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Hoffman

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

## Description

*Hoffman* - made in 1969 - is one of the most interesting and enjoyable of Peter Sellers' later British films. By this time he was firmly established as an international star with successes such as *The Pink Panther*, *Dr. Strangelove* and *What's New Pussycat?* behind him. But these films had shown Sellers more as a mimic and a very clever one - than as a straight actor. Given his early days in radio and the cult success of *The Goon Show*, in which Sellers' vocal versatility had been impressively shown, it was hardly surprising that it should be this one most remembers from Sellers' early character parts in British film. And even when he became a star, it was as much due to the accent he hid behind in creating the immortal, bungling, inspector Clouseau. What took time to emerge was the fact that Sellers was an excellent straight actor and one who did not necessarily require funny voices or slapstick gags to create a screen character. *Hoffman* shows Sellers the actor to considerable effect.

The movie is basically a tow-hander, co-starring Sellers with Sinead Cusack as Janet Smith, a nineteen-year-old London typist. For two ears Sellers' middle-aged Benjamin Hoffman has had a secret -so far unfulfilled -desire for her. But his worship of Janet from afar suddenly becomes more than just an erotic daydream for Hoffman when he discovers that her fiancé is involved with thieves. Hoffman uses the information to blackmail Janet - and the price that she has to pay is to spend a week with him at his flat. Ernest Gebler's script (from his own novel) is both witty and moving, and director Alvin Rakoff ensures that although the focus is on Sellers and Cusack for most of the time, it's time remarkably well spent. Sellers makes the most of the character of Hoffman, convincing in both comic and serious scenes. And this was the remarkable achievement of the film -it proved that Peter Sellers wasn't simply a funny voice - he was a considerable actor.

ALAN FRANK

## Cast

* Mr [Benjamin] Hoffman - Peter Sellers
* Janet Smith - Sinéad Cusack
* Tom Mitchell - Jeremy Bulloch
* Mrs Mitchell - Ruth Dunning
* Foreman - David Lodge
Otello

**Ottelo** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on July 1985.

## Description

*Otello*, Verdi's last tragic opera, was the result of his very successful collaboration with Boito, the librettist who adapted the original Shakespeare play with masterly skill. *Otello* - a tragic story of love and intrigue - is considered by many to be one of the greatest of all Italian operas.
The great singers of the world have always taken part in seasons at the spectacular Arena di Verona. In this recording, Otello is sung by the Russian tenor Vladimir Atlantov, who is rightly famous for his interpretation of the title role. The role of Desdemona is sung by the famous soprano Kiri te Kanawa, with the leading Italian heroic baritone Piero Cappuccilli as Iago.
Iron Maiden - Live After Death

**Iron Maiden - Live After Death** is a pre-certed UK VHS released by PMI on December 1985.

## Track listing

1. Intro (Churchill Speech)
2. Aces High
3. 2 Minutes to Midnight
4. The Trooper
5. Revelations
6. Flight of Icarus
7. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
8. Powerslave
9. The Number of the Beast
10. Hallowed Be Thy Name
11. Iron Maiden
12. Run to the Hills
13. Running Free
14. Sanctuary
Death Ship

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

## Description

**Those who survive the ghost ship would be better off dead!**

Unbeknown to the passengers on board a cruise ship in the Caribbean, a mysterious vessel is approaching on a collision course. Despite the attempts of the crew to avert disaster, the liner is lost with all hands down, except for seven survivors. When they clamber aboard the ghostly freighter they discover an even worse fate - they are prisoners on a former German wartime vessel. As the ship speeds towards an unknown destination, they realise that something is intent on destroying each one of them in a gruesome and terrifying way...

## Cast

* Richard Crenna as Trevor Marshall
* George Kennedy as Captain Ashland
* Nick Mancuso as Nick
* Sally Ann Howes as Margaret Marshall
* Kate Reid as Sylvia Morgan
* Victoria Burgoyne as Lori
* Jennifer Mckinney as Robin Marshall
* Danny Higham as Ben Marshall
* Saul Rubinek as Jackie
* Murray Cruchley as Parsons
* Anthony Sherwood as Seaman
Duran Duran - Dancing on the Valentine

*Dancing on the Valentine* **is a music video EP by Duran Duran, released by EMI-PMI in October 1984.**

## About the video

This is a Video 45 featuring three Duran Duran music videos from the album *Seven and the Ragged Tiger*.

The three videos are "The Reflex" (directed by Russell Mulcahy), "Union of the Snake" (directed by Simon Milne) and "New Moon on Monday" (directed by Brian Grant).

The title *Dancing on the Valentine* was taken from lyrics in "The Reflex", Duran Duran's most successful single.

The artwork was designed by Assorted iMaGes, and features photography by Francesco Scavullo.

A re-release in 1991 combined *Dancing on the Valentine* with the band's previous two-track *Duran Duran Video 45*.

## Track listings

1. "The Reflex" - 4:18
2. "Union of the Snake" - 4:12
3. "New Moon on Monday" - 5:25

## Personnel

Duran Duran are:

* Simon Le Bon - vocals
* John Taylor - bass guitar
* Andy Taylor - guitar
* Nick Rhodes - keyboards
* Roger Taylor - drums
Kerrang! Video Kompilation 2

**Kerrang! Video Kompilation 2**is a UK VHS released by PMI and Virgin Video on 1987.

## Description

If VIDEO killed the radio star then this, Volume 2 of the **Kerrang!** kompilation, is the final ferocious element to turn the bones into dust and the microphone into jelly. The sort of stff you rarely get to see on the box in this contry, unless of course it's a two-second glimpse that happenes to slip he net completely by chance, no doubt deeply dissturbing for those more used to blow waves and bad miming.

Let's face it, heavy rock gets a pretty raw deal from the mainstream media, whch is why it's **Kerrang!** to the rescue once again, bringing you a kollection of klips that should cater for all states -- No matter how wayward or warped! Thrash, Flash and plenty of Krash, golden greats and platinum pounders, the weighty and the wasted, something old, something new, something borrowed, something... well, I think you get the picture.

DANTE BONUTTO (Deputy Editor, Kerrang!)
Mr. Mum

**Mr. Mum** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1984.

## Description

**WHEN MUM GOES TO WORK, DAD GOES BERSERK!**

New comic discovery Michal Keaton (Night Shift)and Teri Garr, who won an Academy Award Nomination for her performance in Tootsie, star in this sparkling comedy of domestic role reversal. When rising young executive Jack Butler is handed his notice to quit he swaps his briefcase for his wife's apron. Consequently, while she's out making it in a man's world, he mans the home - and the pumps! Wooed and pursued by other household mums, domestic life is a good deal more treacherous than he ever imagined, just as she finds there's more to the job that working relationships. And soon they're wondering if there isn't something in their old lives they miss!

## Cast

* Michael Keaton as Jack Butler
* Teri Garr as Caroline Butler
* Frederick Koehler as Alex Butler
* Taliesin Jaffe as Kenny Butler
* Courtney and Brittany White as Megan Butler
* Ann Jillian as Joan
* Christopher Lloyd as Larry
* Jeffrey Tambor as Jinx Latham
* Martin Mull as Ron Richardson
* Graham Jarvis as Humphries
* Miriam Flynn as Annette
* Carolyn Seymour as Eve
* Patti Deutsch as Deli Girl
Garfield on the Town

**Garfield on the Town** is an Australian VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment.

## Description

The feisty feline is on his own after slipping out of the car on a trip to the vet. Forced to scrounge for food, Garfield has a run in with the mean Alley Cat and his gang, and is later reunited with his long lost mother.
Catholic Boys

**Catholic Boys** (US Title: Heaven Help Us) is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment on 1986.

## Description

FIVE ROWDY GUYS, DODGING SADISTIC PRIESTS, PENANCE AND THE ROASTING FIRES OF HELL. AND STILL WITH ENOUGH SPUNK TO CHASE GIRLS, CREATE CHAOS AND SMASH THE SYSTEM!

## Cast

* Donald Sutherland - Brother Thadeus
* John Heard - Brother Timothy
* Andrew McCarthy - Michael Dunn
* Mary Stuart Masterson - Danni
* Kevin Dillon - Ed Rooney
* Malcolm Danare - Caesar
* Wallace Shawn - Father Abruzzi
* Jay Patterson - Brother Constance
* Patrick Dempsey - Corbett
* Stephen Geoffreys - Williams
* Dana Barron - Janine
* Yeardley Smith - Cathleen
Amadeus

**Amadeus** is a UK VHS release by Thorm EMI Video on December 1985.

## Description

A coarse, lonely drunkard. A screeching, raucous child. And the composer of the greatest music ever written. Adored by the gods. Haunted by ghosts. Destroyed by the jealousy of the man who worshipped envied and hated him

## Cast

* F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri
* Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze Mozart
* Roy Dotrice as Leopold Mozart
* Simon Callow as Emanuel Schikaneder
* Christine Ebersole as Caterina Cavalieri
* Jeffrey Jones as Emperor Joseph II
* Charles Kay as Count Orsini-Rosenberg
* Kenneth McMillan as Michael Schlumberg (Director's Cut)
* Kenny Baker as Parody Commendatore
* Lisabeth Bartlett as Papagena
* Barbara Bryne as Frau Weber
* Martin Cavani as young Salieri
* Roderick Cook as Count von Strack
* Milan Demjanenko as Karl Mozart
* Peter DiGesu as Francesco Salieri
* Michele Esposito as Salieri's student (Director's Cut)
* Richard Frank as Father Vogler
* Patrick Hines as Kapellmeister Giuseppe Bonno
* Nicholas Kepros as Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg
* Philip Lenkowsky as Salieri's Servant
* Herman Meckler as Priest
* Jonathan Moore as Baron van Swieten
* Cynthia Nixon as Lorl, Mozart's maid
* Brian Pettifer as Hospital Attendant
* Vincent Schiavelli as Salieri's Valet
* Douglas Seale as Count Arco
* Miroslav Sekera as young Mozart
* Cassie Stewart as Gertrude Schlumberg (Director's Cut)
* John Strauss as Conductor
* Karl-Heinz Teuber as Wig Salesman
* Rita Zohar as Frau Schlumberg (Director's Cut)
Nights of Cabiria

**Nights of Cabiria** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on January 1983.

## Description

Giulietta Masina won a dazzling ovation and the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1957 for her remarkable and touching performance as the lovelorn Cabiria. Radiantly optimistic, Cabiria throws herself into endless love affairs with the frantic persistence of a trapped bird, dashing body and soul against the vain hope of marriage and a happy family life. Her lovers inevitably abuse her and even rob her of her dowry so painfully earned in nights of humiliation. Yet faith and naiveté render her immune to defeat in the face of successive disappointments, just as her lovely, smiling innocence always seems to overwhelm the more sordid aspects of her dubious career. Punctuated with some truly heartening moments, as when a badly bruised and wholly dejected Cabiria suddenly bursts into life in response to a child's clumsy wayside 'hello', Nights of Cabiria is one of the great classics of cinema from the talented husband and wife team of Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina.

## Cast

* Giulietta Masina as Cabiria Ceccarelli
* François Périer as Oscar D'Onofrio
* Amedeo Nazzari as Alberto Lazzari
* Franca Marzi as Wanda
* Dorian Gray as Jessy
* Franco Fabrizi as Giorgio
* Aldo Silvani as The Wizard
* Ennio Girolami Amleto the Pimp
Amityville II - The Possession

**Amityville II - The Possession** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1983.

## Description

In 1976 a New York family fled this house with their lives. The previous owners weren't so lucky... This is their story!

## Cast

* James Olson as Father Frank Adamsky
* Burt Young as Anthony Montelli
* Rutanya Alda as Dolores Montelli
* Jack Magner as Sonny Montelli
* Diane Franklin as Patricia Montelli
* Brent Katz as Mark Montelli
* Erika Katz as Janice "Jan" Montelli
* Andrew Prine as Father Tom
* Leonardo Cimino as Chancellor
* Moses Gunn as Detective Turner
* Ted Ross as Mr. Booth
* Petra Lea as Mrs. Greer
* Martin Donegan as Detective Cortez
Fake Out

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

## Description

**In Las Vegas, beating the odds has always been tough - NOW IT'S MURDER!**

Sensational Pia Zadora stars as an up-and-coming nightclub singer in this tough action thriller. Under pressure to testify against her gangland lover, she finds herself trapped between the cops and the mob. But what starts as a pact of love and loyalty soon twists into a tale of double cross and corruption that ends in a heart-stopping series of daredevil car chases across the glittering 'Sin City' of Las Vegas. Telly Savalas is the tough trenchcoated cop who protects her, Desi Amaz Jr his partner who falls for the glamour of Pia Zadora.

## Cast

* Pia Zadora as Bobbie Warren
* Telly Savalas as Lt. Thurston
* Desi Arnaz Jr. as Det. Clint Morgan
* Larry Storch as Ted
* G. Wesley Stevens as Michelle
* George Savalas as Pit Boss
* Buddy Lester as Blackjack Player
* Sammy Shore as Waiter
* Nelson Sardelli as Danny Perelli
* George Buck Flower as Merrich
* Tim Rossovich as Roy
* Matt Cimber as Don
* Rusty Feuer as Happy Johnson
* Mercedes Hawthorne-Maharis as Warden Curtis
* Connie Hair as Roberta
* Meshulam Riklis as Spiveck
* Charlotte Laws as Sharon

## Production

The film was Pia Zadora's second lead role in a feature. All her first three films as star were financed by the company of her then husband Meshulam Riklis (the others were *Butterfly* and *The Lonely Lady*). Matt Cimber,who directed *Butterfly*, also made *Fake Out*.

Zadora described it as "a cops-and- robbers-and-nightclub-singer story, kind of like a long *Kojak*." She added the film "has me singing a little, but it's nothing I'm terribly proud of."

The film was mostly shot on location in Las Vegas, principally around the Riviera Hotel.

## References

1. "The Young and the Riklis". *New York Magazine*. 25 February 1982. p. 30.
2. For a fistful of dollars The Guardian (1959-2003); London (UK) [London (UK)]06 June 1981: 11.
3. PIA PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS FOR 'THE LONELY LADY' Rea, Steven X. Philadelphia Inquirer; Philadelphia, Pa. [Philadelphia, Pa]06 Oct 1983: C.1.
4. Klein, Alvin (March 7, 1982). "PIA ZADORA RELISHES HER STARDOM". *New York Times*.
5. MOVIES: THE MAN WHO PUT PIA'S NAME IN LIGHTS--HER HUSBAND Mann, Roderick. Los Angeles Times 3 May 1981: n24.

## External links

* *Fake-Out* on IMDb
* *Fake Out* at TCMDB
Dawn's Inquisition

*"There is truth found in the glorious light of the dawn" -The Dawn's Inquisition mantra*

The Dawn's Inquisition is an order of Knights pledged to the priesthood of Indamma, elven god of the sun. They have been lead by Leonius Harthfel to Valencion and have claimed the Grand Temple for their god.

These knights are renown for wielding divine powers of light, acting as judges in civil disputes, and for some of their order wielding swords made from Brightsteel.

## The Words of Indamma

Any follower of Indamma would be familiar with his words, the famous teaching he spoke in life and gave to his followers to pass on. The words can be both mantras for each knight, and also verbal components for evoking his divine power. A knight of the Inquisition often studies the spoken words, and will recite them whenever they need wisdom or guidance, for *"Indamma is the Light to our Road."*

> *"Where Light strikes shades flee, so lies wither in the face of truth."*
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> *"A child's eye can sear in the sun, the parents reveals slowly until they may understand."*
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> *"Wisdom is the lantern in the dark, one must remember to light it."*
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> *"The sun may set for a time, but hold fast, for it will always rise again in the morning"*
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> *"Darkness is merely the absence of light, it cannot smother your brilliance."*
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> *"With cunning grace, and mighty brawn, bring forth the glorious light of dawn"*
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> *"One cannot light a torch underwater, but look to the anglerfish. There is always a way to bring light to the darkness"*
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> *"Even the blind, who cannot experience the sun's light, rejoice in it's warmth"*
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When reciting the words, a follower typically opens the quote with "These are the Words of Indamma", so that all who listen may know they are of their god.

## War Encounters/Sessions

The Dawn's Inquistion is mainly comprised of Knights and their servants and bannermen. The foot soldiers would be Gaurds and Acolytes, while their knights could be Life Priests, Knights, Veterans, Light Priests, Knight Conquerors, and War Priests. Members of the Inquisition that are CR 3 and above also have 1 **Brightsteel** bladed weapon each, dealing an extra 1d4 Radiant Damage on hits and 2d4 against undead and fiends.

If you decide to build a boss or NPC as a Dawn's Inquisition enemy, it is suggested to used light or radiant based spells/damage/effects/flavor.
Fer-on

### Domains

Seas, boats, avigation, shipbuilding, fishing, swimming, sea life, storytelling, and binge drinking

### Symbols

Holding up a ship's mast with an axe at his side

## Relationships

### Family

Grimöha (mother)

Fer-on is the Frostborn god of the seas, thirdborn of Grimöha.

###  The Birth of the Gods:

Grimöha with her newfound knowledge saw this world needed stewards to govern. From her womb and by herself, she birthed her many children, each child holding a piece on her blue flame, for they were all a reflection of her.

####  Fer-on

The third child was **Fer-on**, god of seas, boats, navigation, shipbuilding, fishing, swimming, sea life, storytelling, and binge drinking. Fer-on is mainly depicted as a sailor, smiling, talking to others, holding up a ships mass, with a battle-ax at his side. Some depictions have his smiling head emerging from the sea to speak to sailors. It's is said Fer-on was born laughing, telling a fishing tall tale that never actually happened. It is told that Fer-on would later annoy the gods with constant tall tales, bothering them as they worked. Each god came to Grimöha asking for Fer-on’s mouth to be removed. Grimöha loved Fer-ons stupid stories however and decided to create sea life, creatures that could listen under Water to Fer-ons stories away from others. Not to mention the sea life was far too dumb to be critical of Fer-on's constant bullshit stories. The gods were happy, many never seeing Fer-on again due to avoiding the ocean. Many sailors say if you tell a story and hear a laughing seagull once you finish, it is Fer-on planning to steal that story for those under the sea.
Hero Wars: Dimension of Death

***Hero Wars: Dimension of Death*** is the first team up movie between Power Rangers, Masked Rider and Space Sheriff. It was adapted by *Super Hero Taisen Z*.

## Production

The release date of this movie were originally on June 14, 2020, but delayed to August 1, 2020 because the death of Bollywood actor, Sushant Singh Rajput.

## Continuity and Placement

* **Power Rangers Beast Morphers**: Taking the place of episode 8 of Beast Morphers.
* **Masked Rider Beast Morphers**: It features the debut of Beast Morphers Rider.

## Characters

### Allies

#### Dino Charge Universe

* Keeper
* Zenowing
* Heckyl

#### Grid Battleforce

* Commander Shaw
* Mayor Adam Daniels
* Blaze
* Roxy
* Nate Silva

#### Others

* Citron
* Kylie

### Villains

#### Evox's Greatest Army

* Leader
	+ Evox II
* Generals

## See also

* Super Hero Taisen Z - Japanese counterpart (fight footage & story)
* Kamen Rider Zi-O: Over Quartzer - Japanese counterpart (Beast Morphers Nitro's debut)
* TBA
La cenerentola

**La cenerentola** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on December 1984.

## Description

La Cenerentola is Gioachino Rossini's version of the story of Cinderella - a sparkling favourite in his repertoire. This new Glyndebourne production by celebrated opera director John Cox, captures perfectly the fairy tale spirit of the piece, with scenery designed by Allen Charles Klein, distorted like cutouts in an old-fashioned story book in tones of sepia and gold. Ths American mezzo soprano Kathleen Kuhlmann sings the title role with Marta Taddei and Laura Zannini as her spiteful sisters, Clorinda and Tisbe. Laurence Dale as Prince Ramiro, Alberto Rinaldi as Dandini, Claudio Desderi as Don Magnifico and Roderick Kennedy as Alidoro complete the cast. Donato Renzetti conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Rossini's effervescent score. "The wonder is to hear such coloratura, such evenness, such easy virtuosity (Kuhlmann)" Guardian. "The London Philharmonic are in crack form and they have a conductor to take full advantage of their fizzing expertise" Times
Decade of Grand Prix

**Decade of Grand Prix** is a UK VHS release by EMI on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on the 1980s.

## Description

In the formative years of Grand Prix Motor Racing. a Fangio and Ascari or a Clark could climb into anything with round wheels and run off with the world Championship. That era, not coincidentally, came to an end at about the same time that Man went to the moon. The same technology - sophisticated engineering, exotic materials, enormous power, advanced aerodynamics - that gave Man the means to overcome the limits of the Earth afforded him equality while racing around it. The 1970's were the most transitional decade since the inception of Formula One, opening with drivers who became champions in different cars, closing with cars that could win with any driver. It was the age of Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda, Ferrari, Lotus, McLaren. The most turbulent, most transitional decade in auto-racing history is portrayed in this film…a fitting *coda* to the 'Seventies and introduction to the 'Eighties.
SEAN O'NEIL
Far from the Madding Crowd

**Far from the Madding Crowd** is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on 1979 and re-realesed on April 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on November 1984.

## Description

To pull as fine-looking a film out of as densely textured a novel as Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd is an achievement to be grateful for. Director John Schlesinger, scenarist Frederic Raphael and lighting cameraman Nicholas Roeg certainly succeeded. Images couldn't better convey Hardy's themes of man's isolation in Nature or the brute force of destiny and one constantly marvels at Roeg's photography. You remember the rider in a gigantic fold of Dorset downland like an ant on a brown blanket. Or the moment Hardy's heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, is blown like a white snowflake over the heath to where her soldier lover stands waiting in a fiery uniform - and we watch fire melt snow. This is a love story about a wilful woman who makes the wrong choice and lives to repent of it. Julie Christie plays Bathsheba, a landed lady, whose hand (and fortune) is courted by three men. One is a swashbuckling Army womaniser (Terence Stamp), another a devoted herdsman (Alan Bates) and the third a confirmed bachelor (Peter Finch), who is said to 'lack passionate parts', until Bathsheba starts his sap rising. The emotions Bathsheba stirs in her three lovers are shown to us in a manner entirely consistent with the novelist's intuitive feel for the way Nature moves in all the growing things of his fictitious Wessex. One bravura passage has Stamp laying siege to his beloved in a cut-and-come-again series of mock charges and lunges with his cavalry sword, pressing home his wild, wind-blown seduction till the sabre stands planted in the turf winking out its owner's victory. But it is generally with a more leisurely and impeccable sense of period that the film takes in the diurnal round of country matters - the downland circuses, grand balls, harvest festivals, rustic sing-songs and violent storms which seem like visitations on the follies of the men and women they enfold. This film was made in 1967. Even in a decade of impressive photography few British films had more visual richness. ALEXANDER WALKER

## Cast

* Julie Christie as Bathsheba Everdene
* Terence Stamp as Frank Troy
* Peter Finch as William Boldwood
* Alan Bates as Gabriel Oak
* Fiona Walker as Liddy
* Prunella Ransome as Fanny Robin
* Alison Leggatt as Mrs. Hurst
* Paul Dawkins as Henry Fray
* Julian Somers as Jan Coggan
* John Barrett as Joseph Poorgrass
* Freddie Jones as Cainy Ball
* Andrew Robertson as Andrew Randle
* Brian Rawlinson as Matthew Moon
King Kong

**King Kong** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on April 1982 and a second release has 'Star Selection' on the mid-1980s.

## Description

To re-make one of the best loved movies all time takes more than courage. Some might say it takes cheek. Producer Dino De Lauentiis has never been short of either, for he has the show man zeal or the great Hollywood tycoons of the past inspired by the sight of a poster of the first King Kong on the wall of his teenage daughter’s bedroom he decided it was high time the biggest star or the cinema should roar again. Realising his dream meant eight months of filming, at a cost of £14 million.

Shot entirely on location on the Hawaiian island of Kausi and in New York, *King Kong*(1976 version) is a fantasy which comes over as amazingly real. Even though we know the giant Kong is actually an electronically controlled mechanical monster, he seems to live and breathe and react as naturally as any of the puny humans who surround him. Sometimes as regal as a monarch of the wild, sometimes a bloodthirsty savage out for revenge, but always a tragic hero to be loved. As he has always been loved. No wonder his creators won an Oscar for Special Visual Effects.

Apart from a few updatings of motives and characterisations — the explorers are now prospecting for oil, and the beautiful heroine (Jessica Lange) tells Kong off for being a “male chauvinist pig ape” instead of screaming all the time — the well-known in story needs no re-telling. It is still a rattling good adventure, with a unique difference which sets it apart from all the countless other movies about captured monsters who go on the rampage. True to his name, Kong has remained the King; and his Beauty and the Beast devotion to the girl who fits so snugly into his giant hand is as deeply moving as it ever was.

MARJORIE BILBOW

## Cast

* Jeff Bridges as Jack Prescott
* Jessica Lange as Dwan
* Charles Grodin as Fred S. Wilson
* John Randolph as Captain Ross
* René Auberjonois as Roy Bagley
* Ed Lauter as First Mate Carnahan
* Julius Harris as Crewman Boan
* Jack O'Halloran as Joe Perko
* Dennis Fimple as Sunfish
* Jorge Moreno as Garcia
* Mario Gallo as Timmons
* John Lone as Chinese Cook
* John Agar as City Official
* Sid Conrad as Petrox Chairman
* Keny Long as Ape Masked Man
* Garry Walberg as Army General
* George Whiteman as Army Helicopter Pilot
* Wayne Heffley as Air Force Colonel
* Corbin Bernsen as Reporter #1 (uncredited)
* Joe Piscopo as Reporter #2 (uncredited)
* Walt Gorney as Subway Driver (uncredited)
* Rick Baker as King Kong (suit performance, uncredited)
	+ Peter Cullen as the voice of Kong (uncredited)
Halloween II

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

## Description

**From the people who brought you HALLOWEEN... more of the night HE came home.**
A Halloween night of terrifying butchery; a convicted killer on the loose; a frenzied chase after an unstoppable murderer - these are the harrowing ingredients of the follow-up to John Carpenter's sensational hit. Once again Michael Myers pursues the beautiful teenager Laurie and satisfies his blood lust with random slaughter: loving couples, a defenseless nurse, a luckless guard and many more fall prey to Myers as he wields axe, breadknife and even medical syringe in his relentlessly violent quest.

## Cast

* Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode
	+ Nichole Drucker as Young Laurie Strode
* Donald Pleasence as Dr. Sam Loomis
* Charles Cyphers as Sheriff Leigh Brackett
* Lance Guest as Jimmy
* Pamela Susan Shoop as Nurse Karen Bailey
* Hunter von Leer as Deputy Gary Hunt
* Tawny Moyer as Nurse Jill Franco
* Ana Alicia as Nurse Janet Marshall
* Nancy Stephens as Marion Chambers
* Dick Warlock as Michael Myers/Patrolman #3
	+ Adam Gunn as Young Michael Myers
	+ Nick Castle and Tony Moran as Michael Myers
* Gloria Gifford as Nurse Virginia Alves
* Leo Rossi as Budd Scarlotti
* Ford Rainey as Dr. Frederick Mixter
* Jeffrey Kramer as Graham
* Cliff Emmich as Bernard Garrett
* John Zenda as Marshal Terrence Gummell
* Anne Bruner as Alice Martin
* Lucille Benson as Mrs Elrod
* Catherine Bergstrom as Debra Lane
* Anne-Marie Martin as Darcy Essmont
* Dana Carvey as Barry McNichol
* Billy Warlock as Craig Levant
* Nancy Loomis as Annie Brackett (corpse cameo)
* Brian Andrews as Tommy Doyle
* Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace
* Jonathan Prince as Randy Lohnner
* Jack Verbois as Ben Tramer
Les enfants du paradis

**Les enfants du paradis** (Alternative Title: Children of Paradise) is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on January 1983.

## Description

The word masterpiece is often used but seldom justified in the cinema. Marcel Carne's Les Enfants du Paradis is one of the few films that warrants this accolade. Moreover, it is something of a miracle that this film was made at all. It was produced under fraught circumstances during the German occupation and filming was halted several times. It's believed that members of the French Resistance took part in the immense crowd scenes, which provided good cover for them. When it was finally shown in 1945 it was a revelation: a stunning romantic spectacle set in the nineteenth century Paris of Louis Philippe, brimming with energy and vitality. In Jacques Prevert's superbly cinematic screenplay, the 'children of paradise' are the colourful inhabitants of the boulevards of the time - pick-pockets, artists, cut-throats, writers, thieves, beggars, soldiers of fortune. At night they sit in the 'gods' in the Funambules Theatre to abuse or cheer along the characters on the stage. The plot concentrates on the lives and dreams of a small band of bohemian actors. The exquisite Arletty, with her expressive eyes, is the woman who is loved by many men but remains true in her heart to only one. Her presence is the still centre of the swirling narrative in which Pierre Brasseur, as an ambitious young actor, and Jean-Louis Barrault, the eternal pagliacci clown, give bravura performances. The first half of the film deals with the squalid poverty stricken struggle for existence in the slums; the second half follows the heroine into high society when she marries a wealthy count. But throughout, despite a poignant ending, it maintains an exhilarating zest for life, tinged with its director's fatalism and heightened by Roger Hubert's dazzling photography. Les Enfants du Paradis has survived all the fads and fashions in films, from neo-realism to surrealist melodrama, and is now acknowledged as a timeless classic.

## Cast

* Arletty as Claire "Garance" Reine
* Jean-Louis Barrault as Baptiste Deburau
* Pierre Brasseur as Frédérick Lemaître
* Marcel Herrand as Pierre-François Lacenaire
* Pierre Renoir as Jéricho
* María Casares as Nathalie (credited as María Casarès)
* Louis Salou as Comte Édouard de Montray
* Gaston Modot as Fil de Soie
* Fabien Loris as Avril
* Marcel Pérès as Director of the Funambules
* Pierre Palau as Stage manager of the Funambules
* Etienne Decroux as Anselme Debureau (credited as Étienne Decroux)
* Jane Marken as Mme. Hermine (credited as Jeanne Marken)
* Marcelle Monthil as Marie
* Louis Florencie as Policeman
* Raymond Rognoni as Director, 'Grand Theatre'
* Jacques Castelot as George
* Paul Frankeur as Police Inspector
* Albert Rémy as Scarpia Barrigni
* Robert Dhéry as Celestin
* Auguste Bovério as First Author (credited as Auguste Boverio)
* Paul Demange as Second Author
One Night with Blue Note - Preserved Volume 1

**One Night with Blue Note - Preserved Volume 1** is a UK VHS release by PMI on October 1985.

## Description

On February 22, 1985, almost thirty major jazz artists gathered at Town Hall in New York City to celebrate the one element that they all had in common: a significant relationship with Blue Note Records. From their initial consent to the burden of travelling from all parts of the world to the strenuous, structured rehearsals to the performance itself, these magnificent artists left their own careers and egos behind to celebrate the hard work and communal spirit that made Blue Note Records one of the most important and joyous labels in the history of music. They were there for each other and for the common goal of spontaneous, creative music. Their genius and commitment was evident not only in the notes they played, but also in their faces and gestures. All of these men came to play. Nothing else mattered. That is as it should be. The generous spirit of these great artists filtered down to the hundred or more people that worked on this event in every area from contracts to staging. This historic evening is preserved for the eye and the ear in the two volume video cassette of "One Night With Blue Note". Magic is a rare commodity.

## Track Listing

1. Bouquet
2. Cantaloupe Island
3. When You Wish Upon a Star
4. Jumpin' Jack
5. Moanin'
6. Broadside
7. Little B's Poem
Metropolis

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

## Description

"Colossal" is the word for Fritz Lang's Metropolis. It is a vision of the future which isn't faded, though it was made in 1926, even if the ideas which animate its allegory of Capitalists versus Workers have been overtaken by time and politics. The luxurious city of skyscrapers, the overhead roads, the Nazi-style sports stadium where the children of the rich practice athletics - and then the cavernous underground city of the robot-like worker-slaves, the machine house which gears humanity to its inexorable anti-human rhythms. These are visual concepts that have breathtaking effect. An army of extras allowed itself to be turned into living architecture. The movie approaches ballet in its stylised use of huge masses of people, bent double as they process themselves into the factory workshops or sweeping like glacier moraine on a collision course with the tyrant machines. Even here the movie anticipates some of those mass-designs into which modern sports events group the spectators. Lang's story is admittedly simplistic to the point of naivete. A mad inventor builds a robot so life-like that she can replace the saintly "Joan of Arc" figure who leads the workers in revolt and so sabotage their hopes of freedom with her own subversive evil. At the end of the film, the dictator's son has fallen in love with the true proletarian leader - and brain and brawn have been reconciled through the supremacy of the heart. It is no worse - and no better - than some operas. What redeems Lang's film's operatic bathos is its pictorial size and energy. The use of miniatures which blended invisibly with life-size sets was brought to perfection. The lighting photography heightens the illusion of size and, as the noted critic Lotte Eisner observed, can even create the impression of sound - as when "the scream of the factory whistle is represented by a shriek of light from the four spotlight." Metropolis often figures in critics' lists of the ten best films ever made - with reason.

## Cast

* Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen, the master of Metropolis
* Gustav Fröhlich as Freder, Joh Fredersen's son
* Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Rotwang, the inventor
* Fritz Rasp as The Thin Man, Fredersen's spy
* Theodor Loos as Josaphat, Fredersen's assistant and Freder's friend
* Erwin Biswanger as 11811, a worker, also known as Gyorgy
* Heinrich George as Grot, guardian of the Heart Machine
* The Creative Man
* The Machine Man
* Death
* The Seven Deadly Sins
* Brigitte Helm as Maria
* Heinrich Gotho as Master of Ceremonies in Pleasure Gardens *(uncredited)*
Les portes de la nuit

**Les portes de la nuit** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on October 1983.

## Description

Les Portes de la Nuit continues the long collaboration between director Marcel Carné and writer and poet Jacques Prévert, whose earlier partnership produced the masterpiece Les Enfants du Paradis. Recording the events of a single night in a dingy suburb of northern Paris, it portrays the malaise of a city recovering from the Occupation. Wakeful and menacing, the night echoes with hunger, resentment and suspicion, as collaborators skulk at home, Resistance fighters seek their betrayers and the young hero lives a lifetime of experience between the hours of dusk and dawn. A dark romantic film whose passion and melancholy reflect the wounded spirit of France in the months following the Liberation, it also features the first major screen appearance of Yves Montand.

## Cast

* Yves Montand as Jean Diego
* Pierre Brasseur as Georges
* Serge Reggiani as Guy
* Nathalie Nattier as Malou
* Saturnin Fabre as Mr. Sénéchal, the father of Malou and Guy
* Jean Vilar as "Destiny", the clochard
* Raymond Bussières as Raymond Lécuyer
* Sylvia Bataille as Claire Lécuyer
Danger Mouse Rides Again!

**Danger Mouse Rides Again!** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thames (Thorn EMI) on May 1984.

## Episodes

* Die Laughing - A ticklish problem: the sinister Baron Greenback's green laughing gas is sending the world into stitches. Governments are crumbling. There's panic abroad. Will Dangermouse have the last laugh?
* The Day of the Suds - London is under threat of invasion by an army of manic washing machines (another of the evil Baron's dirty deeds). The mopping-up operation falls to our trusty heroes...
* 150 Million Years Lost - Time goes haywire when the Professor's time machine blows a fuse. Dangermouse and Penfold confronting pre-historic pterodactyls, a 12th century knight ... and a dinosaur in Trafalgar Square ...
* Rogue Robots - Mechanical mayhem: it looks as though Dangermouse has met his match in Big Tom, the Mouse Masher ...
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

**Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on November 1982.

## Cast

* Max Schreck as Count Orlok
* Gustav von Wangenheim as Thomas Hutter
* Greta Schröder as Ellen Hutter
* Alexander Granach as Knock
* Georg H. Schnell as Shipowner Harding
* Ruth Landshoff as Annie
* John Gottowt as Professor Bulwer
* Gustav Botz as Professor Sievers
* Max Nemetz as The Captain of The Empusa
* Wolfgang Heinz as First Mate of The Empusa
* Hardy von Francois [de] as mental hospital doctor
* Albert Venohr [de] as sailor two
* Guido Herzfeld as innkeeper
* Karl Etlinger as student with Bulwer
* Fanny Schreck as hospital nurse
Paddington's 9th 'Anywhen' T.V. Show

**Paddington's 9th 'Anywhen' T.V. Show** is a UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on August 1983.

## Episodes

* A Picnic on the River
* Paddington's Patch
* A Visit to the Bank
* Paddington's Puzzle
* Paddington Takes the Stage
* Paddington Bakes a Cake
* Paddington at the Tower
* Keeping Fit
* A Visit to the Theatre
* Trouble in the Bargain Basement
Death Vengeance

**Death Vengeance** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on March 1983.

## Description

Enough is enough! Thieves, pimps, prostitutes, muggers and drug-dealers beware. John D'Angelo's declaring his own personal war on crime and he doesn't want your kind around here any more.

## Cast

* Tom Skerritt as John D'Angelo
* Patti LuPone as Lisa D'Angelo
* Michael Sarrazin as Vince Morelli
* Yaphet Kotto as Ivanhoe Washington
* David Rasche as Michael Taylor
* Lewis Van Bergen as Laz Burkofsky
* Earle Hyman as Police Officer
* Ted Ross as Police Commissioner
* Frank Sivero as Frank Russo
* Pat Cooper as Harry Janelli
* Paul Rawson as Jim
* Gina DeAngelis as Vera D'Angerlo
* Allan Graf as Carl-The Bartender
* Donna de Varona as Sara Rogers
* Jonathan Adam Sherman as Danny D'Angelo
* Pete Richardson as Eldorado
* Joseph Rangno as Mike Pelyk
* Sal Richards as Bill Gallo
* Jim Moody as Lester Baldwin
Cliff Richard - The Video Connection

**Cliff Richard - The Video Connection** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Picture Music and Thorn EMI Video on December 1983

## Track listing

1. My Kinda Life
2. Wired for Sound
3. A Little in Love
4. Hey Mr. Dream Maker
5. Summer Holiday
6. Miss You Nights
7. Devil Woman
8. Baby You're Dynamite
9. Please Don't Fall in Love
10. Never Say Die
11. Carrie
12. The Young Ones
13. Dreamin'
14. Daddy's Home
15. We Don't Talk Anymore
On The Buses

**On The Buses** is a pre-certed UK VHS by Thorn EMI Video on June 1982.

## Description

Bawdy, brash and impudently vulgar, the larky adventures of bus driver Stan Butler (Reg Varney) and his lecherous conductor Jack (Bob Grant) made On the Buses into a smash hit television series. And when the comedy writers Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney produced a full-length film for the cinema in 1971 it broke box office records all over the country, proving itself to be the second biggest money-spinning move of the year (Walt Disney's The Aristocats was No.1), even though it had only been on release for a few months. No doubt about it, Stan and Jack's randy goings-on, their unending battles with the ever-harassed inspector 'Blakey' (Stephen Lewis), and Stan's domestic problems with his loving mum (Doris Hare), dopey sister Olive (Anna Karen), and sour-faced creep of a brother-in-law (Michael Robbins), had the great British public rolling about from Land's End to John O'Groats and back again. The ribald comedy is the kind that never dates; but there is one sign of the passage of time that no red-blooded male will fail to notice. The micro-miniskirt was very much in fashion in 1971, so it's no wonder Stan and Jack have difficulty in keeping their minds - and their eyes - on their work. Not that their work is ever very much on their minds when there is Blakey to be scored off and amorous ladies to be scored with. But they get a shock come-uppance when the tormented Blakey brings in women drivers to put an end to their cocky certainty that shortage of staff means he can't sack them. Bang goes Stan's overtime money, and Jack can no longer rely on being free to keep his long-standing arrangements for a spot of how's your father. Yes, it's a bumpy road that lies ahead of Stan and Jack. It's trouble all the way for both of them before Blakey is forced to admit that he's boobed again and our two heroes can let their roving eyes rove free once more. MARJORIE BILBOW

## Cast

* Reg Varney – Stan Butler
* Doris Hare – Mum
* Michael Robbins – Arthur Rudge
* Anna Karen – Olive Rudge
* Stephen Lewis – Inspector Cyril 'Blakey' Blake
* Bob Grant – Jack Harper
* Brian Oulton – Manager
* Andria Lawrence – Betty
* Pat Ashton – Sally
* Jeanne Varney (daughter of Reg Varney) – Mavis
* Pamela Cundell – Ruby
* Pat Coombs – Vera
* Eunice Black - Ada
* Wendy Richard – Housewife
* Peter Madden – Mr. Brooks
* David Lodge – Fred the Busman
* Brenda Gogan – Bridget
* Caroline Dowdeswell – Sandra
* Nosher Powell – Betty's Husband
* Terry Duggan – Nobby
* Norman Mitchell – London Transport Official
* Claire Davenport – Peggy
* Maggie Rennie - Gladys
* Tex Fuller - Harry
* Anna Michaels - Eileen
* Ivor Salter - First Policeman
* George Roderick - Second Policeman
* Gavin Campbell - Motor Cycle Cop
* David Rowlands - Parson
* Hilda Barry - Old Woman
* Moira Foot - Katy
* Reginald Peters - Medical Orderly
Handgun

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

## Description

**SHE SAID NO... ...AND SHE MEANT IT!**

With one broken relationship still fresh in her mind, Kathleen is in no mood to take on a new boyfriend. Macho Larry, however, will not tolerate sexual rebuffs. Rape is his means of exercising a male prerogative. Crippled with hate, Kath must resort to murder to secure hers. Director Tony Garnett (Cathy Come Home, Family Life, Kes) sees to it that you don't leave your seat until every nerve in your body is on fire with indignation.
Pelé

**Pelé** is a pre-certed UK VHS release by EMI on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on the 1980s.

## Description

Pelé - the remarkable story of the greatest footballer the world has ever seen. This original Brazilian film beautifully illustrates Pelé's phenomenal career. It embraces his illustrious contribution to four World Cups. It captures, with unique pictures, his unheralded triumph as a 17-year old in 1958 in Sweden; the bitter disappointment of injury in 1962 in Chile: the pain and frustration of his cruel treatment in the 1966 World Cup in England; and the joy of Brazil's flamboyant victory in Mexico in 1970.

Pelé records the breathtaking skill of this most spectacular of goalscorers, with superb sequences of many of Pelé's most memorable goals - including the emotional scenes as Pelé reached the milestone of 1,000 goals. Many of these marvellous moments have never before been available outside Brazil.

Pelé also offers to the aspiring young player the chance to learn from the best example in the world. Pelé, the coach, passes on the skills that set him apart from other players.

Pelé encapsulates all the sunshine of Brazil through the experiences of its most revered hero - a superb reminder of a superb footballer. It's an action-packed tribute to Pelé that you will never tire of watching.
Ice Cold in Alex

**Ice Cold in Alex** is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on October 1981.

## Cast

* John Mills as Captain Anson
* Sylvia Syms as Sister Diana Murdoch
* Anthony Quayle as Captain van der Poel/Hauptmann Otto Lutz
* Harry Andrews as MSM Tom Pugh
* Diane Clare as Sister Denise Norton
* Richard Leech as Captain Crosbie
* Liam Redmond as Brigadier, Deputy Director Medical Services
* Allan Cuthbertson as the Brigadier's Staff Officer
* David Lodge as CMP Captain (tank trap)
* Michael Nightingale as CMP Captain (checkpoint)
* Basil Hoskins as CMP Lieutenant (Alexandria)
* Walter Gotell as 1st German Officer
* Frederick Jaeger as 2nd German Officer
* Richard Marner as German Guard
* Peter Arne as British Long Range Desert Group officer at oasis
* Paul Stassino as the barman
A Sense of Freedom

**A Sense of Freedom** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1985.

## Description

A SENSE OF FREEDOM

Starring DAVID HEYMAN as JIMMY BOYLE

With ALEX NORTON, JAKE D'ARCY, SEAN SCANLAN, FULTON MACKAY

Screenplay by PETER McDOUGALL

Based on the book by JIMMY BOYLE

Produced by JEREMY ISAACS

Directed by JOHN MACKENZIE

Extortion. Protection. Violence. Such was the life of Glasgow's toughest racketter in the Sixties. Until he was sentenced to life imprisonment -- for murder.

Behind bars, with nothing to lose, Jimmy vents his frustration and hatred on the prison wardens whose equally brutal reprisals only provoke further attacks. Carrying prison protest to its utmost limits, he is moved from one jail to another -- until finally the authorities admit defeat.

Only one place is willing to take him -- a place which offers a new life, another alternative...
Conduct Unbecoming

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

## Description

The Twentieth Indian Light Cavalry preserves the might of the British Raj in a lonely outpost on the North-West frontier during the last years of the nineteenth century. Life within the Mess moves easily along traditional lines. Honour is something rarely mentioned; but there
 is tangible evidence of it in revered trophies and the enduring names of its heroes. But the arrival of a disenchanted young subaltern, determined to return to England as soon as possible, precipitates a series of events which threatens to destroy the honour of the regiment. There are fine performances from some of Britain's most respected actors - Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, and Christopher Plummer-and the American Stacy Keach as the senior officers bent on avoiding a public scandal, and from Michael York as the innocent and upright young recruit and determined to reveal the truth. James Faulkner and Susannah York as the disreputable subaltern and pretty, flighty widow at the heart of the affair.

## Cast

* Michael York as Lieutenant Drake
* Richard Attenborough as Major Roach
* Trevor Howard as Colonel Strang
* Stacy Keach as Captain Harper
* Christopher Plummer as Major Wimbourne
* Susannah York as Mrs Scarlett
* James Faulkner as Lieutenant Millington
* James Donald as the doctor
* Michael Culver as Lieutenant Fothergill
* Persis Khambatta as Mrs. Bandanai
* Helen Cherry as Mrs. Strang