cdm's - Rented List

Derek Fair stars in this story of murder and criminal gangs around British seaside resorts. Filmed mostly in Hastings and Bexhill, Farr visits his ex wife only to find her murdered. In his attempts to find the killer he meets gang boss William Hartnell and his psycho side kick played by Peter Lorre.

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Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema, remembered for timeless stars and come unique movies that have stood the test of time.

So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.

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An artist's model, Aki (Mako Midori), is abducted, and awakens in a dark warehouse studio whose walls are decorated with outsized women's body parts - eyes, lips, legs, and breasts - and dominated by two recumbent giant statues of male and female nudes.

Her kidnapper introduces himself as Michio (Eiji Funakoshi), a blind sculptor whom she had witnessed intently caressing a statue of her naked torso previously at an exhibition in which she featured. Michio announces his intention of using her to sculpt the perfectfemale form. Atfirst defiant, she eventually succumbs to his intense fixation on her body and finds herself drawn into his sightless world, in which touch is everything.

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"Les Girls" is the Rashomon of MGM musicals. The film is told in flashback, as Mitzi Gaynor and Taina Elg, two-thirds of a popular cabaret trio, attempt to legally block the third, Kay Kendall, from writing her memoirs.

Each of 'Les Girls' has her own interpretation of the group's previous professional and amorous escapades. To make sense of these wildly diverse recollections, the court must rely upon a fourth party to straighten things out. Enter Gene Kelly, the dancing star who organized 'Les Girls' in the first place. But can Kelly be believed? The 'truth' of the many reminiscences in Les Girls is secondary to the dazzling beauty of its female stars, and to the delightful musical numbers, the best of which is an extended Marlon Brando parody titled 'Why Am I So Gone About That Gal?' This was Gene Kelly's last musical effort for MGM, the studio he joined way back in 1943; the film was the inspiration for the short-lived 1963 TV series Harry's Girls, which starred Larry Blyden, Susan Silo, Dawn Nickerson and Diahn Williams.

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Jim Gay (Wilfred Pickles) is a northern miner with an obsession for greyhound racing. Having seen Raving Beauty romp to first place at short odds because everybody had backed it, Jim decides to increase its odds for the big race by pretending that Raving Beauty is ill and unlikely to finish.

But keeping this a secret from his wife Maggie (Megs Jenkins) and daughter Sally (Petula Clark) is a tougher job than Jim Gay ever imagines. Whilst Jim and Peter (John Blythe) find ever more comical ways to keep their secret under wraps, their world is turned upside-down when an unknown but highly-fancied greyhound enters the race and is kennelled at the local vicar's house.

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A boxing promoter who shares a church hall with a prudish reverend is the knockout formula for this sparking Brian Rix farce! Reverend Sydney Mullet (Leo Franklyn) is desperately suspicious of the boxing promoter Wally (William Hartnell) who shares his hall - until his gormless nephew Dickie (Brian

Rix) decides to become a boxer himself and fight under the name of 'Dickie Dreadnought'! Aided by his punch-drunk assistant Horace (Tommy Cooper), Wally recognises Dickie's potential as the next Great White Hope and the Reverend gets caught up in all the excitement... Dickie Dreadnought's great future seems assured - until the Archdeacon decides to make a surprise visit...

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Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita (Virginia Mayo) on a quest for black pearls on a secret island.

Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George (Lance Fuller), the latter's handsome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.

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Includes two short workouts that will help you increase your fitness level gradually, and a main workout that is both challenging and fun. All three workouts include a warm-up and a cool-down.

Workout A

A great workout that will ease you back into shape. You can do this anytime, even in sweats or pajamas, without shoes. Improve your flexibility and circulation with side stretching, plies, pelvic tilts, breathing and kegels.
Workout B
Increases the intensity with an added cardio section and hand-held weights to give you energy, endurance, and strength. Includes push-ups, crunches, lunges, squats, kegels, and upper-body strength exercises.
Workout C
This full body workout has cardio and strength training intervals emphasizing upper and lower body. Using it four times a week, you'll see tone and definition in your whole body, with simple but effective exercises, requiring playing cards, three-pound weights, and a mat.

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Recorded live at the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria 2011.

Anna Netrebko "scored a personal triumph as Anna Bolena" in her debut as the hapless Tudor queen in this new, first-ever production of Donizetti's bel canto masterpiece at the Vienna State Opera. Netrebko's stage partners were likewise showered with critical acclaim: "Garanca's Mozartean background prepared her for a dazzling display of bel canto... D'Arcangelo used his suave, ebony bass to excellent effect".

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Written by award-winning screen-writer and novelist Frederic Raphael, "The Glittering Prizes" is the critically acclaimed series of six teleplays chronicling the changing lives of friends who first meet at Cambridge University.

Tom Conti (Shirley Valentine) stars as would-be novelist Adam Morris with Mark Wing-Davey and Nigel Havers among his college peers. Barbara Kellerman, Malcolm Stoddard, Connie Booth, Miriam Margolyes and Tim Pigott-Smith also feature among the cast. Meeting as undergraduates in the early fifties, the drama explores the hopes and dreams of a group of idealistic young students, following their intertwining lives into the turbulent sixties, and on through the successes and disillusionments of the seventies as they achieve contrasting levels of worldly success.

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Seeking to experience the real Australia, backpackers Rutger and Katarina venture from the main tourist trail to visit the awe-inspiring Wolf Creek crater. Unfortunately for them, it's also the hunting ground of psychopathic pig-shooter Mick Taylor: the last man any outback traveller wants to meet.

After a chilling attack in the dead of night, the crazed bushman pursues his prey in an epic, white knuckled rampage across hostile wasteland.

Adapted from the worldwide best-selling novel, "QB VII" tells the compelling story of the gripping court battle between a Polish-born doctor and the American author who accuses him of having performed atrocious experiments on concentration camp prisoners during World War II.

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Oh brother! Peter Sellers as John Smallwood, an idealistic Reverend appointed to the parish of an upper-class village by mistake. With a bad habit of telling the truth at all times, Smallwood makes several clerical decisions that shock his wealthy, landed-gentry parishioners.

When he convinces the selfish owner of a laxative firm (Isabel Jeans) to "see the light" and sell off all her holdings on behalf of the poor and downtrodden, by doing so the woman wrecks her business - which is the principal source of income for the community where Smallwood works. Retreating from town with an angry mob on his heels, Smallwood relocates to a tiny island in the Pacific. Since the island is the site of a missile base, and since the local astronauts have shown signs of agnosticism, where else is there Sellers to go....but up? Inspired by an idea by British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above! was considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption on its 1963 release. Way ahead of its time, the film, featuring Sellers at his most iconoclastic, has since accrued a loyal and vocal following. A superb supporting cast includes Eric Sykes, Irene Handle, William Hartnel and Joan Hickson.

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While racing to a boxing match, Frank (Emilio Estevez), Mike (Cuba Gooding Jr.), John (Stephen Dorff) and Ray (Jeremy Piven) get more than they bargained for. A wrong turn lands them directly in the path of Fallon (Denis Leary), a vicious, wise-cracking drug lord.

After accidentally witnessing Fallon murder a disloyal henchman, the four become his unwilling prey in a savage game of cat and mouse as they are mercilessly stalked through the urban jungle in this taut suspense drama.

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Nils Ahlen (John McCallum), a Swedish scientist, discovers a sensational method to transform the impulse of sound into electrical power. The industrial and war potential of his discovery is enormous.

His wife Helga (Mary Laura Wood) disappears with his young assistant, Sven Nystrom (Anthony Dawson) and secret parts of his invention are stolen. The Police Inspector (Jack Warner) and his force soon discover the escape route taken by the fugitives - towards the Northern frontiers. Leaving the roads and marks of man-made civilisation, both parties take to the desolate, bitter and trackless wastes where Lapp tribes and their reindeer herds eek out a precarious living. Eventually the forces of the sub-arctic tell in favours of the hunters who, in a breathtaking climax, gain their quarry.