Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Once A Jolly Swagman is a British classic released on DVD for the first time Centred around the sport of speedway racing (and filmed at New Cross home to speedway from 1934 to 1963) this British gem captures genuine speedway history & hi-lights the popularity of the sport at that time Starring a brilliant young & upcoming British star cast Dirk Bogarde Thora Hird Sid James & Bill Compo Owen Once A Jolly Swagman bursts an authentic touch of nostalgia & captures the post war spirit Dirk Bogarde plays Bill Fox a local factory worker Tired of his monotonous job Bill defies his parents wishes & takes a job as a novice at the local speedway Through the help of his manager (Sid James) Bill quickly gains success fame & attention at the track through his daring driving Here he meets Dotty a glamorous society woman As he moves into a new & exciting social circle Bill is quick to forget his roots & his girlfriend Pat After a sequence of quarrels with Dotty Bill soon becomes aware of the shallowness of his existence forcing him to face a dilemma carry on racing & loose the woman he truly loves or marry Pat & leave racing behind ...

Originally self-published in 1978 Once a Runner captures the essence of competitive running-and of athletic competition in general-and has become one of the most beloved sports novels ever published Inspired by the author's experience as a collegiate champion the story focuses on Quenton Cassidy a competitive runner at fictional Southeastern University whose lifelong dream is to run a four-minute mile He is less than a second away when the turmoil of the Vietnam War era intrudes into the staid recesses of his school's athletic department After he becomes involved in an athletes' protest Cassidy is suspended from his track team Under the tutelage of his friend & mentor Bruce Denton a graduate student & former Olympic gold medalist Cassidy gives up his scholarship his girlfriend & possibly his future to withdraw to a monastic retreat in the countryside & begin training for the race of his life against the greatest miler in history A rare insider's account of the incredibly intense lives of elite distance runners Once a Runneris an inspiring funny & spot-on tale of one man's quest to become a champion ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play From the Director of Face Off Hard Boiled & The Killer! Art meets action in John Woo s Once a Thief a non-stop adrenaline rush of intrigue romance & explosive danger! A first for television it brought the unique excitement of Hong Kong films to the small screen fusing romance action & humour
- all in the signature style of executive producer John Woo the man who broke down the wall between the action movie & the art film Brought up to be expert in all manner of criminal skills
- using everything from martial arts to superb abilities to con
- Mac Ramsey (Ivan Sergei) & Li Ann Tsei (Sandrine Holt) are forced to use their expertise to fight crime Working with a former cop Victor Mansfield (Nicholas Lea) they are part of an elite law-enforcement agency that takes on forces that are too powerful protected or difficult for regular law enforcement agencies The threats they encounter take them into startling brutal worlds where the stakes are high & failure can earn you a bullet in the head Actors Sandrine Holt Ivan Sergei Nicholas Lea Jennifer Dale Howard Dell Directors Peter D Marshall David Wu John Fawcett T J Scott Steve Di Marco Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 6


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A mysterious woman in the Old West is in danger from a band of ruthless gunmen ...

Stephen Maxwell has just retired from a lifetime spent teaching history at his alma mater As he writes the official history of Blake's a minor public school steeped in military tradition he also reveals how forty years ago a secret conflict dating from the Second World War re-enacted itself among staff & pupils when fascism once more made its presence felt in the school & the city with violent & nightmarish results ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Comedy superstar Jim Carrey plays a hot-blooded teen who becomes the reluctant door to a sultry--and extremely thirsty--nocturnal nymph (Lauren Hutton) in this funny sexy send-up of the horror genre Mark (Carrey) has just one thing on his mind going all the way But while his girlfriend keeps telling him he has to wait he meets a beautiful vampire countess (Hutton) who&s ready for action Mark&s just happy to get past second base but after a one-night stand with the sexy seductress Mark starts behaving more than a little batty & realises he must find a way to break his lover&s fiendish spell or be prepared to work the graveyard shift forever ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play The Irish romance ONCE may be a musical but it is miles away from the traditional Hollywood idea of people bursting into song Glen Hansard (frontman for indie rock band the Frames) plays the guy a street musician who is playing for change when he meets the girl (Marketa Irglova) an immigrant from the Czech Republic The pair immediately bond over their shared love of music (he is a guitarist & she plays the piano) & the film chronicles their tentative relationship Both are weighed down by plenty of baggage his songs are fueled by a painful breakup & she is a young mother who left her husband behind in her native country Like the independent favourite BEFORE SUNRISE ONCE is a simple sweet drama that doesn’t rely on an elaborate plot With its use of digital video & handheld cameras ONCE matches its spare visual style to its intimate mood Each moment feels stolen from real life & the story is at once familiar & fresh Driven more by music than by dialogue ONCE features a stirring soundtrack of heartfelt indie rock sung by Hansard & Irglova Before his foray into film director John Carney (ON THE EDGE) played bass in the Frames & his passion for music is clear in this modern musical that hits every note perfectly ...

Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War Everybody deserves to have something good in their life At least Once Once I escaped from am orphanage to find Mum & Dad Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house Once I made a Nazi with a toothache laugh My name is Felix This is my story Once is the first in a series of children's novels about Felix a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust from Australian author Morris Gleitzman
- author of Bumface & Boy Overboard The next books in the series Then Now & After are also available from Puffin
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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 Inspirational drama about two kindred spirits who find each other on the bustling streets of Dublin One (Glen Hansard) is a street musician who lacks the confidence to perform his own songs The other is a young mother (Marketa Irglova) trying to find her way in a strange new town As their lives intertwine they discover each other&s talents & push one another to realise what each had only dreamt about before Actors Glen Hansard Marketa Irglová Hugh Walsh Gerard Hendrick Alaistair Foley Directors John Carney Writers John Carney Producers David Collins Martina Niland Language English Subtitles English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 1 ...

With an introduction by Eimear Mc Bride A devastatingly powerful moving & uplifting memoir
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