Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe This tag was to hang around Diana Dors' neck during the 1950s As she would often point out that she had been working professionally a lot longer than Monroe Her first appearance was in 1946 in " The Shop at Sly Corner" while still a student at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art Diana like Marilyn was blonde curvy & sexy but that's where the comparison ended Her range as an actress was from comedy blondes to evil old hags & even Greek tragedy in theatre She was a real person
- with Diana what you saw was what you got But above all she was a survivor Diana was a also a talented writer compiling two autobiographies of herself as well as her three A
- Z books Diana had a prolific career encompassing theatre cabaret film & TV " Passport to Fame" is a comprehensive study of Diana's work across her 40 years of filmmaking The book is also an invaluable source of reference to the film-buff interested in the changing face of the film industry

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A delightful Ealing comedy set in the war-ravaged English capital When an old document found on a bombsite reveals that the London district of Pimlico is in actual fact a part of the French duchy of Burgundy the residents declare independence from Britain They even set up customs' checkpoints for passengers travelling through Pimlico station on the London Underground Initially they're delighted at the turn of events which means they dispense with wartime rationing & free from other British government control But when they get hit by food & water shortages of their own Britain starts looking rosier by the minute ...

An unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico uncovering documents which reveal that this part of London in fact belongs to Burgundy in France An autonomous state is set up in a spirit of optimism but the petty squabbles of everyday life soon shatter the Utopian vision of a non-restrictive nation This Ealing classic earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay Actors Stanley Holloway Basil Radford Hermione Baddeley Paul Dupuis John Slater Directors Henry Cornelius Producers Michael Balcon Format PAL Language English Region Region 2 Aspect Ratio 43
- 1331 Number of discs 1 Classification U Studio Ealing studios DVD Release Date 13 Nov 2006 Run Time 80 minutes
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A delightful Ealing comedy set in the war-ravaged English capital When an old document found on a bombsite reveals that the London district of Pimlico is in actual fact a part of the French duchy of Burgundy the residents declare independence from Britain They even set up customs' checkpoints for passengers travelling through Pimlico station on the London Underground Initially they're delighted at the turn of events which means they dispense with wartime rationing & free from other British government control But when they get hit by food & water shortages of their own Britain starts looking rosier by the minute ...

The exact shape & size of a passport this little book offers a range of delightful activities for young globetrotters 32 pages Jacobs Robin ...

As our digital lives grow more complicated sometimes the simplest tools become even more valuable Galison&s Password Keeper is a perfectly analog space to store elaborate logins & hard-to-remember passcodes for safekeeping Featuring a discreet design & a compact portable size the Password Keeper delivers much-needed convenience & peace of mind to the computer age 160 thumb index pages Elastic closure Card pocket Size 3 x 5 x 038 inches (76 x 127 x 1 cm) ...

1910 Distinguished MP Edwin Strafford resigns at the pinnacle of his career removing himself from the public eye The woman he loves & for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything suddenly & coldly rejects him All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness Seventy years later historian Martin Radford is down on his luck when a mysterious benefactor offers him the opportunity of a lifetime to uncover what exactly happened to Edwin Strafford But this apparent good fortune swiftly turns into a nightmare Radford's investigations trigger a violent series of events which throw him straight into the path of those who believed they had escaped punishment for crimes long past but never paid for ...

Past Cure is a dark psychological thriller that blurs the lines between dreams & reality An intense cinematic story driven experience blending stealth & combat gameplay Players are challenged to use an array of skills varying from powerful time bending mental abilities to brutal melee combat & stealth kills STORYAfter his years of torture ex elite soldier Ian lives in the safehouse of his brother struggling with the consequences of the military experiments he was put through They twisted his mind imbuedhim with preternatural mental abilities such as time control & telekinesis Driven by hallucinations & his thirst for revenge Ian enlists his brother&s help as he sets out on a thrilling hunt for the perpetrators of the conspiracy against him & for the truth underlying his torment On his missions Ian experiments with his new powers quickly coming to realize their inherent danger with each use his sanity frays a little more inviting the nightmarish attention of something beyond reality Story driven Third Person Action-Stealth Thriller Dark psychological thriller An intense cinematic story driven experience blending stealth & combat gameplay ...

Damian Baxter is very very rich
- & he's dying He lives alone in a big house in Surrey looked after by a chauffeur butler cook
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In 1980 an aviation pioneer & millionaire named Trevor Schalk found the key to immortality His psychiatrist & hypnotherapist Dr Christopher Peck completed the most extensive post-hypnotic command in history After the 25th birthday of Schalk's next life whoever or wherever that was this life would begin to come back to him Unfortunately for Schalk on the night he'd secured his immortality Trevor Schalk was murdered The police never even arrested a suspect Now in 2005 Timothy Gilbraight is starting to have weird dreams Dreams in which he's an eccentric millionaire hated by everyone around him Dreams in which he's being murdered but he can't tell by whom But is Trevor Schalk really back? That's what skeptic private investigator Amy Devlin has to find out & quickly
- Devlin isn't the only one looking for proof & if the person who killed Trevor Schalk 25 years ago is convinced that Gilbraight is the real deal they're not going to hesitate to kill again
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