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Legendary director and story-teller Alfred Hitchcock set the benchmark for all TV mystery series to come with his groundbreaking classic television series "Alfred Hitchcock Presentsr", remaining an indelible part of popular culture.

No one equalled his talent for presenting viewers with stories of murder, mystery and the macabre that had an unforeseen kick in the 'tale'. Rather than progress to a eighth season of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", Hitchcock returned with an expanded format titled "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" and now for the first time, the entire deliciously murderous third series - all 29 stories presented by the master of suspense himself. Join an incredible who's who of guest stars including Peter Fonda, David Carradine, Efrem Zimbalist.Jr, Vera Miles, Angie Dickinson, Anne Francis, Roddy McDowall, George Kennedy, Peter Lawford, Julie London, Lola Albright, Lee Majors, June Lockhart, Bruce Dern, John Cassavetes, James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Jack Cassidy, Walter Koening and many more as they become the puppets in Hitch's theatre.

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Based on a short story by John Steinbeck, Lifeboat takes place entirely on a boat adrift in the North Atlantic. After their Allied freighter is sunk by a German U-boat, a diverse group of individuals make their way onto a lifeboat.

Later, the castaways rescue a man adrift at sea, only to discover that he is the very German U-boat captain who sunk their vessel. Choosing to keep him aboard as a gesture of humanity and for the sake of his seafaring skills proves to be a fateful decision for the survivors when they discover the German captain's true motives.

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The tension is unmistakable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air at the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show. Director Christopher Guest takes a hilarious look at dog show participants (and the pooches who love them).

Meet the contestants - a fly-fishing bloodhound owner (Guest), Shih-Tzu-doting partners, squabbling yuppie lawyers, a bimbo trophy wife and her poodle handler and a married couple who dream up little ditties about terriers - all fighting for the ‘Best in Show’ prize.

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"The Public Enemy" showcases James Cagney's powerful 1931 breakthrough performance as streetwise tough guy Tom Powers, but only because production chief Darryl F. Zanuck made a late casting change.

When shooting began, Cagney had a secondary role but Zanuck soon spotted Cagney's screen dominance and gave him the star part. From that moment, an indelible genre classic and an enduring star career were both born. Bristling with '20s style, dialogue and desperation under the masterful directorial eye of William A. Wellman, this is a virtual time capsule of the Prohibition era: taut, gritty and hard-hitting - even at breakfast when grapefruit is served.

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It is 1970. Muhammad Ali has been exiled from boxing since 1967 for his firm stance against the Vietnam War. Stripped of his title, convicted of draft evasion, facing a $10,000 fine and 5 years in prison, his passport is revoked, and he is denied a license in all 50 states.

Ali's illustrious boxing career was ebbing to a quiet close. But in Atlanta, that all changed. An ambitious Jewish attorney turned promoter, Atlanta's first Jewish mayor, and Senator Leroy Johnson joined forces to make the impossible possible. 'Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story' is the epic tale about the return of the greatest athlete of the 20th Century from the shadows of the boxing ring, and onto the world stage. Featuring an all-star cast including Evander Holyfield, John (Juan) Carlos, Edwin Moses, Andrew Young, Jim Brown, and Khalilah Ali.

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"ABBA Forever: The Winner Takes It All" is the definitive up-to-date telling of the ABBA story featuring all four members of the band. It's been fifty years since ABBA's founders met, forty years since their last concert and twenty years since the stage show Mamma Mia! became a worldwide phenomenon.

This new, multi-Gold Award winning, in-depth music documentary tells their story from the birth of the band to today. Packed full of new interviews, commentary and special sequences filmed with all four band members of ABBA, plus rare archive footage and a feast of ABBA songs. ABBA band members talk about their lives, their songs and how it all came to be. Guests include Pete Waterman, Bono, Donny Osmond, Neil Sedaka, Barbara Dickson, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini and ABBA engineer Michael Tretow.

Extended Clips of the Following Tracks:
- Waterloo
- Dancing Queen
- The Winner Takes It All
- Fernando
- I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
- SOS
- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
- Knowing Me, Knowing You
- Money, Money, Money
- Does Your Mother Know?
- The Winner Takes It All
- The Day Before You Came
- Super Trouper
- Ring, Ring
- Thank You for the Music
- Chiquitita
- Mamma Mia!

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Rory (Jude Law) an ambitious entrepreneur, persuades his wife (Carrie Coon), and their children to leave America and return to his native England during the 1980's. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor.

However, all is not as it seems and soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel and the couple have to face the secrets and unwelcome truths that lie beneath the surface of their marriage.

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Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is a washed up Broadway producer forced to romance old ladies to finance his plays.

When timid accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) is brought in to do his books, he inadvertently reveals to Bialystock that under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than a hit. Bialystock cajoles Bloom into helping him achieve this end and together they come up with what they consider to be a sure-fire disaster waiting to happen - a musical version of Adolf and Eva's love story entitled 'Springtime for Hitler'. But is it possible that they might actually have the most unlikely hit of all time on their hands?

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Produced as part of the centenary celebrations of the greatest British composer since Henry Purcell, this revelatory film tells the story of the pacifism which was at the core of Britten's life and work.

The drama depicting the teenage pupil at Gresham's School, Holt, already set on a career as a composer, whilst struggling to equate communism with pacifism is framed with commentary by friends and observers and superlative contemporary musical performances.

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Bogie's on the run and Bacall's at his side in Delmer Daves' stylish film-noir thriller that's the third of four films Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together. Bogart is Vincent Parry, a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face.

Bacall is Irene Jansen, his lone ally. In sharp support, Agnes Moorehead plays a venomous harpy finding pleasure in the unhappiness of others. The leads' chemistry is undeniable, augmented here with exceptional tenderness. Exceptional too are San Francisco locations and creative camerawork that shows Vincent's point of view - but not his face - until bandages are removed. Lest Irene get ideas, post-surgery Vincent tells her: "Don't change yours. I like it just as it is". So do we.

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Whose face - ravaged, grotesque - is in the mirror? Surely it's not that of Fanny Skeffington, the prettiest woman in New York. Fanny always used her beauty to manipulate her way through life. She's encouraged dozens of suitors, even after her marriage.

But now diphtheria has robbed her of her only attribute. And without her looks, she's lost.

A couple caught in alcoholism's web. A San Francisco public-relations hotshot is a "social" drinker... who never stops socialising. His vivacious wife starts drinking to keep him company. They live for good times. But eventually good times turn bad.

The story of a maniacal Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) who transforms shop girl (Carole Lombard) from a talented amateur to a smashing Great White Way success adored by public and press.

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A Jewish barber returns home after twenty-years within hospital walls to find his old shop not only dilapidated but marked with hateful graffiti. The source of this hatred is the regime of a tyrannical dictator which is persecuting the barber along with the rest of the Jewish community.

In one of his most ingenious strokes of artistry ever, Chaplin subverted the fears of the time with a visionary and undeniably moving satire of fascism and discrimination.

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Finally released in 1946, ten years after it was shot, Jean Renoir's Partie de campagne was hailed as an 'unfinished masterpiece'. Since then, his masterly adaptation on a Maupassant story has grown in reputation to the point where it has become Renoir's best-loved film.

On an idyllic country picnic, a young girl leaves her family and fiancé for a while, and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance. Shot on location on the banks of two small tributaries of the Seine, Renoir's sensuous tribute to the countryside - and to the river - has seldom been surpassed. In its bitter-sweet lyricism, its tenderness and poetic feel for nature, its tolerant satire of bourgeois conventions and its poignant sense of the transience of innocence and love, 'Partie De Campagne' seems to distil the essence of all that is most personal of Renoir's art.