frank-talker's - FAVOURITES List

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Join Detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Capt. Ed Hocken (Alan North) as they solve the toughest cases - full of all the sight-gags, puns, and non-sequiturs that made the series famous!

Episodes Comprise:
1. A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)

2. Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)
3. The Butler Did It (A Bird in the Hand)
4. Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)
5. Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)
6. Testimony of Evil (Dead Men Don't Laugh)

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Foxy Brown (Pam Grier) has found her soul mate in an undercover narcotics investigator, but when he is brutally murdered, she swears vengeance against the crime ring responsible.

Posing as a call girl to gain access to the ring's inner circle, Foxy discovers just how high the corruption extends, igniting a blistering war that takes her from the city streets to a remote drug laboratory to a breathtaking mid-air battle behind the controls of an airplane! But the most startling confrontations are yet to come, as she schemes to bring down her boyfriend's killers in ways they never could have imagined.

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On the brink of Civil War, King Henry IV (John Gielgud) attempts to consolidate his reign while fretting with unease over his son's seeming neglect of his royal duties.

Hal (Keith Baxter), the young Prince, openly consorts with Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) and his company of "Diana's foresters, Gentlemen of the shade, Minions of the moon". Hal's friendship with the fat knight substitutes for his estrangement from his father. Both Falstaff and the King are old and tired; both rely on Hal for comfort in their final years, while the young Prince, the future Henry V, nurtures his own ambitions.

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This wild Stephen Sondheim musical about a raucous gaggle of ancient Romans is a flip, glib and sophisticated, yet rump-slappingly bawdy and fast-paced look at the seamy underside of classical Rome through hipster's shades.

When a wily, witty, lying, lazy, cheating slave discovers that his master's son is in love with the girl-next-door - a virgin courtesan - he promises to help win her heart in exchange for his freedom. But the road to romance is blocked with stunning surprises, cunning disguises - and the wildest chariot race ever!

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When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) travels to a remote island to investigate.

But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee), is not what it seems as the devout Christian detective soon uncovers a secret society of wanton lust and pagan blasphemy. Can Howie now stop the cult's ultimate sacrifice before he himself comes face to face with the horror of 'The Wicker Man'?

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New York, 1980. Raped at gunpoint on her way home from work, mute seamstress Thana (Zoë Lund) returns to the safety of her apartment only to be assaulted again by a burglar; but this time she fights back.

Bludgeoning her assailant with an iron, she takes his gun and begins to dispose of the body piece by piece. Fuelled by her trauma, Thana sees that sexual threat is everywhere in the city and decides to bring a .45 calibre solution to the problem.

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Top racing driver Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) is having trouble performing on the circuit. To try to improve the situation, car owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds) calls in Joe Tonto a former racing champion whose career was laid to rest after he was almost killed in a tragic accident.

More sparks fly as Bly indulges in an affair with Sophia (Estella Warren), girlfriend of his No.1 rival.

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Set in the 1930's this intricate comedy caper deals with an ambitious small time crook (Robert Redford) and a veteran con man (Paul Newman) who seeks revenge on the vicious crime lord (Robert Shaw) who murdered one of their gang.

How this group of charlatans puts "the sting" on their enemy makes for the greatest double-crosses in movie history, complete with an amazing surprise finish.

Private Benjamin's immovable object is pampered Judy Benjamin, a wedding night widow. The irresistible force is a three-year, expense-paid hitch in the U.S. Army. What's Judy doing in combat boots and fatigues? A recruiter seductively describes today's 'new Army' and gullible Judy takes the bait. .

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After eight years in prison Bullet is thrust back into the underground world that plagues the streets of New York. When he rips off two customers of his former prison rival Tank he has declared war on one of the most powerful drug dealers in the city.

Now everyone around him will become a victim of the brutal society that accepts violence as the norm and fear as a way of life.

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In the town where movies go over schedule and directors go over budget, something far more evil is out of control.

Wes Craven, Director of the original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street', together with the original cast, have returned to the darkest shadows of Elm Street with a frightening new twist on terror, for his dreams have begun to dictate real-life horrors for the stars of the original film. Reuniting the demonic Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) and Heather Langenkamp, the schoolgirl he terrorised in 1984, they must come to terms with something so powerful it cannot be bound by this film alone.

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Double bill of fantasy horror...

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Just when you thought it was safe to go to sleep, Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) is back to haunt your dreams and freeze your blood! Lisa Zane (Bad Influence) is a child psychologist tormented by recurring nightmares. But not until she meets a new patient with the same horrific dreams does her quest for answers lead to a certain house on Elm Street - where an evil that defies the grave is about to be unleashed upon the world. With Yaphet Kotto (TV's Homicide, Alien) and cameos by Roseanne, Tom Arnold, Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp, this chapter in the world's most terrifying dream saga is a fantastic voyage.
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
Writer-director Wes Craven (Scream 1, 2 and 3) returns to the darkest shadows of Elm Street. Winner of a Golden Scroll of Outstanding Achievement from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, this spine-tingling tale reunites original Nightmare stars Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon as "reel" Freddy invades the real world with deadly results. Life imitated art during filming. Soon after shooting an earthquake sequence, the "Northridge Quake" shook Los Angeles. Says Craven, "We were about to have rubble created for the movie, but instead, we were able to just go out and film from the streets". But don't worry, Freddy fans. It's only a movie...or is it?

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For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector - "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart" (Tim Allen), "Lt. Tawny Madison" (Sigourney Weaver) and "Dr. Lazarus" (Alan Rickman) - set off on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space...

and then their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beamed up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the performance of their lives in this hilarious adventure.

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Based on the true story of the notorious serial killer and the intense manhunt he inspired, 'Zodiac' is a superbly crafted thriller from the director of 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club'. Featuring an outstanding ensemble cast led by Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.

, Mark Ruffalo and Chloe Sevigny, Zodiac is a searing and singularly haunting examination of twin obsessions: one man's desire to kill and another's quest for the truth.

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In one of Walerian Borowczyk's most celebrated features, a 13th-century French nobleman's beautiful wife Blanche, as innocent as her name, becomes the unwilling object of attention by various visitors, including the King and his philandering page.

Widely acclaimed as one of the cinema's most original and convincing evocations of the Middle Ages, Blanche's unique visual style resembles a medieval fresco, and its period-instruments soundtrack was years ahead of its time.