A Town Like Alice: The Special Edition
Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch star in this moving story about a party of women compelled to trek through the Malayan jungle during World War II as no Japanese office will take responsibility for their care. Based on Nevil Shute's best selling novel the film tells how the women come to terms with their hardships and how they are befriended by a tough Australian prisoner of war who dreams of returning to his home town of Alice Springs...
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Alfie (1966)
Michael Caine stars as Alfie a Cockney Casanova in this outstanding example of 1960s British filmmaking. ; ; Alfie is a good-looking charmer who finds that the Swinging Sixties are a great time to be around in. He's always able to sweet-talk women into bed and he just doesn't care about the consequences. The film charts Alfie's complex and amoral amour while he offers his own perspective addressing the camera with his observations on life and love. ; ; So what's it all about Alfie?
Classic Horror Box Set - Volume 1 Box Set (9 Classic Films On 3 Discs)
Nine classic horror movies of the Silver Screen era. ; ; The Corpse Vanishes (Dir. Wallace Fox 1942): Bela Lugosi plays a botanist who sends orchids to blushing brides on their wedding days. But they are not around to enjoy the reception as Bela kidnaps them to use their glandular fluids to rejuvenate his wife... ; ; Horror Hotel (Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey 1960): Young college student Nan Barlow (Stevenson) uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England as her professor recommended that she spent her time in a small village called Whitewood. Once she gets to the village she notices some weird happenings but things begin to happen in earnest when she finds herself "marked" for sacrifice by the undead coven of witches! ; ; The Terror (Dir. Roger Corman 1963): A lieutenant in Napoleon's army (a young Jack Nicholson) traces a mysterious woman to a castle on the Baltic coast and finds himself trapped by a mad baron (Boris Karloff). This highly enjoyable atmospheric slice of low-budget horror from the great Roger Corman was also reportedly directed at points by future talents Francis Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich. ; ; Bucket Of Blood (Dir. Roger Corman 1959): Walter is a busboy overly impressed with the cool cats who hang out at the Yellow Door coffee house and he wonders how he can become "hip." When he accidentally kills his landlady's pet cat Walter panics and covers it with clay. His prayers are answered and before he knows it he's the "cat's meow" of the art world. His talents develop and--surprise!--he can sculpt humans the same way too. ; ; The House On Haunted Hill (Dir. William Castle 1959: Vincent Price has one of his juiciest roles in this haunted-house thriller as millionaire playboy Frederick Loren who invites five guests out to a genuine haunted house offering them each $10 000 if they spend the night. Elisha Cook Jr. plays one of the guests a nervous alcoholic who has been in this house before and witnessed some terrible things. Mr. Loren's beautiful but treacherous wife (Carol Ohmart) is also present - and might be out to kill Frederick during the course of the evening; then again he might be out to kill her. ; ; The Ghoul (Dir T. Hayes Hunter 1934): Boris Karloff's first British film. The story of Professor Morlant an eccentric Egyptologist who becomes obsessed with the mystical powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed he orders his servant to bind a sacred jewel called 'The Eternal Light' to his hand. He warns that if the jewel is stolen he will return from the grave looking for revenge. ; ; Little Shop Of Horrors (Dir. Roger Corman 1960): The original movie of this classic black comedy/horror about a rather dim-witted young man Seymour (Jonathan Haze) working for $10 a week in Mushnick's flower shop on skid row who develops an intelligent bloodthirsty plant. He names the plant "Audrey 2" and as it grows it demands human meat for sustenance and Seymour is forced to kill in order to feed it. Jack Nicholson has a notable cameo part as an undertaker Wilbur Force who is a masochistic dental patient and the film also features the writer Charles Griffith as the hold-up man and the voice of 'Audrey Jr'... ; ; The Bat (Dir. Crane Wilbur 1959): Based on the gothic novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart this haunted house mystery casts Moorehead as the owner of a house with a million dollars hidden in it. Bodies pile up as the mysterious "Bat" tries to find the money first. ; ; Bride Of The Monster (Dir. Edward D. Wood Jr. 1955): Bela Lugosi stars as Dr. Eric Vornoff who with Lobo (Tor Johnson) a crazed man-beast servant is conducting flesh-burning radiation experiments in an attempt to create a legion of atomic supermen.
American Gangster
Ridley Scott's American Gangster is a brutal slick and stylish portrayal of real life cult figure and international drug smuggler Frank Lucas. With tangled webs deceit strong aggression shady characters and sinister plans American Gangster has the gritty and pleasurable nostalgia of classic gangster films such as The Godfather and Scarface. ; ; Drug-kingpin Frank Lucas smuggles heroin into the US by hiding it with the bodies of soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. By delivering a product that is far superior to his competitors Lucas has rapidly established his status as Harlem's most innovative drug dealer. While Lucas delicately constructs his own criminal empire Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) one of the few honest detectives in a corrupt system senses a sizeable shift within the hierarchy of the drug underworld and sets out to investigate this hitherto unknown power player that has come out of the shadows to dominate the drug trade. But with Detective Trupo (Josh Brolin) Roberts' crooked and jealous colleague wanting to obstruct and ruin the integrity of his idealistic counterpart Roberts is left with little option other than to take desperate measures to end Lucas' rule in Harlem. ; ; Academy Award winning lead actors Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe both turn in exhilarating and exceptional performances. With an engrossing story powerful dialogue realistic violence and sharp stylish scenes American Gangster delivers a complete memorable finely made and richly satisfying crime epic that can be savoured again and again.
