Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Classic Western starring John Wayne & James Stewart Big-city lawyer Ransom (Stewart) heads into the Wild West outpost of Shinbone to bring local outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) to justice En route he is met by a posse led by Valance who beat him within an inch of his life Passing cowboy Tom Doniphon (Wayne) rescues Ransom gets him set up in Shinbone & supports his efforts to be elected sheriff Meanwhile he also attempts to teach his clumsy protege the fundamentals of gunslinging so that Valance may at last be brought to book Actors John Wayne James Stewart Vera Miles Lee Marvin Edmond O& Brien Andy Devine Ken Murray John Carradine Jeanette Nolan John Qualen Willis Bouchey Carleton Young Woody Strode Denver Pyle & Strother Martin Director John Ford Certificate PGYear 1962 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Classic Western starring John Wayne & James Stewart Big-city lawyer Ransom (Stewart) heads into the Wild West outpost of Shinbone to bring local outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) to justice En route he is met by a posse led by Valance who beat him within an inch of his life Passing cowboy Tom Doniphon (Wayne) rescues Ransom gets him set up in Shinbone & supports his efforts to be elected sheriff Meanwhile he also attempts to teach his clumsy protege the fundamentals of gunslinging so that Valance may at last be brought to book Actors John Wayne James Stewart Vera Miles Lee Marvin Edmond O& Brien Andy Devine Ken Murray John Carradine Jeanette Nolan John Qualen Willis Bouchey Carleton Young Woody Strode Denver Pyle & Strother Martin Director John Ford Certificate PG Year 1962 Languages English ...

DD Harriman is a billionaire with a dream the dream of Space for All Mankind The method? Anything that works Maybe in fact Harriman goes too far But he will give us the stars ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton'A man's brain is a bomb he cried out loosening suddenly his strange passion & striking his own skull with violence My brain feels like a bomb night & day It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand if it breaks up the universe' In a park in London secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist Sworn to do his duty Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council & infiltrate their deadly mission even managing to have himself voted to the position of ' Thursday' When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council however he starts to question his role in their operations & as a desperate chase across Europe begins his confusion grows as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has a man named Sunday whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined The Penguin English Library
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War
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GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception subterfuge double-crossing & secret identities & this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world The council is governed by seven men who hide their identities behind the names of the days of the week Yet one of their number
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- is not the revolutionary he claims to be but a Scotland Yard detective named Gabriel Syme sworn to infiltrate the organisation & bring the architects of chaos to justice But when he discovers another undercover policeman on the Council Syme begins to question his role in their operations & as a desperate chase across Europe begins his confusion grows as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies unravelling the mysteries of human behaviour & belief in a thrilling contest of wits But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has a man named Sunday whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined In his introduction Matthew Beaumont examines the book's themes of identity & confrontation & explores its intriguing title This edition also contains a chronology notes & suggested further reading GK Chesterton (1874-1938) attended the Slade School of Art where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown before turning his hand to journalism A prolific writer throughout his life his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) & the Father Brown stories Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 & died in 1938 If you enjoyed The Man Who Was Thursday you might enjoy Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent also available in Penguin Classics' The most thrilling book I have ever read' Kingsley Amis author of Lucky Jim

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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 A laconic chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife&s boss & lover for money to invest in dry cleaning but his plan goes terribly wrong ...

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces'A certain furtive almost shameful emotion disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by a night train especially its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers' Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen & family man Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for
- & something snaps Kees used to watch the trains go by to exciting destinations Now on some dark impulse he boards one at random & begins a new life of recklessness & violence This chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society & goes on the run asks who we are & what we are capable of ' Classic Simenon extraordinary in its evocative power' Independent' What emerges is the bare human animal' John Gray' Read him at your peril avoid him at your loss' Sunday Times
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With an Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex This anthology of tales by Rudyard Kipling contains some of the most memorable & popular examples of the genre of which he is an undisputed master The Man Who would be King (later adapted as a spectacular film) is a vivid narrative of exotic adventure & disaster The other tales include the ironic horrific poignant & haunting Here Kipling displays his descriptive panache & realistic boldness Shrewd audacious abrasive & challenging he remains absorbingly readable ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army & set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan--a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander Interactive menu Scene access Actors Michael Caine Sean Connery Christopher Plummer Saeed Jaffrey Shakira Caine Doghmi Larbi Jack May Karroom Ben Bouih Mohammad Shamsi Albert Moses Paul Antrim Graham Acres The Blue Dancers of Goulamine Nadia Atbib & Yvonne Ocampo Director John Huston Certificate PGYear 1975 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Additional Languages French ; Spanish ; German ; Italian Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Arabic ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portugese ; Spanish ; Swedish Closed Captions Yes 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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When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh a French emigre named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages A few years later Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly grisly murder of his wife marking the beginning of Conan Doyle's own association with some of the bloodiest crimes of the Victorian & Edwardian eras This early link between actual crime & the greatest detective story writer of all time is one of many Conan Doyle would also go on to play a leading role in the notorious case of the young Anglo-Indian lawyer George Edalji convicted & imprisoned as the mad ripper' who supposedly prowled the fields around his Staffordshire home by night looking for animals to mutilate; & the equally chilling story of Oscar Slater & his alleged murder of an elderly spinster as she sat in her Glasgow home one winter's night in 1908 a crime with a spectacular denouement 18 years later Using freshly available evidence & eyewitness testimony Christopher Sandford follows these links & draws out the connections between Conan Doyle's literary output & factual criminality a pattern that will enthral & surprise the legions of Sherlock Holmes fans In a sense Conan Doyle wanted to be Sherlock
- to be a man who could bring order & justice to a terrible world
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