DCI Jim Daley is sent from the city to investigate a murder after the body of a woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the West Coast of Scotland Far away from urban resources he finds himself a stranger in a close-knit community Love betrayal fear & death stalk the small town as Daley investigates a case that becomes more deadly than he could possibly imagine in this compelling novel infused with intrigue & dark humour ...

Wartime food rationing is bad enough but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great & Little Todday nothing seems to go right Then the fifty-thous&-bottle cargo of the shipwrecked S S Cabinet Minister brings salvation
- in its most giddily intoxicating form
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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 When a ship carrying 50000 cases of whisky runs aground the inhabitants of a Scottish island cannot resist the temptation to replenish their depleted supplies Only an English Home Guard captain (brilliantly played by Basil Greenwood) stands in their way Actors Basil Radford Catherine Lacey Bruce Seton Joan Greenwood Wylie Watson Gabrielle Blunt Gordon Jackson Jean Cadell James Robertson Justice Morland Graham John Gregson James Woodburn James Anderson & Jameson Clark Director Alexander Mackendrick Certificate PGYear 1949 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages English ...

It's 1943 & the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great & Little Todday When food is in short supply it is bad enough but when the whisky runs out it looks like the end of the world Morale is at rock bottom George Campbell needs a wee dram to give him the courage to stand up to his mother & marry Catriona The priest the doctor & of course the landlord at the inn are all having a very thin time of it There's no conversation no jolity no fun
- until a shipwreck off the coast brings a piece of extraordinary good fortune
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Whisky Galore! ranks among the most popular & best-loved of Ealing Studio’s comedies included on the British Film Institute’s list of the 100 Best British films of the 20th Century When a ship carrying 50000 cases of whisky runs aground the inhabitants of a Scottish island cannot resist the temptation to replenish their depleted supplies Only an English Home Guard captain brilliantly played by Basil Greenwood stands in their way The first film from Ealing stalwart Alexander Mackendrick who went on to direct The Ladykillers & The Man In The White Suit Whisky Galore! is an 100 proof comedy classic now digitally restored & remastered to its former glory ...

Exploring the lighter side of whisky-making whisky consumption whisky over-consumption whisky in literature whisky & the law & even whisky & death this book offers stories & anecdotes contributed by whisky industry personalities ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The devil&s work is childs play When the ten-year-old son David (Blake Woodruff) of a wealthy New England socialite is abducted his kidnapper Max Harper (Josh Holloway) & his seedy associates assume it will be a routine kidnapping in exchange for a large ransom Unknown to the kidnappers the shy & reserved David actually has a hidden agenda of his own & a mysterious way of tapping into the minds of others Soon Max will wish that he had never kidnapped David much less even heard of him ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Whisper of the Heart follows the story of teenage bookworm Shizuku who is struggling to find out who she is as she approaches the last summer of junior high school Energetic & free-spirited she harbours ambitions to write But Shizuku is a voracious reader & plans on using the library to read away the summer vacation When she finds that the same mystery borrower has got to every book before her she meets Seiji a trainee violin-maker who challenges her to stop reading & start writing About the awakening of creative talent Whisper of the Heart was the first & only full-length feature by Hayao Miyazaki’s protege Yoshifumi Kondo before his sudden death at the young age of 47 ...

Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Collection of three horror films In & Whisper& (2007) when David Sandborn (Blake Woodruff) the ten-year-old son of a wealthy New England socialite (Teryl Rothery) is kidnapped his abductor Max Truemont (Josh Holloway) & his seedy henchmen assume it will be a routine snatch in exchange for a nice big ransom Unbeknown to the kidnappers however the shy & reserved David has his own agenda & a mysterious way of seeing into other people&s minds Soon Max & his cronies will wish that they had never even heard of David much less abducted the boy In & Asylum& (2007) when a group of college students discover that their new university dormitory used to be a mental asylum they unwittingly awaken the spirit of one of the hospital&s deranged doctors The sadistic scientist then proceeds to torment & torture the students by awakening terrifying memories from their troubled pasts Finally in & The Deaths of Ian Stone& (2007) a man finds himself having to die a new death with every new day When a strange creature forces him into the path of an oncoming train Ian Stone (Mike Vogel) believes his life is finally over But when he wakes Stone finds himself reborn into another different life though one with a strangely familiar feel As the creature returns once again to stalk his prey Stone realises that if he is ever to break the ongoing cycle of death he has to uncover the secrets about his life that are responsible for his living nightmare ...

Paul Leibovitz was once an ambitious advisor dedicated father & loving husband But after living for nearly thirty years in Hong Kong personal tragedy strikes & Paul's marriage unravels in the fallout When he makes a fleeting connection with Elizabeth a distressed American woman on the verge of collapse his life is thrown into turmoil Less than twenty-four hours later Elizabeth's son is found dead in Shenzhen & Paul invigorated by a newfound purpose sets out to investigate the murder on his own As Paul Elizabeth & a detective friend descend deeper into the Shenzhen underworld they discover dark secrets hidden beneath China's booming new wealth In a country where rich businessmen with expensive degrees can corrupt the judicial system the potential for evil abounds ...