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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 Kevin Costner plays former CIA agent Frank Farmer now retired & working as a private bodyguard He takes on the case of singer Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston) who has received several death threats Initially reluctant to take on his ideas about security Rachel gradually begins to warm to Frank who begins to suspect the pop star&s would-be assassin lurks amongst her entourage ...
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Kevin Costner plays former CIA agent Frank Farmer now retired & working as a private bodyguard He takes on the case of singer Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston) who has received several death threats Initially reluctant to take on his ideas about security Rachel gradually begins to warm to Frank who begins to suspect the pop star&s would-be assassin lurks amongst her entourage ...
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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 Kevin Costner plays former CIA agent Frank Farmer now retired & working as a private bodyguard He takes on the case of singer Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston) who has received several death threats Initially reluctant to take on his ideas about security Rachel gradually begins to warm to Frank who begins to suspect the pop star&s would-be assassin lurks amongst her entourage Actors Kevin Costner Whitney Houston Gary Kemp Bill Cobbs Ralph Waite Directors Mick Jackson Writers Lawrence Kasdan Producers Kevin Costner Jim Wilson Lawrence Kasdan Raymond Hernandez Jr Format PAL Language English Subtitles English Turkish Hungarian Polish Icelandic Arabic Croatian Czech Greek Aspect Ratio 169
- 1851 Number of discs 1 Run Time 124 minutes
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In her spectacular film debut Houston plays Rachel Marron a music & movie superstar at her peak Fans want to see her touch her But one wants to kill her
- & that&s where security expert Frank Farmer (Costner) comes in Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down Rachel&s glamorous life often puts her at risk Each expects to be in charge What they don&t expect is to fall in love Actors Kevin Costner Whitney Houston Gary Kemp Bill Cobbs Robert Wuhl & Ralph Waite Director Mick Jackson Certificate 15 years & over Year 1992 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 2 hours & 4 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players


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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 Triple bill of romance features starring Kevin Costner In & The Bodyguard& (1992) former CIA agent Frank Farmer (Costner) is now retired & working as a private bodyguard He takes on the case of singer Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston) who has received several death threats Initially reluctant to accept his ideas about security Rachel gradually begins to warm to Frank who begins to suspect the pop star&s would-be assassin lurks amongst her entourage In & Rumour Has It& (2005) Jennifer Aniston plays Sarah Huttinger a young woman who travels back to visit her family in California & is shocked to learn that they were supposedly the model for the classic book & film & The Graduate& & that her youthful grandmother Katharine (Shirley Mac Laine) could be the real-life Mrs Robinson In which case Sarah begins to suspect that wealthy family friend Beau Burroughs (Costner) could have been the young man who had tumultuous affairs with both her mother & grandmother In & Message in a Bottle& (1999) Theresa Osborne (Robin Wright Penn) is a successful journalist who discovers a bottle washed up upon the shore The bottle contains a heartfelt love letter to an unknown woman called Catherine & signed &G& Theresa publishes the letter in the Chicago Tribune & it transpires that other letters have been found presumably by the same author When Theresa investigates further she tracks down the writer of the letters a sailboat builder named Garret Blake (Costner) whose wife died two years ago during childbirth A tentative romance develops between Garret & Theresa but he remains unaware that she knows of the lost letters & that she was the journalist who published them ...
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The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British as Kipling said 'no end of a lesson' It proved to be the longest the costliest the bloodiest & the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 & 1914 Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910 His narrative is based on first-hand & largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides Out of this historical gold-mine the author has constructed a narrative as vivid & fast-moving as a novel & a history that in scholarship breadth & impact will endure for many years ...
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The Bog Baby is a magical story by Jeanne Willis & Gwen Millward When two small sisters go fishing to the magic pond they find something much better than a frog or a newt They find a bog baby Small & blue with wings like a dragon the girls decide to make him their secret I won't tell if you won't But the bog baby is a wild thing & when he becomes poorly the girls decide they must tell their mum & she tells them the greatest lesson if you really love something you have to let it go Jeanne wrote her first book when she was five years old & hasn't stopped writing since She has now written over eighty titles including picture books novels & television scripts She has also won numerous awards including the Children's Book Award the Sheffield Children's Book Award & the Silver Smarties Prize Her teen novel Naked Without a Hat was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award in 2004 She often takes inspiration from dreams & interesting conversations with strangers Gwen Millward studied illustration in Edinburgh & now spends all of her time painting & writing stories for children about her favourite subject beasts Her first book for Puffin Guess What I Found in Dragon Wood published in April 2007 Other wonderful books by either of the two include The King of Tiny Things; Guess what I found in Dragon Wood; Happy Birthday in Dragon Wood; Sing a Song of Bottoms; Bottoms Up!; Silly Cecil & Clever Cubs; The Wheels on the Bus; Delilah Darling is in the Library; There's an Ouch in my Pouch!; Who's in the Loo?; The Monster Bed; Tadpole's Promise; The Beasties ...
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Accidentally transported from his remote Scottish castle to the bright fast-moving hi-tech city of Toronto the highly mischievous Boggart simply can't resist the opportunity for pranks & wreaks havoc for the Volnik family inheritors of his distant castle home But the Boggart doesn't mean any real harm & when he begins to pine for the rolling Scottish mists & the sound of bagpipes he turns to his two young friends Emily & Jessup Volnik for help ...
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Emily & Jess Volnik have returned for another Scottish adventure joining their old friend Tommy & Mr Maconochie the new owner of Castle Keep on a trip to Loch Ness where a new expedition is determined to find the fabled monster The fun-loving Boggart
- a mischievous shape-shifting spirit who has lived in the castle for centuries -comes along for the ride but this time the Boggart has a serious mission His cousin Nessie is trapped in the monster shape he took on long ago & it's up to the Boggart to keep Nessie from being discovered by the expedition's high-tech equipment Is modern science any match for the Boggart's ancient magic?
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A brand new funny Boggart mystery from Susan Cooper renowned author of the Dark is Rising sequence Once again there's magic afoot in Scotland when Allie & Jay visit their grandfather & are eagerly greeted by the Boggart an ancient sprite & his cousin Nessie formerly known as the Loch Ness Monster Things are rarely peaceful with two boggarts around but this time a real estate developer is the one causing a disturbance
- a man named Trout Trout is building a luxury resort & is desperate to buy up everything in town
- including Allie & Jay's grandfather's shop He's willing to do almost anything to raze the store to the ground but with his beloved family under attack the Boggart doesn't stay silent for long soon bulldozers are mysteriously driving themselves into the loch & surveying flags are floating off into the sky but Trout is unmoved When Nessie tries to scare him by transforming into the Loch Ness Monster Trout is delighted
- what a sensational tourist attraction he's found! Allie Jay & the boggarts will have to use all of their wits to outsmart the developers & save their home
- even if it means waking up all the Old Magic creatures Even the deadly ones



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The Boer War: A History

The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling cunning and barbarism with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill Rhodes Conan Doyle Smuts Kipling Gandhi Kruger and Kitchener The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the corrupt underside of imperialism in the establishment of the first concentration camps the shooting of Boer prisoners-of-war and the embezzlement of military supplies by British officers This acclaimed book provides a complete history of the Boer War - from the first signs of unrest to the eventual peace In the process it debunks several of the myths which have grown up around the conflict and explores the deadly legacy it left for southern Africa
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The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism & bungling cunning & barbarism with an extraordinary cast of characters
- including Churchill Rhodes Conan Doyle Smuts Kipling Gandhi Kruger & Kitchener The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military & unexpectedly exposed the corrupt underside of imperialism in the establishment of the first concentration camps the shooting of Boer prisoners-of-war & the embezzlement of military supplies by British officers This acclaimed book provides a complete history of the Boer War
- from the first signs of unrest to the eventual peace In the process it debunks several of the myths which have grown up around the conflict & explores the deadly legacy it left for southern Africa

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