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 Beautiful People
Charlotte Coleman, Charles Kay, Roslind Ayres
DVD, 15. September 2008 Verkaufsrang: 27300 Gewöhnlich versandfertig in 24 Stunden
Universum Film Beautiful People, USK/FSK: 12+ VÃ-Datum: 13.09.08
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![Nur dem Namen nach / In Name Only [ Spanische Fassung, Keine Deutsche Sprache ] - Alan Baxter](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ay6HkhbsL._SL160_.jpg) Nur dem Namen nach / In Name Only [ Spanische Fassung, Keine Deutsche Sprache ]
Alan Baxter, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Charles Coburn, Helen Vinson
DVD Verkaufsrang: 66185
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Spanien Edition, PAL/Region 2 DVD:TON: Englisch ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Spanisch ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Spanisch ( Untertitel ),BONUSMATERIAL: Filmographies, Szene Zugang, Wechselwirkendes Menü,SYNOPSIS: Ein verheirateter Millionär verliebt sich in eine verwitwete Modezeichnerin mit kleiner Tochter und will sich daraufhin von seiner Frau, die ihn nur wegen des Geldes geheiratet hat, scheiden lassen. Doch die Frau widersetzt sich mit schäbigen Tricks. Erst nach dramatischen Ereignissen wird der schlechte Charakter der Intrigantin für alle offenbar, sodaß einem Happy-End nichts mehr im Wege steht. Eine nicht sehr muntere, allerdings ausgezeichnet besetzte Mischung aus Komödie und Melodram.
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![To Serve Them All My Days - Box-Set [UK IMPORT] - John Duttine](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QM8FF5ARL._SL160_.jpg) To Serve Them All My Days - Box-Set [UK IMPORT]
John Duttine, Alan MacNaughton, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Frank Middlemass, Susan Jameson
DVD, 15. März 2004 Verkaufsrang: 70801 Der Artikel ist bald verfügbar. Sichern Sie sich jetzt Ihr Exemplar!
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Durchschnittliche Gesamt-Bewertung: 5.0 von 5.00 Punkten (Insgesamt 1 Bewertung)
One of my favourites of all time... 5 von 5 Punkten
I spent the long weekend getting reacquainted with an old friend, so to speak. I got the boxed set of the wonderful miniseries, 'To Serve Them All My Days', based on the novel of the same name by R.F. Delderfield. I saw this first when I was barely a lad of sixteen or so, just at my school-leaving age and going off to university. I was amazed then at how much from 'before the war' remained true to form for school, and watching it again now twenty years later, it stands up to the test of time perfectly well (and I was once again amazed at the true-to-life nature of the whole enterprise). The series won the BAFTA award for the best television series of its year, and rightfully so.
The miniseries is done in thirteen parts, each just under an hour long, as a co-production of the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was filmed in a real public school, Milton Abbey School in Dorset (not too far from part of the country where the mythical Bamfylde School resides), and many of the 'extras' in school shots are actually school boys of the Milton Abbey School. The settings didn't have to be changed too much to accommodate the inter-war period décor, and of course the architecture for the most part was hundreds of years older.
However well done the sets and images are, this is still a teleplay about relationships and the coming of age, not just of the boys in the school, nor even of the lead character, Mr. Powlett-Jones, but really of the whole of society. The inter-war period in Britain was a fascinating time of societal development, particularly in terms of politics. Delderfield introduces this as an ever-present but never centre stage idea through the dealings of Powlett-Jones, son of a Welsh coal mining family, some of his out-of-school relationships, and the clash that this inevitably sets up with the privileged corps of boys at the school.
In the first episode, David Powlett-Jones has just returned from the trenches in the first world war, wounded both physically and spiritually. He is suspicious of the job offer at this upper-class bastion, but the gentle understanding of the headmaster, Algy Herries, encourages him to stay. His relationships with the other teachers are a fascinating study, particularly the gung-ho-warrior type Carter (whose not-always-disabled knee seems to have kept him out of the war) and the cynic-with-a-good-soul Howarth, who becomes Powlett-Jones' best friend over the course of their life together at Bamfylde.
Howarth chides Powlett-Jones at one point about the kind of monastic life that one can fall into at a remote school such as Bamfylde.
Howarth: Some men can live the celibate life. I don't fancy you're one of them.
David Powlett-Jones: What did *you* do about women all these years?
Howarth [pausing, smiling]: Your appetite for sordid revelations never ceases to astonish me.
Howarth reveals some of his indiscretions (remember, this is post-Victorian England, and the revelations, such as they are, would be considered exceedingly mild by television standards today). Powlett-Jones over the course of his twenty years at Bamfylde ends up with three primary loves; Beth, a young wife who dies early; Julia, someone not to be tied down to a school (or even the island of Britain), but keeps regular if long-separated contact with David over time; and Christine, the failed Labour candidate who becomes his second wife, taking on a role at the school as well, not the least of which is to remind the now-headmaster Powlett-Jones that there is a world outside the still-privileged halls of Bamfylde.
The teleplay is exceedingly well done, with the acting and the writing supporting each other in such a way to give real insight into the psychological make-up of the characters. John Duttine played David Powlett-Jones with a good amount of passion; however, I am torn between Frank Middlemass (as Herries) and Alan MacNaughtan (as Howarth) as to who my favourite actor is in the series. Both bring so much to their roles, and I can see myself in each of them in many ways more so than I can identify with Powlett-Jones. For the women, David's first wife Beth is played by Belinda Lang; Julia is played by Kim Braden (trekkies may recognise her from bit parts both in Star Trek film and series work); Susan Jameson plays Christine, David's second wife (fans of 'Coronation Street' may recognise her from that show). Each of the three is very well suited for their respective roles - Lang plays the young, optimist; Braden plays the worldly, ambitious but sensitive soul; Jameson plays the idealist who comes down to earth, managing to keep her ideals intact.
The play does a good job also of keep the boys from becoming a faceless, anonymous mass (a decided danger, given their uniformity in dress as well as age). There are particular boys who stand out, but one gets the sense from the watching that they are all individuals, and treated as such, both by the careful and caring headmasterly type Harries and Powlett-Jones, as well as the cynical Howarth (and even by the more scathing of the teachers, whose style is no longer in vogue).
The situations are credible, interesting, and instructive. The characters are fully formed and worthwhile. The production values are not to cinematic standards, but hold up very well over time (the lack of lavishness befits the nature of the school and the nature of the time as well).
This remains one of my favourite series of all time. The DVD has few extras, but among them are photographs, background information both on the school and on Delderfield, and the lyrics to the school song (which opens each episode, sung by the congregation of boys), by Kenyon Emrys-Roberts: 'Look ahead to a life worth living, Full of hope, full of faith, full of cheer,...' |
 Beautiful People
Charlotte Coleman, Charles Kay, Roslind Ayres
DVD, 15. Mai 2003 Verkaufsrang: 30980 Gewöhnlich versandfertig in 24 Stunden
Eurovideo Beautiful People, USK/FSK: 12+
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Durchschnittliche Gesamt-Bewertung: 4.5 von 5.00 Punkten (Insgesamt 11 Bewertungen)
Ein grandioser Film 5 von 5 Punkten
Ein wunderbarer Film, der zu Integration und Toleranz beiträgt. Den Film kann man immer wieder anschauen, wird nie langweilig.
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![Beautiful People [UK IMPORT] - Nicholas Farrell](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WZD1C1AFL._SL160_.jpg) Beautiful People [UK IMPORT]
Nicholas Farrell, Rosalind Ayres, Charlotte Coleman, Danny Nussbaum, Charles Kay
Videokassette, 13. März 2000 Verkaufsrang: 19621
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Durchschnittliche Gesamt-Bewertung: 5.0 von 5.00 Punkten (Insgesamt 1 Bewertung)
wow 5 von 5 Punkten
ich habe den film gerade im rahmen des rotterdam film festival gesehen und bin restlos begeistert. die geschichten verschiedenster menschen werden hier auf eine wunderschoene art und weise erzaehlt und verflochten, mit viel humor werden ernste themen angeschnitten, und die charactaere sind schoen gezeichnet. beautiful people - menschen, die schoen sind in ihrer menschlichkeit, in ihren problemen, in ihrem zusammenleben. montiert ins der film uebrigens auch klasse.
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![Sherlock Holmes - The Illustrious Client / The Creeping Man [UK IMPORT] - Jeremy Brett](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BSRK3ARKL._SL160_.jpg) Sherlock Holmes - The Illustrious Client / The Creeping Man [UK IMPORT]
Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Anthony Valentine, David Langton, Charles Kay
Videokassette, 7. August 2000 Verkaufsrang: 28752
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Durchschnittliche Gesamt-Bewertung: 5.0 von 5.00 Punkten (Insgesamt 1 Bewertung)
Skrupellose Leidenschaft 5 von 5 Punkten
Eine gelungene Doppelfolge der Sherlock-Holmes-Verfilmung. Der aalglatte Baron Gruner versteht sich meisterhaft darauf, Frauen zu verführen, sie seiner privaten „Sammlung" hinzu zu fügen und sie anschließend ins Verderben zu stürzen. Mord ist seine bevorzugte Methode, sich ihrer zu entledigen. Holmes nimmt hier den Kampf gegen eine Skrupellosigkeit auf, die ihn fast das Leben kostet.
The Creeping Man erscheint der Tochter des Naturwissenschaftlers Presbury eines Nachts am Fenster. Aufgewühlt über die albtraumhafte Erscheinung, sucht sie Holmes auf. Als der Detektiv die Fährte aufnimmt, stößt er auf die „animalische" Seite eines besessenen Forschers |
![Colditz [ Holländische Fassung, Keine Deutsche Sprache ] - Alex Avery](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CdzAE8-1L._SL160_.jpg) Colditz [ Holländische Fassung, Keine Deutsche Sprache ]
Alex Avery, Charles Kay, Damian Lewis, Eve Myles, Guy Henry
DVD
Niederlande Edition, PAL/Region 2 DVD:TON: Englisch ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ),Holländisch ( Untertitel ),WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), BONUSMATERIAL: Satz 2-DVD, Szene Zugang, Wechselwirkendes Menü,SYNOPSIS: Der britische Offizier Nicholas McGrade (Damian Lewis) lernt während der Kriegsgefangenschaft den Soldaten Jack Rose (Tom Hardy) kennen. Nach seiner Flucht aus dem Gefägnis soll Nicholas Jacks Verlobten Lizzie (Sophia Myles) eine Nachricht überbringen. Doch als er Lizzie trifft, verliebt er sich in sie.
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![Mr. Lucky [ Französische Fassung, Keine Deutsche Sprache ] - Alan Carney](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vBvjTIixL._SL160_.jpg) Mr. Lucky [ Französische Fassung, Keine Deutsche Sprache ]
Alan Carney, Cary Grant, Charles Bickford, Erford Gage, Florence Bates
DVD
Frankreich Edition, PAL/Region 2 DVD:TON: Englisch ( Mono ),Französisch ( Untertitel ),BONUSMATERIAL: Dokumentarisch, Szene Zugang, Wechselwirkendes Menü,SYNOPSIS: Joe ist der Eigner eines grossen schwimmenden Spielcasinos, der Fortuna. Um seiner Einberufung zu entgehen und sein Casinos weiterzubetreiben, nimmt er die Identität eines Toten an. Dann beginnt der Ärger.
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![To Serve Them All My Days - Part 2 [UK IMPORT] - John Duttine](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516D72DW4PL._SL160_.jpg) To Serve Them All My Days - Part 2 [UK IMPORT]
John Duttine, Nell Stacy, Frank Middlemass, Susan Jameson, Kim Braden
DVD, 19. April 2004 Gewöhnlich versandfertig in 24 Stunden
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Durchschnittliche Gesamt-Bewertung: 5.0 von 5.00 Punkten (Insgesamt 1 Bewertung)
One of my favourites of all time... 5 von 5 Punkten
I spent the long weekend getting reacquainted with an old friend, so to speak. I got the boxed set of the wonderful miniseries, 'To Serve Them All My Days', based on the novel of the same name by R.F. Delderfield. I saw this first when I was barely a lad of sixteen or so, just at my school-leaving age and going off to university. I was amazed then at how much from 'before the war' remained true to form for school, and watching it again now twenty years later, it stands up to the test of time perfectly well (and I was once again amazed at the true-to-life nature of the whole enterprise). The series won the BAFTA award for the best television series of its year, and rightfully so.
The miniseries is done in thirteen parts, each just under an hour long, as a co-production of the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was filmed in a real public school, Milton Abbey School in Dorset (not too far from part of the country where the mythical Bamfylde School resides), and many of the 'extras' in school shots are actually school boys of the Milton Abbey School. The settings didn't have to be changed too much to accommodate the inter-war period décor, and of course the architecture for the most part was hundreds of years older.
However well done the sets and images are, this is still a teleplay about relationships and the coming of age, not just of the boys in the school, nor even of the lead character, Mr. Powlett-Jones, but really of the whole of society. The inter-war period in Britain was a fascinating time of societal development, particularly in terms of politics. Delderfield introduces this as an ever-present but never centre stage idea through the dealings of Powlett-Jones, son of a Welsh coal mining family, some of his out-of-school relationships, and the clash that this inevitably sets up with the privileged corps of boys at the school.
In the first episode, David Powlett-Jones has just returned from the trenches in the first world war, wounded both physically and spiritually. He is suspicious of the job offer at this upper-class bastion, but the gentle understanding of the headmaster, Algy Herries, encourages him to stay. His relationships with the other teachers are a fascinating study, particularly the gung-ho-warrior type Carter (whose not-always-disabled knee seems to have kept him out of the war) and the cynic-with-a-good-soul Howarth, who becomes Powlett-Jones' best friend over the course of their life together at Bamfylde.
Howarth chides Powlett-Jones at one point about the kind of monastic life that one can fall into at a remote school such as Bamfylde.
Howarth: Some men can live the celibate life. I don't fancy you're one of them.
David Powlett-Jones: What did *you* do about women all these years?
Howarth [pausing, smiling]: Your appetite for sordid revelations never ceases to astonish me.
Howarth reveals some of his indiscretions (remember, this is post-Victorian England, and the revelations, such as they are, would be considered exceedingly mild by television standards today). Powlett-Jones over the course of his twenty years at Bamfylde ends up with three primary loves; Beth, a young wife who dies early; Julia, someone not to be tied down to a school (or even the island of Britain), but keeps regular if long-separated contact with David over time; and Christine, the failed Labour candidate who becomes his second wife, taking on a role at the school as well, not the least of which is to remind the now-headmaster Powlett-Jones that there is a world outside the still-privileged halls of Bamfylde.
The teleplay is exceedingly well done, with the acting and the writing supporting each other in such a way to give real insight into the psychological make-up of the characters. John Duttine played David Powlett-Jones with a good amount of passion; however, I am torn between Frank Middlemass (as Herries) and Alan MacNaughtan (as Howarth) as to who my favourite actor is in the series. Both bring so much to their roles, and I can see myself in each of them in many ways more so than I can identify with Powlett-Jones. For the women, David's first wife Beth is played by Belinda Lang; Julia is played by Kim Braden (trekkies may recognise her from bit parts both in Star Trek film and series work); Susan Jameson plays Christine, David's second wife (fans of 'Coronation Street' may recognise her from that show). Each of the three is very well suited for their respective roles - Lang plays the young, optimist; Braden plays the worldly, ambitious but sensitive soul; Jameson plays the idealist who comes down to earth, managing to keep her ideals intact.
The play does a good job also of keep the boys from becoming a faceless, anonymous mass (a decided danger, given their uniformity in dress as well as age). There are particular boys who stand out, but one gets the sense from the watching that they are all individuals, and treated as such, both by the careful and caring headmasterly type Harries and Powlett-Jones, as well as the cynical Howarth (and even by the more scathing of the teachers, whose style is no longer in vogue).
The situations are credible, interesting, and instructive. The characters are fully formed and worthwhile. The production values are not to cinematic standards, but hold up very well over time (the lack of lavishness befits the nature of the school and the nature of the time as well).
This remains one of my favourite series of all time. The DVD has few extras, but among them are photographs, background information both on the school and on Delderfield, and the lyrics to the school song (which opens each episode, sung by the congregation of boys), by Kenyon Emrys-Roberts: 'Look ahead to a life worth living, Full of hope, full of faith, full of cheer,...' |
![Laurel And Hardy - Hog Wild / Perfect Day / Thicker Than Water [UK IMPORT] - Stan Laurel](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4178CNZ8R0L._SL160_.jpg) Laurel And Hardy - Hog Wild / Perfect Day / Thicker Than Water [UK IMPORT]
Stan Laurel, Charles Hall, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness, Dorothy Granger
Videokassette, 17. April 2000
Verkaufsrang: 42175
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| ![Midsomer Murders - Death In Disguise [UK IMPORT] - John Nettles](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XTZMQ0WVL._SL160_.jpg) Midsomer Murders - Death In Disguise [UK IMPORT]
John Nettles, Stephen Moyer, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard
Videokassette, 5. Juni 2000
Verkaufsrang: 37096
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![Laurel And Hardy - You're Darn Tootin' / Below Zero / Wrong Again [UK IMPORT] - Oliver Hardy](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CFHTP19RL._SL160_.jpg) Laurel And Hardy - You're Darn Tootin' / Below Zero / Wrong Again [UK IMPORT]
Oliver Hardy, Frank Holliday, Kay Deslys, Leo Willis, Dell Henderson
Videokassette, 18. Oktober 1999
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| ![The John Thaw Tribute Collection [UK IMPORT] - John Thaw](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SZSMWDCDL._SL160_.jpg) The John Thaw Tribute Collection [UK IMPORT]
John Thaw, Tom Brodie, Nicholas Jones, Cliff Parisi, Nick Robinson
DVD, 11. November 2002
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![Laurel And Hardy - Hog Wild / Perfect Day / Thicker Than Water [UK IMPORT] - Stan Laurel](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410FWCJ7JBL._SL160_.jpg) Laurel And Hardy - Hog Wild / Perfect Day / Thicker Than Water [UK IMPORT]
Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, Charles Hall, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness
Videokassette, 7. September 1998
Verkaufsrang: 44282
| ![The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Illustrious Client / The Creeping Man [UK IMPORT] - Jeremy Brett](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ADY0Q27TL._SL160_.jpg) The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Illustrious Client / The Creeping Man [UK IMPORT]
Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Anthony Valentine, David Langton, Charles Kay
DVD, 28. April 2003
Verkaufsrang: 93982
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