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Ready Steady Go! The Sounds of Motown

**Ready Steady Go! The Sounds of Motown** is a UK VHS release by Picture Music International on May 1985.

## Description

This live performance was recorded at the Ready Steady Go studios in London on the 18th March 1965. All the artistes on this show had already achieved top chart success in the United States and this visit to London heralded the arrival of the Motown sound in Britain. The Supremes' 'Baby Love' subsequently held the No. 1 spot. Stevie Wonder was just fifteen years of age and he, together with The Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, the legendary Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles all went on in the following year to achieve major chart success both here in Britain and around the world. Special guest host DUSTY SPRINGFIELD with The Earl Van Dyke Band. \*Special tribute: Ready Steady Go! remembers MARVIN GAYE

## Track listing:

1. Baby Love [The Supremes]
2. You Really Got a Hold on Me [Smokey Robinson & the Miracles]
3. I Call It Pretty Music - But The Old People Call It the Blues [Stevie Wonder]
4. The Way You Do the Things You Do [The Temptations]
5. Heatwave [Martha Reeves & the Vandellas]
6. You Lost the Sweetest Boy [Dusty Springfield]
7. Ooh Baby Baby [Smokey Robinson & the Miracles]
8. Wishin' and Hopin' [Martha Reeves & the Vandellas & Dusty Springfield]
9. It's Growing [The Temptations]
10. Shake [The Supremes]
11. Nowhere to Run [Martha Reeves & the Vandellas]
12. Kiss Me Baby [Stevie Wonder]
13. How Sweet It Is to Be Loved By You [Marvin Gaye]
14. Can I Get a Witness [Marvin Gaye]
15. Can't Hear You No More [Martha Reeves & the Vandellas & Dusty Springfield]
16. Stop! In the Name of Love [The Supremes]
17. My Girl [The Temptations]
18. Dancing in the Street [Martha Reeves & the Vandellas]
19. Shop Around [Smokey Robinson & the Miracles]
20. Where Did Our Love Go? [The Supremes]
21. Mickey's Monkey [Smokey Robinson & the Miracles & everyone joins in]
Videostars

**Videostars** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Thorn EMI Video on 1982, a CED released by Wienerworld on 1984 and a LaserDisc released by ON TV on October 1984.

## Tracklist

1. Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
2. Kiki Dee - Star
3. Genesis - No Reply At All
4. Hazel O'Connor - Hanging Around
5. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
6. Eddy Grant - Can't Get Enough Of You
7. Bad Manners - Walking In The Sunshine
8. Barbara Jones - Just When I Need You Most
9. Imagination - In And Out Of Love
10. Linx - Intuition
11. The Three Degrees - My Simple Heart
12. Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm In Love
13. Robert Palmer - Johnny And Mary
14. Leo Sayer - Thunder In My Heart
15. Imagination - Body Talk
16. Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
17. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
18. 999 - Obsessed
19. Japan - Quiet Life
20. Dire Strait - Tunnel Of Love
21. Sky - Toccata
Tina Live - Private Dancer Tour

**Tina Live - Private Dancer Tour** is a UK VHS release by Picture Music International on September 1985 and a LaserDisc on the 1980s.

## Track List

1. Intro
2. I Might Have Been Queen (Soul Survivor)
3. What's Love Got To Do With It
4. I Can't Stand The Rain
5. Better Be Good To Me
6. Private Dancer
7. Let's Stay Together
8. Help!
9. It's Only Love (Duet With Bryan Adams)
10. Tonight (Duet With David Bowie)
11. Let's Dance - Version I (Duet With David Bowie)
12. Let's Dance - Version II (Duet With David Bowie)
Siege

**Siege** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on March 1984.

## Description

**When the police strike prepare for SIEGE ...the first night belongs to the vigilantes**

Terror reigns in a downtown gay bar when a group of self-appointed law enforcement officers barge in and massacre all but one of the clientele. Subsequently, the hunt is on for the lone survivor. After a desperate chase over rooftops and through urban tenements, Daniel is left with no option but to confront his pursuers head on. With the help of a few ill-equipped friends, he prepares for a siege. But it takes more than goodwill to fend off a battery of artillery.

## Cast

* Tom Nardini ... Horatio
* Brenda Bazinet ... Barbara
* Darel Haeny ... Chester
* Terry-David Després ... Daniel
* Jack Blum ... Patrick
* Keith Knight ... Steve
* Doug Lennox ... Cabe
* Jeff Pustil ... Goose
* Fred Wadden ... Ian
* Gary Dempster ... Lloyd
* Dennis O'Connor ... Clark
* Richard Collins ... Rosie
Survive!

**Survive!** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1983.

## Description

**THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE ANDES AIR CRASH**
**WHAT THEY DID TO STAY ALIVE IS THE MOST SHOCKING EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN SURVIVAL**
'**AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF MODERN CANNIBALISM'**

The gripping story of 18 young men who managed to survive for 72 days without food or shelter in the world's most inhospitable mountains. Stranded in a hopelessly inaccessible area, over a mile above sea level, in below freezing temperatures, they took the only course of action possible to ensure that they remained alive!

## Cast

* Hugo Stiglitz as Francisco
* Norma Lazareno as Silvia
* Luz María Aguilar as Mrs. Madero
* Fernando Larrañaga as Madero
* Pablo Ferrel as Raúl
* Leonardo Daniel as Carmelo
* Sara Guasch as Mamá de Silvia
* Gloria Chávez as Mujer que va a boda (as Gloria Chaves)
* José Elías Moreno as Rodrigo Fernández
Tess

**Tess** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1982.

## Description

Today, he would be tried for rape. In her day, she was accused of seduction. What she did shattered her world forever. "Tess" - Roman Polanski's brilliant evocation of a woman's struggle against the hypocrisy of her age.

## Cast

* Nastassja Kinski as Tess Durbeyfield (credited as Nastassia Kinski)
* Peter Firth as Angel Clare
* Leigh Lawson as Alec Stokes-d'Urberville
* John Collin as John Durbeyfield
* Rosemary Martin as Mrs. Durbeyfield
* Carolyn Pickles as Marian
* Richard Pearson as Vicar of Marlott
* David Markham as Reverend Clare
* Pascale de Boysson as Mrs. Clare
* Suzanna Hamilton as Izz Huett
* Caroline Embling as Retty
* Tony Church as Parson Tringham
* Sylvia Coleridge as Mrs. d'Urberville
* Fred Bryant as Dairyman Crick
* Tom Chadbon as Cuthbert Clare
* Arielle Dombasle as Mercy Chant
* Dicken Ashworth as Farmer Groby
* Lesley Dunlop as Girl in henhouse
The Bushido Blade

**The Bushido Blade** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1982.

## Description

**From the land of the Shogun...**
The clash between East and West, which reaches a bloody climax in the duel between sabre and samurai sword, is at the heart of this swashbuckling saga of honour and sacrifice set in 19th-century Japan. The American Captain Hawk struggles to rescue the sacred Bushido Blade - stolen by a fanatical group of samurai warriors. As the courage of Hawk and his men is supremely tested, the pursuit of the sword leads to the discovery of the mysterious, closed world of Japanese society - and love for a beautiful samurai woman.
The Amazing Adventures of Morph: Volume 4

**The Amazing Adventures of Morph: Volume 4** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on September 1982.

## Description

Six of Morph's TV stories set in his Under-the-Table world. Featuring Chas and Delilah, Gillespie and Grandmorph, Folly, Nailbrush, Gobbledygook and of course, the Very-Small-Creatures (not forgetting Green!). ANYONE FOR CRICKET! Grandmorph really ought to have known better than to try and get his own back after being knocked for six. THE COWBOYS! Trouble strikes and "The Lone Morph', hot on the trail of Desperate Dan and McChas', gets corralled by Deputy Gillespie and Sheriff Grandmorph - with a "Hi-yo Nailbrush!" A GAME OF CHESS! In Tony's absence, Morph makes up a story in which he heroically defeats a fearsome dragon and a horde of hideous Wobblers to rescue the fair Delilah from the evil clutches of a Black King. THE DAY NOTHING HAPPENED. Everyone is too lazy to play a game with Morph, except the Very small-creatures (who always cheat), and Folly (who only wants to play Postman's Knock!). So, to keep him quiet, Grandmorph organises a game of Hide and Seek. GRANDMORPH'S HOME-MOVIES. Morph, being a fairly tolerant fellow, doesn't mind sitting through a boring lecture given by Gobbledygook, but watching films of himself as a baby is just too embarrassing! THE MAGIC WAND. Gobbledygook never means to cause trouble, but somwhow he just can't seem to avoid it. In his hands an old stick becomes a wand that changes absolutely everything it touches-including Chas who suddenly becomes a dog. Things are more or less restored to normal, that is until Tony can't resist trying it out for himself and so brings about the end of 'The Amazing Adventures of Morph'.

## Episodes

1. Anyone For Cricket?
2. The Cowboys
3. A Game of Chess
4. The Day Nothing Happened
5. Grandmorph's Home Movies
6. The Magic Wand
Vemon

**Vemon** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Thorn EMI Video on November 1982

## Descripton

The deadliest, most sinister snake in the world - a black-mamba - goes on the rampage in Venom, a star studded suspense thriller that pits the devious minds of criminals against the reptilian cunning of a lethally poisonous serpent. Trouble starts when the young grandson of a big game hunter receives a mamba in place of the harmless African house snake he has been expecting. A plot to kidnap the young boy from his home goes badly wrong as the mamba escapes and shelters in the house's air-conditioning system. Tension mounts as police surround the kidnappers and lay siege to the house, as the mamba begins to claim victims in savage, unprovoked attacks. Its invisible, silent and evil promise of agonising death creates an atmosphere of pure terror. Waging battle against the serpent are the mastermind criminal, Klaus Kinski, assistant Oliver Reed and his lover Susan George, while Nicol Williamson is the police chief who marshals his forces to await the moment to strike. Claustrophobic and spine-chilling, Venom was directed by Piers (Pennies From Heaven) Haggard.

## Cast

* Klaus Kinski as Jacques Müller (Jacmel)
* Sterling Hayden as Howard Anderson
* Sarah Miles as Dr. Marion Stowe
* Nicol Williamson as Cmdr. William Bulloch
* Cornelia Sharpe as Ruth Hopkins
* Susan George as Louise Andrews
* Lance Holcomb as Philip Hopkins
* Oliver Reed as Dave Averconnelly
* Mike Gwilym as Det. Constable Dan Spencer
* Paul Williamson as Det. Sgt. Glazer
* Michael Gough as David Ball
* Hugh Lloyd as Taxi Driver
* Rita Webb as Mrs. Loewenthal
* Edward Hardwicke as Lord Dunning
* John Forbes-Robertson as Sgt. Nash
The Long Good Friday

**The Long Good Friday** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on  November 1981.

## Description

Everyone seemed certain that the British cinema was at best moribund in 1980-81, and then came along The Long Good Friday to prove that it was still capable of turning out a film which most cinema-goers wanted to see - and that hadn't happened in a very long while. Its original distributor planned to extract the more violent scenes and sell it direct to television, but the producer and director managed to interest Hand Made Films who had made Monty Python's Life Of Brian. They bought it, showing it successfully at the Edinburgh and London Film Festivals. There was still no indication that it would be welcomed so warmly, but after enthusiastic notices it began to play to packed houses from the day of release. The reason surely is that it is a fast-moving, intricate thriller, galvanised by Bob Hoskins' performance in the leading role - and Hoskins must be the most convincing gang boss ever to appear in a British film. It is on one Good Friday that things start to go wrong for him - and it turns out to be a very nasty Easter, as those close to him are mown down or blown up. He is powerful enough to fight back, but we, if not he, are increasingly unsure who he can trust; and again we, if not he, are increasingly aware that his adversaries are bigger than he is. Those around him include his upper-class girlfriend (Helen Mirren), his scar-faced hit man 'Razors' (P.H. Moriarty), the sweet-looking young Jeff (Derek Thompson), a crooked local councillor (Bryan Marshall) and a decidedly bent and highly placed cop (Dave King). Barrie Keeffe, well-known as a dramatist, wrote the screenplay, with dialogue so seemingly accurate that we may be persuaded into thinking that such events are happening all the time in London without our knowing it - especially as London, and particularly its now deserted dockland, are so effectively used by the director John MacKenzie.

## Cast

* Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand
* P. H. Moriarty as Razors
* Helen Mirren as Victoria
* Dave King as Parky
* Bryan Marshall as Harris
* Derek Thompson as Jeff
* Eddie Constantine as Charlie
* Paul Freeman as Colin
* Stephen Davies as Tony
* Brian Hall as Alan
* Paul Barber as Errol the Ponce
* Pierce Brosnan as 1st Irishman
The Likely Lads

**The Likely Lads** is a pre-cert UK VHS released by EMI on 1981.

## Description

Social historians of the future seeking evidence of shifting class attitudes in the Britain of the 'Seventies could do far worse than study the phenomenal success on television, radio, and film, of The Likely Lads. Two heroes, superbly delineated by the script-writing partnership of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (also responsible for such successes as Otley and Porridge) admirably embody two dominant and clashing trends in working-class attitudes of the period. On the one hand we have the up-and-coming Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) married to the socially ambitious Thelma (Brigit Forsyth) - all badminton, wall-to-wall to carpeting and 26 inch colour T.V., in their chic little mortgaged love-nest in a trendy new suburb. On the other, not too far away, we have Bob's lifelong bachelor crony Terry - caustic, disillusioned, nostalgic for an earlier era of fish-and-chips wrapped up in Andy Capp and washed down with Newcastle Brown Ale - living in a council flat in a high-rise block where the lifts are perpetually out-of-order. This film version, made in 1976, sees Bob and Thelma, together with Terry and his new girlfriend Christina, set off on a touring holiday by caravan. The ensuing complications come to a head when, confident that their original partners are still safely asleep in the caravan behind them, the boys - hopeful as ever - give a lift to a pair of sexy girl hitch-hikers. In fact, Thelma and Christina have been stranded in their nighties at a busy set of traffic lights... Understandably in disgrace with their furious womenfolk, the boys embark on a nostalgic bachelor pilgrimage to a wintry Whitley Bay, where yet more catastrophes are in store. On top of everything else, their favourite boozer The Fat Ox isdemolished as part of an alleged municipal improvement. A shattered Terry decides to start life afresh, and signs aboard a ship leaving for foreign parts - and the lads meet for a final booze-up. JACK IBBERSON

## Cast

* Rodney Bewes as Bob Ferris
* James Bolam as Terry Collier
* Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Ferris
* Mary Tamm as Christina
* Sheila Fearn as Audrey Collier
* Zena Walker as Laura
* Anulka Dziubinska as Dawn
* Alun Armstrong as Milkman
* Judy Buxton as Iris
* Vicki Michelle as Glenys
* Penny Irving as Sandy
* Edward Wilson as Les Ferris
* Michelle Newell as Alice Ferris
* Gordon Griffin as Cyril Collier
* Susan Tracy as Edith Collier
* Roger Avon as Joe the Landlord
* Ronald Lacey as Ernie
* Elizabeth Lax as Wendy
* Linda Robson as Marsha
* Ian McDiarmid as Vicar
* Eric Mason as Truck Driver
Ready Steady Go! Volume 1

**Ready Steady Go! Volume 1** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Picture Music and Thorn EMI Video on December 1983 and LaserDisc on December 1984.

## Track Listing

1. The Beatles - You Can't Do That/Can't Buy Me Love
2. Dusty Springfield - Every Day I Have To Cry
3. The Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home
4. Cilla Black - You're My Word
5. Billy Fury - I Will
6. Them (featuring Van Morrison) - Baby Please Don't Go
7. Lulu - Shout
8. Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames Yeh! Yeh!
9. Sandie Shaw - Girl Don't Come
10. The Searchers - What Have The Done To The Rain
11. Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry Across The Mersey
12. Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Goodbye-ee
13. The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
14. The Who - Any Way, Any How, Any Where
15. The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
To the Devil a Daughter

**To the Devil a Daughter** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Thorn EMI Video on July 1982 and the alternate sleeve has 'Star Selection' on May 1985.

## Description

Ignored by the critics and despised by the literati, one-time wine merchant Dennis Yeats Wheatley was one of those authors like Alexandre Dumas, Anthony Hope, Edgar Wallace, 'Sapper', Leslie Charteris and Ian Fleming, whose works, selling by the millions for decade after decade, have provided the inspiration for countless popular motion-pictures. He made his debut with a story of espionage in Soviet Russia, Forbidden Territory, first published in 1933 and filmed a couple of years later. There followed more than sixty titles - historical and secret service adventures, political thrillers, autobiography and the highly innovative 'crime mystery dossiers' such as Murder Off Miami and Who Killed Robert Prentice? Wheatley also struck a rich vein in popular diabolism with books like The Devil Rides Out and To the Devil a Daughter, which were made into films in 1967 and 1975 respectively. In both works, the type of supernatural thriller pioneered by writers like Aleister Crowley and Charles Williams was infused with a strong element of James Bond-type action (an influence underlined in the latter film by the appearance of Honor Goldfinger Blackman among the early victims). Like its predecessor, To the Devil a Daughter is concerned with the struggle for a young girl Catherine (Nastassja Kinski) between the forces of Darkness and those of Light. The former are represented by the unfrocked priest 'Father' Michael Rayner (Christopher Lee) and his Satanist devotees and dupes, who are opposed by the girl's father, her lover and the American novelist and authority on the occult John Verney (Richard Widmark). In pursuit of his dastardly designs to restore the rule of Ashtaroth on earth 'Father' Michael does not shrink from kidnapping and murder, and is even prepared to violate the innermost sanctum of the august British Museum to possess himself of the Grimoire of Ashtaroth. As the film draws towards its climax immense occult forces are brought into play and the lives of all his companions are at stake before Verney contrives to turn the supernatural powers against the Satanists who have summoned them, and to come to an appropriately sticky end as a duly exercised Catherine is led away to safety. JACK IBBERSON

## Cast

* Richard Widmark as John Verney
* Christopher Lee as Father Michael Rayner
* Nastassja Kinski as Catherine Beddows
* Honor Blackman as Anna Fountain
* Michael Goodliffe as George De Grass
* Anthony Valentine as David Kennedy
* Denholm Elliott as Henry Beddows
* Eva Maria Meineke as Eveline de Grass
* Derek Francis as The Bishop
* Frances de la Tour as Salvation Army Major
* Constantin de Goguel as Kollde
* Izabella Telezynska as Margaret
* Petra Peters as Sister Helle
* Brian Wilde as Black Room Attendant
* Howard Goorney as Critic
The Wind in the Willows

**The Wind in the Willows** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thames (Thorn EMI) Video in October 1984.

## Description

Since its first publication in 1908, Kenneth Grahame's *The Wind in the Willows* has become a best-seller throughout the world. In this unique programme, the award-winning animators of Cosgrove Hall being Grahame's characters, Badger, Mole, Ratty and the flamboyant Toad of Toad Hall, magically to life in a beautiful setting reminiscent of the Edwardian country scene they represent. Scripted by Rosemary Anne Sisson, already famous for her work on *Upstairs, Downstairs*, with music composed by Malcom Rowe and Keith Hopwood, the programme reflects the supreme quality of a truly professional team, with all the fun and enchantment of a fairy tale adventure.
The Savage Bees

**The Savage Bees** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1983.

## Description

**Terror strikes! A deadly swarm of SAVAGE BEES gather for the kill!**A murderous swarm of killer bees casts a deathly shadow over New Orleans' Carnival celebrations.

## Cast

* Ben Johnson as Sheriff Donald McKew
* Michael Parks as Dr. Jeff DuRand
* Paul Hecht as Dr. Rufus Carter
* Gretchen Corbett as Jeannie Deveraux
* Horst Buchholz as Dr. Jorge Meuller
* Bruce French as Police Lieutenant
* James Best as Pellegrino
* Carol Sutton as Mrs. Compher
* Bill Holliday as Deputy Stilt
* Don Hood as Deputy Churn
Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rambo: First Blood Part II is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment on 1986.

## Description

The hero of 'First Blood' is back! John Rambo. The one-man vengeance machine.

His Mission: Locate American prisoners-of-war in Vietnam.

His Orders: Do not engage the enemy.

Double crossed and left behind enemy lines. And now he's getting out any way he can. Hand-picked. Hate-driven. Unstoppable.

No man, no law, no war can stop him.

## Cast

* Sylvester Stallone as John J. Rambo
* Richard Crenna as Colonel Samuel "Sam" R. Trautman
* Charles Napier as Major Marshall Roger T. Murdock
* Steven Berkoff as Lieutenant Colonel Sergei T. Podovsky
* Julia Nickson as Agent Co Phuong Bao
* Martin Kove as Michael Reed Ericson
* George Cheung as Lieutenant Tay
* Andy Wood as Banks
* William Ghent as Captain Vinh
* Voyo Goric as Sergeant Yushin
* Dana Lee as Captain Trong Kinh
* Steve Williams as Lifer
Ragtime

**Ragtime** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1982.

## Description

All the razzamatazz of E.L. Doctorow's best-selling novel bursts on to the screen in Milos Foreman's dazzling kaleidoscope portrait of America in the early 1900s. An intoxicating mixture of fact and fiction, featuring the real-life scandal of chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit - whose crazy rich husband shot her former lover in public - and the outbreak of urban terrorism - as the black piano player Coalhouse Walker seeks revenge for damage to his Model T Ford - 'Ragtime' brilliantly captures an age of dire poverty and fabulous wealth.

## Cast

* James Cagney as Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo
* Brad Dourif as Younger Brother
* Moses Gunn as Booker T. Washington
* Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit
* Kenneth McMillan as Fire Chief Willie Conklin
* Pat O'Brien as Delmas
* Donald O'Connor as Evelyn's Dance Instructor
* James Olson as Father
* Mandy Patinkin as Tateh
* Howard E. Rollins, Jr. as Coalhouse Walker Jr.
* Mary Steenburgen as Mother
* Debbie Allen as Sarah
* Jeffrey DeMunn as Harry Houdini
* Robert Joy as Harry Kendall Thaw
* Norman Mailer as Stanford White
* Edwin Cooper as Grandfather
* Jeff Daniels as P.C. O'Donnell
* Fran Drescher as Mameh
* Frankie Faison as Gang Member
* Alan Gifford as Judge
* Richard Oldfield as Stock Reporter
* Richard Griffiths as Delmas' Assistant
* George Harris as Clef Club Bandleader
* Samuel L. Jackson as Gang Member
* Michael Jeter as Special Reporter
* Andreas Katsulas as Policeman #3
* Joe Praml as Policeman No. 8
* Calvin Levels as Gang Member
* Bessie Love as Old Lady (T.O.C.)
* Christopher Malcolm as Police Captain
* Stuart Milligan as the Marksman
* Zack Norman as Manager
* Ethan Phillips as Guard at Family House
* Barry Dennen as Stage Manager
* Jack Nicholson as Pirate on Beach (uncredited)
World Cup - España 82

**World Cup - España 82** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1982.

## Description

**HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1982 TOURNAMENT**

All the highlights of football's most gruelling competition are captured on this official FIFA video cassette. From the surprises and sensations of the first round when unfancied teams like Honduras, Algeria and Northern Ireland humbled mighty rivals, to the thrills of the later matches as Italy and West Germany fought their way past favourites such as France and Brazil to a momentous final - this is a unique record and souvenir.
The Manchester United Story

**The Manchester United Story** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1982.

## Description

The magic and emotion behind the world's most famous football club! Historic footage of the triumphs - 1948 FA Cup champions, 1952 League champions, and in 1968 the first English club to win the European Cup - and its greatest setback, the tragedy of Munich - the match, the plane crash, the fight for survival. Plus interviews with Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, George Best and, of course, Sir Matt Busby.
Superman III

**Superman III** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on March 1984.

## Plot

Here's one caped crusader who needs no introducing! With the forces of evil ever on the march, Superman must always be on his mark-even while enjoying a romantic interlude with the lovely Lana Lang. In order to rescue the world from total domination, he must battle with the elements, a criminally insane computer and a psychotic force so diabolical it makes him an enemy to himself. Triumph is by no means certain, but he fights on with valour amidst a mind- blowing display of sensational special effects.

## Cast

* Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent / Superman: After discovering his origins in the earlier films, he sets himself to helping those on Earth. After beating arch enemy Lex Luthor twice, Superman meets a new villain: Ross Webster, who is determined to control the world's coffee and oil supplies. Superman also battles personal demons after an exposure to a synthetic form of kryptonite that corrupts him.
* Richard Pryor as August "Gus" Gorman: A bumbling computer genius who works for Ross Webster and inadvertently gets mixed up in Webster's scheme to destroy Superman.
* Jackie Cooper as Perry White: The editor of the *Daily Planet*.
* Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen: A photographer for the *Daily Planet*.
* Annette O'Toole as Lana Lang: Clark's high school friend who reconciles with Clark after seeing him during their high school reunion. O'Toole later portrayed Martha Kent on the Superman television series *Smallville*.
* Annie Ross as Vera Webster: Ross' sister and partner in his corporation and villainous plans.
* Pamela Stephenson as Lorelei Ambrosia: Ross' assistant and girlfriend. Lorelei, a voluptuous blonde bombshell, is well-read, articulate and skilled in computers, but conceals her intelligence from Ross and Vera, to whom she adopts the appearance of a superficial fool. As part of Ross' plan, she seduces Superman.
* Robert Vaughn as Ross Webster: A villainous multimillionaire. After Superman prevents him from taking over the world's coffee supply, Ross is determined to destroy Superman before he can stop his plan to control the world's oil supply. He is an original character created for the movie.
* Margot Kidder as Lois Lane: A reporter at the *Daily Planet* who has a history with both Clark Kent and Superman. She is away from Metropolis on vacation to Bermuda, which put her in the middle of a front-page story.
The Philadelphia Experiment

**The Philadelphia Experiment** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on March 1985 and a LaserDisc on August 1985.

## Description

**41 YEARS AGO THEY OPENED A HOLE IN TIME... AND IT STAYED OPEN**

The origins of this story are not science-fiction they are science fact. In 1943 the U.S. Office of Naval Research conducted a series of tests at the Philadelphia Naval Yard to develop a sophisticated camouflage system to make ships invisible to radar. During the final test aboard the destroyer Eldridge, something went wrong - very wrong. Two young seamen on the Eldridge get caught in a violent tornado-like vortex and fall through a time warp to a different era-1984. Desperately they struggle to find a way back to their own time but their efforts become all the more vital as the rift in time threatens to suck present-day earth back to the past.

## Cast

* Michael Paré as David Herdeg
* Nancy Allen as Allison Hayes
* Eric Christmas as Dr. James Longstreet
* Bobby Di Cicco as Jim Parker
* Louise Latham as Pamela
* Stephen Tobolowsky as Barney
* Ralph Manza as Older Jim
* Kene Holliday as Major Clark
* Joe Dorsey as Sheriff Bates
* Michael Currie as Magnussen
* Gary Brockette as Adjutant / Andrews
* Debra Troyer as Young Pamela
* Miles McNamara as Young Longstreet
* James Edgcomb as Officer Boyer
* Glenn Morshower as Mechanic
* Vaughn Armstrong as Cowboy
The Great Kidnapping

**The Great Kidnapping** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on March 1984.

## Description

What price a son's life? Kidnapping. The rancid worm in the flesh of Italy, a country already rotten with the stench of organised crime — and now the kidnappers do not care to honour the terms of their extortionate ransom demands. Into this poisonous web of corruption comes Cordone, an uncompromising, unscrupulous cop who's prepared to ride roughshod through the rulebook
to get results and hit the kidnappers where it hurts. Until, that is, his own son becomes the kidnap victim…

## Cast

* Enrico Maria Salerno: Quaestor Cardone
* Lee J. Cobb: Ex Quaestor Iovine
* Jean Sorel: Attorney
* Luciana Paluzzi: Renata Boletti
* Gianni Bonagura: Zenoni
* Laura Belli: Laura Ponti
* Tino Bianchi: coroner
* Claudio Gora: lawyer
* Ennio Balbo: Prefect
The Burning

**The Burning** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1982.

## Description

**The most frightening of all maniac films**

On a moonlit evening many years ago, a group of young campers played a trick on Cropsy, the camp caretaker. The trick backfired, and Cropsy became a horribly disfigured maniac, a mutilated killer with a thirst for revenge. This is the terrifying account of Cropsy's return and of the trail of blood he leaves in the dark woods...
Steptoe & Son

**Steptoe & Son** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on April 1981.

## Description

If you were one of the millions hooked on the TV series, then it's more than likely that you'll be hooting with laughter at this. It contains the same ingredients: a Galton and Simpson script with Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett in the leads, and that unique blend of farce and pathos. This lively comedy, directed by Cliff Owen in 1972, was the first of the Steptoe films. It opens with father and son leaving the divorce court in their horse and cart. They are quarrelling as usual, but this time about Harold's marriage and they recall the events of the past year...Harold announces one evening that he's off to the stag night at the local football club and his father insists on joining him. The night's entertainment includes a performance from Zita, a stripper, for whom Harold immediately falls. Next morning the couple are engaged. Albert's efforts to frustrate the marriage are useless and, after the ceremony, the threesome leave for their honeymoon on the Costa Brava. But Albert gets food poisoning, insists on returning home and, as their are only two remaining seats on the plane, Harold has to accompany him, leaving his wife behind. Later efforts to patch up the marriage when Zita is pregnant end in failure. Of course it's tragic, but that's life. It's also hilarious. Minutes before the wedding is due to take place, there is a mad scrabble for the ring which is lost in a pile of horse manure and there is subsequently much embarrassment at the ceremony. And when a baby is abandoned in the yard, Harold and father have it christened and assume parental responsibility. That is until the baby disappears with its own unknown mother. Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett re-enact the love-hate relationship of the TV series with the same unerring accuracy. Harold is still the hopeful innocent, eager to escape his environment but inevitably tied to the cunning but impossible Albert. By PATRICA PERILLI
Spitfire

**Spitfire** (aka **The First of the Few**) is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1983.

## Description

The story of the most famous fighter plane ever built is told in fascinating detail by Brian Johnson, producer of numerous television programmes on military and aviation history. Using historic footage - much of it never seen by the public before - we see the Spitfire in test flight, in mass production, being armed and serviced and, above all, fighting. Gun camera footage from both sides and explanatory animated diagrams show how the beautiful Spitfire became a deadly weapon in the hands of skilled and brave men. The drama of the Battle of Britain, curiosities like the Spitfire on floats, the evocative roar of Merlin engines and heart-stopping carrier landings make this more than a technical history for enthusiasts. The programme ends with the excitement of low-level aerobatics in a Mk.IX, specially filmed in colour from the cockpit - the nearest you'll ever get to flying the plane that won the Battle of Britain!

## Cast

Cast members are in order as listed by the British Film Institute.
Tarantulas - The Deadly Cargo

**Tarantulas - The Deadly Cargo** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Derann on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on July 1983.

## Description

The small town of Finley Ville, an orange producing community in California, is suddenly turned into a seething, panicking vortex when a DC3, with a cargo of coffee beans from Ecuador, crashes in a nearby field. The plane explodes and hundreds of deadly Tarantulas, that infested the cargo, escape and scatter into the unknowing sleepy town....

## Cast

* Claude Akins (VF: Henry Djanick).........Bert Springer
* Charles Frank..........Joe Harmon
* Deborah Winters........Cindy Beck
* Matthew Laborteaux.....Matthew Beck
* Sandy McPeak...........Chief Beasley
* Penelope Windust.......Gloria Beasley
* Tom Atkins (VF: Pierre Hatet)....Buddy
* Howard Hesseman........Fred
* Bert Remsen (VF: Jean Berger)...Mayor Douglas
* Pat Hingle (VF: René Renot)...Doc Hodgins
The Frank Williams Story

**The Frank Williams Story** is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on the 1980s.

## Description

Frank Williams preached a fundamentalist doctrine for a decade - create speed and reliability through technology and you are the motor racing champion of the world. There were few converts to his credo in the first ten years of *Team Williams*, years as remarkable for optimism as for lack success. Even fundamentalism requires massive infusions of money in Grand Prix Formula One, when Williams was finally able to blend the resources of British engineering with the fiscal resources of the Middle East, he made true believers of the rest of the motor racing world. Williams dedication to his ideals, plus the boost of Saudi Arabian sponsorship, and the vital arrival of engineer Patrick Head, turned frustration into fruition in 1980. The excitement of that season, with historical footage of the years building up to it and incisive interviews with the team who crafted the Williams championship, are all part of this exclusive video record.
SEAN O'NEIL
The Plague Dogs

**The Plague Dogs** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1983

## Description

**Richard Adams's best-seller from the team who brought you Watership Down**

A fox terrier and a black labrador succeed in escaping from an animal research station in the Lake District where they have been subjected to cruel experiments in the name of science. Out on the rugged fells they attempt to survive, wild and free. But they must run for their lives when it is rumoured that they are carriers of the plague, for a hunt has begun. Once again Martin Rosen brings together the skilled team of animators who made Watership Down, whose unsentimental approach realistically creates the pain of an animal Auschwitz, the beauty of the Lakes, and the smelly; doggy world the "heroes" inhabit. A powerful tale from one of today's best storytellers.

## Cast

* John Hurt as Snitter
* Christopher Benjamin as Rowf
* James Bolam as The Tod
* Nigel Hawthorne as Dr. Boycott
* Warren Mitchell as Harry Tyson / Wag
* Bernard Hepton as Stephen Powell
* Brian Stirner as Laboratory Assistant
* Penelope Lee as Lynn Driver
* Geoffrey Matthews as Farmer
* Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Farmer's Wife
* John Bennett as Don
* John Franklyn-Robbins as Dennis Williamson
* Bill Maynard as Editor
* Malcolm Terris as Robert Lindsay
* Judy Geeson as Pekingese
* Philip Locke as Civil Servant #1
* Brian Spink as Civil Servant #2
* Tony Church as Civil Servant #3
* Anthony Valentine as Civil Servant #4
* William Lucas as Civil Servant #5
* Dandy Nichols as Phyllis Dawson
* Rosemary Leach as Vera Dawson
* Patrick Stewart as Major John Awdry
* Percy Edwards as Animal Vocalization
The Osterman Weekend

**The Osterman Weekend** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1984.

## Description

**IT WILL BE A WEEKEND TO REMEMBER - IF THEY SURVIVE IT!**

What is the treat? Who can be trusted? Will anyone survive? TV personality John Tanner is looking forward to a reunion party with his closest friends. That is, until the CIA warn him that they are all Soviet agents. Suddenly, he and his family are caught in a nightmare of terror, deception, helplessness and violent death. Maverick director Sam Peckinpah holds the action rigid with suspense, right up to a nerve-shattering climax.

## Cast

* Rutger Hauer as John Tanner
* John Hurt as Lawrence Fassett
* Craig T. Nelson as Bernard Osterman
* Dennis Hopper as Richard Tremayne
* Chris Sarandon as Joseph Cardone
* Meg Foster as Ali Tanner
* Helen Shaver as Virginia Tremayne
* Cassie Yates as Betty Cardone
* Sandy McPeak as Stennings
* Christopher Starr as Steve Tanner
* Burt Lancaster as Maxwell Danforth

In addition, Merete Van Kamp makes a brief appearance as Fassett's wife, whose murder sets the plot in motion.
Thompson Twins 'Side Kicks' - The Movie

**Thompson Twins 'Side Kicks' - The Movie** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Thorn EMI Video and EMI Music on 1984, a CED released by Picture Music on the 1980s and a LaserDisc released by Thorn EMI Video on 1984.

## Tracklist

1. Kamikaze
2. Love Lies Bleeding
3. Judy Do
4. Tears
5. Watching
6. If You Were Here
7. All Fall Out
8. Lucky Day
9. Lies
10. Detectives
11. In The Name Of Love
12. Beach Culture
13. Love On Your Side
Guard, Boarhart

## Guard, Handaxes

*Medium, human (Hillborn), any alignment*

**Armor Class**  14 (ringmail)

**Hit Points** 11 (2d8+2)

**Speed** 30 ft.

**Skills** Perception +2, Stealth (disadvantage)

**Languages** any one language (usually Common)

**Challenge** 1/8 (25 XP)

### Actions

***Dual Weilding.*** After using their action to make a Handaxe attack in their main hand, the guard can use a bonus action to make a Handaxe attack in their offhand. They do not add their ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack.

***Handaxe (mainhand).** Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack:* +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) slashing damage.

***Handaxe (offhand).** Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack:* +4 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) slashing damage.

## Boarhart Guard, Light Crossbow

### Type

 *Medium, human (Hillborn), any alignment*

### CHA

12 (+1)
15 (+2)
10 (0)
10 (0)
11 (0)
10 (0)

### Challenge

1/8 (25 XP)

*Medium, human (Hillborn), any alignment*

**Armor Class**  15 (chain shirt)

**Hit Points** 9 (2d8)

**Speed** 30 ft.

**Skills** Perception +2

**Languages** any one language (usually Common)

**Challenge** 1/8 (25 XP)

### Actions

***Light Crossbow.** Ranged Weapon Attack:* +4 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) piercing damage.

***Spear.** Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack:* +3 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) piercing damage.

## Boarhart Guard, Spearclub

### Type

 *Medium, human (Hillborn), any alignment*

### CHA

15 (+2)
12 (+1)
10 (0)
10 (0)
11 (0)
10 (0)

### Challenge

1/8 (25 XP)

*Medium, human (Hillborn), any alignment*

**Armor Class**  15 (chain shirt)

**Hit Points** 9 (2d8)

**Speed** 30 ft.

**Skills** Perception +2

**Languages** any one language (usually Common)

**Challenge** 1/8 (25 XP)

### Actions

***Spearclub.** Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack:* +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) piercing or bludgeoning damage.

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S*P*Y*S

**S\*P\*Y\*S** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on 1981.

## Description

Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland were an instant success as a movie team when they appeared together as the irreverent U.S. Army doctors in 1970's M\*A\*S\*H. They were reunited with considerable comic effect in S\*P\*Y\*S in 1974, a splendidly anarchic movie that set out to do for the world of international espionage what M\*A\*S\*H had done for war-time medics. The ingenious and witty screenplay by Malcolm Marmorstein and Lawrence J. Cohen provides an ideal vehicle for the team's free-wheeling sense of humour and their contrasting acting styles. Given the roles of CIA agents at odds with their boss and the enemy, they are provided with plenty of opportunities to clown. And the film succeeds excellently on the level of an exciting and fast-moving spy thriller with enough in the way of plot twists to satisfy the most demanding addicts of the genre. Director Irvin Kershner starts the movie off with a (literal) bang and the pace never lets up until the final explosion which - and not for the first time in the film - conveniently gets Our Heroes out of dire trouble. Gould and Sutherland are first brought together when they both go to retrieve a mysterious package from a Paris pissoir - which immediately blows up. Deciding that they perhaps could do with a somewhat less dangerous assignment their boss (Joss Ackland) sends them off to supervise the defection of a Soviet gymnast. From then on the action and comedy never lets up as the hapless pair become increasingly more involved in a plot which has the CIA itself turning on them - to say nothing of anarchists and a dog wearing priceless contact lenses. S\*P\*Y\*S marks a superb re-teaming of its stars with a crisp and funny script and direction that allows Gould and Sutherland to repeat and refine their great comic chemistry. S\*P\*Y\*S is F\*U\*N. ALAN FRANK

## Cast

* Elliott Gould as Griff
* Donald Sutherland as Bruland
* Zouzou as Sybil (as Zou Zou)
* Joss Ackland as Martinson
* Xavier Gélin as Paul (Revolutionary)
* Vladek Sheybal as Borisenko (Russian Spy Chief)
* Michael Petrovitch as Sevitsky (Defector)
* Shane Rimmer as Hessler
* Kenneth Griffith as Lippet
* Pierre Oudrey as Revolutionary (as Pierre Oudry)
* Kenneth J. Warren as Grubov
* Jacques Marin as Lafayette
* Jeffrey Wickham as Seely
* Nigel Hawthorne as Croft
* John Bardon as Evans
The Go-Between

**The Go-Between** is a pre-cert UK VHS released by EMI on April 1981.

## Description

The Go-Between (1970) links the present and the past, taking an ageing bachelor back to the long hot summer when he was twelve and the twentieth century was only a few months old: when he lost his boyish heart to a beautiful, headstrong young woman who used his adoration to suit her own purposes and, by so doing, brought about the death of s fine man and destroyed the boy's chance of eventually findin the fulfilment of love and marriage. The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. . .'. In the 'foreign country' of 1900, Leo's hosts, the Maudsleys, live in a huge country mansion. They idle away their days with croquet and dinner parties and patronise the poor with their charity. But their surface contentment and politeness conceal the frustrations of conforming to the Victorian code of respectability. When the daughter of the house (Julie Christie) falls for a handsome young tenant farmer (Alan Bates) class distinctions make marriage impossible and an open affair unthinkable. But the fever of her passion consumes her self-restraint and her willing slave, Leo, is the innocent go-between who makes it possible for the lovers to meet in secret. We are what we are because of what we were; and the man is what he is because of what happened to the boy in one shattering moment of revelation on his 13th birthday. Joseph Losey made The Go-Between entirely on location in and around the 300-year-old Melton Hall in Norfolk, on land owned by the same family for 22 generations, after ten years of cutting through legal tangles to acquire the rights to L.P. Hartley's novel and to raise the money. The official British entry for the Cannes Film Festival of 1971, the film won the Grand Prix and later collected more awards from the Society of Film and Television Arts: Best Screenplay (Harold Pinter); Best Supporting Actress (Margaret Leighton); and Best Supporting Actor (Edward Fox).

## Main cast

* Julie Christie as Lady Marian Maudsley Trimingham
* Edward Fox as Viscount Hugh Trimingham
* Alan Bates as Ted Burgess
* Margaret Leighton as Mrs. Maudsley
* Michael Redgrave as the older Leo Colston
* Dominic Guard as the young Leo Colston
* Michael Gough as Mr. Maudsley
* Richard Gibson as Marcus Maudsley
* Simon Hume-Kendall as Denys
* Roger Lloyd-Pack as Charles
* Amaryllis Garnett as Kate
Top Hat

**Top Hat** is a UK VHS release by EMI on 1981.

## Description

As the title song puts it, Top Hat (1935) simply 'reeks of class.' There was no more perfect partnership in movies than that of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - a couple who could establish, alone or together, a style of artifice that didn't dim but actually illuminated their humanity. As the mistaken-identity plot swings from a stuffy London men's club to a Venice that only a film studio could have built, Pandro S. Berman's production makes every element click into place with virtuoso ease. The dance numbers are among the best on film. There is the slyly sexy little one that Astaire does in the room above Ginger's boudoir to cajole her back to slumbers; the 'singing an' dancing' enchantment in the rain when she jubilantly copies every step with which he challenges her when a storm isolates them on the stage of a park bandstand; and the inspired inventiveness of Top Hat, White Tie and Tails in which Astaire (so clad) guns down a line-up of henchmen with his cane. lrving Berlin's music and lyrics are this pair's emotional visiting cards - just watch Ginger's enraptured reactions as Fred sings Cheek to Cheek to her: dialogue couldn't have said as much. The film knows when to kid itself - as in The Piccolino number in Venice, a dance which Irving Berlin originally wanted to name 'the Lido' (so that he could add, 'Its very good for your libido.') He didn't, but it's still witty. Even the water in the Venetian canals was dyed black so as to off-set the 'Big white Set' that had become designer Van Nest Polglase's visual signature on the RKO style in this period of movie musicals. In 1935 thousands flocked to see Top Hat; and it's even more irresistible nowadays to catch the infection of its world of instant wish-fulfilment in which, as the dance critic Arlene Croce has said, the characters seem to spend the whole of their lives in evening dress.

ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Ginger Rogers as Dale Tremont
* Edward Everett Horton as Horace Hardwick
* Erik Rhodes as Alberto Beddini
* Helen Broderick as Madge Hardwick
* Eric Blore as Bates
* Lucille Ball as Flower shop clerk
* Gino Corrado as Venice hotel manager
* Leonard Mudie as flower salesman
* Dennis O'Keefe as Elevator passenger / Dancer
* Tom Ricketts as Nervous Thackeray Club waiter *(uncredited)*
The Tubes Video

**The Tubes Video** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Picture Music International and EMI Music on 1982, a CED released by RCA Columbia Pictures Video and EMI Music on 1983 and a LaserDisc released by Thorn EMI Video on 1983.

## Tracklist

1. Think About Me (Instrumental Intro)
2. Matter Of Pride
3. Sports Fans
4. Amnesia
5. Mr Hate
6. Mondo Bondage
7. Don't Want To Wait Anymore
8. Tube Talk
9. Business
10. Talk To Ya Later
11. Sushi Girl
12. White Punks On Dope
13. Let's Make Some Noise
14. Weebee Dance