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This collection is the result of a bold decision: to rescue forgotten early films made on inflammable nitrate stock., and to bring these amazing treasures to your screens, many for the very first time. This is your passport to a world of magic and delight! 14 more films to savour!

Titles Comprise:
1. What a Whopper! (USA 1921)
2. In the Land of Giants and Pygmies (1925)
3. Cartoon Factory (USA 1924)
4. The Dancing Pig (1907)
5. Madame Babylas Loves Animals (France 1911)
6. Slapstick News (France 1948)
7. 6 Commercials (France 1920)
8. The Great Train Robbery (USA 1903)
9. Snake Dance in the Lion's Cage (France 1900)
10. Kobelkoff (France 1900)
11. Hollywood Steps Out (USA 1941)
12. Never Weaken (USA 1921)
13. Jazz Hot (GB 1939)
14. The Flight Around the World (Germany 1924)

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The 'Masters of Cinema' Series is proud to present three early silent features from Universal Pictures, all fully restored as part of the studio's ongoing restoration program.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

Allen Holubar stars as the domineering Captain Nemo, who rescues the passengers of an American naval vessel after ramming them with his iron-clad, steampunk submarine, 'The Nautilus'. Incorporating material from Verne's 'Mysterious Island', the film also follows the adventures of a group of Civil War soldiers whose hot-air balloon crash lands on an exotic island, where they encounter the untamed "Child of Nature" (Jane Gail).
The Calgary Stampede (1925)
Real life rodeo champion Hoot Gibson plays Dan Malloy, an expert rider who wins the big one, 'The Calgary Stampede'. When the father of his new French-Canadian girlfriend (Virginia Browne Faire) turns up dead, Malloy is the only suspect!
What Happened to Jones? (1926)
Reginald Denny plays a wealthy young bachelor on the night before his wedding. He is convinced to attend a poker party which is promptly raided, sending him on the run in a series of increasingly hilarious disguises.

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John Stuart stars as Detective Barton who is assigned to retrieve a priceless necklace that has been stolen by a group of jewel thieves.

When his life is saved by a female member of the gang who has fallen in love with him, the sleuth races against time to reach the gang's hideout - an empty London house known as number 17.

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Stillwater follows an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit.

Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

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The 'Retour de Flamme' collection got its name from a craze challenge - to save from the flames early flames shot on inflammable nitrate stock, and to make these unsuspected treasures of the cinema available to the biggest possible audience.

You don't have to be a film buff or an expert to enjoy them: just sit back, and become a child again. You'll rediscover not only films that were long thought lost, but also simple, magical emotions you thought were gone for ever...

Titles Comprise:
- Those Awful Hats (USA 1909)
- The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (USA 1916)
3 Comic Shorts:
- Chasing the Monkey (Italy 1909)
- For Her Mother's Day (France 1906)
- Kiriki - Japanese Acrobats (France 1907)
- La Marseillaise (France 1907)
- Week-End (France 1935)
- Clo-Cloche (France 1935)
- Play Safe (USA 1936)
- Stolen Kisses (France 1920)
- Paris Fashion (France 1926)
- Black and Tan (USA 1929)
- 3 Animated Shorts (by Cartoonist O'Galop) - (France 1918)
- Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (USA 1925)
- Porky's Preview (USA 1941)
- The Flight Around the World (USA 1924)

How can one rock band be successful, underrated, hugely influential, and criminally overlooked all at the same time? Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron and Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band's favorite band.

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Welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage after saving the life of their heir, Storm Shadow (Andrew Koji), Snake Eyes joins the battle against the terrorist group Cobra. Pushed to his limits, Snake Eyes will become the ultimate warrior.

But, when past secrets are revealed, his honour and allegiance will be tested - even if that means losing everything he ha been fighting for. Also starring Ursula Corbero as Baroness and Samara Weaving as Scarlett.

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The world's most lethal odd couple - bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) and hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) - are back. Still unlicensed, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid (Salma Hayek).

As Bryce is driven over the edge by volatlile spouses, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman (Antonio Banderas). Joining in the fun and deadly mayhem is Morgan Freeman as...well, you'll have to see.

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A melodrama revolving around rural class conflict. The Skin Game was widely praised on release for its powerful and convincing portrayal of industrial encroachment on the rural gentry. The film is also notable for the confident mix of long-take dialogue scenes and montage.

The rivalry between a gentrified family and a wealthy tradesman turns to tragedy when the former use their discovery of the dark past of the tradesman's daughter-in-law to thwart his building plans.

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A silent romantic comedy, 'The Farmer's Wife' rates as one of Hitchcock's less obvious successes. It tells the story of farmer Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who has sadly lost his beloved wife.

Lonely and with only his long time housekeeper, Araminta (Lillian Hall-Davis) for company, he discusses the possibility of finding himself a new wife to share his home and his life. The loyal 'Minti' agrees to help him in his search for a new companion although her own feelings for Samuel are strong, albeit unknown to the lonely farmer. Having neither the courage to tell him nor the wish to let him down in his search for happiness, she proffers her advice and comments on the ladies who come calling - but poor Samuel finds no replacement for his dear departed wife. If only he could see that a new love is within arms reach; a woman only too happy to share his fireside thoughts and her heart with the man she has long since been devoted to.

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In this true-life cold war spy thriller, unossuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) becomes entangled in one of the greatest international conflicts in history.

Recruited by MI6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), Wynne forms a covert partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), and both men risk everything in a danger-fraught race against time to provide the intelligence needed to prevent nuclear confrontation and end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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When police find aspiring theater star Diana Baring (Norah Baring) standing over the corpse of a fellow actress, Diana gets arrested. Although amnesia leaves her with no recollection of the incident, she ends up convicted of murder.

But juror John Menier (Herbert Marshall) starts having second thoughts about Diana's guilt and takes it upon himself to capture the true killer in director Alfred Hitchcock's first-rate thriller

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Martin Eden (Luca Marinelli), Neapolitan and working class, has his fate is changed forever when he defends a young boy from a beating.

The boy repays him for his kindness by inviting him into his bourgeois home, and it is there that Eden meets Elena (Jessica Cressy), the daughter of an upper-crust industrial family. He resolves to become an accomplished writer to elevate himself to the family's social standing and eventually marry her. He proves himself quickly as an autodidact, but grapples with social politics and ultimately with how to deal with success.

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Betty (Betty Balfour) is a spoilt rich girl who leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father's (Gordon Harker) champagne business.

However, when she decides to elope with her fortune-hunting suitor, daddy decides that enough is enough: He tells her that his business has crashed and that there's no more money. Betty must now must face the glamourous 1920's from a very different perspective and discover the world of work - how will she cope?

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"Made in Italy" is a heart-warming comedy, set in glorious Tuscany, about bohemian London artist Robert (Liam Neeson) who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Micheál Richardson) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife.

Renovations go badly, and father and son find themselves at odds - not for the first time. As Robert and Jack painstakingly restore the villa to its previous glory, father and son also start to mend their relationship. The future may now look quite different and surprise them both.