Beginning when the members of the Scanlon family return home to pay their final reseoects to their dearly departed dad, this comedy proves eternity is spending three days with the family. The formal Irish wake they had planned soon becomes a funeral of errors as old sibling rivalries, new love affairs & a runaway refugee turn the proceedings upside down. ...

Suspenseful & haunting adventure starring Jack Nicholson. David Locke (Nicholson) is a television reporter on location in Africa. Returning to his hotel after getting lost & bogged in the desert, he discovers that the man in the room next to his is dead. After deciding that his own life wasn't worth living anymore, he switches identities with the dead man, taking the man's passport, his luggage, & his appointment schedule. Leaving Africa, he heads off to keep the dead man's appointments, hoping that his new life will be more interesting than his old one was. ...

The last film of Polish director Andrzej Munk, who was killed in a car crash during filming, this Holocaust drama was completed by Munk's colleagues & went on to win awards at Venice Film Festival & Cannes film festival. Liza (Aleksandra Slaska) is a German woman returning to Europe by ship with her husb&. While walking on the deck, she sees the face of a woman she is sure she recognises. It turns out that she knew the passenger, Marta (Anna Ciepielewska) at Auschwitz, where the women's paths crossed during World War II. Two possible versions are given for the events that took place there: one heroic version, where Liza saved Marta's life; & one shameful version where Liza, a Nazi officer, manipulated events to gain promotion & imagined that Marta had been executed years before. ...

Wesley Snipes plays John Cutter, an anti-terrorist expert who is flying to LA to begin a new life after the murder of his wife during a supermarket robbery. On the same plane is Charles Rayne (Bruce Payne), a dangerous hijacker being transported to prison. His agents have been placed on the flight to enable his escape, but they hadn't banked on Cutter. ...

The final golden age of the ocean-going passenger liner was from the mid-1950s through to the late 1960s, when famous liners traversed the Atlantic. This book taps into the nostalgia which many have for the final years of the great ocean liners. It

Includes:: photos which are concentrated at British ports & show many scenes which have vanished.

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