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Supergirl

**Supergirl** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1984.

## Description

Stunning special effects take the breath away as Supergirl, cousin of Superman, battles with the power-crazed witch Selena, hell bent on Universal domination. On a desperate mission to Planet Earth, Supergirl must retrieve a missing life-giving power-source to save her home city from total destruction. Startled by her own amazing Superpowers, Supergirl traces the lost Omegahedron only to discover that it has fallen into the hands of the rapacious Selena, who unleashes untold horrors to thwart her young adversary. When Selena ensnares her brave opponent in the dreaded Phantom Zone, it seems that Supergirl's mission - and the Universe - are doomed...

## Cast

* Helen Slater as Kara Zor-El / Linda Lee / Supergirl
* Faye Dunaway as Selena
* Peter O'Toole as Zaltar
* Hart Bochner as Ethan
* Mia Farrow as Alura In-Ze
* Brenda Vaccaro as Bianca
* Peter Cook as Nigel
* Simon Ward as Zor-El
* Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen
* Maureen Teefy as Lucy Lane
* David Healy as Mr. Danvers
* Sandra Dickinson as Pretty Young Lady
* Matt Frewer as Truck Driver ('Eddie')
* Kelly Hunter as Argonian Citizen
* Glory Annen as Midvale Protestor

### Cast notes

Christopher Reeve was slated to have a cameo as Superman but bowed out early on. His non-appearance in the film is explained via a news broadcast (overheard by Selena) stating that Superman has left Earth on a "peace-seeking mission" to a distant galaxy. Director Jeannot Szwarc said in the Superman documentary *You Will Believe...* that Reeve's involvement in this film would have given the feature higher credibility, and he admitted he wished Reeve had made a contribution to the film's production. A publicity photo of him as Superman, however, did appear as a poster in Lucy and Linda's shared dorm room.

Marc McClure makes his fourth of five appearances in the *Superman*-related films; he is the only actor to appear in all four films featuring Superman and this spin-off film. Demi Moore auditioned for and was cast as character Lucy Lane but bowed out to make the film *Blame It on Rio*. Maureen Teefy was signed instead.
The Dead Zone

**The Dead Zone** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on September 1984.

## Description

He had been clinically dead for five long years. His youth, his career, and the girl he loved had been taken from him. The coma had drawn him to a life beyond time, and left him an awesome legacy. In a nerve-shattering vision of a child trapped in a burning house, Johnny's phenomenal psychic powers arrive full-blown upon the scene. An involuntary witness to the most appalling events, some past, others yet to come, Johnny accidentally discovers his unique capacity to alter the future. And so he is propelled towards the moment when he is forced to make one crucial decision. A decision reflecting on the fate of all mankind...

## Cast

* Christopher Walken as Johnny Smith
* Brooke Adams as Sarah Bracknell
* Tom Skerritt as Sheriff George Bannerman
* Herbert Lom as Dr. Sam Weizak
* Anthony Zerbe as Roger Stuart
* Colleen Dewhurst as Henrietta Dodd
* Martin Sheen as Greg Stillson
* Nicholas Campbell as Deputy Frank Dodd
* Simon Craig as Chris Stuart
* Géza Kovács as Sonny
The Glittering Crowns

**The Glittering Crowns** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1981.

## Description

The Glittering Crowns presents a vivid tapestry of colorful and stirring events in which pomp and pageantry are interwoven with human stories of achievement, crisis and failure. This is a unique visual record of monarchy in a turbulent century.

Watch the spectacular pageants of Tsar Nicholas II. Watch the monarch ride by at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Watch the investiture of Prince Charles, the wedding of King Juan Carlos and many more lavish royal occasions. Be an eyewitness to the tragedies and the dramas of monarchy in the 20th Century: The assassination that started World War I, the brutal murder of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseilles, Edward VIII renouncing the throne for Mrs Simpson, King Boris of Bulgaria making terms with Adolf Hitler, actual wartime resistance film of King Christian X of Denmark, King George VI and his Queen touring the blitzed streets of London, Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.

This programme has been designed to entertain and inform.
Summer Holiday

**Summer Holiday** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1984.

## Description

**Swing back to the Sixties when Cliff and the Shadows search for the sun...**

SUMMER HOLIDAY is a unique Sixties period piece combining fun, drama, dance, romance and a whole catalogue of classic songs featuring the one and only Cliff Richard and, of course, The Shadows. SUMMER HOLIDAY; 7 DAYS TO A HOLIDAY; WHO FORGOT TO FILL THE TANK; TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE; ROUND & ROUND; LES GIRLS; FOOT TAPPER; STRANGER IN TOWN; ORLANDO'S MIME; BACHELOR BOY; SWINGING AFFAIR; FOLLOW THAT BUS; REALLY WALTZING; ALL AT ONCE; DANCING SHOES; YUGOSLAV WEDDING; THE NEXT TIME; BIG NEWS. In response to recurrent outbreaks of Cliffomania, and by way of celebrating the star's twenty-fifth year 'in the business', THORN EMI are also releasing his two other most memorable movies: THE YOUNG ONES, WONDERFUL LIFE

## Cast

* Cliff Richard as Don
* Lauri Peters as Barbara
* Melvyn Hayes as Cyril
* Una Stubbs as Sandy
* Teddy Green as Steve
* Pamela Hart as Angie
* Jeremy Bulloch as Edwin
* Jacqueline Daryl as Mimsie
* Madge Ryan as Stella
* Lionel Murton as Jerry
* Christine Lawson as Annie
* Ron Moody as Orlando
* David Kossoff as Magistrate
* Wendy Barry as Shepherdess
* Nicholas Phipps as Wrightmore
* The Shadows as themselves
The Lavender Hill Mob

**The Lavender Hill Mob** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on April 1981.

## Description

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) epitomises everything that later caused the Ealing comedies to be described as having done more to win Britain friends abroad than any official efforts to promote international understanding. Ordinary people, in extraordinary situations, demonstrate the British flair for coping with the unexpected that proved their strongest weapon in World War 2, yet mock those very institutions they fought so hard to preserve. The plot is almost too well-known to be mentioned, but needs to be outlined because it flouted the censorship rules of the early Fifties by making fun of the police and allowing a thief to enjoy his ill-gotten gains. It was the disarming charm of the film that won it critical approval, only occasionally diluted with reproving references to the 'amorality' of the characters and story. An underpaid clerk (Alec Guinness) and a frustrated sculptor turned maker/exporter of gaudy souvenirs (Stanley Holloway) get together to steal a million pounds in gold bars from the Bank of England with the not over-bright help of professional crooks Sid James and Alfie Bass. The gold, transformed into seemingly worthless models of the Eiffel Tower is shipped safely to Paris where, by accident, six 'souvenirs' are sold to English schoolgirls. The efforts of our heroes to get these back involve a police car chase that has frequently been compared to the zany tomfoolery of the Keystone Kops. The action of the film (directed by Charles Crichton, who made the first Eating comedy Hue and Cry after proving his talent for making audiences laugh with the golfing scenes in Dead of Night) is hilariously funny. But it is the sly humour of T.E.B. Clarke's dialogue and the understated subtleties of the acting that give The Lavender Hill Mob the authentic Ealing comedy flavour. The supporting cast includes Marjorie Fielding, John Gregson, Clive Morton, Sidney Tafler and Patrick Barr. Easily recognisable. Not so easy to spot Audrey Hepburn selling cigarettes. One sneeze and you've missed her. MARJORIE BILBOW

## Cast

* Alec Guinness as Henry "Dutch" Holland
* Stanley Holloway as Alfred "Al" Pendlebury
* Sid James as Lackery Wood
* Alfie Bass as Shorty Fisher
* Marjorie Fielding as Mrs. Chalk
* Edie Martin as Miss Evesham
* John Salew as Parkin
* Ronald Adam as Turner
* Arthur Hambling as Wallis
* Gibb McLaughlin as Godwin
* John Gregson as Farrow
* Clive Morton as Station Sergeant
* Sydney Tafler as Clayton
* Marie Burke as Senora Gallardo
* Audrey Hepburn as Chiquita
* William Fox as Gregory
* Michael Trubshawe as British Ambassador
* Jacques B. Brunius, Paul Demel, Eugene Deckers and Andreas Malandrinos as Customs Officials
* Cyril Chamberlain as Commander
* Moultrie Kelsall as Detective Superintendent
* Christopher Hewett as Inspector Talbot
* Meredith Edwards as P.C. Williams
* Patrick Barr as Divisional Detective Inspector
* David Davies as City Policeman
* Desmond Llewelyn as Customs Official (uncredited)
* Richard Wattis as opposition MP (uncredited)
Villain

**Villain** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by EMI on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on 1985.

## Description

Meet Vic Dakin, successful businessman - and overweight sadistic thug. Boss of the largest protection racket in the East End - with friends in the highest of places, blackmailed into complete submission. He enjoys casually re-arranging a face with his trusty razor, as much as he enjoys beating up a young lover. And he absolutely adores his elderly mother... But the Law have been waiting a long time for Dakin to make just one small mistake - then they intend to nail him - for good.

## Cast

* Richard Burton as Vic Dakin
* Ian McShane as Wolfe Lissner
* Nigel Davenport as Bob Matthews
* Donald Sinden as Gerald Draycott
* Fiona Lewis as Venetia
* T. P. McKenna as Frank Fletcher
* Joss Ackland as Edgar Lowis
* Cathleen Nesbitt as Mrs Dakin
* Colin Welland as Tom Binney
* Elizabeth Knight as Patti
* Tony Selby as Duncan
* Del Henney as Webb
* James Cossins as Brown
* John Hallam as Terry
* Anthony Sagar as Danny
* Clive Francis as Vivian
* Shirley Cain as Mrs Matthews
Scrubbers

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

## Description

What happens when a young girl is sentenced to Borstal and locked away from the everyday world?

Blazingly well acted acted by a cast of unknowns, some of whom have done time, Scrubbers exposes a brutal society in wwhich the strong survive and the weak are no match for the cruelties of the system.

Through the hatred of lesbian Carol and and promiscuous teenage mother Annetta, we follow the endless round of violence, bitching and brawling have made Britain's borstals notorious breeding grounds for crime.

## Cast

* Amanda York – Carol Howden
* Chrissie Cotterill – Annetta Brady
* Elizabeth Edmonds – Kathleen
* Kate Ingram – Eddie
* Amanda Symonds – Mac
* Kathy Burke – Glennis
* Debby Bishop – Doreen
* Eva Mottley – Pam
* Imogen Bain – Sandy
* Honey Bane – Molly
* Camille Davis – Sharon
* Rachael Weaver – Gwen
* Dana Gillespie – Budd
* Pauline Melville – Crow
* Pam St. Clement – Strapper
* Miriam Margolyes – Jones
* Jackie Holborough – Daly
* Brian Croucher – Leo
* Tim Kightley – Dr. Siles
* Robbie Coltrane – Puff Guts
The Amazing Adventures of Morph: Volume 3

**The Amazing Adventures of Morph: Volume 3** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1982.

## Description

Six of Morph's TV stories set in his Under-the-Table world with Grandmorph, Chas, Delilah, Folly, Gillespie and "Nailbrush" and, of course the Very-Small-Creatures (including Green who always gets left behind). THE DAY MORPH WENT SKIING. One morning they find the hill outside is covered in snow... of course it would be the little green Very-Small-Creature who gets frozen up inside the snowman, while Morph - going neither left nor right ends up with a split personality. MORPH AND THE SWOGGLE-FLANGE. Grandmorph, repairing the soft-drinks machine, mislays a vital part of it inside one of Delilah's ground-granite rock cakes... which just happens to be inside Chas! THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN. The 'Yeti', hiding in huge snowdrifts, is known as the Abominable Snowman. He can't help being abominable and to prove it rescues Morph and Chas. Or was it all just a dream? The others just laugh when he tells them, and outside the falling snow covers up the giant footprints so Morph can never know for sure. THE DOG SHOW. 'Nailbrush' is washed, polished and heribboned and Morph proudly exhibits him at the Show for Thoroughbred Brushes - which Chas, with a few whispered words, reduces to utter chaos. MORPH THE WEAKLING. Feeling fat and flabby the two friends, Morph and Chas, discover that keeping fat is a great deal easier than keeping fit! GREEN - A VERY SMALL-CREATURE . The worm turns. Feeling put upon and ignored the little Green Very-Small-Creature gets Morph to teach him metamorhposis, but he is still no better off because now everyone runs away from him! It isn't easy making friends.

## Episodes

1. The Day Morph Went Skiing
2. Morph and the Swoggle Flange
3. Abominable Snowman
4. Dog Show
5. Morph the Weakling
6. Green - A Very Small Creature
The Land That Time Forgot

**The Land That Time Forgot**is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on June 1985.

## Description

To have created and chronicled the adventures of John Clayton Lord Greystoke, (better known to millions as Tarzan of the Apes) would have been sufficient guarantee of immortality to most men. But not content with this, the American Edgar Rice Burroughs (E.R.B. to generations of fans) also produced stories of inter-planetary adventure on Mars and Venus, crime fiction, Hollywood romances, Westerns and historical - and indeed pre-historical - novels, including The Land That Time Forgot. In the book, E.R.B. advanced a rival theory of evolution to that of Darwin, but in the 1974 film version, its adaptors (including Michael Moorcock, the science fiction writer perhaps most akin to the Master) chose to concentrate on the more escapist aspects of the story, which is revealed to the world through a manuscript found in a bottle salvaged by a Cornish coastguard. This tells how a German U-Boat, captured by the survivors of one of its victims, the S.S. Montrose, is swept by currents under the Polar ice to land on the fabled continent of Caprona. This is a rich and fertile land, teeming with strange, often terrifying life-forms. while searching for oil to re-fuel their engines the party are attacked by assorted prehistoric monsters and primitive savages, who carry off the inevitable lady scientist (Susan Penhaligon). She is rescued from a fate worse than death by the film's resourceful young American hero (Doug McClure). Indeed. all seems set for escape when a spectacular volcanic eruption engulfs the submarine and strands the young lovers forever on the Land That Time Forgot. All in all a thoroughly ripping yarn, wisely played perfectly straight, lavishly produced and with splendid special effects by Derek Meddings. 'Even the dinosaurs are lovely!' wrote one enraptured critic. This is splendid entertainment for all audiences, a film of which one feels that even the great E.R.B., who so intensely disliked most Hollywood versions of Tarzan, would have wholeheartedly approved. JACK IBBERSON

## Cast

* Doug McClure as Bowen Tyler
* John McEnery as Captain Friedrich Von Schoenvorts
* Susan Penhaligon as Lisa Clayton
* Keith Barron as John Bradley
* Anthony Ainley as Lt. Dietz
* Godfrey James as Borg
* Bobby Parr as Ahm
* Declan Mulholland as Olson
* Colin Farrell as Whiteley
* Ben Howard as Benson
* Roy Holder as Plesser
* Andrew McCulloch as Sinclair
* Ron Pember as Jones
* Grahame Mallard as Deusett
* Andrew Lodge as Reuther
* Brian Hall as Schwartz
* Stanley McGeagh as Hiller
* Peter Sproule as Hindle
* Steve James as First Sto-Lu
Stephen King's Cat's Eye

**Stephen King's Cat's Eye** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment on 1986.

## Description

FROM THE MASTER OF MODERN HORROR.

If you could see the world with a cat's eye you'd discover that there are things a cat sees and places a cat goes that would make your hair stand on end...

From The Master of Modern Horror: Stephen King.

## Cast

* Drew Barrymore as Our Girl/Amanda/Alicia Morrison
* James Woods as Dick Morrison
* Candy Clark as Sally Ann
* Alan King as Dr. Vinny Donatti
* Mary D'Arcy as Cindy Morrison
* Robert Hays as Johnny Norris
* Kenneth McMillan as Cressner
* James Naughton as Hugh
* James Rebhorn as Drunk Businessman
* Charles S. Dutton as Dom
* Mike Starr as Ducky
* Tony Munafo as Junk
* Court Miller as Mr. McCann
* Russell Horton as Mr. Milquetoast
* Patricia Benson as Mrs. Milquetoast
* Jack Dillon as Janitor
* Susan Hawes as Mrs. McCann
* Shelly Burch as Jerrilyn
* Sal Richards as Westlake
* Jesse Doran as Albert
* Patricia Kalember as Marcia
* Frank Welker as Cat / Special Vocal Effects
* Bill Hitchcock as Extra (uncredited)
* Tim Parati as Attendant (uncredited)
* Laura Warner as Cigarette Girl / Casino Girl / Bridge Driver
The Pied Piper and Cinderella

**The Pied Piper and Cinderella** is a UK pre-cert VHS release by Thames (Thorn EMI) Video in October 1981.

## Description

### **THE PIED PIPER**

For children of all ages, a beloved tale comes to life in a splendid production that highlights the art of the puppeteer. Against an imaginative medieval background, the story of the Piper who rid the town of Hamlin of its rats plays out — complete with the town’s betrayal and the Piper’s unique revenge. An enchanting tale for every family’s pleasure.

### **CINDERELLA**

An all-new, animated version of the favourite classic tale, blending music and motion into delightful entertainment. It’s the endearing, eternal story of Cinderella, her wicked step-mother, and her dreams of a Prince — a delightful fantasy that lights up the screen.
Scars of Dracula

**Scars of Dracula** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1982.

## Description

Although Bela Lugosi created the role of Count Dracula in the classic 1931 Dracula (Universal Studios), for most film-goers the part belongs firmly to Britain's Christopher Lee, who first donned fangs, cloak and red contact lenses for Hammer's seminal Dracula in 1958. If Hammer can justly lay claim to having revived the then moribund horror film genre, then Lee himself can certainly lay claim to having revived Count Dracula, a role which he played in several Hammer films. The Scars of Dracula (1970) belongs to Hammer's later period, with director Roy Ward Baker, a late entry in the Gothic stakes, taking over the direction from such classic exponents as Terence Fisher and Freddie Francis. He is lucky not only in having Lee as his vampire Count, but also the services of the brilliant team that did so much to make Hammer the most impressive makers of genre films since Universal in the 'thirties and 'forties.

The script by 'John Elder' (in reality Hammer producer Anthony Hinds) makes a satisfying return to Bram Stoker's original novel, with most of the action taking place in Dracula's castle. As always, Moray Grant's atmospheric cinematography, James Need's incisive editing. Scott MacGregor's impeccably Gothic art direction and James Bernard's music serve to showcase Lee's superb creation - and if the overall result tends to dominate the juvenile leads, (here well played by Minder's Dennis Waterman, and Jenny Hanley) it is as it should be. Dracula, after all, is the novel's - and the film's - major character and Baker allows Lee not only to demonstrate the creature's essential power and evil but also to portray the sexual and magnetic side to his personality; that element which director Terence Fisher has described as 'the charm of evil'. The Scars of Dracula emerges as a scary and well-crafted piece of British Gothic cinema that has the power to create creeping flesh and goose pimples time after time. And that is what horror films are all about.

ALAN FRANK

## Cast

* Christopher Lee as Count Dracula
* Dennis Waterman as Simon Carlson
* Jenny Hanley as Sarah Framsen
* Christopher Matthews as Paul Carlson
* Michael Gwynn as The Priest
* Michael Ripper as Landlord
* Patrick Troughton as Klove
* Anouska Hempel as Tania
* Wendy Hamilton as Julie
* Bob Todd as Burgomaster
* Delia Lindsay as Alice
The Queen of Spades

**The Queen of Spades** is a pre-cert UK VHS released by EMI on 1980.

## Description

During that superstitious era which historians have perversely dubbed the Age of Reason, the Count of Saint Germain declared himself to be the Wandering Jew and claimed to possess the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone. It was this man who divulged to Countess Ravenskaya the secret of the three winning cards, a certain passport to success at the gaming tables. In a gambling-mad St Petersburg, where vast fortunes change hands nightly on the turn of a card, the penniless Captain Suvorin determines to wrest this secret from the Countess by hook or by crook. By exposing the innocence of her young companion, Suvorin finally seems to have achieved in the end - but unkind fate has a trick or two in store, and of a terrifying nature indeed. For in this triumphant version of Pushkin's celebrated novella, the film's director has pulled off strokes as frightening as anything achieved by even the old master Hitchcock himself. The electrifying scene when Suvorin approaches the coffin of his victim to pay his last respects, and the drawn out drama of the climactic card-games, are surely among the most unforgettably chilling moments in all cinema. Thorold Dickinson, distinguished director of that other remarkable period drama Gaslight, is splendidly served by his costume designer (Oliver Messel) and art director (William Kellner) in this vivid depiction of the splendour, dissipation and debauchery of life in the heyday of the Tsars. The cast is exceptional - Anton Walbrook eaten up by self-justifying greed as Suvorin, Yvonne Mitchell all doe-eyes and trembling innocence as the lovely heroine and above all the superb Edith Evans as the Countess, dozing in her box at the opera, outrageously bullying her servants and aged beaux alike, crotchety, querulous and so terribly knowing-triumphing even in death. Stylistically reminiscent of the early German cinema, with a rare sophistication and elegance, The Queen of Spades (1948) ranks as a great achievement in the history of British cinema.

## Cast

* Anton Walbrook as Captain Herman Suvorin
* Edith Evans as Countess Ranevskaya
* Yvonne Mitchell as Lizavetta Ivanova
* Ronald Howard as Andrei
* Mary Jerrold as Old Varvarushka
* Anthony Dawson as Fyodor
* Miles Malleson as Tchybukin
* Michael Medwin as Hovaisky
* Athene Seyler as Princess Ivashin
* Ivor Barnard as Bookseller
* Aubrey Mallalieu as Fedya
* Maroussia Dimitrevitch as Gypsy singer
* Violetta Elvin as Gypsy dancer
* Pauline Tennant as young Countess Ranevskaya
* Hay Petrie as Herman's servant (final film)
* Aubrey Woods as Dimitri
The Finest Hours

**The Finest Hours** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1981.

## Description

The Finest Hours is a tribute to Sir Winston Churchill as he is best remembered, as the war leader who rallied the British nation in the dark days after the fall of France and used his superb mastery of the English language to give hope to the vanquished and to strengthen the revolution of all who shared his indomitable fighting spirit. Based on Sir Winston's own memoirs, iy is primarily a documentary record of World War II as seen through his eyes and recounted in his own words. But director Peter Baylis and writer Victor Wolfson have wisely given it the format of a biography, for as Sir Winston himself once said-all his life was a preparation"for this hour and this trial! Those 65 eventful years of preparation are sketched-in rapidly but fully, from his birth in Blenheim Palace in 1874 to the momentous day that marked the beginning of the end of Hitler's dream of Godlike supremacy. The facts are not new to us; nor are all the excerpts from newsreels and other sources chosen to illustrate the major events of the war against Facism. But the selection has been done with such skill and artistry that it is impossible to watch The Finest Hours without feeling a glow of pride and thankfulness. This very fine documentary is not, and makes no pretence to be, 'warts and all' portrait of the whole man. It is exactly what its gifted makers intended it to be; an affectionate tribute to the Grand Old Man with the pugnacious set to his jaw, eyes gleaming with determination or twinkling with humour, who strode through streets and battlefields like a Colossus symbolising not only his country's bloody-minded refusal to surrender but also the ingenuity and eccentricities that where to prove so valuable in defeating the highly trained, well-equipped forces of the enemy. Not Sir Winston, but the Mr Churchill who was known and loved as 'Winnie'.

## Cast

* George Baker as Lord Randolph (voice)
* Faith Brook as Lady Randolph (voice)
* David Healy as Newsreel Commentator
* Orson Welles as Narrator (voice)
* George Westbury as Churchill as a boy (voice)
* Patrick Wymark as Churchill (voice)
The Red Arrows

**The Red Arrows** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1983.

## Description

**THE WORLD'S LEADING AEROBATIC TEAM IN ACTION!**

Speed, precision and teamwork have won the Red Arrows millions of fans all over the world. These two films, which have been described as 'the most exciting flying films ever made', vividly demonstrate this exacting test of a pilot's skill. Filmed by former RAF pilot Arthur Gibson from the cockpit of one of the team, they convey just what it's like to be part of a formation flying an intricate, high-speed aerobatic routine.
The Amazing Howard Hughes

**The Amazing Howard Hughes** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1982.

## Description

'Amazing' is too mild a word to describe the life and career of Howard Hughes, millionaire, flyer, playboy, and film maker, whose story was far too strange ever to have been invented by even the most imaginative script writer. This movie, originally shown in two parts on American television, manages the near impossible: it covers the highlights of his life and exploits in totally fascinating way, skillfully directed by William A. Graham from an excellent screenplay by John Gray. The result is a first-rate biopic which, as far as one can tell, gets closer to the man and what makes him tick than one could legitimely hope for. The movie follows Hughes from his early days when, at the age of nineteen, his inventor father died and Hughes inherited a fortune. Using his new-found wealth, Hughes went to Hollywood, where, fascinated by the film industry, he became a film producer. Eventually, his second obsession, aviation, was combined with movie-making, and Hughes produced and then took over direction of the classic W.W.1. flying movie Hell's Angels in 1929. He set up world records as a pilot, formed the Hughes Aircraft Company, and later was to gain control of TWA - and still he found time to launch Jane Russell in The Outlaw. But in 1946, Hughes was to crash while test-flying one of his own planes; a crash that led to his becoming a recluse, protected by his faithful retainers from the world and living a life of total isolation in hotel suites guarded from all outside contact. Tommy Lee Jones, in a very difficult role, scores heavily as Hughes, showing all the facets of his incredible character. The scenes of Hollywood film-making are some of the most impressive put on film, and the film deals discreetly with his movieland affairs, including one with Katharine Hepburn (a great performance from Tovah Feldshuh). Director Graham very effectively shows Hughes' deterioration into an eccentric more in need of protection from himself than from the world. The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) is American biographical film-making at its peak. ALAN FRANK

## Cast

* Tommy Lee Jones as Howard Hughes
* Ed Flanders as Noah Dietrich
* Lee Purcell as Billie Dove
* Sorrell Booke as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
* James Hampton as Wilbur Peterson
* Howard Hesseman as Jenks
* Tovah Feldshuh as Katharine Hepburn
* Marla Carlis as Jane Russell
* Ed Harris as Russ
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

**It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet** is a UK VHS release by EMI on April 1981.

## Cast

* John Alderton as James Herriott
* Colin Blakely as Siegfried Farnon
* Lisa Harrow as Helen
* Bill Maynard as Hinchcliffe
* Paul Shelley as Richard
* Richard Pearson as Granville
* Rosemary Martin as Mrs Dalby
* Raymond Francis as Colonel Bosworth
* John Barrett as Crump
* Philip Stone as Jack
* Clifford Kershaw as Kendall
* Kevin Moreton as William
* Liz Smith as Mrs Dodds
* Leslie Sarony as Kirby
* Gwen Nelson as Mrs Kirby
The Railway Children

**The Railway Children** is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on 1979 and re-realesed on 1980.

## Description

From the novel by E. NESBIT. Even if The Railway Children did not have such a dramatic plot, it would still be a joy to watch for the warm, comforting glow of well-being it gives out. It takes us back to the Good Old Days we like to imagine they were when goodness and kindness and hard work brought the reward of happiness; when life was less complicated and love conquered all; when Christmas was really Christmas; when huge open fires crackled merrily in winter and summers were filled with sunshine and buttercups; when a man could do a lowly job, take pride in it and in himself and be respected for it. But The Railway Children is much more than a happy-ever-after dream, evoking nostalgia for a perfect world that exists only in our imaginations. E. Nesbit's writing had an astringency that has kept the episodic story fresh and undated. A father in prison for something he didn't do. A mother keeping brave and cheerful for the sake of her three children. A refugee Russian searching for his wife and family Dramas such as these do happen every day and it is inspiring to see E. Nesbit's characters face them with courage and laughter. Films that could be enjoyed by all the family were thin on the ground in 1971 when the distinguished character actor Lionel Jefferies turned director for the first time and took the risk of cutting his teeth on a much-loved story, long accepted as a classic.That it was a labour of love is apparent in every foot of this enchanting film with its exquisite photography by Arthur Ibbetson. No wonder Jefferies was able to cajole the lovely Dinah Sheridan (best remembered for her starring role in Genevieve)to return to the screen to play the mother of Jenny Agutter. Sally Thompsett and Gary Warren. William Mervyn as the kindly and generous Old Gentleman and Bernard Cribbins as the goodhearted but prickly railwayman are the other leading players in an excellent cast. MARJORIE BILBOW

## Cast

* Jenny Agutter as Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury
* Sally Thomsett as Phyllis Waterbury
* Gary Warren as Peter Waterbury
* Dinah Sheridan as Mother, Mrs. Waterbury
* Bernard Cribbins as Albert Perks
* William Mervyn as Old Gentleman
* Iain Cuthbertson as Father, Charles Waterbury
* Peter Bromilow as Doctor Forrest
* Ann Lancaster as Ruth
* Gordon Whiting as Russian
* Beatrix Mackey as Aunt Emma
* Deddie Davies as Mrs. Nell Perks
* David Lodge as Band Leader
* Christopher Witty as Jim
* Brenda Cowling as Mrs. Hilda Viney
* Paddy Ward as Cart Man
* Erik Chitty as Photographer
* Sally James as Maid
* Dominic Allan as CID Man
* Andy Wainwright as Desk Sergeant
* Amelia Bayntun as Cook (uncredited)
* Bob Cryer (Chairman of the K&WVR) as the guard of the train carrying Mr. Waterbury (uncredited)
* Graham Mitchell (K&WVR Guard) as Train Guard (uncredited)
Mona Lisa

**Mona Lisa** is a UK VHS release by Cannon Screen Entertainment on 16th March 1987.

## Cast

* Bob Hoskins as George
* Cathy Tyson as Simone
* Michael Caine as Denny Mortwell
* Robbie Coltrane as Thomas
* Clarke Peters as Anderson
* Kate Hardie as Cathy
* Zoë Nathenson as Jeannie
* Sammi Davis as May
* Rod Bedall as Terry
* Joe Brown as Dudley
* Pauline Melville as George's Wife
* Hossein Karimbeik as Raschid
* John Darling as hotel security
* Maggie O'Neill as girl in Paradise Club
* Bryan Coleman as Gentleman in mirror room
* Robert Dorning as hotel bedroom man
* Perry Fenwick as pimp
The Golden Seal

**The Golden Seal** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on September 1984.

## Description

**AN EXTRAORDINARY FRIENDSHIP. AN UNFORGETTABLE ADVENTURE**

The magestic [sic] Aleutian Islands, known locally 'the birthplace of storms', provide an awe-inspiring backdrop to this dramatic tale of a young boy's battle to save a rare and beautiful seal. Jim Lee is the only outsider reputed to have seen the sacred golden seal of the Aleut people, and he is keen to claim the bounty on the animal's precious pelt. But when, as prophesied, the golden seal returns to the islands amid a tempestuous storm, it is not Jim but his nine-year-old son Eric who finds the marvellous creature and watches as it gives birth to a pup. For the boy it seems that at last a friend has arrived to share his lonely island home. But for the father it means making the choice between a fortune in wealth and the love and trust of his son. THORN EMI is making a donation to the World Wildlife Fund on each copy of The Golden Seal sold.
The Third Man

**The Third Man**is a UK VHS release by EMI on 1980.

## Description

In 1949 the world was suddenly made aware of the zither. This minor musical instrument made evil audible in a film that seized the imagination like few other post-war productions. The Third Man hasn't lost its power to grip - or Anton Karas's tight, tense theme tune any of its nervous sense of clear and present danger. Graham Greene visited Vienna for producer Alexander Korda. As in his other travels, Greene's instinct for evil was like a divining rod and this time it guided him to the black market in contaminated penicillin which killed rather than cured - a symbol of European postwar sickness. To Vienna comes a slightly dumb American, played by Joseph Cotten, looking for a friend, Harry Lime, whom he won't believe is mixed up in the rackets. Cotten is drawn into a nightmarish intrigue that reveals the unwelcome truth and teaches him that simple friendship can conceal and even sustain a moral infection - a theme that Greene was to use in other, later writing. Although Orson Welles appears in relatively few scenes, his suave and sardonic Harry Lime, became the film's embodiment of evil - the character everyone remembers as clearly as his (not Greene's) cynical jest about Switzerland; 500 years of democracy and peace, 'and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock'. Carol Reed directs the film as a baroque homage to those masters of the Old High German cinema like Murnau and Lang. The screen is filled with shadows and one's perception of the normal is often angled (with the camera) to the sense of lurking menace. The cast mirrors the enforced internationalism of the partitioned city: Trevor Howard plays a bitter-tongued British security man. Alida Valli an enigmatic Central European beauty whose love for Harry in the movie's final, stunning shot is seen to transcend morality as well as frontiers. The Third Man, is a crime film, but it summed up shattered Europe's view of its weary past and frightening future. That zither music became the theme tune of a Cold War that still sends shivers down the spine. ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins
* Alida Valli (credited as Valli) as Anna Schmidt
* Orson Welles as Harry Lime
* Trevor Howard as Major Calloway
* Paul Hörbiger as Karl, Lime's porter (credited as Paul Hoerbiger)
* Ernst Deutsch as "Baron" Kurtz
* Erich Ponto as Dr. Winkel
* Siegfried Breuer as Popescu
* Hedwig Bleibtreu as Anna's old landlady
* Bernard Lee as Sergeant Paine
* Wilfrid Hyde-White as Crabbin
The Elephant Man

**The Elephant Man** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1981.

## Description

The Elephant Man is as bizarre a story as anything Charles Dickens imagined. What is more, it is true. John (also called Joseph) Merrick was the worst 'freak' case known to Victorian medicine. A hideous disease had distorted his face and body from birth into a physical parody of a pachyderm, and he remained a prize 'specimen' in a travelling side-show until a young surgeon called Treves salvaged him from the circus tent and coaxed out of the swollen husk a strangely sweet and unembittered personality. It is this 'transformation' that makes the film, produced by Mel Brooks' into an experience that far transcends any of the risks its material contains of being 'merely' a horror movie. Alter an unnerving build-up to the revelation of Merrick's deformity, through other people's reactions to it, director David Lynch begins to play on the notes of humanity inside the actor cast as Merrick. He is John Hurt - and he gives an unbelievably touching performance against considerable physical odds. For Hurt's own expressive features are almost sunk without trace in a 14-piece foam-rubber replica of Merrick's bulbous head. Although as imprisoned as anyone inside a Rio carnival mask, he uses lips and body to project an inner world of heart-wrenching sanity. With Anthony Hopkins, as Treves, he engages in a duet in which the man with the power of speech bounces his words off the other's disabled exterior until both are in responsive harmony. A finely attuned cast support Hopkins and Hurt; John Gielgud, Anne Bancroft, Wendy Hiller among them. And photographer Freddie Francis's black-and-white camerawork, distancing us from the Technicolour present, registers a Victorian era of industrial pollution and human exploitation in which a case like Merrick's seems almost a mutation caused by the release of sacrilegious elements that turned men into machines and set machines against men. It is, in every sense of the word, a luminous him. ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* John Hurt as John Merrick, an intelligent, friendly and kind-hearted man who is feared by most people in his society because of his severe deformity
* Anthony Hopkins as Frederick Treves, a doctor who takes John from the freakshow to work in the hospital
* Anne Bancroft as Madge Kendal
* John Gielgud as Francis Carr-Gomm
* Wendy Hiller as Mrs Mothershead
* Freddie Jones as Mr Bytes, the ringmaster (based on Tom Norman[4])
* Dexter Fletcher as Bytes' boy
* Michael Elphick as Jim, the night porter
* Hannah Gordon as Ann Treves
* Helen Ryan as Alexandra, Princess of Wales
* John Standing as Fox
* Lesley Dunlop as Nora, Merrick's nurse
* Phoebe Nicholls (picture)/Lydia Lisle (footage) as Mary Jane Merrick
* Morgan Sheppard as man in pub
* Kenny Baker as plumed dwarf
* Pat Gorman as Fairground Bobby
Warrior of the Lost World

**Warrior of the Lost World** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Thorn EMI Video on February 1985

## Description

**Now into a time of conflict and rebellion comes…**

Generations after the radiation wars and the collapse of nations, as a new Dark Age of Tyranny grips a distant land, the Outsiders battle with the evil despot Prossor and his deadly Omega Force. Into this conflict bursts rider, astride his supersonic speedcycle, to help the beautiful Nastasia rescue her father from the dictator's clutches.

But even as the Omega is dealt the final death blow the Rider must confront the mighty Prossor alone…
Ready Steady Go! Volume 2

**Ready Steady Go! Volume 2** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Picture Music on June 1984 and LaserDisc by Picture Music Iternational and Thorn EMI Video on December 1984.

## Track Listing

1. The Surfaris - Wipe Out (Intro) \*
2. The Beatles - Twist and Shout
3. The Beatles - She Loves You
4. The Beach Boys - I Get Around
5. The Beach Boys - Men I Grow Up
6. Marvin Gaye - Can I Get a Witness
7. Dusty Springfield - 24 Hours from Tulsa \*
8. Dusty Springfield - Losing You (All Cried Out)
9. Martha & The Vandellas - Dancing in the Street
10. Gene Pitney - I'm Going to Be Strong
11. Freddie and the Dreamers - I Love You Baby
12. P.J. Proby - Special Guest Interview
13. Brenda Lee - Let's Jump the Broomstick \*
14. The Fourmost - Baby, I Need Your Lovin'
15. Rufus Thomas - Walkin' the Dog
16. The Isley Brothers - Stagger Lee
17. Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lot of Shakin'
18. The Rolling Stones - I Got You Babe (by Sonny and Cher)
19. The Who - Shout and Shimmy
20. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

NOTE: \* Not released on VHS.
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Ivory Bay

### Status

Ruled by House PlousioPORT-LOCKED: No one may leave or enter until the missing Plusio Child is found.

### Inhabitants

Sailors, Pirates, Merchant, House Plousio

## A Sailor's Dream Land

**Ivory Bay** is fast paced, always changing and cutthroat. Boats dock, letting hundreds of merchants into the streets to try and make their way in gold. A small tax is taken from every merchant on entry that goes to the Valenzi Court Priesthood, the Queen and (of Course) Richard The Regal. Despite all the scoundrels you might find in the Ivory Bay, there is a code that most abide by. A code to always “honor among thieves”, especially for pirate that might be stopping in. It’s this atmosphere of honorable criminal activity that has left crime in that port rather low. However, if a fight was to break out, the pirates who often sell in the bay would be more inclined to break it up than the guards. Ivory Bay is known for Kangaroo courts, having criminals caught, brought to a pirate captain and sentenced to a hardship without House Plousio knowing. Despite the risk of being killed, ripped off or stolen from, still many from all over the realm travel to Ivory Bay just to find rare treasures that they wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else in the world. Pilgrims also visit the “Grand Shell” Rock in the middle village of the Ivory Bay dedicated to the God Martimo. A large turtle shell, folktales say that on a full moon you can hear the sounds of metal crafting coming from within the shell. Most inhabitants lay flowers, give thanks, and celebrate holy days to the Valenzi Court around the shell. However, there are those who have made human blood sacrifices to the God on the shell in the dead of night, an act which House Plousio has decreed a crime. This has not stopped older pirates however, thinking it is the best way to have favor with the old turtle god.

### Pirate Coven

Many pirate crews and ships such as the privateer keelboat *The Green Mary* make port in this bay for resupply and rest.

### Rumors

Rumor has it that there is a dark reason as to why no party has come forth to claim the debts on Richards head. There are those who believe Richard is in possession of a new magic weapon, a long sword made of Gold and Silver, crafted crafted by Martimo himself. This sword is so dangerous that despite him being in debt to clearly dangerous people, Richard has sent a majority of his troops to fight in the war, leaving his defenses weak. Not only that but he seemed oddly confident walking the Ivory Bay to gamble with more than two Guards, leaving most to wonder why he would do such things. To inflame the superstition, older sailors say that the feeling they get from watching him recently walk around with a new sword is “like looking into the eye of a storm”. Perhaps this is true or perhaps Richard “The Regal” has lost more than just part of his wealth, he’s lost his mind.
Thomas Dolby - Live Wireless

**Thomas Dolby - Live Wireless** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Picture Music International and Thorn EMI Video on November 1983, a CED released by RCA Columbia Pictures Video and EMI Music on the 1980s and a LaserDisc released by Thorn EMI Video on 1984.

## Tracklist

1. Europa
2. Windpower
3. One Of Our Submarines
4. Radio Silence
5. New Toy
6. Urban Tribal
7. Flying North
8. Jungleline
9. Puppet Theatre
10. Samson And Delilah
11. She Blinded Me With Science
12. Airwaves
Police Around the World

**Police Around the World** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Thorn EMI Video on June 1983.

## Description

**Join the band on their 1980-81 world tour!**

POLICE AROUND THE WORLD is musically electrifying, thoroughly entertaining, , often humorous and offers some fascinating insights into the back-stage personalities of one of the biggest bands in the international music scene today. Filmed on their famous world-wide tour (1980/81), the programme follows globe-trotting super-stars Sting, Andy and Stewart from Japan all the way to the U.S.A. via some tantalisingly exotic locations — Hong Kong, Australia, India, Egypt and South America. Elaborate film sequences of their various concerts are interspersed with delightful informal shots as the band familiarise themselves with the culture, the customs and the fans of each of their host countries. A must for all Police addicts — and for those who have yet to discover Police magic!

## Track listing

1. Next to You
2. Light Changes
3. Walking on the Moon
4. Born in the ‘50s
5. So Lonely
6. Man in a Suitcase
7. Can’t Stand Losing You
8. Bring on the Night
9. Canary in a Coalmine
10. Driven to Tears
11. When the World is Running Down
12. Shadows in the Rain
13. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
14. Don’t Stand So Close to Me
15. Truth Hits Everybody
16. Roxanne
17. Message in a Bottle
Pink Floyd - The Wall

**Pink Floyd - The Wall** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1983.

## Cast

* Bob Geldof as Pink
	+ Kevin McKeon as Young Pink
	+ David Bingham as Little Pink
* Christine Hargreaves as Pink's mother
* Eleanor David as Pink's wife
* Alex McAvoy as Teacher
* Bob Hoskins as Rock manager
* Michael Ensign as Hotel manager
* James Laurenson as Pink's father
* Jenny Wright as American groupie
* Margery Mason as Teacher's wife
* Ellis Dale as English doctor
* James Hazeldine as Lover
* Ray Mort as Playground father
* Robert Bridges as American doctor
* Joanne Whalley, Nell Campbell, Emma Longfellow, and Lorna Barton as Groupies
* Philip Davis and Gary Olsen as Roadies
Razorback

**Razorback** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment on September 1985 and a Laserdisc on December 1985.

## Description

**It's waiting outside and it can sense your fear - No nightmare will prepare you for it!**

Somewhere in the Australian outback there's a creature that can rip a man in half. And destroy a house in seconds. Razorback - a giant freak of Nature, nine hundred pounds of tusk and muscle which terrorizes an isolated community as violent and primitive as itself. Animal Rights campaigner Beth Winters incites the hatred of these roughnecks when she tries to expose their mass slaughter of kangaroos for pet food. She vanishes. Her distraught husband travels to discover the truth behind her disappearance and the evil elements turn on him. But the menace is double-edged: without warning the Razorback appears...

## Cast

* Gregory Harrison as Carl Winters
* Arkie Whiteley as Sarah Cameron
* Bill Kerr as Jake Cullen
* Chris Haywood as Benny Baker
* David Argue as Dicko Baker
* Judy Morris as Beth Winters
* John Howard as Danny
* John Ewart as Turner
* Don Smith as Wallace
* Mervyn Drake as Andy
* Redmond Phillips as the Magistrate
* Alan Becher as Counsel (credited as Alan Beecher)
* Peter Schwarz as Lawyer (as Peter Schwartz)
* Beth Child as Louise Cullen
* Rick Kennedy as Farmer
Rottweiler - The Dogs of Hell

**Rottweiler - The Dogs of Hell** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1984.

## Description

**A new and exciting motion picture featuring ten of the world's deadliest hounds.**

By the time they realised the mission was too dangerous to continue, it was too late. The lorry carrying the deadly cargo had crashed and the Rottweiler secret was about to erupt into a grisly, snarling rampage of terror and death. Once you've seen the film, you'll never forget the name... Rottweiler - the hound that only knows how to kill!