Bonanza - The Courtship / The Spitfire
In ‘The Courtship’ Hoss falls in love with Helen Layton and intends to marry her. Adam, however, is doubtful of Helen’s motives. ‘The Spitfire’ sees Joe finding himself responsible for a man’s daughter after killing him in self defence….
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Bonanza - Day Of Reckoning / The Abduction
In ‘Day of Reckoning’ Ben Cartwright gives Indian Matsou some land in gratitude for saving his life. When Dagget’s wife is killed, he retaliates by killing Matsou’s wife. Also features ‘The Abduction’….
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Bonanza - Badge Without Honour / The Mill
Features two episodes. In ‘Badge Without Honour’ when a Deputy Marshall rides into town with the intention of taking Jason Blaine to San Francisco, Adam is suspicious and decides to ride along. Also features ‘The Mill’….
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Bonanza - Dark Star / Death At Dawn
Features two episodes. In ‘Dark Star’ Joe falls in love with a sad gypsy girl and proves to people that she is not the witch they believe her to be. Also features ‘Death At Dawn’ where the town is terrorised by Sam Bryant’s gang….
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One Eyed Jacks
This 1961 Western is Marlon Brando’s only directorial effort. It’s the Old West of 1880, and Brando stars as Kid Rio, who along with his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are bank robbers who are caught holding up a Mexican bank. Longworth gets away and allows his partner to get caught and go to jail. When Rio is released five years later, he goes out to seek revenge, however he is surprised to find his partner is married with a stepdaughter and sheriff of a town. Complications set in when Ri…
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Zorro’s Black Whip - Vol. 2
Randolph Merdeith is killed in his attempts to get Idaho to join the United States. His sister, Barbara, takes over and also dons a black costume and mask. Episodes 7 To 12….
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Zorro’s Black Whip - Vol. 1
Randolph Merdeith is killed in his attempts to get Idaho to join the United States. His sister, Barbara, takes over and also dons a black costume and mask. Episodes 1 To 6….
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The Lone Ranger Vol. 2
Three more episodes: ‘Renegade Indians’ finds supply trains to an Indian reservation being hijacked. The Lone Ranger and Tonto search for the culprits. In ‘False Identity’ two escaped prisoners arrive in town. ‘Cannonball’ finds a Wells Fargo driver taking on a recently released convict….
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The Lone Ranger Vol. 1
Two classic episodes: ‘Enter The Lone Ranger’ is the opening episode and tells how a Texas Ranger became The Lone Ranger. Together with his faithful companion, Tonto, he pursues his ambushers to bring them to justice. ‘Circle K Ranch’ finds The Lone Ranger and Tonto trying to find out why the ranch is for sale……
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McLintock
The battle of the sexes goes into full throttle in this madcap Western take on THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. G,W. McLintock (John Wayne) is a successful, hard-drinking, rabble-rousing cattle baron whose town is named in his honour. When Katherine (Maureen O’Hara), his estranged wife, seeks a divorce, they immediately lock horns, turning the entire town on its ear in a hilarious romantic showdown. Besides his hot-tempered wife, McLintock also has to contend with his daughter (Stefanie Powers) and her…
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Escape To Athena (Special Edition) (Wide Screen)
On a Greek island during World War II, a diverse group of POWs come up with a plan to escape from their Nazi captors–and retrieve valuable stolen art at the same time. Although an unlikely ally comes to the aid of the prisoners, there is no guarantee that they will succeed in their missions. Will the schemers pull off the impossible…
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The Malta Story
This British wartime drama focuses on the crucial battle for control of Malta. Lieutenant Peter Ross, a Royal Air Force reconnaissance photographer, gets shot down over Malta while flying to Egypt. Since he cannot get off the island, the British forces there employ his talents to help defeat the Nazis. Ross sets out to find and photograph the location of the Nazi forces attacking the island–but he still finds time to fall in love with Maria, a local girl. The film mixes archival combat footage…
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Ill Met By Moonlight (Wide Screen)
A distinguished British cast, headed by 1950s heart-throb Dirk Bogarde, leads this Powell and Pressburger war film which is based on a true story. British agents conspire with local partisans to kidnap a prominent German General during the occupation of Crete in WWII. They decide to bring the officer to a beachhead, where he’ll be transported to Egypt. But the Germans are not taking this lying down, and their method of revenge will capture the Brits by surprise……
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All Quiet On The Western Front
Remake of the all-time great war story based on the pacifist novel by Erich Maria Remarque. The tragic tale of a group of German recruits during World War I….
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The War Collection
Featuring: ‘Twelve O’Clock High’, ‘Behind Enemy Lines’, ‘Courage Under Fire’ which follows a post Gulf War story of Lt. Colonel Nathan Serling who returns home knowing he has accidentally destroyed one of his own tanks. The army covers up the incident and he is assigned to investigate a female pilot who is about to receive the Medal of Honour. Also ‘Enemy At The Gates’, ‘Von Ryan’s Express’, ‘The Longest Day’, ‘Tigerland’, ‘Patton’, ‘Tora, Tora, Tora’ and ‘The Thin Red Line’….
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A Lady Takes A Chance
Whilst taking a bus trip of the West, Molly Truesdale meets rodeo rider Duke Hudkins and falls in love on the spot……
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The Longest Day / Tora! Tora! Tora! (Essential Collection)
Two features. ‘The Longest Day’ gives an account of the events surrounding the Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy during D-Day, June 1944. Seen from every angle, including that of the Germans, who were totally overwhelmed by the size of the Allied armies thrown against them. Also ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’….
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Tigerland / The Thin Red Line (Essential Collection)
Two features. ‘Tigerland’ finds Roland Bozz, conscripted into the US army, with a platoon of other young soldiers preparing to fight in Vietnam. He has no interest in fighting for his country and tries to get sent home as a trouble maker, but his superiors mistake his defiance as intelligence and promote him. Also ‘The Thin Red Line’….
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Windtalkers (Collector’s Edition)
WINDTALKERS begins quietly–with widescreen aerial shots of clouds that gradually clear to reveal the beautiful mesas of Monument Valley. A bus collects Navajo volunteers Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie). It’s 1943, and the U.S. has developed an indecipherable secret military code based on the Navajo language. Yahzee and Whitehorse are to be trained as code talkers. Then John Woo’s Pacific war film erupts into violence, with a savage battle that has one survivor,…
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Behind Enemy Lines
On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe, disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner, Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht), photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is shot down and Stackhouse is quickly captured and executed, Burnett must struggle to survive in unfamiliar hostile territory with a cold-blooded assassin and hundreds of enemy troops on his heels. Meanwhile, on an American battleship in the Adriatic Sea, Burnett’s commanding officer, Ad…
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