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Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once hes on the oustisde - and executing the ultimate robbery.

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Twelve year old Oskar is an outsider; struggling to fit in at school and left alone to fend for himself at home while his mother works nights. One evening he meets the mysterious Eli.

As a sweet romance blossoms between them, Oskar learns to overcome his tormentors and discovers Eli's dark secret and the connections to gruesome events occurring across town. Together they must help Eli be gone and live, or stay and die.

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A special compilation celebrating some of this legendary comedy duo's finest comedy sketches recorded at the BBC.

Includes:
- Grieg Piano Concerto (featuring André Previn)
- Backing Piano - "Play a Simple Melody" (featuring Elton John)

- "News Flash" (featuring Angela Rippon)
- "There is Nothing Like a Dame" (featuring Micheal Aspel, Frank Bough and Barry Norman)
- "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (featuring Shirley Bassey)

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Aiming to "quite literally put the chat amongst the pigeons," Alan took on prime time TV - and lost, badly. As chat show host he is brash, cheesy and uncompromisingly narrow-minded. Faced with crude clown groups, risque men's dance troupes and fashion designers, he is obnoxious and downright rude.

As only Partridge can, he humiliates, infuriates, assaults and even kills his guests - but always, ends his show like a true professional... "On that bombshell..."

Freddie Starr brings his outrageous comedy to the exalted atmosphere of the Blackpool Opera House in this 1994 live performance.

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'Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey' is the definitive video presentation of Jimi Hendrix's unforgettable Monterey Pop Festival performance.

This special edition video features all of the existing film footage from Jimi's incendiary June 18,1967 concert newly transferred from the original 16mm camera reversal, re-edited and presented in its original performance sequence. The audio soundtrack features a new 5.1 and 2.0 stereo soundtrack mixed by Eddie Kramer, Jimi's original engineer.

Tracklisting:
- Introduction by Brian Jones
1. Killing Floor
2. Foxey Lady
3. Like A Rolling Stone
4. Rock Me Baby
5. Hey Joe
6. The Wind Cries Mary
7. Purple Haze
8. Wild Thing

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From HBO Sports, WWE, JMH Films and Ringer Films comes 'Andre the Giant', a documentary examining the life and career of one of the most beloved legends in WWE history.

The ambitious, wide-ranging film explores Andre's upbringing in France, his celebrated WWE career and his forays into the entertainment world. It includes interviews with Vince McMahon, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Crystal, Rob Reiner, family members and more.

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Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed for the sixth time in this enduring gangster classic. Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks.

O'Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood chum-turned-priest who vows to end Rocky's influence. Other ace talents join them: Humphrey Bogart as a scheming lawyer, Ann Sheridan as Rocky's hard-edged girlfriend and the Dead End Kids as worshipful street urchins, all ably directed by Michael Curtiz.

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Two brothers return to the hometown they left eight years earlier, to find it still run by the same game of small-time drug dealers and petty thugs.

Their purpose, it soon becomes clear, is not reunion, but revenge - a quest of particular significance for Richard (Paddy Considine), the leader of the two, whose obsessive desire to even the score will lead them into dangerous territory.

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The epic journey of a terminally seasick youth, an entrepreneur who hasn't washed for three days and a captain who's sunk every vessel he's ever sailed in... It all sounded pretty cushty, £15,000 to collect some diamonds from Amsterdam for Boycie and Abdul with just a few snags.

Theres some dodgy geezer called Van Cleef at the Dutch end, Chief Inspector Slater back home and a small matter of a great customs hall in the middle. Then a brilliant idea enters Dels mind: let old sea dog Uncle Albert take the helm and sail across.

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Milton Berle nicknamed 'Uncle Miltie' was a comedian who dominated American television in the 1950's, earning him the title 'Mr.Television'. His career spanned over 80 years on stage, in film and on radio, but it was 'The Milton Berle Show' where he made his lasting mark.

On the 3rd of April 1956, Elvis Presley appeared as a star guest on 'The Milton Berle Show' from the deck of the USS Hancock and again on June 5th. Elvis caused huge controversy with viewers and the press after a sensuous performance with his now famous girating hip moves. Featuring some of Elvis Presley's most famous and best loved songs including 'Shake', 'Rattle and Roll', 'Heartbreak Hotel' and 'Blue Suede Shoes'. Take a step back in time to the birth of Rock n' Roll when 'The King' took the world be storm.

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Wealthy mystery novelist Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) invites lower-class hairdresser Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) to his elegant English mansion to discuss Milo's affair with Wyke's wife.

But when Andrew proposes that Milo participate in a robbery scheme to benefit them all, the two rivals find themselves locked in an increasingly devious duel of wits and deceptions. Who is the player? Who is the pawn? And in the shocking and wicked final twist, who will win the deadliest game of all?

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The Little Tramp punches in and wigs out inside a factory where gizmos like an employee feeding machine may someday make the lunch hour last just 15 minutes.

Bounced into the ranks of the unemployed, he teams with a street waif (Paulette Goddard) to pursue bliss and a paycheck, finding misadventures as a roller-skating night watchman, a singing waiter whose hilarious song is gibberish, a jailbird and more. In the end, as tramp and waif walk arm in arm into an insecure future we know they've found neither bliss nor a paycheck but, more importantly, each other. The times and satire remain timeless in 'Modern Times'.

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Calogero Anello is a streetwise nine-year old who lives in a small apartment under the strict guidance of his bus driver father Lorenzo. One day Calogero witnesses a murder committed by a local gangster boss, Sonny.

After Calogero refuses to identify Sonny, the gangster takes the boy under his wing, gradually introducing him to a new way of life. Soon, Calogero finds himself torn between two fathers and two very different ways of life.

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Peter Sellers plays both Sir John Kennaway and the tragic-comic trade union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then-burning issue of industrial relations.

Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme that involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labour dispute, from which the socialist Mr. Kite (Irene Handl) is only too keen to make capital.