Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture this internationally acclaimed motion picture recounts the poignant true story of two British sprinters vying for gold in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) a driven athlete of Jewish ancestry runs to overcome prejudice & to achieve personal fame; his rival Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) a devout Scottish missionary competes for the glory of God An inspirational story of spirit & strength in the face of enormous odds the film combines the finest elements of athletic competition & human drama to create a compelling & timeless cinematic classic ...

Director Hugh Hudson&s absorbing drama based on a true story deals with the personal struggles faced by two very different long-distance runners competing for Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) is a devout Christian who sees victory as a testament to the glory of God while the other Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) is a Jewish Cambridge student who sees victory as a challenge to anti-Semitism & his ongoing struggle for acceptance by Britain&s elite Eric a hometown Scottish hero to the people gives rousing sermons after victory & works at a local missionary Harold runs with a zealous commitment upsetting Cambridge&s educational upper crust (played with enjoyable wit & candor by Sir John Gielgud & Lindsay Anderson) while enjoying social life with his university chums & his beautiful showgirl girlfriend (Alice Krige) But when faced with such a competent challenger Harold hires trainer Sam Mussabini (Ian Holm) to further his dreams of winning the gold Ultimately the two runners meet in Paris to run for British victory in a rousing finale Featuring an unforgettable soundtrack by Vangelis this Academy Award-winning film is an inspirational story of athletic excellence & spiritual awakening that captures the zeal of post-WWI Britain & the glory of the Olympics ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for Best Picture Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination & inspiration The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God & Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice & anti-Semitism There&s delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams&s coach) & John Gielgud & Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies Vangelis&s soaring synthesised score which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s also won an Oscar Chariots of Fire was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) & was produced by David Puttnam --Jim Emerson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title ...

An edge-of-your-seat thriller from the bestselling author of Nerve the book behind 2016's hottest YA film starring Emma Roberts Dave Franco & Juliette Lewis A chance at the ultimate makeover means deadly consequences Aislyn suffers from crippling shyness
- that is until she's offered a dose of Charisma an underground gene therapy drug guaranteed to make her shine The effects are instant She's charming vivacious & popular But strangely so are some other kids she knows The media goes into a frenzy when the disease turns contagious & then deadly & the doctor who gave it to them disappears Aislyn must find a way to stop it before it's too late Praise for Charisma 'this fast-paced & edgy novel has enough thrills romance & family drama to please a wide audience This Robin Cook-like thriller zips along at breakneck speed to a satisfying conclusion' Booklist ' Ryan (Nerve) offers a cautionary tale about the perils of designer genetics & what happens when scientists' aspirations get ahead of ethics Her take on the topic is fresh & intriguing' Publishers Weekly ' Suspense balances with discussions of bioethics for a provocative & entertaining read A sympathetic protagonist combines with intriguing medical possibility for a solid thriller' Kirkus Reviews ' Charisma by Jeanne Ryan is at its best when it gets technical Considering Ryan has a PHD & has worked with youth development programs & social workers it's obvious she knows what she talking about' Hypable ' Not a far step from Ned Vizzini's Be More Chill The science is explained well enough for non-scientist readers to understand & gives teens much to think about regarding medical ethics & experimentation' School Library Journal ' The science is both sharp & accessible here & readers will get a sense of the nuances & messiness of genetic alterations while staying in Aislyn's world' BCCB
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Everything you thought you know about magic willvanish Journey into a world where the lines between magic & reality are blurredand where one man will soon find himself as the last remaining hope for all mankind In Las Vegas luck is everything For Sin City&s leading &entertainer& Hank the Magnificent his luck as Vegas& most illustrious & famous magician is about to run out! When the powers of an ancient magic once imprisoned in another realm spring forth into our reality searching for revenge at all costs Hank soon finds himself at the center of an undying war between the forces of truth & a devastating plague of growing evil--and his hopes for survival are slim at best! ...

When Fate & a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate Henrietta Silverdale? For all they refused to oblige their parents by marrying they have always been the best of friends But as Desford pursues Cherry's lickpenny grandfather & reprobate father around unfashionable watering places & the seedier fringes of society Hetta is forced to wonder whether he might not at last have fallen in love Without the timely intervention of his scapegrace brother Simon & Hetta's worthy suitor Gary Nethercott Desford is in danger of making a rare mess of his affairs Charity Girl is a wonderful romantic novel by the queen of the Regency romance & one of the most popular historical novelists of all time ...

Limited Edition 6 Inch Charizard Articulated Figure Celebrating 25 Years of Pokemon! More information & final images coming soon ...

Enter a vampire world as Dahlia a vampire with a fantastic sense of fashion & a razor-sharp wit! Go on an epic hunt to find the legendary sun potion in Dying for Daylight As vampires have been productive & ultimately accepted into society their ancient vulnerability remains true – they can only emerge at night When rumors circulate that a legendary potion exists allowing vampires to walk amid the daylight Dahlia jumps at the chance to further investigate in this fun Hidden Object game ...

Acclaimed New York Times Bestselling author Charlaine Harris the writer of the Sookie Stackhouse series has joined the Dynamite Entertainment family with the first book of her hit Harper Connelly series Grave Sight For the past five years readers have been thrilled by the Harper Connelly series which follows a woman who has what you might call a strange job she finds dead people She can sense the final location of a person who's passed & share their very last moment The way Harper sees it she's providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living
- but she's used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager & sometime-bodyguard she's become an expert at getting in getting paid & getting out fast Because for the living it's always urgent
- even if the dead can wait forever At the age of 15 Harper Connelly was struck by lightning an event that gave her the ability to find the dead & see how they died Since then Harper's scratched out a living selling her services to anyone with a checkbook It's not the best life but it beats the alternative
- at least until Harper & her brother Tolliver roll into Sarne Arkansas & find themselves embroiled in a murder mystery!


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WELCOME TO THE BALL! Meet Chuck Amok a low-rent stage magician pumping the sleaze-n-peanut circuit When both he & his rabbit-in-the-hat Caesar are sucked into a mind-blowing landscape where all magic actually works psychedelic chaos ensues when a litany of mystical challengers step up to kick their arse! But for what purpose? Only Demon Empty knows for sure! Collects issues 1-6 ...