This excellent adaptation of Jerome K Jeromes classic book was broadcast to great acclaim in 1975. Starring Michael Palin, Tim Curry and Stephen Moore, the drama was adapted for television by the great Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) and directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity). "There were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.. So begins the account of the three hypochondriacs' - and their dog's - journey up the Thames from Henley to Oxford in a rowing boat: Jerome, a man of a meditative turn of mind, the pompous Harris who has a passion for tombs and monuments; George, basically a large, sleepy fellow - and, Montmorency, a mischievous fox terrier who regards the water with deep misgivings. With a basic lack of boating ability they .meet plenty of mishaps, misunderstandings and near misses, but these are often the least of the Misadventures, scrapes and japes encountered by our heroes - and then, of course, there is the Curious Case of Harris and the Disappearing Pie.
The extraordinary story of how prison officer John Darwin (Eddie Marsan) faked his own death to claim life insurance and avoid bankruptcy - unbeknownst to his two sons. Told through the eyes of wife Anne Darwin (Monica Dolan), the series explores how Anne became complicit in her husband's bizarre deception to avoid bankruptcy, as she played the grieving widow and tried to convince the world, their friends, the police, and insurance companies that John had gone missing while canoeing.
Fingers (George Cole) and his gang of criminals (including Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw) have the reputation for being the most dim-witted crooks London has ever seen. Fingers, however, has a plan -to rob tight-fisted, loose-living millionaire and tax dodger Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) of his cash. The incompetent gang meet one failure after another and decide to change tack and kidnap Gordon's beloved daughter.
Director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary Mad Max franchise, returns to the world of the Road Warrior. Haunted by his turbulent past. Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) wanders alone until he's swept up with a group, led by Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron). fleeing across the Wasteland. In hot pursuit: a warlord who gathers his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly, leading to a high-octane road war.
Britain 2007, Bryant (Sean Bean) arrives back to Britain from Iraq. The soldier finds a country he no longer recognises; violent crime, drugs, rape and murder rule the streets. He decides enough-is-enough, it's time to fight back. Soon a small group of men gravitate to him and his cause, and together they take the law into their own hands. Their aim, to punish the guilty with violence.
The year is 2027: The world's youngest person has just died at 18, and humankind is facing its own extinction. In a society torn apart by violence and warring sects, children of men follows Theo (Clive Owen) as he becomes an unlikely champion of earth's SURVIVAL. One women represents the planet's LAST REMAINING HOPE - When her safety is threatened, Theo is forced to protect her from certain peril.
Amid the trendy, bohemian scene of London's famed Bloomsbury group, Dora Carrington (Thompson), a talented young artist, first meets bon vivant and writer Lytton Strachey (Pryce). The two creative souls are instantly attracted, although Strachey's desires clearly lie elsewhere. The unlikely pair joyously spends colourful days pursuing their arts - and discovering that love works in mysterious ways. But their blissful existence hangs in the balance when Carrington brings home a lover and they suddenly find themselves caught in a bizarre love triangle. As conflicting passions heat to a boiling point, will true love triumph or will Carrington lose her one and only soul mate forever?
Action legend Bruce Willis comes out with guns blazing in this high-octane fast-paced thriller from the producers of 'The Irishman' and 'Lone Survivor'. The newest recruit to Homeland Security's criminal surveillance command centre - the 'Wire Room' - gets himself and his boss, a jaded federal agent, entangled with a cartel arms dealer. Chaos soon explodes in the Wire Room as a rogue security guard, corrupt cops and a deadly SWAT team seek to destroy incriminating evidence of a government conspiracy and kill them both.
From the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, comes a tale of murder, mystery and mistaken identity. When Bobby Jones comes across a dying man and the photograph of a beautiful young woman, his interest is snared; especially when the photograph is later switched for one of someone else. With the help of his good friend Lady Frances Derwant, Bobby investigates. Following a trail of clues and setting up an elaborate charade in order to insinuate themselves into the Bassington-fffench household, their trail leads them into a world of morphine addiction, psychiatric clinics, enticing inheritances and, of course, murder. But who is the mysterious, trembling young wife of the hard-edged Dr. Nicholson; why is someone out to silence Bobby Jones; and what is the meaning of the dead man's dying words... Why didn't they ask Evans?
Isabelle Adjani stars as the young West Indian woman who becomes enveloped in a love quadrangle with her husband (Anthony Higgins), on art patron (Alan Bates) and his wife (Maggie Smith). Featuring luminous cinematography by Pierre Lhomme and a stirring score by Richard Robbins, 'Quartet' captures both the seductive glamor of the time and the dark emotions rumbling underneath.
Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) is a buxom country maiden who arrives in the big city and quickly begins an affair with the scion of a wealthy family in this softcore version of an old British tale. When the clan patriarch dies, Fanny is ready to marry her lover until she discovers he has been unfaithful, that sets her on a course of erotic adventures that begins in protest and ends in great wealth.
From the books of Peter Tinniswood comes one of television's greatest comedy families, The Brandons. There's miserable pessimist Uncle Mort, his sharp-tongued sister Annie who is constantly arguing with husband Les, their laid-back son Carter and his not so laid-back fiancé Pat, and finally old Uncle Stavely who carries his friend's ashes around his neck in a box and only enters the constant bickering with a cry of 'I 'eard that! Pardon?' Pat is desperately trying to turn reluctant Carter into a young executive and march him up the aisle, but she's not being helped by the men of the house who feel it their duty to educate him on the perils of marriage.
Episodes Comprise:
1. Cause For Celebration
2. A Knitter in the Family
3. The Old Tin Trunk
4. After the Ball Was Over
5. Aye...Well...Mm ...
6. Large or Small, Big or Tall
7. The Axe and Cleaver
Tony Aaron (Liam Neeson) is a disgraced ex-policeman scraping a living as a private detective working mainly on falsifying divorce cases. When a supposedly routine case goes wrong and leads to the murder of a client and Aaron's own wife, he is under suspicion of murder.
Mr. Polly (Sir John Mills) is a sensitive soul. Sacked from his job for daydreaming he despairs of ever finding another when his father's death suddenly brings him a large inheritance, and with it he embarks on a cycling adventure. Along his travels he meets and falls desperately in love with a young girl, but the relationship turns sour when her friends hear of it. Spumed, he hastily marries his cousin Miriam (Betty Ann Davies), and settles in a sleepy town where he opens a draper's shop. But his beliefs are eroded when, fifteen years on, bad debt and his floundering marriage bring him to a personal crossroads where he must make some major decisions.
Anarchic Londoner Morgan Delt (David Warner), a working class artist and self-confessed dreamer with a gorilla-fixation tries to regain the affections of his upper-class ex-wife Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave). Leonie rejects Morgan's attempts at reconciliation and when she informs him of her plans to marry stuffy art dealer, Charles Napier (Robert Stephens), Morgan slips off the mental deep end into a vivid fantasy life. Morgan enacts a series of bizarre gags and stunts in an often hilarious campaign to win Leonie back...
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