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To The Devil a Daughter

**To The Devil a Daughter** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1982 and re-released on May 1985.

## Description

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

## Cast

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

**Rainbow** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thames (Thorn EMI) on October 1984.

## Description

‘Rainbow’ is Thames highly successful pre-school education programme. It’s aimed at children under five (when children start their formal schooling). Through the medium of films, animation, puppets, songs, verses and stories ‘Rainbow’ helps children understand the world around them, and develops their appreciation of language and numbers. But most of all, it entertains.

## Episodes

* Mystery Bag
* Pirates
* Tommy Tucker
* Voice and Hands
* Going to the Fair
The Glitter Dome

**The Glitter Dome** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on February 1985

## Description

**The evil and savagery that lie beneath the surface of the 'dream factory'**
Joseph Wambaugh's hard hitting best-seller rips apart the glittering facade of that magical place called Hollywood to expose the evil and savagery that lie beneath the surface of the 'dream factory'. A major studio boss is brutally murdered: two weary detectives reluctantly accept the case to snare the killer. Their investigations bring them face to face with the grim reality of a crime-ridden city - murder, robbery, drugs, pornography. As the two men set about their task with cynical humour, the destruction and hopelessness start to pervade their own lives.

## Cast

* James Garner ... Sgt. Aloysius Mackey
* Margot Kidder ... Willie
* John Lithgow ... Sgt. Marty Wellborn
* John Marley ... Capt. Woofer
* Stuart Margolin ... Herman Sinclair
* Paul Koslo ... Griswold Veals
* Colleen Dewhurst ... Lorna Dillman
* Alek Diakun ... Weasel
* Billy Kerr ... Ferret
* William S. Taylor ... Hand
* Dusty Morean ... Phipps
* Christianne Hirt ... Jill
* Tom McBeath ... Farrell
* Dixie Seatle ... Amazing Grace
* Dawn Luker ... Gladys
* Harvey Miller ... Harvey Himmelfarb
* Enid Saunders ... Eleanor St. Denis
* Alistair MacDuff ... Malcolm Sinclair
* Max Martini ... Steven
* Benson Fong ... Wing
* Dale Wilson ... Lloyd / Bozeman
Zoltan - Hound of Dracula

**Zoltan - Hound of Dracula** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on June 1982.

## Dscription

Dracula remains one of the immortals of screen horror. Since his first film incarnation in 1931 in the Transylvanian shape of Bela Lugosi. he has probably put more victims out for the count than any other movie fiend - with the possible, honourable, exception of Baron Frankenstein. Since 1931. film makers have tried to find new ways of depicting the blood drinker's monstrous activities. Vampires (in the cinema, at least) have been everywhere - in space and on the campus, in girl's finishing schools and even on film sets. Zoltan... Hound of Dracula (1977) however, adds a new and highly enjoyable twist to the old formula. If you ever thought that the dog was man's best friend, you have a terrifying opportunity to change your opinion! Like all first rate vampire movies, the film begins in deepest Transylvania. Here Count Dracula's long dead servant Veidt Smit is brought back to life again when Russian soldiers inadvertently discover the Count's tomb. Smit is a man with ambition - to ensure that the noble Dracula name is carried on. And so he travels with his dog Zoltan to Los Angeles. He is determined to track down the last, exiled member of the Dracula clan, Michael Drake. and make him his new master. Things don't exactly go smoothly, though. He sends Zoltan to bite the sleeping Michael... but the man's alsatians drive the hound away. So Smit is forced to follow Michael and his family by hearse when they set off on a caravan holiday, there to have another attempt to vampirise him... The horror is well handled by director Albert Band, and the dogs themselves are as scary a pack of movie monsters as the most ardent fan could hope to find. But what makes this movie unique is a strong sense of humour which never weakens the film's horrific core. It's an ingenious new twist on the vampire story- and one that is carried out in a highly entertaining way. ALAN FRANK

## Cast

* Michael Pataki as Michael Drake/Count Igor Dracula
* José Ferrer as Inspector Vaclav Branco
* Reggie Nalder as Veidt Smit
* Jan Shutan as Marla Drake
* Libby Chase as Linda Drake
* John Levin as Steve Drake
* Cleo Harington as Pat Parks
* Arlene Martel as Major Hessel
* Tom Gerrard as Maslow, the guard
* Dimitri Logothetis as an army corporal
* Al Ferrara as Al, the deputy
* Roger Pancake as the sheriff
The Four Feathers

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

## Description

Few stories have made successful films, but A.E.W Mason's romantic adventure set in the heyday of the British Empire is one of that rare number. First seen on the screen in 1939, the gripping yarn of cowardice redeemed by heroism has found an audience in each new generation. Here Beau Bridges plays the handsome Lieutenant Harry Feversham, in love with the beautiful Ethne Eustace (Jane Seymour). On the eve of his engagement, he burns the telegrams that summon him and his three close friends to war in Egypt. Upon discovery, his friends send him three white feathers-symbols of cowardice. And the fourth, together with his ring, is sent by Ethne. Disgraced and ashamed, Feversham sets out to redeem his honour. In the contrast between the lush English countryside and gracious life and the desert and the.harsh realities of war, this stirring drama summons up all the virtues and follies of the famous stiff-upper-lip attitude of the English. But it also recalls al the forgotten tales of a bygone age:the honour, devotion and courage of gentleman and soldiers, here captured in the youthful charm of Simon Ward, the dashing Robert Powell, and Beau Bridges.

## Cast

* Beau Bridges as Harry Faversham
* Robert Powell as Jack Durrance
* Simon Ward as William Trench
* Jane Seymour as Ethne Eustace
* Harry Andrews as Gen. Faversham
* Richard Johnson as Abou Fatma
* David Robb as Thomas Willoughby
* Richard Beale as Wembol (valet)
* Robin Bailey as Col. Eustace
* John Hallam as Sergeant Major
* Julian Barnes as Lt. Bradley
* Mary Maude as Mrs. Faversham
* Frank Gatliff as Old major
* Robert Flemyng as Old colonel
* Robert James as John (the butler)
Race for the Yankee Zephyr

**Race for the Yankee Zephyr** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1983.

## Description

In December 1944, the "Yankee Zephyr" - a U.S. navy DC-3 - vanished en route from New Guinea to New Zealand, together with its cargo of Christmas fare, service medals and the payroll for the entire South Pacific fleet. Thirty years later, Gibble Gibson stumbles upon the wreck and, together with his mate Barney and daughter Sal, plans to claim the booty. But, all too soon, a party of international criminals is on the trail, and so begins the 'Race for the Yankee Zephyr'.

## Cast

Barney Whitaker (Ken Wahl) — A hunter who owns a helicopter and lives in New Zealand with Gibbie Gibson, he is the nemesis of Theo Brown who kidnaps Gibbie and Barney eventually falls in love with Gibbie's daughter Sally Carson.

Sally Carson (Lesley Ann Warren) — A receptionist who lives in New Zealand and is the daughter of Gibbie Carson, she is caught up between the war between Gibbie's lodger Barney Whitaker and his rival Theo Brown, but eventually falls in love with Barney.

Theo Brown (George Peppard) — A gangster who owns a district in New Zealand, he is the arch rival of Barney Whitaker, and he kidnaps Barney's lodge host Gibbie Gibson, bent on finding the wreck.

Gilbert Carson/Gibbie Gibson (Donald Pleasence) — A hunter and the lodge host of Barney Whitaker, he finds the plane wreck in the mountains and is the father of Sally Carson and Gibbie is eventually taken prisoner by Theo and his henchmen.

Baker (Bruno Lawrence) — A New Zealand civilian and a friend of Barney and Gibbie's.

Collector (Grant Tilly) — A New Zealand civilian and the owner of a local pawn shop.

Harry (Harry Rutherford-Jones) — A New Zealand civilian and Sally's fiance. It is not known what becomes of Harry when Sally falls in love with Barney Whitaker.

The Bartender (Robert Bruce) — A New Zealand civilian and owner of a local bar.

### Additional cast

* Tony Sparks
* Clark Walkington
* Frank Taurua
* Steve Nicolle
* Dick Jones
* Dennis Hunt
* Stephen Royds
The Ladykillers

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

## Description

The Ladykillers demonstrates how well the English can make murder into one of the genteel pursuits of life. It was the last film to be made at the old Ealing studios before Michael Balcon was given his marching orders and television moved into that seedbed of post-war British comedies. The film therefore stands like their monument. A little old lady lets an upstairs room to an oddly mixed group of 'musicians'. They comprise a bogus major (Cecil Parker), a dumb bruiser (Danny Green), a heavy type (Herbert Lom), a lively spiv (Peter Sellers) and their slightly demented-looking leader (Alec Guinness). They are in fact crooks, intent on a robbery nearby. They get the money - but it's their frail landlady who ends up keeping it, as fate and the mechanics of Ealing comedy proceed to eliminate the gang one by one. You could call The Ladykillers a black comedy were it not for the rose-tinted performance of Katie Johnson who, at 77, was coaxed out of retirement after a series of small parts in earlier movies to play the redoubtable Mrs. Wilberforce. Ealing films always had a hankering after the blessed certainties of the Victorian past and in Katie Johnson's performance, which confronts the crooks with the sort of gentility that acts as a lie detector on the guilty lodgers, all the Ealing virtues are displayed as solid as a Victorian public building. Her scenes with Alec Guinness are particularly memorable - for Guinness was likewise inspired by the freshness of William Rose's script and the nuances of Alexander Mackendrick's direction to devise a character who walks along the tightrope of mania, turning in an instant from the urbane to the sinister and transforming his face into a leer of border-line insanity at the slightest provocation. Many critics in 1955 thought Guinness had never given a finer comic performance. Despite the grisly deaths, nothing in The Ladykillers interferes with the reassuring moral that goodness will triumph over evil, just as a nanny figure like Mrs. Wilberforce will always prevail over her unruly brood of naughty boys. ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus
* Cecil Parker as Major Claude Courtney
* Herbert Lom as Louis Harvey
* Peter Sellers as Harry Robinson
* Danny Green as 'One-Round' Lawson
* Jack Warner as the superintendent
* Katie Johnson as Mrs Louisa Wilberforce
* Philip Stainton as the sergeant
* Frankie Howerd as the barrow boy
Wonderful Life

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

## Description

A marvellously exuberant musical which takes us onto a film set in the exotic Canary isles. Wonderful Life tells the story of a young rock 'n' roller who inadvertently ends up being the stuntman in an ill-fated, B-rated motion picture. With co-stars Susan Hampshire, Una Stubbs and The Shadows, he embarks on a cunning venture to produce a better picture. And even if he doesn't entirely succeed, there's lots of fun plus a feast of foot-tapping musical numbers including: Wonderful Life; Girl In Every Port; A Little Imagination; On The Beach; In The Stars; We Love A Movie; Home; My Daddy; If I Had A Talking Picture Of You; I'm Riding The Range; My Girl Lollipop; Moon Over Bikini; The Old Red, White and Blue; French Singing Cowboy; What've I Got To Do; All Kinds Of People; In A Matter Of Moments; In The Stars; Youth And Experience. In response to popular demand, and by way of celebrating Cliff's twenty-fifth year of stardom, THORN EMI are also releasing his other two [sic] classic movies: SUMMER HOLIDAY

## Cast

* Cliff Richard as Johnnie
* Walter Slezak as Lloyd Davis
* Susan Hampshire as Jenny Taylor
* Hank Marvin as Hank (The Shadows)
* Bruce Welch as Bruce (The Shadows)
* Brian Bennett as Brian (The Shadows)
* John Rostill as John (The Shadows)
* Melvyn Hayes as Jerry
* Richard O'Sullivan as Edward
* Una Stubbs as Barbara Tate the screenwriter
* Derek Bond as Douglas Leslie
* Gerald Harper as Sheik / Scotsman / Harold
* Joseph Cuby as Miguel [credited as Joe Cuby]
Roland Rat Superstar in Rat on the Road - Volume 1

**Roland Rat Superstar in Rat on the Road - Volume 1** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1984.

## Description

To all my fans, welcome to the Rodent Video Collection - a series of video tapes commemorating my wonderful adventures around the world. Our series begins with RAT ON THE ROAD Volume 1, where Kevin Errol and I reminisce about our adventures on the road with the help of my diary to remind us of some of those memorable events. Like Kev getting stuck in the toilet in Newcastle, or me reading a sonnet or two in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. If its culture and sophistication you're looking for, then this is the tape for you. Remember if you're a ratfan, I love you dearly.
Fantastic Four Vol 6 12

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Fantastic Four Vol 6 #12
Published
Released
September, 2019
31-7-2019

Pages
48

Rating
T (13 and up)

Original Price
$4.99

 Editor-in-Chief
C.B. Cebulski

 Cover Artists
Esad Ribic

 Writers
Dan Slott

 Pencilers
Sean Izaakse

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## Solicit Synopsis

Ben and Alicia are off on their dream honeymoon in a remote tropical paradise...until someone decides to crash it. Or should we say SMASH IT?! Get ready for the biggest HULK VS. THING FIGHT OF THE CENTURY! PLUS: The saga of the Future Foundation by Jeremy Whitley and Wil Robson!

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Stardust

**Stardust** is a UK VHS release by EMI on 1980.

## Description

Brought to the screen eighteen months after That'll Be The Day, Stardust (1974) picks up the story of Jim MacLaine in 1963. Last seen going off to join a rock group, clutching a newly-bought guitar. Jim is now enjoying the nomadic gigs and groupies life of The Stray Cats (Paul Nicholas. Keith Moon, Dave Edmunds and Karl Howman). His old fairground buddy Mike (Adam Faith taking over from Ringo Starr) becomes their road manager and under his cool and merciless guidance, they get into the big time of hit records, groomed to boyish Beatles-like charm by smoothie music publisher Colin Day (Marty Wilde). Day pulls a fast one on The Stray Cats by selling them to a tough American tycoon called Porter Lee Austin (Larry Hagman, who was later go corner the market in villains we love to hate as J.R. in the television series Dallas). From then on, although Jim achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of success begins to turn sour. His private life becomes almost non-existent and his development as a creative artist is stultified by Porter Lee's demands. In the rise and fall of Jim MacLaine, writer Ray Connolly provides a condensed but vivid and lively history of the pop music scene from the youthful exuberance of Beatlemania through the 'pop star as guru' era to the tragedy-strewn days when the pressures proved too great for so many talented musicians of the 'Sixties. And the real life music stars who appear in the story are examples of those who survived and those who did not. Like That'll Be The Day, Stardust disproves the glib theory that the British cinema can only produce cosy little films about parochial subjects. It is as big and bright as a Hollywood musical, but with a solid foundation of truth recognisable as such in any part of the world. MARJORIE BILBOW
The Final Terror

**The Final Terror** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on May 1985.

## Description

**If you go down in the woods today you're sure of... THE FINAL TERROR**
Sample a new experience in fear! - another flesh-creeping horror picture from the man who wrote 'Alien'. A barrage of violence hits a group of youngsters on a rural camping trip as a mysterious, merciless killer moves in on the victims. The tension mounts to an extraordinary level and shock follows shock as they are caught in a terrifying sequence of bloodshed and murder. With Rachel Ward, star of 'The Thorn Birds' and 'Against All Odds', and Darryl Hannah of 'Blade Runner', 'Splash' and 'Reckless' fame.

## Cast

* Rachel Ward as Margaret
* John Friedrich as Dennis Zorich
* Akosua Busia as Vanessa
* Daryl Hannah as Wendy Morgan
* Adrian Zmed as Marco Cerone
* Ernest Harden Jr. as Nathaniel Hines
* Cindy Harrell as Melanie
* Lewis Smith as Boone
* Joe Pantoliano as Eggar
* Mark Metcalf as Mike
* Irene Sanders as Sammie
* Richard Jacobs as Mr. Morgan
* Donna Pinder as Mrs. Morgan
* Jim Youngs as Jim
* Lori Butler as Lori (as Lori Lee Butler)
* Tony Maccario as Eggar's Mother
The Man Who Fell to Earth

**The Man Who Fell to Earth** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on April 1981.

## Description

The Stranger with a British passport who walks into a small Kentucky town one morning is stranger than you think. He is in fact hairless, oddly-eyed, without nipples, navel or genitalia, a ship-wrecked (and possibly android) survivor from another, dying, planet. And he is played, with a minimum of help from his friendly make-up department, by our own David Bowie. The Stranger having learned English by monitoring movies from Earth television (which he can absorb twelve at a time) takes the name of Thomas Newton and commandeers the services of a patents lawyer, Farnsworth, to whom he casually delivers a handful of blueprints sufficient to found a vast industrial empire. It gradually becomes clear that this has been created simply to build a spaceship with which to rescue the few survivors of his home planet. But alas for his schemes, things begin to go badly awry. The girl-chasing ex-chemistry professor, Nathan Bryce, who has become his closest associate, is increasingly obsessed by the need to discover the truth about Newton's origins and aims. the business establishment feels itself threatened, and eventually his inventions over-stimulate the economy. Betrayed by his associates, his empire toppled by business rivals, his private enterprise space project in ruins, he is kidnapped and handed over as a guinea-pig to a team of doctors determined to discover what exactly makes him tick. The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) is a fascinating, labyrinthine jigsaw of a movie in which references and influences have been detected ranging from the New Testament to Citizen Kane, from the science-fiction pulp magazines to the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, and from the work of Jean Cocteau to that of Harold Robbins. Superbly photographed, bubbling over with ideas, with some of the most unusually explicit sexual sequences ever to pass censorship, it ranks as one of the most remarkable British productions of the decade and a landmark in the career of its distinguished director Nicolas Roeg, and of course of its star.

## Cast

* David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton
* Rip Torn as Dr. Nathan Bryce
* Candy Clark as Mary-Lou
* Buck Henry as Oliver V. Farnsworth
* Bernie Casey as Mr. Peters
* Tony Mascia as Arthur
* Rick Riccardo as Trevor
* Adrienne La Russa as Helen
* Claudia Jennings as Peters' Wife (uncredited)
* Albert Nelson
* Jim Lovell as himself
Three Warriors

**Three Warriors** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1981.

## Description

The tragedy of the fate of the North American Indian is well known. Most of that race were killed off at the end of the 19th century, either swiftly by the White-man's soldiers, or slowly by the White-man's diseases. Those left behind in a world which was strange to them either sought work in the cities or stayed in reservations, with little to do but brood about the past. In Three Warriors Michael, a teenage boy, has migrated to the city where his widowed mother works. His father died of drink and his grandfather, an old chief, lives on in a reservation. Michael returns to the reservation with great reluctance and his gradual change of heart, from contempt and hatred to appreciation and love of the old ways represented by his grandfather, forms the major part of this film. From the very start, even before the titles, we know that we are in the world of the horse, and of wild mustangs at that, beautiful animals running free in the mountain country of Oregon. We are made sharply aware that the air here is clear, the forests primeval, the mountain streams unpolluted and limpid. But experience tells us that when "every prospect pleases", you can count on man being his vile self and spoiling it all. This rude incursion of man the polluter, the greedy commercial wrecker, the brutal killer of wildlife is represented by a gang of particularly vile horse-stealers. Helmeted and visored their motor-bikes shatter the ear drums, they kick up dust and ruthlessly raid the enclosed zone, stealing the protected species to sell on the hoof or as carcases for meat. How Michael and a sympathetic Ranger deal with this new invasion into the peace and harmony of the Indian world provides the intriguing second half of the story. One of the first American films to cast American Indians in major roles, Three Warriors has been praised for portraying American Indian people not as villains, but as human beings. Director Kieth Merrill makes the most of the gorgeous scenery round Warm Springs, Oregon, and of the film's strong social and ecological message. GORDON BEGG

## Cast

* Charles White-Eagle as Grandfather
* McKee Redwing as Michael
* Lois Red Elk as Mother
* Randy Quaid as Ranger Quentin Hammond
* Christopher Lloyd as Steve Chaffey
* Trey Wilson as Chuck
* Michael Huddleston as Pat
* Raydine Spino as Older Sister
* Stacey Leonard as Younger Sister
* Mel Lambert as Horsedealer
* Dean Brooks as Officer at Fair
* Byron Patt as Michael's Father
* Lynn Miller as Slaughterhouse Supervisor
* Nathan Jim Sr. as Mechanic
* Avex Miller Sr. as Mechanic's Father
* Harold Cedartree as Singer
Sex Through a Window

**Sex Through a Window**is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1983.

## Description

**WHAT HAPPENS WHNE AMUSEMENT TURNS TO OBSESSION**
Let your imagination run wild! Picture all that might be revealed where you able to witness an intimate scene in another man's bedroom. Sex through a Window invites you to do just this. Focus in on adolescent lovemaking, a rich man's orgy and a promiscuous actress-not to mention other steamy encounters. But beware! This technologically assisted Peeping Tom might just have his eye on you!

## Cast

* Jim McMullan as John Norman
* Katherine Woodville as Sally Norman
* James A. Watson Jr. as Cameraman
* Bara Byrnes as Sylvia Marina
* Al Checco as Surveillance Salesman
* Jacqueline Giroux as Barbie
* Curtis Credel as Reporter
Stryker

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

## Description

**AFTER THE HOLOCAUST, NOTHING MATTERS BUT SURVIVAL**

In the aftermath of the nuclear holocaust, mankind reaps a grim harvest. Nothing survives of civilised society, morality or reason. In the scorched and arid wasteland inhabited by the wretched survivors, water is power, and whoever controls the water controls the world...
Queen - Greatest Flix

**Queen - Greatest Flix** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by Picture Music International and EMI Music on November 1981, a CED released by RCA Columbia Pictures Video and EMI Music on the 1980s and a LaserDisc released by Thorn EMI Video on 1983.

## Track Listing

1. Killer Queen
2. Bohemian Rhapsody
3. Love of My Life
4. You're My Best Friend
5. Somebody to Love
6. Tie Your Mother Down
7. We Are the Champions
8. We Will Rock You
9. Spread Your Wings
10. Bicycle Race
11. Fat-Bottomed Girls
12. Don't Stop Me Now
13. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
14. Save Me
15. Play the Game
16. Another One Bites the Dust
17. Flash
Rattle of a Simple Man

**Rattle of a Simple Man** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on 1981.

## Description

A coach-load of Manchester football fans are setting off for Wembley. Amongst their number is a 'simple man', Percy (Harry H. Corbett), a naive and gauche fellow who although by no means a youngster is still living at home with his parents. After a boozy night on the town, his friends take him to a Soho strip club where they corner him into a bet that he can get off with an attractive woman seated at the bar -Cyrenne (Diane Cilento). As she is undoubtedly a prostitute and agrees to take Percy back to her flat, there would seem to be little doubt as to Percy winning his £50, but, as his friends well know, he is excessively shy with women…
The basic concern of *Rattle of a Simple Man* (1964) is the development of the relationship between Percy and Cyrenne. On the surface, the inexperienced Southerner and the sarcastic, mercurial tart make a mismatched pair, but both are isolated from their contemporaries, and appear to be locked into a drab existence from which there is little hope of escape. Their awareness of mutual shortcomings enables them to talk to each other with a degree of honesty impossible with others. The two leads are well supported - Michael Medwin is particularly good as the cocky but likeable Ginger (and it's possible to catch sight of Charles Dyer, the author, in the cameo role of Chalky). Although a comedy, *Rattle of a Simple Man* has elements of a thriller -will Percy win his bet? Will he realise the potential importance of the encounter with Cyrenne? Who are the strange Italians lurking outside the flat? In addition to making an amusing comedy, the director Muriel Box (and a woman director was even more of a rarity then than it is now) gently and unobtrusively manages to introduce some serious issues - the double standards many men have towards women, society's attitudes to homosexuality and prostitution, and the danger of being over-impressed by appearances.
LINDA WOOD
The Hotel New Hampshire

**The Hotel New Hampshire** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1985.

## Description

The eccentric Berry family - Father, Mother, Frank, John, Franny, Lilly, Egg and grandfather Iowa Bob - come together with a performing bear, a flatulent dog, a group of Viennese terrorists and a girl in a bear suit in this extraordinary film based on John Irving's outrageously funny - and tragic - best seller. Heartache, hilarity and happiness befall them as they move from New Hampshire to Vienna, and back. Tony Richardson, famed for his Oscar winning 'Tom Jones', directs this bizarre modern fairy tale, with Jodie Foster as the forthright Fanny and Nastassja Kinski as Susie the Bear.

## Cast

* Jodie Foster as Franny Berry
* Beau Bridges as Win Berry
* Rob Lowe as John Berry
* Nastassja Kinski as Susie the Bear
* Wilford Brimley as Iowa Bob
* Paul McCrane as Frank Berry
* Wallace Shawn as Freud
* Lisa Banes as Mrs. Berry
* Jennifer Dundas as Lily Berry
* Seth Green as "Egg" Berry
* Anita Morris as Ronda Ray
* Amanda Plummer as Miss Miscarriage
* Matthew Modine as Chipper Dove/Ernst
* Robert Thomas as Harold Swallow
* Lorena Gale as Dark Inge
* Joely Richardson as Waitress
Privates on Parade

**Privates on Parade** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on September 1983.

## Cast and characters

* John Cleese – Maj. Giles Flack
* Denis Quilley – Capt. Terri Dennis
* Nicola Pagett – Sylvia Morgan
* Patrick Pearson – Sgt. Steven Flowers
* Michael Elphick – Sgt. Maj. Reg Drummond
* David Bamber – Sgt. Charles Bishop
* Tim Barlow – Commanding Officer
* Ishaq Bux – Sikh Doorman
* Steve Dixon – Drummer
* David Griffin – Infantry Officer in the Bush
* Peter Hutchinson – Trumpet Player
* Jasper Jacob – Bass Player
* Simon Jones – Sgt. Eric Young-Love
* Brigitte Kahn – Mrs. Reg Drummond
* Robin Langford – Electrician
* Joe Melia – Sgt. Len Bonny
* William Parker – Armed Escort
* Bruce Payne – Flight Sgt. Kevin Cartwright
* Neil Pearson – Band Pianist
* John Quayle – Capt. Henry Cox
* Julian Sands – Sailor
* John Standing – Capt. Sholto Savory
* Philip Tan – Lee
* Vincent Wong – Cheng
Times Square

**Times Square** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1982. It got re-released as 'Star Selection in April 1985.

## Description

Times Square (1980) is a film that vibrates with the energy of youth. Youth in revolt against conventions and over-protective authority; youth crusading against bigotry and racism; youth vulnerable and sometimes scared, but facing life as an adventure to be enjoyed. And all this vigour and excitement is echoed in the pulsating music of the soundtrack with its 19 numbers which include rock classics performed by artists like Suzi Quatro, XTC, The Pretenders, Joe Jackson, Talking Heads, plus new songs specially written for the film. It is a story of two girls in their mid-teens - tough loner Nicky (Robin Johnson) and shy Pamela (Trini Alvarado) - who meet in a hospital where insensitive doctors are testing them for signs of mental disorder. They run away to a hideout in a derelict pier on the waterfront, scratch a living in ways that only just stop short of armed robbery, and eventually manage to get jobs singing and dancing in a sleazy go-go club. Police and social workers scour the crowded streets in search of them, while newspapers print appeals to their readers to help rescue Pamela from the 'moral danger' of her association with Nicky. Only radio DJ Johnny LaGuardia (Tim Curry) sympathises with the girls' desperate need to stay free to live their own lives. He broadcasts encouraging messages; and, when they form themselves into a singing duo called 'The Sleaze Sisters', invites them to make their hit debut on his programme. The stupendous climax to the movie is a rock concert held at midnight in Times Square attended by hundreds of teenagers. Made on location in the tough areas of New York, in streets lined with porno cinemas, sex shops and shady clubs, Times Square is not a film for anyone who has forgotten how it feels to be young and at odds with the adult world. As contemporary as tomorrow, it is made for the generation that it so accurately portrays as confused but candid, vulgar by conventional standards, but passionately caring and full of fun. MARJORIE BILBOW

## Cast

* Trini Alvarado as Pamela Pearl
* Robin Johnson as Nicky Marotta
* Tim Curry as Johnny LaGuardia
* Peter Coffield as David Pearl
* Herbert Berghof as Dr. Huber
* David Margulies as Dr. Zymansky
* Anna Maria Horsford as Rosie Washington
* Michael Margotta as JoJo
* J.C. Quinn as Simon
* Tim Choate as Eastman
* Elizabeth Peña as Disco Hostess
* Steve James as Dude
* Jay Acovone as Plainclothes Cop
Shalako

**Shalako** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on 1979. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on November 1982.

## Description

The Western is probably the most format and stylised of all cinema genres. As a result, there are only a handful of films which succeed in providing something genuinely new within the traditional formula. Among these, Shalako stands out as one of the most fascinating; a multi-million dollar production that lakes an unusual view of the American West, looking at it through the eyes of the Old World as it clashes violently with the emerging culture of the New. Adapted from a novel by best-selling Western author Louis L'Amour, Shalako follows the adventures of a party of European aristocrats on a hunting tour of New Mexico in the 1880's. Led into violating Apache reservation by their cowboy guide, they are attacked by Indians and one of their number, French countess Irina Lazaar, separated from the main party, is saved only by the intervention of the former U.S. cavalry officer Shalako, now turned cowboy. While Sean Connery's Shalako, the Indians and the hostile environment all represent the American West as it is, the party of ultra-civilised aristocrats defiantly stand for the values of the Old World. The resulting conflicts, both physical and cultural give the film an extra dimension that lifts it far out of the run of more commonplace Westerns. Lifting Shalako even further into the category of major entertainment is the casting of the leading roles, Sean Connery makes Shalako considerably more than just a routine Western hero and the playing of Brigitte Bardot as the countess Irina opposite him gives the film that final added dimension - genuine female star quality. In a strong cast, Honor Blackman as the English Lady Daggett and Peter Van Eyck as the bullheaded General von Hallstatt stand out. Hollywood director Edward Dmytryk, veteran of such Westerns as Broken Lance, Raintree Country and Warlock, drives the film along with pace and action, making excellent use of the Spanish locations which stand in for New Mexico. ALAN FRANK

## Cast

* Sean Connery as Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin
* Brigitte Bardot as Countess Irina Lazaar
* Stephen Boyd as Bosky Fulton
* Jack Hawkins as Sir Charles Daggett
* Peter van Eyck as Baron Frederick von Hallstadt
* Honor Blackman as Lady Julia Daggett
* Woody Strode as Chato (Apache chief)
* Eric Sykes as Mako
* Alexander Knox as Sen. Henry Clarke
* Valerie French as Elena Clarke
* Julián Mateos as Rojas
* Don 'Red' Barry as Buffalo
* Rodd Redwing as Chato's Father
Slayground

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

## Description

**WELCOME TO YOUR FUNERAL!**

A hard-hitting thriller, Slayground is the story of savage revenge, relentless pursuit and cold-blooded murder. Things begin to go wrong for Stone, a highly professional criminal with a strict code of ethics, when he is forced to employ a brash, inexperienced driver for his getaway car. What should have been a routine job turns into a nightmare as the driver panics and a nine-year-old girl is killed in the ensuing car crash. Her grief-stricken father has only one thought in mind - to get Stone!

## Cast

* Peter Coyote as Stone
* Mel Smith as Terry Abbatt
* Billie Whitelaw as Madge
* Philip Sayer as Costello
* Bill Luhrs as Joe Sheer
* Marie Masters as Joni
* Clarence Felder as Orxel
* Ned Eisenberg as Lonzini
* David Hayward as Laufman
* Michael Ryan as Danard
* Barrett Mulligan as Lucy
* Kelly Maroney as Jolene
* Margareta Arvidssen as Grete
* Rosemary Martin as Dr. King
* Malcolm Terris as Venner
* Jon Morrison as Webb
* Cassie Stuart as Fran
* Debby Bishop as Beth
* Stephen Yardley as Turner
* P.H. Moriarty as Seeley
* Trevor Byfield as Sams
* Erick Ray Evans as Malpas
* Bill Dean as Compére
* Ozzie Yue as Waiter
* Tony Devon as Joey
Shall We Dance

**Shall We Dance** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by EMI on September 1981.

## Description

By the time Shall We Dance went into production in 1937 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had already made six films together and where unmistakably one of the biggest things in Hollywood. Shall We Dance was the most elaborate and expensive yet of their films, it had more plot, and it had a score by the Gershwins so rich that it could afford to throw away Beginner's Luck and underplay They Can't Take That Away From Me and still have They All Laughed, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off, Shall We Dance and Slap That Bass to be going on with. It cast Fred Astaire as an American Ballet dancer with a Russian-stage name who is strangely attracted to American popular music and the curious dances that go with it. Especially since these are personified in Ginger Rogers, playing a popular and successful dancer in the other mode who is constantly, owing to an intricate series of misunderstandings, assumed to be married to Fred. This suits him well enough, but when the question of whether they are married or not threatens to wreck both their careers they decide - logically enough in this topsy-turvy world - that the only way they can sort things out is to get married just in order to get divorced. The ins and outs of the plot are very amusing, particularly when they involve Edward Everett Horton as the scatter-brained ballet impresario and Eric Blore as the officious floor manager. But finally they are there, as they should be, mainly as cues for long song and dance. And the music numbers are classic: whether it is Fred, dancing with the machines in the ship's engine-room at the beginning, or Ginger giving Fred a lesson in tap, or Ginger and Fred on roller skates in Central Park, this is the world of top hat, white tie and tails at its most enchantingly escapist.

## Cast

* Ginger Rogers as Linda Keene
* Edward Everett Horton as Jeffrey Baird
* Eric Blore as Cecil Flintridge
* Jerome Cowan as Arthur Miller
* William Brisbane as Jim Montgomery
* Harriet Hoctor as herself
* Dudley Dickerson as singing crew member in Slap That Bass
* Charles Coleman as policeman in Central Park *(uncredited)*
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

**The Hunchback of Notre Dame** is a pre-cert UK VHS released by EMI on April 1981.

## Description

Charles Laughton's Quasimodo is one of a very short list of screen characterisations which have become so much part of the folk lore of the cinema that impressionists, comedians and pub jokers can still do imitations knowing they will be recognised even by audiences who have never seen the original. Laughton's Hunchback, with his shambling lope, heavy crooked body and grotesquely distorted features, survives the years as everybody's mental picture of Victor Hugo's tragic hero. A masterly creation by the famous make-up artist Perc Westmore, the rigours of applying it proved such a strain on the nervous energies of both men that they never worked together again. But Laughton's bravura performance could not have generated so much lasting admiration and affection if this 1939 RKO production (under Pandro S. Berman) had not been such a splendid assembly of acting talents and artistic and technical expertise. With a cast of thousands (literally) and the magnificent sets designed by Van Nest Polglase, director William Dieterle brings medieval Paris to lusty life in all its extreme contrasts of bawdy vitality, squalid poverty, arrogant wealth, devout Christianity and fanatically cruel religious bigotry. Beautifully lit and photographed by Joseph H. August (whose previous credits included The Informer and The Plough and the Stars for John Ford) the depth and texture of black and white film are seen at their atmospheric best, making the absence of colour a positive virtue instead of a negative necessity. The clarity and quality of the sound are a revelation to ears accustomed today to straining to hear dialogue overlaid with a cacophony of clattering effects. And Alfred Newman's music captures and enhances every mood of the moment, from the savage blood lust of the mob to the tenderness and compassion of Esmeralda (Maureen O'Hara) when the gipsy girl takes pity on the whipped and pilloried hunchback and so wins his love and devotion. All in all, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a perfect example of the Hollywood epic in all its lavish glory. MARJORIE BILBOW

## Cast

* Charles Laughton as Quasimodo
* Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Jehan Frollo
* Thomas Mitchell as Clopin
* Maureen O'Hara as Esmeralda
* Edmond O'Brien as Pierre Gringoire
* Alan Marshal as Captain Phoebus
* Walter Hampden as Archbishop Claude Frollo
* Harry Davenport as King Louis XI
* Katharine Alexander as Madame de Lys
* George Zucco as Procurator
* Fritz Leiber as Old nobleman
* Etienne Girardot as Doctor
* Helene Whitney as Fleur de Lys
* Mina Gombell as Queen of beggars
* Arthur Hohl as Olivier
* Curt Bois as Student
* George Tobias as Beggar
* Rod La Rocque as Phillippe
* Spencer Charters as Court clerk
* Kathryn Adams as Fleur's companion
* Dianne Hunter as Fleur's companion
* Siegfried Arno as Tailor
* Peter Godfrey as Monk (uncredited)
* Rondo Hatton as Ugly Man (uncredited)
* Paul Newlan as Whipper (uncredited)
The Titfield Thunderbolt

**The Titfield Thunderbolt** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on 1980.

## Description

Titfield is a small town somewhere in Ealing Films' England. It has the oldest branch line in the world; and British Railways wants to close it down. Should the local people be left to run it themselves? Not if the villainous bus company have anything to do with it - and they have, plenty, including sabotaging the train on the eve of the test run which will enable the Men from the Ministry to decide its fate. Nothing daunted, squire, vicar, bishop, and the local alcoholic - who sees a buffet car with endless licensing hours as earthly Paradise - rally round and haul their ancient puffer, The Titfield Thunderbolt, out of the museum and back on to the rails. Even in 1953, The Titfield Thunderbolt seemed a cosy comedy - a bit too cosy, some said, harking back to slowcoach virtues of 'muddling through' when what England needed was to put speed on. But railway enthusiasts were all for it; and the years have worked an ironic change of attitude, for nowadays 'small' is not only beautiful, but is thought socially desirable as well. So one can look at all the Toytown endeavours - like the passengers hopping off to push in an emergency, or rushing supplementary supplies of water across the fields to the drought-ridden loco in every manner of container from soda syphons to baby's bath - with a guilt-free conscience as well as an affectionate eye. This was Ealing's first Technicolor film, and Douglas Slocombe - today one of the world's leading cinematographers - captures the seductive look of a rural England that no longer is (and maybe never was). Naunton Wayne, John Gregson, Sid James, Jack McGowran, the veteran George Relph and Stanley Holloway as the bibulous local inhabitant play the innocents of T.E.B. Clarke's screenplay. Charles Crichton had already directed such Ealing classics as Hue and Cry and The Lavender Hill Mob and shows the same relaxed flair for community eccentricity. Maybe it's all just 'playing at trains' - but which of us could ever resist that invitation? ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Stanley Holloway as Walter Valentine
* George Relph as Vicar Sam Weech
* Naunton Wayne as George Blakeworth
* John Gregson as Squire Gordon Chesterford
* Godfrey Tearle as Ollie Matthews, the Bishop of Welchester
* Hugh Griffith as Dan Taylor
* Gabrielle Brune as Joan Hampton
* Sid James as Harry Hawkins
* Reginald Beckwith as Coggett
* Edie Martin as Emily
* Michael Trubshawe as Ruddock
* Jack MacGowran as Vernon Crump
* Ewan Roberts as Alec Pearce
* Herbert C. Walton as Seth
* John Rudling as Clegg
* Nancy O'Neil as Mrs Blakeworth
* Campbell Singer as Police Sergeant
* Frank Atkinson as Station Sergeant
* Wensley Pithey as Policeman
Slumber Party Murders

**Slumber Party Murders** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment on 1985.

## Description

So you thought it was going to be just another BORING weekend?...

A group of pretty girls get ready for a fun party.

Then an escapee from a local mental institution decides that he'd like to do a little partying himself.

They've got potatio chips, Coke & dope.

They also get the odd severed head, bloody handprints - and a killer with a very novel style all his own.

Even the poor pizza delivery boy ends up resembling his product.

It's going to be no ordinary weekend.

Pity they didn't stay at home.

## Cast

* Michelle Michaels as Trish Devereaux-Craven
* Robin Stille as Valerie 'Val' Bates
* Michael Villella as Russ Thorn
* Debra Deliso as Kimberly 'Kim' Clarke
* Andree Honore as Jackie
* Gina Smika as Diane
* Jennifer Meyers as Courtney Bates
* Joseph Alan Johnson as Neil
* David Millbern as Jeff
* Jim Boyce as John Minor
* Pamela Roylance as Coach Rachel Jana
* Brinke Stevens as Linda
* Rigg Kennedy as Mr David Contant
* Jean Vargas as Mary (Telephone Repairwoman)
* Howard Purgason as Mr Devereaux
* Anna Patton as Mrs Annette Devereaux