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Fear Is the Key

**Fear Is the Key** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on September 1982

## Description

Alistair MacLean's best-selling thrillers, with their complex and fast-moving plots and strong characterisation make ideal source material for movie adaptation. Not all of his novels have received the top-notch treatment they deserve at the hands of film-makers, however, and some of the movies have emerged as distinct disappointments. Fear Is the Key (1972) is definitely exception. It was the seventh MacLean book to be filmed and it is an exciting, action-packed adventure that contains just the right amounts of action and narrative to make it highly enjoyable movie. It simply sets out to entertain - and it succeeds splendidly. The credit belongs equally to scriptwriter Robert Carrington, British director Michael Tuchner and star Barry Newman. The skillful screenplay combines an ingeniously plotted thriller with enough action sequences to keep the most jaded cinema-goer on the edge of his seat and there's a heart-stopping climax set four hundred feet below the surface of the sea. Adding to the impact are the well-chosen Louisiana locations and impressive cinematography by Alex Thompson. The rivetting action sequences include a twenty-minute car chase that is one of the best ever put on the screen. The chase is brought about by hero Barry Newman's determination to escape from his trial for a bar-room brawl, but it's really part of Newman's ingenious scheme to get his revenge on an oil millionaire who was responsible for the death of his wife, young child and his brother in an air crash... With Sarah Ruthven (Suzy Kendall) whom he has taken as a hostage during his break-out from court, Newman succeeds in penetrating the millionaire's organisation and starts to put his plans into action... the plot is filled with clever twists and never relaxes its grip for an instant and the whole movie adds up to first class entertainment for the whole family. It's the ideal combination of MacLean's skill as a story-teller and film-making at its slickest and best. ALAN FRANK.

## Cast

* Barry Newman as John Talbot
* Suzy Kendall as Sarah Ruthven
* John Vernon as Vyland
* Dolph Sweet as Jablonsky
* Ben Kingsley as Royale
* Ray McAnally as Ruthven
* Peter Marinker as Larry
* Elliott Sullivan as Judge Mollison
* Roland Brand as Deputy
* Tony Anholt as FBI Agent
* John Alderson as Tanner (uncredited)
* James Berwick as (uncredited)
* Hal Galili as Cibatti (uncredited)
* Ernie Heldman as Bartender (uncredited)
Giselle

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

## Description

Giselle, was the greatest masterpiece among the ballets staged in Paris during the heyday of Romanticism. The double challenge of its central role - the simple peasant girl driven from joy to madness and death through an unhappy love, who becomes a ghost ordered to help destroy the man who betrayed her, and yet seeks to sustain him because of her undying love - has been called the Hamlet of ballet, and the interpreters of Giselle have included many of the greatest ballerinas since the ballet was first seen in 1841. It was in Russia that the importance of Giselle was recognised, and the ballet preserved, when it had disappeared from every other European theatre and the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet is the direct descendant of the Tsar's St. Petersburg ballet who guarded its great traditions since 1842; the year after its Paris premiere. The Kirov production we see here offers a choreographic text and dramatic understanding that are a direct product of this illustrious historical lineage: Giselle is superbly alive in this unrivalled presentation.
La Belle et la Bete

**La Belle et la Bete** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on September 1983.

## Description

As poet, artist and film-maker, Jean Cocteau was completely at home in the world illusion. In his 1945 version of the classic fairytale, elaborate tricks of staging and camerawork create an atmosphere which has all the extravagance of a dream. In this land of faery, trees part to let travellers through, the Beast's sinister castle is lit by thousand torches brandished by living arms, and the caryatids of stone fireplaces follow with their eyes the movements of those in the room. Exquisitely designed by Christian Bérard, La Belle et La Bête enchants from the first frame to last, weaving a binding spell of mystery and magic.

## Cast

* Jean Marais as La Bête (The Beast) / The Prince / Avenant
* Josette Day as Belle
* Marcel André as Belle's Father
* Mila Parély as Félicie
* Nane Germon as Adélaïde
* Michel Auclair as Ludovic
* Raoul Marco as The Usurer
Rhameini Becomes Jesus

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### Director

John Kricfalusi?

"Rhameini Becomes Jesus" is the last episode of the show called "Rhameini and Abraham - Adult Fairytale Cartoon"

## Synopsis

Rhameini crucifies Jesus and becomes the new Jesus.

## Trivia

* The script from this episode was never written.
* Apparently, if it was John K. who made this cartoon, this would be the last episode before Spike TV rejected John K.'s cartoon for the last time.
Aida

**Aida** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1985.

## Description

Verdi wrote *Aida* for the new Cairo Opera House, which had been built to mark the opening of the Suez Canal. The majesty of the Egypt of the Pharaohs provides the background for the human drama arising from the conflicting demands of love, patriotism and filial piety The Arena di Verona, built in the First century BC and with a seating capacity of 25,000 is a natural seating for *Aida* above all operas. The cast of this video recording is led by the soprano Maria Chiara as Aida, Fiorenza Cossotto, one of today's great interpreters of Amneris, with Nicole Martinucci as Radames and Giuseppe ScandoIa as Amonasro.
Lady Caroline Lamb

**Lady Caroline Lamb**is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on 1979. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on 1980.

## Plot Synopsis

The film describes the life of Lady Caroline Lamb (Sarah Miles) after she marries William Lamb (Jon Finch). Later she meets and falls in love with Lord Byron (Richard Chamberlain), but when he deserts her for a younger woman Miss Millbanke (Silvia Monti), she descends into madness. At the end of the film she dies from a broken heart.

## Cast

* Sarah Miles as Lady Caroline Lamb
* Jon Finch as William Lamb
* Richard Chamberlain as Lord Byron
* John Mills as Canning
* Margaret Leighton as Lady Melbourne
* Pamela Brown as Lady Bessborough
* Silvia Monti as Miss Millbanke
* Ralph Richardson as King George IV.
* Laurence Olivier as Duke of Wellington
* Michael Wilding as Lord Holland
* Peter Bull as Minister
* Charles Carson as Potter
* Sonia Dresdel as Lady Pont
* Nicholas Field as St. John
* Trevor Peacock as Boxing Agent
* Norman Mitchell as Waiter
* Bernard Kay as Benson
* Caterina Boratto
* Felicity Gibson as Girl in Blue
Honky Tonk Freeway

**Honky Tonk Freeway** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1982.

## Description

Ever since John Schlesinger made his international reputation with Darling he has been one of the British directors most courted by the Hollywood studios; and with Midnight Cowboy in 1969 he became one of the handful of British directors to carry off Oscars for both Best Film and Best Direction. Returning to the American scene, Honky Tonk Freeway is a worthy companion to the earlier film, for where that caught the glitter, excitement, disillusion and sometime bitterness of Manhattan, this is a marvellous reflection of the rural United States - exuberant, bustling, friendly, loquacious. As the title-song says, Honky Tonk Freeway is "America on wheels" and most of the characters are making their way, though they don't know it, to the small town of Ticlaw in Florida. The trouble with Ticlaw is that the new motorway is to bypass it, and its inhabitants, led by the inventive Mr Calo (William Devane), mayor, minister and chief hotelier, do not want to lose the benefits of tourism. When bribery fails, they resort to more desperate means, till eventually arriving in Ticlaw are the oddballs and others whose exploits we have been following en route: an unhappily married Chicagoan (Beau Bridges) who falls in love with a light lady (Beverly d'Angelo) who has exhausted the men in Paducah, Idaho; a retired ad-man (Hume Cronyn) and the Old Fashioned-downing wife (Jessica Tandy); two nuns, the young one (Deborah Rush) already doubting her vocation; and two hopeless bank-robbers (George Dzundza, Joe Grifasi). They are all, like the citizens of Ticlaw, corruptible to a man, and though the writer, Edward Clinton, is an American, the film's satiric view of the good old U.S. of A. did not please a number of reviewers. But, as with Midnight Cowboy Schlesinger's direction is as accomplished as it is affectionate; and of the species "road" or "runaround" comedies there have been few as sharp and as funny. DAVID SHIPMAN

## Cast

* Howard Hesseman as Snapper
* Teri Garr as Ericka
* Peter Billingsley as Little Billy
* Beau Bridges as Duane Hansen
* Beverly D'Angelo as Carmen Odessa Shelby
* Daniel Stern as Hitchhiker
* Celia Weston as Grace
* Deborah Rush as Sister Mary Magdalene
* Geraldine Page as Sister Mary Clarise
* George Dzundza as Eugene
* Joe Grifasi as Osvaldo
* Hume Cronyn as Sherm
* Jessica Tandy as Carol
* Frances Lee McCain as Claire Calo
* William Devane as Mayor Kirby T. Calo
* Jerry Hardin as Governor
* John Ashton as Otto Kemper
* Frances Bay as Mrs. Lewenowski
Driver

**Driver** is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on 1984.

## Description

No one seeing Driver ever forgets the moment when Ryan O'Neal, hired to drive a getaway car, has doubts cast on his professionalism. 'Get in' he orders the hold-up men. Then, with them powerless witnesses of his cool expertise, he takes the brand new Mercedes through a test to destruction-point that turns a status symbol into a scuffed, crippled, broken-backed write off within minutes. It is obsessive professionalism like this that provides the motive force in director Walter Hill's 1978 thriller. He himself drives the story along with an existentialist punch-just as all the characters in it do their own thing, without regard for consequences. Driver is the story of a cop, irritated at failing to compel a girl to testify against O'Neal in the bank robbery identity line-up, who uses minor crooks as bait to hook the big one. The duel of wits is like the car-bashing - a superbly elaborated bit of auto-destruction, literally as well as figuratively, in which each man contrives his own ruin while trying to set each other up. The cop is played by Bruce Dern, who creates a character like a vacuum pack. He is pure pressure, sealed off from the outside world. In one exciting hunt through a fast moving train for a bag of money, he generates so much tension that we expect him to burst. Isabelle Adjani is the girl. And though Ryan O'Neal has no character express except as 'Action Man', and his hands are full simply when they're on the wheel, his physical presence is impressive. The frequent car chases are more impressive than the usual eye-boggling stunts, precisely because the screaming vehicles don't take off into feats of fantasy, but hug highways and suspenseful by-ways with a velocity that needs no flamboyant hokum to be gripping. Though its philosophical centre may be bleak, Driver's physical impact is stunning.

## Cast

* Ryan O'Neal as The Driver
* Bruce Dern as The Detective
* Isabelle Adjani as The Player
* Ronee Blakley as The Connection
* Matt Clark as Red Plainclothesman
* Felice Orlandi as Gold Plainclothesman
* Joseph Walsh as Glasses
* Rudy Ramos as Teeth
* Denny Macko as Exchange Man
* Frank Bruno as The Kid
* Will Walker as Fingers
* Sandy Brown Wyeth as Split
* Tara King as Frizzy
* Richard Carey as Floorman
* Fidel Corona as Card Player
* Victor Gilmour as Boardman
* Nick Dimitri as Blue Mask
* Bob Minor as Green Mask
Final Mission

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

## Description

**They made him a target... They murdered his family... Now It's HIS move!**

Suspended from his job as head of the L.A.P.D. Swat Team, his family massacred before his eyes, war veteran Vince Deacon is an angry man. Armed with an MG 82, Vince is in his element-a killing machine. Alone he battles for his life against a deadly professional killer-a killer who is a ghost from Vince's past. In the jungles of Laos, one was a traitor, the other a hero. Now, only one will survive. The war is on-it will take an army to stop him.
Orphée

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

## Description

The story of Orpheus's trip to the Underworld to reclaim his wife. Eurydice has never been more stunningly told than in Jean Cocteau's modernised version, in which Hell is a bomb-damaged wasteland and Death a darkly mocking princess with sinister motorcyclists as her emissaries. The film lends itself to a variety of meanings and, with its dreamlike passions and fantasies, is a marvellous experience because of the manner in which they have been expressed. Outside the animated cartoon there have been few films so visually inventive. Beyond the parallels with the old Greek myth you may just forget what it is about; but you will never forget the images, as impressive now as they were when this film caught the world's imagination in 1950.

## Main cast

* Jean Marais as Orphée
* François Périer as Heurtebise
* María Casares as The Princess – Death
* Marie Déa as Eurydice
* Henri Crémieux as L'éditeur
* Juliette Gréco as Aglaonice
* Roger Blin as The Poet
* Édouard Dermit as Jacques Cégeste
* René Worms as Judge
Mutiny on the Buses

**Mutiny on the Buses** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1982

## Description

When On the Buses was first launched as a TV series in 1969, its success was phenomenal. It rapidly climbed the popularity ratings to become a permanent fixture in the 'Top Ten'. In 1970 it was voted the best ITV series in the Sun TV Awards. The film version in 1971 (also available on cassette from THORN EMI) had even greater success. Box office records were broken and it became the second biggest money-earner in the UK for that year, even though it had only been on release a few months. In Mutiny on the Buses, bus driver Stan Butler (Reg Varney) has managed to get engaged to the luscious Suzy (Janet Mahoney), much to the anguish of his doting Mum (Doris Hare), pompous idiot of a brother-in-law Arthur (Michael Robbins) and sister Olive (Anna Karen). How ever will they cope without Stan's money coming in? A crisis occurs when Arthur is sacked ('redundant' he calls it), but Stan comes up with the idea of teaching Arthur to drive a bus. He has good reason to regret his kind offer when he finds himself in constant danger of losing life or limb - or possibly both! Meanwhile the tiny terror of the Town & District Bus Company and his mate Jack (Bob Grant) continue to find all sorts of ways of harassing the tyrannical inspector Blake (Stephen Lewis). Stan manages to blackmail the depot manager into giving him the job of driver on the new, money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea if only Blakey hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to Windsor Safari Park. The bus is overrun by chimpanzees and 'man-eating' lions, and disaster follows disaster when Blakey, no-one's friend, is demoted to plain, ordinary conductor - on Stan's bus! Yes, Stan has his hands full and a lot to worry about, especially when he has to keep his eyes on the seductive, mini-skirted Suzy!

## Cast

### Main cast

* Reg Varney as Stan Butler
* Doris Hare as Mum
* Michael Robbins as Arthur Rudge
* Anna Karen as Olive
* Stephen Lewis as Inspector 'Blakey' Blake
* Bob Grant as Jack Harper
* Janet Mahoney as Susy
* Kevin Brennan as Mr Jenkins

### Supporting cast

* Pat Ashton as Norah
* Bob Todd as New Inspector
* David Lodge as the safari guard
* Tex Fuller as Harry
* Caroline Dowdeswell as Sandra
* Damaris Hayman as Mrs Jenkins
* Jan Rennison as Gloria
* Juliet Duncan as Gladys
* Michael Nightingale as the pilot
* Roger Avon as a policeman (safari park)
* Barry Linehan as a policeman (patrol car)
* David Rowlands as a policeman (on beat)
* Nicolette Chaffey as the nurse
* Dervis Ward as an angry passenger
* Wayne Westhorpe as Olive's baby
* Shirley English as Woman Getting Off Bus (uncredited)
* Harry Fielder as Bus Driver (uncredited)
* Alf Mangan as Darts Match Guest (uncredited)
* Sally Osborne as Nurse with Wheelchair (uncredited)
Flashpoint

**Flashpoint** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1985.

## Description

**Suppose they found the other killer..?**

Kennedy was assassinated. The evidence was buried. And someone - someone BIG wants it to stay that way: Until two men stumble on a secret kept for 20 years, a secret which threatens to bury them...

## Cast

* Kris Kristofferson as Bobby Logan
* Treat Williams as Ernie Wyatt
* Rip Torn as Sheriff Wells
* Kurtwood Smith as Carson
* Jean Smart as Doris
* Tess Harper as Ellen
* Kevin Conway as Brook
* Miguel Ferrer as Roget
* Guy Boyd as Lambasino
* Roberts Blossom as Amarillo
* Mark Slade as Hawthorne
* Terry Alexander as Peterson
* William Frankfather as Lacy
* Joaquín Martínez as Pedroza
* Dick O'Neill as Hinshaw
Conan the Barbarian

**Conan the Barbarian** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video. It was released on 21st February 1983.

## Description

An adventure fantasy set in a mythical, pre-historic age, Conan packs brutal danger and excitement with hair-raising escapes, savage tribal warfare, the wildest eduction scenes imaginable and countless other menaces and marvels hitherto undreamed. The story follows one man's quest to learn the 'riddle of steel" and thereby exact revenge on those who had so brutally murdered his parents. His target, the evil Thulsa Doom [James Earl Jones], head of a malign and powerful snake cult. His companions - Subotai the Mongol [Gerry Lopez] and the beautiful Queen of Thieves [Sandahl Bergman] who attempts to steal his heart. Muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Conan in this spectacular cinematic treatment of Marvel Comics' The Savage Sword of Conan', from supreme master of the bizarre and mysterious-director John [Apocalypse Now] Milius.

## Credits

Dino De Laurentiis presents an Edward R. Pressman production

**"Conan the Barbarian"**

Directed by John Milius

Written by Oliver Stone and John Milius

Based on the character created by Robert E. Howard

Produced by Buzz Feitshans and Raffaella De Laurentiis

Executive Producers Edward R. Pressman and D. Constantine Conte

Associate Producer Edward Summer

Music by Basil Poledouris

Cinematography by Duke Callaghan

Edited by C. Timothy O'Meara

Released by Universal Pictures (U.S.) and 20th Century Fox (International)
Food, Wine & Friends Volume 2

**Food, Wine & Friends Volume 2**is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1982

## Description

**With guests SUSANNAH YORK, JOHN SCHLESINGER, PATRICIA MEDINA, MICHAEL BROADBENT**

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 2: In this second volume of programmes, Robert Carrier gives instruction on how to cook with wine and prepares a delicious Bœuf Bourguignon; how to steam vegetables and make a Chinese-style chicken dish in under twenty minutes; and how to prepare some interesting variations on a basic Béchamel sauce. Finally, he shows us his method of baking en papillote. In the wine section we travel to Bordeaux, Brouilly, Beaune and the Côte de Nuits for a glimpse of the vines which produce such prestigious wines as Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Haut Brian, Château d'Yquem and Romanée-Conti. We also learn something of Napoleon's drinking habits, meet a glamorous lady wine-grower, and enjoy an impromptu lesson in wine-tasting, al fresco. Finally. we meet Patricia Medina (renowned for her performance in The Killing of Sister George) over a toast of Revolution (red wine and cassis); receive advice from that eminent Master of Wine and director of Christie's auction house, Michael Broadbent, on how to establish a modest cellar; enjoy a Burgundian picnic in the delightful company of Susannah York and a glass of champagne with one of the most influential film directors of today - John Schlesinger.
Now That's What I Call Music Volume 5

**Now That's What I Call Music Volume 5** is a UK VHS released by PMI on October 1985.

## Track Listing

1. Duran Duran - A View To A Kill
2. Scritti Politti - The Word Girl
3. Loose Ends - Magic Touch
4. Elton John & Millie Jackson - Act Of War
5. Maze - Too Many Games
6. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
7. The Damned - The Shadow Of Love
8. Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
9. Jimmy Nail - Love Don't Live Here Anymore
10. China Crisis - Black Man Ray
11. Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy\* - Icing On The Cake
12. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - So In Love
13. The Power Station - Get It On
14. Feargal Sharkey - Loving You
15. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Good-Bye Bad Times
16. Belouis Some - Imagination
17. Marillion - Kayleigh
18. Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Out In The Fields
19. Nick Heyward - Laura
Nicholas Nickleby

**Nicholas Nickleby** is a pre-cert UK VHS released by EMI on 1980.

## Description

Newsprint was still rationed in 1947. when Ealing Studios premiered Nicholas Nickleby. But even today, critics would be hard pressed to make room for the overflowing incidents and plethora of characters in one of the best Dickens adaptations to reach the screen. It has not got the reputation of David Lean's Great Expectations, which came out the year before: but then it is not such a finely-wrought book. What it lacks in universal truths, it makes up for in a superabundance of grotesque characters: and although the English stage today has plenty of comedians, and television even more, one simply cannot imagine this richness being matched in any contemporary remake of Nicholas Nickleby. Here is Alfred Drayton as the sadistic Squeers; Bernard Miles, as Ralph Nickleby's subservient clerk Newman Noggs, bursting his fetters when his master's ruin has arrived and giving vent to a gale-force exultation of diabolical glee; Cyril Fletcher as mincing Mantalini (even odder than Fletcher's own odes); Fay Compton as his spouse, his famous 'heart's joy'; Sybil Thorndike as Mrs Squeers; Cathleen Nesbitt as Miss Knag; Athene Seyler as Miss La Creevy; Sally Ann Howes and Jill Balcon as two of the book's young ladies; Derek Bond as a handsome, virile Nicholas Nickleby; Cedric Hardwicke as the steely-hearted uncle with a cutting edge to him that is sharper than the book's; and, not even last and certainly not least, Stanley Holloway as the earthy thespian Vincent Crummies. Compression was the main fault detected by critics in the 1940's, which is another way of saying that, like Oliver Twist, they wished for more. But director Alberto Cavalcanti handles what is there with pace and robustness - no one has attempted, as they might have done today, to 'psychologise' the characters and replace the bits that Dickens left out. One is envious of the confidence the film radiates: it showed that Ealing Studios, like Dickens before it knew its audience and what they wanted. ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Ralph Nickleby
* Stanley Holloway as Vincent Crummles
* Derek Bond as Nicholas Nickleby
* Mary Merrall as Mrs Nickleby
* Sally Ann Howes as Kate Nickleby
* Aubrey Woods as Smike
* Jill Balcon as Madeline Bray
* Bernard Miles as Newman Noggs
* Alfred Drayton as Wackford Squeers
* Sybil Thorndike as Mrs Squeers
* Vera Pearce as Mrs. Crummles
* James Hayter as Ned and Charles Cheeryble
* Emrys Jones as Frank Cheeryble
* Cecil Ramage as Sir Mulberry Hawk
* Timothy Bateson as Lord Verisopht
* George Relph as Mr Bray
* Frederick Burtwell as Sheriff Murray
* Patricia Hayes as Phoebe
Hopscotch

**Hopscotch** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1982 and re-released as "Star Selection" on February 1985.

## Description

Walther Matthau and Glenda Jackson are together in a hilarious spy chase that pits both the CIA and the KGB against Matthau's devious mind. The trouble starts when Matthau as CIA agent Miles Kendig falls foul of his superiors. He vanishes and decides to get back at them by writing his memoirs. The first chapter is sent out to all the world's agencies - and the word comes round that this is just too hot to handle. Kendig has to be found and killed. Aided by Glenda Jackson, as a former CIA agent herself, he leads his pursuers on a wild goose chase through Europe and the States. Always one step ahead, Matthau shows the sort of cunning that has made his screen performances sheer delight. In a tale full of surprises and gags, Matthau and Jackson effortlessly shine in one of the most entertaining partnerships since the vintage team of Tracy and Hepburn.

## Cast

* Walter Matthau as Miles Kendig
* Glenda Jackson as Isobel von Schonenberg
* Sam Waterston as Joe Cutter
* Ned Beatty as Myerson
* Herbert Lom as Yaskov
* David Matthau as Leonard Ross
* George Baker as Parker Westlake
* Ivor Roberts as Ludlum
* Lucy Saroyan as Carla Fleming
* Severn Darden as Leroy Maddox
* George Pravda as Saint Breheret
* Jacquelyn Hyde as Realtor
* Mike Gwilym as Alfie Booker
* Terry Beaver as Tobin
* Ray Charleson as Clausen
All of Me

**All of Me** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on 1985

## Description

**The comedy that proves that one's a crowd**
When rich, eccentric Edwina Cutwater died, a crazy guru tried to transport her soul into the body of a beautiful young woman. But the guru goofed. And Edwina's soul has accidentally taken over the entire right side of her lawyer, Roger Cobb. He still controls what's left. Now, Edwina and Roger are living together in the same body. He's losing his job. He's losing his girlfriend. And he can't seem to get her out of his system. No matter how hard he tries....The two brilliant comic stars of 'All of Me'; Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin, both received Golden Globe nominations for their-achingly funny performances and Steve Martin himself won the Best Actor award from the New York Critics Circle.
Go Fishing 3: Sea Wreck Fishing

**Go Fishing 3: Sea Wreck Fishing** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1982.

## Description

Jack Charlton's down-to-earth common sense and great good humour make him the ideal guide in this series. In each programme he meets experts who show us their gear and explain their tactics in one type of fishing. So the series takes us entertainingly and instructively from basic river coarse fishing and the thrills of sea wreck fishing to every angler's ultimate ambition - salmon fishing in Scotland, where Jack shows us he is as skilled on the river bank as on the football field. 3: Sea Wreck Fishing. Fishing from a boat over the torpedoed remains of a wartime wreck in the English Channel is among the most thrilling forms of angling. In this programme, Jack goes afloat off the south Devonshire coast in search of the deep-sea fish that live around the wrecks. After catching mackerel for bait, skipper Lloyd Saunders expertly locates the wreck lying in 40 fathoms of water, using his Decca Navigator system; and the party tackle up to catch pollack, red bream, ling and conger. First Jack learns how to use live sandeel for pollack, before the anglers switch to artificial eels. When the tide slackens the ling come on the feed. But Jack is determined to catch a conger eel, one of the sea's most ferocious predators. And the fish duly obliges after a hard tussle. A change to lighter tactics brings the handsome red bream. On a summer's day, when the smooth sea stretches to the horizon in a carpet of blue, Jack and his ea-angling friends make full use of the perfect weather to fill the fish box. The talk is of big fish, with plenty of friendly rivalry as to who will catch the heaviest. And there's not a sea-sickness tablet in sight!
Cheryl Ladd - Fascinated

**Cheryl Ladd - Fascinated** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on May 1983.

## Track listings

1. Think It Over
2. Just Like Old Times
3. Lesson from the Leavin'
4. Lady Gray
5. Just Another Lover Tonight
6. Sakura, Sakura
7. The Rose Nobody Knows
8. I Love How You Love Me
9. It's Only Love
10. Try a Smile
11. Cold As Ice
12. Victim of the Circumstance
Blame It on Rio

**Blame It on Rio** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on January 1985 and a UK LaserDisc on August 1985.

## Description

**She's the hottest thing on the beach... She's also his best friend's daughter!**

His wife's gone off to Bahia, his daughter's not speaking to him, but when his best friend's nubile teenage daughter sets her sights on him that's when Matthew's troubles really start! There are many pleasures to be enjoyed on holiday in Rio de Janeiro, but this is one which Matthew could well afford to do without. A tropical comedy set in the world's most sensual, vibrant city, with Michael Caine as the hapless middle-aged father pursued by Michelle Johnson as Jennifer, the hottest teenager on the Rio beach. "...teasing, tasteless and wonderfully funny" (Sunday Times)

## Cast

* Michael Caine as Matthew Hollis
* Joseph Bologna as Victor Lyons
* Michelle Johnson as Jennifer Lyons
* Demi Moore as Nicole (Nikki) Hollis
* Valerie Harper as Karen Hollis
* José Lewgoy as Eduardo Marques
* Lupe Gigliotti as Signora Botega
* Nelson Dantas as Doctor
Paddington's 5th 'Anywhen' T.V. Show

**Paddington's 5th 'Anywhen' T.V. Show** is a UK VHS release by EMI on 1980.

## Description

### **A STICKY TIME**

Paddington makes some toffee and comes down with a bad case of Galloping Toffee Drips. He has to have some of his fur clipped off, but luckily the doctor's prescription for growing new fur is much to Paddington's liking... lots and lots of marmalade.

### **PADDINGTON HITS OUT**

Acting as Mr. Curry's caddy in a golf competition, Paddington is confused when asked to tee up. Having no tea available, he uses a marmalade sandwich. When Mr. Curry slips on the sandwich and hurts his leg, it is up to Paddington to take his place in the competition.

### **A VISIT TO THE HOSPITAL**

Mr. Curry is in hospital having tripped on another marmalade sandwich. While paying him a visit, Paddington has his head examined by the psychiatrist - and after a session of word-association with the bear, the psychiatrist feels rather unbalanced himself.

### **PADDINGTON MAKES A BID**

At an auction with Mr. Gruber, Paddington politely waves back at the friendly people who are waving at him. Although he gets confused and starts bidding against himself, he manages to purchase a valuable antique marmalade stand for fivepence.

### **PADDINGTON RECOMMENDED**

In a fashionable restaurant, Paddington is mistaken for a well known food expert, and is plied with choice delicacies by the management. By the time his real identity is revealed he has attracted such a large crowd that the manager declares 'He's worth his weight in lobster soufflé'.

## Episodes

* A Sticky Time
* Paddington Hits Out
* A Visit to the Hospital
* Paddington Makes a Bid
* Paddington Recommended
Amityville 3

**Amityville 3** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1984.

## Description

Full-blooded horror that hits you right in the eye. Amityville 3 returns to the world's most haunted house for another thrilling episode of unabated terror. When spook reporters John Baxter (Tony Roberts) and Melanie (Candy Clark) discover that mediums operating in the notorious Amityville house are fakes, John decides to defy superstition, buy the place and move in. His estranged wife Nancy (Tess Harper) is extremely anxious at the prospect of her daughter staying there... fears that become a nightmarish reality when they discover that the house is founded on the well of all hell and that something unspeakable has taken a fancy to young Susan.

## Cast

* Tony Roberts as John Baxter
* Tess Harper as Nancy Baxter
* Robert Joy as Doctor Elliot West
* Candy Clark as Melanie
* Lori Loughlin as Susan Baxter
* Meg Ryan as Lisa
* Neill Barry as Jeff
* Josefina Echánove as Dolores
Out of Season

**Out of Season** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by EMI on 1981.

## Description

Directed by Alan Bridges in 1975, Out of Season is a neat little puzzle-piece with an entertaining twist to its tail. Set in an English seaside town during the bleak off-season, it rings some enigmatic changes with skill and surprise on the theme of the sexually available male suddenly insinuating himself into the closed and repressed world of two women. In this case the women are a mother and daughter, played by Vanessa Redgrave and Susan George. The mother is a widow who manages a small family hotel. Twenty years before she was almost made the wife of an American, played by Cliff Robertson, who now comes calling in the hope that widowhood may have palled on the woman and he can now take up where he left off all those years ago. He meets with the unexpected resistance of the woman's daughter, until the girl's initial hostility to her mother's resumption of an old romance is replaced by the desire to divert the romance to herself. The games to do with sexual opportunity - the man stays uncertain which woman will be waiting for him, naked, in the bedroom - are elaborated with civilised skill and our curiosity is teased up to the very end about which of the women will leave with their guest-lover. The acting is low-key, but pleasantly intelligent - Vanessa Redgrave in particular manages to suggest the years between the meeting with a lover and marriage to a husband. And Alan Bridges changes the tempo of the liaisons with the same subtlety as when he allows the man and woman, both a little drunk, to get caught up in the mood of a nostalgic old gramophone record and move from a desultry tête-à-tête into the sort of exhibition tango they probably danced in the days gone by when marriage seemed the next step but one. ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Vanessa Redgrave as Ann
* Cliff Robertson as Joe Turner
* Susan George as Joanna
* Edward Evans as Charlie
* Frank Jarvis as Postman
First Blood

**First Blood** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI in July 1983. It was re-released by Guild Home Video in 1988.

## Description

**This time he's fighting for his life!**

Giving his toughest performance since Rocky, Sylvester Stallone stars as a larger-than-life super warrior in this gutsy action thriller filmed in the wilds of western Canada. He plays an ex-Green Beret, a peacetime misfit haunted by memories of Vietnam. Falling foul of an over-zealous small-town sheriff, all hell is let loose as he goes on the run. In the life or death manhunt that ensues, he will need all his old skills to stay alive and outwit his pursuers - the sheriff, his posse, and more than 200 National Guardsmen.

## Cast

* Sylvester Stallone as John J. Rambo
* Richard Crenna as Colonel Samuel "Sam" R. Trautman
* Brian Dennehy as Sheriff William "Will" Teasle
* Bill McKinney as Captain Dave Kern
* Jack Starrett as Deputy Sergeant Arthur "Art" Galt
* Michael Talbott as Deputy Balford
* Chris Mulkey as Deputy Ward
* John McLiam as Orval Kellerman
* Alf Humphreys as Deputy Lester
* David Caruso as Deputy Mitch Rogers
* David L. Crowley as Deputy Shingleton
* Don MacKay as Deputy Preston
* Patrick Stack as Lieutenant Clinton Morgen
Children of the Corn

**Children of the Corn** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1984 and a UK LaserDisc on August 1985.

## Description

**AN ADULT NIGHTMARE. From the author if THE SHINING, CARRIE, FIRESTARTER, THE DEAD ZONE, CHRISTINE**

And a child shall lead them... In the drought-stricken prairie lands of Nebraska, the corn crop has failed. Nothing thrives In the arid soil and people pray for rain. Into the small community of Gatlin comes a sinister boy preacher, with a message for the children: only human blood will restore life to the parched earth and revive the dying corn. So it is that all the adults perish one hot Sunday, as their sons and daughters obey the savage commands of Isaac and his bloodthirsty executioner, Malachai. Three years later a young couple on their way through Nebraska get lost in the maze of roads round Gatlin, and stumble into the seemingly deserted township. But here, every adult must die - victim of a bloody cult of human sacrifice...

## Cast

### Adults

* Peter Horton as Burt Stanton
* Linda Hamilton as Vicky Baxter
* R. G. Armstrong as Diehl ("The Old Man")

### Children

* John Franklin as Isaac Chroner
* Courtney Gains as Malachai Boardman
* Robby Kiger as Job
* Anne Marie McEvoy as Sarah
* Julie Maddalena as Rachel
* Jonas Marlowe as Joseph
* John Philbin as Richard 'Amos' Deigan
Little Lord Fauntleroy

**Little Lord Fauntleroy** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1982.

## Description

"Little Lord Fauntleroy" unites the exceptional talents of Sir Alec Guinness and little Ricky Schroder in one of the most touching of all screen partnerships. Based on the popular Victorian nursery classic and filmed in Belvoir Castle, one of the finest stately homes, it tells the story of young Ceddie Errol, who travels to England from his poor New York home to perpare [sic] to take on the title and duties of his ageing grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt. Gouty, monocled and about as welcoming as a cold bath on a wet January day, it is hard to imagine how the old patriarch could ever be the object of a child's keen affections, bu Ceddie is so kind and fond and giving that eventually the warmth is restored to his grandad's crusty old heart.

## Cast

* Rick Schroder as Cedric Errol, Lord Fauntleroy
* Alec Guinness as John Arthur Molyneux Errol, Earl of Dorincourt
* Connie Booth as Mrs. Errol, Cedric's mother
* Eric Porter as Mr. Havisham, Dorincourt's solicitor
* Colin Blakely as Silas Hobbs, Cedric's friend
* Rachel Kempson as Lady Lorradaile, Dorincourt's sister
* Carmel McSharry as Mary, Mrs. Errol's substantive
* Antonia Pemberton as Dawson, Dorincourt's substantive
* Rolf Saxon as Dick Tipton, Cedric's friend
* John Cater as Thomas, the Butler
* Antonia Pemberton Dawson, the head housekeeper
* Peter Copley as Reverend Muldaur
* Patsy Rowlands as Mrs. Dibble
* Ann Way as Miss Smiff, the village dressmaker
* Patrick Stewart as Wilkins, the riding teacher
* Gerry Cowper as Mellon, the room service
* Edward Wiley as Ben Tipton
* Kate Harper as Minna Tipton
* Tony Melody as Mr. Kimsey
* Rohan McCullough as Lady Grace
* Dicon Murray as Georgie
* Ballard Berkeley as Sir Harry Lorradaile
* John Southworth as Higgins
* Bill Nighy as the Hunting Officer
* Norman Pitt as Lord Ashbey Delefante
Hundra

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

## Description

Born in a tribe of fierce warrior women. Hundra has been raised free of the influence of men. Trained in the arts of archery, hand-to-hand combat, and the sword, Hundra is the equal of any male. When she finds her mother, sister and fellow tribeswomen savagely slain, she takes a solemn vow of revenge. At first she is fearless, until one day she comes face to face with the one force which has the power to claim her. That one man!

## Cast

* Laurene Landon ... Hundra
* John Ghaffari ... Napatkin
* María Casal ... Drachima
* Ramiro Oliveros ... Pateray
* Luis Lorenzo ... Rotahar
* Tamara ... Chrysula
* Victor Gans ... Landrazza
* Cristina Torres ... Shandrom
* Bettina Brenner ... Hundra's mother
* Maria Vico ... The midwife
* Fernando Bilbao ... Torente
* Jorge Bosso Gordoza
* Azucena Hernández
* Frank Braña ... Chieftain
Bal Du Moulin Rouge

**Bal Du Moulin Rouge** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1982.

## Description

**THE SHOW THAT HAS SCANDALISED PARIS FOR THE LAST 90 YEARS — NOW PRESENTED ON VIDEO**

The most beautiful showgirls in the world lend sexy sophistication to the legendary Moulin Rouge - the show that has scandalised Paris for nearly a hundred years. Adorned in shimmering clouds of feathers suspended on delicate sequined threads, they glide gracefully through the most spectacular disco-dance routines, culminating in the daring high kicks of the world-famous can-can. This front-row record of a complete show at the Sahara Reno hotel, USA, catches their famous act as thirty-two long-legged lovelies go through stunning song and dance numbers that sum up the magic of gay 'Paree'.
Chanel Solitaire

**Chanel Solitaire**is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1982.

## Description

The legend of Gabrielle Chanel, the world's most famous fashion designer, comes alive in this lavish period romance. Chanel's outward glamour, her inner heartache, the luxurious lifestyle she was able to enjoy on gaining access to wealth: all feature in this sumptuous and extravagant production. From orphanage to tailor's shop, then to the château of the prosperous Etienne de Balsan (Rutger Hauer), we follow the beautiful young 'Coco' in search of love. Her passionate affair with rich and politically ambitious Boy Capel (Timothy Dalton) ends in tragedy, leaving her lonely and emotionally desolate just as her career prospects begin to soar to fabulous heights. Marie-France Pisier lends a seductive elegance to the title role of this film portrait of the youthful passions of the woman who was to become a legend in her own lifetime.

## Cast

* Marie-France Pisier as Coco Chanel
* Timothy Dalton as Boy Capel
* Rutger Hauer as Étienne Balsan
* Karen Black as Émilienne d'Alençon
Garfield in the Rough

Garfield in the Rough is an Australian VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment.

## Description

Packing for a vacation. Garfield is appalled to discover his destination: he's getting back to nature with his owner Jon and his playmate, Odie. Of course Garfield isn't in for much fun … the forest rangers insult him … the tent doesn't fit him … Odie dunks him in the lake … and, to top it all, a vicious panther is on the loose, and may be stalking him.
Genesis - Three Sides Live

**Genesis - Three Sides Live** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1983.

## Track Listing

1. Behind the Lines
2. Duchess
3. Misunderstanding
4. Dodo
5. Abacab
6. No Reply At All
7. Who Dunnit
8. In the Cage (medley-Cinema Show-Slippermen)
9. Afterglow
10. Me and Sarah Jane
11. Man on the Corner
12. Turn It On Again
April Wine - Live in London

**April Wine - Live in London** is a pre-cert UK VHS by EMI Music on April 1982.

## Track listing

1. Big City Girls
2. Crash and Burn
3. Tellin' Me Lies
4. Future Tense
5. Ladies Man
6. Caught in the Crossfire
7. Sign of the Gypsy Queen
8. Just Between You and Me
9. Bad Boys
10. One More Time
11. 21st Century Schizoid Man
12. Roller
13. I Like to Rock
Now That's What I Call Music Video 3

**Now That's What I Call Music Video 3** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on 1985.

## Songs

1) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Locomotion.

2) Simple Minds - Up On The Catwalk.

3) Thompson Twins - You Take Me Up.

4) Madness - One Better Day.

5) Farmers Boys - In The Country.

6) Helen Terry - Love Lies Lost.

7) Loose Ends - Emergency (Dial 999)

8) Working Week - Venceremos.

9) Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It.

10) Phil Collins - Take A Look At Me Now (Against All Odds)

11) Talk Talk - Dum Dum Girl.

12) Kajagoogoo - Turn Your Back On Me.

13) Gary Glitter - Dance Me Up.

14) The Mighty Wah! - Come Back.

15) I-Level - Our Song.

16) Limahl - Too Much Trouble.

17) Flying Pickets - When You're Young And In Love.

18) Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself.

19) Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain.

20) David Sylvian - Red Guitar.
Moby Dick

**Moby Dick** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on April 1981.

## Description

**From the novel by Herman Melville. Adapted by RAY BRADBURY**
Moby Dick now looms like a live volcano in the career of director John Huston. It spews forth vivid imagery that, quite apart from the technical virtuosity involved, is breath-taking. Maybe Huston has substituted a cinematographer's directness for the allegorical masterpiece of Herman Melville's original novel. But taken on its own terms, the film's energy has only gained in the perspective of the years since 1956. The story of a 19th. [sic] century whaling skipper's obsessive journeyings across the world's oceans to avenge himself on Moby Dick, 'the gliding great demon of the seas of life', the huge white whale that took off his leg; it combines an epic adventure yarn with the turbulent undercurrents of the myth of the Superman acting in hell-bent defiance of his God. As Huston himself said, 'Moby Dick is the story of Noah in reverse'. To suggest the look of the 1840's, Huston and photographer Oswald Morris found a way of mating a black and white with a Technicolour negative to produce the hard-edged yet somber lights of old whaling prints. For its ambitions alone, the film deserves respect. But its achievements are considerable too. As the demon-haunted Captain-Ahab, Gregory Peck's handling of the stylised dialogue created by Huston and co-writer Ray Bradbury possesses an oracular power few Hollywood players could then approach. From a measured start in the Massachusetts port of New Bedford - actually the Irish fishing town of Youghal - the action builds systematically through colossal storms and weird Colerdigean calms to the final maelstrom of destructiveness - a stunning sequence, unsurpassed at a later date even by Jaws. The cast have vintage diversity. Outstanding are Richard Basehart as the narrator Ishmael, Friedrich Ledebur as Queequeg the tattooed cannibal-turned harpoonist, and Orson Welles delivering from a pulpit like a ship's poop a sermon on Man's duty to submit to God - a duty the rest of the film rejects with an illustrative power that is emotionally battering. ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab
* Richard Basehart as Ishmael
* Leo Genn as Starbuck
* James Robertson Justice as Captain Boomer
* Harry Andrews as Stubb
* Bernard Miles as the Manxman
* Noel Purcell as Ship's Carpenter
* Edric Connor as Daggoo
* Mervyn Johns as Peleg
* Joseph Tomelty as Peter Coffin
* Francis de Wolff as Captain Gardiner
* Philip Stainton as Bildad
* Royal Dano as Elijah
* Seamus Kelly as Flask
* Friedrich von Ledebur as Queequeg
* Orson Welles as Father Mapple
* Tamba Allenby as Pip (uncredited)
* Tom Clegg as Tashtego (uncredited)
* Ted Howard as Perth (uncredited)
* Iris Tree as Bible woman (uncredited)
* John Huston as the voice of Peter Coffin and a Pequod lookout (uncredited)
Fear City

**Fear City** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment on 1986.

## Description

Ne York City. Open 24 hours a day. A twilight world of power, money and tainted glamour.

Here, pleasure is business and the night belongs the the girls...Honey...Leila...Ruby...and Loretta. But the girls belong to Mat Rossi -- and he lives way outside the law.

Everyone is watching his girls. But someone lies in wait for them -- a sex killer who preys on the hot blooded strippers.

At last, the law and Matt Rossi have something in common, A pimp must turn into a killer and make his stand on the streets of FEAR CITY.

## Cast

* Tom Berenger as Matt Rossi
* Billy Dee Williams as Det. Al Wheeler
* Jack Scalia as Nicky Parzeno
* Melanie Griffith as Loretta
* Michael V. Gazzo as Mike
* Rossano Brazzi as Carmine
* Rae Dawn Chong as Leila
* Janet Julian as Ruby
* John Foster as Pazzo, the killer[3]
* María Conchita Alonso as Silver (as Maria Conchita)
* Joe Santos as Frank
* Ola Ray as Honey
* Tracy Griffith as Sandra Cook
* Emilia Crow as Bibi (as Emilia Lesniak)
* Jan Murray as Lou Goldstein
* Daniel Faraldo as Sanchez