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Angel

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

## Description

**High School Student by day. Hollywood Hooker by night**
She was the cutest girl in school and the hottest thing on the streets. Angel is a high school honours student by day and an under-age hooker by night. At school she's on her own, but out in the twilight world of Hollywood Boulevard she's among friends-like Mae, a motherly transvestite, and Kit Carson, Hollywood's oldest cowboy. Now, in spite of her caution, her separate worlds are about to collide. A pathological killer is loose on the streets-his target, the Boulevard hookers!

## Cast

### Main

* Donna Wilkes as Molly 'Angel' Stewart
* Cliff Gorman as Lt. Andrews
* Susan Tyrrell as Solly Mosler
* Dick Shawn as Mae/Marvin Walker
* Rory Calhoun as Kit Carson

### Supporting

* John Diehl as The Killer
* Elaine Giftos as Patricia Allen
* Donna McDaniel as Crystal
* Graem McGavin as Lana
* Mel Carter as Collins
* Steven M. Porter as Yoyo Charlie
* David Underwood as Ric Sawyer
* David Anthony as Howie
* Joshua Cadman as Spike (credited as Josh Cadman)
* Greg Lewis as Themopolis
* Karyn Parker as Diane
* Dennis Kort as Wayne
* Ken Olfson as Mr. Saunders
* Peter Jason as The John
* Gene Ross as Vice Cop
* Jackie De Rouen as Tanya
* Laura Sorrenson as Roxie
* Joseph Michael Cala as Usher
* Donna Fuller as Jesus Peddler
* Ross Hagen as Urban Cowboy
* Robert Acey as Driver
* Dick Valentine as Older Cop
* Marc Hayashi as Young Cop
* Bob Gorman as Zigmand
* Todd Hoffman as Punker
* Christian Dante as Police Sketch Artist
La bohéme

**La bohéme** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1983.

## Description

Ileana Cotrubas and Neil Shicoff star in Puccini's tragic love story which is a lasting favourite with audiences worldwide. Set in the Latin Quarter of Paris amongst the Bohemian students whose hectic gaiety only partially masks the despair and pain that threaten their lives, *La Bohéme* remains one of the most popular of all operas with its stark contrasts of lively humour and poignant tragedy. This recording of the well-known Covent Garden production by John Copley, in Julia Trevelyan Oman's authentic setting stars Ileana Cotrubas and Neil Shicoff as Mimi and Rodolfo, whose tender love affair is doomed from the start. Marilyn Zschau and Thomas Allen sing the roles of Musetta and Marcello. The opera is conducted by Lamberto Gardelli.
Here Comes Garfield

**Here Comes Garfield** is an Australian VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment.

## Description

As the story opens, Garfield and dim-witted playmate, Odie are about to play havoc with a nasty neighbour. Unfortunately, their friskiness lands Odie in the city pound. And that leaves it up to a rueful Garfield to break into the dog pound.
Kate Bush - The Single File

**Kate Bush - The Single File** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on June 1983.

## Track listing

1. Wuthering Heights
2. Man with the Child in His Eyes
3. Hammer Horror
4. Wow
5. Them Heavy People
6. Breathing
7. Babooshka
8. Army Dreamers
9. Sat in Your Lap
10. The Dreaming
11. Suspended in Gaffa
12. There Goes a Tenner
Night Bombers

**Night Bombers** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by EMI on October 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on the 1980s.

## Description

**No 1 Group, Royal Air Force, in action Winter 1943-44**

In the winter of 1943-44, RAF Bomber Command was sending massive raids almost every night into the heart of Germany. This is the story of one of them, an attack on Berlin, probably the most heavily defended target of them all and one which made terrible demands on the courage of young aircrew. On the long, cold and desperately dangerous trip over Northern Germany and back to a difficult landing in wintry England, thousands of men died or suffered ghastly injuries. One must imagine that they were terrified much of the time, but there is very little sign of doubt or anxiety on the brave faces in Iliffe Cozen's film. And although certain scenes had to be recreated for technical reasons, make no mistake, the raid is a real one and there are no actors.

The film was made by one man with a clockwork 16mm Bell & Howell camera and the recently introduced American Kodachrome film. If he had not been a most distinguished airman he would probably have been celebrated as a documentary film-maker. We have altered his film very little, adding sound effects and a commentary by Brian Johnson, whose programme for BBC TV, *Bombers*, included a long extract from it. Cozens was fortunate in that, as Station Commander at Hemswell at the time, he was able to do things which lower-ranking film-makers might have found impossible, like cutting open the fuselage of a crashed Lancaster to film night interiors or flying a formation take-off in the station Airspeed Oxford to obtain the tremendous shot of V-Victor struggling into the air.

History is fortunate in that Cozens had himself experienced all the activities we see in the film and can show us clearly how they worked: he had flown raids over Germany, but he had also been involved in the planning of them at Group HQ and in the day-to-day running of an active station. The crew of V-Victor, led by Flt. Lt. Chandler (alias Harris) survived the war. 55,573 men of Bomber Command died attacking Germany. Harris's crew represent the heroism of them all. But it was also Cozens's intention that we should understand the part played by thousands of other men and women who struggled to maintain the aircraft night and day, whose skill helped bring exhausted crew safely home, who prayed for them and worried about them, and those whose awful job was to order them to go, night after night.

GARRY POWNALL
Nickelodeon

**Nickelodeon** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by EMI on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on 1985.

## Description

The year is 1910. The new entertainment medium, silent movies, is growing into an industry, and a group of innocent odd-balls find themselves in California making a film. Ryan O'Neal is a lawyer who smells success; Burt Reynolds, the leading man, is an ex-referee of alligator wrestling; Jane Hitchcock a myopic dancer who literally stumbles into movies; and Tatum O'Neal a kooky teenager who supplies the props. A series of location mishaps end up on film, proving an unexpected hit, and the film folk become 'stars'. Director Peter Bogdanovich's love for the early days of silent cinema shows in every physical detail lavished on the Hollywood pioneers. The climax is the premiere of D.W. Griffith's mammoth production The Birth of a Nation - clearly feature films are here to stay!

## Cast

* Ryan O'Neal as Leo Harrigan
* Burt Reynolds as Buck Greenway
* Tatum O'Neal as Alice Forsyte
* Jane Hitchcock as Kathleen Cooke
* Brian Keith as H.H. Cobb
* Stella Stevens as Marty Reeves
* John Ritter as Franklin Frank
* Brion James as bailiff
* Sidney Armus as judge
* Joe Warfield as defence attorney
* Lorenzo Music as Mullins
* Jeffrey Byron as Steve
* Priscilla Pointer as Mabel
* Philip Bruns as Duncan
* Frank Marshall as Dinsdale's assistant
* Harry Carey, Jr. as Dobie
* James Best as Jim
* George Gaynes as Reginald Kingsley
* M. Emmet Walsh as "Father" Logan
* Miriam Byrd-Nethery as Aunt Lula
* Les Josephson as the Nickelodeon bouncer
* Griffin O'Neal as a boy on a bicycle
* Hamilton Camp as Blacker
* Elaine Partnow as Movie Fanatic
Hobson's Choice

**Hobson's Choice** is a pre-cert UK VHS released by EMI on 1980.

## Description

Hobson's Choice (1954) was based on the lively comedy by Harold Brighouse, set in 1890's Lancashire. Charles Laughton gives a tour de force performance as Hobson the tyrannical widower with a fondness for alcohol. He provides some gloriously comic moments, as on the occasion he drunkenly chases the moon from puddle to puddle. Brenda de Banzie plays the strong-minded Maggie, the plain but clever eldest daughter, who, her sisters assume, will conveniently stay unmarried and look after their father and his shop. Maggie, however, has a different future in mind for herself and announces her intention to marry Willie Mossop, much to the consternation of all concerned, including the prospective bridegroom. John Mills plays the excessively timid boothand who makes the best shoes in the district. Maggie decides that once they are married they are to set up in business on their own, and once Maggie has made up her mind nothing can sway her from her course. But the marriage proves to be much more than a business merger and the love affair between the two is developed with tenderness and humour. Hobson's Choice then is the Taming of the Shrew in reverse as the task of embolding the mild Willie is embarked upon. The director has coaxed some finely judged acting not only from the three leads; he also makes admirable use of the excellent supporting cast which includes Prunella Scales and John Laurie. Thanks to the great care taken to create authentic sets, such as the living quarters at the back of Hobson's shop or the slum streets of Salford, the film strongly evokes the feeling of life in a Northern town in the 1890's. Director David Lean, now better known for epics such Dr Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, has woven all the various elements with intelligence and warmth and the end product is a sheer delight. LINDA WOOD

## Cast

* Charles Laughton as Henry Horatio Hobson
* John Mills as Will Mossop
* Brenda De Banzie as Maggie Hobson
* Daphne Anderson as Alice Hobson
* Prunella Scales as Vicky Hobson
* Richard Wattis as Albert Prosser
* Derek Blomfield as Freddy Beenstock
* Helen Haye as Mrs. Hepworth, the financial backer
* Raymond Huntley as Nathaniel Beenstock
* Jack Howarth as Tubby Wadlow, another Hobson employee
* Joseph Tomelty as Jim Heeler
* Julien Mitchell as Sam Minns, the publican
* Gibb McLaughlin as Tudsbury
* Philip Stainton as Denton
* John Laurie as Dr. MacFarlane
* Dorothy Gordon as Ada Figgins
* Madge Brindley as Mrs Figgins
Cross of Iron

**Cross of Iron** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1984.

## Description

1943. The German Army is retreating, pounded on all sides by the Russian onslaught. The only men who survive are those who revel in war and destruction - like Sergeant Steiner (James Coburn). And men who won't risk their necks for anything - like Captain Stransky (Maximilian Schell). Stransky wants one thing above all - the supreme symbol of bravery, the Iron Cross. And he wants Steiner to win it for him - and get blown apart while doing so. But Steiner isn't known as a rebel for nothing... Sam Peckinpah's searing picture of men living at extremes - fighting for their lives.

## Cast

* James Coburn as Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
* Maximilian Schell as Hauptmann Stransky
* James Mason as Oberst Brandt
* David Warner as Hauptmann Kiesel
* Klaus Löwitsch as Unteroffizier. Krüger
* Vadim Glowna as Schütze Kern
* Roger Fritz as Leutnant Triebig
* Dieter Schidor as Schütze Anselm
* Burkhard Driest as Schütze Maag
* Fred Stillkrauth as Obergefreiter Karl "Schnurrbart" Reisenauer
* Michael Nowka as Schütze Dietz
* Véronique Vendell as Marga
* Arthur Brauss as Schütze Zoll
* Senta Berger as Eva
* Igor Galo as Leutnant Meyer
* Slavko Štimac as Russian Boy
* Demeter Bitenc as Capt. Pucher
* Vladan Živković as Wolf
* Bata Kameni as Gefreiter Joseph Keppler
* Hermina Pipinić as Russian Major
Local Hero

**Local Hero** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1983.

## Description

Dallas-style dramas rumble the quaint Scottish village of Furness in this highly acclaimed British comedy from Gregory's Girl director, Bill Forsyth. Oil tycoon, astronomy freak and the subject of some pretty peculiar psychoanalysis, Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster) has plans to transform the Bay of Furness into a giant oil processing plant. Contrary to expectation, the eccentric local residents are only to eager to oblige with the sale of their homes - but for a sole dissenter, the beachcomber.

## Cast

* Peter Riegert as Mac
* Burt Lancaster as Felix Happer
* Fulton Mackay as Ben Knox
* Denis Lawson as Gordon Urquhart
* Norman Chancer as Moritz
* Peter Capaldi as Danny Oldsen
* Rikki Fulton as Geddes
* Alex Norton as Watt
* Jenny Seagrove as Marina
* Jennifer Black as Stella
* Christopher Rozycki as Victor
* Christopher Asante as Reverend Macpherson
* John Gordon Sinclair as Ricky
* Caroline Guthrie as Pauline
* John M. Jackson as Cal (as John Jackson)
Paddington's 6th 'Anywhen' T.V. Show

**Paddington's 6th 'Anywhen' T.V. Show** is a UK VHS release by EMI on 1980.

## Description

### **SOMETHING NASTY IN THE KITCHEN**

The Browns are ill in bed, and Paddington decides to make them a stew, but falls asleep while cooking dumplings. A colossal dumpling rises from the oven and out into the garden, and Mr. Brown reports seeing a bird break his beak on a giant 'snowball'.

### **TROUBLE AT THE LAUNDERETTE**

At the launderette, Paddington accidently spills several cups of cocoa into the wash. Mr. Curry discovers that he now has one large brown sweater instead of six white ones, and Paddington offers him a cup of cocoa as consolation.

### **PADDINGTON CLEANS UP**

Working as a salesbear for a vacuum cleaner company, Paddington tries to impress Mr. Curry with the vacuum by first making a mess of his living room with soot, ashes and a marmalade sandwich. Unfortunately the vacuum cannot be plugged in as Mr. Curry's house has no electricity.

### **MR. CURRY TAKES A BATH**

Paddington tries to stop Mr. Curry from using the Browns' newly-built sauna by locking him out, but by mistake locks him in instead. By the time Judy manages to unlock the door, Mr. Curry has become slightly overheated.

### **FORTUNE TELLING**

At the fair, Paddington has his paw read by Madame ZaZa. He is not impressed when she mistakes a chunk of marmalade for his lifeline, and soon decides to spend his money on something more important than fortune telling... the rides at the fair.

## Episodes

1. Something Nasty in the Kitchen
2. Trouble at the Launderette
3. Paddington Cleans Up
4. Mr. Curry Takes a Bath
5. Fortune Telling
Comfort and Joy

**Comfort and Joy** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on March 1985.

## Description

**From the director of 'Local Hero' and 'GREGORY'S GIRL'**

Alan Bird thinks he has life pretty well organised. Glasgow's top DJ, with a nice apartment, and the only red BMW Cabriolet north of Manchester, he has little to worry about until his kleptomaniac girlfriend Maddy ditches him just before Christmas. With his apartment and his life stripped bare, he stumbles across a furious vendetta between rival Italian ice-cream families. Caught in the crossfire and looking for something meaningful in life, he decides to take things seriously and settle the dispute between these feuding mafiosi!

## Cast

* Bill Paterson as Alan Bird
* Eleanor David as Maddy
* Clare Grogan as Charlotte
* Alex Norton as Trevor
* Patrick Malahide as Colin
* Rikki Fulton as Hilary
* Roberto Bernardi as "Mr. McCool"
* George Rossi as Bruno
* Peter Rossi as Paolo
* Billy McElhaney as Renato
* Gilly Gilchrist as Rufus
* Caroline Guthrie as Gloria
* Ona McCracken as Nancy
* Elizabeth Sinclair as Fiona
* Katy Black as Sarah
* Robin Black as Lily
* Ron Donachie as George
* Arnold Brown as Psychiatrist
* Iain McColl as Archie
* Billy Johnstone as Amos
Look Back in Anger

**Look Back in Anger** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1983

## Description

John Osbourne's outspoken masterpiece, announced the arrival of the 'angry young young man' of contemporary youth culture. Richard Burton is superb as the trend-setting 'anti-establishment' hero who attacks both life and and wife with all the bitterness he feels for the injustices of humanity. Abondoning the latter to her pregnancy, he begins to explore the charms of her despised middle-class girlfriend, Helen. By now, even best friend Cliff has had enough of him. Only one shadowy figure remains loyal...

## Cast

* Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter
* Claire Bloom as Helena Charles
* Mary Ure as Alison Porter
* Edith Evans as Ma Tanner
* Gary Raymond as Cliff Lewis
* Glen Byam Shaw as Colonel Redfern
* Phyllis Neilson-Terry as Mrs. Redfern
* Donald Pleasence as Hurst, the market inspector
* George Devine as Doctor
* Walter Hudd as Actor
* Nigel Davenport as 1st Commercial Traveller
* Alfred Lynch as 2nd Commercial Traveller
* Toke Townley as Spectacled Man
* S. P. Kapoor as Kapoor
Percy

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

## Description

When medical science came up with heart, kidney, and various other organ transplants, the film industry promptly responded with the penis transplant. The result is as delightfully smutty as the traditional British seaside postcard: always naughty, usually rude, and bursting with double meanings. Hywel Bennett plays suave young antique dealer Edwin Anthony, who is rushed to hospital after a singularly nasty accident involving the sharp bits of a chandelier, Sir Emmanuel Whitbread makes history with the resulting operation. 'You are the first man to have someone else's!', he informs our unfortunate hero when he comes round. It turns out that Edwin has done rather well out of the swop, and he spends the rest of the film on a bizarre sexual quest in an effort to discover the identity of the original owner of his new part. A series of rather predictable jokes are introduced as Edwin encounters a society slut, a grandiose gay, and a suburban Jewish housewife, until he lodges with the liberated but rather cold Moira Warrington, and yes, her late husband was indeed the proud possessor of the Percy that has now become very much attached to Edwin. Rather than cut a good idea off in its prime thought the plot now takes in a series of mistresses, including Britt Ekland and Julia Foster, and, anxious to get in on the gross media publicity that the operation has unleashed, Edwin's estranged wife also leaps into the fray. 'Pornography runs riot on the Screen' ran a newspaper headline when Percy was first released (1971). Nothing could he further from the truth: it is all very harmless fun. As well as a good central performance from Hywel Bennett, who mopes about like a dog with a new tail (which is more or less what he has, of course), there are some enjoyable little cameo sequences. A stripper, for example, is imported into the hospital ward to writhe around on the floor to see if Percy can rise to the occasion. Watch, too, for a hilarious portrayal by Denise Coffey of a Scottish ambulance operator - 'Do we have Percy plus, or Percy minus?' - and Denholm Elliot as the scheming surgeon. And, as an added bonus, the Kinks supply the music. MIKE SPARROW

## Cast

* Hywel Bennett – Edwin Anthony
* Denholm Elliott – Emmanuel Whitbread
* Elke Sommer – Helga
* Britt Ekland – Dorothy Chiltern-Barlow
* Cyd Hayman – Moira Warrington
* Janet Key – Hazel Anthony
* Tracey Crisp – Miss Elder
* Antonia Ellis – Rita La Rousse
* Tracy Reed – Mrs. Penney
* Patrick Mower – James Vaile
* Pauline Delaney – Sister Flanagan
* Adrienne Posta – Maggie Hyde
* Julia Foster – Marilyn
* Sheila Steafel – Mrs. Gold
* Arthur English – Pub Comic
* Angus MacKay – TV producer
* Rita Webb – Mrs. Hedges
* Charles Hodgson – TV interviewer
* Sue Lloyd – Bernice
* Denise Coffey – Operator #1
* Edward Malin – Elderly patient
* Margaretta Scott – Rita's Mother
* Graham Crowden – Alfred Spaulton
* T. P. McKenna – Meet the People Compere
* Tony Haygarth – Purdey
* Jane Carr – Nurse
* Ronnie Brody – Reporter
* Penny Brahms – Football Spectator
* George Best – Himself
Accident

**Accident**is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1982.

## Description

Joseph Losey, who made a memorably destructive foray into English class hatreds in The Servant, is partnered again with screenwriter Harold Pinter in this acerbic study of love and jealousy among the dons of Oxford. Critics in 1967 called it his most intellectually exciting and absorbing film to date. Like a surgeon removing scar tissue, he takes apart two different kinds of men each of whom loves the same girl. Dirk Bogarde falls in love with his college student (Jacqueline Sassard) with the guilty self-loathing of a man married to a tea-trolley-wife (Vivien Merchant); Stanley Baker pursues the girl with a bright-eyed pride of a natural predator whose own wife is a tame, domesticated type. Just as a comment on the unsatisfactory nature of English married life, this film has a swingeing savagery. But it has more. Like a meteorite, Pinter's script buries itself under the surface of people and events and pulses with destructive energy while leaving everything seemingly undisturbed at ground level. In rivalry with both of the older men is a blond, blue-blooded student, a sprig of the landed gentry, played by Michael York. It is his death in an 'accident' that springs the trap of guilt, remorse and thwarted sexual ambition omn all concerned. Scene after scene contains it prickly revelations. In a long sequence directed and written with fiendish brilliance, a typical lazy English Sunday luncheon turns into a hundred little acts of murder in the heart and thoughts as the characters' jealousies get wound up to snapping point. In a funnier vein, Baker's ambitions to become a television personality get flattened by Harold Pinter in person, playing a network producer. In a scene that transposes time with Proustian sleight-of-hand, Delphine Seyrig and Bogarde enjoy a love-dialogue that, paradoxically, is like a silent reverie. And the revelation of a new side to Stanley Baker's talents alone makes Accident a landmark movie. ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Dirk Bogarde as Stephen
* Stanley Baker as Charley
* Jacqueline Sassard as Anna
* Michael York as William
* Vivien Merchant as Rosalind, Stephen's wife
* Alexander Knox as University Provost
* Delphine Seyrig as Francesca, daughter of the Provost
* Ann Firbank as Laura
* Brian Phelan as Police Sergeant
* Terence Rigby as Plain clothed policeman
* Freddie Jones as Man in Bell's office
* Maxwell Findlater as Ted (Findlater was reportedly a pseudonym of actor Maxwell Caulfield, who was not a child actor per se)
* Carole Caplin as Clarissa
* Harold Pinter as Bell
* Nicholas Mosley as Hedges
* Steven Easton as Baby, Stephen and Rosalind's baby
Food, Wine & Friends Volume 1

**Food, Wine & Friends Volume 1**is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1982

## Description

**With guests JOHN CLEESE, JOANNA LUMLEY, JOSEPH COTTON, VALENTINA CORTESE**

Robert Carrier is the most famous writer on food in the world today - and with good reason. His expertise is beyond question, with both his restaurants starred by Michelin, and his books are generous with the practical knowledge he has gained. Now all his charm, enthusiasm and skill are available on video in the series Food, Wine and Friends. In each of the four programmes which go to make up a cassette he prepares and cooks for us a particular dish, visits one of the great vineyards of Europe to show us what to look for (and what to avoid) when buying a wine, and finally introduces us to one of his equally famous friends, some of whom demonstrate their own kitchen skills. Much more than just a how-to-cook series, Food, Wine and Friends, is Robert Carrier's urbane introduction to a whole new way of living. Volume 1: Robert Carrier starts his series with a simple roast beef, which most people think they know all about, while the pâté may be a new adventure for some cooks. But his methods transform a recipe: for instance, he uses two different cheeses in the au gratin potatoes, his third dish for us. Finally, he shows us his way with deep-frying. For the wines we are taken to Bordeaux to sample a Pauillac, to Beajolais, to nearby Maçon to try the famous Pouilly Fuissé, and to Italy for a Bardolino. We almost believe we are really tasting the wines with Robert Carrier, so vividly does he talk about them. The four famous guests are John Cleese, of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers; Valentina Cortese, the distinguished Italian actress; Joanna Lumley, the tough Purdey in The New Avengers and lately in Sapphire and Steel; and the great Joseph Cotten, whose films range from Citizen Kane and The Third Man to Airport 77.
Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon

**Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon** is a pre-cert UK VHS released on EMI on November 1981 and a UK LaserDisc released by Thorn EMI Video on 1984.

## Track listing

1. Moving
2. Them Heavy People
3. Violin
4. Strange Phenomena
5. Hammer Horror
6. Don't Push Your Foot on the Handbrake
7. Wow
8. Feel It
9. Kite
10. James and the Cold Gun
11. Oh England My Lionheart
12. Wuthering Heights
Now That's What I Call Music Video

**Now That's What I Call Music Video** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on 1983 and a Laserdisc released by Thorn EMI (PMI) on January 1985.

## Songs

1. Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love
2. Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know
3. UB40 - Red Red Wine
4. Limahl - Only for Love
5. Heaven 17 - Temptation
6. Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch
7. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
8. Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
9. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
10. Mike Oldfield - Moponlight Shadow
11. Rock Steady Crew - (Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew
12. Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together
13. Freez - I.O.U.
14. Howard Jones - New Song
15. UB40 - Please Don't Make Me Cry
16. Will Powers - Kissing with Confidence
17. Genesis - That's All
18. Kajagoogoo - Big Apple
19. Assembly - Never Never
20. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
21. Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack - Tonight I Celebrate My Love
Water

**Water** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Thorn EMI Video on December 1985.

## Description

**THEY'RE ALL IN IT - UP TO THEIR NECKS!**
On Cascara they've just discovered water that makes you GO like clockwork. And from Whitehall to Washington they're losing their bottles to get their grubby little paws on this lucrative little gusher.

## Cast

* Michael Caine as Governor Baxter Thwaites
* Valerie Perrine as Pamela Weintraub
* Brenda Vaccaro as Dolores Thwaites
* Leonard Rossiter as Sir Malcolm Leveridge
* Billy Connolly as Delgado Fitzhugh
* Chris Tummings as Garfield Cooper
* Dennis Dugan as Rob Waring
* Fulton Mackay as Reverend Eric McNab
* Jimmie Walker as Jay Jay
* Dick Shawn as Deke Halliday
* Fred Gwynne as Franklin Spender
* Trevor Laird as Pepito
* Alan Igbon as Cuban
* Maureen Lipman as Margaret Thatcher
* Alfred Molina as Pierre
* Bill Persky as TV director
* Ruby Wax as Spenco Executive
Heartland

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

## Description

The true story of the young widow Elinore Randall, who leaves her home in Denver to become housekeeper and later wife, to a dour Scotsman on his remote ranch in Burnt Fork, Wyoming. Together they endure the hardships and privations of farming the harsh barren land - he with grim determination, she with cheerful resilience and humour. Conchata Ferrell won universal acclaim for her role as the plucky young widow in this poignant yet unsentimental portrayal of the pioneering days of the West.

## Cast

* Rip Torn as Clyde Stewart
* Conchata Ferrell as Elinore Randall Stewart
* Barry Primus as Jack
* Megan Folsom as Jerrine
* Lilia Skala as Mrs. Landauer
* Amy Wright as Clara Jane
* Jerry Hardin as Cattlebuyer
* Mary Boylan as Ma Gillis
* Jeff Boschee as Land Office Agent #1
* Robert Overholzer as Land Office Agent #2
* Bob Sirucek as Dan Byrd
* Marvin Berg as Justice of the Peace
* Gary Voldseth as Cowboy
* Mike Robertson as Cowboy
* Doug Johnson as Cowboy
Hot Gossip

**Hot Gossip** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1982.

## Description

Since Kenny Everett launched them as 'The Naughty Bits' on his Thames T.V. show three years ago, Hot Gossip have won the reputation for being the most sensational rock dance act of the Eighties. All over the world they are celebrated in the press for their style, their sensuality and for the sheer energy of their explosively sexy dance routines. So sit back and allow yourself to be seduced by the sumptuous costumes, the vivid sets and Hot Gossip's wholly modern and quite irresistible brand of entertainment. High voltage Hot Gossip. Official naughty bits. TOO SEXY FOR TELLY, SAYS MARY WHITEHOUSE. The Sun.

## Track listing

1. Press Darlings
2. Morale
3. Word Before Last
4. Houses in Motion
5. Burn For You Geisha
6. Boys and Temple Girls
7. Love on The Phone
8. Circus of Death
9. I Don’t Depend on You
The King of Comedy

**The King of Comedy** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1984.

## Description

The King of Comedy brings together what must be one of the most significant screen partnerships of all time, director Martin Scorcese and Robert De Niro, the demon duo already responsible for Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull, and comedy veteran Jerry Lewis. The plot is as unique as it is thrilling. Rupert Pupkin (De Niro) is an aspiring comic and obsessive fan of TV comedian Jerry Langford (Lewis). Fired with the ambition to score a spot on Jerry's show, Rupert insinuates himself into his hero's limo as another fan, Marsha, is being extricated from the back seat. Langford is as charming as he is dismissive. And when it finally dawns upon the ingenuous Rupert that being nice is not enough, he conspires with Marsha in a sensationally irresponsible scheme to beat defeat.

## Cast

### Principal cast

* Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin, a struggling stand-up comedian with mental health issues, who longs to appear on Langford's show. Pupkin styles himself as "The King of Comedy".
* Jerry Lewis as Jerry Langford, a famous late-night TV host.
* Sandra Bernhard as Masha, another mentally unstable fan of Langford.

### Supporting cast

* Diahnne Abbott as Rita Keene, a bartender who is Rupert's love interest.
* Shelley Hack as Cathy Long, Langford's main secretary.
* Margo Winkler as a receptionist of Langford's production company
* Kim Chan as Jonno, a house servant of Langford.
* Frederick De Cordova as Bert Thomas, a producer of Langford's show.
* Edgar Scherick as Wilson Crockett, a network television executive.
* Ed Herlihy as himself
* Tony Randall as himself
* Victor Borge as himself
* Joyce Brothers as herself

### Cameo appearances

* Catherine Scorsese as Rupert's Mom *(only voice)*
* Cathy Scorsese as Dolores, a fan of Pupkin in one of his daydreams.
* Martin Scorsese as TV director
* Charles Scorsese as first Man at Bar
Bloodbath at the House of Death

**Bloodbath at the House of Death** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1984.

## Description

**THE MOVIE THAT TOOK A LOT OF GUTS TO MAKE!**
Anarchic comic talents Kenny Everett and Pamela Stephenson team up with Vincent Price in this riotous send-up of every horror movie you've ever seen. A team of scientists descend on lonely Headstone Manor, where 18 deaths took place in one night, to engage in paranormal research. As they prepare to retire for the night, each experiences a deluge of terror - with ghouls, ghosts and simply gallons of blood! All except for lovely, blonde Dr Barbara Coyle, for whom the ghouls have quite a different experience in store!

## Cast

* Kenny Everett as Dr. Lukas Mandeville
* Pamela Stephenson as Dr. Barbara Coyle
* Vincent Price as Sinister Man
* Gareth Hunt as Elliot Broome
* Don Warrington as Stephen Wilson
* John Fortune as John Harrison
* Sheila Steafel as Sheila Finch
* John Stephen Hill as Henry Noland
* Cleo Rocos as Deborah Kedding
* Graham Stark as The Blind Man
* Pat Ashton as Barmaid
* David Lodge as Inspector Goule
* Debbie Linden as Attractive Girl
* Tim Barrett as Doctor
* Barry Cryer as Police Inspector
* Anna Dawson as Nurse
* Gordon Rollings as Man at bar
* Michael McIntyre as E.T. (uncredited)
Star Fleet

**Star Fleet** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1983. It was the UK version of original 1980 Japanese series.

## Description

**THE SPECTACULAR AVDENTURES OF 2 WARRING GALAXIES IN SPACE - THE IMMENSELY POPULAR TV SERIES**

The year is 2999. A Star Fleet Cruiser from Earth's far-off colony on Pluto is destroyed by an alien warship. Earth's latest spaceship, the magnificent X-Bomber with its brave crew of astronauts, androids, giant robot and the beautiful girl Lamia, is despatched to defend the galaxy. Far out in Space are their enemies-the Imperial Alliance-led by the demonic Commander Makara, half-male half-female, and his hideous assistant, Captain Orion...
The New One-Armed Swordsman

**The New One-Armed Swordsman** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment on October 1985.

## Description

This exciting tale of chivalry and revenge set in China's remote past features some of Shaw Brothers' most famous martial arts stars. David Chiang plays young master swordsman Lei Li, who vows vengeance on the corrupt Lung Yi-chih for tricking him into a duel in which he lost his right arm. While in hiding, working as a waiter in a small inn, Lei meets wandering swordsman Feng Chun-chieh (Ti Lung). The two team up to take on Lung in his impregnable Tiger mountain fortress - a life or death struggle from which only one will emerge alive!

## Cast

* David Chiang as Lei Li of han dynasty
* Ti Lung as Feng Junjie / Hero Fung
* Lee Ching as Ba Jiao
* Ku Feng as Long Yizhi / Lung Er Zi
Whisky Galore!

**Whisky Galore!** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on 1980.

## Description

**From the novel by COMPTON MACKENZIE**
With Whisky Galore (1948) it is Scotland's turn to play host to the comedy of national character. Made entirely on the Isle of Barra (renamed Todday, for liquorous reasons), this is a tougher satire than most Ealing entertainments since it deals with the quick-wittedness and self-preservation of the Scots. Compton Mackenzie wrote the script (along with Angus Macphail) from his own novel, which may account for the undiluted robustness of character and incident. It is 1943 and Todday's population is wilting under a whisky famine - until a ship goes aground with 50,000 cases aboard. Alter a decent interval for Sabbatarian observance, the menfolk hijack the cargo, spirits flow, morale picks up. and the only cloud on the horizon (apart from the hangover) is the Home Guard commander, an Englishman whose officious zeal calls in the Customs. No one who sees the film will forget the deftness with which director Alexander Mackendrick orchestrates the many ways in which the Scots hide their liquid loot, pouring it into hot-water bottles, filling up the rain barrels, tucking it up with baby in the cot or putting it into pies whose proof is in the eating. Whisky Galore is a nimble comedy: it moves. It also blends in a nice little love story, with Joan Greenwood as the fickle telephonist wooed by the English sergeant. Gordon Jackson - the Hudson of Upstairs Downstairs many tots later - plays a shy son who stands up to his Ma after a dram or two. Basil Radford plays the spoilsport Sassenach who's always two steps behind the cunning natives as he tries to impose the old, lordly English idea of Imperial law and order on their wayward habits. James Robertson Justice, Wylie Watson, Duncan Macrae and even Compton Mackenzie (as Captain Buncher) behave like people who know the joke from the inside so that, as critic Richard Winnington wrote at the time, '(the film) is free of the terrible affliction of self-consciousness... It doesn't stand aside and say "Aren't we being funny?"'

ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Joan Greenwood as Peggy Macroon
* James Robertson Justice as Dr Maclaren
* Gordon Jackson as George Campbell
* Wylie Watson as Joseph Macroon
* Catherine Lacey as Mrs Waggett
* Jean Cadell as Mrs Campbell
* Henry Mollison as Mr Farquharson
* Morland Graham as the Biffer
* John Gregson as Sammy MacCodrun
* Gabrielle Blunt as Catriona Macroon
* Duncan Macrae as Angus MacCormac
* Compton Mackenzie as Captain Buncher
Videohits

**Videohits** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Thorn EMI Video on January 1984, a CED released by RCA Columbia Pictures Video on 1984 and a LaserDisc released by ON TV on 1984.

## Tracklist

1. Kiss The Bride - Elton John
2. The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
3. Mama - Genesis
4. Till I Can't Take Love No More - Eddy Grant
5. We Are Detective - Thompson Twins
6. Nobody's Diary - Yazoo
7. Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy - Kid Creole & The Coconuts
8. Wait Until Tonight - Galaxy
9. L.O.U. - Freez
10. Looking At Midnight - Imagination
11. Kissing With Confidence - Will Powers
12. Maxine - Raf Ravencroft
13. First Picture of You - The Lotus Eaters
14. Never Never - The Assembly
15. Come in Itself - Depeche Mode
16. I Think It's Going To Rain Today - UB40
17. LA Sevenissma - Rondo Veneziano
18. Waiting For A Train - Flash In The Pain
19. Pink Houses - John Cougar Mellencamp
20. Don't Try To Stop It - Roman Holiday
Strange Invaders

**Strange Invaders** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on May 1984.

## Description

**Of all the Worlds, in all the Galaxies... why did they have to pick this one?**

The sky blazed with an eerie blue light over the mid-west town of Centreville. When the kids arrived home, their families had gone. Soon they would follow. But where? Thirty years later Charles Bigelow travels to Centreville to investigate the disappearance of his estranged wife Margaret. What he found became a living nightmare. Seeing the aliens was like looking death in the face...

## Cast

* Paul Le Mat as Charles Bigelow
* Nancy Allen as Betty Walker
* Diana Scarwid as Margaret Newman Bigelow, Charles Bigelow's former wife and mother of Elizabeth
* Michael Lerner as Willie Collins
* Louise Fletcher as Mrs. Benjamin, government employee overseeing aliens
* Wallace Shawn as Earl, superintendent of Betty Walker's apartment building
* Fiona Lewis as waitress/Avon lady
* Kenneth Tobey as Arthur Newman, Centerville resident
* June Lockhart as Mrs. Bigelow
* Charles Lane as Professor Hollister, Charles Bigelow's department head
* Lulu Sylbert as Elizabeth Bigelow, Charles and Margaret's human/alien hybrid daughter
* Joel Cohen as Tim
* Dan Shor as teen boy in prologue
* Dey Young as teen girl in prologue
* Jack Kehler as gas station attendant
* Mark Goddard as NYPD detective
* Thomas Kopache as state trooper
* Bobby Pickett as editor
* Connie Kellers as Connie
* Nancy Johnson as stewardess #1
* Betsy Pickering as stewardess #2
* Jonathan Ulmer as waiter
* Ron Gillham as first alien
* Al Roberts as man in dark glasses
* Edwina Follows as nurse
* Patti Medwid as waitress
The Amazing Adventures of Morph: Volume 1

**The Amazing Adventures of Morph: Volume 1** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1982.

## Description

Six of Morph's TV stories set in his Under-the-Table world, featuring Chas and Delilah, Gillespie and Grandmorph, Folly and the Very-Small-Creatures-and, of course, "Nailbrush". MORPH'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. What's the point of a birthday with no presents and no "many happy returns"? But the family has remembered after all. With great difficulty Delilah makes a cake as a surprise, and Morph ends his birthday with a splash. MORPH'S PLAYS GOLF. Morph meets his match when Chas plays with a "magic" ball and Gillespie, with the help of the Very-Small-Creatures, hides in the ground to scare him! THE TWO MOUNTAINEERS. "All for one - and than one's me!" is Morph's usual cry, but this time after an amazing ascent of the North Face of Tony's studio, it's the others who take the cake. THE DAY MORPH IS ILL. Nobody can be more ill than Morph! When the strain of looking after him is too much the others collapse - and he has to look after them! A SWIMMING-POOL IN THE GARDEN. The roots of Morph's rooftop garden grow down through the ceiling and the whole lot falls in. It's Grandmorph's brainwave and Delilah's plumbing that converts the garden into a swimming-pool for them all. THE DOUBLE-DECKER BOOT. With a converted boot as a caravan, drawn by Nailbrush, Morph leaves home to start a new life in the open countryside - but a stormy night changes his mind.

## Episodes

1. Morph's Birthday Party
2. Morph Plays Golf
3. Two Mountaineers
4. The Day Morph Was Ill
5. A Swimming Pool in the Garden
6. The Double Decker Boot
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2

**The Hills Have Eyes Part 2** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on January 1985.

## Cast

* Tamara Stafford as Cass
* Kevin Spirtas as Roy
* John Bloom as The Reaper
* Colleen Riley as Jane
* Michael Berryman as Pluto
* Penny Johnson as Sue
* Janus Blythe as Rachel/Ruby
* John Laughlin as Hulk
* Willard E. Pugh as Foster
* Peter Frechette as Harry
* Robert Houston as Bobby Carter
* Edith Fellows as Mrs. Wilson
* Susan Lanier as Brenda
The Amazing Adventures of Morph: Volume 2

**The Amazing Adventures of Morph: Volume 2** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on May 1982.

## Description

Six of Morph's TV stories set in his Under-the-Table world, featuring Chas and Delilah, Gillespie and Grandmorph, Folly, the Very-Small-Creatures and "Nailbrush". Also introducing a somewhat incomprehensible visitor from another planet - Gobbledygook. THE BABY SITTERS. The Circus Act - see "The Magnificent Morph" on the tightrope, "Fearless Folly" riding bareback on Nailbrush. "Daring Delilah" fired from a cannon... in all out effort to stop the baby crying. They very nearly succeed, but not quite! HOW IT ALL BEGAN. Inspired by the arrival of Grandmorph's word-processing machine. Morph is suddenly struck with an idea. This is the real story of how he started to write the famous book which became known as "The Amazing Adventures of Morph". THE STRANGE VISITOR. The mysterious appearance of an extra-planetary short green person with a swelling head and a voracious appetite who eats everything he can lay his hands on - except for horrid, nasty things like sweets and ice-cream of course! His mum asked if he could come and play sometimes and Morph thought she was too huge to argue with. MORPH'S FORGOTTEN DREAM. Morph wakes up after dreaming a really fabulous adventure and he wants to write it all down quickly. But by the time they get the word processing machine to work... he's forgotten it! GOBBLEDYGOOK THE BURGLAR. Comics, cricket bats and rocking-chairs mysteriously vanish. so Grandmorph sets up his magic-eye burglar alarm while Morph goes looking for "inside information". Everything ends happily with ice cream all round. But Gobbledygook hates ice-cream so he enjoys a lovely bar of rasberry-and-vanilla flavour soap instead. INVISIBLE MORPH. Morph practices metamorphosing and carelessly gets the instructions wrong. He vanishes completely by mistake!

## Description

1. The Baby Sitters
2. How It All Began
3. The Strange Visitor
4. Morph's Forgotten Dream
5. Gobbledygook the Burglar
6. Invisible Morph
The Nightingale

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

## Description

The Emperor of China's palace is the most beautiful palace in the world and everything in it is quite perfect. Why then does nobody except the little kitchen girl know about the most beautiful thing of all the song of the Nightingale? Even when he hears the Nightingale, the Emperor prefers a jewel-encrusted mechanical copy, which delights his silly courtiers with its dull, repetitive song. But years later, when Death comes, the Emperor realises his folly.

*The Nightingale* brings together once again the talented team who made the immensely successful *Tales of Beatrix Potter*. This time, however, instead of ballet dancers they have assembled a cast of puppets to people the Emperor's court. The elaborate costumes and intricate interiors of the imperial palace reveal the love, care and attention to detail which have gone into the making and which are the hallmarks of any Goodwin/Edzard production. The result is a disarmingly beautiful film of a delightful tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live

**Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live** is a UK VHS release by Picture Music International on June 1985.

## Track Listing

1. Twist and Shout
2. Roll over Beethoven
3. I Wanna Be Your Man
4. Long Tall Sally
5. Love Me Do
6. Please Please Me
7. From Me To You
8. She Loves You
9. I Want To Hold Your Hand
10. Can't Buy Me Love
11. Shout
12. All You Need Is Love
Swallows and Amazons

**Swallows and Amazons** is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on 1979. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on January 1985 as 'Star Selection'.

## Description

Swallows and Amazons (1974) a bright and breezy story of children on holiday in the Lake District in 1929. The kind of holiday, when parents know their place as providers of food, pocket money and encouragement and don't interfere or give unwanted advice. To that extent, Arthur Ransome's tale of six children messing about in boats sounds like almost any novel written for children between the Wars. But Ransome had a special talent for putting over the practical information that enquiring young minds - and older ones too-lap up avidly. He did ii by making the facts an integral part of the plot. 'During Ransome's lifetime (he died in 1967) the novelist and critic Eric Linklater wrote: 'He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure'. Director Claude Whatham's nostalgically in-period holiday adventure film brings all Ransome's factual information to vivid life. How to sail a 13-foot dinghy; how to take in a reef or slip the halyard if the wind gets up; how to row; how to camp out like Robinson Crusoe, oven if you are only a little girl of nine; how foil thieves. In short, how to have good fun and keep your mind active at the same time. When Mrs Walker (Virginia McKenna) writes to her Naval Commander husband to ask if their four children may sail and camp out on an Island, he telegraphs BETTER DROWN THAN DUFFERS, IF NOT DUFFERS WON'T DROWN. This insistence on the desirability of intelligent self-reliance sets the mood of the story and of the film. They have a lot of weather in the Lake District, where mist and rain and racing clouds look picturesque and cause time-wasting delays to film makers. But Whatham is a calm and cheerful director and there is no sign of the many problems that had to be overcome in the making of this happy, colourful re-creation of the peaceful summer of 1929 when danger meant imaginary sharks and a ferocious ogre is only jolly Uncle Ronald Fraser pretending to be a big bad pirate, complete with parrot. MARJORIE BILBOW

## Cast

* Virginia McKenna - Mrs. Walker
* Ronald Fraser - Uncle Jim
* Simon West - John Walker
* Suzanna Hamilton - Susan Walker (credited as Zanna Hamilton)
* Sophie Neville - Titty Walker
* Stephen Grendon - Roger Walker
* Kit Seymour - Nancy Blackett
* Lesley Bennett - Peggy Blackett
* Mike Pratt - Mr. Dixon
* Brenda Bruce - Mrs. Dixon
* John Franklyn-Robbins - Young Billy
* Jack Woolgar - Old Billy
* David Blagden - Policeman
Rewind

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

Crammed in to this 3 hour cassette is: Billy Connolly's Funniest Story, Pamela Stephenson's Night of Terror with Landscape, Shakespeare for the Hard of Hearing, Kenny Everett, The Worst Ad of All Time plus 5 of the Best, An Interview with the Welsh Answer to Muhammad Ali, Amazing Animation by Caroline Leaf, Meaningless Songs in Very High Voices from the HeeBeeGeeBees, Last Tango in Paradise. More entertainment than you ever thought could be sqeezed into 60 minutes - plus 2 hours of blank tape to fill yourself