Lois Maxwell
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. With the Soviet Union and the United States blaming each other for mysteriously missing space capsules, nuclear warfare between the two superpowers seems imminent. However, Her Majesty's Secret Service suspects the rockets are being held in ..read more »
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The Night Of The Generals
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: Anatole Litvak
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The tense story of a manhunt for a psychopathic sex killer during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and Paris in World War II. An Intelligence major is assigned to the task of finding the killer, who is believed to be a top-ranking German officer...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Pat Boone, John Wayne
Director: George Stevens
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George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's (Jose Ferrer) decree of the execution of all male children in Judea, ..read more »
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The Hallelujah Trail
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Martin Landau
Director: John Sturges
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THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL is a slapstick comedy starring Burt Lancaster as cavalry officer Col. Thadeus Gearhart, set just before the winter of 1867, when the boomtown of Denver realizes it's almost run out of whiskey. The perenially drunken Oracle Jones (Donald Pleasence) hatches a plan to bring a ..read more »
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The Great Escape
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Garner
Director: John Sturges
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Arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made, John Sturges's dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944, stars Steve McQueen as the rebellious Virgil Hilts. The ..read more »
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Suspect
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
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After years of research scientists are ready to reveal their greatest triumph - a virulent germ that can stamp out bubonic and syphus epidemics. However, the Authority invokes the Official Secrets Act and gags the team, claiming that in the wrong hands this formula could be used for germ warfare. A ..read more »
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55%
from 35 members
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Look Back In Anger
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Richard Burton, Gary Raymond, Mary Ure
Director: Tony Richardson
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Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), the archetypal "angry young man" is a university graduate living with his wife Allison (Mary Ure) in squalor. He reviles society, the upper classes, the State, the Church and everything else that he sees as governed by hypocrisy. For a living, the disgruntled Jimmy ..read more »
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Battle Of The Sexes
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings
Director: Charles Crichton
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THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES is a witty black comedy from Ealing comedy director Charles Crichton. The House of MacPherson has been supplying Scottish tweeds for years--its weavers make the tweed in their homes on the Scottish islands, and the staff sells it in the company's Edinburgh premises. When Old ..read more »
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Hell Is A City
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Val Guest
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Detective Inspector Martineau prepares himself for action when he hears of the jailbreak of the notorious thief Don Starling. When a robbery goes seriously wrong, Martineau will stop at nothing to make sure that Starling is caught...
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Man In The Sky
(1957)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Jeremy Bodkin
Director: Charles Crichton
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When an engine catches fire on the experimental rocket-propulsion plane that he is flying, test pilot John Mitchell (Jack Hawkins) defies an order to jettison the vehicle into the sea.
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1984
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave
Director: Michael Anderson
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After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with ..read more »
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Donald Sinden Icon Collection
(11 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Donald Sinden, Stanley Holloway, Michael Hordern
Director: Ralph Thomas, Ken Annakin, Muriel Box
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Features the Donald Sinden films A DAY TO REMEMBER, YOU KNOW WHAT SAILORS ARE, THE BEACHCOMBER, MAD ABOUT MEN, ABOVE US THE WAVES, AN ALLIGATOR NAMED DAISY, TIGER IN THE SMOKE, EYEWITNESS, THE BLACK TENT, ROCKETS GALORE, and MIX ME A PERSON.
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from 61 members
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Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure
Starring: Richard O'Sullivan, Michael Deeks, Mary Crosby
Director: Gerry Poulson
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Five-part story which follows the adventures of Dick Turpin and Swiftnick as they assist Jane Harding in her quest to depose the evil governor of Maryland.
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Second World War - Vol. 21 - Lest We For...
on DVD
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Vera Lynn
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Two features. 'Lest We Forget' pays tribute to the men and women of the Royal Air Force during the conflict. 'A War To Remember' recounts the events of 8th May 1945, when the final curtain came down on the six year drama that had rocked the world.
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Lest We Forget
on DVD
Starring: Donald Pleasence
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This films demonstrates how all men and women of the RAF worked together against the odds to become the pride of Britain in it's finest hour and is dedicated to the memory of those gallant men and women who gave their lives for the love of their country.
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The Black Windmill
on DVD
Starring: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig
Director: Don Siegel
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A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
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Phantom of Death
to Watch Now
(1987)
Starring: Michael York, Donald Pleasence, Edwige Fenech
Director: Ruggero Deodato
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Run time: 88 minutes
From the writing team behind the vicious 'n' delicious NEW YORK RIPPER and Ruggero Deodato, the director of the hunger-inducing CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, comes this star filled frenzy of brutal vengeance.Michael York (AUSTIN POWERS) stars as piano virtuoso Robert Dominici who suddenly contracts a ..read more »
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Halloween 2
to Watch Now
(1981)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Lance Guest
Director: Rick Rosenthal
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Run time: 83 minutes
Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) pumps evil Mike Myers full of lead, then watches helplessly as the maniac killer stands up again and runs away. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the teenager last terrorized by Myers, is taken to a ..read more »
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The Monster Club
to Watch Now
(1980)
Starring: Vincent Price, John Carradine, Anthony Steel
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Run time: 94 minutes
The Monster Club is a trio of terror tales featuring late great actors John Carradine, Donald Pleasence, and the master of macabre himself, Vincent Price. A writer of horror stories (Carradine) is invited by a mysterious old gentleman (Price) to join in a sinister storytelling session at a rock ..read more »
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All Quiet On The Western Front
to Watch Now
(1979)
Starring: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence
Director: Delbert Mann
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Run time: 128 minutes
The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness ..read more »
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The Count Of Monte Cristo
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(1975)
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan
Director: David Greene
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Run time: 98 minutes
Alexander Dumas' stirring classic tale of injustice, revenge and retribution, in which Edmond Dantes (Richard Chamberlain) is falsely accused by three men of conspiring with Napoleon. Prosecuted by the conniving De Villefort (Louis Jourdan), he is sentenced to an agonising life on the isolated ..read more »
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Don't rent - not as described 18 January 2005
...au horror film starring Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen, David Warner, Diana Dors and Donald Pleasence prepare to be disappointed. This is in fact some awful American film of the sam...
Barchester revisited 19 June 2005
