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Dutch Girls

**Dutch Girls** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1985.

## Description

**THEY WENT THERE FOR A BIT OF... SPORT?**

Girls. Dutch girls. Lots and lots and lots of Dutch girls. Off to Amsterdam go England's finest young men. Their minds should have been on hockey sticks and clean living and van Gogh. But the lure of the flesh is too tempting... and the pains of adolescent love can equal the pleasures.

## Cast

* Colin Firth as Neil Truelove
* Timothy Spall as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
* Bill Paterson as Mr Mole
* James Wilby as Dundine
* Adrian Lukis as Murray
* Hywel Williams-Ellis as Lamb
* Gusta Gerritsen as Romelia
* Sylvia Millecam as Greetje
* Anne Wil Blankers as Mrs Van Der Merwe
* Erik Plooyer as Mr Van Der Merwe
* Richard Torn as Kees Van Der Merwe
* Stephanie Verwijmeren as Anna Van Der Merwe
Madama Butterfly

**Madama Butterfly** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1985.

## Description

For any opera which in its original form met with derision, Puccini's Madame Butterfly has more than proved those just critics wrong. It is
now one of the standard and favourite works adored by opera-lovers everywhere. Its themes of love and heartbreak are common in almost every human experience and its plethora of beautiful melodies make it immediately attractive to audiences everywhere. Raina Kabaivanska has made the title role a speciality and is partnered in this recording from the open-air Arena di Verona by Nazzareno Antinori as Pinkerton, with Lorenzo Saccomani as Sharpless. The Orchestra of the Arena is conducted by Maurizio Arena.
Once Upon a Time in America

**Once Upon a Time in America** is a pre-certed UK VHS by Thorn EMI Video on May 1985 and a LaserDisc on Sepember 1985.

## Description

In an immense saga spanning several decades centred on the American era of Prohibition, Sergio Leone's massive and commanding epic traces the destinies of 'Noodles' Aaronson and his three confederates from childhood in the Jewish quarter of New York to their maturity as fully fledged hoods. Their violent and passionate lives intertwine until death strikes. But Noodles, the sole survivor, discovers that events are not as they seem.

## Cast

* Robert De Niro as Noodles
	+ Scott Tiler as Young Noodles
* James Woods as Max
	+ Rusty Jacobs as Young Max and David Bailey
* Elizabeth McGovern as Deborah
	+ Jennifer Connelly as Young Deborah
* Joe Pesci as Frankie
* Burt Young as Joe
* Tuesday Weld as Carol
* Treat Williams as Jimmy O'Donnell
* Danny Aiello as Police Chief Aiello
* Richard Bright as Chicken Joe
* James Hayden as Patsy
	+ Brian Bloom as Young Patsy
* William Forsythe as Cockeye
	+ Adrian Curran as Young Cockeye
* Darlanne Fluegel as Eve
* Larry Rapp as Fat Moe
	+ Mike Monetti as Young Fat Moe
* Richard Foronji as Whitey
* Robert Harper as Sharkey
* Dutch Miller as Van Linden
* Gerard Murphy as Crowning
* Amy Ryder as Peggy
	+ Julie Cohen as Young Peggy
Little River Band - Live Exposure

**Little River Band - Live Exposure** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI Music on April 1982. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video as a LaserDisc on 1983.

## Track listing

1. It's A Long Way There
2. Man On Your Mind
3. Mistress Of Mine
4. Happy Anniversary
5. Reminiscing
6. Ballerina
7. Cool Change
8. The Night Owls
9. Help Is On Its Way
10. Lonesome Loser
11. It's Not A Wonder
12. Lady
13. Just Say That You Love Me
Firestarter

**Firestarter** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on February 1985 and a UK LaserDisc on August 1985.

## Description

On the surface, Charlie McGee is just a happy, ordinary little eight-year-old - until someone just happens to anger her or threaten her family. Then Charlie changes: her deadly powers take over and with just a glance she can cause fires - incredible fires. And when she reaches adolescence and her powers mature she will become an awesome destructive force, capable of blowing the planet in two. It is a power she doesn't want, inherited from her parents, a power difficult to control and a power sought by a sinister government agency that wants to find her, control her and destroy her. Drew Barrymore, one of the young stars of 'E.T.' plays the firestarter in Dino de Laurentiis's film of Stephen King's frightening best-seller.

## Cast

* David Keith as Andrew "Andy" McGee
* Drew Barrymore as Charlene "Charlie" McGee
* Freddie Jones as Dr. Joseph Wanless
* Heather Locklear as Victoria "Vicky" McGee (née Tomlinson)
* Martin Sheen as Captain James Hollister
* George C. Scott as John Rainbird
* Art Carney as Irv Manders
* Louise Fletcher as Norma Manders
* Moses Gunn as Dr. Pynchot
* Antonio Fargas as Taxi Driver
Brighton Rock

**Brighton Rock** is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on 1979.

## Description

Viewing *Brighton Rock* today gives one an extraordinary jolt. Did pre -war Brighton really look like this? Yes, more than likely. Unusually for 1947, the Boulting Brothers took their cameras on location - although Brighton Council shooed them off the racecourse - and they used the town with vivid realism. The surprise is how this milieu now looks more Italianate than British and it isn't just because the razor gang has gone out of fashion. Even the boss's name, Colleoni, anticipates *The Godfather'*s Vito Corleoni. This curious trick of time and place actually helps establish the film's dual theme. For it is not only a highly exciting gangster melodrama - adapted by Graham Greene from his own novel - but at the core of it is Greene's most persistent Roman Catholic preoccupation: a man's chance for salvation even in the hell of his own making. The man is Pinkie Brown, a ruthless, suspicious. sadistic, sullen, baby-faced boy, only 17, and already a contender for the gang leadership. But as he hunts down a 'squealer' - executed significantly in the hellish ghost-tunnel called Dante's Inferno - and then covers up his tracks by marrying the waitress who could help convict him, Pinkie's criminal will wilts at the fear of eternal damnation. Greene has said that Richard Attenborough is as close to Pinkie as any actor could be: it is one of this actor's most terrifying performances. He and Carol Marsh, as his girl, are supported by an exceptional cast, all in their acting prime: Harcourt Williams, William Hartnell, Alan Wheatley, Wylie Watson and Hermione Baddeley as the blowsy music-hall artiste who appoints herself as Pinkie's Nemesis, insisting that he's beyond salvation since people's nature, like Brighton rock, stays the same the whole way through. Controversy over the film's ending - slightly softer than in the book, - was settled by Greene's declaring in recent years that 'I liked the ending of the film. I am completely responsible for it.' This is one of the best adaptations of his novels and among the most truly cinematic British films of its time.

## Cast

* Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown
* Hermione Baddeley as Ida Arnold
* William Hartnell as Dallow
* Carol Marsh as Rose Brown
* Harcourt Williams as Prewitt
* Wylie Watson as Spicer
* Nigel Stock as Cubitt
* Victoria Winter as Judy
* Reginald Purdell as Frank
* George Carney as Phil Corkery
* Charles Goldner as Colleoni
* Alan Wheatley as Fred Hale
* Lina Barrie as Molly
* Joan Sterndale-Bennett as Delia
* Harry Ross as Bill Brewer
* Campbell Copelin as Police Inspector
* Marianne Stone as Lazy Waitress
* Norman Watson as Racecourse Evangelist
* Ronald Shiner as th
Fallen Idol

**Fallen Idol** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by EMI on 1980.

## Description

This much-acclaimed film won immediate international recognition: the Best Film award from the British Film Academy, a Venice Festival award for the screenplay, and the Best Director award from the New York Film Critics. It was the first film on which Carol Reed and Graham Greene collaborated, and was adapted from Greene's short story The Basement Room. Felipe, the young son of a foreign ambassador, believes that Baines, the embassy butler and the boy's idol, is responsible for his wife's death. The boy first runs away and then lies to the police in a desperate effort to protect his hero, not realising that he is only furthering their suspicions. Ironically, when he finally tells the truth, the police have formulated their own conclusions about the evidence. The adult tragedy - a man's unhappy love affair and its repercussions - is seen through the child's eyes. The low camera angles on Vincent Korda's elaborately designed set emphasize Felipe's bewildered view or the adult world. And Bobby Henrey was perfectly cast in the role of the lonely boy (A London Films executive had spotted his photograph on the jacket or his mother's book A Village in Piccadilly). So often films about children fail - sentimentality cloys and the youngsters just don't convince - but The Fallen Idol (1948 ) is one of the notable exceptions. Carol Reed drew a number of fine performances from his distinguished cast: a flawless interpretation from Ralph Richardson as the unhappily married butler, and excellent acting both from Michele Morgan as the typist he loves, and Sonia Dresdel as the embittered housekeeper who spies on her husband. Indeed it is the combination of a sensitive script (reputedly Greene's favourite) and fine acting which resulted in this delicately balanced film on the lost illusions of childhood becoming one of the understated masterpieces of British cinema. PATRICIA PERILLI

## Cast

* Ralph Richardson as Baines
* Michèle Morgan as Julie
* Sonia Dresdel as Mrs. Baines
* Bobby Henrey as Philippe
* Denis O'Dea as Chief Inspector Crowe
* Jack Hawkins as Detective Ames
* Walter Fitzgerald as Dr. Fenton
* Dandy Nichols as Mrs. Patterson
* Joan Young as Mrs. Barrow
* Karel Stepanek as First Secretary
* Gerard Heinz as Ambassador
* Torin Thatcher as Police Constable
* James Hayter as Perry
* Geoffrey Keen as Detective Davis
* Bernard Lee as Inspector Hart, Special Branch
* John Ruddock as Dr. Wilson
* Hay Petrie as Clock Winder
* Dora Bryan as Rose
* George Woodbridge as Sergeant, Chelsea Police Station
Dead & Buried

**Dead & Buried** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1983

## Description

**The writers of 'Alien' bring a new terror to Earth. A new dimension in horror!**
The natives of Potter's Buff, a small misty seaside town in California, hide a dreadful secret in this atmospheric chiller which plays on the grisly fears of a return of the dead. With Jack Albertson as the undertaker with bizarre talents and James Farentino as the man who discovers more than is good for him, it's a roller-coaster ride through the violent and gruesome world of voodoo and the occult.

## Cast

* James Farentino as Sheriff Dan Gillis
* Melody Anderson as Janet Gillis
* Jack Albertson as William G. Dobbs
* Dennis Redfield as Ron
* Nancy Locke as Linda
* Lisa Blount as Girl on the Beach / Lisa
* Robert Englund as Harry
* Bill Quinn as Ernie
* Michael Currie as Herman
* Christopher Allport as George LeMoyne / Freddie
* Joseph G. Medalis as The Doctor
* Macon McCalman as Ben
* Lisa Marie as The Hitchhiker
* Estelle Omens as Betty
* Barry Corbin as Phil
* Michael Pataki as Sam
Billy Squier - Live in the Dark

**Billy Squier - Live in the Dark** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1982.

## Track Listing

1. In the Dark
2. Rich Kid
3. My Kinda Lover
4. Whadda You Want from Me
5. Lonely Is the Night
6. Young Girls
7. I Need You
8. The Stroke
9. You Should Be High Love
10. Two Daze Gone
11. The Big Beat
12. You Know What I Like
Demons of the Mind

**Demons of the Mind** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video in April 1983. It got re-released by Cinema Club in 1999.

## Description

It's a familiar setting for Horror fans. In the German province of Bavaria in the 1830s, fear and superstition run rife among a village community. The disappearance of several young girls feeds suspicion that a legendary demon is again at work in the surrounding forest. But in a nearby castle Count Zorn keeps his son Emil and daughter Elizabeth virtual prisoners from the outside world. And when Dr Falkenberg, a hypnotist, is called upon to unlock the family secrets, it is to discover that the demons that strike, the monsters that lurk, are those that torture an agonised mind.
Chained Heat

**Chained Heat** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1984.

## Description

**What these women did to get into prison is NOTHING compared to what they'll do to GET OUT!**

2000 women stripped of EVERYTHING they have - except the will to SURVIVE! Into the hellhole know as the Women's Detention Center comes a first-timer, a virgin to the prison system. What she finds is a maelstrom of brutality, murder and rape - inflicted by inmates and guards alike. Only her courage can help her now...
Frances

**Frances**is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1983.

## Description

At 16 she was an award-winning high-school student in Seattle; at 23, a rising and provocative star of stage and screen, admired for her beauty and talent. At 27 a chain of relatively insignificant events led to her arrest and eventual involuntary committal to a mental institution...

## Cast

* Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer
* Kim Stanley as Lillian Van Ornum Farmer
* Sam Shepard as Harry York
* Bart Burns as Ernest Farmer
* Jonathan Banks as Hitchhiker
* Jeffrey DeMunn as Clifford Odets
* Kevin Costner as Luther (uncredited)
* Zelda Rubinstein as Mental patient
* Anjelica Huston as Mental patient
* Pamela Gordon as Mental patient
Ator the Fighting Eagle

**Ator the Fighting Eagle** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on March 1984

## Description

**HE WAS BORN TO WIELD THE MIGHTY SWORD OF THOREN**

Born with the mark of Thoren upon his infant flesh, he was destined to assert his might over the terrible powers of darkness: the High Priest Dakka and the entire protectorate of the Spider. When they murder his loving parents and snatch Sunya, his beautiful bride. Ator is resolved to be avenged. Encouraged by the High Priest Griba, and assisted by the lithesome brigand woman Roon, he plans his great assault on the temple of all evil...

## Cast

* Miles O'Keeffe as Ator
* Sabrina Siani as Roon
* Ritza Brown as Sunya
* Edmund Purdom as Griba
* Dakar as High Priest of the Spider (as Dakkar)
* Laura Gemser as Indun
* Alessandra Vazzoler as Woman in the tavern (as Chandra Vazzoler)
* Nello Pazzafini as Bardak (as Nat Williams)
* Jean Lopez as Nordya
* Olivia Goods as Queen
Don't Look Now

**Don't Look Now** is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on 1979 and re-realesed on 1980. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on April 1981 and the alternate sleeve has 'Star Selection' on the early 1980s.

## Description

Daphne du Maurier, who provided Hitchcock with the idea for The Birds, set filmgoers'nerves on edge again with Don't Look Now (1973). Adapted from a short story of hers and directed by Nicolas Roeg, it's an eerie exercise on the theme of 'nothing is what it seems'. As the title suggests, the plot concerns the way we see things - in this case, 'second sight'. A young couple, played by Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, go to Venice after their child's sudden accidental death by drowning - he to work, she to rest, both to forget. A chance meeting with a clairvoyant puts an end to that. The medium gives the wife reassurance: the dead child is happy 'over there'. But to the husband she promises no peace of mind: on the contrary, only peril and maybe death. The couple's respective faith and scepticism are worked on by the prophecy until our own psychic alarm bells are set ringing. Weird events seem to thicken out of the gloom of a wintry, out-of-season Venice that shows its inhospitable face to the baffled pair. Critics generally hailed the film as 'brilliant'. They especially praised the disturbing way that Roeg, a former cameraman, invests images with the power of omens - so that a mermaid brooch recalls a drowned body and a child's red waterproof assumes the heightened emotion of a bloodstain. The film has some conventional thriller elements, but it's tone that presses on our apprehensions till we are ready to jump at what we imagine we see. Acting has seldom been so generously put at the service of a director. Even the love scene between Christie and Sutherland, one of the most powerful in recent cinema, not only has a sensual impact but makes an ironic point about the different natures people display depending on whether they are clothed or naked. The whole film is tuned to a waveband of subtle meanings that oblige us - notwithstanding the title - to look (and listen) with undivided attention. ALEXANDER WALKER

A truly original film: superb psychological thriller, eerie horror story and much more - with one of the most powerful love scenes in modern cinema. When a little girl is accidentally drowned, her parents (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) go to Venice to forget .There they meet a strange clairvoyant who tells them their daughter is still very much alive - and gives them ominous messages from the grave. As their whole world starts to disintegrate around them, everyday objects turn into omens of doom, and ordinary events become terrifying glimpses into another dimension. The father begins a frantic search for his daughter, through the deserted canals and menacing alleys of Venice in winter... into a world where nobody can be sure of what is real and what is illusion... until the macabre shattering climax.
Fire and Ice

**Fire and Ice** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1984.

## Description

Fire and Ice brings together the unique talents of the worlds leading animator Ralph Bakshi and premier fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta. A thrilling tale of sword and sorcery. It tells of the attempts by the people of Fire Neep to defend themselves against annihilation by the thousand foot glaciers of the merciless Ice Lord, Nekron. As a new ice age threatens to engulf the planet and the last Fire stronghold is besieged, a brave princess is captured and the stage set for the final conflict between Good and Evil, Fire and Ice!
Big Bad Mama

**Big Bad Mama** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1985.

## Description

**HOT LEAD, HOT CARS, HOT DAMES, HOT DAMN!**

Angie Dickinson is magnificent as Big Bad Mamma-a brash, impulsive killer with a voracious sexual appetite-in this wild parody of the Bonnie and Clyde story. From the no hope town of Paradise in Texas, a weird family of outlaws, led by attractive widow Wilma McClatchie, drive West on a gun-toting joyride of violence, sex and inevitable death. Mama Wilma's teenage daughters share both the bank robbing and the lovers as the gang meets up with a couple of bad lads, criminal Tom Skerritt and gigolo William Shatner. Packed with hectic chases and gun battles, and a variety of curious characters from evangelists to strippers, it's all you'd expect from B-movie king Roger Corman.

## Cast

* Angie Dickinson as Wilma McClatchie
* Tom Skerritt as Fred Diller
* William Shatner as William J. Baxter
* Robbie Lee as Polly McClatchie
* Susan Sennett as Billie Jean McClatchie
* Noble Willingham as Uncle Barney
* Sally Kirkland as Barney's woman
* Dick Miller as Bonney
* Joan Prather as Jane Kingston
* Royal Dano as Rev. Johnson
Duran Duran - Sing Blue Silver

***Sing Blue Silver*** is a film video documentary about Duran Duran's 1984 US leg of *The Sing Blue Silver Tour*, released by EMI-PMI in 1984.

## About the video

The video was originally aired on MTV (and later other music channels) under the title *Blue Silver*.

*Sing Blue Silver* was released on videotape (in VHS and Betamax formats) and on LaserDisc and VHD disc, near the end of 1984. It was re-issued on DVD in April of 2004.

A 1984 book called *Sing Blue Silver: Photographed Around The World 1984* accompanied this video, featuring still photography by official tour photographer Denis O'Regan.

## "18,000 miles, 51 shows, 79 days, over 500,000 fans..."

Filmed at the height of their fame, *Sing Blue Silver* follows Duran Duran around Canada and the United States for three months from 30 January - 17 April 1984 as they toured in support of their *Seven and the Ragged Tiger* album.

Primarily, *Sing Blue Silver* is about the job of making music, so live musical performances feature quite heavily throughout the video.

The documentary features many other standout moments, including a Francesco Scavullo photo shoot in New York, meeting the L.A. Raiders backstage, and a Beatlesque press conference tinged with a bit of comedy. It also captures the band in more candid moments, from backstage antics to trying to stay entertained on the journey between cities.

All the while, the documentary doesn't attempt to gloss over the
problems and pitfalls of trying to put on such a large scale show. Professional to the last, tour manager Spy Matthews manages to keep the show running even when the venue won't accommodate the band's stage setup.

The film also documented the band's teen idol status, showing
hordes of hysterical young — mainly female — fans attempting to cope with seeing their heroes in a live arena.

Live footage from this tour was later used for the *Arena (An Absurd Notion)* long-form video and the *As The Lights Go Down* concert video. The video for "The Reflex" was shot during the tour in Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in March 1984.

## Track listing

1. Intro
2. Press Conference
3. Load In: Backstage
4. "Is There Something I Should Know?"
5. Meeting The L.A. Raiders
6. On The Road Again: "Planet Earth"
7. John On Touring
8. Simon & Nick: On Image & Recording
9. In New York
10. Francesco Scavullo: Photo Shoot
11. Back On The Road
12. "Girls on Film"
13. Coca Cola Press Conference
14. Visit To F.B.I.
15. Discussing Filming: "The Seventh Stranger"
16. In New Orleans
17. "Save A Prayer"
18. Oakland, California
19. Soundcheck: Backstage
20. "Hungry Like the Wolf"
21. "Careless Memories"
22. The End of the Tour
23. Credits

## Personnel

Duran Duran are:

* Simon Le Bon - vocals
* John Taylor - bass guitar
* Andy Taylor - guitar
* Nick Rhodes - keyboards
* Roger Taylor - drums
Carry On Nurse

**Carry On Nurse** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by EMI on 1979 and re-released on April 1981.

## Description

The Carry-Ons are so much a part of our lives that it seems hard to believe there was a time when we had to carry on without them. What a lot of laughter we would have missed if producer Peter Rogers, (who previously worked on religious films) hadn't got together with a director (Gerald Thomas) and a writer (Norman Hudis), both new to comedy, to make a low budget quickie about the army from a script that nobody else would buy. That one-off farce. Carry on Sergeant, proved to be one of the biggest money-.spinners of 1958. Still with no idea of starting a series that would keep audiences rolling in the aisles for years to come, Rogers, Thomas and Hudis gave the Carry-On treatment to a stage play by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale called Ring For Catty. They cast it with what now reads like a roll call of British talent, added a daffodil that gave Hattie Jacques one of the best-remembered laugh lines in the history of British comedy, and Carry On Nurse broke all box office records, not only in Britain but also in the United States. Looking and laughing at Carry On Nurse now, we have the bonus pleasure of being wise after the event. From a cast of 44, some already famous in 1959, some still unknown, we can pick out the young faces of the Carry On team that was to be. Later Carry-Ons could be more openly saucy as censorship became more tolerant, so it is all the more amusing to recognise the dexterity with which the naughtiness is implied in a glance or an innocent sounding line of dialogue. It was no accident that Carry On Nurse broke all records in a year in which the competition included films like the first re-make of The 39 Steps, Broken Arrow, Separate Tables, The Big Country, and one of the first television spinoffs, Life in Emergency Ward 10.

## Cast

* Kenneth Connor as Bernie Bishop
* Kenneth Williams as Oliver Reckitt
* Shirley Eaton as Staff Nurse Dorothy Denton
* Charles Hawtrey as Humphrey Hinton
* Hattie Jacques as Matron
* Terence Longdon as Ted York
* Bill Owen as Percy Hickson
* Leslie Phillips as Jack Bell
* Cyril Chamberlain as Bert Able
* Brian Oulton as Henry Bray
* Joan Sims as Student Nurse Stella Dawson
* Susan Stephen as Nurse Georgie Axwell
* Wilfrid Hyde-White as the Colonel
* Harry Locke as Mick the Orderly
* Joan Hickson as Sister
* Ann Firbank as Staff Nurse Helen Lloyd
* Susan Beaumont as Nurse Frances James
* Marita Stanton as Nurse Rose Harper
* Rosalind Knight as Student Nurse Nightingale
* Susan Shaw as Mrs Jane Bishop
* Jill Ireland as Jill Thompson
* Irene Handl as Mrs Marge Hickson
* June Whitfield as Meg
* Marianne Stone as Mrs Alice Able
* Hilda Fenemore as Mrs Rhoda Bray
* Ed Devereaux as Alec Lawrence
* Norman Rossington as Norm
* Michael Medwin as Ginger
* Martin Boddey as Perkins
* Leigh Madison as Doctor Winn
* John Van Eyssen as Mr Stephens, the surgeon
* Bernard Bresslaw (uncredited): his feet were used as stand-ins for Terence Longdon's, when the latter's character was supposedly standing in a bath.
Percy's Progress

**Percy's Progress** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1982.

## Description

Like Percy in 1971, Percy's Progress triumphantly confounded those critics who rated it as 'crude' and 'witless' by becoming a hit with the cinemagoing public that knows a good ribald joke when it tickles their ribs. Ralph Thomas, director and co-producer with Betty Box of both Percies, was cheerfully unconcerned about the critical reaction to either film. Talking to William Hall of the London Evening News when Percy's Progress was on location in Cyprus, he commented: 'Sex can be funny. It should be funny. And there is nothing wrong in a below-the-belly laugh.' Betty Box agreed: 'I don't mind in the least if people accuse me of having a rude mind. I'd love to be considered a vulgar lady.' It is no discredit to the film or to its makers to describe Percy's Progress as vulgar; it is as robustly and healthily vulgar as the music hall comedians were in their heyday. The basic blue joke remains unchanged: that the transplanted private part provided by smoothie surgeon Sir Emmanuel Whitbread (Denholm Elliott) for lucky Edwin Anthony (now played by Leigh Lawson) is always more than ready to rise to every improper occasion. The new twist to the joke is that Edwin finds himself to be the only possessor of a Percy that has not been made lifeless by drinking-water polluted by a chemical known as PX123. But before he can even begin to take advantage of frantic females who are desperate for him to do just that. Edwin is taken into protective custody by Man from the Ministry Ronald Fraser who has the difficult task of keeping Percy out of action until called upon to serve the needs of the lovely winners of world-wide 'Miss Conception' contests. With their long record of making saucy comedy romps like the 'Doctor' series, Betty Box and Ralph Thomas know exactly how far they can go to be daringly bawdy without giving offence to viewers who know what to expect and would be disappointed if they didn't get it. The screenplay by Sid Cohn, with Ian La Frenais, more than fulfils those expectations; and the star cast makes the innuendoes seem all the funnier by pretending they are not there.

## Cast

* Leigh Lawson as Percy Edward Anthony
* Elke Sommer as Clarissa
* Denholm Elliott as Sir Emmanuel Whitbread
* Judy Geeson as Dr. Fairweather
* Harry H. Corbett as Prime Minister
* Vincent Price as Stavos Mammonian
* Adrienne Posta as PC 217 (Iris)
* Julie Ege as Miss Hanson
* Barry Humphries as Dr. Anderson/Australian TV Lady
* James Booth as Jeffcot
* Milo O'Shea as Dr. Klein
* Ronald Fraser as Bleeker
* Anthony Andrews as Catchpole
* Bernard Lee as Barraclough
* Madeline Smith as Miss UK
* Alan Lake as Derry Hogan
* George Coulouris as Professor Godowski
* Jenny Hanley as Miss Teenage Lust
* Carol Hawkins as Maggie
* T. P. McKenna as News Editor
* Anthony Sharp as Judge
* Alan Tilvern as General Dodds
* Minah Bird as Miss America
* Luis De Jesus as the Dwarf (additional American footage)
A Private Function

**A Private Function** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1985.

## Description

**The Comedy Crackling Of The Year!**

"perfectly scrumptious film... THE COMEDY OF THE YEAR." DAILY MAIL. "...OH WHAT A CRACKER" DAILY MIRROR. "...the best comedy in years..." DAILY EXPRESS. Driven by the desperate social ambitions of his wife Joyce (Maggie Smith), one act of folly turned the life of sensitive, small-town chiropodist Gilbert Chivers (Michael Palin) into a nightmare. With Britain in the paranoid grip of Post-War food rationing, Gilbert steals Betty, a contraband pig being secretly fattened by a group of the town's dignitaries for a banquet to celebrate the Other Royal Wedding. But there is a price to be paid for the social leverage provided by the possession of a prize porker. Gilbert's squeamishness, his mother-in-law's senility and old Betty's incontinence lead to the discovery of the double dealing - Gilbert is inexorably caught up in the toils of the Black Market, ending up with blood on his hands and the police on the doorstep!

## Cast

* Michael Palin ... Gilbert Chilvers
* Maggie Smith ... Joyce Chilvers
* Denholm Elliott ... Dr Charles Swaby
* Richard Griffiths ... Henry Allardyce the Accountant
* Tony Haygarth ... Leonard Sutcliff the Farmer
* John Normington ... Frank Lockwood the Solicitor
* Bill Paterson ... Morris Wormold the Meat Inspector
* Liz Smith ... Joyce's Mother
* Alison Steadman ... Mrs Allardyce
* Jim Carter ... Inspector Noble
* Pete Postlethwaite ... Douglas J. Nuttol the Butcher
* Rachel Davies ... Mrs Forbes, Mr Wormold's landlady
* Reece Dinsdale ... P.C. Penny
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hold on to Your Structure

**Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hold on to Your Structure** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by PMI on December 1985.

## Tracklist

1. Billericay Dickie
2. Wake Up And Make Love With Me
3. What A Waste
4. We Want The Gold
5. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
6. Sweet Gene Vincent
7. Blockheads
8. Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3
9. Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll
Dreamscapes

**Dreamscape** is a pre-certed UK VHS by Thorn EMI Video on February 1985

## Description

When you die in your dreams, you die in real life. What would happen if the President of the United States was murdered in his dreams... A psychic of extra ordinary powers, Alex Gardiner (Dennis Quaid) is part of a team involved in dream research. He is able to enter the dreams of others and challenge the nightmare visions that possess them when they sleep. The ultimate terror awaits as he enters the holocaust fantasies that haunt the American head of state. As he confronts a psychopathic killer in an assassination plot, his own life hangs in the balance-and the fate of the world.
Bob Marley and the Wailers

**Bob Marley and the Wailers** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1982.

## Description

**Live at Santa Barbara County Bowl**

When Bob Marley died in May 1981, popular music lost one of its most creative forces. His influence was immense. During the Seventies he took a little known type of Caribbean music called Reggae and made it a household name. It as a remarkable achievement. The son of a British naval officer and a Jamaican lady, Marley made his first single in 1961 when he was only 16. A couple of years later he formed a vocal group, christening them the Wailers. They soon became local heroes for the young in Jamaica. His first glimpse of a more international audience came when the singer Johnny Nash arrived in Jamaica scouting for new talent. The result as that he took Bob to Sweden where Marley helped Nash write the score for a movie in which Nash had a part. Later on, Nash enjoyed a sizeable hit single with one of Bob's compositions, Stir It Up. In 1969 Marley began working with the gifted Jamaican producer, Lee 'Scratch' Perry. It was an extraordinarily fruitful relationship and produced music that was new, passionate and provocative. It was also around this time that Marley became a sincere and committed Rastafarian. From now on his music was to have a profound significance for his audience. The next big step was to sign a deal with the major record company, Island. Their marketing expertise and Marley's musical might guaranteed success and the ball was set in motion in 1973 when Marley's first Island LP, Catch a Fire, as released. There was now no looking back and not only did Marley's reputation grow but so did his influence on rock music. This cassette charts one of the last live concerts given by Bob Marley and the Wailers. They play many of Marley's most acclaimed songs, like Exodus, Stand Up For Your Rights and Ambush in the Night. It is a fitting tribute to the man's genius.
Car Trouble

**Car Trouble** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment on 1986.

## Description

Here is a SEXY LITTLE SHOCKER to STEAM UP YOUR WINDOWS and SET THE NET CURTAINS TWITCHING!!

Down amongst the NEaT PRIVET HEDGES and GAY GARDEN GNOMES of SLEEPY SUBURBIA, Gerald Spong harboured a SECRET, ALL-CONSUMING, BIG, RED, PHALLIC PASSION!! And Gerald realised his passion when he swapped the 2CV for an E-TYPE JAG!

But little did Gerald realise how his passion would UNLEASH similarUNCONTROLLABLE URGES in his BORED AND FRUSTRATED wife Jacqueline! WHAT AN EMBARASSMENT when Jacqueline is caught in an EXTREMELY COMPROMISING POSITION in the back of the E-type, LITERALLY LOCKED IN LOVE with MACHO CAR SALESMAN KEVIN!!

Trust Jacqueline to get herself into CAR TROUBLE!!

## Cast

* Julie Walters as Jacqueline
* Ian Charleson as Gerald
* Vincent Riotta as Kevin (as Vincenzo Ricotta)
* Stratford Johns as Reg Sampson
* Hazel O'Connor as Maureen
* Dave Hill as Bill
* Anthony O'Donnell as Frederick
* Vanessa Knox-Mawer as Judy Monk
* Roger Hume as Mr. Hollybush
* Veronica Clifford as Mrs. Hollybush
Morons from Outer Space

**Morons from Outer Space** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment on October 1985 and a UK LaserDisc on December 1985.

## Description

**THEY CAME, THEY SAW, THEY DID A LITTLE SHOPPING.**

They have travelled from a distant galaxy. They will come down like gods. They are boldly going where someone has definitely been before... ...and when they get there, they are going to step right in it.

## Cast

* Joanne Pearce as Sandra Brock the alien
* Jimmy Nail as Desmond Brock the alien
* Paul Bown as Julian Tope the alien
* James Sikking as Col. Raymond Laribee - CIA
* Dinsdale Landen as Commander Grenville Matteson
* Tristram Jellinekas Simpson
* George Innes as Stanley Benson
* Mel Smith as Bernard the left behind alien
* Griff Rhys Jones as Graham Sweetley
* Mark Lewis Jones as Godfrey
* Leonard Fenton as Commissionaire
* Andre Maranne as Prof. Trousseau
* Leslie Grantham as motorway policeman
Class of 1984

**Class of 1984** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1983.

## Description

**'WE ARE THE FUTURE... AND NOTHING CAN STOP US!'**

One of the most violent films of all time, Class of 1984 is a brutal portrait of a tyrannical gang of school bullies who will stop at nothing short of murder in their savage victimisation of music teacher Andy Norris-and all is nearest and dearest. The Peter Stegman gang, comprising Patsy, Fallon Barnyard and Drugstore, are out to carve an indelible scar on the face of modern history. In practising for adulthood, they deal drugs. Limbering up for leadership, they wield power with threats of rape, death and mutilation. They say they represent our future. Well... who's going to argue?

## Cast

* Perry King as Andrew Norris
* Merrie Lynn Ross as Diane Norris
* Timothy Van Patten as Peter Stegman
* Stefan Arngrim as Drugstore
* Michael J. Fox (credited as Michael Fox) as Arthur
* Roddy McDowall as Terry Corrigan
* Keith Knight as Barnyard
* Lisa Langlois as Patsy
* Neil Clifford as Fallon
* Al Waxman as Detective Stewiski
* Erin Flannery as Deneen
* David Gardner as Principal Morganthau
* Linda Sorensen as Mrs. Stegman
* Teenage Head as themselves
Phil Collins - Live at Perkins Palace

**Phil Collins - Live at Perkins Palace** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1983, a CED released by Picture Music International on the 1980s and a LaserDisc on December 1984.

## Track listing

1. I Don't Care Anymore
2. I Cannot Believe It's True
3. Thru These Walls
4. I Missed Again
5. Behind the Lines
6. The Roof Is Leaking
7. The West Side
8. In the Air Tonight
9. You Can't Hurry Love
10. It Don't Matter to Me
11. People Get Ready
Decade of British Open: 1970-1979

**Decade of British Open: 1970-1979** is a UK VHS release by EMI or Thorn EMI Video on September 1981.

## Description

The British Open is surely the greatest golf championship in the world. It's certainly the oldest, the most traditional and the most international. But more importantly, as Decade of British Open reveals, it is gold at its brilliant sparkling best. Played on Britain's premier seaside links, the Open is as tough a golfing stage as you will find anywhere. Always exciting, full of emotion, nostalgia and human drama; which is how this film begins. The scene is St. Andrews, Scotland. The year is 1970. On the 72nd green stands American Doug Sanders one short putt away from the title. One stroke for the record books and a commercial fortune. The next few minutes are among the most dramatic in the Open's history....From high drama at St. Andrews, the scene switches to Royal Birkdale in Lancashire, and the first of Lee Trevino's incredible victories. In the final round only one player threatens his lead, Lu Liang Huan. You will remember him as Mr. Lu, the diminutive Asian who so endeared himself to British fans back in 1971. Remember too the following year at Muirfield, with Trevino in the thick of an epic struggle with Jack Nicklaus and Britain's Tony Jacklin. The names read like golfing's roll of honour. Tom Weiskopf's triumph in the rain at Troon, Gary Player's third Open at Royal Lytham. The play-off in 1975 between two outsiders - Australian Jack Newton, and a new name from America, Tom Watson. And then in 1976, the emergence of a new golfing superstar, Severiano Ballesteros. But the definitive Open must surely be the 1977 event at Turnberry. The duel between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, the top players of their day, lasts until the final dramatic putts. Nicklaus again features in 1978, shrugging off challenges from every quarter, and in the following year, with a display of cavalier style golf, Ballesteros comes good. His victory, as the Open swings into new decade, reminds us of the unsurpassed action and excitement that was the British Open in the '70's: all captured in this superb video record. WILLIAM COLE
I'm All Right Jack

**I'm All Right Jack** is a pre-cert UK VHS released by EMI on 1980.

## Description

Honoured by the British Film Academy with the awards of Best British Screenplay and Best Performance by a British Actor (Peter Sellers) of 1959, I'm All Right Jack has more than stood the test of time as a topical and hilariously witty comment on the stupidities and hypocrisies of the class war. When it opened, it infuriated many leading figures on both sides of the union fence. Twenty years later the film was still felt to be so hard-hitting that the BBC decided against showing it on television just before the Parliamentary Election of 1979. I'm All Right Jack remains as up-to-date as every headline which blames 'autocratic' managements or 'money grabbing' unions for everything from inflation to weather. Like all the best British humour, this comedy's roots go deep into the rich soil of the realities and eccentricities of our lives. All the characters are recognisable types. Laughing at their behaviour we laugh no only at the people we meet every day but also at ourselves; though most of us cannot help but identify with the hapless cause of all the trouble, the upperclass twit Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael), who eventually proves to have more down-to-earth commonsense than all the bowler-hatted and cloth-capped clever Dicks who use him as a pawn in their money-making games. This is the film that launched Peter Sellers on the road to international stardom. Before he created the tragi-comic shop steward Fred Kite, with his mangled sentences, pinched mouth, arrogant strut and pathetic loneliness, Sellers was known as a Goon and laughter-making clown. Kite established him as a top-line character actor worthy of stardom, opposite Sophia Loren in The Millionairess and led to his transformation into a sexy leading man. But Kite lives on as one of Seller's finest performances ever; and as an awful warning to every public speaker. MARJORIE BILBOW

## Cast

* Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush
* Peter Sellers as Fred Kite
* Terry-Thomas as Major Hitchcock
* Richard Attenborough as Sydney DeVere Cox
* Dennis Price as Bertram Tracepurcel
* Dame Margaret Rutherford as Aunt Dolly
* Irene Handl as Mrs Kite
* Liz Fraser as Cynthia Kite
* Miles Malleson as Windrush Snr
* Marne Maitland as Mr Mohammed
* John Le Mesurier as Waters
* Raymond Huntley as Magistrate
* Victor Maddern as Knowles
* Kenneth Griffith as Dai
* Fred Griffiths as Charlie
* John Comer as Shop Steward
* Sam Kydd as Shop Steward
* Cardew Robinson as Shop Steward
* Ronnie Stevens as Hooper
* Martin Boddey as Num Yum's Executive
* Brian Oulton as Appointments Board Examiner
* John Glyn-Jones as Detto Executive
* Terry Scott as Crawley
* Alun Owen as Film Producer
* Eynon Evans as Truscott
* David Lodge as Card Player
* Keith Smith as Card Player
* Clifford Keedy as Card Player
* Wally Patch as Worker
* Esma Cannon as Spencer
* E. V. H. Emmett as Narrator
* Stringer Davis as Journalist (uncredited)
* Peter Sellers as Sir John (uncredited)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

**One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest** is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on April 1981. It also got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on February 1985.

## Description

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, one of the most significant films of the 'Seventies became the first movie to win all four major Oscars - Best Film, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher) and Best Director (Milos Forman) - since It Happened One Night, in 1934. It also picked up 1976's British Academy Award for Best Film. Ironically, the film, made in 1975, had taken over a decade to reach the screen. An adaptation by Dale Wasserman of Ken Kesey's novel had been presented as a Broadway play in 1963, and the screen rights had been sold to Kirk Douglas, who had, however, never managed to get the project off the ground. It was his son Michael who finally produced the film, demonstrating a marvellously sure touch in the process. His choice of Jack Nicholson to play the misfit prisoner/patient proved to be an inspired one. Nicholson's portrait of McMurphy, the patient who leads his fellow inmates in a mental hospital to rebel against the rule-bound Nurse Ratched, is a virtuoso piece of acting, hugely impressive in both its humour and its understated steel core. Providing the ideal antagonist for Nicholson is Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched whose smiling, unruffled and patient manner effectively conceals - until it is required - her ruthless determination to crush any hint of individuality or spirit in the men in her charge. The film comes alight during the tense encounters between the icy nurse and the open-hearted McMurphy. Czechoslovakian director Forman, (whose previous native films had included the excellent The Fireman's Ball and The Loves of a Blonde, and one American feature Taking Off) orchestrates the proceedings with immense feeling and control, deploying his whole cast with such skill as to make one believe in the whole business. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest can be seen as a funny, moving and harrowing film, or as a metaphor of the state and its laws. But either way, it is magnificent entertainment and quite unmissable. ALAN FRANK

## Cast

* Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick "R.P." McMurphy
* Louise Fletcher as Nurse Mildred Ratched
* Will Sampson as "Chief" Bromden
* William Redfield as Dale Harding
* Brad Dourif as Billy Bibbit
* Sydney Lassick as Charlie Cheswick
* Christopher Lloyd as Max Taber
* Danny DeVito as Martini
* Dean Brooks as Dr. John Spivey
* William Duell as Jim Sefelt
* Vincent Schiavelli as Bruce Frederickson
* Michael Berryman as Ellis
* Nathan George as Attendant Washington
* Marya Small as Candy
* Scatman Crothers as Orderly Turkle
* Phil Roth as Woolsey
* Louisa Moritz as Rose
* Peter Brocco as Col. Matterson
* Josip Elic as Bancini
* Mimi Sarkisian as Nurse Pilbow
Cross Creek

**Cross Creek** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on September 1984.

## Description

Mary Steenburgen stars in this the true story of the novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who in 1928 retreated to an isolated Florida plantation in order to write. Leaving behind her comfortable New York city life and her marriage - she faced the backwoods alone. Her experiences in the swampy scrub country and the lives of her rustic neighbours became the subjects of her books and stories (most memorably in The Yearling, for which she won the Pullitzer Prize), and in the land and the people she found inspiration, meaning - and love.

## Cast

* Mary Steenburgen - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
* Rip Torn - Marsh Turner
* Peter Coyote - Norton Baskin
* Dana Hill - Ellie Turner
* Alfre Woodard - Beatrice "Geechee"
* Malcolm McDowell - Max Perkins
* Joanna Miles - Mrs. Turner
* Ike Eisenmann - Paul
* Cary Guffey - Floyd Turner
* Toni Hudson - Tim's Wife
* Bo Rucker - Leroy
* Jay O. Sanders - Charles Rawlings
* John Hammond - Tim
Duran Duran - The Video Album

**Duran Duran - The Video Album** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1983

## Track listing

1. Rio
2. Planet Earth
3. Lonely in Your Nightmare
4. Careless Memories
5. My Own Way
6. Hungry Like the Wolf
7. (Waiting for the) Nighboat
8. Girls on Film
9. Save a Prayer
10. The Chauffeur
11. Is There Something I Should Know?
Dr. Franklin Fraiser

**Dr. Franklin Fraiser** is a major character and also the antagonist of the sci-fi creature film *It Came From Another World!* The King of the Universe has become an iconic Mihmiverse monster.

## **History**

### **It Came From Another World!**

Professor Jackson is sent to track down his missing colleague and best friend, Doctor Frasier, who has yet to report in after an extended research trip in the area around Phantom Lake. With the assistance of Canoe Cops Sven and Gustav, Professor Jackson goes of in search of Doctor Frasier, who claims to have lost track of time after discovering a mysterious meteor deep in the forest.

It is later revealed that the meteor contained an alien intelligence called "The King of the Universe", who takes possession of Doctor Frasier's body and begins seeking an appropriate host for his queen. Naturally, he chooses Professor Jackson's girlfriend, Julie Ann Saint Marie. Once again, Professor Jackson and the Canoe Cops must save the world.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Professor Jackson
* Gustav
* Sven

### Enemies

* Professor Jackson
* Gustav
* Sven
* The World

## Memorable Quotes

*"I have been...and always shall be...your friend"*

- Dr. Fraiser saying goodbye to Professor Jackson
Now That's What I Call Music Video 2

**Now That's What I Call Music Video 2** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on 1984 and a Laserdisc released by Thorn EMI (PMI) on January 1985.

## Songs

1. Nick Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
2. Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
3. Howard Jones - What Is Love?
4. Duran Duran - New Moon Monday
5. China Crisis - Wishful Thinking
6. Tina Turner - Help
7. Status Quo - Marguerita Time
8. Carmel - More More More
9. Shannon - Let The Music Play
10. Icicle Works - Birds Fly
11. Bourgie Bourgie - Breaking Point
12. RE-FLEX - Politics Of Dancing
13. Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive
14. Matt Bianco - Get Out Of My Bed
15. Big Country - Wonderland
16. Marilyn - Cry And Be Free
17. Snowy White - Bird Of Paradise
18. Flying Pickets - Only You
19. Kajagoogoo - Lion's Mouth
20. Culture Club - Victims