Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical But as the doors open at last something spoils all thought of entertainment a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When an engine catches fire on the experimental rocket-propulsion plane that he is flying test pilot John Mitchell (Jack Hawkins) defies an order to jettison the vehicle into the sea From the director of The Lavender Hill Mob Charles Crichton Actors Jack Hawkins Elizabeth Sellars Jeremy Bodkin Gerard Lohan Walter Fitzgerald John Stratton Eddie Byrne Victor Maddern Lionel Jeffries & Donald Pleasence Director Charles Crichton Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1957 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Duration 1 hour & 27 minutes (approx)
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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 An intelligent & intriguing Cold War thriller directed by Jack Gold (The Bofors Gun) An American physicist has been horribly injured in a crash leading Russian Colonel (Trevor Howard) to complete a reconstruction job before sending his new bionic double agent back to the US to fool FBI agent Sean Rogers (Elliott Gould) Actors Elliott Gould Trevor Howard & Joseph Bova Director Jack Gold Certificate PG Year 1975 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx)
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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 Eccentric Sidney Stratton (Alec Guiness) is a laboratory cleaner in a textile factory who invents a material that will neither wear out nor become dirty Initially hailed as a great discovery Sidney&s astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they realise that if it never wears out people will only ever have to purchase one suit of clothing ...

Filth (Failed In London Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War Reserved immaculate & courteous Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions But Elisabeth is different
- a free spirit She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival & an affinity with the Far East No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar
- the brash forceful Veneering Veneering has a Chinese wife & an adored son
- & no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions How Elisabeth turns into Betty & whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or is swept up by caddish Veneering makes for a page-turning plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises & revelations as well as the humour & eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous


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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 Richard Attenborough stars as a scientist haunted by his past in this 1950s drama from director Don Chaffey Trying to escape his guilt after accidentally killing his fiancee&s brother Peter Watson (Attenborough) changes his name & takes a rooms in a delapidated boarding house There his mental health rapidly deteriorates & his fellow lodgers call the police after his erratic behaviour causes concern But when Watson begins brandishing a gun & a police sergeant is injured matters quicky come to a head ...

This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell one of the greatest scientists of our time & yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century
- & his discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century
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A Sunday Times Bestseller Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone In this captivating fusion of science history & personal memoir writer David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind & how they drive millions of us towards obsessions & compulsions David has suffered from OCD for twenty years & The Man Who Couldn't Stop is his unflinchingly honest attempt to understand the condition & his experiences What might lead an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house piece by piece; or a pair of brothers to die beneath an avalanche of household junk that they had compulsively hoarded? At what point does a harmless idea a snowflake in a clear summer sky become a blinding blizzard of unwanted thoughts? Drawing on the latest research on the brain as well as historical accounts of patients & their treatments this is a book that will challenge the way you think about what is normal & what is mental illness Told with fierce clarity humour & urgent lyricism this extraordinary book is both the haunting story of a personal nightmare & a fascinating doorway into the darkest corners of our minds ...

At the age of only 36 Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement one of the most reviled treaties of modern times A century later Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life & work & the political instability & violence in the Middle East attributed to it The Sykes-Picot agreement was drawn by the eponymous British & French diplomats in 1916 to determine the divideof the collapsing empire in the event of an allied victory in World War I Excluding Arab involvement it negated theirearlier guarantee of independence made by the British -and controversy has raged around it ever since But who was Mark Sykes? A century on Christopher Simon Sykes reveals new facetsof a misremembered diplomatic giant Using previouslyundisclosed family letters & cartoons by his grandfatherhe delivers a comprehensive & humbling account of the man behind one of the most impactful policies in the Middle East ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Noirish drama revealing the true story of a Jewish lawyer who challenged Hitler & paid with his life Starring Ian Hart as Adolf Hitler & Ed Stoppard as the audacious lawyer Hans Litten This feature length drama also stars Bill Paterson Sarah Smart Anton Lesser Ronan Vibert & Ruth Mc Cabe In the spring of 1931 with Germany on the brink of economic collapse the audacious Hans Litten put Adolf Hitler on the witness stand of a Berlin court At great personal risk the young lawyer aimed to expose the true character of Hitler to the German public & thereby halt the phenomenal rise of the Nazi Party In a humiliating & hostile cross-examination Hitler was forced to account for his violent methods his apparent contempt for the law & his stated desire to destroy German democracy Hitler survived the ordeal but it was a close encounter which he never forgot ...