This collection celebrates the ever-versatile career of Burgess Meredith Famous for his role in ROCKY & as The Penguin in the BATMAN television series Meredith was also a very capable director as demonstrated in THE MAN ON THE EIFFEL TOWER The psychologically powerful drama follows the efforts of a brilliant police inspector as he breaks down the will of a man he suspects of murder This collection also

Includes:: WINTERSET a crime drama that centres on Meredith's struggle to clear the name of his father who was executed for a crime he didn't commit & SECOND CHORUS the snappy musical comedy that teamed Meredith with Fred Astaire as two aspiring musicians trying to win a spot in Artie Shaw's swinging orchestra

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Burgess Meredith would achieve lasting fame in support roles in both Batman & Rocky yet as the films in this collection prove he was an extremely talented performer in his own right Whilst many will instantly recognise him as either The Penguin in the television series Batman or as trainer Mickey Goldmill in Rocky he made virtually every role he played his own & was also a more than capable director in his own This collection

Includes:: Winterset his film debut The Man On The Eiffel Tower (his directorial debut) & Second Chorus which also stars his one time wife Paulette Goddard Actors Jean Wallace Maurice Moscovitch Fred Astaire Burgess Meredith Eduardo Ciannelli Directors Burgess Meredith Alfred Santell HC Potter Language English Number of discs 3

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Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004 The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy Antigone
- whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized & compelling figures in Western drama Faithful to the play's time & place The Burial at Thebes represents opposing voices as they enact the ancient conflict between family & state in a time of crisis pitching the morality of private allegiance against that of public service Above all The Burial at Thebes honours the sovereign urgency & grandeur of the Antigone in which language speaks truth to power then & now
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Number one bestselling author & master of suspense Jeffery Deaver returns with the thirteenth Lincoln Rhyme thriller which sees a crime go global The only leads in a broad-daylight kidnapping are the account of an eight-year-old girl some nearly invisible trace evidence & the calling card a miniature noose left lying on the street A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the highest order Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate Then the case takes a stranger turn a recording surfaces of the victim being slowly hanged his desperate gasps the backdrop to an eerie piece of music The video is marked as the work of The Composer Despite their best efforts the suspect gets away So when a similar kidnapping occurs on a dusty road outside Naples Rhyme & Sachs don't hesitate to rejoin the hunt But the search is now a complex case of international cooperation
- & not all those involved may be who they seem All they can do is follow the evidence before their time runs out
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The extraordinary new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go & The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed & Britain is steadily declining into ruin But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased The Buried Giant begins as a couple Axl & Beatrice set off across a troubled land of mist & rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years They expect to face many hazards
- some strange & other-worldly
- but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark & forgotten corners of their love for one another Sometimes savage often intensely moving Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories love revenge & war

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The compelling YA debut from Laura Bates founder of The Everyday Sexism Project bestselling author of Girl Up & leading voice for women's rights 352 pages Bates Laura ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD region B Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region free DVDBlu-ray player in order to play IT WILL TAKE YOU FURTHER THAN FEAR Of all the many slice-&-dice films that emerged in the early 80s few remain as gruesomely effective as The Burning the notorious video nasty now finally unleashed on Blu-ray! When an ill-advised prank misfires summer camp caretaker Cropsy is committed to hospital with hideous burns Released after five years hospital officials warn him not to blame the young campers who caused his disfigurement But no sooner is Cropsy back on the streets than he s headed back to camp with a rusty pair of shears in hand determined to exact his bloody revenge With standout gore effects courtesy of FX legend Tom Savini The Burning proved too shocking for UK censors upon its original video release Now fully uncut & in High Definition The Burning is ready to reclaim its place as the ultimate summer camp nightmare Actors Brian Matthews Leah Ayres Jason Alexander Directors Tony Maylam Format CDDVDLanguage English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio 169
- 1851 Number of discs 2
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The Burning Bridge is the second thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
- over eight million sold worldwide
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France 1562 As the Wars of Religion begin to take hold a courageous Catholic woman & a passionate Huguenot believer find themselves united in possession of a priceless relic & set upon a quest to uncover a long-buried secret hidden in the haunting Chateau de Puivert in the foothills of the Pyrenees 608 pages Mosse Kate ...