While holidaying in Switzerland a family befriend a Frenchman It is not long before the man is fatally wounded but before he dies he whispers a terrible secret into his new friend&s ear which just happens to be witnessed by a group of foreign agents ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play One of cinema&s greatest auteurs Alfred Hitchcock&s six-decade career generated an unmissable run of suspense-packed thrillers strongly characterised by macabre plots & twist endings Starring British screen icon Leslie Banks & featuring the English-speaking debut of Peter Lorre The Man Who Knew Too Much is one of Hitchcock&s most thrilling pre-war British films & one which he would remake twenty years later in Hollywood This peerless suspense classic is presented here in a High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio While holidaying in Switzerland the Lawrences are accidentally caught up in murder & intrigue when their friend Louis is fatally wounded by a gunshot As he lays dying Louis confesses that he is a secret agent for the British government & passes on vital information which may prevent another world war ...

When Monty Roberts was thirteen years old he went off on his own to the deserts of Nevada to watch mustangs in the wild What he learned about their methods of communication changed his life forever The Man Who Listens to Horses reveals his deep love & understanding of horses We learn how through his relationship with various horses he gradually developed the methods which enabled him to communicate with horses in their own language a silent language of gestures similar to sign language the unique art of the horse whisperer According to Monty anyone can learn the language of the horse & anyone can learn his Join-Up (R) methods In this amazing true life book he tells you how This is the bestselling autobiography that spread Monty Roberts' message across the world & changed his life forever Unique & inspirational & with a message that resonates far wider than its application to horses it might change your life too ...

Christina Stead is one of the great Australian writers of her generation Rebecca West considered her to be 'one of the few people really original since the First World War' Stead's fiction has been compared to that of Balzac Joyce Ibsen & Tolstoy THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN is a magnificent heartrending novel of American family life of the relations between parents & children husbands & wives set in Baltimore in the 1930s Newsweek called it 'one of the best novels of this century ' Elizabeth Hardwick has described it as 'a work of absolute originality ' ...

Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts He couldn't pass a stray dog an ill-treated horse or a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue & with neglected wives the rescue invariably led to ecstatic bonking which didn't please their erring husbands one bit Lysander's mid-life crisis had begun at twenty-two Reeling from the death of his beautiful mother he was out of work drinking too much & desperately in debt The solution came from Ferdie his fat fast-operating friend if Lysander was so good at making husbands jealous why shouldn't he get paid for it? Let loose among the neglected wives of the ritzy county of Rutshire Lysander causes absolute havoc But it is only when he meets Rannaldini Rutshire's King Rat & a temperamental fiendishly promiscuous international conductor that the trouble really starts The only unglamorous woman around Rannaldini is Kitty his plump young wife who runs his life like clockwork Soon Lysander is convinced that Kitty must be rescued from Rannaldini at all costs even if it means enlisting the help of the old blue-eyed havoc maker Rupert Campbell-Black ...

Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders These are case studies of people who have lost their memories & with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted & yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents In Dr Sacks's splendid & sympathetic telling each tale is a unique & deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity ...

With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind If a man has lost a leg or an eye he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self
- himself
- he cannot know it because he is no longer there to know it In this extraordinary book Dr Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities; who have been dismissed as autistic or retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents If inconceivably strange these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human A provocative exploration of the mysteries of the human mind The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist

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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 Three times Oscar nominated Clifton Webb Robert Flemying & Oscar winner Gloria Grahame star in this highly acclaimed 1956 British war film based on an incredible true story In 1943 two intelligence officers from the Royal Navy (Clifton Webb Robert Flemying) attempt to pull off the most daring espionage mission of the Second World War The Allies are about to invade Sicily
- but the Germans must be convinced that their real target is Greece A briefcase containing plans for the fake invasion is attached to a body dressed as a British major & given an elaborate false identity The &man who never was& is then left at sea for the Germans to find However Nazi intelligence believes that the find may be just too good to be true
- & a desperate cat-&-mouse game begins in the heart of war torn London Actors Clifton Webb Gloria Grahame Robert Flemyng Josephine Griffin Stephen Boyd Laurence Naismith Geoffrey Keen Moultrie Kelsall Cyril Cusack Andre Morell Michael Hordern Allan Cuthbertson Joan Hickson Terence Longdon & Gibb Mc Laughlin Director Ronald Neame Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1956 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 39 minutes (approx)

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Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary Written in the 1950's its message was ahead of its time inspiring readers to rediscoverthe harmonies of the countryside & prevent its willful destruction The narrator journeying by foot across the barren plains of the lower Alps has his thirst assuaged by the well water drawn by the shepherd Elzeaerd Bouffier Here begins the subtle parable which Giono weaves of the life-giving shepherd who chooses to live alone & carry out the work of God Over forty years the desolate hills & lifeless villages which sooppressed the traveler are transformed by the dedication of one man All with the help of a few acorns Giono's hope was to set in motion a worldwide reforestation program that would rejuvenate the earth The Man Who Planted Trees is a hymn to creation & a purveyor of confidence in man's ability to change his-indeed the world's-lot Review Citations Ingram Advance 05012005 pg 77 (ISBN 1931498725 Hardcover) ...

Over the years the desolate hills & lifeless villages which so oppressed the traveller are transformed by the dedication of one man This title offers a hymn to creation & a purveyor of confidence in man's ability to change his
- indeed the world's
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