More Cracker Mysteries [VHS]

More Cracker Mysteries [VHS]
Robbie Coltrane (Actor), Geraldine Somerville (Actor), Charles McDougall (Director), Jean Stewart (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Robbie Coltrane returns as Fitz--the forensic psychologist whose professional brilliance is matched only by his personal difficulties--in this all-new set of highly-acclaimed, feature-length Cracker Mysteries.

Drama. Collector's boxed set of 3 videos, approx. 50 mins. each. Read more

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Touching Evil 2 (Box Set) [VHS]

Touching Evil 2 (Box Set) [VHS]
Robson Green (Actor), Nicola Walker (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
(8)

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Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green, Reckless) and his partner D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker, Four Weddings and a Funeral) are on the case in three darkly tinged mysteries.

This time out, Creegan, Taylor and the Organized and Serial Crime Unit have their hands full with some deeply disturbed criminals. One is a serial kidnapper-murderer whose fatal fascination with young women leaves Creegan with a new scar to bear. Another is a profoundly disturbed relief worker whose nightmares of atrocities committed in Bosnia impel him to erase the memories of fellow aides—permanently; and the last is an international ring of baby brokers.The first run of Touching Evil in 1999 established this British franchise as a dark, modern noir police series, an almost airless world of gloomy offices bereft of overhead lighting and viewed through a haze of dust and smoke. It's the flip side of British TV's other great cop show, Prime Suspect, but it hums with incisive writing, sharply etched characters, and dramatic intensity, the qualities that make both shows riveting. Robson Green stars as Dave Creegan, the haunted, tightly wrapped investigator whose forehead scar is a constant reminder of his near-death experience. In Touching Evil 2 the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (a fictional police division roughly equivalent to the American FBI) investigates three new cases: a flamboyant serial killer whose murders continue after he's been captured, a wave of relief workers found dead and wrapped in white shrouds, and a baby-broker with ties to a notorious ring of pedophiles. What gives the series its grit is the toll each case takes on the cops. Creegan's confidence is shattered when a miscalculation leaves a girl dead and that misstep haunts him to the devastating series finale. His partner Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker) finds the line between her personal life and her cases blur, and junior squad member Mark Rivers (Shaun Dingwell) goes through a tormenting trial by fire--and trial under fire--to prove his courage and his competence to the unit and to himself. Police stories have rarely been more frank or uncompromising. --Sean Axmaker Read more

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P.D. James - Death of an Expert Witness [VHS]

P.D. James - Death of an Expert Witness [VHS]
Roy Marsden (Actor), Barry Foster (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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This three-part, 1983 drama remains an honorable and largely captivating effort to adapt the unique structure of a P.D. James mystery novel to television. Despite bizarre production values--including intense lighting (presumably to accommodate the all-video shoot) and a near-absence of tone that often makes good actors look as if they're knocking about between rehearsals--the show holds up where it counts.

James's extensive, pre-murder set-up survives a script translation, and the terrific cast infuses urgency into the story of a forensic scientist (Geoffrey Palmer) bludgeoned to death by any one of many suspects: among them a hostile ex-lover (Meg Davies), her brother and the victim's boss (Barry Foster), and an angry cousin (Brenda Blethyn) living as "a friend" with the deceased's ex-wife. So many possibilities, and the rather dour but thorough Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden), burdened by the recent death of his wife, sifts through them all with deceptive impartiality and quiet self-disapprobation. --Tom Keogh Read more

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P. D. James - Devices and Desires, Vol. 1 - 6 [VHS]

P. D. James - Devices and Desires, Vol. 1 - 6 [VHS]
Jeffrey Daunton (Actor), Michael McClain (Actor), Giles Foster (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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When Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh takes up residence in a cottage left to him by an eccentric aunt, he wants nothing more than to escape. But on his lonely stretch of coastline, a serial killer has been murdering local women, and when the administrator of the controversial nuclear power station is found dead, she is assumed to be his latest victim. But Dalgliesh suspects otherwise, and he reluctantly involves himself in the increasingly complicated case. He soon discovers that more than one killer is involved, and must race to unravel the tangled web of truth before another victim is claimed. This acclaimed adaptation of P.D. James' bestselling novel is personally endorsed by "the Queen of Crime" herself. Read more

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Agatha Christie's Poirot, Vol. 8 [VHS]

Agatha Christie's Poirot, Vol. 8 [VHS]
David Suchet (Actor), Hugh Fraser (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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Like a box of gourmet chocolates, this three-episode collector's set of Agatha Christie's Poirot--eighth in a series of 12--contains scrumptious delights for the connoisseur of British mysteries. And if one of these episodes were to be wrapped in gold foil, it would have to be "The Chocolate Box," in which Hercule Poirot revisits a 20-year-old case that was never officially solved. Having perfected the mannerisms of an older, fussier Poirot, here David Suchet has the opportunity to reveal a young, eager junior detective on the Brussels police force, who longs to solve the case not only for the sake of the truth, but also for the sake of the young woman who begged for his help. Both intriguing and bittersweet, this episode is the dark chocolate truffle of the set.

By comparison, "The Case of the Missing Will" and "The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman" are lighter confections, but with murder at their tart center. In the first, Poirot must execute the final wishes of an old friend who is killed on the eve of drafting his will; several red herrings and a surprising solution enliven this classic murder-mystery scenario. Hastings's acquisition of an Italian roadster and Miss Lemon's new gentleman friend turn out to have an unexpected connection with each other and with the murdered man in "The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman," which culminates in a car chase that claims more than one victim. Of course, the best thing about this set is that unlike a box of chocolates, viewers can savor its contents again and again. --Larisa Lomacky Moore Read more

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The Bulldog Drummond Collectors' Series [VHS]

The Bulldog Drummond Collectors' Series [VHS]
Ray Milland (Actor), Guy Standing (Actor), James P. Hogan (Director), Louis King (Director) | Format: VHS Tape

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Generations of mystery lovers and movie buffs have followed the exploits of Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, the ex-British army officer with a flair for adventure. Based on Herman Cyril McNeile's detective stories, the popular series flourished for decades. During the 1930s, a range of top character actors and film legends portrayed Bulldog, his archenemies, and his fellow crime smashers. These eight magical episodes capture the era's grand style, wit, and priceless performances. Read more

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Touching Evil 2 [VHS]

Touching Evil 2 [VHS]
Robson Green (Actor), Nicola Walker (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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The first run of Touching Evil in 1999 established this British franchise as a dark, modern noir police series, an almost airless world of gloomy offices bereft of overhead lighting and viewed through a haze of dust and smoke. It's the flip side of British TV's other great cop show, Prime Suspect, but it hums with incisive writing, sharply etched characters, and dramatic intensity, the qualities that make both shows riveting. Robson Green stars as Dave Creegan, the haunted, tightly wrapped investigator whose forehead scar is a constant reminder of his near-death experience. In Touching Evil 2 the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (a fictional police division roughly equivalent to the American FBI) investigates three new cases: a flamboyant serial killer whose murders continue after he's been captured, a wave of relief workers found dead and wrapped in white shrouds, and a baby-broker with ties to a notorious ring of pedophiles. What gives the series its grit is the toll each case takes on the cops. Creegan's confidence is shattered when a miscalculation leaves a girl dead and that misstep haunts him to the devastating series finale. His partner Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker) finds the line between her personal life and her cases blur, and junior squad member Mark Rivers (Shaun Dingwell) goes through a tormenting trial by fire--and trial under fire--to prove his courage and his competence to the unit and to himself. Police stories have rarely been more frank or uncompromising. --Sean Axmaker Read more

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Agatha Christie's Poirot, Vol. 3 [VHS]

Agatha Christie's Poirot, Vol. 3 [VHS]
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A potpourri of international intrigue awaits Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in this trio of hourlong episodes. An alleged Communist conspiracy casts suspicion on the Russian servant of a murdered woman in "How Does Your Garden Grow?" In "The Adventure of the Western Star" a Belgian film star's priceless diamond disappears after she receives threatening letters from a Chinese man. And when Britain's prime minister vanishes on the eve of important international negotiations, Poirot is called in to solve the case of "The Kidnapped Prime Minister." The deceptions in each crime are elaborately plotted, but for Poirot the solution is usually as simple as a children's nursery rhyme.

British actor David Suchet portrays the dapper detective with a quiet dignity and sublime smile that often infuriate his action-hungry clients. But as Agatha Christie readers know quite well, all of the real action takes place in Poirot's "little gray cells." Providing comic counterpoint to Poirot's method is his sidekick, Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser), whose well-meaning but befuddled attempts to help solve each case make these episodes entertaining even if you've already figured out whodunit. --Larisa Lomacky Moore Read more

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P.D. James - The Black Tower [VHS]

P.D. James - The Black Tower [VHS]
Roy Marsden (Actor), Pauline Collins (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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Three mysterious murders...two suspicious suicides...one deadly secret and the only witness, a brooding black tower at the top of a cliff. It all adds up to a diabolical case that may threaten detective Dalgliesh's own life.Actor Roy Marsden's fourth outing as mystery author P.D. James's recurring hero Inspector Dalgliesh is a very satisfying affair: an unorthodox whodunit in a surprisingly creepy setting, all wrapped in a psychologically complex story in which love, duty, and loyalty become corrupting prisons for myriad characters. Beneath it all is Dalgliesh's own crisis of confidence after a bullet injury. An old mentor from school, a kindly chaplain, seeks the recuperating Dalgliesh's assistance with a problem at Toynton Grange, a nursing home. When the detective arrives, he finds the chaplain dead, a rash of threatening letters anonymously sent to the residents, a disabled man possibly murdered, and a Grange director twisted by missionary zeal, bitter disappointment, and the loathing of his staff and clients. Dalgliesh slowly penetrates the Grange's peculiarly insulated culture, looking for a pattern to bizarre events. James's lengthy story is gripping, but the splendid cast is reason enough to see this miniseries. --Tom Keogh Read more

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Touching Evil [VHS]

Touching Evil [VHS]
Robson Green (Actor), Nicola Walker (Actor), Alex Pillai (Director), Bill Eagles (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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From Paul Abbott, the celebrated author of Reckless and Cracker, comes this contemporary, darkly-edged miniseries starring Robson Green as Detective Inspector Dave Creegan. Follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC), an FBI-styled elite crime squad. Co-stars Nicola Walker (Four Weddings and a Funeral) as Creegan's partner.This three-volume set captures a police force totally unlike the ones U.S. television and film audiences regularly see. Gone are the gunshots and widespread violence that afflict characters on NYPD Blue and Homicide. This dark British miniseries has an unflinching focus on the pensive, slightly spooked but always confident Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green). Of course the caseload isn't entirely alien to a pop culture audience, weaned as it is on crime novels and American television-style plots. There's an aging geneticist who is possessed by an odd infatuation--apparently not a sexual one--with children, keeping them penned in an all-white room while watching them on a remote video cam, and other deviants just interesting enough to capture extended interest. Touching Evil's pacing is intricately slow, such that evidence gathering can be seen from an inchworm-like perspective (showing tweezers extracting a single hair, for example). Green's role is structured like Fox Mulder and other U.S. television creations. Moody and a bit inscrutable, Creegan comes to the Organized and Serial Crime Unit after a long sabbatical, triggered (no pun, really!) by his getting shot in the head. Rather than give up police work after meeting with the bullet, however, he recommits to the job, treating cases as if they're his personal obsession. And they are. Creegan violates all the conventions his American TV-cop counterparts break in their unbridled passion to solve crimes, but he does it with unforced and unhurried relish. The plots in each of these episodes are singular, allowing the story lines to develop like good mysteries, even driving the viewer to suspect that Creegan's passions are leading him waywardly away from the cases. Shot with mostly stoic camera angles, the show's energy changes significantly when Creegan's heart begins to pound, the camera catches in halted visuals, and the drama builds and builds until, well, until it avoids resolution time and again, much to the viewer's delight. --Andrew Bartlett Read more

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Ultraviolet [VHS]

Ultraviolet [VHS]
Jack Davenport (Actor), Susannah Harker (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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In the six-part British miniseries Ultraviolet, we discover that ultraviolet light is used (both in surgery and via high-tech weaponry) to identify people who have been infected with a disease labeled "Code V." It's transmitted via a bite to the neck, but at no point in the series is the word vampire used. Instead, in the second episode ("In Nomine Patris") the nickname "Leech" is introduced. We learn that it was this disease that was responsible for the fire of London, and that one in 20 people are already infected. In the opening episode, policeman Michael Colefield (Jack Davenport) is recruited into the secretive Complaints Investigation Bureau. He meets its introverted priest-chief Pearse (Philip Quast), the emotionally driven Dr. Angela March (Susannah Harker), and the bullish heavyweight Vaughan (Idris Elba). Spinning around Mike's suddenly complicated life are his best friend's jilted fiancée (Colette Brown) and an old flame (Fiona Dolman). In later hard-hitting episodes we see the stabbing murder of a teacher-priest by a 12-year-old boy ("Mea Culpa") and the capture of a Leech ("Persona Non Grata"). This intriguing series ends having tied together most of its threads, but dangles worrying implications at the viewer... not so much to suggest a sequel as to hammer home everything at stake. It played in America on the Sci Fi Channel. --Paul Tonks Read more

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Poirot - Set 12 [VHS]

Poirot - Set 12 [VHS]
David Suchet (Actor), Hugh Fraser (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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David Suchet returns as Agatha Christie's eccentric Belgian sleuth. Acorn Media productions of Christie's classic novels are always lovingly done, and this set is no exception. All three mysteries are well acted, shot in beautiful locations, and manage to fold in a little dry humor with the ghastly business at hand. "The King of Clubs" involves murder on a film set and just might have something to do with a game of bridge. In "The Dream" Poirot is called in to consult with a wealthy industrialist before a murder has even occurred. One does, of course, and there is also a gratifying call-everyone-together-in-one-room-so-the-detective-can-explain-everything scene. The Incredible Theft has a terrific pre-war flavor, and in this episode it's no mere murder--the very future of England is at stake! Suchet is a perfect Poirot, capturing the detective's faint ridiculousness without losing his very serious distaste for murder. Curl up with a hot cup of tea and enjoy. --Ali Davis Read more

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Inspector Morse (Collection Set 5) [VHS]

Inspector Morse (Collection Set 5) [VHS]
John Thaw (Actor), Kevin Whately (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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The set includes the following:
"Cherubim and Seraphim"
"Deadly Slumber"
"The Day of the Devil"
"The Way Through the Woods"
"Twilight of the Gods"
"Mystery of Morse" Read more

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Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd/Lord Edgware Dies [VHS]

Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd/Lord Edgware Dies [VHS]
David Suchet (Actor), Philip Jackson (Actor), Andrew Grieve (Director), Brian Farnham (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Hercule Poirot (David Suchet), Agatha Christie’s beloved Belgian detective, is back on the case. Based upon Agatha Christie’s best-selling novels and set against the art deco elegance of 1930s England, THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD and LORD EDGWARE DIES feature fascinating clues, deviant suspects and riveting conclusions by this most masterful detective.This beautifully packaged A&E set marks the return of David Suchet as Hercule Poirot in two feature films. Although the films are based on two early Christie novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Lord Edgware Dies, the stories have been rewritten to take place after previously filmed episodes in the Agatha Christie's Poirot series, thus accounting for the slightly older-looking cast.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd opens with a retired Poirot cursing at vegetable marrows in his country garden. When his old friend is found stabbed in the neck, Poirot begins an investigation that reunites him with Chief Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) and uncovers a chain of furtive phone calls and secret romances. Unfortunately, the restructuring necessary to adapt the story from text to film takes away some of the shock value of Christie's original ending, which caused quite a controversy when the book was first published in 1926.

Lord Edgware Dies finds Poirot reopening his London office with the help of Miss Lemon (Pauline Moran) and Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser). As they celebrate their reunion, Japp quips that there's "only one thing missing... the body." Right on cue, a corpse turns up just moments later. Most of the suspects are actors by profession, but Poirot's "little gray cells" are able to penetrate the murderer's disguise--though only after two more victims heighten the suspense.

The acting is impeccable and the sets are as lavish as ever in both of these adaptations. The main characters' delight in being reunited is sure to be matched only by the delight of Agatha Christie fans who now have two more episodes to add to their collection. --Larisa Lomacky Moore Read more

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Inspector Morse (Collection Set 1) [VHS]

Inspector Morse (Collection Set 1) [VHS]
John Thaw (Actor), Kevin Whately (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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Inspector Morse Set 1 contains: 1) The Dead of Jericho 2) The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn 3) Service of All the Dead 4) The Wolvercote Tongue 5) Last Seen Wearing 6) Last Bus to Woodstock Read more

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Rumpole of the Bailey Boxed Set, Vols. 17-21 [VHS]

Rumpole of the Bailey Boxed Set, Vols. 17-21 [VHS]
Leo McKern (Actor), Jonathan Coy (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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Before there was Quincy and The Practice, there was Rumpole. Rumpole of the Bailey is, quite simply, one of the best television series ever and has served as a model for all law dramas that followed it. Edgy and satirical, Rumpole is based on John Mortimer's books of the same name. A determined and committed criminal defense barrister at the Old Bailey, or criminal court (whose clients have included three generations of the Timson family, among others), the antihero Rumpole is portrayed by esteemed actor Leo McKern. As champion of the downtrodden, the self-righteous Rumpole finds himself again and again in trouble variously with his wife Hilda, his peers, the head of chambers, and judges, to name but a few. A connoisseur of Wordsworth, cigars, and cheap liquor, McKern's usually disheveled Rumpole belies the character's dry sense of humor and astute skill as a barrister. The upwardly mobile Hilda is played by Peggy Thorpe-Bates, known for her Miss Toliver in Alcatraz Island (1933), and Justice Sir Guthrie Fetherston is played by Peter Bowles, known for his Richard DeVere in TV's To the Manor Born.

Each volume features two episodes:

Volume 17: First, in "Rumpole and the Alternative Society," Rumpole heads to the west of England to visit his old friend Sam "Three Fingers" Dougherty from their days together in the RAF and to defend Kathy Trelawney in court, charged with selling marijuana to an undercover investigator. Second, in "Rumpole and the Course of True Love," Rumpole must defend a melodramatically romantic teacher charged with having an affair with a student, while Guthrie tries to become a judge.

Volume 18: In "Rumpole and the Quacks," Rumpole battles the formidable Phillida in court to defend his doctor, accused of sexually molesting a patient. Next, in "Rumpole for the Prosecution," Rumpole takes on a rare role as prosecutor to investigate a policeman who may not have been properly charged for murdering a girl.

Volume 19: In "Rumpole and the Children of the Devil," Rumpole again defends the Timsons as their daughter Tracy Timson is put into the custody of a social worker when her parents are accused of Satanism. Meanwhile, Rumpole's wife Hilda is stressed out about the Scales of Justice Ball and having to dance on her birthday. Next, in "Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice," Rumpole defends Detective Gannon, who changed a teenager's confession for murdering a policeman.

Volume 20: First, in "Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle," Rumpole flirts with a beautiful violinist but is caught off guard when she asks him to defend her jealous husband, charged with murdering her accompanist. Meanwhile, Claude raises concerns that Henry has sexually harassed their secretary. Next, in "Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Johnson," the barrister must defend a teenager charged with theft even after an important brief is burgled from Rumpole's house.

Volume 21: In "Rumpole and the Family Pride," Rumpole and Hilda are invited out to a relative's castle for the weekend--but Rumpole's concerns turn out justified as they find out the castle's owner is charged with murdering a transient woman who has been living on the estate. Then, in "Rumpole on Trial," Rumpole is defended in a hearing for taking a stand against Justice Oliphant by Hilda's friend Sam Ballard.

Typical of British drama, production values are low while the caliber of script-writing and acting is unsurpassed. A rare example of a television serial that is as appealing and engaging after watching it 10 times as it was the first. --Erik Macki Read more

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Sherlock Holmes 4-Pack [VHS]

Sherlock Holmes 4-Pack [VHS]
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This Collection contains the following:

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Sherlock Holmes - The Woman in Green
Sherlock Holmes - Terror by Night
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans [VHS]

Why Didn't They Ask Evans [VHS]
Francesca Annis (Actor), John Gielgud (Actor), John Davies (Director), Tony Wharmby (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Brew some tea and curl up by the fire for murder, intrigue, and madcap upper-class high jinks in Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? James Warwick and Francesca Annis play plucky amateur sleuths Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent (and yes, you've also seen them paired as plucky amateur Christie sleuths Tommy & Tuppence). In the very opening scene, Bobby happens upon a dying man who whispers the mysterious title question and we're off. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? has everything one looks for in an old-fashioned bloodcurdler: murder, false identities, a mysterious institution, and even morphine addiction. Warwick and Annis have the light touch of seasoned pros and slide with ease into the period setting. The rest of the cast dives into the fun and includes such noble veterans as Sir John Gielgud and Joan Hickson, herself one of the more memorable incarnations of Christie's Miss Marple. --Ali Davis Read more

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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Box Set) [VHS]

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Box Set) [VHS]
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Based on a novel by best-selling crime writer P.D. James, Helen Baxendale stars as private detective Cordelia Gray in this murder mystery series, featuring two three-part mysteries--Sacrifice and A Last Embrace.

Inheriting a ramshackle detective agency from her eccentric ex-policeman boss, Cordelia is thrown into a world of excitement and danger as she takes on an unlikely career as a private detective!

Young, headstrong, and sometimes scared, Cordelia quickly learns the ropes. In Sacrifice, she investigates an apparent suicide in which things are not what they seem. In A Last Embrace, Cordelia's investigation of a man's alleged infidelities uncovers lies, secret lovers, betrayal^Eand murder! Read more

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Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Series 2) (Box Set) [VHS]

Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Series 2) (Box Set) [VHS]
Helen Baxendale (Actor), Annette Crosbie (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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P.D. James's Headstrong heroine Cordelia Gray (Helen Baxendale, Friends) returns as she plunges once more into the murky world of crime.

Cordelia has resolved to make her mark on the ramshackle detective agency she inherited from her boss, and develop her career as a private detective. But there's an unexpected development--she finds herself pregnant. Still she is determined that the prospect of motherhood will not affect her ambitions.

The fiercely independent young detective matched wits with a pair of murderous thugs and snares an unlikely killer with a connection to Scotland Yard, proof to one and all that her profession is hardly an unsuitable job for a woman or a mother. Read more

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Mr. Wong Series Box Set [VHS]

Mr. Wong Series Box Set [VHS]
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Alfred Hitchcock Collection (Sabotage / Man Who Knew Too Much / 39 Steps / Lady Vanishes / Young and Innocent / Number 17 / Rich and Strange / Murder / Secret Agent) [VHS]

Alfred Hitchcock Collection (Sabotage / Man Who Knew Too Much / 39 Steps / Lady Vanishes / Young and Innocent / Number 17 / Rich and Strange / Murder / Secret Agent) [VHS]
Sylvia Sidney (Actor), Oskar Homolka (Actor), Alfred Hitchcock (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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This set of five titles from the British phase of Alfred Hitchcock's early career serves as an outstanding reflection on the great director's evolving preoccupations and pet themes in the 1930s. The earliest inclusion is the 1930 Murder, starring Herbert Marshall as a famous stage actor who takes it upon himself to investigate a murder for which a young actress has been wrongly convicted. Clever and witty, the film finds Hitch exploring the blurry dualisms of reality and illusion, guilt and innocence, and watching and doing. The 1932 Number 17 is Hitchcock in a particularly playful vein. A bit bored by the "old dark house" Gothic tone of the story, he uses the film as an opportunity to push the limits of camera mobility, the emotional underpinnings of shots, and the sheer fun of using model trains and other vehicles to create climactic chases. In the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, the director matches a sophisticated tone with a gut-wrenching tale of a child kidnapped by spies. A fascinating study in contrast with Hitch's 1956 edition of the story (the one starring James Stewart and Doris Day), this film highlights both his interest in the burden of secrecy as well as his youthful efforts at visual experimentation. The 1936 Sabotage is a stunning story of a naive woman's revenge-killing of her husband, a German spy, and the subsequent cover-up of her deed both by fate and by a police detective who chooses to keep quiet about her guilt. Finally, the 1936 Secret Agent, starring John Gielgud, Robert Young, Madeleine Carroll, and Peter Lorre in an espionage story of concealed identities and assassination, is dense with ideas about lies and the brutality of the hidden. A few features later, Alfred Hitchcock belonged to Hollywood, and the American cinema took a giant leap forward. But in this boxed set can be seen the blueprint of his genius. The prints of the films used in this set are serviceable and probably comparable to average 16mm classroom or museum presentations. The DVDs also include Hitchcock filmographies, trivia questions, a director biography, and scene access. --Tom Keogh Read more

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Alfred Hitchcock Collection [VHS]

Alfred Hitchcock Collection [VHS]
Anthony Perkins (Actor), Janet Leigh (Actor), Alfred Hitchcock (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Never Come Back (Vols. 1-3) [VHS]

Never Come Back (Vols. 1-3) [VHS]
Nathaniel Parker (Actor), James Fox (Actor), Ben Bolt (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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Midsomer Murders, Set 4 [VHS]

Midsomer Murders, Set 4 [VHS]
John Nettles (Actor), Jane Wymark (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
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The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with Daniel Casey (The Wingless Bird) as his eager young assistant. Guest stars include Hugh Bonneville, Gemma Jones, Wendy Craig, and Paul Venables. Includes the following mysteries:
Tainted Fruit — A wealthy young landlady in Midsomer Malham fears for her life after she callously ignores the plight of an elderly tenant.
Ring Out Your Dead — Just before a big competition, someone starts killing members of the church bell-ringing team in Midsomer Wellow.
Murder on St. Malley’s Day — After a murder at the Devington School in Midsomer Parva, members of an elite student club close ranks.
Market for Murder — In lovely Midsomer Market, a ladies reading group starts losing members to murder.
A Worm in the Bud — A woman is found dead in Setwale Wood, an apparent suicide, except that her suicide note is emailed after her body has already been sighted. Read more

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Philip Marlowe, Private Eye Collection [VHS]

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye Collection [VHS]
Powers Boothe (Actor), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Actor), Peter R. Hunt (Director) | Format: VHS Tape
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For this set, you'd better peel off your trench coat, pour yourself a stiff drink, and get ready for a slick look at the dirty secrets of Deco Era Hollywood with the private dick who knows them all. HBO's Philip Marlowe, Private Eye takes Raymond Chandler's grittiest short stories and transforms them into stylish, atmospheric production pieces. In these six hour-long tales, you're taken on a tough tour through the decaying glamour of Los Angeles, from the mansions and movie studios to the jazz joints and one-night cheap hotels. Every character has a story to tell, and every one of them has a secret to keep. Powers Boothe does a wonderful job bringing the hardest of hard-boiled detectives to life in these colorful cases of corruption and revenge. In early episodes, the supporting players are occasionally overwhelmed by Boothe's talent, but overall, the acting is tight--and Chandler's dialogue is still razor sharp decades after it was written. The stories will keep you guessing until the end...which is exactly what you'd expect from a master of mystery. But the real triumph of the series is in bringing the grim noir morality tales to life, painstakingly re-creating the sweaty streets and penthouse suites of a great city gone to seed. When all the elements come together, you can almost taste the cigarettes, feel the sweat, and smell the aroma of cordite and dime-store perfume. --Grant Balfour Read more

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Inspector Morse (Collection Set 3) [VHS]

Inspector Morse (Collection Set 3) [VHS]
John Thaw (Actor), Kevin Whately (Actor) | Format: VHS Tape
(3)

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Inspector Morse Set 3 contains: 1) Fat Chance 2) Second Time Around 3) Masonic Mysteries 4) Driven to Distraction 5) Sins of the Father 6) Promised Land Read more

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